The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-03
THE ILAUNTINo PAsr.


He came to-dny. Hebroueht his bride.
HIia And through the wood they went with mo;
saw him tlrn his heRd aside, a
And wonderadllr his glance would fall
In days thai ne irSrett no iiiore53 '- 'rt-= 4
That i with burfAag th0ushts recall ii.i r. 4
The Golden Past that hunts ME yet, e''l
Like twilight iiSiancs' cold and dirn-..,-- d!
slFRnge y y how men folgeu n
Yet through those hours my will was strong
To sch9ol my heart 70 Etifie palm -, o
IN, Nso9td w, not act that taEce agnlnl
t'tit nighHea ~ came, thonsh the day Wns long.
SSilght came. they went. HIS IiEeEeii tone
Ny heaFtS fieTcs oFSiehiils Issst: ass
seneath the stars stand alone,
Rrenehs German and EngIiah 1Iothers.
Sons one has said that young
mother Is tho most beautiful thing in
nature. Why. qualify. Itf Why youneY
Are not all mothers beautiful The
sentimental beholder may pre-
fer youth In tho pretty picture; but 1
inclined to think that sons and tlaugh-
ters, who arc most intimately concerng
cerned in the mntter, love and admire
their mothers most when they arc old.
How suggestive of something holy and
venerable Il Is when a person talks of
his ''dear old mOther.h Away with
your mincing t'mummRs,p and "mam-
mns," suggestive only of fine lady,
who deputies her duties to a nurse, d
drawing-room maternal parent, who
Is afraid to handle her offspring for fenr
of spelling her fine new gown. Give
me the homely mother, the arms OF
whose love arc all embracing, who Is
beautiful Hways, whether old or young,
whether Arrnyed in satin or modestly
habited in inbombazine. -
Maternal love is IA mystery which llu-
man reason can never fathom. It Is
altogether above reason 1t Is n holy
passion in which all others arc absorb
ed and lost. 1t is a sacred flame on the
altar of the heart, which Is mover
quenched. Tint it does not require
reason to feed It, and keep It alive Is
witnessed in the instructive maternal
love which pervndes all animal nature.
The theory that We derive our intel
lectunl qualities from our mothers,
whilo we arc indebted TO our fathers
only for our physical attributes, Is most
agreeable to all the natural instincts of
man. 1t Is so rational n theory that ono
wnnders why those clever old fellows,
the "nnCients," !" did not perceiyeit, It Is
upon this theory that we trace the ge-
MUS of our great men to tho influence of
their mothers. The same theory, taken
linyersely, would also, account for the
| fact that great men very rnrely have
great sons. Genius is not hereditary
through the fathers, but through the
mothers, The popular perception OF
this law OF nature finds expression in
the common romark that a child Is
"the Image of his father,". and has the
"amiable disposition OF his mother" I" or
perhaps vice versa as to the disposition.
1t Is altogether because our mothers
q Eag1r a1NnN -.
them for sympathy instead of to our
fathers. It's because there Is a moro
intimate relationship between us,
Because the strings OF our nature
are more in unison; because we
are more nearly flesh of their flesh, and
blood OF their blood. In the old partri-
Rrchal times the father was the princi-
pal person, the sole and undivided head
OF tho family, The mother was a
secondary person altogether. One can
not help feeling that the mothers of the
Old Testament occupied n somewhat
nndignltied position In the family
The state OF affairs In pntriarchAl socie-
ty Is fully explained when we call to
mind that the head of the family Wns
generally a s.tsad Turk"
g II Is n fact, which may not be gem
orally known, thut a remnant of the
patriarchnl system still fingers iii the
midst of the new dispensntlon which
inculcates love and equality. And the
country lof all countries in the world)
where this autOcrntiC pnternal Coyern-
meut iS to be met with Is Scotland. In
the Catholic countries OF Europe, the
love and dnty Of children center In the
mother. In Spain, Itnly and Germany.
and particularly in France, tho mother
Is the guiding stnr of the family. The
German mother Is q sacred idea: the
French mother is a poetical one. When
n nF'renchmRn gets sentimental, he never
thlls to rave about his mother. When
he goes into battle, he fnvokes the
ing on the field, his last words are for
''mn mere.' Whenthe escapes this fate
md returns TO France, victorious his
first desire Is to embrace una mere. y
When he gets dpsy-which, to his
credit, IS seldom-he mlunders about
Ima lnere.n Toujous ma mereI The
German Is not SO high-flown ON the
subject, but possibly he Is more in
earnest in his affection. When Won
meet him abroad in the world, he Inns
always pleasant recOlIectfons OF his
'smoder" to tmpart toYou. How rarely
You, hear him talk about his "fader."
% As you come north, however, among
Cells, SnXons, and ScandInavians. the
father rises In Importance and the mo-
ther sinks. cannot believe TINT ruca
Is tho sole cause Of this difference in
feeling; for while in ScotlandSyou find
the father pra-eminentint the affection OF
the children, in Ireland It is the mother
who attracts the inrgest share Of attach-
ment. In England tho mother Is Of no
less importance than in France, less
eYen than In Ireland. This NAV be ex-
plnined partly by the differences in re-
1gion partly by the laws of succession
and prino ogentture. In the Catholic re-
ligion, the maternal idea Is quite rs sa-
cred as. the paternal ono, while It Inns
the additional attributes of huinnnitI,