Show aft I 1 gy i 0 AIR tr N V j I 1 A aj tax W 91 y APIA aa an t ni 1 I 1 k x bu bugles agles blosl proud the homage we show our unknown one HIS battle won sleeps bleeps well in stately place in sun i columbian Colum bias son in arlington Is shrines with lincoln washington but oh oh if his mother could knowl by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ELLO I 1 good americans americana all regardless of sex race class or creed I 1 nave have you remembered that the second sunday in may Is mothers day well it Is this icar and every year by act of the congress of the united states of america the congress also says fly your flaga then put a carnation in your lapel and you have started mothers day right if your mother Is where you con can lay hands on her tell her you love her and prove it if she telephone her telegraph her write her if you dont go and visit her and it if your mother has gone where you may some day join her it if you deserve it do something that you know would please her something worthy of her and of the day 0 4 mothers day originated with miss anna jarvis of philadelphia and it was celebrated by several cities in 1910 an act of congress in 1914 authorized zed the president to designate by annual proclamation the second sunday of may as mothers day and to request the display of the american flag on government buildings and private homes mothers day Is set apart for special observance in honor of the home and motherhood its purpose Is to recall the memories of mothers who have gone to brighten the lives of those who remain to stimulate men women and children to honor home and parents it Is tu ho be observed by sets acts of kindness to mother and father by serece sen ice in churches of all creeds and by wearing a white carnation emblem of the purity beauty fidelity and strength of mother love there Is a mothers day international association with headquarters in philadelphia alil h aims to make men and women realize their individual responsibility to right the wrongs of motherhood and childhood in the name of mother to inspire men to carry forward work for the home which will promote the brotherhood of man and to perpetuate and strengthen family ties by the and observance of the day in all countries 0 0 0 christmas day bo it said in all reverence ence Is doubtless in a way a mothers day to every woman sings iris in from pillar to post ills his advert seems a thing apart yet love each day Is in bringing glad news each mother la in her heart magnificat la Is singing your tour little son upon your breast Is in gods dear child as truly As jesus was when angels blessed the tb baby savior baglor newly the well known human heart Is a curious thing as has been said times too numerous to mention now heres P D gog in A line 0 type or two from the signature its fair to assume that hes a little old daled up highbrow highbrown high brow professor their old fashioned sweetness their simple perfect beauty somehow reminded me of mother I 1 burled buried my face in their exquisite fragrance and tenderly caressed their soft petals with my cheeks and my lips and then the pent up longing of my iny heart bede bedewed w 0 4 the mace lilacs with nith tear pearls which h glistened in the morning sun mother 1 oh mother I 1 now suppose the lilacs that P D gog remembered so fondly bordered the path to a certain kitchen door if so its a fair guess that the next nest moment he was stalling smiling through his tears as he remembered himself a husky 1 low youngster crying out oh goody I 1 slaw maw kiu kin I 1 have a drumstick one of the things that Is worrying the sociologist these lays days Is the disappearance in the cities of ct the old fashioned home this Is an nga age of apartments and ot of dwellers who get their meals anywhere any here except at home in such a scheme of existence a nearby delicatessen shop Is of course an advantage but incidentally Incident ully and confidentially fidentia lly one wishes much tor for a vocabulary cab that could do justice to the emotions aroused by a delicatessen shop in the man who has memories of an old fashioned I 1 kitchen itchen and of pies like mother used to inake 0 0 0 the chicago dally daily news recently reprinted from eugene fields famous column of september 14 the story called col gates director it purports to be told by a passenger in 1867 in the one sleeper of 0 a train on the Il anbu nd dd st jo the porter notified the passengers to be careful not to snore as col elijah gates a director was aboard then a woman with a baby got on there was no bunk for her but the porter borrer allowed her to eit E it back by the stove then the baby began to cry col aljy gates heaved himself out of his bis bunk and pompously informed the young woman that she must keep the child quiet but the child kept on crying and a second time the colonel went marching down the aisle and admonished the young woman but the baby still cried and then tile tho colonel charged down upon the young woman for the third time the a I 1 TAR wl rest of the story as eugene field told it look loob a here bere my good woman sea he to the young woman with the baby As I 1 auz tellin you afore you must do suin plo to keep abat child quiet never do to keep all these folks awake like this paid for a good nights sleep nd its iab my duty as a director uv the hansul nd st jo to bertest agin this disturbance ive raised a family of leven children nd ad I 1 know as aa well as I 1 know that that child Is hungry no child ever cries like that when it hungry so I 1 insist on your norson it and givin us pence peace and quiet then the young woman began to sniffle law me sir air aez the young worn wom ap 1 I aint the babas mother im 0 only jest bendin it the colonel got pretty mad then his face got red nd his voice kind uv trembled where la Is its mot mother berr aez the tha colonel why she here care uv this hungry nd bryin child like she ought to be ashes la in the front car sir aez the young woman chokin up ashes in the front car in a box dead w wera ere taken the body nd the baby back home the colonel wait for no see second thought he jest reached out hla his big bony hand nd he be aez young woman gl me that baby aez it so quiet nd so BO gentle like that it wua the babas mother that auz the colonel took the baby and now maybe you wont believe me i the colonel held that baby nd rocked it in his arms ud ild talked to it like it had been his own child and 11 the 0 baby gillay seemed to know that it lily lay A agin a lovin heart for when it heerd beerd t the h ea ol 01 mans kind voice an saw hla his face nd cd felt the soot blu bin of his arms the baby stopped its ln and bryin nd cuddled up close to tbt th colonels breast nd ad begun to coo and luft laff the colonel called the jim aez he be you go ahead nd tell tho the con ductor doctor to stop the train at the first farm house weve got to have some milk tor for this child some warm all mils with sugar into it I 1 halat raised a family of leven beven children for 1 1 the baby cry no more that leastwise we hear bear it it if it did c cry ry and what if we had heard it blessed if I 1 dont think that every last ast one uv us would have buve got up lip to help icly tend that lonesome little wag |