The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-04

a-.eratrs. devotion to the Children.
Those VIII" Claim the Immunities of Age
When Only In the Midday Of Life.
The oldest woman | ever knew was 90.
at marriage TIE grices of girlhood passed
forever from her life. Economy became
the god en,ilroned on every altar of her
home. Ruffies and ribbons were the
insi mia of levity and extravaganza.
D., Is robbed Of a yard or two grew
ungracefnlly short and narrow. Books
ard papers were regarded as Injuries
not necessities An hour spent in read
ing left a feeling of guilt for wasted time.
Devotion to will and the children"
came to r:ean self assumed slavery.
Luster left the eye. elasticity the fralne.
Through a mistaken sense Of duty she
grew unkempt. narrow souled. repulsive.
It has been said that the true age is what
we look and feel. have known sweet.
younger than She.
In the great middle class of America
the wife too often invites g by concen-
trating all ambition in money getting.
To save the wages of servant she de.
stroys the joy Of life. the buoyancy of
health. Pushing the growing daughter
to the front. she sees less and less OF
society, dresses with increasing plain.
ness and sinks to a household drudge.
mate.
T~hirty-five has no more right to the
styles and tone of 20 than to those of 1.
The appropriation of the one is scarcely
less ridiculous than the assumption of
the other. Far better than the expen-
sive boarding school is the example of
the mother in imparting to the daughter
the faultless taste of dress. the gentle
repose of manner, the gracious spirit so
admirable in A part of the
money devoted to the education of the
daughter would be well spent in procur-
ing to the mother the time for self cul.
ture. As the fair, snowy page is not so
useful or beautiful as the one written
with pure, uplifting thought. so the i'm
mature maiden is less valuable to home
and society than the ripe. cultured wom.
an.
People of 40 and so should not shelve
tucLlstINtS anu tltlIu tIlt IIlllluullItS VI
age. They are in the midday Of life: the
time for the exercise of knowledge.
power. grace and beauty. for the up
lifting of humanity. These gifts may
be enhanced by dress and manner The
influence of the attractive. self respect
ing wife, mother. sister or friend is more
potent for GOOD than that of the one with
neglected person and ~unlovely mind.
Discomfort invitesage. INDUCING the
unrest of the dissatisfied is destructive
to looks and temper. In his STORY of a
Country Town Mr.. f. W. Howe says.
BE contented if it kills you" The adj
vice is not 81 bad as it looks. Content
ment and s~tagnation are not necessarily
synonymous. one may be free from
worry while striving for higher planes
or work. Woman should have the cour.
age of repose. 1t is infinitely better than
the morbid conscientiousness that goads
to endless toll Effective work requires
rest.
Judiciors mental work may help to
lift II out Of the ruts of premature old
age. Read and think of what You read
Don't nse your mind as if il Were a
sieve and you were trying to see how
much yon could pour through it. There
Is a belief cXtant that knowlege. if
gained at all. must be acquired in youth
theory Behold Galilei at
and ten pursuing his studies
with u%nfiagging zeal. Cato beginning
Greek when advanced in years. Ogilby
classical studies when past
So Gladstone is as much the studen.
today as when the bloom Of youth mai.
tied his cheek.
Be kind to the feelings and fancies of
If they prove perennial, so much
The better. Don't forbid yourself glad.
thought and action. Don't he
ashamed to make yourself as pretty us
you can. A sensible woman may feel a
thrill of pleasure innocent as a maiden's
when receiving q glance of respectful
from q manly man. Smile
without affectstion, be pleasant without
being silly-in short, be young as long as
vou can.-Alva Rosse in Kate Fields |
Washington.
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