Telegram-herald., 1888-02-27
GRANDMOTHER LOIS
o. TALNAaE's EIaHr. sEaNoN
Fhis 10 . Hard weEia fsr Wsaas~ yud siss
for As4-A nsthsrs Iahasnss sf
1azmsass 4sd L4stia. ilsPSrs-
.a1. sa Uaborn Gsasra1ls1A

fa-la.s. y. ~ prezeneti IA the brocklYa
Taberaacls - siaY tns eight. n his secass Il
'.Esrnons = 1ls " omen q America. WITH
Important hia1s - Msa." bis subject ~as,
.@Ths Graudmofhsr an HeF Grandchildren
A vast congregation ~as presea4 Ths OPEN
izs hsnn begins.
Give - sno siad ny fears.
dsfe 1ld - aa1Ils1aaYeds
God heas ny ssns 4nd cosssrs thy ,esr&
eod siaA lft aD ny bead
Or Taluaeas text vas from II Timothy,
81 -fhe uafziszsd faith thai Is IN thee
shisA dwei1 asst Ia thy grand1lOIner Lois"
r. sioqasas preacher saids
ia t.lis love ietter which Paul. the I'D min
is1er. - errIag % T.mothy. the young MN
lster. the faleily rscord IS brought cur. Fa1I
practically gags- Timothy, what a good
sf4nsiaaotnef yog aad oa ought % b. bes-
e. tlan must folks. becauss not only was
y0uf mother good. bus ycHr grandmother
tso preceding seaera-ions of piesY ought %
giss yea = migh-y plAa ln t1e right clroc-
f.0u The fast wls talt Timothy needed
snca.Tzgenent Hs vas La poor health, hag-
ta1 weak stomach, aat was dyspeptic. aud
Paul prescribea for him a tonic. "A Little
sine flr ghy stomach's saksr-not mach
vine. but hE1.e. ami oa.y az a medi-
cine AMI X 10 vine then bad been as
nlllch a.lniGerafei via loywood and strych-
unie as cur modern - .nes, be would cot have
prescribed any.
But Timothy, not strong physically, Is en-
eourayed spiritually by the recital OF grand
rno.bsriF excellence, Paul hiniing lo him as
hias tbs day 70 you, that God sometimes
rafners %, as IN a reservoir away back q
she active generations Of today, godly IN
da<ace, and then ia response % prayer lets
down the power upon children and grant
eaiiirsa and reat-gransieaIldren- The world
> woefuuY ~ want Of table Of statistics Ia
regard to what Is tho protractedness and inn
rasnsity q influence Of one good woman IN
th., church and world We have accounts OF
how much evil has been wrought oy Mar
esret, ths mother OK criminals, who lived
lear a hundred years ago, and Of how many
hundreds Of criminals her descendants fur.
uished for the penitensiary anc tho gallo~s;
ard ho~ many handrels OK thousands OF dol-
lars they cost this country IN their arraign-
meat and prison support, a. well as Ia the
property they bargiarized OF destroyed. But
vii not some one come out with brain com
prehsnsivs enough, and heart warm enough,
AMI yen keen enough to give Is tho facts IN
rezarl TO some good woman Of a hundred
years as0. and let Us kaow how many Chris
tan men and women and reformers and use
ful people have been fcrnd among her de-
scelCants, and how many ssyiuns and col
ls-~s and churches they built. and how many
millions Of dollars they contributed for hu-
maaitxrian and Christian purposcsi
TIE good women whose tnEbstoncs were
planted IN the Eighteenth century arc more
alive for good in the Nineteenth century than
they were before. a. the good women Of this
Nineteenth century viii Do more alive for
g,oG in ths Twentieth century than now.
