The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-13
THE BOY AND HIS MOTHER.

a young fellOW az council Biud
writes as follows: "What do you thinE
of young lady. while in the company
OF dude masher, remarking of al
old schoolmate of hers, shat he ia 6
good boy, but tied to MS old mother,
apron strings, and is of no coed or
earth Will not the boy come out
ahead ii be supports and cares fol
the mother" Come out ahead? Well,
of course he will. A girl who would
make such a rem is not worthy to
blacksn the shoes of boy who i:
kind to his cid mother. Such girl
has got no more heart in her than a
turnip, and is only ito, she isn't
fit for anything. She ought 10 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 play
log the piano while the mother is
meuding her stockings. or washing
her white clothes. 1t is such a girl
that tells her mother to mind her own
business when the old lady advises
her not to stay out more than two or
three hours after midnight with a
dude. II is snch girls thai 60 to the
devil flying, a. the least possible ex-
cuse, and the first opportunity. The
mesnest men in the world are those
WHO have allowed themselves to drift
away from their mothers aud forget
all abou. them. The best and bravest
men liz the world are those who have
never been co proud as when doing
something pleasant for the kind old
mother. The most heartless thing in
the world is for person to make
such q remark as that quoted above
about q young man who is proud Of
his mother, and loves her so that
tear in her eye is like drop of melt
ed lead on his heart. The young man
who heard of such a remark being
made about his relations with his
mother, no doubt felt that be had
rather not have heard Of the remark,
but it is lucky that he did. il he
thought he had any affection for that
girl. She would not have said it in
his hearing, which shows that she is
a hypocrite and two-sided person.
II he married that girl he would haye
q little hell of his own. Such girl
would make man wish that he mad
never seen any woman except his
own mother. No matter how close
the relation between q mother and
SOD, day is liable to come when the
son will find girl that he will marry,
and though he may not think less OF
bis mother, he will not have quite as
much time to devote to her, but If he
is such son as the one above men,
toned. there will never be day bu'
ne will think of something that can
be done for his mother. His good
wife. it she is good, will join hira in
Anything tina. can make the mother
who bore him happy. And a day will
come when the mother will lay down
her knitting. and take off her speo-
sacles, and her burden of life will be
aid down. and her last prayer will be
Tor the son who has been joked by q
tocl girl for being tied to her apron
strings, and she will close her eyes in
iesth with the feeling that of all Gods
best gifts to mother, a dutiful, loving
ION is the greatest. Those sons who
nave followed the counsels of loving
mother, and who have perchance fol.
owed tho remains of that mother to
he grave and heard the cold clay
'attle on her last resting place, and
Who have gone away from the scene
With hearts bowed and brosen, will
never, in their choice of a partner for
life take one who has ever spoken
lnkindly of a son who il kind to his
mother. No boy need ever be
Ishamed to be called his mothers |
10Y, and no person with soul to save
will ever make trifing remarks on so |
acred a matter as the love OF a son
or good mother. The Council |
Bluffs young man is advised to keep |
led to the apron strings of that |
mother of bis until be finds a girl diff. |
erent from the one be has quoted.
let the dude have her. All dude is |
It for is to carry poodle for such a |
emale idiot -Peck's Sun.