The Iola register., 1895-11-22

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health. do not wonder that the
Greek deit..i health and hailed Hv-
ge!a as "oddes>. rejoice that there
have been 80 many mo les of maintain
ing and restoring young womanly
health invented in our time They
may have been known a long time
Sac,5. but they have been popularizad
n nur day-lawn tennis, croquet. and
golf ami the bicycle
IL was left until the last decade of
he nineteenth century to rive the
Speei which we see whiriiny through
all oar cities and along the country
roads. and with that speed comes
health. The women Of the next de-
cade will be healthier than At any
time since the world was created.
while the invali iism which has 81
often characterized womanhond will
pass over 10 manhood which. by it,
posture ON she wheel. is coming to
carved spine and cramped chest ami
detormity FOR which another fifty years
will not have power to make rescue.
NounE man. sit up straight when YOU
ride. Darwin says the human race is
descended from the monkey. but
the bicycle will turn an hundred
thousand men of the present gen-
Grafton in physical condition from
man 10 monkey. For good woman
hood. ] thank tiod that this mode
of recreation has been invented. Use
it wisely, modsstlv. Christianly. No
good woman nee Is 10 be told what at
tire l. proper and what behavior is
right. Ii anything he doubtful reject
it. \ hovdeniSh. oisterous. 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. q,
woman: of your nerves in not reading
the trash which makes up ninety-nine
out of one hundred novels. or bv eat
ing too many cornucopias of confec-
tionery. 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.
Advice the third: Appreciate your
almost universal testimony of young
women who have lost mother. that
they did not realize what she was to
them until after her exit from this life
Indeed, mother is in the appreciation
of many young lady a h;ndrance.
The maternal inspection is often con-
-sidered an obstacle. Mother has so
many notions about that which is
proper and that which is improper
1t is astounding how much more many
girls know at IS than their mothers at
40 With what an elaborate argument,
perhaps spiced with some temper, the
yOungling tries to reverse the opinion
of the oldling.
They are in the way. and are always
asking questions about postage marks
of letters, and asking. "who is that
Mary D?" and where did you form
that acquaintance. Flora?" and where
did you get that ring, Myra?" For
mothers have such unprecedented
means of knowing everything-they
say lit was bird in the air that told
them. 1t would take whole libraries
to hold the wisdom which the daugh-
ter knows more than her mother
-'sWhv cannot | have this?" ''Whv
cannot i do that?'' And the question
in many a group has been. although
not plainly stated: What shall we
do with the mothers. anyhow? They
are so far behind the times" Permit
me to suggest that if the mother
had given more time to looking after
herself and less time to looking after
YOU. she would have been as fully mp
to-date a> YOU. in music in style of gait.
in eSthetic taste and in all sorts of in-
formation. But one day from over
work. or sitting up of nights with a
neighbor's sick child or a blast of the
east wind. on which pneumOnias are
horsed. mother is sick. Yet the family
think she viii soon be well, for she has
been sick 50 often, and always has got
well, and the news is gradually broken
that recovery is impossible. and the
white pillow over which are Strewn
the locks little tinted with snow. be-
comes the point around which all the
family gather. some standing. some
kneeling. and the pulse beats the last
throb. and the bosom trembles with
/ the last breath. and the question is
asked in "A viii sper nv all the group:
rs She mone?" And all is over
Now come the regrets. Now the
daughter reviews her former criticism
/ of maternal supervision. For the first
/ time she realizes what it is to have a
mother. and what it is to lose a mother.
1 Tell me- men and women, old and
young. did any of US appreciate how
much mother was to us until she was
/ gone? Young woman, you will proba-
/ blv never have a more disintereSted
| friend than your mother. When she
/ saws anything is unsafe or imprudent
/ you had better believe it is unsafe
/ or imprudeRt When she declares
/ it is something you ought to
do. think you had better dc
| it. She has seen more of the
world than you have. Do you think
/ she could have any mercenary or con
/ temptible motive in what she advises
YOU? She would give her life for you
| if it were called for. Do you know OF
/ anyone else who would do more than
that for you? Do you know of anyone
/ who would do as much? The grave
/ wards are full of mothers who died
| taking care of their children. Big
| A