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Show I MOTHER'S DAY I AT ORPHOJM Large Theater Could Not Accommodate the Great Crowd on Sunday H Afternoon Many Persons Had to Be Turned Away Pro- gram One of Excellent Merit Tableaux Pleasing Feature At least an hour before the Moth- or's Day program began at the Or- jihuem theater, Sunday afternoon, the H houso was crowded to capacity and hundreds of disappointed peoplo were H turned away. Many appropriate pro- H gram numbers, prepared especially H for the occasion wcro presented dnr- H lug the meeting, and three excellent H musical numbers were provided by H Short's orchestra. Rev. Frank G. H Brainerd, pastor of the First Con- grcgational church, delivered the in- H vocation, and Rev. John E. Carver delivered the principal address of the meeting. In tho course of his remarks Rev. Carver said. "The all wise and loving father of H us all has made ample provision in giving tho babe Into a mother's arms. a mother care, and a mother love, love so strong that it will cause her to forget self love, desire, comfort, sleep, needs, en re, yea even life itself to care for the babe she has given to the H world. A mother love is God's H provision to meet the needs of the babe's helplessness and care, and most wonderfully docs that provision fulfill all tho wants. ! "The mother's love 1; the nearest H of all earth to the love of God. The Iovo of others prompts them to give gold or gifts. Mother love prompts H her to givo herself. The father builds H the house, but the mother mahes the H home. Tho crown of motherhood is the love, service and tenderness of H tho children shown unto her The bitter cross of motherhood is the wil H ful or heedless neglect and apathy of Hl tho children towards the mother, who H bas dono so much for them. But low K as the mother stoops and loves and toils for even the children who neg- Hl lect her. the cross is lifted and bo- comes an added crown to her worth. H "Motherhood covers our entire life till death ends her own. Heed hor, caro for her, love her, strengthen her all the way and time and you will be stronger and better. The cross and tho crown of motherhood is the neg- lect and apathy or the love and grat- H itudo which wo can all give. Poor, in- H deed, is that life that only gives ncg- lect and forgctfulness. 'iMother's love H is next to the love of God In it rlch- H ness, its sacredncss and its blessings H and the mothers deserve next to our God our richest tribute and praise." Rev. Varver's remarks were fol- ! lowed by a . baritone solo entitled "Silver Threads Among the Gold,'' H rendered by Lawrence Greenwell. H Mrs. II. W. Shurtliff gave an inter- H pretation of the poem uMothor o' Mine," set to music. Her conception H of the ballad was very pleasing , H T. Augustine Dwyer, Shakesperian H render, discoursed on "The Dignity of Motherhood," cting as illustrations the fact that all of our great painters gained their inspiration from mother- hood, and executed many of their greatest masterpieces in the glorifica- tion of motherhood. He cited the same illustration In the case of our greatest great-est sculptors. The next feature of the program was the rendition of a group of three songs by Miss Lila Jost The selections selec-tions were "Brahum's Lullaby," "Tell Mother I'll Be There." and "Songs My Mother Taught Me." Miss Jost's rendition ren-dition of the songs was delightful. Her vocal work, which always excited ex-cited favorable comment, seemed better bet-ter than usual Sunday. "Mother, the Guiding Star," an essay es-say read by Miss Iva Steers, was one of the most enjoyable features of the program. "Lifo.as It is, may be represented by typical pictures. I desire to paint some of those pictures, that may re-' veal, in a measure, the influence of the mother. Just lei us look at the mother with the babe. It is in the evening she sits by the fireside and tells her baby stories of the Christ-child; Christ-child; in each storv she brings out a moral that remains with that child through all its life. "And that baby's prayer' Can 3-011 not see the little figure in a white night dress, bare f,eet. and long golden 1 curls, kneeling at mother's knees and in baby language saying. 'Now I lav mo down to sleep, I ask the Lord my soul to keep.' The memory of such prayers stay with children through all their lives. Time passes and the mother becomes a grandmother. Let us go to this cottage over here and take a look in at tho window, the ; shutters aro opened wide, but lets get nearer that we might sec better. In an old arm chair sits a grandmother. grandmoth-er. She has snow-white hair and a wrinkled face, on her head is a little 'white cap and in hor lap she holds the old family album, containing pictures pic-tures of her babies. In her eyes thfiTQ ai'fi ffa.r: fni linn tlinnrrlita hivn gone back many years to when her children were little 'Tots,' plaing at her feet. "And what youth can be ashamed of old age? Cannot they realize that they will become old sometime, and thoso who arc old now were once youths7 "Every pure-minded person associates asso-ciates mothers with Christ and places Lhem immediately next to him and it is just that they should. Oh, that we could only awaken ourselves to the divinity of motherhood to Us purity, holiness, loveliness, its joy but all the words of praise, if they wore shouted far and wide from now until the end of tho world could not shout half the praise due to a mother. Never has woman heard a call to any mission so divlno as the call to motherhood." moth-erhood." I A series of five tableaux served as the closing number on the program. The members of the Child Culture club arranged and staged thorn, under un-der the direction of Samuel T Whit-aker Whit-aker "Early Childhood," a pose by Alberta Stratford, aged five years, was presented first. Tho second scene represented "Girlhood " It was exe- cutcd by Miss Viola Taylor. Third came "Motherhood," oxecutod artistically artisti-cally bv Mrs. Pearl McFarlane and daughters, Margaret nncl Lucilc. The fourth group wa3 presented by Mrs. Parley T. Wright and five daughters, lOllen, Lillian, Pauline, Lucilo nnd Marion, representing "Tho Family Circle." One of the most striking tableaux, howovcr, was "Advanced Motherhood," a poso accomplished by Mrs. H. C. Emmerson. It presented a plcturo of a woman with snowy hair, seated in an old arm chair. It was a very striking characterization, and, like all the other poses in the group, was enthusiastically applauded. In this particular Instance, however, it was necessary for the pose to bo reproduced in response to the applause. ap-plause. Miss Ellen Wright was accompanist accompan-ist for all the musical numbers, and the program was closed with a selection se-lection by Short's orchestra. oo |