Show mo ill 11 alls OF or FAMOUS af 1 I I 1 what admi 21 dickens and leigh boat haut ow owed td I 1 to their mother mothers I 1 lonians 1 ron ians argosy the tito mothers of J famous an aro sire always I 1 interesting studies udies Bt concerning Conier ning 9 man many y of those women the world known mulli but of the majority it is ignorant the mother of louis ag 1 ahk scientist WAS the wife of a swiss swigs pr clergyman lived to an old age louis was ft as her tier fAy favorite rite son and she shet traine rainel 1 himwich h nn with great care whim in in 1357 Tian of yale collero college visited her lie 1 found her at four score a tall creat and dagni fie I womac with animated address and cultivated manners nun nera when slie elie wis was assured by her guest that tier s oa 0 adopt eil ell country loved film and was proud of if him her tier strong frame aa aja agitates agi hor tier voice oice trembled aith emotion und and the flowing tears told I 1 the story of a mothers heart i the da day that silliman I 1 ft it si ehe le wa wali llulu eila ions long may in the run vain to b bid id him and his hn wife fa f reuell ira pre benting ahern with a little bouquet of anas acs ics elio dido ti bliem I 1 ein tell her tier son ili her cr me were re all for him isensee in brenen means botti both anil thought on the y of atwi the tile saturday bt urd club lub of ton celebrated it with nith a dinner at which longfellow Longel loft Holme asin and I 1 1 ell re I 1 id poems in ili the poem I 1 loa in ut of the for mer al lution was made to the natural in mother 0 titer as over the fact that the tile great mother nature N iture hall drawn her tier oil from the fireside where here eho she wished to keep keel libin abul nd alark IIi irk for ilia lii yc I 1 listen a an n d 1 yearn a it is 19 I 1 and d dark A r L laci alx lx does I 1 11 and anti my not return 2 head was bent during tile reading re adini of the but w lien the al lusion fusion to his mother r was maje made lia his ruddy face f ie with n ith re restrainer feel ing tears gath gathered ercol in in his in eye and as the last line 4 nere were uttered they droplet drop iod down hit his cheek one after another THE IS the tho mother ot of alphonse and ernest daudet the I 1 french novelists noc liete wits an intellectual woman felie site wi was a constant reader and her tier children ildren Lh were ly impressed with aith her superiority avei oe other mothers root tiera and were ere profoundly grateful to her in after life for her tier careful training of their minda minds the father was a rich eill silk weaver and had only an all ordinary mind lose loss of fortune soured inin him and be he seemed to have little influence over 01 cr his gifted sons but the mother was a their in sp epin antion tion a aid aad ad delight tile alie childhood of dickens Dicken Fj was so shadowed ted by bf po er y alq and bis his sensitive tie and imaginative a mini mind was no a denly keen alio alive to ins his position that it is i baldly possible that lie could draw an absolutely impartial picture of I 1 hie i parents his mother had a keen appreciation of the tile droll and of the tile and an d likewise considerable dramatic drama talent she was wits a comely little woman mth with hand some bright eyed and a genial aa agreeable 1 brwn I 1 rom her tier dk ke kena as undoubtedly undoubted 1 y v inherit inherited eLl lia ilia to tempera apera and intellectual gifts she poe pos seisei seised ne aed an extraordinary sense of the ilia ludicrous and her power of imitation was so m astonishing her liar perception was quick nun k and ghe site unconsciously noted everything that came under her ob in describing ridiculous occurrences her tone and gesture would bo be inimitable illimitable while her wall ner wil w n 4 of tle tise t decla declares res that to her liar lie ito ow oed e ins ills firs t bestre dt ire fur adga it thit lat lib his cAr e reading feuding WAS awakened by fly his inot mother lier n ho lie taught him not nut only tile first rudiment i ol 01 En andish dish but also 1 w little of f latin poverty saddened maddened and darkened 0 many years of lier liar life and her tier children child reil were early compelled to leaveter leave lea lier andeara and their own living hut but prey they all honored and loved her as she deserved gigli flunt thus write writes of hie his m mother other my mother had no recant Ilish menta ments but tile two best of all a love Eish ve of nature and of books dr franklin offered to teach her tier the guitar but bat she was wait too bashful to become hit pupils pupil site regretted this afterward partly no doubt for having PO so illus illustrious triou a master her ifer first child who died was after him AX OF 1 1 I know not whether the anecdote ja is new but I 1 havo have heard that when whom tr dr franklin invented the harmonica he co concealed it from front his wife ife till the instrument ment rs fit to play and then woke altor up oil with it whon who sae le took it for the music of angels anges leaving been born nine nine years ears later I 1 than the you digest ot 0 my brothers I 1 have no recollection of 0 f my mothers earlier aspect as hect her ifer eyes were ere atlays 01 a and her perron person lady like her tier hair alao also retained its color for r a loni ion period but her tier brown m complexion exion had beon been exchanged for a jaundiced aund iced one aich Alti vix ehe site retained through life lier tier checks cheeks were sunken and her mouth drawn down town with m ith sorrow at ft t the t ll 11 corners e 0 r n e r s she 8 I 1 t retained r e ta e t ithe thu in e n e r g y of 0 iob her e r caracter 1 i a p i t c ter t e r ci on great g r a t occasions fcc a s ion s b but u t 1 tier ie r s spirit i wi rit i in n ord ordinary 1 arv a OITA I 1 s w was q w weakened e a 1 e ne t a and n d a ehe i e 1 looked 0 I 1 ed upon the bustle and discord of f the tile of society with ith a frightened aversion oreion av never shall I 1 forget her tier face aa as it used to appear to me coming up tile alois tere with alth that wenry u cary dankof I 1 I 1 ang of the head on one side and that melancholy smile one holiday in a were severe winter in aa as ebe ella va nas aa taking me home ehe he waa as petitioned for charity by a woman eick sick and ill clothed it was road I 1 think about midway my mother with tears in her tier eyes e as turned up a or romo some other place and becko nips tho the woman to follow toot took off her flannel petticoat and gave ive it to lier tier it is supposed t that bat a cold which ansu ensued ed fixed the rheumatism upon lier tier tor for life actions like thi 4 have doubtless been often performed aej do not of necessity imply any great virtue in the tile performer hut but they do 10 if it th flioy e are re at opapo a san etli the tho rest of t lie c z ac ter saints have been made made for clia charities cities no greater gr oater |