The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-28
"Motller,s Boy"

she is occupied at some one of her man
ifold household duties, the tears of glad
ness fill my eyes, for know that his
heart is loving and unselish to the one
who wss first to love and csress him be-
fore he was conscious of it.
NY mind wanders in dream. land, back
to time when this youth lay helpless
babe, pressed close to a fond, proud
mothers heart. How much she planned
and how earnestly she prayed, for his
future happiness Those dimpled hands
resting so quietly in sleep on her breast,
beside that little curly head, what may
they not bring to pass, as great acL"ive:.
ments in the near future, when Tie
strength of years has come to them?
The king of the household, blessings on
his curly head! \
His mothers lips part in sweet smile
of contentment, as her eyes rest on her
sweetly sleeping, innocent child. She
rises noiseleSsly from the low rocker,
where she has been sitting grooming
lullaby, without disturbingthis slumber,
and gently lays him in his cozy crib, to
enjoy his much.needed nap; but she
cannot refrain from stopping to imprint
a parting kiss on the velvety cheek.
The years have flown into the silent
past, and I wake from my day-dream
with start, to see before me in this sun.
Drowned, curly.haired youth, the baby of
earlier years. And as he stoops and
kisses her, as she did the same to him in
the earlier years, she smiles up in his
face and calls him "mother's boy"
We smile, too, through our tears, as
we look on this picture, a sweet one, dear
readers, for it seems hard to realize that
this tall, robust specimen Of humanity is
a "boy."
| Mother.love seems not to realize that
times relentless march brings her baby
| in few years to mans estate, and that
he is no longer child, until one day he
will tell her that he intends soon to bring
home wife to occupy the old home
henceforward with them.
She feels now that the love of a life.
time must be shared with another, and
that she will no longer occupy the first
place in his heart, as she always has
done until this news came to her.
But stop moment, dear, selfish moth.
er, and ask yourself reasonable ques.
ton. Does it follow because your boy
has found loving companion outside
his home to journey hand in hand with
| for the future, that the love he has al.
ways felt for you will be lessened, under
| the above circumstances? When you
married and left home, was your love for,
your mother diminished in that event?
Do not treat your sons wife coldly when
he brings her home as such, thus causing
her to feel that you look upon her as one
coming between you and the love of
lifetime. She will read at once from
your manner, unless you are cordial to.
| wards her, that you feel unprepared to
receive her and love her as your sons
wife. She will feel grieved but too proud
to allow you to see it, and GOODNESS will
spring up between you and your new
daughter, which in time may generate a
feeling Of positive dislike between you.
Your "boy" will soon learn, if this
feeling continues in the family, to feel
that you think be has made poor choice
| in selecting life companion, and that
YOU fail to see wherein he saw anything
attractive about her. He will also feel
that YOU ought to love her for his sake,
| if for no other, since he has always
eyinced so much affection towards you,
and only now is he sharing it with an
other, without lessening it all towards
YOU. Try, and you will soon feel kindly
to this new member of your family, and
she will also feel so towards you if she
sees that you are trying to like her and
make her new home pleasant for her.
Tell her how Charlie likes his soup sea.
soned, or how you have always prepared
his fayorite apple dumplings, and If she
feels interested in domestic matters she
will like to help you about the house and
the cooking; and if you accept her prof.
fered assistance kindly, and let her work
with YOU, you will soon find yourself
wondering how you could have done all
the housework yourself.
When Charlie comes into dinner, and
finds something nicely prepared for him,
and says, "Little woman, did you make
this dumpling particularly for me to.
day." you will be pleased at her reply:
eyes, Charlie, mother here told me just
how YOU liked it made, and I stirred it
up." You will see how we'll pleased
they both seemed to be; and you will
soon say to yourself, if you do not let
prejudice blind you to the fact, how much
more to be desired is Carries help than
that of hired girl, who takes no inter.
est in the welfare of your household
other than to collect her months wages,
and chip and break up half set of
crockery in three months for you, as a
certain one I have in mind did for her
mistress.
One more stumbling.block in the path
way of our future, dear mother-in-law,
let us look to before we say goodbye for
this time, and that is, don't always, in
speaking of things about the house,
allow yourself to say mine in place of
ours, particularly the articles in every.
day use in the kitchen, and food prepared
in anticipation of expected company. It
is not pleasant for young wife to hear
you speak (if she has prepared at some
pains nice dish for tea), as you are all
comfortably seated at the table, when
YOU pass this dish to guest, and say,
"Mrs. Champion, won't you try some of
nv orange cream9 have nice recipe
for it, and am generally quite successful
in making it."
The guest partakes Of the profered
dish of course as she is in duty bound to
do, or slight your(?) nice cookery by q
refusal, which she will not wound your
feelings by doing, and then remarks, "It
is Just delicious, and you must give mo
your recipe; but then couldn't have
half as good luck as you did with this, if
tried my best, for you have such a
knack for cooking nice dishes. l hope
you will be able to teach this new wife
here how to cook plain food prudently,
for these young cooks, when left to them.
selves, often waste fearfully, and they
need to be watched, you know"
This last, though said in laughing
way, is evidently thrown out to aatter
the mother at the wife's expense, or at