Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-01-25

manrud making Cnc anu
in hurried harvest time helped spread
the hay or tread down the load In the
NOW. They were at the same time Ca
terers, ~tailors, doctors, chapfains and
nurses for a whole household ali TO-
gether down with measles n scarlet
fever, or round the hoase with whoop-
ing coughs, and Groups and runround
fingers and earaches and all the in
fantile distempers which at some time
swoop upon every large household.
Some Of these mothers never get rest
ed in this world. Instead Of the self
rocking cradles of our day which, wound
up, will 90 hour after hour fNr the So
lace of the young slumberer, it was
weary foot on the rocker sometimes
half the day or half the night-rock-
rock-rock-rock. Instead of our drug
stores filled with all the wonders Of
inateria medica and called up through
a telephone, with them he only apothe-
cary short of four miles ride was the
garnet, with its punches of peppermint
and penny-royal and catnip and mus
tard and cdmomile flowers, which were
expected to do everything. Just think
of it! Fifty years Of preparing break
fast, 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
person ever fitted appropriately into a
good, easy, comfortable heaven, they
were the folks, and they got there, and
they are rested. They wear no specta-
cles, 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 pal
ace. at whose window they now sit
waiting for news from the battle.
But IL any one keeps on asking the
question where's mother?" answer,
She is in your present character. The
probability is that your physical feat
ures suggest her. IL there be seven
children in a household at least six OF
them look like their mother, and the
older you get the more You will look
like her. But 7 speak 10Y 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 any life
so important for impression as the
first ten. Then and there is the i'm
preston made for virtue or vice, for
truth or falsehood, for bravery or cow
ardice, for religion or skepticism. Sud
denly start out from behind a door
and brighten the child, and you may
shatter his nervous system for a life
time. During the first ten years you
can tell him enough spooS stories to
make him a coward till he dies. Act
before him rs though Friday were
an unlucky day, and it were baieful to
have thirteen at the table. or see the
moon over the left shoulder. and he will
never from the idiotic supersti-
tons. You may give that girl before she
Is ten years old a fondness for dress
that win make her a mere dummy
frame" OF fashion plate. for forty
years. Ezekiel xvi. A. "As is the moth
er, so is the daughter" Before one dec
ade has passed you can decide whether
that boy shall be a Shylock or a George
Peabody. Boys and girls are generally
echoes of fathers and mothers. What
an incoherent thing for a mother out
OF temper to punish a child for getting
mad, or for a father who smokes to
shut his boy up in a dark closet be-
cause he has found him with an old
STUMP VI ~ siEaA III HIS uiuutn, ILL
that mother to rebuke her daughter
for staring at herself too much In the
looking glass when her mother has
her own mirrors so arranged as to re-
peat her form from all sides! The
great English poets loose moral charac-
ter was decided before he left the
nursery, and his schoolmaster in the
schoolroom overheard this converse
ton: Byron, your mother is a fool"
and he answered, x know It," You can
hear through all the heroic life of Sen
ator Sam Houston the words of his
mother when she in the war of 1872
put n musket In his hand and said:
There, my son. take this and never
disgrace ii, for remember / had rather
all my sons should fill one honorable
grave than that one of them should
tWn his back on an enemy. Go and
remember, too, that while the door Of
my cottage is open TO all brave men
1t is always shut against towards"
Agrippina, the mother Of Nero, murder
esq, o arc not surprised that her SON
was q murderer. Give that child an
overdose of catechism and make him
recite verses of the Bible as n punish
ment, and make Sunday a bore, and he
viii become a stout antagonist of Chris
tianity. Impress him with the kindness
and the geniality and the loneliness
OF religion. and lie will be its advocate
and exemplar for all time and eternity.
The most impressive thing at the
inauguration of James A. Garfield as
president of the United States was
that after he had taken the oath Of
office he turned round and in the pres
ence Of the supreme court and The
senate of the United States kissed his
cid mother. If I had time to take
statistics out of this audience. and |
could ask what proportion Of you who
are Christians owe your salvation under
God TO maternal fidelity, / think about
three-fourths OF YOU would spring to
your feet. "Ha! hal" said the soldiers
of the regiment to Charlie, one of their
comrades. s'What has made the change
in you? You used TO like sin as well as
any of us Pulling from his pocket
his mothers letter, in which, after tell
ing or some comforts she had sen him,
! she concluded. Eve are all praying for
YOU, Charlie, that you may be a Chris
tian.' he said, "Boys, that's the SEN
tence."
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