The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-20

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ate 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 chariot shall
wheel to my door to take me up to my
coronation" If health goes, she says:
81 can endure the present distress, for
am on the way to climate the first
breath of which will make me proof
against even the slightest discomfort.
If she be jostled with perturbations OF
social life she can say: "Well, when. l
begin my life among the thrones of
Heaven and the kings and queens unto
God shall be my associates, it 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
Advice the second: Make it matter
of religion to take care of your physical
health / do not wonder that the
Greeks defied health and hailed Hygeia
as goddess Irejoice that there have
been so many modes of maintaining and
restoring young womanly health in
vented in our time. They may have been
known long time back but they have
been popularized in our day-lawn ten
mis-, croquet and golf and the bicycle.
1t always seemed strange and inscruta-
BILE that our human race should be so
slow of locomotion, when creatures Of
less Importance have powers OF veloci-
ty, wing of bird, or foot of antelope,
leaving us far behind, and while it
seems so important that we be in many
places in o 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 healthier
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 to
curved spine and cramped chest and a
deformity of 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 ply
steal condition from man to monkey.
For good womanhood, / thank God
that this mode of recreation has been
invented. Use it wisely, modestly
Christianly. No good woman needs tc
be told what attire is proper and what
behavior is right. If anything bt
doubtful reject it. A hoydenish, bois
ferrous, masculine woman is the detes
tation of all, and every revolution o
the wheel she rides is towards depre
citation and downfall. Take care o
your health, o, woman; of your nerves
in not reading the trash which makes
up ninety-nine 'out of one hundred
novels, or by eating too many cornu
lcopias of confectionery. Take care o
/ your eyes by not reading at hour
when you ought to be sleeping.
Health! Only those know its valu
, who have lost it. The earth is girdlet
with pain, and vast proportion of it i
the price paid for early recklessness.
close this thought with the salutatiol
in Macbeth:
{ Now good digestion waits on appetite
And health on both.
' Advice the third: Appreciate you
l mother while you have her. 1t is tn
t almost universal testimony of youn
y women who have lost mother, that the
: did not realize what she was to ther
until after her exit from life. Indeed
Y mother is in the appreciation of man
. young lady hindrance. The mf
f ternal inspection is often oonsidere
s an obstacle. Mother has so many NJ
G tions about that which is proper an
(: that which is improper. 1t is astount
v ing how much more many girls kno'
), at eighteen than their mothers q
= forty-fve. With what an elaborat
n argument, perhaps spiced with som
e temper, the youngling tries to II
l verse the opinion of the oldling.
e Young man, you will probably peve
G have more disinterested friend tina
e your mother. When she says anythin
is unsafe or imprudent you had bette
c believe it is unsafe or impruden
g When she declares it is something yo
s ought to do, think you had better c
S it. She has seen more of the worl
d than you have Do you think she coul
y have any mercenary or contemptib
e motive in what she. advises you? ST
IS would give her life for you if it wel
h called for. Do you know of anyor
d else who would do more tina
y that for you? Do you know
|, anyone else who would do
e much? The world makes applauditoi
ado over the work of mothers who ha'
n raised boys to be great men and
J. could turn to my book shelves and fiji
the names of fifty distinguished me
# who had great mothers; Cuviei
st mother, Walter Scott's mother, st. BE
S. nard's mother, Benjamin West
W mother. But who praises mothers Fl
rs what they do for daughters who NAL
If the homes of America? do not kno
is of an instance of such recognition.
e. declare to you that ! believe | am i
ID tering the first word that has ever be'
d. uttered in appreciation of the self--d
A. NAL, of the fatigues, and good sen
IN and prayers which those mothers |
Of through who navigate family of gir
ot from the edge of the cradle to Il
ID school house door, and from the sch c
l. house door up to the marriage alta
is That is an achievement which Il