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Show MHERt'S MOTHER? Every day In every home, and many times each dav, Is this query utteied. The whereabouts of no membei of the family Is Inquired after moic frequently frequent-ly than hers. 'TIs the first greeting from the tired father when ho returns' fiom his dally toll; the laughing, romping schoolboy, as he buists like a tornado into the house; of the sweet little ghl; If mother is not In her usual place at all houis;of the toddling Infant. Atluillof Joy overflows the weaiy mothers heart when she rcalles what she Is to the household. Though her hand may be roughened and haidened by toil, there Is no touch so soothing and cooling to the fevered brow as heis. N'o one can bind up a bleeding wound, nor a broken heart as she can. She shares alike the Jojs and sorrows of the household. The trouble that comes to the son or daughter drive each to the heart al-was al-was ready to sympathize and counsel. coun-sel. Their pleasures arc doubled and their dlstiess divided when they have been confided to her, and In her keeping keep-ing they are alvvajs sacred. When after j ears of separation they - who are alwajs children to her return re-turn to their old home, their first greeting is the childhood query "Where's mother?" Exchange. |