The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1895-11-27

! On Garth forgot nc WhCn TIC INVITATIONS
to that reception wCTc made out. All
right with God, you arc al right with
everything.
This Is Good World For Girls.
Martin Luther, writing letter Of
coudulenCo to CEc Ct his friends TEo
had lost his daughter, began by saying,
"This is . hard world for girls. . It IS
for those WHO are dependent upon their
own wits, aud tic vhims Of tie world,
and the preferences CT human favor,
but these WHO take the Eternal GCd for
their portion not later than IS years CT
age, and that is ten years later than it
ought to be, will find that WEilc Martin
Luther'S letter CT cCndOlcnCo W&S true
in regard to many, if net most, with
respect 10 these who have the wisdom
and promptitude and the carEcstness &c
get right with God, l declare that this
is a good world fer girls.
Advice the cccord: Make it a matter
CT religion to take care Of yCrr physical
health. l do not wonder that the Greeks
deified health and hailed Hygeia as a
goddess. I1ejoica that there have been
so many modes Of maintaining and le-
storing young womanly health invented
in orr timo. They may have tccn
known long time back, but ;hey have
been popularized in cur day-l2wn ter
MS, croquet and golf and the bicycle.
1t always seemed strange and jnscGrta-
bic that our human race should be 50
slow Of loccmotiCn, when creatures cf
less importance have powers Of velocity,
wing of bird or foot CT antelope, leaving
us far behind, and while it seems so i'm
portant that We be IL many places IL a
short while we were weighed down
with incapacities, and mot men If
they rCn q mile arc exhausted or dead
from the exhaustion. It was left until
the last decade Of Tie nineteenth cen
tury to give the speed which we sec
whirling through al cur cities and
along the country roads, and with that
speed comes health. The women Of the
next decade will be bealthier 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 Oh
the wheel is coming TO curved spiEo and
crampod chest and deformity for
which another so years will net 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-
Gle will turn hundred thousand Inen
Of the present generation IL physical
condition from lnau to monkey. For
good womanhCod, I thank God that this
! node Of recreation has teCn invented.
Use it wisely, modestly, Christianly.
No good woman needs to be tod what
attire is proper and what behavior is
right If anything be doubtful, reject it.
A koydenish, boisterous, masculine wo-
man is the detestation CT all, AID every
revolution OF the wheel she rides is to-
ward depreciation ard downfall Take
care of your health, 0 woman; CT your
nerves in not reading sc trash which
makes up SO out CT 100 novels, or by
eating too many cornucopias Of confcc-
tiCnery! Take care CT your eyes by rot
reading at hours when you ought to be
sleeping Take care Ct your ears By stop
ping them against the tides Cf gossip
that surge through every ncighborhocd.
Health! Only those know its value
who have lost it. The earth is girdlcd
with pain, and q vast proportion of it IS
the price paid fer carly rechlessness. l
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 won-
en- who have lost mother that they cid
not realize what she was to them until
after her exit from this life Indeed
mother is III the appreciation Of many a
young lady hirdranCe. The maternal
inspection is often considered &n OBJ
stacle. Mother has so many notions
about that which is proper and that
which is improper. It's astounding low
much moro many girls know at s than
their mothers at Is. With what an clab-
crate argument, perhaps sp;ced with
some temper, the youngling tries to re-
verse the opinion CT the oldliEg. The
sprinkle Of gray or the maternal fore
| head islathcr an indication to the recent
! graduate Cf the female seminary that
tie circumstances Of today or tonight
are net fully appreciated.
What q wise boarding school that
| would he if the mothers were the pupils
and the daughters the teachers! How
well the teens could chaDeron the tifties!
! Then mothers do not amount to much
anyhow. They are il The way and are
always asking questions about postage
marks of letters, ard asking, ''WhO is
! that Mary d." AID "Whero did You
form that acquaintance, Ficra:" and
"Where did you get that ring, Myra:"
| For mothers have such unprecedented
means Of knowing everythiEg-they say
lit was bird III the air" that told
| them. Alas, for that bird IN the air !!
Will not some one lift his gun and shoot
| it? Itwould take whole libraries to hold
! the wisdom which the daughter knows
! more than her mother. "Why cannot l
have this:'' "Why cannot l do lhat:'
And the question in many group has
been, although not plainly stated: What
shall we do with the motherS anyhow:
They are so far behind the times. " Per-
nit me to suggest that if the mother
bad given mo-e time to locking after
herself aud less the to locking after
vou size wculd have EcCn as fully up TO
date as you, in music, i'll style Of gait
in aesthetic taste ard in all sorts OF in
formation. L expect that while you were
studying botany ard chemistry ard en-
! broidery and the new opera she Was
studying household economies. But enc
Gav from oyerwclk. CT sitting up Ct
lights with a nciGhbor's sick child, CT
blast Of the west wind, on which pneu-
mcnias are horsed, mother is sick. Yet