The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . - than now. Mark you, I have no idea that the grandmothers were anybetter than their grandaughters. You cannot get very old people to talk much. GRANDMOTHER. about how things were when they were boys and girls. They have a reticence and a non-committalism which makes me think they feel themselves to be the custodians of the reputations of their early comrades. While our dear old folks12 178 THE PATHWAY OF IvlFE.
The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . - than now. Mark you, I have no idea that the grandmothers were anybetter than their grandaughters. You cannot get very old people to talk much. GRANDMOTHER. about how things were when they were boys and girls. They have a reticence and a non-committalism which makes me think they feel themselves to be the custodians of the reputations of their early comrades. While our dear old folks12 178 THE PATHWAY OF IvlFE. are rehearsing the follies of the present, if you put them on the witness stand andcross-examine them as to how things were seventy years ago the silence becomesoppressive. XAi, ovKR OLD TiMUS.—Ly Ed. Schnlz Bricscn. THE PATHWAY OF IJFE. 179 THE WOMEN OF THE LAST CENTURY. A celebrated Frenchman by the name of Vohiey, visited this countr> in 1796,and he says of womans diet in those times: If a premium was offered for aregimen most destructive to health, none could be devised more efficacious forthese ends than that in use among these people. That eclipses our lobster saladat midnight. Everybodytalks about the dissipa-tion of modern societyand how womanly healthgoes down under it, butit was worse a hundredyears
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