The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1895-12-08

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capacities. and most men IL they run
a mile are exhausted or dead from ex-
haustion. It was left until the last
decade Of the nineteenth century to
give the speed which we see whirl-
ing through all our cities aud along
the country roads, and with that
speed comes health. The women
the next decade win be healthier than
at any time since the world was Gre
ated. 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 for 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 win turn a
hundred thousand men of the present
generation in physical condition, from
man to monkey. For good woman
hood, thank God that this mode Of
recreation has been invented. Use it
wisely, modestly, Christianity. No
good woman needs to be told what at
tire is proper and what behavior is
right II anything be doubtful, reject
it. A hoydenish, boisterous, mascu-
line woman is the detestation of all,
and every revolution of the wheel she
rides is toward depreciation aud down
fall. Take care Of your health, o
woman; Of your nerves. in not read
ing the trash which makes up ninety
nine out Of one hundred novels, OF by
eating too many cornucopias of con-
fectionery. Take care of your eyes by
not reading at hours whom you ought
to be sleeping. Take care of your ears
by stopping them against the tides Of
gossip that surge through every neigh
borhOod.
HEALTH Only those know its value
who have lost it. The earth is Cir
died with pain, and vast proportion
Of it is the price paid for early reck-
lessness. 1 close this though with the
salutation from Macbeth;
Now good digestion wait on appetite
ana health on DOth
Advice the third: Appreciate your
mother while you have her. 1t is the
almost universal testimony Of young
women who have lost mothers, that
they did not realize what she was TO
them until after her exit from this
life. Indeed, mother is in the appreci-
alton of many a young lady a
hindrance. The maternal inspec-
ticn is often considered an obstacle.
Mother has many notions about
that which is proper and that which is
improper It is astounding how much
more many girls know at eighteen
than their mothers at forty-fve. With
what an elaborate argument, perhaps
spiced with some temper, the young
ling tries to reverse the opinion of the
oldling. The sprinkle of gray on the
maternal forehead is rather an indiea-
ton to the recent graduate Of
the female SEMINARY that the cir.
cumstances of to-day or tonight are
not fully appreciated. What a wise
boarding school that would be if the
mothers were the Z pupils and the
daughters the teachers. How well the
teens would chaperone the ffties.
Then mothers do not amount to much
anyhow. They are in the way, and
are always asking questions about
postage marks Of letters, and asking:
who is that Mary DIP" and where
did you form that acquaintance,
Flora?" and where did you get
that ring, Myra?" For mothers
have such unprecedented means OF
knowing every thing-they say ut was
bird in the air" that told them.
Alasl for that bird in the air. Will
not some one lift his gun and shoot iti
1t would take whole libraries to hold
the wisdom which the daughter knows
more than her mother why can
not have this?n "Why car
not l do thatg' And the question
in many a group has been. al
though not plainly stated: What
shall we do with the mothers, any.
how? They are 50 far behind the
times" Permit me to suggest that IL
the mother had given more time t.
looking after herself and less time to
looking after you, she would have
been as fully up-to-date as you,
in music, in syle of gait, in
esthetic taste, and in all sorts
of information. expect that
while you were studying botany, and
chemistry, and embroidery, and tn,
new opera, she was studying house
hold economies. But one day from
overwork, or sitting up Of nights will
neighbours sick child, OF
blast of the east wind on which
pneumonias are horsed, mother il
sick. Yet the family think sh,
will soon be we'll, for she has beer
sick so often, and always has got we'll
and the physician comes three times 4
day, and there is a consultation of tn,
doctors. and the news is gradually
broken that recovery is impossible
/ given in the words while there is lif,
there is hope. And the white pillow
over which are strewn the locks
little tinted with snow, becomes tn,
point around which all the family
gather, some standing, some lSneeling
and the pulse beats the last throb, anC
the bosom trembles with the las
breath, and the question is asked In ,
whisper by all the group: rs sh,
gomez" And all is over.
Now come the regrets. Now the
daughter reviews her former criticism
of maternal supervision. For the frs
time she realizes what it is to have