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Show What Is a "tady?" It would never enter into my head to think a person of great wealth and possessed pos-sessed of a fine establishment a lady, if she could turn in her own house from a beaming recognition of some star of contemporaneous con-temporaneous fashion to bestow a frozen greoting 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" iu The Ladies' Home Journal. Jour-nal. To lay down a law for the use of the word in tho present condition of American Amer-ican society would, I think, puzzle the most ingenious makers of social codes. For the time it must remaiu a matte of intuition when and whore to apply the graceful courtesy title of "lady." |