Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-05-03

Margaret Gay Dolliver, Fort Dodge. Iowa,
Wonan's Educational CLUB; Mrs. w. w.
Eidridge. w. c.. T. u. Kensington Nd;
Luke's, washingtone Mrs Roswell A.
Frederick. Village Improvement Associa-
tior, Crawford. N. ia Mrs. Jennie S. Bart
lett, Capitol Hill w. c. T. u, Washington;
Women, Washington, Mrs Grace Chaplin.
Capito! Hill. W. c. T. u, Washington;
Mrs. Mary c. Bennett Excelsior Literary
Society, Washington; SMrs. M. d. Burchard,
Davis. Bower Mothes1' Club, Wilmot,S. D.;
Mrs. Herman H.1Birney, Philadelphia Aux
iiary; Fannie Sdhnaoier Barnes, president
New York MofherR Club; Mrs. Jessie
Thomas Gilbert, Maternal Association,
Middietown, Connecticut; Rebekah Ko-
hut. Mothers Congress, New York;
Mrs. Sara l. F1eetheod, Colored Women's
League and Motherss Round Table. wash
lngton; Mrs. W. @. Findley, Mothers
Circle, Akron, Ohio: Harriet NJ. Met
vile, Mothers Club. Hyatsville. Md; Mrs.
Theo. A. Walton, Bowen Circle, Akron,
Chic; Mrs. L. H. Deming, Hartford, Conn /;
Mary E. Danham, Phi!anthropic Commit
tee Friends. Philadelphia. and Mrs. Henry
l.. Elsner, Mothers Club, Syracuse, N. Y.
Tribute TO the Mothers.
A letter was today delivered to the pres
1dent of the congress, to be read before
the body, of which the following is a copy:
ITO the President and Members of the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers.
Ladies': I send herewith some little
gospels showing the generation in which
the mother Is held in many lands. I am In
thorough accord with the purposes of your
society. hence this slight tribute. Three
protners united can take city, fifty sa-
pers agreed can found an empire and the
mothers of this generation can lay foun-
cation that will ultimately secure a univer-
sal reign OF peace and happiness, banishirg
from earth war and Its three attendants,
fire.
May heaven shower down upon your no.
Die enterprise its choicest blessings"
This letter was signed by Robert Christy
OF NO. 1905 18th street, who subscribes
himself with sentiments of high regard"
Inc little gospels which accompanied 1t
are as follows:
mother is a mother still the hottest
thing alive.-Samrel Taylor Coleridge
mothers love is the best of all.-West
Africa and Hindoo
A mothers love the best love Gods love
the highest love.-German.
glish.
A child must ask it's mother whether it
may be a wise man or a fool-W, l..
Weems
mothers arms are made of tenderness.
ana children sleep soundly in them.-Victor
Hugo.
A mothers love will draw up from the
cepths OF the sea.-Russian.
"A motners prayers, silent and gentle,
can never miss the road to the throne of
all bounty.-Henry Ward Beecher.
A mothers tenderness and caresses are
the milk OF the heart.-Eugenie de Guerin.
simple kiss from my mother made me a
painter.-Benjamin West.
wife; mother; two magical words
comprising the sweetest source of mans
felicity.-L. Aimee Martin.
a witty mother-witless elsa her son.
Tanning of the Shrew," ILL.,.
Quincy Adams.
All am or can be oweeto my angel mo-
ther.-Abraham Lincoln
All that is purest and best in man is but
srick W. Morton.
Blessed is the child that is brought I'D at
the mothers knee, which Is Gods altar
Ladies' Home Journal
Children are what the mothers are-Wal-
ter Savage Lander. %
Compared withIa mothers love the earth
Is like bamboo leaf; a chavala like a nee-
dies eye; Mount Neon an ant hill: the
ocean water bowl.-Burmese.
Forget not the mother that fondled you
at the breast.-0ingAese
God could not be everywhere, therefore
he made mothers.-Lew Wallace in Ben
Hur."
He that angereth his mother is cursed by
God.-Ecclesiasticus iii :l6 20
He that desptses woman despises his
mother.-Sacred Books of India.
He that honoreth his mother is one that
lsyeth up Observation-Disclosures iii:4.
Heaven is a the fest of mothers-Persian.
l am indebted to my father for living,
but to my mother for living well.-Alex-
ander the Great. F1.a5' -.-..---
consider that the mothers OF a country
mold its citizens, Determine its institu-
items and shape its Destiny. -Matthew Vas
Sar.
If the world. were put in one scale and
my mother into the other. the world would
kick the bean.-Lord Landomes.
In all this cold and hollow world no
fount of deep. strong, deathless love save
In mothers heart.-Felicia Dorothea
Hemans
1t is the mother that makes the domes-
tic hearth the nursery Of heroes.-Danier
Webster.
Mothers are the only goddesses in whom
the whole world believes.-French.
One mother is more venerable than a
thousand fathers.-Laws Of Manon (Old
Irdia).
Respect women who have borne you for
God is watching over you.-Al Koran.
The bearing and training of child is
womans wisdom.-William NJ Thackeray
The future destiny of child Is always
the work of the motner.-Napoleon.
The mother in her office holds the key
of the soul.-Thomas Dibdin.
The revolution the Boston boys started
had to run in woman's milk before 1t ran
in mans blood.-Otfver Wendell Holmes.
The name Of mother is the watchword-
the talisman Of life.-Ladies' Home Jour-
nal.
Who forgets the sufferings of his mother
at his birth shall be reborn in the body
of an owl during three successive trans
migrations.-Sacred Books of India.
Who venerates his mother gains saliva
tion.-Bengali Qndia.
Notes.
Ex-Queen Lilioukalani was one of the
richly attired women who occupied boxes
last evening Mrs. Dominis is much inter-
ested in all the proceedings of the Mothers
Congress.
Mrs Birney's beautifully worded address
of welcome brought her bunch of Easter
lilies from admiring friends, nearly as tall
as herself.
Carnations seem to be the mothers flow
ers.
Mrs. Elaine Goodale-Eastman of St. Paul,
Mimi, is in attendance upon the congress.
She is the author of many dainty poems
and married a Sioux Indian. DR.. Eastman.
Hats off," announced the mothers in
the program of the week, and off they
come At the evening session the hand
somely gOwned women wore on their heads