The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-29

bird or foot Of antelope leaving us 70
behind, and while tseems so importan
that we be in many places in a shor
while, we were weighed down with in
capacities. and most men If they rur
q mile are exhausted or dead from ex
haustion. It was left until the las
decade of the nineteenth century te
give the speed which we see whirl
ing through all our cities and along
the country roads, and with that
speed comes health The women o.
the next decade will be healthier than
at any time since the world was ere
ated, while the invalidism which has
SO often characterized womanhood will
pass over to manhood, which by its
posture on the wheel, is coming to
curved spine and cramped chest and
a deformity for which another fifty
years will not have power to
make rescue. Young man, sit up
straight when you ride. Darwin says
the human race is descended from the
monkey, but the bicycle will turn a
hundred thousand men of the present
generation in physical condition, from
man to monkey. For good woman
hood, thank God that this mode of
recreation has been invented. Use it
wisely, modestly, christianity. No
good woman needs to be told what at
tire is proper and what behavior is
right. If anything be doubtful, reject
it. A hoydenish, boisterous, mascu-
line woman is the detestation of all,
and every revolution of the wheel she
rides is toward depreciation and down
fall. Take care of your health, 0
woman; of your nerves, in not read
ing the trash which makes up ninety
nine out of one hundred novels, OF by
eating too many cornucopias of con-
fectionery. Take care of your eyes by
not reading at hours when you ought
to be sleeping. Take care of your ears
by stopping them against the tides of
gossip that surge through every neigh
borhood.
Health! Only those know its value
who have lost it. The earth is Cir
died with pain. and vast proportion
of it is the price paid for early reck-
lessness. I close this though with the
from Macbeth:
Now good digestion wait on appetite
And health on both.
Advice the third: Appreciate your
mother while you have her. 1t is the
almost universal testimony of young
women who have lost mothers, that
they did not realize what she was to
them until after her exit from this
life. Indeed, mother is in the appreci.
alton of many young lady a
hindrance. The maternal inspec-
ticn is often considered an obstacle.
Mother has many notions about
that which is proper and that which is
improper. 1t is astounding how much
more many girls know at eighteen
than their mothers at forty-five. With
what an elaborate argument, perhaps
'piced with some temper, the young
ing tries to reverse the opinion of the
oldling. The sprinkle of gray on the
forehead is rather an indica-
ion to the resent graduate of
The female seminary that the cir
of to-day or tonight are
lot fully appreciated. What wise
school that would be if the |
Mothers were the pupils and the
the teachers. How well the |
Gems would chaperone the fifties. |
Then mothers do not amount to much |
anyhow They are in the way, and |
ire always asking questions about |
postage marks of letters. and asking:
Who is that Mary DIP" and "where
lid you form that acquaintance,
flora?' and where did you get
hat ring, Myra?" For mothers
rave such unprecedented means of |
moving everything-they say sit was
! bird in the air" that told them.
Alasl for that bird in the air. Will
lot some one lift his gun and shoot it?
t would take whole libraries to hold
he wisdom which the daughter knows
moro than her mother. why can
lot I have this?" "Why can
lot / do that?" And the question
n many group has been, al
hough not plainly stated: what
hall we do with the mothers, any
low? They are SO far behind the
INES" Permit me to suggest that if
he mother had given more time to
ooking after herself and less time to
ooking after you, she would have
zen as fully up-to-date as you,
n music, in syle of gait, in
sthetic taste, and in all sorts
4 information. expect that
Vhile you were studying botany, and
dentistry, and embroidery, and the
cw opera, she was studying house
old economies. But one day from
verwork, or sitting up of nights with
neighbours sick child, or
last of the east wind. on which