The Yale expositor., 1895-11-22

God, are right, and always will be right
That gives the young woman who gets
that position superiority over all rival
ries, all jealousies, all misfortunes, all
health failings, all social disasters, and
all the combined troubles of eighty
years. IL she shall live to be an octo-
genarian. II the world fails to appre-
ciate her she says: God loves me, the
angels in heaven are in sympathy with
me, and can afford to be patient until
the day when the imperial chariots
snail wheel to my door to take me up
10 my coronation" If health goes, she
says, Il can endure the present dis
uess. for l am on the way to a climate
the trst breath Of which will make me
proof against even the slightest dis
comfort" II she be jostled with pertur-
bations of social life she can say, well,
when / begin my fife among the thrones
OF heaven and the kings and queens
unto God shall be my associates, 1t will
not make much difference who on earth
forgot me when the invitations to that
reception were made out" All right
with God you are all right with. every
thing.
Martin Luther writing a letter of con-
dolence to one of his friends who had
lost his daughter, began by saying,
This Is hard world for girls" 1t is
for those who are dependent upon their
own wits and the whims of the world
and the preferences Of human favor,
but those who take the eternal God for
their portion not later than Is years of
age, and that is ten years later than 1t
ought to be, will find that while Martin
Luther's letter of coincidence was true
in regard to many, If not most, with re-
spect 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 1t matter
OF religion to take care of your physi-
cal health. / do not wonder that the
Greeks deified health and hailed Hygeia
as goddess. rejoice that there have
been so many modes of maintaining and
restoring young womanly health in
vented in our time. They may have
been known a long time back, but they
tennis, croquet and golf, and the BIZ
cycle. II always seemed strange and
inscrutable that our human race should
be so slow of locomotion, when Great
ures of less Importance have powers of
velocity, wing of bird or foot 6f ante
lope, leaving us far behind, and while
IL seems so important that we be in
many places in a short while, we were
weighed down with incapacities, and
most men If they run a mile are ex-
hausted, or dead from the exhaustion.
1t was left until the last decade of the
nineteenth century to give the speed
which we see whirling through all our
cities and along the country roads, and
with that speed comes health. The wo-
men Of the next decade will be health
Ter than at any time since the world
was created, while the invalidism which
has so often characterized womanhood
will pass over to manhood. which by
its posture on the wheel, is coming 10
curved spine and cramped chest and q
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 an hundred thousand
men of the present generation in phys
ical condition from man to monkey. For
good womanhood, thank God that this
mode Of recreation has been invented.
Use it wisely, modestly, Christlanly. 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, masculine wo-
man is the detestation of all, and every
revolution Of the wheel she rides is
towards depreciation and downfall.
Health! Only those know its value
who have lost it. The earth is girdled
with pain, and a vast proportion Of it
is the price paid for early recklessness.
l close this though with the salutation
in 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 their mother,
to them until after her exit from this
life. Indeed, mother Is in the apprecia-
tion of many young lady hindrance.
The maternal inspection is often con-
sidered an obstacle. Mother has so
many notions about that which is prop
er and that which is improper 1t is
astounding how much more many girls
know at Is than their mothers at AS
With what an elaborate argument, per-
haps spiced with some temper, the
youngling tries to reverse the opinion
OF the oldling. The sprinkle of gray
on the maternal forehead is rather an
indication to the recent graduate of the
female seminary that the circumstances
OF to-day or tonight are not fully ap-
preciated. What a wise boarding
school that would be IL the mothers
were the pupils and the daughters tho
teachers. How we'll the teens could
chaperone the flfties. Then mothers do
not amount to much anyhow. They are
in the way, and are always asking ques-
tions about postage marks of letters,
and asking, who is that Mary Dr.
and where did You form that acQuaint-