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280 say constitute a lady, not those who would move out of one neighborhood into another for the sake of society, crowding into high circles, making themselves the veriest toadies for the sake of society; they merely put themselves out of society trying to get into it, for their old friends will have nothing to do with them, and the new circle they try to get into are disgusted with them. I do not call those ladies who drive around, call on ladies, and invite them to their parties without knowing them. I have frequently been asked who is such-and-such a lady as I have been invited to a party to her house."

I saw the ladies were getting very uneasy and restless under my sarcastic remarks, and one of them, a lady I had worked for for some years, I thought a great deal of, now said, "Iangy, you are too much excited, you don't know what you are saying." I remarked to her, "Excuse me, madam, I do know what I am saying, and want you all to hear me—you all laid a plan to come here to-day and have some fun, and I am determined you shall have enough of it; if you want fun, I will furnish the material. I will now tell you of some ladies—I will not name them as you know who I mean—who left the neighborhood in which they were residing, and went to another, for the purpose of getting into a higher circle, but they failed, and then left there and then went to still another, and are now in the neighborhood of the highest circle in our city, and I think they will remain there till they exhaust their means, before they get an entree to the higher circle.

"Now you know my principles and my feelings, and know what I call a lady. I do not appreciate