Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-23

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thrones of heaven and the kings and
queens unto God shall be my associates,
it will not make much difference who
onlearth forgot me when the invitations
to that reception were made out. I" All
right with God, you are all right with
everything
This Is Good World For Girls.
Martin Luther. writing a letter of
coincidence 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 8 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
respect to those who have the wisdom
and promptitude and the earnestness to
get right with God, ! declare that this
is q good world for girls.
Advice the second: Make 1t a matter
Of religion to take care of your physical
health. I do not wonder that the Greeks
defhed health and hailed Hygeia as a
goddess. rejoice that there have been
SO many modes of maintaining and re-
storing young womanly health invented
in our time. They may have been
known long time back, but they have
been popularized in our day-lawn ten
mis-, oroquet and golf and the bicycle.
It,alwsys seemed strange and inscruta-
bleathat our human race should be so
slow Of slocomotion, when creatures OF
less Importance have powers of velocity,
wing of bird or foot of antelope, leaving
us far behind, and while 1t seems so i'm
portant that we be in many places in
short while we were weighed down
with incapacities, and most men il
they run mile are exhausted or dead
from the exhaustion. 1t was left until
the last decade of the nineteenth CEN
tury:to give the speed which we see
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
any time since the world was created,
while the invalidism which has go often
characterized womanhood will pass over
toasmanhood, which by its posture on
thewheel is coming to curved spine and
cramped chest and deformity for
which another so years will not have
power to make rescue. Young man, sit
up straight when you ride.
Darwin says the human race is de-
scended from the monkey. but the bicy-
cleSwill turn hundred thousand men
of the present generation in physical
condition from lnau to monkey. For
good womanhood, I thank God that this
mode of recreation has been invented.
Use. it wisely, modestly, Christianly.
No good woman needs to be told what
attire is proper and what behavior is
right. II anything be doubtful, reject 1t.
A hoydenish, boisterous, masculine Wo-
man is the detestation of all. and every
revolution Of the wheel she rides is to-
ward depreciation and downfall Take
care Of your health, o. woman; Of your
re-5es in not reading the trash which
makes up SO out of 100 novels, or by
eating too many cornuoopias 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 stop
ping them against the tides of gossip
that surge through every neighborhood.
Health! Only those know its value
who have lost it. The earth is girdled
with pain, and vast proportion Of 1t is
the price paid for early recklesaness. 1
close this thought with the salutation in
Macbeth:
Now good digestion wait on appetite
And health on both.
Appreciate Your Mother.
Advice the third: Appreciate your
mother while you have her. 1t is the al
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 hindrance. The maternal
inspection is often considered an OBJ
stacle. Mother has go 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 45. With what an elab-
crate argument. perhaps spiced with
some temper, the youngling tries to re-
verse the opinion of the oldling. The
sprinkle Of gray on the maternal 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 teachers How
we'll the teens could chaperon the fifties
,, Then mothers do not amount to much
! 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 acqualn tanoe, FloraF ana
"Where did you get that ring, Myra?"
For mothers have such unprecedented
! means Of knowing evorything-tbey say
sit was bird in the air" that told
them. Alas, for that bird in the air !
Will not some one lift bis gun and shoot
it? It would take whole libraries to bold
the wisdom which the daughter knows
more than her mother. "Why cannot l
have this?" why cannot 1 do that"
And the question in many group has
been, although not plainly stated: What
shall we do with the mothers anyhow?
They are 60 far behind the times. " Per-
NIT 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,
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