Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-06-06

NellneT 40 lHcy cure nON SHdtip lhOoo
fangs may be. They can tell you,
without one mistake, how many
times last night their babies cOughed,
but they cannot tell you how many
hours their husbands the same night
walked the floor, hour after hour, try
ing to think and plan how they could
meet the great crises of life which
may now be confronting them. There
is many mpn-mark this!-who
heard the death rattle of all true, help
full wifely association on the night
that their first baby was born. Only
n short time ago I had prominent
man say to me: ANY success which l
have made in life have won in spite
Of my wife. From the day that my
first baby came she has had no inter-
est in me or my work. In my inter-
course with my business associates she
has been a positive damage instead OF
help" There is many a husband
who is today living as far apart in
thought from his wife as If he were
ten thousand miles away from her. He
may eat with her at the table and live
with her in the same home, but
their mental and spiritual association
is absolutely dead. She lives for her
children. He lives for his business.
Between them there is the great yawn-
ing chasm Of Indifference, ever widen
ing, ever becoming blacker and more
fatal to marital love.
Now mothers, I want to say to you
that woman cannot be true moth
er unless at the same time she Is
true wife. | want to say that if wife
will not enter into the joys and hopes
and sorrows and cares and pcrpleXi-
ties of the husband who is by her side
and wants to love her and have her
share his burdens she cannot be true
TO the daughters, who will follow in
her footsteps. / want to tell you that
no daughter is developed Alright unless
she has had before her the example
of q mother who has been faithfully
trying to be true TO her father as well
as TO her. Would that every mother
might have as beautiful eulogy pass
| ed uDOn her by her husband as Pllny
the Younger wrote about his beloved
wife: "She has great talents, she Is
an admirable economist and loves me
with entire affection. To these quail
flies she unites a taste for literature
inspired by tenderness for me. When
| plead, how great is the anxiety she
suffers. She engages people to tell her
what applause have gained, what
vaccinations | have excited and what
Judgment is pronounced upon my ora
tions. She sings my verses and, un-
taught. adapts them to the lutte. Love
is her only instructor; hence expect
with certainty that our happiness VIII
{iaight bel "gfsth tlWtv it will daily IN
-ySyoman's direct relation to her nus
band is almost as important in the de-
yelopment of daughters life as the
mothers direct relation to her child.
The true mother also should be q
true daughter and sister. a woman
cannot rightly meet the cares ana re
snonsibilities of her husbands home II
she is forgetfu OF the fireside where
she snent her childhood, before whlcI
the banouet table was spread ana the
wedding cake cut on the night she lei
, n nreside at her own table. In'
Young mother, bending over the cradl'
, Of her baby, can feel no genuine hoi'
rapture If she has no gratitude o.
> reverence for her gray haired fathel
9 and mother, who watched over he
. Iown infancy, or love for the brother
o and sisters who were her childhood
q companions.
Strong Links of Steel.
!. God develops true motherhood II
a manv ways. The factorys machiner.
"a Id1y seem to the unframed eye to d
% vbrking uselessly and in ridiculou
T diffusion. There are some wheel
,r rnning from right to left, others froI
ir 1t TO right. There are sagging belt'
20 ahd great piston rods moving up an
ie Own. and strong steel bars whlrlln
le pund and round and round. liner
n. no tanks where the goods are soake
n. and nlaces where the raw goods al
IN clewed into pulp. But after awhii
ld uder the explanation of the superil
OF t,dent or guide, the visitor to the Ia
so tdv finds that every belt and ever
h. wheel and every cylinder of the MI
I'll clinery is put there for purpose. A
no th, different parts of that machlneI
As y n working together for good for II
he completion of finished article.
CID in the great human factory II
ue thp creation of a consecrated mothe
ed bood has many wheels and at TIM
lit seemingly conflicting duties. They
ee have n purpose. not the least of whl'
he "a the influence resulting from Il
he rieht performance of the duty WI
he ami mother owes to her childhood
ne home
az Nv sister. how can you honestly G
lie nett your children to respect you
n, you are stony hearted and refuse
be honor the many wrinkles and the
es dimmed sight of an aged parent? q
re your mother breathe fortn the oit'
DIV ;omentatiop of the neglected {
er- woman who said. "When | was you
he nv children used to tread upon I
feet; but now. when I am old they
treading upon my heart" Are y
,et going to show the selfish spirit or
gh brutal people Of the Pacific islan'
hu who were accustomed to behead
We bury alive their fathers ana ihoth
Ire as soon as they became crippled "
Ia. age? are you a heartless woman
oo ing to tear your parents from y
ck- thoughts and affections, merely
me cause you can get no more service
,ul of them? How can you expect y
lge little children to love each other al
ust you are gone when you yourseil III
the nothing to do with the brothers
my sisters of your childhood? Is II n'
the ing TO YOU when they are SICK OF