Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-01-25

GAN that am or hope TO be, owe TO
my angel mother" Contrast with
these kinder testimonies what Lord
Byron writes,
"Uutaugh' in youth my heart to tame
Mytprings of life were poisoned"
Byron was deformed, he had a club
foot, and his mother used to taunt
him because of his deformity and in
violent quarrels with him, would hurl
the poker at him and drive him from
her presence. The reckless daring
and abandon of the son were thu in
heritance and example of the mother.
| have somewhere read of mother
who was imprisoned for debt and
wrote thus to her son, "Dear Sam, l
am in prison for debt, Come and as
sist, Your loving Mother" The son
replied Enthusiastically, sd ear
Mother, So am /, which prevents his
duty being paid to his loving mother
by her, Affectionate son Sam" o,
mothers, your every word and act
and look is a power you cannot esti-
mate. You are the supervising archi-
tects of your children's lives. Be
careful how you direct the building.
Holding in your arms the infant life
committed to your care, let something
like this be your question and prayer;
"My child fear thee; thou art spirit, lsoul;
n L hnf0
ments whole?
Lord, give streng 9Th, give wisdom Tor the
task,
To train this child for The, yet more 1 ask
Father fine this gold: Oh polish this my gem
Till it is fair and fitting for Thy diadem."
Mothers, give to your children's
training your unwearying personal
attentions; this mother duty God has
marked with his own handwriting
sNot transferable" No nurse, how
ever capable, can be mother in your
place, to your children. Ihave heard
fashionable young mothers boast that
they were not tied to their nurseries,
but were as free as ever to enter the
gay old life; always ready to visit and
receive, stay late at the ballroom and
the opera and leave the rearing of
immortal lives to proxy. [ have seen
beautiful child turn from it's mother
to its nurse and lavish a love upon
the latter that it could not on the for
mer, while the mother stood by and
laughed the laugh of Indifference,
which seemed to me like the echo of
Satan's triumphant chuckle. Lord
Salisbury, England's greatest phil
anthropist, had a mother who was a
giddy, frivolous society woman.
SALISBURY owed his Christian char
acter and great to his
sanity nurse, and it is one of the pit
iful things in his biography to hear
him speak of his nurse with the love
that ought to have been given to his
mother.
have just finished reading the BIZ
ography of Phillips Brooks-nearly
two thousand pages. His was great
character. Perhaps no man was ever
mora fortunate in his parents. Both
father and mother were rare NOBLE
persons. But I was specially i'm
pressed with this remark of the biog-
rapher, "Phillips Brooks mother
never accepted a social invitation,
never attended social function while
her children were small and nee ded
her attention" Only such mother,
patient, untiring, watchfu', person
ally attentive, can have a Phillips
Brooks for son. Bail room devotees
and social butter flies do not rear
great children. o, mothers it is
worth while to make your home your
kingdom, your own hearthstone the
place where the sway of your sceptre
of love is supreme. I am not trying
to make mo Jherhood hard but rather
to show the reward that transcends
the greatest hardship. "Why do you
tell that blockhead the same thing
twenty times over?" asked some one
VI AoOOohhoI w DOSoG0O Al L
had told him only nineteen times I
would have lost all my labor" was
the answer from the real mother
heart. When should the personal
training of children begin? ga hun
dred years before the child. is born, !"
says Oliver Wendell Holmes. Certain
it is that traits of character that you
possess will reappear in your poster
ity to the third and fourth genera
tions. A mother once asked her pas
tor when she should begin the educa-
ton of her boy, then four years old.
IF you have not already begun" he
replied, ''you have lost four years.
"With the first smile that app ears on
your infants cheek, your opportunity
begins"
Mothers get and keep your chill
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