The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-01-26

Expresses her, is the absence Of that
question, which she viii never hear on
earth again, except she hears It in
dream which sometimes restores the
nursery just as IL was, and then the
voice comes back SO natural, and so
sweet. and SO innocent, and SO inquir-
ing, that the dream breaks at the
words: where's mother2"
If that question were put to most of
us this morning, we would have to say,
II we spoke truthfuliy, like Sisera's
mother, she is at the palace window.
She has become queen unto God for
ever, and she is pulling back the rich
folds Of the Kings upholstery to look
down at us. We are not told the par
ticulars about the residence of Siscra's
mother, but there is in that scene OF
the book of Judges SO much about en-
broideries and needleworlx and ladies
in waiting that we know her residence
must have been princely and palatiaL
So we have no minute and particular
description of the palace at whose win
dow our glorified mother sits. but there
is so much in the closing chapters of
the good old book about crowns, and
pearls big enough to make gate of
one of them, new songs and marriage
suppers, and harps, and white horses
with kings in the stirrups, and gold
en- candlesticks, that we know the
heavenly residence of our mother
is superb, is unique, is colonnaded,
is domed,. is empowered, is foun tanned,
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 q contrast between that celes-
tial surrounding and her once earthly
surroundings. What a work to bring
up family in the o1d-time way, with
little or no hired help, except, perhaps.
for the washing day. or for the swine
Strengthening, commonly called t'lkin-
ing day" There was then no reading
of elaborate treatises on the best
modes of rearing children, and then
leaving it all to hired help, with enc or
two visits day to the nursery 70 see if
the principles announced are being
carried out The most of those old
folks did the sewing, the washing,
the mending, the 9arning, the patch
ing. the millinery, the mantua-
making, and housekeeping and
in hurried Rarvest-time helped spread
the hay or tread down the load in the
NOV. 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 whoop-
ing coughs and Groups and run-round
fingers and ear aches, and all the in
fantile distempers which at some time
swoop upon every large household.
Some of those mothers never got rested
in this world. Instead of the self
rocking cradles of our day, which,
wound up, will go hour after hour for
the solace of the young slumberer, it.
was weary foot on the rocker, some
times half the day or half the night
rocR-rock-rocls-ro Instead of
off 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 the
| garnet, with its punches of peppermint
and pennyroya1 and catnip and mus
tard and camomile 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-chalr. Tagged out,
i headachey, 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 spec
tacles, tor 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 news from the battle
But if anyone keeps on asking the
question; ''Where's niother?" l an
swer, she is in your present character.
The proba bility 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 win look
like her. But speak now especially
of your character, and not of your
looks This is easily explained. Dur
ing, 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 inn
preston made for virtue or vice, for
truth or falsehood, for bravery or
cowardice, for religion or skepticism.
Suddenly start out from behind a
door and brighten the child and
you may shatter his nervous sys-
tenn for a lifetime. During the
first ten years you can tell him
enough spOok stories to make him a
coward till he dies. Act before him
as though Friday were an unluclxy day,
and it were baleful to have thirteen at
the table. or see the moon over the
left shoulder, and he will never re-
cover from the idiotic superstitions.
= You may give that girl before she is
: ten years old fondness for dress that
will make her a mere dummy brame, >
or fashion-plate for forty years. Eze
kiel, xvi, A. 'As is the mother so is
: her daughter" Before one decade has
passed you can decide whether that
r boy shall be, Shylock or George
Peabody. Boys and girls are general
! ly echoes of fathers and mothers
What an incoherent thing for moth
> err out of temper to punish child fol
: getting mad, or for a father who
| smokes to shut his boy up in
a dark closet because he ha.
found him with an old stump of 2