The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-11-22
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to appreciate her, she says "''God loves
me, the angels in heaven are in sym
pathy with me, and can afford to be
patient until the day when the imperial
chariot shall wheel to my door to take
me up to my coronation. If health
goes, she says, 81 can endure the pres
ent distress, for am on the way to a
climate the first breath Of which will
make me proof against even the slight
est discomfort. If she be jostled with
perturbations of social life, she can say,
swell, when I begin my life among the
thrones of heaven and the kings and
queens unto God shall be my associates,
it will not make much difference who
on earth forgot me when the invitations
to that reception were made out. " All
right with God, you are all right with
everything.
This Is a Good World For Girls.
Martin Luther, writing a letter OF
coincidence to one of his friends who
had lost his daughter, began by saying,
''This is hard world for girls. :" 1t is
for those who are dependent upon their
own wits, and the whims of the world,
and the preferences of human favor,
| but those who take the Eternal God for
| their portion not later than 10 years OF
age, and that is ten years later than 1t
ought to be, will find that while Martin
Luther's letter of coincidence was true
in regard to many, if not most, with
respect to those who have the wisdom
and promptitude and the earnestness to
get right with God, declare that this
is a good world for girls. ....=
Advice the second: Make it matter
of religion to take care of your physical
health. do not wonder that the Greeks
deified health and hailed Hygeia as a
goddess. / rejoice that there have been
SO many modes Of maintaining and re-
storing young womanly health invented
in our time. They may have been
known a long time back, but they have
been popularized in our day-lawn ten
mis-, croquet and golf and the bicycle
1t always seemed strange and inscruta-
BILE that our human race should be SO
slow of locomotion, when creatures of
less importance have powers of velocity,
wing of bird or foot of antelope, leaving
us far behind, and while it seems SO i'm
portant that we be in many places in a
short while we were weighed down
with incapacities, and most men If
they run mile are exhausted or dead
from the exhaustion. 1t was left until
the last decade of the nineteenth cen
fury to give the speed which we see
whirling through all our cities. and
along the country roads, and with that
speed comes health. The women Of the
next decade will be healthier. than at
any time since the world was created,
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 deformity for
which another so years will not have
power to make rescue. Young man, sit
up straight when you ride. @'."
Darwin says the human race is de-
scended from the monkey, but the bicy-
Gle will turn hundred thousand men
of the present generation in physical
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good womanhood, thank God that this
mode Of recreation has been invented.
Use it wisely, modestly, Christianly.
No good woman needs to be told what
attire is proper and what behavior is
right If anything be doubtful, reject it.
A hoydenish, boisterous, masculine wo-
man is the detestation of all, and every
revolution of the wheel she rides is to-
ward depreciation and downfall Take
care of your health, o woman of your
nerves in not reading the trash which
makes up 80 out Of 100 novels, or by
eating too many cornucopias of confec-
tionery! 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.
Health! Only those know its value
who have lost it. The earth is girdled
with pain, and vast proportion of it is
the price paid for early recklessness.
close this thought with the salutation in
Macbeth:
| Now good digestion wait appetite
And health on both.
Appreciate Your Mother.
Advice the third: Appreciate your
mother while you have her. 1t is the al
most universal testimony of young wom-
en- who have lost mother that they did
not realize what she was to them until
after her exit from this life. Indeed
mother is in the appreciation of many a
young lady hindrance. The maternal
inspection is often considered an OBJ
stacle. Mother has so many notions
about that which is proper and that
which is improper 1t is astounding how
much more many girls know at Is than
their mothers at 40. With what an elab-
crate argument, perhaps spiced with
some temper, the youngling tries to re-
verse the opinion of the oldliDg. The
sprinkle of gray ON the maternal fore
head is rather an indication to the recent
graduate of the female seminary that
the circumstances of today or tonight
are not fully appreciated.
What a wise boarding school that
would be if the mothers were the pupils
and the daughters the teachers How
we'll the teens could chaperon the fifties
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