Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-10


nv face and hands thoroughly, that l
only gave them what in my Southern
home would be called "a lick and
promise l tell YOU, my friends, that
a still meeting of two hours will con-
vince a sensitive child that 1t stands
before God on a par with Judas and An
anias. But this never hurt me. In
fact. I think I always felt better, ana as
l frisked home. hanging on my grand
fathers hand. | would nod at Father
Gibbons and stretch my mouth very
wide to show that my second teeth were
all in. But those days were only, after
all. a little while ago. They seem like
Yesterday to me. Here is question for
the very learned people-why is it that
We forget the wonderful things that
happened a month ago, and remember
so perfectly everything that happened
twenty-five years ago. The A-rays
BAB'S DISBELIEF IN X-RAYS.
cannot explain that.
To be quite honest, l have really lit
tie belief in the X-rays. What good
will il do some girl who is horribly I'M
happy. inasmuch as she feels she is TO
be a victim of consumption. to have an
X-ray thrown on her and make the
doubt a certainty? Yes, my friend, i
am a believer in hope. II is an old
fashioned belief, but then am bit old
fashioned and have a leaning even to-
wards Judas, fully believing that
While the lamp holds out to burn
The vilest sinner may return.
In the days OF old, women who did
not believe were unknown. Nowadays
we may have cleverer women doubt
it. But in those days little children
hung around their mothers knee and
learned to say their prayers, and, later
on. when they were big children, and
the sorrows Of life came TO them, they
returned to that mother and wept out
on her heart the gTiefs that they could
not tell.
Nowadays we have women who know
all about the creation of the world; we
have women who scott at the idea or
prayer and call it foolish; we have wo-
men who believe there has never been
anything greater, or wiser, or more low
ing OF more forgiving than man. And
I am sorry TO say we have too many or
these women. But, if you felt your
heart torn in two, if YOU felt that you
wanted a woman's hand to rest on your
head. and woman's voice 10 call you
bv loving names. would it be one OF
these women TO whom you would go?
I think not. You would either bear
vOur trouble alone. or hunt up one or
those women who in days Of old was
A GOOD WIFE AND LOVING
MOTHER.
You wouldn't like to stop lady who
was just getting on her bicycle to come
back and hear your trouble. l wonder
what the ladies of long ago would have
thought of the bicycle? Those ladies
who were so careful about sitting down
in a feminine way and walking IN
feminine way-what would they think
of a steel horse that demanded the
throwing of their legs across the saddle
and wearing knickerbockers? | read
year or two ago about a funeral in
Paris; the funeral of a man who was
a noted rider of the bicycle He was
followed to the grave by 500 men and
women on their bicycles. Well, l laugh
ed. | laughed until / remembered how
awful death always is and how ridicu-
lous, and how frivolous, and how hid
eous the bicycle is. When a soldier
dies there is something magnificent in
having his horse without the rider to
follow the caiSSOn, because the horse
knew and loved the dead man; but what
can this thing Of steel do? 1t would
be Just as sensible TO have five hundred
sewing machines follow a woman who
had worked in a shirt factory as to
have bicycles follow man who was
famous rider.
For me. | like the days of old, when
a man rode a horse and it was a tri-
umph of mind over matter-yes. but
matter that had some mind. not matter
that was controlled by a monkey
wrench. or an Oiling can. or whatever
NAV be required from the kit But
had better not say anything about BIZ
cycles. One makes enemies by living.
One need not add to them by talking
In those days of old, when Jeannot
and Jeanette loved each other, they
told much Of the story by looks. Then
they went off for a little walk, and
Jeannot picked a nosegay of beautiful
flowers and Jeanette stuck them in
her belt. and Jeannot wished he were
that near her heart, and Jeanette
blushed until Jeannot begged her par
don.
NOWADAYS EVERYTHING is DIFF
FERENT.
JeannOt goes TO a smart florist, hands
out twenty dollars and his visiting
card. and when Jeanette gets the re-
suit of this visit she tips her nose in
the air and wonders why he did not send
orchids instead of roses. Years ago.
Jeanette put on a white muslin gown
and pale blue sash, and polkaed and
schottisched and danced Sir Roger de
Coverly until broad daylight, and would
have been shocked if any one had sug-
gested that wicked dance peculiar to
France-the waltz And Jeannot held
her very respectfully. Nowadays she
SCOTS at every dance but the waltz. and
Jeanette is whirled around by Jeannot
i'm a manner lacking in respect. and
only noticeable because of its quick
ness. 1t is sadly true that Jeannot does
not long 10 linger in the ball room.
He wants to get off with the other
Johnnies and have a little abSinthe.
How he is changed, Long ago he stood
in the doorway and watched the girl he
loved. and envied every man who spoke
10 her. or who touched her hand. To-
day he thinks he can get her any time
he wants her, and he doesn't hurry him
self about telling the story of his love.