The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-01-11

to be lake care OF your ears
by stopping them against the tides o.
gossip hat surge through every neigh
borhood.
Advice the third: Appreciate your
mother while you nave her. 1t is the
almost universal testimony of young
women who have lost mother, thai
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 a h.ndrance.
The maternal inspection is often con.
sidered an obstacle. Mother has sc
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
As. With what an elaborate argument,
perhaps spieed with some temper, the
youngling tries to reverse the opinion
of the oldling.
They are in the way, and are always
asking questions about postage marks
of letters, and asking, "who is that
Mary DIP" a1d where did you form
that acquaintance, FloraT' and ''where
did you get that ring, MyraP| For
mothers have such unprecedented
means of knowing everything-they
say sit was a bird in the air. that told
them. 1t would take whole Libraries
to hold the wisdom which the daugh-
ter knows more than her mother.
"Why cannot 1 have this?" ''Why
cannot I do that?" And the question
in many a group has been, although
not plainly stated: "What shall we
do with the mothers, anyhow? They
n-o 90 fa. hahf.6 fha ffrnac Da--,sk
me to suggest that If 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-date as you, in music, in style ofgait,
in esthetic taste and in all sorts of in
formation. But one day from over
work, or sitting up of nights with a
neighbor's sick child, or a blast of the
east wind, on which pneumonias are
horsed; mother is sick. Yet the family
think she viii SCOT be we'll, for she has
been sick so often, and always has got
well, and the news is gradually broken
that recovery is impossible, and the
white pillow over which are wu
the locks a little tinted with snow, be.
comes 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 a 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 supervision. For the first
time she realizes what 1t is to have a
mother, and what ii is to lose a mother.
Tell me, meu and women, old and
young, did any of us appreciate how
muchm mother was to us until she was
gone? Young woman, you will proba-
bly v have a more disinterested
friend than your mother. When she
says anything is unsafe or i~mprudent,
you had better believe it is unsafe
or im%prudent. When she declares
it is something you ought to
do, I 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 con,
temptible motive in what she advises
you? She would give her life for you
if il were called for. Do you know of
anyone else who would do more than
that for you? Do you kuow of anyone
who would do as much? The grave
yards are full of mothers who died
taking care of their children. Big
headstones of polished Aberdeen and
lily put together could compose
and a garland of whitest roses from
the conservatory are often the attempt
to atone for the thanks we ought to
have uttered in living oars, and the
kind words that would have done more
good than all the Gala lilies ever piled
up on the silent mounds of the m
teries. The world makes applauditory
ado over the work OF mothers who have
raised boys to be great men and l
could turn to my bool1shelves and find
the names of fifty distinguished men
who had great mothers- But who
praises mothers for what they do for
daughters who make the homes of
America? I do not knew of an in.
stance of such recognition,
.nttering the first word that has ever
been uttered in appreciation of the
of the fatigues, and good
sense and PRAYERS which those mothers
90 through who navigate a family OF
girls from the edge of the cradle to the
door, and from the school
house door up to the marriage altar.
That is an achievement which the eter-
nal God cell brates high up in the heav-
ems, though for it human hands seldom
clap the faintest applause. 1t is while
she is living, but never while she Is
lead, that some girls call their mother
ancestor" or ''the old wom-
IN"
And if you have a grief already land
of the keenest sorrows of a
woman's life come early roll it over
Christ and you will find him more
sympathetic than was Queen Victoria
who, when her children, the princes
md princess, came out of the school
room after the morning lesson had
been given up by the governess, and
told how her voice had trembled In the
morning prayer because it was h an
niversary of her mothers death, and
that she had put her head down
the desk and sobbed "Motheri"
Mother" the queen went in
Ind said to the governess, my
child! / am sorry the children
disturbed You this morning. l will
near their lessons to-day, and to show
you that l have not forgotten the sad
anniversary, 1 bring you this gift"
md the. queen clasped on the girls
a mourning bracelet with a lock
IF her mothers hair. All you young
the world around who mourn
/ like sorrow, and sometimes in your
oneliness and sorrow aud loss burst
crying, Mother, mother" put on
your wrist this golden clasp of Divine
las one whom his mother
,omforteth 81 will l comfort you"
Advice tho fourth: Allow no time to
PASS without Frightening some ones
life. Within five minutes walk of you
is some one in u tragedy COM
with which Sh~akespeare's "King
Lear" or Victor Hugo's Jean Val
jean" has no power. Go out and
brighten somebody's life with a cheer
word, or smile. or a flower. Take
| good book and read a chapter to hat
blind man. Go mp that dark alley and
make that invalid woman laugh with
good story. For Gods sake
make some one happy for ten
minutes, if for no longer a time. A
,oung woman bound on such a mis-
what might she not accomplish?
Oh, there are thousands of these
manufacturers of sunshine. They are