The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-01-11

lance have powers OF velocity, wing OF
bird or foot of antelope, leaving us far
behind. and while it seems so important
that we be in many places in short
while, we were weighed down with In
capacities. and most men If they run
a mile are exhausted or dead from ex-
haustion. 1t was left until the last
decade of the nineteenth century to
give the speed which we see whirl-
ing through all our cities and along
the country roads. and with that
speed comes health. The women
the next decade will be healthier than
at any time since the world was cre-
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
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 will turn q
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. If 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 and 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, or by
eating too many cornucopias of con-
fectionery. Take care of your eyes by
not reading at hours when 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 reci-
lessness. close this though with the
salutation from 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 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 q young lady q
hindrance The maternal inspec-
ticn is often considered an obstacle.
Mother has many notions about
that which is proper and that which is
improper. 1t is astounding how much
more many girls know at eighteen
than their mothers at forty-five. 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 tho
maternal forehead is rather an indica-
ton to the recent graduate OF
the female seminary that the cir
cumstances of to-day or tonight are
not fully appreciated. What o wise
boarding school that would be II the
mothers were the pupils and the
daughters the teachers. How well the
teens would chaperone 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 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 at was
bird in the air" that told them.
Alasi for that bird in the air Will
not some one lift his gun and shoot it?
1t would take whole libraries to hold
the wisdom which the daughter knows
mora than her mother. why can
not have this?" "Why can
not do that?" 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 II
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 syle of gait, in
esthetic taste, and in all sorts
of information. / expect that
while you were studying botany, and
chemistry, and embroidery, and the
new opera, she was studying house-
hold economies. But one day from
overwork, or sitting up of nights with
neighbours sick child, or q
blast of the east wind. on which
pneumonias are horsed, mother is
sick. Yet the family think she
will soon be well. for she has been
sick so often, and always has got well.
and the physician comes three times .
day. and there is consultation of the
doctors, and the news is gradually
broken that recovery Is impossible.
given in the words while there is life
there is hope" And the white pillow
over which are strewn the locks q
little tinted with snow, 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 =
whisper by all the group: rs she
gomez" And all ia over.
Now come the regrets. Now the
daughter reviews her former criticism
Of maternal supervision. For the first