WHAT 
IS EXPECTED OF A LADY
" For the grace of God is in courtesy"
Once upon a time the gentle and enviable title of lady, which stood for all that was noble, good and true in woman hood, was coveted universally, but in recent yers the word has be applied so indiscriminately and "soiled with all ignoble use " to such an extent that for everyday purpose most of us prefer the term of woman.
WHAT IS A LADY?
It is
a strange commentary on the ways of the world, with its ever-recurring cycle of change and fashion, that the original Anglo Saxon signification of lady as "loaf-giver" should hold more firmly and truly at the present time than it has done for generations.
The question is not one of birth, positionn or means for there are nature's gentlewomen of courteous manners who owe nothing to the accident of birth, just as throught history there have been shrews and even vampires born in the purple. True ladyhood is of the heart rather than of the the head, and one who would aspire to the title is only worthy if her entire life is the embodiment of the Golden Rule, than which there can be no higher standard of conduct.
The first attribute of a lady is habitual courtesy, not only to her nearest , but to every one who crosses her path.The nursery of good manners is the home, the key note of which is sounded and maintained by the mother. If she be of sweet and sunny disposition, practising constant self control, keeping back the hastyv word or the fault-finding, even when she is ill and worried, her children will unconsciously emulate her.
Your true lady is invariable courteous to servants and those who may be socially inferior.
IS EXPECTED OF A LADY
" For the grace of God is in courtesy"
Once upon a time the gentle and enviable title of lady, which stood for all that was noble, good and true in woman hood, was coveted universally, but in recent yers the word has be applied so indiscriminately and "soiled with all ignoble use " to such an extent that for everyday purpose most of us prefer the term of woman.
WHAT IS A LADY?
It is 
a strange commentary on the ways of the world, with its ever-recurring cycle of change and fashion, that the original Anglo Saxon signification of lady as "loaf-giver" should hold more firmly and truly at the present time than it has done for generations.
The question is not one of birth, positionn or means for there are nature's gentlewomen of courteous manners who owe nothing to the accident of birth, just as throught history there have been shrews and even vampires born in the purple. True ladyhood is of the heart rather than of the the head, and one who would aspire to the title is only worthy if her entire life is the embodiment of the Golden Rule, than which there can be no higher standard of conduct.
The first attribute of a lady is habitual courtesy, not only to her nearest , but to every one who crosses her path.The nursery of good manners is the home, the key note of which is sounded and maintained by the mother. If she be of sweet and sunny disposition, practising constant self control, keeping back the hastyv word or the fault-finding, even when she is ill and worried, her children will unconsciously emulate her.
Your true lady is invariable courteous to servants and those who may be socially inferior.
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