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Show IpilE ' Of II E At: ;f I 111 I li tl lllltf -, I p ; ;I)rawing ty Homer Davenp I I Noted Autkbr and Humanitaria:jK-''v?::;: " ""' , C'" ' .- - I r v ', ." ' '.;' i' - (Copyright, 1911. by C. J. Mar. for Publishers' Press.) ' ''..' .V : - ' p)HE sovereignty of $M motherhood con-J con-J sists not in ward-robe ward-robe or jewels, kx or equipages or social functions, it! or sharpened steel, or g guns or swiftly-speed-, but in the- higher roy-tue roy-tue and o-Iove. lood moves unerringly 'ehood and-motherhood, there are -numbers who icr disposition "nor op: o reach these goals, the man of, healthy body looks forward to the she may have her own family. The young o protests -.against the sition to marry is very ting iii lier own mind )r she will' select, or he procession to see sf the young 'men will : her to .accompany him ney of life) )od comes to its throne es its hand, out to rock finfc, everjvinsect and ; a home .where it may lourishmerit and best growth, v' w lives in- the water's .. y in the vale, the cedar yWrugged mountain top. jftie for the developihent of Kflife and character has been jBed and motherhood has been lof that realm. wR, weary and .'disappointed. 3feain search for her daugliter IKPnaj rcnounce'd, the.. society gEgods, and came to the earth Coming to Elusis, she was my.ed as a nurse for a son, lJhoon. The ba"be grew mi-. Susl'. She anointed it with, Sfcia and placed if by the fire, Jfc1 secret of the. growth was jfte breathed in -its face as it her arms the . breath of a jlThc ideal mother cares well baby or the child. But its A growth will ' occur when fmbs her spirit into that of IKild, and breathes into its SBfe breath of purity and love. is nothing so near omni- as the royalty; of a wom- E the master 'c&. masters in Kertook to embody the most. Wu thought that mortal cau pe and did put 'it in the most jfcil form thai, brush ever le painted the; picture of a Jt and a child. And Ra-Ss. Ra-Ss. Madonna of St. Sixtus ex-Up ex-Up the heavenly; mission of Jphood aud a royalty in the jit sense which is ruling and JfUned to rule the world. jjlhand that rocks the cradle ifinearer ruling the world po-Jly po-Jly than wc are inclined to be-. - ttjor history admit. Aside women who, have occu-brones occu-brones and ruled! some nobly mc ignobly,- aside from the & omen who have led armies 0 i parliaments, besides those f Mother countries or in some own states rrexercise the t, of woman suffrage, we refer 1 pulership of -thp world by j jfcrage mother,, fin the avcr- me. ' , I enck tho Gr(jat kid the jfetion of the German nation, mpcror Willia'm and Bis-' abound the states into the fP empire. But' Germany is K. today because German are good, because German are industr.io.us, economi- cal, honest and virtuous. Oroelhe pays the highest tribute to 'the in-, fluence of motherhood on the 'life of the German nation. Alfred laid the foundation of the British nation. ' But - Grout Britain is great because it has model homes, t Beqause English 't mothers are intelligent, virtuous and pious. Modern British prosperity pros-perity reached its climax in the Victorian age, in the rule of an ideal womanhood, including the. royalty of sanctified motherhood, There is no great nation that has not derived its strength from -the. stock and tuition of its mothers. The Anglo-Saxon people will continue con-tinue to march to (he mastery of the world, so Jong as they shall preserve the purity and piety of Hie home. " Much of America's' greatness can be traced to the goodness and greatness of its mothers. If Washington was the father of his country, his mother was the mother moth-er of our country. She was a perb womanj and trained her boy perfectly. Washington, when 'a boy, had tlie navy in view!? and the wagon had already taken 'his (runk to the ship when his mother cried and said,, "George, your father is dead, and I. am .lonesome,, and I. wish you would give up the idea of the sea." x ' His affection for her was so intense in-tense that he banished his per sonal airibifions; and instead of being be-ing perhaps the commander of, 'a vessel or of ajlcct. he became tjiej foundur-of a nation. Lincoln's mother died when he was a. boy, but she transmitted to him by heredity nearly all the great .elements' which he possessed, pos-sessed, aud before she passed away instilled into his mind tlie" principles of truth, .