Marx YOU I have no idea that the grand
rnotaers we're sty better than their grand
datsghtsrs You cannot get very old people
10 ak N y about how things were when
they we're b, - and girls They have a reti-
c@ncs aud n nOn-coumittaiism which makes
ne think they feel themselves 20 be the Gus
toslians % the reputation of their early CON-
rs.seS While our dear old folks are rehears-
inx the follies Of the present, II you put them
ON the witness stand and cross examine them
q. - hew tEings we're seventy years ago tho
sii.nce becomes oppressive
A celebrated Frenchman By the name Of
volnev visited this country in 1926. and he
says of woman diet ia these times: IF
pr-risfn was offered for q regimen most de
sfructlve 70 health. none could % devised
more el-icscious tor these ends than that in
use among these psopls.' That ecilpses our
i,hster salad az midnight. Everybody talks
aboab The dissipati0ns q modern scriety and
how ~ousanlY health goes down uuelor it,
but IN vas worse a hundred years ago. for
the chsplain Of French regiment IN cur re-
voiut saary war wrote in i7S2 in his book of
American women, saying; They are tail
ART well prcuortioued. their features ara
.r,
generally fair and without color At %
wears 4 age the women have no longer tts
f--shaeSs Il youth. As 50 or - they are de-
~rsritr Ia 1919 a foreign consul wrote a
book -ntitled A sketch of the UrG.ed States
a. TIE C9mrnenceule1t of the Prevent Cen
t,s-v ard hs SAWS a. the women 0f those
times. AT fha a. of 50 al their charms
have f,=anrearsd Ono glance at the por-
t~aits q fhs women a kgndrei years ago and
ttr,f. >sa 80 dress makss AS wccdrr how
tarr ever rot sfar breath All this makes
~ fhink that tbe express rail train is no
NOR, "a f,onrovemert on tlc OLD canal beat.
or the telegraph 10 mere an Improvement on
taa sld t.fue saddle bazs. than the women q
cur asv are su Improvement On the wou1en
cf fse last century
sur ztiii. ithstsnding thar these times
sese - 1ri,-h vorse than ours. Tiers wss =
eIcriaus r,are of gociy women. seventy snd a
hunsiret years sZo. who held the worid back
from sn ard hftei Is toward virtne. and
without tfcir evsitei and sanctiaei infu-
srre hef.re tbls he iast good infuence would
have pefishei fron faa earth. Ia,ieed. al
ever sh,s land thcre sre seated t1iisy-nos 50
ruuch IN churrhes. fer mary II them are to
fsatle e, come--a great many sgei grand.
rscfbarS They sometimes feei thar ths world
hsS gore psst sbesr. and they hsee an iiea
thav are of httie srcouut Their h~ad sorne-
siua.e GETS schinr frcn The racket u ths
x~andchidree d,wr stairs or IN ne rext
ry,crn. Thrv stesssv shers~sivrs by the hsnis-
s-r-s AZ thev q ap sns dow, When thsv
eat eel1 is nanrs ~ 10 ts-sn is,n-er than i
sd 90 Thev caarct E-sr - have ths grand.
children ruuishes. ever ~heu they 8e>erv.
e. and nars - rsssxed thsir ijes< ~ family
sizciphne that they wouid spell All the
youngsters of IRE HOUSEHOLDS hy 80 greas
lsrencv rhesa el8 tci<s srs the rpsrrt when
r~-af -rouhies cofne. and shers e = earning
snd ssoshinz power n the teuch 81 ~ sgd
hsnf t,,at : slrscst ssuernsturst Thrv Eel
fhsv ara ain,oss thrcush viff tss .Curner 81
lifs and nssi the oit cprk mere thar tsaY
,szcs s,. harsiie kn0v tag which n'cSt trey en-
f,v. ths ora r-staasus ~ t.ie Nsvv snd of6sn
stre and dvan tearfally over the f&rai.V
-,ccri bali WY between. We hsil teefn -
ssav vhstarr ~ ere hcuse 81 Gef cr ar thr
Homestead 81 essei is that hoosehcid tha'
hss ia it = cfsn,irrrrber L.sis here she Is
anEe's are lowering r1rHs ard i4,'l IS IN tas
-rr.r Nav Der .sst iars - iiss tafse icfei 3
s0txsfai iars r,as Ne cali indlsn suun1er
+ rrver knew .oe lcr e havfng grams
rncther -sst IA tte iiSasivant.s-s ~ ce'rs
sse r1arEesf csi.3 ef the faluiir The elsleI