Show 4 1 HOME paragraphs i Z A BOY ANI AND HIS sweetheart many years ears ago abo one ot or the best of 0 mothers fell asleep at the gates of 0 light all it of her clin areno bourse I 1 levered evered her memory but one of them way was the babe 0 dfwar wartime war time dirty and owing to th anxieties and excite ants althe of the perio perlo dand the lie coristin continued absence of the ary affection and ae devotion was less lavished upon him perhaps it was because orthis that after the mothers death slid and tor for many years this boy never retired for or the night u without placing at his bedside a chair under the childish imbres bion that his mother would oc occupy It and watch him steep sleep when other boys would write in I 1 sand jOr car carve voon on trees treed the names of sweethearts c dear tills lad would trace with knife or stick alie alie name of his sweetheart swee theaTt itis ills mothers name when batal bu taboy boy he hd celiose cli ose ills flis sweet 1 herlits he ilits name as one ohe io eo be given give zi to ills his own daughtry daugh tri andi and when in later years he wrote some ta tales lles of love and life his heroine good and true tru edore dori mith signal honor and renown the 67 lid hoods name he loved so thru tarui bo hoods da dais s its his precious memory was enshrined within ills his heart the purity the devotion tho the sacrifices sacrifice the sorrows of 0 this god loving and serving woman was ever before him often deterring him from evil and sometimes inspiring him for good faith in beats happy he be with such ruch a mother faith I 1 in n womankind beats with his blood and trust in all things high come easy to him aa AND A BIBLE A peoria exchange says say abhat that thel a citizen soldier happened into the office yesterday morning shortly bei be I 1 i fore lie ho left with his comrades tor for damp camp dodge where the new members ot of the national army are to be trained for service his mother had made him a new army bag and the soldier exhibited it together with its contents I 1 the contents of the bag included some clothes a comb the me tobacco kit which peoria people had bad given him the night before at the coliseum meeting a little book 0 of instructions for soldiers a fresch dictionary a photograph of his mother and ot of a pretty young woman and a bible the soldier was a big strapping tellow fellow he was red blooded his shoulders were broad and strong his muscles were those 0 of an athlete and it was he be who had shelbi ble he a regular churchgoer he never won any medals me als for perfect sunday school attendance he never headed the christian endeavor society or led a personal workers meeting at the Y M C A but he had hla his bible mr national army man perhaps never uttered ia a dozen prayers in his life except 1 the now I 1 lay me that his ill mother ha taught him but he ha had d hh bible we to do not attempt to explain 11 it but reports indicate that bibles are quite common in arnay army cantonments canton ments and a n d con concentration centurati cent rati on camps and what may be more important the bibles tire are read B children need more models than critics we should be as nearly possible what we w want them to be |