Connecticut western news., 1895-11-21

their porr1on not Iarer than Il years of age, and thatis ten years laterthan it ought to be. will find that while Martin Luther's letter of cmdolence was true in regard to many, if not most with respect to those who have the wisdom and promptitude and the earnestness to get right with God, declare that this Is good world for girls.
 Advice the second: Make it matter of religion to take care of your physical health. do not wonder that the Greeks deiaed health and hailed Hygeia as a goddess I rejoice that there have been ] so many modes of maintaining andre storing young womanly health invented | in our time. They may have been known long time back, but they have l been popularized in our day-lawn ten his, croauet and golf and the bicycle | It always seemed strange and inscruta | ble that our human race should be so | slow of locomotion, when creatures of less importance have powers of velocity, wing of bird or foot of antelope, leaving us-far behind, and dwhile it seems so i'm portant that we be in many places inis short while we were weighed down with incapacities, and most men if | they run mile are exhausted or dead | from the exhaustion. It was left until | the-last decade of the nineteenth. cen- tury to give the speed which we see l whirling through all our cities and along the country roads, and with that | speed comes health. The women of the | next decade will be healthier than at I any time since the world was created, while the invalidism wlAich has so often characterizedwoman will pass over to manhood, which by it's posture on the wheel is coming to curved spine and cramped chest and a deformity for which another 50 years will not have l power to make rescue. Young man, sit 1 up straight when you ride.
 Darwin says the human race is de- scended from the monkey, but the bicy- l cle will turn hundred thousand men I of the present geHerRtion in physical | condition from man to monkey. For | good womanhood, thank God that this mode, of recreation has been invented. Use it wisely, modestly, Chris6anly. | No good woman needs to be told what attire is proper and what behavior is f right. If anything be doubtful, reject it. I A hoydenish, boisterous, masculine wo- man is the detestation of all, and every revolution of the wheel she rides is to- l ward depreciation and downfall Take care of your health, o woman; of your nerves in not reading the trash which l makes up 299 out of 100 novels, or by | eating too many cornucopias of confec- tioneryi Take care of your eyes by not reading at hours when you ought to be sleeping Take careof.y your ears by stop | ping them against the tides of gossip that Surge through every neighborhood.
 Healthl Only those know it's value who, have lost it. The earth is girdled with pain, and a vast prol ortim of it is the price paid for early recklessness. l l close this thought with the salutation in Macbeth:
 Now good digestion wait on appetite And health on both.
 aH Appreciate Your Mother.
 i Advice the third: Appreciate your mother whil you have her. It is the all most universal testimony of young wom- en 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 a | young lady a hindrance. The maternal inspection is often considered an ob- stacle. Mother has so many notions about that which is proper and that which is improper. It is astounding how much more many girls know at l8 than their mothers at 45. With what an elab- crate argument, perhaps spiced with some temper, the youngling tries to re- verse the opinion of the oldling. The I sprinkle of gray on theamaterna fore head is rather an indication to the recent graduate of the female seminary that the circumstances of today or tonight are not fully appreciated.
 ] What wise boarding school that would be if the mothers were the pupils and the daughters the teachersL How we'll the teens could chaperon the ffties I Then mothers do not amount stomuoh anyhow. 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, Floral" and Where did you get that ring, ,MyraT' For mothers have such unprecedented means of knowing everything-they say fit was a bird in the air'' that told them. Alas, for that bird in the air
 Will not some one lift his gun and shoot it? It would take whole libraries to hold the wisdom which the daughter knows more than her mother "Why cannot have this?n Why cannot doahat?''
 l,oa xtxx,x hac been, although not plainly stated: What I shall we do with the mothers anyhow! They are so far behind the times.' Per init 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 up to date as you, in music, in style of gait, in @sthetic taste and in all sorts of i'm formation. Iexpect that while you were studying botany and chemistry and em- broidery and the new opera she was studying household economies. But one day from overwork, or sitting up of I nights with neighbours sick child, or a blast of the west wind, on which pneu- monias are horsed, mother is sick.s Yet the family think she will soon be we'll, for she has been sick so often, and al- ways has got we'll, and the physician comes three times day, and there is a consultation of the doctors, and the
 news is gradually broken that recovery
 is impossible, given in the words While
 there is life there is hope" And the
 white pillow over which are strewn the
 locks little tinted with snow becomes
 the point around which all the fami ly
 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 whisper
 by all the group, ''Is she gone?" And
 all is over
 Tho Disinterested Friend