The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-05
A Source of Inspiration to Her Tai
ented Son.

. a Source Of Inspiration to Her Tai
ented Son.
Marconfs biography, yet to be writ
ten, will be largely the story of an idea
mothers influence.
The inventors mother is an IrisI
s woman, to whose intelligence and Low.
ing interest in his ambitions and nj.
work he attributes most of his success
The union of Marconi's parents seems
to have been an suspicious one fol-
him. From his Italian father he got
the imaginative, sensitive qualities OF
the south. and from the mother the
sturdy mental equipment, singleness of
purpose and the ambition of the north
erner.
But, besides his inherited tendencies.
he has had the constant company of
his mother. She watched over his
studies, encouraged his early bent for
electrical invention, and did the many
| things that a woman of insight can
do to stir in the boy the capacities that
have made Marconi, young as he is
so great a figure in the worlds prog
ress.
This beautiful character, who has
| been his guiding spirit through all his
life, was Annie Jamison, the daugh-
ter of John Jamison, the famous Dub
| lin whisky manufacturer. Beautiful
and high-spirited, Annie Jamison was
| given every advantage in her educa-
ton that money and Ireland could af-
| ford, and then she was sent to Italy
to complete her musical studies. There
she met and married Giuseppe Mar
| conf. dashing young Italian of good
family
From the birth of her elder boy
she has another son-Mrs. Marconi
devoted her life to his training. She
took him with her on her travels about
Italy and he accompanied her on sew
erai visits to her own people in Ireland
and England
When he began to show interest in
chemistry and electricity and to con-
Struct little instruments, she helped
him in getting books and periodicals
that would guide him in a right way.
Indeed, wherever a mothers care
could possibly do anything for her boy,
she had anticipated the desire and |
thought.
1t was not strange, then, that Gugli- |
elmo Marconi made such rapid prog |
ress IN his studies and became a full |
grown man in experience when he was |
still boy of sixteen. Money was |
spent freely for him, and every encour-
agement was given him in his work.
he was allowed to turn one of the
rooms IN the house into a laboratory.
ana here he was monarch of all he
surveyed.
Between the mother and the son
there is a strong bond of sympathy
ana genuine love. Marconi formerly
accompanied his mother on her trav-
eis' now he takes her with him when
ever he can.
How Girls Can Help Their Mothers.
Every girl. if she be not thoroughly
Selnsh, is anxious to lift some of the
burden OF household management from
her mothers shoulders on to her own:
OUT unfortunately, many girls wait to
De asked to do things instead of being
on the lookout for little
iutles which they are capable of doing.
II you would be of any real use in the
lone you must be quick to notice what
S Wanted-the room that needs dust
ng' the flowers which require rear {
anglng, the curtain which has lost a
ing and is therefore dropping. And {
hen you must not only be willing to do /
Vhat is needed. but willing to do it s
oleasantly without making people feel {
nat you are being martyred.
IL is almost useless to take up anv {
ousehold duties unless you do them a
egularly. If you do a thing one day f
nd not the next, you can never be de-
eHueu oH, dIlQ II some one else has to
e constantly reminding you of and SUI @
cruising your work, it probably gives t
hat person more trouble than doing II O
erself would cause. O
Have definite day and definite 2
me for all you do-the flower vases t
i'll need attention every other day: the t
liver must be cleaned once a week and S
lere should be one day kept for mend t
lg and putting away the household a
men. Begin, too, directly after break n
lst. and keep on steadily till your O
ork is done.
If you begin by sitting down Just for
minute with a book, or think you 81
i'll Just arrange the trimming on 81
our new hat, the morning will be half re
one before you know where you are. m
A girl who has brothers may spare IL
ar mother all those tiresome little re
BIS which boys are always requesting in
have done for them, if she will only h;
, them kindly. n;
But boy will not come and ask his fl
ster to repair frayed out buttonholes. w
Id to make him paste for his photo ar
aph album if she snaps and says he
always bothering"
1t is not easy work, but it is quite
ssible for the daughter at home to
AXE up a good deal of its sunshine,
d it is only when she has learned this
at she is fit to go away and be the
nshine of a home of her own.
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