The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-01
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That strangest. awe-inspiring epocn IN a
parent's. and especially a mothers, expert
ence when a child's maturity bears no sort
OF likeness 20 its .fancy. and the oaDy Oh
Yesterday who nestled at her breast and ran
to her knee 10 have its hardest hurt healed
looks a. her with eyes she cannot recognize
and speaks a mind she has no sympathy
with. IS one known 10 the larger part OF
humanity. says a writer in the New YORK
Post. The ego, the individual separate Will
and nature which suddenly confronts those
who gave IL life is a wonderful thing 10 De-
hold. 'That may have all been very Wen
for you and my father, but II Is out or the
question In oar day. mother, dear what
nineteenth-centuTy home which shelters Vig-
orous youth is unfamiliar with this argu-
ment regarding the ordering Of daily lie?
II does not necessarily indicate antagonlsm
or willing opposition 10 parental VIII or lacK
Of readiness to try to follow the lines Oh
previous education: it Is simply the unveil-
ing OF the spirit of the man as II Is, as God
made him." he would be apt 10 say 1t Is
the integral. vital man as nc IS. a CONDITION
which. how ever he may modify and regulate
II by guidance. or s~elf-control, or under the
influence o. Hfe's discipline. expresses his
real self. The pain deep down In The heart,
as she finds that while her element Is earth
her offspring's is the water, is something
rot 10 be Put into words and unknown out
side OF the mothers world.
To be absolutely a part or another nature,
indescribably dear 10 you. whose every
movement stirs your heart and every
thought influences your happiness, and yet
find that in all things Its instinct Is to seek
your opposite and that its activities and
joys are all alien 10 yours; that is not
rarely a true state OF things while parent
and child are still deeply attached one TO
the other.
While love remains true and steadfast and
no ~estTangement steps between, the ache
viii grow bsarable. and II the development
is fine and strong and upward, pride Will
DO much TO medicine the first sword-thrust;
but II this differentiation takes an un-
worthy or dishonoring place, then, indeed,
the harvest love gathers Is a poisoned one.
Old frenzied Lear, crying out In his mad
ness. X the center OF a lurid picture. but in
quiet. wek-Ordered homes, where grace and
beauty, and the social veneer of CONVEYANCE
keep z smooth surface for the world TO
gaze upon. gay women and proud men turn
for the expression OF their grief: o
sharper than a serpent's tooth 1t is to have
And though 1t seems like coming into
shallow waters out Of the deep sea 10 turn
from the atmosphere which incloSeS the
lives OF parent and child to that in which
ordinary friendships grow. yet the bright
ness and good cheer. even the courage Of
our hearts. are endangered by the courage
OF our near friends mood and tenderness
toward us. To-day we believe ourselves ne
cessary, a counselor. or at least one i'm
portant to the vital scheme of our friends
lie and progress; tomorrow We have drift
ed by some strang current into a place
where we see some faint reflection, mirage
like, OF the friend we love, smiling, kindly
but intangible. No man can say what has
happened, no solution Is possible of a
change without reason or cause, but in
many and many a heart il Is slowly MAX
Ing it's dull-edged wound. The old French
proverb that between lovers one kisses and
4ne turns the cheek for the caress is true
Slso of friends, and the giver's heart is
the one that aches when the kiss is no
longer needed to bring the color to the wait
ing CHEEK.
Such a large majority Of human beings
take, like the chameleon, their color from
the place where they stop to resti They
have not meant, they had not thought, of
change, but to-day is not like yesterday,
and new influences give new desires, and
the easily satisfied heart Is content. while
the nature capable of stronger and more
abiding affection keeps the old chamber
vacant and holds a weary watch for that
which. once chilled. cannot return.