-justice, i0vo and duty, .which were so jJoteutiiil in his after life. He said,: "All I have in 'this world I: owe to my. sainted mother."' ' ' I talked, with an 'old man, 90 years of age, who was at the wedding wed-ding o Lincoln's parents and who vent" over to the Lincoln cabin 'to see theliltlc babe, Abra ham, who was born a year after, and he said, "That the mother was one of the truest and best women he had ever known." Groycr Cleveland's mother was a woman of unusual talent; and devotion. de-votion. In a critical time in his campaign for the presidency he wrote a letter to his brother in which ho 'said. "I wish our dear mother was -alive, her love aud faith wuld help pull us' through' Garfield kissed- the wrinkled face of his 'mother on the day of his inauguration'-and said, "Mother, "Moth-er, ydji have brought me to this." President M'cKinley left the capital aid the affairs of stale to walefi at the bedside of his dying mother to receive her last blessing i and to give her his last kiss. And the delightful relationship between be-tween him and his invalid "wife is one of the most beautiful pictures in American home life. Almost; the first , thought that David Graham Phillips had when he 'wjis first shot was of his mother, moth-er, and he asked his brother to telegraph hef in Sail Francisco, "nof to worry about him- that .he would be all right and pull through." He; knew Ihe depth of his mother's love. ' These arc types ..'of ideal 'motherhoodthere 'moth-erhoodthere arc other .types in our country -no't' so. ideal. There are uilpainted hovels, with broken windolv panes and leaking roof, and pallet of straw, a filthy brood cursed with,' a motherhood of vice . and crime, jind there, are marble palaces on the -princely 'avenue, with everyc'6nvenience .that mind can conceive,';- or wealth furnish. -Those well-fed, well-dressed chil- ' dreri have mothers. who are light in Jntellect and shallow of heart, who are bewildered inr the mad rush for pleasure, or tripped up by lfl the temptations that so. often lie . in the path of idleness and luxury, and thechampagne and the rapid pace of the. social engagements saddle fheir minds and' tire, their bodies, and vitiate their mother-hood. mother-hood. - . Some 'of. them get dissatisfied with their 'luxurious palaces and , families and make a change. For- lfl tunately, this type of womanhood is an 'exception, both in poverty. and in wealth. The average moth-er moth-er amongst 'the poor in this coun-try coun-try is a true, good woman. -The domestic fidelity of the flH common people of this country is IH a source of greatest pride, and a VM measure, of ',its. future prosperity. In our free institutions there is an opportunity for success to the child that comes out of a home un-. blessed with motherhood. Thirty years ago, when -a Re-publican Re-publican "governor of Tennessee fl was inaugurated-, no one would have thought that a little newsboy IH on, the street corner, a poor little waif who had no name but Ben, KH and did not knov who his father or mother were, would be the next Republican governor to be inaug-urated. inaug-urated. That little waif was Ben jl Hooper, recently inaugurated as governor of Tennessee. Homes that took the place of 'motherhood JM were kindly furnished .him. One of the beauties of the benevolence of our times is that where mother- hood is lacking it shall have a sub-stitute sub-stitute as near as possible to. it in the institutions of beneficence. The untrue mothers of the rich are the exceptions, too. There can Rl be no more beautiful specimens of t an ideal home life than can be jH found amongst the intelligent; cul-tivated cul-tivated and wealthy of our coun-try. coun-try. These mothers hire help, but do not farm out their care nor withhold their love from their lit-tie lit-tie ones. They keep their eye on IH the fashion plates, but they have the teachers and., the schoolbooks ready as well. They meet their obligations to society, which are jH becoming and expected of them IH at? the same! time that they render the most unselfish .devotion to Ifl their children, and recognize the responsibilitj- that is upon them to train them in intelligence, virtue and piety. Because a few rich il mothers are silly and wicked, it fll would not be the fair thing to jH overlook the multitude of the true, IH virtuous mothers amongst the rich H who do not figure in the public prints or in, the courts, But are Bl steadily performing the duties that are -upon them. jH "We have spoken of the glory and royalty of motherhood. It must not be forgotten that the father has to found the home, fur- Jf nish its support, and example and noble inspiration. In the raising of. an ideal family an able and true jfl fatherho.od is essential. And a motherhood, however attractive J or- devoted, is badly trammeled if the fatherhood be wak or uncon- jf corned, or untrue. In these days,, when woman, is ll compelled in justice to herself to enter the doorways into the. new fl callings, to the' learned profes- sions or' business or art, or some frl other employment, it may . be well to remember that there is no call- jl ing 'so high' nor so influential ( as that. of Christian motherhood. A. goddess came out of the sea H and stepped on the Islaud of Cy- H press in such a way. that flowers Jl sprang lip in her footsteps. jjl Nowhere on earth do there JH bloom (suchv beautiful' flowers of . virtue, truth and love as those that ll spring up in the pathway of a con- A H secrated "motherhood. H |
