Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-11-23
and the question is asked in whisper
by all the group, rs she gone" And
all is over.

and the question is asked in whisper
by all the group, "Is she gomez" And
all is over.
The Disinterested Friend.
Now come the regrets. Now the
daughter reviews her former criticism
Of maternal supervision. For the first
time she realizes what 1t is to have a
mother and what it is to lose mother.
Tell me, men and women, young and
old, did any Of US appreciate how much
mother WINS to us until she was gone!
Young woman, you will probably never
have q more disinterested friend than
your mother. When she says anything
is unsafe on imprudent, you had better
believe 1t is unsafe OF imprudent. When
she declares it is something you ought
to do, think you had better do 1t. She
has seen more Of the world than you
have. Do you think she could have any
mercenary or contemplate motive in
what she advises you? She would give
her life for you if it were called for. Do
you know of any one else who would do
more than that for your Do you know
OF any one who would do as much?
Again and again she has already endan-
gered that life during six weeks OF
diphtheria or scarlet fever, and she
never once brought up the question Of
whether she had better stay, breathing
day and night the contagion. The grave
yards are full of mothers who died TAX
ing care of their children. Better appre-
ciate your mother before your appreola-
ton Of her will be no kindness to her,
and the post mortem regrets will be
moro and more Of an agony as the years
pass on. Big headstones Of polished
Aberdeen, and the best epitaphs which
the family put together could compose,
and "a garland of whitest roses from the
conservatory are often the attempt to
atone for the thanks we ought to have
uttered in living ears, and the kind
words that would have done more good
than all the Gala lilies ever piled up Oh
the silent mounds of the cemeteries.
The world makes applauditory ado
over the work of mothers who have
raised boys TO be great men, and could
turn to my bookshelves and find the
names Of 90 distinguished men who had
great mothers-Cuvier's mother, Walter
SCOTS mother, st. Bernard's mother
Benjamin Vests mother. But who
praises mothers for what they do for
daughters who make the homes of Amer
lea? I do not know Of an instance Of
such recognition. I declare to you that l
believe ain uttering the first word that
has ever been uttered in appreciation of
the self denial, Of the fatigues and good
sense and prayers which those mothers
20 through who navigate q family Of
girls from the edge of the cradle to the
schoolhouso door, and from the school
house door up to the marriage altar.
That is an achievement which the eter-
nal God celebrates high up in the heav-
ems, though for it human hands SO sell
dom clap the faintest applause. Myl
Myl What time that mother had with
those youngsters, and if she had relaxed
care and work and advice and solic1ta-
ton Of heavenly help, that next genera
tion would} have landed in the poor
house, IDIOT asylum or penitentiary. 1t
is wifi fis living, but never while
she isl Chat some girls call their
mothef aternal ancestor" or "the old
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