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Show What Is a "Lady?" It would never enter into my head to think a parson of great wealth and possessed pos-sessed of a fine establishment a lady, if she could turn in her own house froin a beaming recognition of Borne star of con-temporaneoas con-temporaneoas fashion to bestow a frozen greeting upon a social makeweight or a poor friend of other days who had not kept pace with her in progress up the ladder of society, writes Mrs. Burton Harrison in an interesting discussion of the proper usage of the terms "woman'" and "lady" in The Ladies' Home Journal. Jour-nal. To lay down a law for the use of the word in the present condition of American Amer-ican society would, I think, puzzle the most ingenious makers of social codes. For the time it must remain a matter of intuition when and where to apply the graceful courtesy title of "lady." |