LADY, WOMAN, AND PERSON.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 187, 12 September 1914, Page 6

LADY, WOMAN, AND PERSON.

e THREE DEFINITIONS BY SIR R. BADEN-POWELL. Sir Robert Baden-Powell, speaking at the prizegiving at St. Paul's Girls' School, Brook Green, recently, defined " lady," " woman,'' and '' person'' as follows: — "A 'lady' at present is one wh» wears silk and kid gloves and minds her p's and q's. If she wears cotton gloves and bombazine, or whatever it is called, and all the p's she knows of are those she eats with a knife, she is a 'woman.' If she does not wear gloves, uses bad language, or at least drops her h's, and wears calico, she is a 'person.' " Sir Robert added that when he learned tracking he discovered that women walked in quite a different way from men. He offered to tell a lady's character from her shoes. "The heels of a lady's shoes," he said, "used to be worn on the outside of one foot and the inside of another, which meant that they were weak-kneed with one leg and over-strong with the other. Ladies' shoes are beginning to be worn much more evenly nowadays, which means that they are getting more even-minded. I hope that will continue."