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Show "ppu .... ...-.v.. ,. ., .-. . ?n: 1 1 . MOTHER'S DAY pg M ;l " The nobtost Uouta rciy oul can: claim. An infant when her love first cams m mfc M The holiest words my tongue can frame, A man, X find It Just the camet Rj Wj Unworthy are to praise the name ; Reverently I breathe her name, . '''M More a'acred than all other. -. :- The blessed name of. Mother. fa 281 $1 " " :' ' G. 0. Mir J&j f&i m : tpI If JF juv v - Iv V $n M 1, .1-1 1 ? g'i V5 .6 5 'fHru .liiL m a a il ft ?P 1 ; i ' - & , J U MrtterAr. , . . t. . . H Mothers Idolized by the Famous Pages of History Full of Glowing Tributes to "Mother" Made by Great Women and Men. Men and women .have laid the best and , supreme efforts and fruits of Ttlielr cureers as tributes at the feet of their mothers. The Roman orator declared, "The empire Is Ht the fireside." Mohammed aald, "Paradise Is at the feet of mothers." moth-ers." A Scotch saying has It that an ounce, of mother is worth more than a pound of clergy. Benjamin' Frnnk-lln's Frnnk-lln's -love and. devotion to his inother Is axiomatic He not only thought of her, but gave' concrete expression 'to those thoughts, when - he sent her' a "moldore'a gold piece worth $6 "to-' "to-' 'wnrd chaise hire, that you may ride :'"vafm"-to meetings during the winter." win-ter." - - -.Whistler's Great Picture.-J . -r' "That erratic genius,' who quarreled with his patrons, sometimes repudiated repudi-ated his birthplace, antagonized -crit- : ; les and frieuds alike, James Mc-Kelll Mc-Kelll Whistler painted' a' beaullful j .and tender picture called the 'Tor- i trait of the Painter's Mother." Among , all of his brilliant and delicate works. .this picture Is probably the best :. known. " ' .. TJUs mnn. tn . his .devotion to . his mother forgot to be a cynic, and became be-came a loving son. " One critic states thnt, in this .plcture(. u harmony In . gray and-"black, the artist undoubtedly undoubted-ly touched the highest point of excellence. ex-cellence. Thl8 portnjlr'of his mother 'as nn old lady In the calm and se-;re"ne se-;re"ne dignity of age has brought rtears ;of svveet. romembrunceto the. .eyes. of , many a man and woman. .lie has depicted de-picted her as an old woman. In a block gown, with a white cap, sitting at ease. jth. quiet Iliandss. waiting and : thinking. AjB.-a. .white, candle ' In a holy place, So Is the beauty - - Of an aged face. England's best-known short story 1 - writer, a witty reconteur-whose -prose .Mother If I could mark rt on the undj of time Or writ It on tha sky of every clime, Tbii would I write, and write to bold- et band "'" That ell the world might ee asd ud- doeotand, rhal far and wide, there could not be another So fine, so rweet, ao wonderful a MOTHER. . Is brllllnnt. sometlines satirical and Eclntlllatft), dedicated one of the earlier of his volumes of-short stories. "To the Wilt lest Woman in Indlu" -hU . mother. .This. book, contained a-tale a-tale which Cyril Falls, one of Mr. Klllns'ti critics, calls "one of the best short stories ever written"; .which Is fulsome praise enough I 1 The story Is one of the most amus-' Ing and laughter raising of -the lovable lov-able old Mulvaney tales. " Found Types In Mother. It Is said that the popular Scotch author, Sir James M. Barrle, whose charm is so appealing to young and old some one flippantly and smartly calls It "that d d charm" Introduces Intro-duces Into his writings characters derived from his mother up to the middle of the nineties, when she died. Prof. Robert E. Rogers of Technology says that "Doctor Freud's hypothesis of the mother complex In Its purest form seems almost Invented to fit Barrle." The man's genius Is thought by many to have found Its most characteristic charac-teristic expression In' his Thrums stories. These tales were the stories his mother used to tell him. "She told me everything," says the author, "and so my memories of our little red town were colored by her memories." mem-ories." Sir James early writings were over the- signature, of Gavin Ogilvy. and. In 1804, he . published "Margaret Ogilvy," based on his mother's life," and his own tender relations re-lations and love for her. Mary Ann . Evnns, that English woman with the "niascuilne''ni'ental-lty "niascuilne''ni'ental-lty who Is known to posterity a3 George Eliot, lost her own mother at the age of sixteen. She never had children of her own. Yet the ma- To Mother Mother fa the dearest word In any mortal tongue; Over all the earth to