The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-12
Girls and Their Mothers /

a GIRL is queer creature. The
a day she tucks up at the back
of her head the long braid OF
hair which hitherto through her child
hood she has been wearing down her
back. that day she begins to look on
her mother as an old woman. The girl
may be as awkward and crude as many
young misses are at fifteen and even
seventeen. loose jointed. uniformed and
skinny. sometimes also even hollow
chested and stoop shouldered. The
mother at forty may be in the fun
prime OF mature womanly health and
beauty, far handsomer than the crude
undeveioped daughter Of sixteen.
Nevertheless. the girl thinks her
mother ought 10 slide into the back
ground and let the girl be it, hence
forth.
The mother would be a great fool
who would consent TO be shunted OF
the track by her green. glow dauxh-
ter OF sixteen or eighteen. 7 know a
young lady of forty who has a mother
of sixty. The mother IS lively. very
active and has a bright. attracti~s face
framed in wavy gray hair. To tell YOU
a secret. she is really handsomer tran
her daughter. even at sixty She is an
intelligent. intellectual woman. quite
up 10 date. warmly interested in All
new woman movements. She likes So
clety and likes TO look pretty quite al
well as she ever did Why shouldn't
she? Heaven help the woman OF any
age who does not wish TO present A.
pleasing appearance. This mother CT
sixty was getting a new hat. Sh.
fused" considerably trying 10 get ons
that was becoming. which was credit
TO her. But the daughter. the young
lady of forty. exclaimed impatientiy:
Mother. what do you care how you
look. at your age"
1t was brutal remark and IL wound
ed the old-young mother 20 the soul.
But she was kindlier than her daughter
and did not remind miss that girl Of
forty is herself not exactly a sprins
chicken.
This old-young mother is the type 81
perhaps a million women. They feel
in their bones and in their hearts a,
young as they ever did. They know
that science and sanitation are pro-
longing youth and showing OF old axe
farther and farther. They would rattle,
die than give up active interest in life.
yet their daughters. neighbors-eveH
their doctors-are doing their utmost
To bury these spry. healthy danes
thirty years before they are actually
dead. The mother OF the young Iady
of forty conhded 20 me a grievances
against her doctor She met with an
accident some time ago and broke a
rib. 4 surgeon set 20 she was careful
of herself. she willed 10 recover quick
ly and very soon she was as good az
new. The physician congratulated her.
AT your age your bones are brittle and
do not heal so quickly"
Brittle bones, And madam had -
covered from the hurt more rapldiy
than many persons half her age eouis
have done. Yet another grievance mad.
am had. She was attacked with a
slight indigestion and went TO the same
doctor for a prescription Anybody
may have an indigestion. but this doe
tor said. first thing:
AT your age YOU must expect Co
have stomach trouble"
The lady never returned TO thai ply
stefan and never viii do so IF I mast
have my age flung in my teeth every y
time ] need a physician I'll never call
another one" she declares.
And indeed physicians are 10 blame.