Show Th The e Powe of a I i iother's 1 Mothers Mother's others other's LoveC Love C i B By JOHN EDWIN PRICE I V Copied from The Nash Journal A A word ord then thel IS the Angels Aniels know kno And speak to ie to another I The highest na Ie the Holiest One Love Love Love- One earth rth we e tall aU all Mother It-Mother it Mother Being Beine a mot moti er or is the Greatest call caB caUme ng mg a woman om t in III n follow A mothers mother's 10 lose e is lS the m ni st PO powerful er ul force on onearth onearth onearth earth A won an weak and defense defenseless defenseless defenseless less for her ov os n sake becomes a ress res when p her young r Her ller Hers s 5 at time is no less than a strength fro from above leaping all chasms and nd o 0 all oppositions oppositions Hons In th past the greatest themes of art ts is and writers were ere the love of G d d for the world orld and the 10 love lose e of a n mother for her children Th These The e wo J-wo t wo vo has ha eves evel typified endur endur- enduring enduring ing mg abiding God lose lo c God lo lose and mother loveAn love l lAn An hour hours s w lk II k on the Ole street any iy day y will III re revea resea ea one or more faces truly Madonna in m their blending of these two loves The common Il lot t ot of mothers is bea ins n nursing rearing and losing W at is the power po that sees a woman oman tl t rough this of mothering There are at east ea t twelve telve t elve qualities which constitute co i and reveal the pow power or er of i a mothers mother s love These are the teal leal daily dally doz dozen n l which every e ery wo we woman weman woman man exercises w 10 o 0 is seriously work working ork mg ing at the world greatest created business business- business mothering 1 Versatility I once lead of a woman who hi h ng mg no children of her own adopt 1 six It was wa re remarked remarked marked of her ha h A well she did ever evel L a rA thing for them Her faithfulness to detail was wan all b bi t miraculous Whether Whether ther bal baking ng or or sewing of 01 darning damme or sl au n ine mg songs sone or wiping noses or tellin stories stones 01 of nursing she he did it well id ld in cheerful mood same is tru of many a mother A versatile vcr atile fades e in m the back background background ground mother by the 1 1 ht ht of a versatile 2 bS ss When i a woman decides to become e a mother and the training of our girls should be such that it is lS a decision she the bargains In InI Inthe int inthe t I the average elage to give up to a large degree parties theatres morn morn- morning morn r ine mg walks alks friendly visits mirror I pastimes rea reading afternoon naps l t quiet latest clothes case cace and a few other such auch tn i A mother is un unI unselfishness I selfishness s iced litlie 3 Foresight 1 From planning lit ht lie filmy lacy thine ings which will do for other either a Loy bo oi of gill gal all the way wa up through bab babyhood boo childhood youth and foresightedness sometimes maturity foresighted ness stands out is one of the lIt qu lel Fes making up the power of i a moth mother's mother ers er's love I 1 knes Ime fa a 1 mother mothel once who ho foresaw that hu would soon be wildo wild to o 0 so tro O somewhere nl flights so go she got K g t I game p-ime book books and read attractive magazines Jes o on 1 making home at One r inexpensive e C game board sufficed for i l a long time then she hc arranged wIth li he of het hel helU helt t olI 8 playmates s I foi for j a series of U in m hornet homes home She ha dl hadl n t have hale hs e to het hel younk folks not to go eo to this alt Jr r that place pl-ico be Ue they couldn be driven en th thIn in to this thib group of homo home parties 4 l Companionability Right along llong WIth muse mus bo La BUd YI m or A reel le mothel ht s with her children realizing ii that thereby I others have entertained the great cicat un unawares wares It ha considerable to do I I with her power ver iver them a loan down the ears I 5 Constant Constancy 01 of Loyalty Some count this the greatest neatest Virtue in the most virtuous of people mothers t In the days v en ene we e legalized the to men s appetites foi for profit pro profit profit fit many miny a m mother her stayed staved ed with Ith i a be besotted besotted besotted husband in to all his Ius loath some somene ness just through ugh sheet sheel loy lit to her children acid and too to i memory ofha of wha ha toI her husband nd once nce was wac I knew kne a I woman whose husband beat her at regular ls in m the diy clays befort prohibition e ej et because he 1 re regretted regretted regretted it whip sober she sober she laid it not against him a and d remained true ThIs IS an extreme extreme illustration of that something wh which ch h comes into a worn an s heart wl en n motherhood comes whIch in on stor n and sunshine sIck sickness ness and health healt i adversity and wealth eaIth Ineas keeps her constant conf ant 6 0 Heroism The names of the greatest hero are not seen een in to the I hall of fame rame Here r is a dipping I Wl Widowed loed Wit will SIX uc children work working mg ing bv by day Tanning by bv night in m them Iwais wa ways s by her heroism she he saw each hild become a member of the church go to college coHee and fin finally finally finally ally started o 0 a good rood lifers lifes life's work Here liens Here s a u ano het hel The house was I cold eold There Thele gad ad been no fire for a week The tm was made with wa water water ter boiled on the stove of 01 a kindly T Tm- Tm food aa a cold from the Ithe the delicates n shop The mother found it ha hara to WOI work k even three days a week her cough coughS cou h S w is s fco so o bad and most of er money went sent to pay the lent tent T bo boy who had been a help until JU jut bc ole ChrIstmas was m in a m for the lie He was sixt sixteen n and had i the thc s y same thing that tOOK I IllS his father