Show T 1 f t i i it t Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes of the Darker Side t Parental of Affection t DISTRUST that man who tells teUs you to distrust D DISTRUST He takes the measure of ot his own small soul BOUt And thinks th the world no larger lagger l He who prates Of human natures and aad deceit Looks Looka in the mirror of his heart and seas His kind therein reflected Or perchance eft The honeyed wine wiDe of life liCe WS was turned to rail an anBy By sorrows sorrow a hand hanel which brimmed te his cup with tears And made all things Oai seem eem bitter to lila his taste Give Ghe him compassion But be he not afraid Of Love or Friendships strengthening draa Y Nor think a poison underlie their sweets Look through true eyes you Win dissever discover truth 0 Suspect suspicion and doubt oRy doubt A man from Chicago asks the following pertinent and possibly to some minds impertinent question que Why do the great Teat majority of ot women when using elevators in the busi business business ness buildings invariably ly on entering turn around immediately and stand in inthe inthe Inthe the entrance thus interfering with those tho e entering uterIne or departing and suffering the annoyance of being pushed about I have observed women in New NeV Yerk York and elsewhere guilty of the same unwise action I have observed them theta also entering caw cars and aud hanging upon straps while several everal unoccupied seats remained at the upper end of the conveyance I have soon seen them accept a seat offered by a man and when the place next them became vacant call can a friend to take it It with no idea evidently that courtesy demanded it should be proffered first to the donor Many Muty of the tM of my own sex impress Impre 8 upon the he mind the idea that woman was never intended for the crowded business centers of the world She at home and in scenes of ot comfort and Bd pleasure ure If man inca had always treated her with the proper prop t consideration and appreciation dation and if he had nad used the large globules buJes of gray matter in his brain In a sensible fashion when he assisted as in firming f mine our laws woman would not have to jostle about in ip elevators or trolley tro cars ca or 0 to come in contact c with the business bu inellS world Still another man mall asks me if I do dOlt not think the tha th value of mother love loe is overrated He sa says 3 g It is the most form of for the tbt child is of herself In fact is herself It Tt seems se to me that there th is very of the sublime In it I Whatever object we love we regard as a part of tiC ourselves and ald the same seine criticism might be passed pa oo upon all phases of love Jove for individuals if we choose I to be pessimistic Des in our ideas It has ne never er seemed to me however that mother love Jove was 5 the most sublime of or emotions If It mother love made a woman love all other children Iiren it would be an n ele elevating elevating rating sentiment Bu But this phase Jhase is i seldom found How many mothers of young daughters do we know knew who love guard pity and sympathise with all thoughtless young iris girls How SHow many who 00 would defend th tho name or further furth r the aims alma of some girl merely because she was the age of their ther daughters nJ And alas what a vast array of mothers we all know who criticise anti and condemn on the least provo provocation pro provocation o cation the actions of young women omen whom they regard in the light of rivals of their own daughters dau Julien Gordon once spoke sook of or the she wolf element in motherhood the element which rends and tears other lives Jives to advance a the prospects of if its own I have encountered few women in my life whom motherhood mell to broaden and sweeten Unless it renders a woman a mother mou in soul and heart to all humanity it s certainly as my mr correspondent calls it the tIle most selfish form of Jt f love loveI I have seen a man and woman oman Who lio were the embodiment of generosity and benevolence become avaricious and mercenary after the birth of a child in the family Their parental affection a itself into the one on channel of ot a desire delve to save ave for their child and to let the rest of the world look out for Itself There is I nothing beautiful or in such a love loveA A really r ly great love is one which makes us love Jove all aU humanity better which swells the heart beart instead of contracting it broadens the thies and increases es the nobler nob r qualities of the whole nature To love a child a husband hu band or a wife as a 8 mise mis loves Isis his gold as S an ani animal mal mel loves its ita food foed when hunT hungry Is ls not a noble or grand emotion ELLA WILCOX Note No manuscripts wanted wan led in this column They The will wUl be destroyed d if sent R |