The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . eds of thousands of dollars they cost this country intheir arraignment and prison support, as well as in the property they burglarizedor destroyed. But will not some one come out with brain comprehensive enoughand heart warm enough and pen keen enough to give us the facts in regard tosome good woman of loo years ago, and let us know how many Christian men andwomen and reformers and useful people have been found among her descendants,and how many asylums and colleges and churches they built, and how manymillions of dollars they
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . eds of thousands of dollars they cost this country intheir arraignment and prison support, as well as in the property they burglarizedor destroyed. But will not some one come out with brain comprehensive enoughand heart warm enough and pen keen enough to give us the facts in regard tosome good woman of loo years ago, and let us know how many Christian men andwomen and reformers and useful people have been found among her descendants,and how many asylums and colleges and churches they built, and how manymillions of dollars they contributed for humanitarian and Christian purposes ? The good women whose tombstones were planted in the eighteenth centuryare more alive for good in the nineteenth century than they were before, as the (176) THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. 177 good women of this nineteenth century will be more alive for good in the twentiethcentury 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 reticenceand a non-committalism which makes me think they feel themselves to be thecustodians of the reputations of their early comrades. While our dear old folks 12 178 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. 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. OVER OL,D TIMES.—By Ed. Schtilz Bricsen. THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. 179 THE WOMEN OF THE LAST CENTURY. A celebrated Frenchman by the name of Volney, visited this country 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 w
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