The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-10

needle. 50 meaRre was the salary for
the Increasing household. only 800 a year.
that she started a select school in which
she taught French. drawing. painting.
and embroidery, beside the higher Eng
iish branches With all this work she
found tiIe 70 make herself the idol of
her children
OF Wendell Phillips It is said that his
love for his mother was a passion. Her
earliest gift 70 him." says Carlos Marty.
was a Bible. Her one counsel for him
was. be good do good That Bible
wes mis- priced treasure for seventy years,
and, says Mrs. Bolton, Years after
when he stood up like great oak in the
forest, beat upon by wind and storm, he
never forgot TO keep his trust where his
mother first taught him to place 1t. From
her knowledge and common sense in 20
liGcal and mercantile affairs he judged
that other women must be able to take
part in the worlds work and therefore
through life he asked for them an equal
place in home and state"
The Mother of Edison.
The mother Of the distinguished scien-
list, says recent biography. was a wom-
an OF sweet and strong Individuality,
equipped with a solid, If unpretentious,
education and endowed with rare aoili-
ties as a teacher. she was eminently
qualified 10 deal with the plastic mind of
her son. and it was TO her judicious ef-
forts. rather than TO those of his father,
that Edison owed that early impetus
which gave such admirable scope ana d.
rection to his dawning powers. Under
her guidance, at the age of twelve, pc
riod when most boys are inhaming their
imagination and perverting their moral
sense with trashy and sensational fiction,
Edison, partly from inclination, partly
from over-consciousness, was wadinR
through such ponderous tones as Bur
toms Anatomy of Melancholy, Gibbons
Decline and Fab OF the Roman Empire
Hume's History OF England and History
Of the Reformation. We are justified in
the inference that through such books as
these. no boy. however remarkable. waded
without the encouragement and compan-
lonship of the woman who could bestow
not only the instructors gift, but the
mothers sympathy and love.
II was Samuel Johnson's mother to
whom he said in his last letter: you
have been the best mother, and l believe.
the best woman in the world. ! thank you
for your indulgence to me. and beg for
giveness of ali that have done III. and of
an that / have omitted 10 do well.' 1t
was 10 defray her funeral expenses that
In the evenings of one week he wrote Ras-
selas. for which he received FIVE hundred
dollars.
Bishop Hall speaks of his mothers life
as saint-like. Never any lips so preached
piety, never any soul that more accurately
practiced it. He gave her credit for
much OF the character and influence that
made him o power in the church.
"a Model for Mothers"
It was Garbaldi who says of his
mother, woman of humble station:
"sne was a model for mothers Her
tender affection for me has. perhaps,
been excessive; but / do not owe to her
love, to her angellike character the lit
lie good that belongs to mine? Often,
amidst the most erduous scenes of my tu-
multuous life, when l have passed uu-
harmed through the breakers Of the ocean
or the hailstorms OF battle, she has seemed
present with me. ! have, in fancy. seen
her on her knees before the Most High
my dear mother!-implorlng for the life
of her son. and have believed in the eff
cacy of her prayers" Give me the
mothers of che nation to educate and
was one Of his favorite maXims
In all the touching examples of the in
huence Of motherhood there Is no story
more tender than that of the devotion and
the prayers that were rewarded finally by
the conversion of st. Augustine. The
heart-communion of son and mother was
indeed "a fellowship OF kindred minds"
The Mother of Napoleon.
The mother of Napoleon Bonaparte