Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1895-11-29

tt1LlLL C0UIUII 70 I1to mo ApooU WNlou No
see vhiriiae shroueh Al our cities and along
the country roads. ana With that spssd
CONES health The woman Of the next de-
cade MIN Be healthier than At any time since
the world Wzs creatsd, while the fnvalidism
winch has 90 offen Characterised woman
hood viii pass over 70 manhood, which By
its postufs % the wheel n coming 60 curved
spine and cramped chest and . deformity for
winch another ffty years will not have pow
er 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 .
hundred thousand men OF the present gener-
alton In physical condition IRON man to
monkey. For good womanhood, i thank
God that this mode Of recreation has been
invented. Use It wisely, modestly, Chris
tianly. No good woman needs to be told
what attire Il proper and Whist behavior IL
night. Hanything be doubtful, reject II. A
hoydenish, boisterous, masculine woman IL
the detestation Of all, and every revolution
Of the wheel she rides IL toward depreciation
and downfall. Take care OF your health, o
woman; Of your nerves in not reading The
trash which makes up ninety-nine out OF 100
novels, or by eating too many cornuoopias OF
confectionery! 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.
Healthi Only those know its value who
have lost Il. The earth Is girdled with pain,
and q vast proportion of It In the price paid
for early rscklessness. close THIS thought
with the salutation In Macbeth:
Now good digestion wait or appetite
And health ON both.
Advice the third: Appreciate your mother
while you have her.. Il Is the almost uni
yersal testimony of young women who have
lost mother that they did not realize what
ana was to them until after her exit from
this life. Indeed mother Is In the apprecia-
ton Of many young lady a hindrancs. The
maternal inspection Is often considered an
obstacle. Mother has so many notions about
that which Is proper and that which Is I'm
proper. II Is astounding how much more
many girls know AZ eighteen than their
mothers at forty-hye. With what an elabe-
rate argument, perhaps spiced with some
temper, the youngling tries to reverse the
opinion Of the oldling. The sprinkle of gray
cation to the recent graduate Of the female
seminary that the circumstances OF to-day or
tonight are not fully appreciated.
What q wise boarding school that would
beif the mothers were the pupils and the
daughters the teaohersl How well the teens
could chaperon the fiftiesl Then mothers
do not amount to much anyhow. They are
In the way and are always asking questions
about postagemarks Of letters, and asking,
''Who Is that Mary DIP" and "Where did you
form that acquaintance, Flora2" and "Where
did you get that ring, Myra2" For mothers
have such unprecedented means Of knowing
eyerything-they say set was bird IN the
air" that told them. Alas, for thar bird In
the air! VIII not some one lift his gun and
shoot III II would take whole libraries to
hold the wisdom which the daughter knows
more than, her mother. "Why cannot I
have this2' "Why cannot 1 do that2" And
the question In many group has been, al
though not plainly stated: "What shall we
do with the mothers, snyhow? They are
80 far behind the times" Permit
me to suggest that IL 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 aesthetic tastes aud
IN all sorts of information expect that
while you were studying botany and chem
istry and embroidery and the new opera she
was studying household economies. But one
day from overwork, or sitting up of nights
with q neighbours sick child, or blsst OF the
west wind, on which pneumonias are horsed,
mother IS sick. Yet the family think she
will soon be well, for she has been sick so
often, and always has got we'll, and the ph5-
stefan comes three times q day, and there Is
consultation Of the doctors, and the news
Is gradually broken that recovery Is impossi-
BILE, given In the words "While. there Is life
there Is hope" And the white pillow over
which are strewn the locks q little tinted with
| snow becomes the point around which all
the family 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 a whisper by
all the grour, els she gomez" And all is
over
Now come the regrets. Now the daughter
reviews her former criticism OF maternal So
| pervision. For the first time she realizes
what II Is to have mother and what 1t Is to
| lose q mother. Tell me, men and women 4,
young and old, did any of as appreciate how
much mother was to US until she WAS gone?
Young woman, you will probably never have
q more disinterested friend than your moth
| or. When she says anything Is unsafe or inn
| prudent, yoUhad better believe Il is unsafe
or imprudent. When she declares ii Is
something you ought to do, think you bad
better do II. She has seen more OF the
world than you have Do you think she
could have any mercenary or contemplate
motive In Whist she advises you? She would
| give her life for you II It were called for. Do
you know of anyone else who would dc
more than that for your Do you know oil
anyone who would do as much? Again
and again she has already endangered
that life during six weeks oil
dphtheria or scarlet fever. and she never
once brought up the question of whether she
had better stay, breathing day and night the
eontagfon. The gfaveyards are full Of moth
ers who died taking care OF their children.
Better appreciate your mother before your
appreciation Of her will be no kindness 70
| her, and the post norton regrets will be
more and more OF an agony as the years pass
on. Big headstones Of polished Aberdeen
and the best epitRphs which the family puI
| together and compose, and q garland oil
| whitest roses from the conservatory are Otter
the attempt to atone for the thanks We
ought to have uttered In living ears, and the
kind words that would have done more good
than all the Gala lilies ever piled up on the
| silent mounds OF the cemeteries.
| The world makes applauditory ado Over
the work OF mothers who have raised boy
10 be great men, and could turn to ms
bookshelYes and find the names Of fifty dis
tinguished men who had great mothers
Cuyier's mother, Walter SCOTS mother, St
Befnard's mother, Benjamin Vests mother
| But who praises mothers for what they d.
for daughters who make the homes Of Amer
LEAP I do not know OF an instance OF sucl
/ recognition. declare to you that believ'
I am uttering the first word that has eve
Deen uttered in appreciation OF the sci
denial, Of the fatigues and good sens
and prayers which those mother
go through who navigate family o
girls from the edge OF the cradle to th,
schoolhouse door. and from the schoolhous
doorup to the marriage altar. That is a
achievement which the eternal God cele
brates high upin the heavens, though for
human hands so seldom clap the faintest sp
planse. N.Y. Ny! What time that mothe
had with those Youngsters. and IL she hal