Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-06-04

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| thoughts ard affections, merely be-
| cause you can get no more service out
OF them? How can you expect your
little children to love each other after
you are gone when you yourself have
nothing TO do with the brothers and
sisters of your childhood? Is 1t moth
ing to you when they are sick or in
financial trouble? Is it nothing to you
when they are dead? Why. some
mothers who think they are good and
true mothers never pretend to have
any affection for their parents or
brothers and sisters or for their
nephews and nieccs. The inevitable
result will be that some day your own
children will cease 10 love each other
! All my friends, blood ought to be
| thicker than water The ties which
bind the human heart TO the home Of
childhood ought TO be as strong as
| links of steel.
Today the sacred memories Of the
past are calling many mother to her
noblcr and truer self. A short time
after her marriage young wife told
me of n vision she had that was so
vivid 1t Ssas difficult to believe that it
was not real. AS she lay in bed in the
arly morEing of the day when she
was 10 leave her fathers home her
thoughts We're busy with her past life.
in which her mother then six months
dead. occupied n prominent place.
nothor sa,, to hoe, ~ sno ,,.oro tbor lie.
,nas Tho hoio,od ,ar,,, ,,o tanhor
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| forget or neglect your old father. lie
| Is alone now. Never cease 10 love your
truo ,n,. do,,,h+,. T., ,.o,,r NOV, homo
unless you are true TO your old Then
| the strange vision slowly turned and
Disappeared. so today the sacred
mornr,es of ,ho MAST ,le,d for noh,e
motherhood which will be true to the
old loves and which will therefore be
doubly true TO the new.
| The true mother should also be true
friend 10 the great suffering world at
| large. The woman who would try to
! train her children merely within the
| four walls of home or In the family
relation to their father and grand
parents and uncoa and aunts and cous-
| ins has a too circumscribed territory.
The mother bird might Just as well try
to teach her young how to fly without
| their leaving the parental nest or the
| horseman train thc colt to draw n lond
without his taking if from the stall or
a child TO learn how 10 sing bv merely
studyinp n music scroll without lettiny
her voice run tho scales A mothor in
teaching hor children what thev ought
to be has hnr rnlotion with tho creat
world ot loroo nc ,vall ~ with tho unit
of her own homo