| Show mother s chair the rockers are worn flat on mothers chair but how soothing the motion I 1 what a large e chair h a I 1 r it was and strong I 1 no burden was ever heaped apon it that it was unable i to bear every wave of sorrow broke there every storm was stilled nor was it ever dou ble tongued it was an oracle A that chair creaked when it rocked it seemed to grow older quicker than fat fathers tiers chair but then it was used more its creak was music that sang us to sleep when sickness came how wakeful it was it never slumbered the cry of a dream set it going the chair knew all the lullabies lull that only mothers know to sing and soothe their tired children it Is vacant now but it sways and sings in memory still it does noti not make so much difference who mak makes esthe the laws at washington but it does docs make all the difference in the world who sings the lul lat tables at home napoleon might well say in his sententious style the need of france la Is mothers that chair was the first attar altar it was just high enough for us to lay our heads in her lap and lose our worries it was the first confessional and we looked up through mothers face and saw god more mere wood and stone do nov not make a home they are but quarry and forest to the feelings let them be wrought into perfect portals of the model home let the appointments he sumptuous and the hangings hannings hang ings surpassing they aliey are as meaningless as a wareroom rut but let father build the walls erect the pillars and plant the hearthstone let mother work her afe into the fur nature kiture and tapestries and you be born there now abw it Is home it may have no intrinsic worth to others it Is priceless to you you cannot sell it itis like bartering a wedding ring it Is the place where you drain your sorrows and tighten up your resolutions it Is the place you unstrap your burdens and freight your memories with tile the hallowed things of earth home haine Is where mother Is no caile cable tow la Is as strong to bind as mothers uproar strings 1 dish being fur mety which wo we have to interpret as wheat grains boiled balled in sweet milk mil sugared and spiced in the northern part piert of england rind and tn in scotland there seems seeing to have been a greater leaning to steeped pease tried fried in butter with pepper and salt pancakes so composed passed by the name of Carll and so ao cons conspicuous was this article that from it carling sunday became a local name for the day rid mid and mlaura aera carling palm pase egg day remains in the north of england as an enumeration of the sundays of lent the first three terms probably taken from words worda in obsolete services for the respective days and tile the fourth being the he name of mid genf lent sunday from the cakes by which it was distinguished cake comes in another delicacy much est esteemed romed on mothering sunday was a cake walsh in curiosities ties of popular customs says saya of this dainty in yorkshire and here ford shire it has hag long been the custom to make mak during lent a cake called q sl innel which is deemed especially appropriate as a mothering present As asfar far back as herrick we find TO DrA NEBIE A Ce tn in glocester ill to thee a alenel bring thou gost goat a mothering so tha that t when she blessett bles seth thee halt that blessing tho ull give elve me the inside of a cake was like a rich fruitcake but it had an an outer crust made of flour and water bolted boiled first in water it was subsequently baked the crust Is colored yellow with saffron and ornamented with more or less art professional etymologists refer the word to the latin meaning the finest sort of flour but the folk etymologist mo logist declares that the baker fa ther of lambert St ninel pretender to the throne in the reign of henry VII was the first to make these cakes thence called after his name |
