Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1914 — MATCHING UP GENTLEMEN. [ARTICLE]

MATCHING UP GENTLEMEN.

A Striking Definition of the Very Essence of Aristocracy. I here is an ancient British anecdote still in perfectly good standing which gives a definition of a “lady. “ This states that the mistress of a hptiXe on returning from an a ftci'ins n’s shopping was informed by her housemaid, “A lady was here to see you, mum." Ask *ed the mistress, “How do you know if was a lady.' - Said the housemaid, "Because she was covered with Joolry and smelt of sherry somethin’ awful, mum.” I A New Yorker who goes to t'anada annually on business recalled the anecdote the other day in telling of a Canadian definition of a “gentleman” which he received some years ago. “1 was at a dance in Ottawa,” he said, “the year before the Boer war. One of my partners was a snip of a miss who had virulent Anglomania. The talk ran upon class distinctions, and She voiced some bizarre opinions as to tlie gulf bet ween ’gentlemen’ and all ot her men.- “ ’Wel|, won’t you please tell me exactly wlmt is a gentleman?’ 1 finally asked. “She was iSizzled, but just for u moment. Iler eyes ran around the room Until they restedlupon Lord Ava, the eldest son of the then Marquis of Dufferin. - “’A gentleman? said my partner, ‘it a man who knows Lord Ava wel enough to ask him for a match.’ New York Times.