The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-17

So we have no minute and particular
description Of the palace at whose win
dow our glOrified mother sits, bat there
is so much in the closing chapters of the
good old book about crowns and pearls
big enough to make gate out OF one OF
them, new songs and marriage suppers,
and harpS, and white horses with kings
in the stirrups, and golden candlesticks
that we know the heavenly residence
Of our mother is superb is unique, is
colonnaded. is domed. is EMPOWERED, is
fountained, is glorified beyond the power
of pencil or pen or tongue to present,
and in the window of that palace the
mother sits watching for news from the
battle
What a contrast between that celes-
tial surrounding and her once earthly
surroundings What a work To bring
up a family in the old time way. with
but little or no hired help, except per-
haps for the washing day or for the
swine Strengthening commonly called
"the killing day. There was then no
reading of elaborate treatises on the best
modes Of rearing children and then leav-
ing IL all TO hired help. with one or two
visits a day to the nursery to see II the
principles announced are being carried
out. The most of those old folks did
the sewing. the washing. the mending,
the darning. the patching, the millinery,
the mantua making, the housekeeping
and in hurried time helped spread the
hay or tread down the load in the NOW.
They were at the same time caterers,
tailors doctors chaplains and nurses for
a whole household all together down
with measles or scarlet fever. or round
the house with whoopinS coughs and
groups and runround fingers and ear
aches and all the infantile distempers
which at some time swOOp upon every
large household. Some of those mothers
never got rested in this world. Instead
Of h0 coIf H1pc IF MIR
which, wound up, will go hour after hour
for the solace Of the young slumberer, it
was weary foot on the rocker sometimes
half the day and half the night-rock-
rock-rock-Tock.
Instead of our drug stores filled with
all the wonders Of materia medica and
called up through a telephone. with them
the only apOthecary short of four miles
ride was a garnet, with it's lunches Of
peppermint and pennyrOyal and catnip
and mustard and camomile flowers,
which We're expected to do everything.
Just think Of il.
The Old Fashioned Mothers.
Fifty years of preparing breakfast,
dinner and supper. The chief music they
heard was that of spinning wheel and
rocking chair Tagged out, headachy
and with ankles swollen. Those old
fashioned mothers-if any persons ever
fitted appropriately into a good, easy,
comfortable heaven they were the folks,
and they got there. and they are rested.
They wear no spectacles. for they have
their third sight-as they lived long
enough on earth TO get their second sight
and they do not have to pant for
breath after going up the emerald stairs
of the eternal palace. at whose window
they now sit waiting for the news from
the battle
But If any one keeps on asking the
question, Where's MOTHER" / answer
she is in your present character. The
probability is that your physical features
suggest her. If there be seven children
in household at least six of them look
like their mother and the older you get
the more you will look like her But
speak now especially of your character
and not Of your looks. This is easily
explained During the first ten years Of
your life you were almost all the time
with her, and your father you saw only
mornings and nights. There are no years
in my life so important for impression
as the first ten. Then and there is the
impression made for virtue or vice for
truth or falsehOOd, for bravery or cow
ardice, for religion or skepticism.
Suddenly start from behind a door
and frightened the child, and you may
shatter his nervous system for a life
ulne During the first ten years YOU
can tell him enough spOok stories To
make him coward till he dies Act be-
fore him as -hOugh Friday were an nm
lucky day, and il were baleful to have
thirteen at the table, or see the moon
over the left shoulder. and he will never
recover from the idiotic superstitions
You may give that girl before she is ten
years old fOldness for dress that will
make her a mere dummy Frame or
| fashion plate, for forty years Ezekiel
Of -
daughter"
Before one decade has passed YOU can
decide whether that boy shall be a
Shylock Of a George Peabody. BOYS and
girls are generally echoes of fathers
and mothers. What an incOherent thing
Tor mother out of temper to punish
child for getting mad. or for a r ther
VINO smokes TO shut his boy up i'm a
dark closet because he has found him
with an old stump of a cigar in his
mouth, or Tor that mother to rebuke her
daughter for staring at herself too much
in the looking glass when the mother
has her own mirrors so arranged as to
repeat her from all sides. The great En-
Slish poets loose moral character was
decided before he left the nursery. and
his school-master in the school room
overheard this conversation: Byron.
your mother is a fool" and he answered.
| II know it."
The Good Bridge of Morals.
You can hear through all the heroic
| life Of Senator Sam Houston the words
of his mother when she in the war Of
| 1872 put a musket in his hands and said.
There my son, take this and never dis
grace it, for remember L had rather al
my sons should fill one honorable grave
than that one of them should turn his
| back on an enemy. Go and remember.
too, that while the door Of my cottage
| IS open to all brave men it is always
| shut against towards" Agrippina, the
! mother of Nero, a murderess, you are
not surprised that her son was a muir
| derer. Give that child an overdose OF
catechism, and make him recite verses
of the bible as a punishment, and make
Sunday a bore. and he will become n
| stout antagonist of Christianity. I'M
press him with the kindness and the
geniality and the loneliness Of religion.
and he will be it's advocate and ex-
enplar for all time and eternity.
A few days ago right before our ex-
| press train on the Louisville & Nashville
railroad the preceding train had gone
| down through "A broken bridge twelve
| cars falling a hundred feet and then con-
sumed. / saw that only one span of the
bridge was down and all the other spans
| were standing. Plan a good bridge OF
| morals for your sons and daughters, but
/ have the first span of ten years de-
fective, and through that they will
| crash down, though all the rest keen
| standing. o man, o woman, If you have
preserved your integrity and are really
| Christian, you have first Of all to thank
God, and think next you have to thank