The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-22

mediately reminded of how. his mother
had pursued him, and, supposing that
his father had IA like experience, ne
shouted out, 1T she after YOU too,
father?"
World Indebted to Her.
The life of the New England mother
was full orbed in the home. She guid-
ed IN all OF its affairs, and she holds a
very heaVy account against our best |
civilization for the unnumbered host |
of mighty men she moulded into nobil-
ity of character and inspired with |
reverence and fast cllnging love for
law, purity, truth and goodness.
am just old-fashioned enough to be- |
lleve,. when a man steps out into |
the glare OF public life or sits down at |
the loom of life's weavings, that he Is |
already what the home has made him |
1t Is the eternal and inalienable heri- |
tage of woman to mould the man, to
nourish his body-into strength and his
mind into soundness, to equip him for
the warfare of life and inspire him for
its victories; to breath through him the
wishes of her soul and teach him how
to gain the ideals which her purity re-
veals, her ambition Graves and her
love demands; and in this she gives
tone and character and color to society
and through 1t virtually makes the
world. The souls and minds of little
children are marvelously tender sensi-
tive and delicate things, and keep for
ever the shadow that first falls upon
them, especially If it Is the mothers.
do not think that it is an exaggera-
ton to say that there was never truly
great man whose life ran along the
lines that converge in the worlds
peace, purity and universal brother
mood, but what had a great mother
The first six years of our life makes us.
III stamps the coin of our. character
and tells what it will be worth in the
great market and exchange of life.
After the years of our childhood all
that is added is only veneer There Is
no higher dignity than the dignity of
Shaping in silence and patience the
fcrces that mould, and guide human
society, nor can the. sphere be narrow
from which such potent influences flow.
This is just what the old-time New
England mother thought She thought
that the home was the divinely or
dained fountain of all blessing to the
| world, that it was so powerful in it's
moral and social training and equip
ments that neither time nor change
could arrest or undo what 1t had
wrought! That the home life over
reached and undergirded all other life
and character, and If things went right
there. they would go right everywhere,
and If they went wrong there, they
would go wrong everywhere.
That she was right and her deduc-
tions safe and wise. none Of US in this
presence would question for a moment.
Her Lofty Mission.
Controlled by this thought, inspired
by the greatness and loftiness of her
mission and sublimely awed by the
results and destinies that it involved
= she gave herself up to the home and
to home-making so lovingly and ef.
fectua. = and with such faith in God
that the beauty and strength and value
Of her productions have been the high.
est adornment and the strongest story
and the sureSt and most enduring sal.
walton of this great American republic
Sad day will it be for the home anC
/. church and nation when the home shall
be anything less than our New England
mothers thought 1t to be, a divine thinl
sent of God to bless and beautify tn,
! whole round of human life. Lead child
hood captive to high and ennoblins
, principle, and through it, the Who'll,
,, world to its promised latter day glory
Let me say in closing that as woman
;. DEGREES so will human society be
, When cruelty held high carnival in tn,
, Coliseum at Rome and bloody TRACED.
in human life was the sport and fasci
, nation of the people, the victoriou
gladiator held his victim close to tn
= ground and before he daggered him I
death turned his gaze toward the bal
cony of the great building that wa
= filled with women the most beautiful
i, and richly attired of Rome!. And If i
+ response to his gaze they turned thei
! thumbs down he proceeded with a neN
, and increased relish to finish his awfu
! work. But If the thumbs were turne
: up he quickly released his victim an
n sought to ease his wounds.
: Today such is the power and in
4 fiuence Of woman in society that
she smiles at sin and gives herself up
o fashion and pleasure the tragedy Q
q sin will go on to it's awful finish; bu
y if she DEGREES purity and lofty Chris
tian character for herself and the worl
/, and adheres to it in sublime consecra
: tion, earth's sorrowful dirge will speed
o lily end In songs as sweet as those tha
i float from angel harps.
s Unique Menu Cards.
# Each succeeding year the society ha
n included in its menu card some featuI
{ symbolic of early New England an
y later day Scranton. This year Olive
o Wendell Holmes and the witchcraft ,
=. Puritan days and the witchcraft {
e this generation We're ingeniously an
e historically embodied in the men
l. novar On the front of the cover is q
/ engraving of Mother Goose ridir
y on the trolley of an electr
- car, while above her the wire is throw
n ing off splutter of sparks, and b
l. meath her can be seen only the ro'
If of the ear. The words, "Scrantc
'f Witchcraft, December, 1885," recall thi
8 In that year the first electric car VIZ
&c run in Scranton, that Scranton W;
= the first city east of the Mississip
a river to use electricity for transport
d tion, that is was the first city in Il
n United States to build a road for Il
purpose, and that it's cars We're Il
st first in the world to be lighted by ele
t, tricity. The whole Is, trayesty {
IF Holmes THE Broomstick Train"
On the rear cover reproductions
Faneuil Hall and the old North chur'
;s and other colonial structures sugge
40 the early scenes of and the title, Sale
TO Witchcraft." The two engravings a
= shown with an ecru coloring and wi
lie the enclosed menu will prove a hapl
tie and appropriate souvenir to the ba
lr ~.