The Baptist headlight. (Topeka, Kan.) 1893-1894, 1894-01-25

some beautiful gift, ''Where s moIIoI
She sometimes feels wearled py Uno
question. for they all ask II anu no ,Itp,
asking it all the time She is no. ollly
the first to hear every case Vi pS
plexity. but she is the Judge In ex5s
court of domestic appeal. Inat 10 nao
puts the premature wrinkles Oa o.
many maternal faces ana powu5a'
white so many maternal fore neaus.
You see. it is question that keeps ol
for all the years of childhood. =.
If that question were put TO most Vi
us this morning, we would have 10 say,
if we spoke truthfully, like Slseras
mother. she is at tho palace wlndo"-
She has become Queen unto Goo LOT
ever. and she is pulling back the rlcn
folds OF the Kings upholstery TO look
down at us. We are not told the par
ticulars about the residence OF Slsefa
mother. but there is in that scene III
the book Of Judges so mucn aooue Gu
broideries and needlewOrk anu iauies
in waiting that we know her residence
must have been princeiy ana pa!al1al'
So we have no minute ana pafIlcu.al
description of the palace at whose VIII
dow our glorifed mother sits, out there
is so much in the closing chapters OF
the good old book about crowns, anu
pearls big enough to make a gate OUT
of one of them, new songs ana marriage
suppers, and harps, and Wh1te horses
with kings in the stirrups, ana goloen
candlesticks that we know the heaven
lv residence of our mother is superb, is
UNIQUE, is colonnaded. is dOmed, is en-
lowered. is fountained. is gloritied be-
yond the power of pencil or pen or
tongue to present, and in the window
of the palace the mother sits watching
for news from the battle. What con-
trast between that celestial surround
ing and her once earthly surround
ings! What 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 swine
slaughtering, commonly called the
killing day.
There was then no reading OF elabo-
rate treatises on the best modes OF
rearing children, and then leaving it
all to nired help, with one or two Wis
it's day to the nursery to see If the
principles announced are being carried
out. The most of those old folks did
the sewing, the washing, the mend
ing, the darning, the atihlng, the
millinery, the mantua making, the
housekeeping, and in hurried harvest
time helped spread the hay or tread
down the load in the NOW. They were
at the same time caterers, tallOrs, doc
tors, chaplains, and nurses for whole
household all together down with
measles or scarlet fever, or round the
house with whoOping coughs and
groups and runround fingers and ear
aches and all the infantile distempers
which at some time swoop upon every
large household. Some of these moth
ers never got rested in this world. In
stead 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 sometimes half the day OF
half the night-rock -rOck-rOck-
rock. Instead Of our drug stores filled
with all the wonders of materia med
lea and called up through a telephone
with them the only apothecary short o.
four miles ride was the garnet, with
its punches of peppermint and penny
royal and catnip and mustard and cam
Omile flowers, which were expected tt
do everything. Just think of it. Fifty
years of preparing breakfast, dinner
and supper. The chief music they
heard was that of spinning wheel anC
rocking chair. Tagged out, headachy
and with ankles swollen. Those OLE
fashioned mothers any persons eve
fitted appropriately into a good, easy
!. comfortable Heaven, they were th'
folks, and they got there, and they ar
| rested. They wear no spectacles, TO
they have their third sight-as the,
lived long enough on earth to get thei
. second sight and they do not have Il
' pant for breath after going up the EN-
f erald stairs of the Eternal palace. a
whose window they now sit waiting 70
= news from the battle.
but if anyone keeps on asking thu
( question Where's mother?" | an
swer. She is in your present character
| The probability is that your physica
features suggest her. If there be sever
t children in household at least six O
0 them look like their mother, and tn
: older you get the more you will loo
/. like her. But | speak now especial
g of your character and not of your looks
|. This is easily explained. During tn
Q first ten years of your life you wer
: almost all the time with her, and you
= father you saw only mornings an
= nights. There are not years in an
: life so important for impression as tn
o first ten. Then and there is the in
n preston made for virtue or vice, TO
It truth, or falsehood, for bravery or COW
d ardice, for religion or skepticism
e suddenly start out from behind doc
IS and brighten the child, and you ma
l. shatter his nervous system for life
l. time. During the first ten years yo
o can tell him enough spook stories t
is make him coward till he dies. Ac
e before him as though Friday were a
n unlucky day, and it were balefl
e to have thirteen at the table. or sc
;. the moon over the left shoulder and h
q will never recover from the idiotic 81