Show I T MOTHER V Were here because were we're here goes the old college chant Were We're here because of a better reason than that however Were We're here because someone was brave enough to give us birth because someone was vas content content content con con- tent to spend many a sleepless BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE weary veary night and tiresome day of ofU toil guarding us from ills of ofin If U you ou h have ave a g. g gray hair haired QU mother In the 01 old 1 home hom far tar away noway childhood d. d pro protecting t ec t- t mg us f. f from tom Sit you oU down and and the letter our little temptations defining You put oft orr from day to day for us the difference between Dont Don't watt walt until her weary steps right and wrong giving us the R Reach ch heavens heaven's pearly gate t t b But show her that you think of ot chance to grow up into stron strong her intelligent t men men men- men and and nd all this Before it is too late without hope of reward J. J. J B. B Griffith That someone you someone you guessed it was it-was was MOTHER Why didn't we die like thousands of others in some infantile sickness I Why weren't verent t we killed by a street car or wagon wagon Because of the watchfulness wa the struggle the constancy of that one woman woman the the woman who dail daily p denied herself things that we might have our little pleasures and that we might go to school dressed cleanly and fully p as well as the children of those who could better afford it that it-that that is why disease or injury never overtook overtook over over- took tok us And now be you laborer banker lawyer or merchant you are to that one woman MY LW BOY Grown to manhood of course but to her you still require the same assiduous care the same watchfulness No matter what the world has bas done to you or said about you or or- what you have done to the world your mother never deserts you ou You are still MY IY BOY The world may call you harsh hatsh names but to HER you are the same little fellow whose face shi sh she used to wash whose fingers she used to bandage who tracked mud over the newl newly scrubbed kitchen floor to get cookies and homemade lasses candy on Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- afternoons and who used to keep his hat on in the house so a recent visit to the ole Hole hole would not be detected de de de- Revert back to mothers mother's vision of you you those those boyhood days das Then revert back to mother Then if this bol holy p woman is alive and you are away from her sit down and write her for the second Sund Sunday p in May this ray this Sunday Sunday Sunday-is is MOTHERS MOTHER'S DAY Write her and recount all those bO boyhood incidents the incidents the Saturday night how funny you rou looked when you had the mumps when the fear of mor- mor bles didn't stop you from eating green apples and about how great those ginger cookies used to taste And mother will have haye a delicious day of happy weeping and be proud of her bo boy If your our mother lives you yon must wear a red carnation Sunda Sunday But if she has gone to the reward that the earth denies but hut the Lord provides all mothers you must wear a n white carnation the only symbol of purity which quite e equals the blessed name nane of MOTHER IOTHER |