a and d my ctrl irl my only lit ht I tie tic girl the omen had said laid looking out it t her u world from ce eyes that no lon Ion i t 1 new knew the comfort of tears I 7 nice lIce Linked ss with Ith her heroism I Iol ol ism m is end ranee rance 1 the he PO power poser er of a mother s lo to e keeps her dome doing fOI i thos those she to 10 loies es until we e all cannot but at l I lei lei el endurance nce No 1 other othel WOI work k of women onen and a few pO positions of nun men cn cal call fot foi the physical men mental mental mental I tal and ami spiritual enel which dom all the work cork ork foi for a fans fam familly family I illy ily of four or five requites Many I mothers could could not kep up un were It not that th become good philosophers ers els and put the he spirit of joy into theIr I work ork The They endure also ilso use because they len n not to fret 0 over oser er th the future knowing that only a da da dacan can be b lived II at a n time I ti to be hoped tint thit m in mad ad addition to her hud hard work no mother has to en endure ule personal slights and I lack of 10 lo e An And still I teal feat sonic andI I mothel s suter surer more mort from neglect thin from flom bearing caring i or losing I 8 Patience What more patIence than thana a n baby who ho ha han n t any Letter better sense Ethan th thin to bawl ba from one oneA oneA oneA A M iii to three t or a fretting fool shill s hill freshman in n in m high school Nothing it is i a petulant snarl snarling ng mg- grouching husband who lb is so filled with babyish bab bh ish Ih self helt elf pity that lie he lies he s ants int attention of one form 01 o another 1 or er whenever lie ih JI around cry Esery J Iman mall i a cl cF T amount of moth I wing eung mg an ani jet et I advocate that evert I mother mothel s b her boys It le let least t bv by the tim tim- tl ti L tI t lY y in rc ten so bO that mar at 1 ent five they will be bo lookin for companions in d tend of t adopt them J I Io 9 o 5 ision iston Who ho hO is it hopes for forthe forthe forthe the best for ver very child Who ho dreams ms and plan for the future for fr forthe forthe the entire family Who holds the highest ideals MOTHER r Moth loth Mothers ers has ha have hae e s ISlon ision t to see underlying mg m- s u 11 tue I than surface SUI face faul faulS s en enabling abl ng them to tolerate lerate and hel i t all seeming failure thai in m then Thy They seem to s I see e through the outer strIfe they Lie o the irnel life and know kno that and dome where here the result I t of their work cork ork will This la Is Ish h in m all moral mor and ard religIOus eff rt when othI he become come weary eary of sell v ell doing those thoc suio w it h or have ore DC he mothers mother keep oa 01 Thy have ision to know that tha is 11 de season w we s all reap if we faint not 10 Perhaps it is theIr vision that thit give mothers the th power po of penetration lothers Mothers can get et the truth out of a t when no one else e can lou ou iou I ray i ay say ay that you feel well ell or that yare y l arc happy but yf f you are lying y u don t fool mother Mother s love tes to the heart of the hardest criminal No man is 11 wholly holly bad if foi fot no other reason than that in pal part pait t hl his other others s life penetrates es his own A man may tear away aw I flom his moth s apron strings but I is she be i a goon good woman he h can cap never COmPletelY get ret way from her heartstrings heart heartstrings he strings The li b 1 nt ot of a mother s c love penetrates abu abil t J neglect tome death deato In a log cabin in Indiana a woma wonia i 1 ila ila la dying be she said love everybody hi der nobody dy ne el ne drin never lie never nevel steal and some someday someday someday day the world orld will be glad that you hale ha lived ears calS later Lincoln said All tha I am all that I hope to do I owe ow t ti my angel mother 11 Faith ralth When nobody believes Ito In you your mothel mother s faith is still unshaken un haken S When V hen all the world orld fOI sakes you m they ither evil wil be all the orld to you ou Amot A mothers mot mothers er s faith isa is 1 i a SOl sort soil t of syn syn sympathy i achy athY thy with with understand mg m Mothe i know that nature slumps eHr ery e e winter that we all hick slide in iii leep and ind does not lost 1 faith when h husband or son ily fly reverse e t the mitten m a say age ge 01 o veer from the exact line Ime lm of rectitude P always ays S swin mol back sod ind mt to ely seem to filth filly thing h when the out outlook outlook outlook look for her near deir r e ones is dark 12 Reverence Re for God Cod an J all f sacred I is is thi tha found r n quality that mikes for poser po in on a mothers mother s lo lose p thIS is because mothers arc al e the closet and most direct laborers to dhel with God 1 l he lie religious life of America would suffer uffer greatly ele I not foi fot mothers These know the I SOUl ce of the then power er ernd ind nd take a ad I gL of ever menns to a closet closel with God and desire the best religious lOus influences for their children II Thomas Thom Ca lyle yle writes antes 0 pIOUS mothel kind ind good bl c bia c and md h truthful i a soul as ever cr e er I ha ha c c found In this world your our pool Tom Toni has ery lame and md broken fromI it this tillS pl pilgrimage e of his Ills but from I I your grave IIi ui in ard ardI you bid him trust in God and that I he will cull do fO foi f the conquest of this norl work i in n and ind death th and hell lie he tint tilt wn wa I Thus Ihus 1 hus briefly hive rive ve we e made mention of twelve of he ho qualities which go goto goto o oto to mike m up thi power of i l true moth cr s ors love Jove Versatility V Vi Unselfishness I Con y lllY l elOI r J Endurance Patience P thon Faith Reverend Reverence and and and andt set t e mu t confess that the thel half halt haa ha has never nc been told I |