The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-01-25

siol, "nlch she will never hear on earth
aGain except she hears it In dream
wnich sometimes restore the nursery
JUST as 1t was, and then the voice comes
oack so natural, and 50 sweet, and so
lnqulrtng that the dream breaks at the
words, "Where's mother2"
Ii that question were put to most of
us this morning we would have to say If
we spoke truthfully, like Sisera's moth.
er, She Is at the palace window. She
mas become queen unto God forever
ana she is pulling back the rich folds of
the Kings upholstery to look down at
us. We are not told the particulars
about the residence of Sisera's mother,
| put there.is in that scene in the book of
Judges so much about embroideries
and needleWork and ladies In waiting
mat we know her residence must have
! Oeen prlncely and palatial.
| SO we have no minute and particular
description of the palace at whose win,
| dow our glorilied mother sits, but there
! so much in the closing chapters of
the good old book about CROWDS and
pearls big enough co make a gate out
oi one OF them, new songs and MARI.
asG s"ppers, aud harps, and white
hcrses with kings in the stirrups, and
| golden ca"c:esticks that we know the
heavenly residence of our mother is SUI
peru, is unique, is colonnadel, is domed
| IS empowered, is fountained. is glorilied
oeS ona tue power OF pencil or pen Or
| tongue TO present, and in the wind ew
| OF mat palace the mother sits watch.
| ihE Ior news from the battle.
| what contrast between that celes
| ''a! surrounding aud her once earthly
! surroundings! What a work to bring
| nn taml'y in the old time way. with
| hnf lille or no hired help, except per.
II IS for tho washing day or for the
H"ihr slaughterlng, commonly
called "the killing day" rh,re
was then 20 reading of elaborate
| chl'dren and then leaving II all to hired
| heip, with one or two visits day to
u.e nursery to see it the principles al
h"unred are bang carried out. The
| 'n'Ht of those old o!ks did the SO wing.
the washing, the mendlng, darning the
| ph'chlng, the mIllInery, the mantua
| making, the housek"ep, aud in hur-
| rl~d harvest time helped spread the
"aN tread down the load in the NOV.
ihty we're at the Same time caterers.
| ,aiiorS' doctors, chaplains and nurses
!"r Il "holr hHUS'hoid all together down
WI II measles or scarlet fever, or rourd
III" house with whonping coughs and
Groups and runruund fingers and
taraches and all the infantile distem
f'IS winch at some tine SWOOp upOn
f"ry large household. Some of those
nothers never got rested in this world
lnstead OF the self rocking cradles of
ear cay, which, wound up, will go hour
al'er hour for the sOlace of the young
siumoerer, 1T was weary foot on the
tncker sometimes half the day or half
thr Standardization
"S'ead of our drug stores li,led with
wonders nf
c"J!ed up through a telephone, with
them the only apothecary short of four
miles ride was the garret, with it's bun
cheS OF peppprmeDt and pennyroyal
ana catnlp ard mustard and camomile
lnWers, which were expected to do
everything. Just think of it!
fltty years of preparing breakfast.
dlnEer and supper. The chief music
they heard was that of spinning wheel
ara rocking chair. Tagged out; head
achy and with ankles swollen. Those
Old fashioned mothers-if any persons
ever fitted appropriately into a good,
easy, comfortable heaven they were the
to!ks, ard they got there, and they are
leSCe. Iney wear no spectacles, for
they, have their third sight-as they
llVed !ong enogh on earth to get their
second sight-and they do not have to
phnL for breath after going I'D the
emerald stairs of the Eternal palace, at
whose window they now sit waiting for
news from the battle.
But If any ore keeps on asking the
question, "Where's mother ?" I answer
she is IN your present character. The
probability is that your physical feat
ureS suggest her. IF 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 | speak now especially
OF your character and not of your
looks. This is easily explained. During
the llrst ten years of your life you were
almost all the time with her, and your
lather you saw only mornings and
hlghts. Ihere are no years in any life
50 important for impression as the first
10. Then and there Is the impression
made for virtue or vice, for truth or
fa!sehood, for bravery or coWardice for
religionsor3skepticism.
suddenly start out from behind a
door and frighten the child, and YOU
may shatter his nervous system for q
lifetime. During the first 10 years you
can tell him enough spook stories to
make him a coward till he dies. Act
before him - though Friday were an
unlucky day, and it were baleful to
have 13 at the table, or see the moon
recover from the idiotic superstitions.
You may give that girl before she is 10
years old fondness for dress that will
make here mere dummy frame, or
fashion plate, for 40 years. Ezekiel xvi,
44,,"' AS Is the mother so IS her daught-
tr"
Before one decade has passed you can
decide whether that boy shall be Shy
lock or 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 father who
sm okes to shut his boy up in dark
closet because he has found him with
an old stump OF a cigar in his mouth,
or for that mother to rebuke her daugh-
ter for staring at herself too much in
the looking glass when the mother has
her own mirrors so arranged as to re.
peat her form from all sides. The
great English poets loose moral char
| hctei was decided before he left the
nursery, and his schOolmaster In the