The Penn's Grove record., 1895-11-22

nvented. use IL wisely, moueStlyi CHfis-
ianly. No good woman needs to be told
What attire Is proper and what behavior is
light. II anything be doubtful, reject it. A
ioydenish, boisterous. masculine woman is
he detestation of all, and every revolution
u the wheel she rides is toward depreciation
md downfall. Take care of your health, U
voman; Of your nerves in not reading the
rash which makes up ninety-nine out OF 100
lovels, or by eating too many cornucopias OF
onfectioneryi Take care Of your eyes by
rot reading at hours when you ought to be
1eeping. 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 1t. The earth is girdled with pain,
md a vast proportion of 1t Is the price paid
or early recklessness. l close this thought
With the salutation in Macbeth:
Now good digestion wait on appetite
And health on both.
Advice the third: Appreciate your mother
while you have her. 1t is the almost uni
fersal testimony of young women who have
ost mother that they did not realize what
The was to them until after her exit from
his life. Indeed mother is In the apprecia-
ion Of many a young lady a hindrance. The
maternal inspection 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
many girls know at eighteen than their
mothers at forty-fve. With what an elabe-
,ate argument, perhaps spiced with some
iemper, the youngling tries to reverse the
opinion Of the oldling. The sprinkle of gray
IN the maternal forehead Ia rather an indi-
,ation to the recent graduate of the female
seminary that the circumstances Of to-day or
,o-night are not fully appreciated.
What a wise boarding school that would
be II the mothers were the pupils and the
daughters the teachers! o well thet 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, Flora2' n where
lid you get that ring, Myra?" For mothers
AVE such unprecedented means of knowing
,yerything-they say lit was a bird in the
iir" that told them. Alas. for that bird in
he air! viii not some n lift his gun and
ihoot it? 1t would take whole libraries to
iold the wisdom which the daughter knows
more than her mother. why cannot l
AVE this?" .'Why cannot I do that2" And
he question in many a group has been, al
.hough not plainly stated: "What shall we
10 with the mothers. anyhow? They are
10 far behind the times" Permit
ne to suggest that II the mother
lad given more time to looking after herself
ind 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 aud
n all sorts of information. l expect that
while you were studying botany and chem7
stry and embroidery and the new opera she
vas studying household economics. But one
lay from overwork. or sitting up Of nights
With a n~eighbor's sick child. or a blast OF the
vest wind, on which pneumonias are horsed,
--Af.-- '-s.t Va Nha Farat1p entail a6a
will soon be we'll, for she has been sick 50
,ften, and always has got well, and the ply
Iician comes three times a day, and there Is
4 consultation of the doctors, n the news
8 gradually broken hat recover is impossi.
Bile, given In the words "While, there is life
there is hope" And the white pillow over
which are strewn the locks a little tinted with
NOV 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 q whisper by
all the group, SIS she gomez" And all Is
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 a mother and what 1t 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 wa gomez
Young woman, you will probably never have
1 more disinterested friend than your moth
Or. When she says anything is unsafe or i'm
prudent, you nae better believe 1t is unsafe
,r imprudent. When she declares it is
iomething you ought to do, I think you had
,etter do II. She has seen more OF the
world thar you have. Do you think She
iould have any mercenary or contemplate
motive in what she advises you? She would
i've her life for youi 1t were called for. Do
'ou know of anyone else who would do
more than THAT for your Do you know Of
nyone who would do a much? Again
md again she has already endangered
hat life during six weeks OF
tiphtheria or scarlet fever, and she never
,ncebrought up the question of whether she
lad better stay, breathing day and night the
,~ontagion. The grayeyards are full of moth.
ss who died taking care of their children.
Better appreciate your mother before your
appreciation Of her will be no kindness to
her, and the post norton regrets will be
,n. Big headstones of polished Aberdeen,
md the best epitaphs which the family put
ogether and compose, and a garland oil
.hitest roses from the conservatory are often
he attempt to atone for the thanks we
ought to have uttered In living ears, and the
lind words that would lave done more good
han all the Gala lilies ever piled up On the
nl6nt MOUNDS OF tn6 ceInbtoIleS-
Tit world makes ap~plauditory ado over
he work of mothers who have raised boys
o be great men, and l could turn to my
oo~oksbelves and find the names of fifty dis
inguished men who had great mothers
Juvler's mother, Walter SCOTS mother, st.
3ernard's mother, Benjamin Vests mother.
But who praises mothers for what they dc
or daughters who make the homes OF Amer
ca? l d not know of an instance of such
.aonnpittOn Il daalor "a tn Won that I hAltpva
[ am u~ttering the first word that has ever
,een uttered in appreciation OF the sell
ienial, of the fatigues and good sense
md prayers which those mothers
20 through who navigate a family oil
girls from the edge OF the cradle TO the
ichoolhouse door. and from the schoolhouse
ioor up to the marriage altar. That is an
achievement which the eternal God cele-
orates high upin the heavens, though for il
human hands so seldom cap the faintest ap.
plause. My! Myl What a time that mother
had with those youngsters, and IL she had
relaxed care and work and advice and solic-
ltation of heavenly help. that next genera
lion would have landed in the p~oorhouse.
IDIOT asylum or penitentiary. 1t is while
she is living, but never while she is deal,
that some girls call their mother ''maternal
ancestor" or "the old woman"
And II you have a grief already, and some
Of the keenest sorrows of a woman's life
come early. roll it over oil Christ and you
will find Him more sympathetic than was
Queen Victoria, who, when her children, the
princes and princesses, came out OF the
schoolroom after the morning lesson hao
been given up by their governess aud told
how her voice had trembled in the morning
PRAYER because 1t was the anniversary OF hel
mothers death, and that h had put her
head down on tho desk and sobbed
Mother! Motherl' the queen went il
and said to the goyerness; "My poor
child! 1 I'm sorry the children disturbed
you this morning.. / will hear their lessom
to-day, and to how you that l have not for
gotten the sad anniTsrsary. l bring YOU thiI
fft." And the queen ciasped on the girl 3
rrist a mourning bracelet with q lock Of her
,other's hair. All you young women the
Forld around who mourn a like sorrow, and
ometimes in your Loneliness and sorrow and
oss burst out crying, "Motherl Mother!"
nut on your wrist this golden clasp Of divine
ympathy, AS one whom his mother COM
orteth so will I comfort you"
Advice the fourth: Allow no time to pass
Without Frightening some ones life. Within
I've minutes walk OF you there is some n
n a tragedy compared with which Shake
peare's "King Lear or Victor Hugo's
jean Vatican" has no power. Go out and
Brighten somebody's life with a cheering
vord or smile or a flower. Take a good
,ook and read a chapter to that blind man.
10 up that dark alley and make that in
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