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J i r f 10 c di Z 11 NE of ot the most remarkable and significant books published In recent ONE years ears Is entitled The Lady b by Emily James Putnam and is Issued lONE by Sturgis Walton company compan New York i- i The paragraphs from this volume printed on this page age serve to show by bythe the Ithe authority of or an author who Is herself herselt a a. woman how ow the thela b rose with more or less honor and then declined to her present position of ot elegant para- para site BY E EMILY Y JAMES PUTNAM From her book The Lady pub- pub dished by Sturgis Walton company New ew York The lady is proverbial for her skill An In eluding definition but for tho the purpose purpose pur- pur pose pose of the present discussion she may maybe ube be described merely merel as the female of or orthe the favored social class cass Every Een discus discus- slon of ot the status of ot woman is complicated complicated b by the thc existence of the lady She overshadows the rest of her sex sea Economically alb she Is supported b by the toll of ot others but while this is equally true of ot other classes of or society society tho the oddity in her case consists in the ac- ac ense of or those most concerned The llady lady herself feels no uneasiness un In her equivocal situation and the thc toilers who support her do so with enthusiasm She SheIls In most Is Ils not a producer r ties productive labor Is by consent un un- ladylike lall On the other hand she is the and theorists heaviest of consumers have e not been wanting to maintain that the the more she spends the better ot off so society so- so clet clety Is In aristocratic societies she Is required required re re- for dynastic reasons to produce re I offspring but In democratic societies even Keven this demand is often orten waived I Iu In tho the United Sta States es during during- the two generations preceding the thc war for the Union the slave states furnished the I background for perhaps the last example example example ex ex- ex- ex ample the world will s see ee On a n large scale of ot the feudal lad lady But the typical typical typical cal lad lady ever everywhere tends lends to a feudal habit of ot of mind In contemporary society y she Is an nn archaism There have been times when her primary primary mar mary social requirement has apparently apparent apparent- ly h been waived It seems difficult for instance t so o to classify the lady as to exclude Aspasia and Louise do de la Yil- Yil laire Nevertheless the true lady is In theory either a virgin or a lawful wife A lad lady Jady may become a n recluse In the thc strictest and poorest order without al altering altering al- al her view of ot life liro without the moral convulsion the destruction of ot false Ideas the birth of ot character which would be the preliminary steps toward becoming an efficient steno stenographer It seems pretty prett plain from the accounts accounts accounts ac ac- ac- ac counts given b by tho the of or orthe the ancient history of ot our race that the gentleman appeared far earlier than the lady If It today her husband husband husband hus hus- band toils that sho she ma may be idle there was a a time when the relation was re re- re versed The first systematic leisure we weare weare weare are told was achieved b by the man who discovered that the womans woman's occasional preoccupation with maternity gave him y c x I j a chance chance- to bring her Into subjection From rom that day he lie reserved himself for forthe forthe forthe the tasks more congenial to his ph physique physique phy phy- and his temperament As the gentleman decays the lad lady survives as the strongest evidence of ot othis his former predominance Where he sets her there thero she stays stars The ladys lady's life and even een her character charac charac- ter arc are always alwa's sensibly modified b by bythe bythe the house she lives In and antl the house represents the social or economic re requirements requirements requirements re- re of the man of ot her class The rhe lad lady of ot the castle castlo was virtually the only woman in a society consisting consisting- of ot men generally younger than herself who were socially her husbands husband's In Inferiors inferIors interiors in- in and who therefore paid court to her If It she had an any force torce or charm these circumstances were highly favorable to Its exertion I I Such uch a theory was developed and perfected perfected per per- in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and came b by degrees to color the whole of ot literature How liow far this theor theory actually modified life we wo are not In a position to sa say It Is certain however that every lad lady who listened to troubadour or jongleur or who read for herself hersel the new love songs songs' and romances was furnished with the material or constructing a fresh tresh estimate esti- esti estimate estimate esti esti- of ot her mate own importance At all times everywhere and b by all the ladles love lo-e Is admitted to be tho the most acceptable of ot gifts With tact the humblest ma may offer oHer it without offense offense of ot- the h highest guest without conferring obligation The lad ladys lady's s power to excite love was to her what tho the lor lords lord's s 's prowesS prowess prowess prow prow- ess In battle was to him If It a little good g will went to produce the vasomotor disturbance that was the sign of or love it was applied with the intent not to deceive tho the lady but to play the game The spirit of or the code can be gathered from a few examples 1 Marriage is not a u. valid excuse from love 13 Common love seldom endures 15 Every Ever lover is wont to grow pale at sight i of or tho the beloved 18 Virtue alone makes one worthy worth of ot love 23 The thought of ot love makes a a. man p less and cat eat les less 24 Every Ever action of ot the lover ends In thoughts of ot the beloved 25 Th Tho true lover cares cares cares' for nothing Jpe a t save savo what he ho deems pleasant to the tho beloved cd 30 The true lover lo Is forever and without interruption occupied by the image of ot the beloved In the course of the Renaissance the I lady llady devel developed ped a waist Thus gaily was ushered into the ladys lady's life lite one of the most sinister phenomena In I her history the corset The difference between the status of or ortho tho the lad lady at Athens In the tho fifth fUth century before Christ t and her status rn its Franc In tho the eighteenth century of our ow e eIs era Is BO so profound that other social chan changes change 1 seem comparatively negligible At Athens she was allowed the dig diff dignities belonging to tho the head of the tho they household on condition of ot fidelity too toi her husband In France she even strengthened her position in the house hous while no longer fulfilling the condition She had of ot old been a lady as distinguished distinguished dis dis- dis from a courtesan In the eighteenth century the distinction had disappeared except as between amateurs amateurs ama ama- and professionals |