Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-10-13
INFLUENCE OF WOMAN.
The MothcTS of To-Day Are Better
Than Those of the Past.
woman's Influence for Good Has Never
Been ESt mated, Though I'll" Cost of
the " ic led HIS I;rrn touut-
.d-TaImag,'S sermon.

| cnpc. A. the CpurlC~ltN 90 bN, III a.
mage h,r sets forth While discoursing
about one of tn grandmothcrs of
| Bible times. The text j. IL. Tim. l., >:
The unfcigncd faith that is in thee,
which dwclt first IN lily grandmother
| Lois.
In this pastoral letter which Paul,
the OH minister, is writing to limo
| thy, the Young minister. the family
| record is brought cut. Iaul yracu-
| cally says: Timothy, what a good
| grandmother YOU had, You ought To
hr better than most folks, because
not only was Your mother Eood.
| hut your grandmother was good, also.
Two preceding generations of nicty
ought la give You a mighty push in the
right direction" The fact WAS that
| Timothy needed cncuura cement lie
was in poor health. having weak
| stomach, and was a dyspcptic. and
| Paul prcscri bed tor him "a tonic. "a lit
tie wine; for thy stomach'> sahc"-not
much vine: hut little wine, and only
a. a mrGiciu. And if the wine then
hal been as much adultcratcd with
iorwood and >trychnine a. our modern
wines he would not have prescribed
any.
| Eut Timothy, not strong physically.
il encouraged spiritually by the recital
of grandmotIcrly excellence. Paul
limiting Ia him as | hint tins day To
YOU, that tod sometimes gathers up as
| in a reservoir, away hack of the active
generations of to-day, a go ~ inilu-
| u in, tn
let's down IN power upon children and
grandchildren aud great-grandchil-
drcn. The world is wocfu,ly IN want
of table Of statistics in regard To
what j. the protractcdncsS ami i'm
mcnsity of i flucUcc of one good wom-
an in the church and world. We have
accounts of how much evil has been
wrought by a woman VINO lived
nearly hundred years ago. and
of how many criminals hcr de-
scendants furnished for the penitcn-
,iary and the gallows, and how many
hundreds of thousands Of dollars they
cost our country in their arraignmcnt
and prison support. As well as the
property they lurglarizei and de-
,troyei. hut will not some one come
out with brain comprehensive enough,
,nd heart warm enough. and pen keen
enough to give W. the facts in regard
10 some good woman If hundred
wears ago, and let US know how many
Christian men and women and reform
ers and useful people have been found
among her descendants, and how many
asy iums and colleges and churches
| OF
dollars they contributed for human
itarian and Christian purposes?
The good women whose tom bstones
were planted in the 18th century are
more alive for good in the 10Th century
than they were before. as the good
women of this 10Th century will be
more alive for good in the Goth CEN
fury than now. Mark you. | have no
idea that the grandmothcrs were any
better than their granddaughte
You can not get very old people to
talk much about how things were when
they were boys and girls. They have
n reticence and noncommittalism
which makes me think they feel them
selves to be the custodians of the repp-
tation of their early comrades. While
our dear old folks are rehearsng the
follies ut the preseit,if we Put hcr'
on the witness stand and cross-cXan4-
inc them as to how things were 20
years ago the silence becomes oppres-
sive
The celebrated Frenchman, Volney,
visited this country in 1896. and he
says of woman's diet in those times;
IF a premium was offered for n regi-
men most destructive to health, none
could be devised more cflicacious for
these ends than that in use among
these rcople" That eclipscs our lob
ster salad at midnight Every body
talks about the dissipation OF modern
society and how womanly health goes
down under il, but it was worse a
hundred years ago, for the chaplain OF
a French regiment in our revolution.
ary war wrote in lIS2, in his Book oil
America Women" saying: The
are tall and well proportioncd, their
features are generally regular, their
complexions are generally fair
and without color. At 2C
wears of age the women have no longer
the freshness of youth. At so or 4C
they are decrepit" In 1872 n foreign
consul wrote book entitled "A
Sketch of the United States at the
Commencement of the Present Cen
tury," and he SAYS of the women o.
those times: AT the age of 80 al
their charms have disappeared. One
glance at the portraits of the womeI
a hundred wears ago ami their style OF
dress makes us wonder how they evel
got their breath. All this makes ms
think that the express rail train is NJ
more an Improvement on the old cana
boat, or the telegraph no more an i'm
provement on the old-time saddle bag,
than the women of our day are an i'm
provement on the women of the las
century.
Bu, still, Notwithstanding that thos,
times were so much worse than ours
there was a gloriows race of Cody
women. seventy and hundred YEAR
ago. who held the world back from sir
and lifted it toward virtue, and with
out their * led and sanctified infiu
encc l,efor, this the last rood in fluenc,