WHAT A LADY DOES NOT DO.
There are several things always absent in a true lady which girls (writes the Young Woman) will do well to notice and remember : A lady, for example will never ignore little kindnesses. Conclude in a crowd that she has a right to push her way through. Consume the time of people who can ill spare it. Wear on the street a dress only fitted to the house or carriage. Talk loudly in public places. Wear a torn glove when a needle and a few stitches would make it all right. Fail in answering letters or returning visits, unless she is ill or in trouble. Fret about the heat or the cold, the sun or the rain, the air or the lack of it.
Make an engagement and then not be there in time. Complain of her family or discuss personal affairs with strangers. Always believe the worst rather than the best side of a story. A lady does not do any other than make the best of everything—the world, the weather, and herself. She believes in the golden rule, and endeavours, as far as possible, to live up to it; and that’s what you and I ought to promise every morning that we will try and do during the day.
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Southern Cross, Volume 11, Issue 25, 19 September 1903, Page 7
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