The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-29
MEMS COLUMN
Men ought to know that:

They ought not to get alarmed
because a manish woman, whose spot
less collar has never been mussed by
the sticky fingers of taffy eating
baby, proclaime that the mothers
and grandmothers of the country are
likely to 60 on n "strike" because
they are ovcrworked. That they are
uverworked is true but they will never
strike. They don't work for money
and the only workers that ever
"strike" are those who work for a
cash consideration.
We have seen the gentle wife oil
President Mckinley patiently and
continuously crotcheting baby slip.
pcr& for her little friends, spending
days on a single pair. Putting into
each stitch n loving thought of her
own babies sleeping SO many, many
years beneath the maple-shadowed
yrc"nsward of the Western Reserve.
The present Presidents wife steals
away from music, laughter, and song
and wears her delicate fingers almost
to the bone knitting sweaters for her
four boy cubs that are away at school
so they can have something to wear
"that mother made"
We have seen the wife of a United
States Senator, worth enough in her
own right to rebuild the city of Sank
Centre if it should be destroyed,
working till the small hours of the
morning knitting old fashioned double
yarn mittCnS for her "Buster Brown
grandSonS in a far away western state.
We remember when our hundred
pound grandmother carried us, a
hulking hoy Of six years, pick-a-back
through the chilly, autumn twilight
while We Rugged to our bosom a
pumpkin almost as big as ourselves
out Of which we intended to make a
iark-o- lantern, because we had a
"leg ache"
We remember our mother, weak
frail, and sick, setting propped up in
bed, ON hot July afternoon stitching,
stitching, stitching on a gaudy blue
coat with brass buttons, so her "boy"
could have Il uniform in which to
appear rs captain of a troop of school
boys ON a certaiu fourth of July cele-
hratiun: and we have still more
distinct recollection of certain
woman that we know, sitting with a
wet cloth bound around her aching
brow working till the morning star
hid behind the crimson robe of the
rising sun in order that the "baby"
might have white dress to wear
"when she spoke her piece the next
day. while we StOrmed and Scolded
because the mother would not go to
bed.
Thrones may totter and monarchs
lose their crowns because soldiers
mutiny ON account of being worked to
hard. Great navies may lie as idle as
'painted ships upon painted ocean"
because sailors refuse to work. We
may be compelled to live in tents be-
cause builders strike and refuse to
build. Factory wheels may cease to
rev0lve because the operatives walk
out: but the devil will turn Sunday
School superintendent and hell be
used as n place for holding church
picnics before the grandmothers and
mothers of the this land will refuse to
labor for those they love, but if we
were to try to compel them to stop
working for those they cherish there
would be "strike" that would make
all the combined strikes of previous
times appear insignificant.
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Every woman who owns baby is
Il dowager princess because she is
mother of king.
Our grandmothers and mothers
bred a stalwart race of men by the
free use of three "s's:" Sewing,
singing and spanking.
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No mother ever thinks any girl is
quite good enough for her son.
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Lots of men have gone crazy try
ing to count the number of different
ways pretty young lady can make a
fool of Il young man.
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All men with homely legs are
opposed to wearing dress suits.
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You can tell the number of
women's clubs boys mother belongs
to by counting the holes in his
StOckinrs