El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-10
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mothersu' A fter Napoleon became
emperor he held out b is hand for his
mother to kiss. She flung it back in
dignantiy saying: 1T is your duty
81, kiss the hand of her who gave you
life -
When should mother begin 10
train her babe? From the tine the
first smile CLEANS on the infants face.
A child when few days old shows
few days after birth, curiosity ter
weeks aftt birth, the use of tools
twelve mouths after birth and shame,
remorse, sense of the iudicrous fifteen
months after birth. Sir Walter Scott,
G nethe and Cowper, Benjamin West,
all said that the tent and bias Of their
minds was given them by the earliest
teachings of their mothers. Cowper's
moth er died when be was six years
Old but her life made life long i'm
preston on her renowned son. Byron's
mothe made fun of her sons club foot
AID she used to quarrel with the boy
until Byron grew morbid and very
unhappy He afterwards said in
Childe Herald: ''Untaught in youth
my heart TO tame, my springs of life
were poisoned" Yes it is a recogniz-
ed princi pie in all well ordered gov
ernments that no high civilization is
well orderei home life. Homes make
patriots. From our church courts,
from our social economists, from the
hallssof congress comes the cry, look to
the home! Wrong there means wrong
everywhere. The family is the nni'
of society. Home t'aininy is often
wOefully neple tet.
Some mothers do not deserve to have
children. What shame to mother
hOn 70, ftoi rin Of oh 81,
soul wholly into the hands of nurse
of doubtful influence. We often hear
fashionable young mothers say that
they are not tied down to the nursery
but are free to keep up the gay old
gidGy life. Many true mother if she
willed to could Outshine these firts OF
society, but she chooses the better part
to give to the world true manhood and
true womanhood in her children. Take
the Field family. Can our country
ever pay tina. mother for giving to this
land Stephen Field, of U. S. supreme
court; David Dudly Field, the great
lawyer, Cyrus the inventor of the
Atlantic cable, and Harry NJ. Field, the
famous editor aud traveller? Home to
that mother was not place to eat in,
to sleep in, but school, place in
which to build up manhood.
Every mother should have high
lOT DeF Culiu LOW CndOSeu
becomes the laughing, needless girl
when she is mother. Life for the
father has, too, a newer and deeper
meaning. "a babe is mothers an
Choir" Who lives in the future more
than young mother? What stormy
voyages DO the cradle take? Do you
wonder at a mothers grief when the
first babe is laid under the grass? How
many mothers plan for the girls in the
family just three tn ngs: First she
wants them to look pretty, second to
shine in society and third to marry
wealth. Perhaps her ambition Is
gratifed and then comes an unhappy
home, divorce, q broken heart.
There is something better in the world
than money, or wealth, or shining in
society.
1t is the bible that gives glory to
motherhood, to childhood. It makes
parenthoOd sacred, chi idren the gift of
God. Oh mothers, look ON your chill
dren and say of them as Corne'ia of
Rome said of hers: "These are my
jewels" Remember Gcd gives the
angels no graoGer work to do than be
gives you when into your arms he puts
babe. Those of you who have time
mothers, honor them, love them. Soon
they will leave you. Remember how
many fears and broken bones she has
dcctored. How many p asters she has
spread, soft pillows she has shaken up
all for you. If she is stopped or little
gray or wrinkied love her, and tell her
so. On mothers, are you doing your
duties to your children?