The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-01
The Boy and His Mother.

A young fellow at Council Bluffs
writes as follows: what do you think
of young lady, while in the company
of dude masher, remarking of an old
schoolmate of hers, that he is good
boy, but tied to his old mothers apron
strings, and is of no good on earth.
Will not the boy come out ahead if he
supports and cares for the mother 2"
Come out ahead? Well, of course he
will. A girl who would make such q
remark is not worthy to blacken the
shoes of boy who is kind to his old
mother. Such girl has got no more
heart in her than turnip, and Is only
fit-O, she isn't fit for anything. She
ought to be taken across the knee OF
her own mother until she thinks it is
about the middle of August. 1t is such
girls as this one that we hear of
playing the piano while the mother is
mending her stockings or washing her
white clothes. 1t is such u girl that
tells her mother to mind her own bus
mess wnen the old lady advises her not
to stay out more than two or three
hours after midnight with a dude. 1t
is such girls that go to the devil flying,
at the least possible excuse, and the
first opportunity. The meanest men in
the world arc those who have allowed
themselves to drift away from theiE
mothers and forget all about them.
| The best and bravest men in the world
are those who have never been so proud
as when doing something pleasant for
the kind old mother. The most heart
less thing in the world is for person
to make such a remark as that quoted
above about young man who is
proud of his mother, and loves
her so that tear in her eye Is
like drop of melted lead on his heart.
The young man who heard Of such
a remark being made about his rela;
tions with his mother, no doubt fell
that he had rather not have heard Of
the remark, but it is lucky that he did,
if he thought he had any affection for
that girl. She would not have said it
in his hearing, which shows that she is
hypocrite and two-sld ed person. IL
he married that girl he would have a
little hell of his own. Such o girl
would make man with he had never
seen any woman except his own mother.
No matter how close the relation be-
tween mother and son, day is liable
to come when the son will find @ girl
that he will marry, and though he may
not think less of his mother, he will not
have quite as much time to devote TO
her, but if he is such son as the one
above mentioned, there will never be n
day but he will think of something that
can be done for his mother. His good
wife, if she is good, will join him in
anything that can make the mother
. who bore him happy. And day will
come when the mother will lay down
her knitting. and take off her spectacles,
and her burden of life will be laid down,
and her last prayer will be for the son
who has been joked by fool girl for
being tied to her apron strings, and sh
will close her eyes in death with the
feeling that of all Gods best gifts to n
mother, dutiful, loving son is the
greatest. Those sons who have followed
the counsels of loving mother, and
who have perchance followed the re
mains of that mother to the grave and
heard the cold clay rattle on her last
resting place, and who have gone ava,
from the scene with hearts bowed and
broken, will never, in their choice OF J.
partner for life, take one who has ever
spoken unkindly of son who is k nd
to his neither. No boy need ever be
ashamed to be called his mothers DO,
and no person with n soul to save vii
ever make trifiing remarks on so sarrcc
n matter as the love of son for goo,
mother. The Council Bluffs youn.
man is advised TO keep tied to the az
strings of that mother of his unfit h
he finds a girl different from the on
he has quoted. Let the dude have hel
All dude is tit for is to ca ny poodl
for such female idiot. -Ieck's Sllfi.