Show do Y ou owe a letter to V your 1 our mother 4 there hns has been many sern sermons ions written for women tills this Is for tuen men and nil its text test Is dont 1 t forget to write to U boyl your mother F em women do dont I 1 I 1 need tills this serin sermon n because they ahry do not forget but a man Is liable to be neglectful of T n in ill I 1 ly y lea and to forget fori t L liow flow lonely and desolate are those who too basyl sit in the lie of old uge beside solitary hearthstones hearth stones and who wander through elli empty elliet pt rooms listening to the guy gay young voices tire lire silenced tills this Is not because meil med tire are luck lack ing in natural affection it Is because they become eo absorbed in their thel rown own ar fairs und nod are so swallowed up in their business and their interests in their own pleasures and their own wives wires and children that hint they cense to to realize there la Is another claim upon them thein perhaps crimps in tile the whole of 0 human hunink lite life there la 18 no such ironic contra between our oin noble e ideals and our deeds us is I 1 Is a shown hown in the way the average inan trents arents tits mother ills for her Is tits his pro profoundest profound roundest esi enin ton tion denst expressed tie he inny not neglect her entirely lip HP mav lily lint himself on the anek und think thinh he Is u cooil son because lie ho tins lins given her the little house in which she lives if she Is ron poor and senda tier her a nion monthly tilly allo mince nut lie write to her lit lie leaves leases the lie correspondence to his wife or it to the lie children hp he inny write a letter to her a short fo forini rinal il enric concise tse businesslike letter t that int has about PS ns much heart in it ns if lie he were writing to a broker to inquire the prim price of stocks the binns excuse Is that he Is too busy to write maybe so hut but mother was ives biever api er too busy to answer tits hla cull call when he needed her she was never to busy to hunt the r spool of thread he be ted for tits tn kite or to wash the little shirt he needed when he wanted to t en cis out o ut u with other boys too hilry busy to tit write to in mother I 1 but gitlit mr mun mon vank ans never too busy to dl d l evera rt en llo tiling for you you vou lit i nut but never for 11 libil lii il 4 ri nl in nil all your life hits bus sou v 0 ilow how empty such puch excuses must sound to tile tie old lady lad allo lio Is will uniting ting patiently und tini for 0 I 1 tei the son soil wilo who Is still 0 clillie t to 0 tier no mutter if 11 to the rest of the world all tie lie looks ill stout bald headed old gentleman to tier her lie Is 18 the world find and till nil there Is of interest in it ills success Is tier triumph the saint smallest leal tiling filing flat concerns conc eins allu Is of greater importance to her than the rise n and fell fall of empires emp tres anil it tie lie does not anle ilia ho trouble to write to tier her tind I 1 let et tier in ili his fits hopes tin and joy J ivy 8 and nin find tier her lot Is desol lite indeed ln leed therefore you ou who rend these lines sit down tit nt once and write to your Il mother lother 0 long human gossipy letter telling her till nil that you are doing and thinking and anil seeing dont let your mother lie one of 0 those poor neglected vole who watch every duy for the coming of 0 the lite trial lintin tind ond when he posses eliem by turn sorrowfully fully und and detect edly may wondering eliy tile the letter that they took look for nevor ner conics |