Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-11-27

IiOH puNsicdi HUH ntH u
monkey. For good womanhood, THANK
Tod that this mode of recreation has been
invented. Use it wisely, modestly, Chris
ianly. No good woman needs to be told
what attire is proper and what behavior ia
light. If anything be doubtful. reject it. A
iOydenish. boisterous. masculine woman is
he detestation of all, aud every revolution
II the wheel she rides is toward depreciation
md downfall. Take care of your health, o
voman: of your nerves in not reading the
rash which makes up ninety-nne out Of 1Ol
iovels. or by eating too many cornucopias OF
onfectionery, Take care of your eyes by
rot reading at hours when you ought to b,
leeping. Take care of your ears by stop
ling them against the tides of gossip that
urge through every neighborhood.
Health! Only those know its value who
lave lost it. The earth is girdled with pain.
md a vast proportion of it is the price paid
or early recklessnsss. close this thought
With the salutation in Macbeth:
Now good digestion wait on appetite
And health on both.
Advice the third: Appreciate your mother
Ehile you have her. 1t is the almost uni
,ersal testimony of young women who have
ost mother that they did not realize what
he was to them until after her exit from
his life. Indeed mother is in the apprecia-
ion OF many young lady hindrance. The
maternal insnection is often considered an
obstacle. Mother has so many notions about
hat which is proper and that which is i'm
proper. 1t is astounding how much more
nanv girls know at eighteen than their
mothers at forty-five. With what an elabe-
:ate argument. perhaps spiced with some
emper, the youngling tries to reverse the
opinion of the oldling. The sprinkle of gray
IN the maternal forehead is rather an indi-
.ation to the recent graduate of the female
Ieminary that the circumstances of today or
,O-nipht are not fully appreciata5
What a wise boarding school that would
Sc if the mothers were the pupils and the
daughters the teachers! How well the teens
could chaperon the fifties! Then mothers
10 not amount to much anyhow. They are
n the way and are always asking questions
bout postage marks of letters. and asking.
who is that Mary D.?" and "Where did you
'orm that acquaintance. Flora?' and "Where
lid You get that ring. Myra?" For mothers
Iave such unprece tented means of knowing
,verything-they say lit was bir! in the
lir'' that told them. Alas. for that bird in
he airI Will not soma one lift his gun and
Ihoot it? 1t would take whole libraries to
lold the wisdom which the daughter knows
more than her mother. ''Why cannot 1
lave ths?' ''Why cannot l do that?" And
he question in many group has been. al
houSh not plainly stated: 'What shall we
10 with the mothers. anyhow? They are
10 far behind the times" Permit
ne to suggest that If the mother
lad given more time to looking after herself
md less time to looking after you she would
lave been as fully up to date as you. in
music. in style of gait, in aesthetic tastes an l
n all sorts of Information. 1 expect that
While you We're studying botany and chem
stry and embroidery and the new opera she
vas studying household economics. But one
lay from overwork. or sitting up OF nights
| With a neighbors sick child or a bl st of tha
vest wind, on which pneumonias are horsad.
9th i- Gil Xaf ha IN N oh.
will soon be well, for she has been sick 50
| >ften. and always has got well. and the ply
| Iician comes three times a day, and there is
| 1 consultation OF the doctors. aud the news
| s gradually broken that recovery is impossi-
| Die, given in the words "While, there is life
here is hope" And the white pillow ovei
which are strewn the locks a little tinted with
| .now becomes the point around which all
| the family gather. some standing, some
Sneeling. 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 group, SIS she gomez" Aud all il
| over.
| Now come the regrets. Now the daughter
| reviews her former criticism of maternal SUI
pervision. For the first time she realizes
| what it is to have mother and what it is to
| lose a mother. Tell me, men and women
young and Old. did any of US appreciate how
much mother was to us until she was gomez
| Young woman, you will probably never have
| 1 more disnterested friend than your moth.
,r. When she SAYS anything is unsafe or i'm
| oru lent, you had better believe it is unsafe
| ,r impru lent. When she declares 1t Is
, Iomething YOU ought to do, think YOU had
] )etter do it. She has seen more of the
| world than you nave. Do you think she
iOuid have any merrenary or contemptiblt
motive in what she n ivises you? She woul,
| i've her life for you if it were called for. d.
'Ou know of anyone else who would Dc
more than that for you? Do You know o
.nyone who would do as much? Agar
| nd again she has already endangered
| hat life during six weeks o
| iiphtheria or scarlet fever. AMI sh. never
| ,nce brought up the question of whether she
lad better stay, breathing day ani night the
,ontagion. The graveyards are full of moth.
.rs who died taking care of their children.
Better appreciate your mother before youl
appreciation Of her will be no kindness tc
aer, and the post mortem regrets will be
more and more Of an agony as the years pas:
IN. Big headstones of polished Aberdeen
md the best epitaphs which the family pu
ogether and compose. and garland o
! xhitest roses from the conservatory are Otter
he attempt to atone for the thanks VT
,ught to have uttered in living ears, and the
1ind words that would have done more goo5
| han all the calla lilies ever piled up on tbs
ilent mounds of the cemeteries.
The world makes applauditory ado Over
1
o be great men, and I could turn to my
oookshelves and find the names of fifty dis
| inguished men who had great mothers
Juvier's mother, Walter Scott's mother, st
3ernard'S mother, Ben amin Vests mother
| But who praises mothers for what they dc
| or daughters who make the homes of Amer
| cap / do not know of an instance of suci
| .ecognition. / declare to You that believ,
| am utterinS the first word that has eve
| leen uttered in appreciation of the sci
ienial, of the fatigues and good sens
md prayers which those mother
go through who navigate a family o
girls from the edge OF the cradle to tn,
loor up to the marriage altar. That is al
achievement which the eternal God cele
| orates high upin the heavens, though for j
| human hands so seldom ap the faintest ap
plause. My! Ny! What time that mothe
had with those Youngsters, and if she hat
relaxed care and work and advice and solic
itation of heavenly help. that next genera
ion would have landed in the poorhouse
IDIOT asylum or penitentiary. 1t is Will
| she is living, but never while she is dead
hat some girls call their mother 'materna
| ancestor" or 'the old woman"
And if you have grief already, and sons
! Of the keene5t sorr0w5 of a woman's life
come early. roll it over on Christ and yO'
| will find Him more sympathetic than wa
Queen Victoria, who, when her children, tn
princes and prlnceSSeS, came out OF TN
schoolroom after the morning lesson ha
been given up by their governess and toll
how her voice had trembled in the mornin
prayer because it was the anniversary of he
mothers death, and that she had put he
head down on the desk and sobbe
Mother! Mother!' the queen went i
and said to the governess: 'EMy poo
child. 1 am sorry the children disturbe
you this mornin.-. will hear their lesson
to-day, and to show you that have not TO
gotten the sad Anniversary. bring you tn
ift' And the queen clasped on the giri I
rrist mourning bracelet with a lock of heI
aother's hair. All you young women the
rorld around who mourn a like sorrow, anG
ometimes in ourlonoliness and sorrow ani
oss burst out crying, "Mother! Mother!
nut on your wrist this golden clasp of divine
ympathy, "As one whom his mother com
orteth so will comfort you"
Advice the fourth: Allow no time TO pas
Without Frightening some ones life. Within
I've minutes walk OF you there is some ont
a tragedy compared with which Shake
peare's skiing Lear" or Victor Hugo
Jean valjean' has no power. Go out anC
righten somebody's life with cheerin.