Ladies And Women

Some worde have a mágica' efiect on u? fi'nin the mental pietures connected with them, or iroai the estimation in which we thiiik the tlnngs represented by th( m are held. If two or more w'ords express the same qualities in an object, and one of these wnrds malies a (nanifestitation of these qualities more valned, we are flattered when that ' word is applied to us. What fernale is not more pleased lo be called a lady than to be called n wonia? When the word is spoken, nobody, nuw, thinks of what is st;id to have ben its original meaning - one who gives bread. Nei j ther, as eomrnonly used in this cbtfntfv, ' does one think of a woman of rank, s called. Bul a lady if some'hing nice - redi lent of band'boxes. The word is BUggestive of ribbon and dressmaking, dtslicajjï and leisure, money ándense; and the puer lities oí (actitious refinemeat so predominant in the modern training oí the young, that these thinijp and conditions are as the good of life Lady !- The word is f uil of softness and refinement.aeeompanitd ith weaknes8 and dependence. The hite fintrers, dexlerons in oriijuneotal art, glitter and tautaüze; the eye, unused to watch over the feeble, fl shes to enchanjL; the voice, uwinfi cnlled flowöfs, ravishes with Meetness nevnr tested b ciiiToding acids. Li dy ! - the vebrü fulls fioni the lips üke the dropping ol balsam. - iut, somelinies, we are a rn ti sed by its neer nse. We hb'Vö heard of a wolan who always calis the BcrúBbing woman, " the ladv that washea for me." Why not? " Is Miss t t'tér a lady, 'anima?" askud a little gfirl of six ears, who was wit h her mothor visiting n a certa. n ciiy. " Yes, Miss Potter is real taiijf,' the mother replied. " Bnt, namma, she works !" relnrred the hild ; '' sho waslies, and cooks break'ast ; how can she be a lady?" The rnamental only is a.'-sociated with the word lady. But thé wórd woman smacks of nothD'g ar'itieial It tneans only what the jord God made for man to love and o live with as part of hinibelf - a dearr prt, and a part he will not do without. Many men, do, in trnth, live heir hole lives apart trom this half, whieh woiikl make them perfect men ; )ut it is because some lady has given hein a serpent instead of the bread .heir souls craved; or the finer half las. in the transfunuing procewi of fash onable culture become so chanyed to a lady, that the stupid men do not recogmze in it the one designed to finish up the strncture of their manhüod. - PerhapB, indiuid, the modern si hcds have so modified mind and body. that he " last best gift. to man, is do longer i " help niiite " tor him ; the rib is so jent th:it it will not tit : h1 dares not ! say it is his last one. So the poor j bachelor goes tbrough life rnourinng For his s are-rib. ÁW th'it he sees I 36'ms too polishad to be natural. What female, when cilli;d a wnman, feels a qiimkening nf the blood? None. It is a ciiininon word, exjiressing a ' rnon object, simple, free, und like all commnn things coming diruct irmn öod'e hand, jnst aduptfld to a man's . nature. Womaq expresses jut the I cotiibination of qualities which tills the vacuüm n a true map' hert; iiht what is fitted to establish his hiipp;ness, to perfect his human existence. When a real woman míirries a reí.l nmn they cannot be put asunder. God hath joined them. Ladies can never meet the heart-want pL men. Ií thay marry, it is to their mutual sorrow and chagrín. Ludies are beauliful, onchaniing. But the true man wishes to go thrnugh liíe a natural being rat hor than an enchanted one Hi highest earthly aspirations is to walk, side by side, in 8uneh,ine and in storm with a woman. - Se ected.