wide we hear her praise cung. Through the greening valley, now that pring.ha come again. Hear the crooning lullaby that crown ' the songa of men; Eas your heart, dear mother mine, and throw your cares away. Rest your busy hand and smile, for .thia. dear, is your day! ternal Instinct In her led iier to wr ite many things which speak directly to the heart of a mother. "A mother 'dreads no memories." writes this woman, who had educated herself In the languages, metaphysics and Sppn-cerlan Sppn-cerlan philosophy: "those shadow? have all melted away In tbe dawn of baby's smile." Which Is exactly the mental state which Margaret Sangster reports finding In the mother of a numerous, flock In a home of the direst poverty. "'She Is my sixth bnby.' said the sweet faced German woman. 'Hasn't Cod been good to us?' " Alice Cary's Tribute. In "An Order for a Picture," Alice (Tary has left us a beautiful tribute to mother: A lady the loveliest ever the sun cooked down upon you must paint for . rne: Oh, f 1 ?ould only make you Bee The clcir blue eyes, the tender 9mlie The eoverelgn sweetness, the gentle era re. Tne woman's sou and the angel'p face That are beaming on mc all the while. I need not speak these foolish words; Vet one word telle you all I woulJ say She Is my. mother; you will agree Thnt all the rest may be thrown away. The better the mothers physically and mentally, the better the race, is a 'truism; worn,' but' worthy of repetition. repeti-tion. Higher education for women I How can education for the mothers of a race ever be too high I Some wise and good man has said recently: "Educate a man, and you educate an Individual ; educate a woman, and you educate an entire family." Isa-belle Isa-belle Beecher Hooker recognizes It strongly when she writes: "To my "A Mother's Love" "The love of a mother b never ex-hausted, ex-hausted, it never change, it never tire. A father may turn his back on hi child, brothers and sister may becomo inveterate invet-erate encmic ... and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy." Washington Irving. conception, one generation of educated edu-cated mothers would do more for the regeneration of the race than all other oth-er human agencies combined; and It. is an Instruction of the head they need, and not of the heart. The doctrine doc-trine .of . . responsibility has been ground Into Christian mothers - above what they are able to bear." "Maternal Efficiency." . . The Medical Research council- of Great Britain ' reports,- after .a long and exhaustive Investigation among some. 12,000. young children, that It Is "maternal . efficiency" that Influences the health and growth of children In any. and all walks ofilfe. An efl'icient mother, In the squalid conditions oJ the slums. In the poverty of the mining min-ing districts, can outwit circumstances "so that her children get a physical start equal to that of -better circumstanced circum-stanced families." The committee 'states, that Veven among animals there' are good mothers and"" bad mothers.'. The first -rear a iarge proportion pro-portion of their young, and the second sec-ond neglect or are indifferent to their offsprings. A worker of experience Is able to classify mothers In this respect Into good, bad and Indifferent. "When the children are' repeatedly found to be dirty or verminous, badly clothed and left in bed until all hours of the day, when the house Is constantly dirty and uncured for. the mother without doubt Is inefficient. It Is tn this sense that the term 'efficient mothers' Is used her. Bad parents, Irrespective . of their Income, tend to' select bad houses, as the money Is often spent on other things," . Sons of Great Women. Great men. often have weak children chil-dren ; great women seldom. It 13 an Interesting fact that students of heredity he-redity are agreed that girls, often resemble re-semble their fathers In mentality, disposition dis-position and constitution, while boys "take after" their mothers. But the most interesting of all Is the statement state-ment that the sons of intelligent mothers moth-ers will be Intelligent; while it does not follow that Intelligent- fathers will have Intelligent sons. It Is said that the poeis Burns, Een Johnsoti. Goethe, Walter Scott, Byron and Lamartlne were all born of women remarkable for vivacity and brilliancy brillian-cy of language. O wondrous powerl how little understood! under-stood! Entrusted to the mother's mind atone, To fashion genius, form the soul fot good. Ann Low, In the Boston Globe, |