Show A mother arensen Ar enmen the most to bo regretted act of my lite says a commander of tho navy was a letter I 1 wrote to my mother ibsan about seventeen acara of age sho always addressed her letters to me as my dear boy I 1 felt at that time I 1 was a man or very near it and wrote saying that her constant addressing me as a boy made me feel displeased I 1 received in a letter full of reproaches and tears among other things she said you might grow to be as big as goliath as strong as samson and as wise as solomon you might become ruler of a nation or emperor of many nations and the world might revere you and fear you but to your devoted mother you would always appear in memory in your innocent unpretentious conceited babyhood in those days when I 1 washed and dressed and kissed and worshiped you you were my idol nowadays you are becoming part of a gross world by contact with it and I 1 cannot bow down to you and worship you but if there are manhood and maternal love transmitted to bouy you will understand that the highest compliment that mother love can pay you Is to call you my dear boy |