The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-18


OF antelope, leaving Us tar behind. and
while u seems So important that We
be in many places in 2 snort while
We're weighed down with incapacitles.
and most men. III they run mile. are exc
hausted. or dead from the exhaustion. 10
was left until the last decade Of the nine
we sec WhirliuE through all our cltles
and along Che country r0deS. ana
with thar speed comes health The NO
men OF the next decade VIII De healthier
than at any time since the word was
created. while the luVaudiSm " nicl mas
so CIIen clara eterizeu WQmannoou VIII
pass over TO manhood. which by It's pos
ture on the wheel. is coming 10 curved
spine and crawred chest and a defOrmity
FOR which another fifty years viii not
have power 20 make rescue Young man,
sit up straight hen YOU ride Darwin
says the human race is descended from
the monkey. but the bicycle VIII turn
hundred thousand men OF the present gen
Grafton iE physical condition from man
10 monkey. For good WOmanhOod.
thank God that this mode OF recreation
has been invented. Use il wisely mod
estly. Christianity. No good woman needs
20 be told what attire Is proper and what
behavior is right If anything be doubt
full reject IT, A hoydeuish. bOisterOus, /
masculine woman is the detestation OF
All, and every revolution OF the wheel she
rides is towards depreciation and down
fall. Take care of your health, .. wo-
man; Of your nerves in not reading the
trash which makes up ninety-nlne out OF
one hundred novels or by eating TOO
many cornucOpias Of confectionery. Take
care Of your eyes by not reading at hours
care Of your ears by stopping them
against the tides OF gossip that surge
through every ncighborhood.
Health! Only those know its value
who have lost 81. Tho earth is girdled
with pain. and vas. proportion of il is
he price paid for early recklessness- !
close this though wi p che salutation IN
Macbeth:
Now good digestion wait on appetite
And health On both
Advice the tliri. Appreciate your
mother while you have her Ii is the al
men who have lost mother that they cid
not realize what she was to them until
mother is in the appreciation Of many
yOung lady a hindrance. The maternal
inspection is often considered an Obsta-
Gle. Mother has so many notions about
that which is proper and that which is
improper. IL Is astounding how much
more many girls known at eighteen than
taeir mothers az forty-hve. With what
on elaborate argument perhaps splced
VITA some temper, the youngling tries to
fetcfs. the opinion of the oldling. The
spriuklo OF gray on the maternal fore
head is rather an indication 10 the recent
graduate OF the female seminary that the
circumstances Of to-day or tonight are
nor iully appreciated. What wise
boardlhs-scnool that would be If :he
nothers were the pupils and the daugh-
tiers the teachers. How well the teens
could chaperone the hfties. Then moth
crs do not amount to much anyhow They
are ~ the way, and are always asking
quesifcns about postage marks Of letters,
and asking, who Is that Mary d. 2" and
WneIe uld you FORM that acquaintance
flora. and where did YOU get that
ring Myra?' For mothers have such un-
precedented means OF knowing every
thlng-they say lit was bird i'm the air"
that told them. Alas, for that bird in
the air VIII not some one lift his gun
anu i snQol TX az Woulo take whole libra
rles 10 hold the wisdom which the daugh-
ter knows more than her mother. why
cannot / have this2" why cannot / do
thatI' And the question in many a group
has been although not plainly stated
Nv hat shall we do with the mothers,
anyhow? They are so 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-
GATE as you, in music, in style of gait, in
esthetic taste, and in all sorts of infor-
nation. expect that while you were
sluGylng botany, and chemistry, and en-
studying household economies But one
day from over-work, or sitting up Of
nights with a neighbours sick child, or a
past OF the east wind, on which pneu-
monias are horsed, mother is sick Yet
the family think she will soon be we'll
Tor she has been sick so often, and al
ways has got well, and the physician
comes three times a day, and there is a
consultation OF the doctors. and the news
IS gradually broken that recovery Is i'm
possible, given IN the words, while there
IS life there is hope" And the white pill
low over which are strewn the locks a
little tinted with snow, becomes the Doint
around which all the family gather. some
standing, some kneeling, and the pulse
beats the last throb, and the bosom trem-
pies WIN the last breath, and the question
Is asked IN a whisper by all the group
rs she gomez" And all is over.
NOW comes the regrets. Now the daugh-
ter reviews her former criticism of ma
ternal supervision For the FIRST time she
realizes what # is TO have a mother. and
what ii Is to lose mother. Tell me, men
ana women, young and old. did any of us
appreciate how much mother was to US
until she was gomez Young woman YOU
VIII probably never have more disinter-
ested friend than your mother. When
she says anything is unsafe or inprudenf
you had better believe it is unsafe or i'm
prudent. When she declares it is some
thing you ought to do, ! think you had
better do it, She has seen more of the
world than you have. DO YOU think she
could have any mercenary or contemplate
motlNe IN what she advises you? She
would give her life for you If IL We're
called for. DO you know of any one else
who would do more than that for you?
40 you know Of any one who would do
as much? Again and again she has al
ready endangered that life during six
weeks OF oiphtheria or scarlet fever, and
she never once brought up the question
of whether she had better stay, breathing
day and night the contagiOn. The grave
yards are full of mothers who died TAX
ing care of their children. Better appre-
ciate your mother before your apprecfa-
ton of her win be no kindness to her
and more OF an agony as the years pass
/ on. Big headstones of polished Aberdeen
! and the best epitaphs which the fam
lily put together could compose and a gar
land OF whltest roses from the conserva-
tory are often 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 boys to be
/ great men and 1 could turn to my book
shelves and find the names of fifty distin-
guished men VINO had great mothers;
Cuvier's mother, Walter SCOTS mother.
/ St. Bernard's mother, Benjamin Vests
mother. But who praises mothers for
I what they do for daughters who make
I the homes of America? l 90 not know of
an instance of such recognition. / de-
clare to you that l believe ] am uttering
the first word that has ever been utter
/ ed in appreciation of the self-denial of
/ the fatgues, and good sense and prayers
4 which those mothers so through who nav
4 igate family of girls from the edge of
I the cradle to the school house door, and
from the school house door up to the
I marriage altar. That is an achievement
I which the eternal God celebrates high up
/ in the heavens, though for il human
Z hands so seldom clan the faintpSt Al