Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-04-18
WHEEL EASTER SUNDAY LET HER FoRsAKE sTIFNG TOW
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made up for Easter Sunday. They
! rose an hour earlier in the morning TO
get on their war paint. Perhaps not
the actual article, but something that
looked very much like it. If il rained
there was weeping, and in front of the
church door stood a line of carriages,
such as were never there other Sundays,
though the Lord attended service just
the same all the year around. The
comic joke of that day was of the wO-
man. too III to so TO church, who spent
the morning with her head out Of the
window. her Easter hat pinned careful
~ in place; and everybody has read the
theaibare description of the Easter
thoughts that were bitter for hats in
stead Of glorious for the Lord.
The bicycle has taken that out of the
hearts and lives of women. 1t is the
grandest instrument for health of mind
and BODY that has been given since the
worlds began rolling around casters.
This morning the head bowed upon the
hard edge of the pew in front is giving
thanks for happiness. That means
health, contenment-and good times to
come. Not stided heart, no envy and
10 thoughts Of the lat home when
friends will drop in-as they used to in
those Casters when they called to show
their gowns. don't you know.
Now there may be women who are
looking forward 10 this Easter after
noon as 4 time when they can be very
evil an eieraut opportunity for going
the way they have always wanted to go,
the way Of the transgressor, and which
the bicycle will blaze for them, once
they get out upon the thOrOughfare
where there are bicycle trousers and
masculine sweaters. There is no de-
claring that there are not such persons
But l contend that they stand a much
better chance of not going the wrong
way than the woman who goes to
church without health in her body and
without COnteutment in her mind, ready
for whatever Satan may put her up TO-
If I had TWO girls 10 take care Of and
two paths Open-One to church, laced
mp and dressed up, and to promenade
afterwards. with o'clock tea to follow
and a musicale in the evening; and the
other 20 church. with dinner afterwards.
and o bicycle ride in the air, | should
say mount the girl upon the wheel at ,
p. m. and let her ride to the country
and TO God. for she stands a good chance
Of seeing both before she gets home. l
should bank" upon the second girl
every time.
Now. there is nobody who can take
all the evil out of the world. And l
don't know anybody who is anxious to
do SO. They would feel so out of place,
you see. But what you and l want, and
are willing to strive for. is the removal
of things that make us worse than we
are: and that may make ether people a
great deal worse than they ought 70 be.
The bicycle Mrs. Smith says. is the one
instrument that does all the harm. Take
IL away and we will so back again 10
the average amount Of badness, and not
actually wallow in the clough as We are
now doing.
Mrs. Smith tells the story of women
who come 10 her and tell her that they
were thrown in harms way from riding
the bicycle 70 Bicycle Retreats, where
they learned to drink whiskey Oh
dear. oh dear a woman who can posi-
bly, learn to drink whisky is one that
will do so anyway, and if the bicycle
happened to be the nearest agent at
hand she blames the wheel. She would