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Show Modena January 24, Mr. Will Sievert, who has been spending the past few months here with his: parents, has returned to Denver where he expects to remain indefinitely. indefini-tely. We notice that a number of the women of Cedar City, most of whom are mothers, are entering enter-ing into the civics of that city with a vim that is exclusively characteristic of mothers. Did you ever see a mother enter into anything with a wholehearted whole-hearted interest and fail? Of course you say you have not. Then' 'we will ask yuu to account for so many failures in the raising rais-ing of children, mentally, morally mor-ally and physically. The only answer can be: That mothers do not enter into this the greatest great-est of all privileges this privilege privi-lege which women were created to participate in the shaping of a human being, the building of their own children, the children that God has entrusted to their care with a whole-hearted interest. in-terest. How well qualified does a railroad rail-road company want a man to be before they will trust him to drive a locomotive. How much qualification do you want a man to have befpre you will truat him' to fill one tooth for you? Judge, then, how much God would like the mothers to' know before they try to direct and shape the lives of His children. We can read in almost any of the newspapers of the state about the woolgrowers' convention, conven-tion, farmer's round-ups, and of large sums of money being spent to teach the eheepmpn how to raise better wool. But where can we read of fortunes being spent in teaching fathers and mothers how to raise better children? And yet the destiny of our great nation depends uppn thJB very thing. Tho question I want to ask is: Why do such conditions exist? If their cause is located, then there will be some chance for a change. We hnvo no snow at Modena, , but the mail driver reports four feet of the beautiful on the level r71MMHHBMHMlailttJ(ur4. 'jg |