Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-15

sAaN 40 ~ was anu Nbth NhN
voice comes back so natural. and so
sweet, and so innocent, aud SO inquir-
Ing. That the dream breaks at the
words, Where's mother"
III that question were put 20 most OF
US this morning. we would have TO say,
II We spoke truthfully, like Slsera's
mother, she IS 1T the palace window.
She has become queen unto God for
ever, and she is pulling back tue rich
folds OF the Kings upholstery To- look
down at US. We are not told the par
ticuiars about the residence OF Sisera's
mother, but there is ia that scene in
the Book Of Judges SO much about EN-
broiderieS and needle-work 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 glorifed mother sits, but there
Is so much In the closing chapters OF
THE GOOD OLD RooK
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, Ia colon
naded, is domed, Is emboweTed, is ioun-
tanned, is gloritied beyond the power OF
pencil or pen or tongue to present, and
In the window OF that Palace the moth
er sits, watching for news from the
battle. What a contrast between that
celestial surrounding and her once
earthly surroundings. What a work To
bring up family In the old-time way,
with but little or no hired help, except
perhaps for the washing day, or for the
m a ell In SC. n To- In, la1
1.-The killing day" There was then no
reading OF elaborate treatise on the best
modes OF rearing children, and then
leaving IL all TO hired help. with one or
two visits a day to the nursery TO SEQ IL
the principles announced are being car
rled out. The most OF these old folks
ala the sewing, the washing, the mend-
Ing, the darning, the patching, the mil
llnery, the matchmaking, the house
keeping, and in hurried harvest time
helped spread the hay or tread down
the hay in the NOW. They were at the
same time caterers, tailors, doctors,
chaDlains and nurses for a whole house
hold all together down with measles or
scarlet fever, or round the house with
whooping coughs and groups and run
round 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
THE sELF-RoCKING CRADLES
OF our day, which, wound mp, will go
hour after hour for the solace 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 materia medica,
aud called up through a telephone, with
them the only apothecary short OF four
miles ride was the garrett, with it's
punches OF peppermint and pennyroyal
and catnip aud mustard and camOmile
flowers. which were ected TO do
everything. Just think of II! Fifty
years OF preparing breakfast, dinner
and supper. The chief music they
heard was that OF spinning wheel and
rocking chair Tagged out, head.achey,
and with ankles swollen. These old
fashioned mothers-if any persons ever
fitted appropriately into 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 10
pant for breath after going up the en-
erald stairs OF the Eternal Palace. at
whose window they now SIT waiting for
news from the battle.
But II anyone Keeps on asking the
question Where's mother?" | answer,
sne is ~ your present character. The
probability is that your physical fea-
lures suggest her. II there be seven
children n a household at least six Of
them look like their mother, and the
pIhar u 40 nil 1calr
ike 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 ia any life
so important for impression as the first
ten. Then and there is the impression
made for virtue or vice, for truth or
falsehO0d, for bravery or cOwardice, for
religion or sCepticism. Suddenly start
out from behind a door and brighten
the child and you may shatter his ner-
vous system for A lifetime. During the
first ten years you can tell him enough
spOok stories to make him coward
till be dies, Act before him as though
Friday we're unluckY day, and IL were
baieiul 90 have thirteen at the table, or
see the moon over the left shoulder,
aud he will never recover from the
idiOtic superstitions. You may give
that girl before she is ten years old
fOnduess for dress that Will make her
mere dummy brame' or fashion
plate for forty years. Ezekiel 10: A..
"As Is the mother so is her daughter"
Before one decade had passed YOU can
decide whether that boy shall be a Shy
lock Or George Peabody
BOYS AND GIRLS AEE GENERALLY
ECHOES
Of fathers and mothers what an in
coherent thing for a mother out OF
temper % punish child for getting
mad, or FOR a father who smokes TO
shut his boy UP ln dark closet because
be has found bin with an old stump OF
cigar iu bis mouth, or Tor that mother
90 rebuke her daughter for staring at
herself too much in tho loJkluR-Rlass,
when the mother has her own mirrors
s. arranged as % repeat her from all
sides. Tho great English poets loose
moral character was decided before be
Jeff the nursery, and h.s -ch1J.master
DO The school room overheard this COM
versat.ou. Byron. your mother is