The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-01-27

cal neglect of the noble, faithful, long
suffering mothers of great men, who
have lived aud died in all these ceutu-
ries. 1t is the mother who makes the
man. 'Just M the twig is bent, the
tree is inclined," aud it is the mother
who moulds the emotional character of
her children. While the father is in
his counting room or his workshop, or
at the plow, the mother is at home
with them, and day by day shielding
them from harm and guarding their
tender hearts from evil influences. Our
emotions are of far more Importance
than our intellects, and these are
moulded at our mothers breast and
developed at her knees. Then, why
this historical neglect? Who knows
anything of the mothers of Clay, Cal
houn or Webster, or any of the presi
dents, or of any of our governors, or
distinguished statesment?
Perhaps one person in thousand
knows that George Washington's
mothers maiden name was Mary Bell,
but what else do they know about her.
The best biographical cyclopelias will
give you the paternal ancestors of
great men from away back, but not a
line on the maternal side. They do
not even mention that John Wesley, or
Whitfield, had mother. Appleton
and the Century do sometimes make
meager mention of who these great
men married. For instance, Appleton
says that ''in June, 1903, Daniel
Webster married Mis3 Grace Fletcher,
of Hopkinton, N. H." Only that and
nothing more.
This historical neglect of woman be-
gan with Moses, who makes record of
our mother Eye and then skips a
thousand years to Lamech without
mentioning another woman. Then
skips another thousand down to Sarah,
the wife of Abraham. He tells us that
Cain took unto him wife, but does
not name her, and that the wives of
Noah's sons went into the ark with
them, but we do not know who they
were. Later on in the centuries he
tell us some pretty stories about Ra-
chael and Miriam, and still later we
read of Ruth and Naomi, and in the
New Testament about q dozen women
besi es Mary, the mother of Jesus, are
mentioned, and from that day down to
The reformation, woman has been un-
der the ban of historical neglect
When we old people were young
there was n gifted writer by the name
OF Headly, relative of DR.. James
Headly, the lecturer, who wrote
book called "The Sacred Mountains,
and another book called "The Women
of the Bible" and he did his best to
make it an attractive volume, but the
sacred women We're fewer than the
sacred mountains, and he had to put
it in very large type and have large
margins to make it Il book at all.
But woman is fast coming to the
front in this land, and the lords of
creation are recognizing her, with her
virtue, her importance rs factors in
civilization, more than in any other
age or time or country. She stands
side oy side with man and is really
and truly his better half. But the
chief purpose of this prosy letter is to
inspire the small towns of Georgia
and the south to organize lyccums and
secure as good lecturers as their linn
tied means will bring.
One hundred members at SO each
will secure six lectures at $50, and
make the cost onl y % cents for admis
sion. OF course outsiders will pay more.
They paid so cents here and IS cents for
reserved seats. We paid three of our
lecturers 500 each; the others $50 to
S75. There is no money in it and
should not be. Money is not the OBJ
iect, but there is no loss. Our series
is all paid for and leaves us with a few
dollars in the treasury, and next win
ter the membership will probably be
doubled. Bill ARP i'll Atlanta Con-
stitution.