Note 70 — JOURNAL. (continued 4)

The ladies here have an extreme aversion to being called women, I don't exactly understand why. Their idea is, that that term designates only the lower or less-refined classes of female human-kind. This is a mistake which I wonder they should fall into; for in all countries in the world, queens, duchesses, and countesses, are called women; but in this one alone, washerwomen, sempstresses, and housemaids are entitled ladies; so that, in fact, here woman is by far the more desirable appellation of the two.