A Real Lady

" Yes, indade, she's a rale lady," said an Irish girl, admiringly, wbom we passed the other day n the street; "her hand is as white as pot chase, aud you would'ut know she was in the house, she is so quiet." We confess to share the poor girl's adrairation of the " rale " lady, even to the " white " handprovided its pressure ia soft and kindly, tbe brow above it indicative of puro thoughts and womanly aspirations, and the heart beneath the ricli drapery generous and sympathetic. It is a pity to think tbat there are so few women of the real lady stamp; they are reeognized anywhere by the inherent fact and exquisito graee which. is part of their birth-right, and, as they are always perfeetly attired with the same instinct of true artïötic taste, are good and beau tiful to look at, as any admirable work of God or man. One thoroughly brcdlady is a botter edueator of taste and niauner than a dozen teachers at enorinous salaries; every color she wears, every couibination sho suggests, every movement she makes is a lesson, whose effects may be seen and noted in future generations, if wc could ouly penétrate beceath the surface of things. How easy to recognize her presence in a car, a steamboat, or wherever there 11 11 ITT . 1 _ _ "i is a puDlic assemmage ! üow ner quiei self-possession contrasts with the fidgety ] awkwardness of the majority of nomen, i Her dress seems to adjust itself without ■ any trouble ; its colors are so well chosen as to present no remarkable features, and nothing to remember but its perfection. She is as charming an object for contemplation as a lovely landscape, a fine picture, or anything else which satisfies one's ideas of beauty and fitness. A vulgar fice lady is as different from this as can well be iniagined, her presence is recognized by her show and pretensión. Her colorsjare of the brightest, and arrayed so as to produce the most glaring contrasts. Her exaggerated robe is always spread out to its utmost amplitude, and she expects the sacrifiee of every other person's comfort to her convenience. The vulgar woman is economical to meanness, exceptiog when the object is her own personal gratification, and then she can be extravagant enough ; the gen uine lady, on the contrary, is liberal when others are coneerned, and if she finds it neeessary to exercise economy, does so in her personal expenditures. - She does not indulge iu large outlay for pastry and perfumes, and cut her seamstresses and washwomen down to starvation priees, or perhaps neglect to p:iy them at all. She surrounds herself with beauty, because she loves it, and can properly afford the luxury, but not at the sacrifiee of even generosity.