The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-20
THE MOTHER JOB
ISA HARD ONE

Looked at from Q romantic viewpoint
and through the eyes of poet, novelist
painter. preacher and spiuster, the
mothers life is a poem, a romance, a
sermon, n madonna-like existence COM
bining all the blessings and honors that
Providence allOts TO woman, says tho
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The mother is queen of her realm, 8"
mo allowance made for the power be-
hind the throne}, *the hottest thing
alive" the center Of her, universe.
the hand that rules the world and n
dozen other beautiful and sentimental
symbols of perfect WomanhOOd.
No gallery is complete without her
portrait, no artists IS worthy the name
who has not attempted to portray her.
and the greatest writer would not dare
TO leave the world without contributing
TO literature some sort of description
OF the ideal mother.
She is pictured as soothing the child
ish sorrows Of her little brood. never
niCting them by means of the peach
tree wand or the well-worn slipper. The
Whitc-ToDed figure at her knee. familiar
10 the artistic and literary world wears
look chaStened, uplifted admiration,
! white she beams upon il with the light
OF heaven i'm her eyes, and 10 mention
is made of surreptitious proddngs and
nudsinss that accompany Tommy go
on with your prayers"
The grooming song with which she
sings baby to sleep-usually at a. m
/ lis the Inspiration OF musicians who
/ compose luilabieS to commemorate the
/ occasion, and who would doubtless be
! Mortified to know that the original lul-
1 laby consists Of one line sung over and
/ over and punctuated with feTocious
yewns.
In truth there IS no moro successful
( poseuse on the earths surface than the
/ mother, and the worst Of u IS that the
nose is entirely compulsory. Il has
/ been made for her and she must adopt
/ it whether il fits her Or not.
! She would give half her kingdom tC
shake Tommy Soundly for drawing
over his prayers. or TO yield TO mothers
meetings. rules and lei the baby oXev'
/ else his lungs by yelling all night. or Il
spank TIE older children for tearing
/ their clothes and breaking the windows
/ hut long ages Of living in the public
/ eye, as it were have accustomed her Il
! pause and uncoasciously wonder wha
/ the ideal mother would do in this ol
that case. and then quite naturally fal
into the same line of action.
! She knows quite well that While al
/ the world loves lover. all the worlC
( worsnips and adOTes the mother anC
| that though lovers quarrel is easily
! condonel and CLOSED over, if a mothe
( falls ever so little from grace nothms
/ could ever again restore her TO her ped
! estal in The public mind.
! IN reality, the mother of a family i
F, the hardest worked drudge IN tn
/ world She * the only animal tina
/ never rests. The bear has a long win
! ter's nap. the COW INDUCES i'm a quie
/ bonn rf daily ,11d-cheyVfpu the bOpSi
IS turned OUT to pasture. and the MAJ
has his holiday. but the mother is
! vivid inustret ton Of perpetual motion
. with one duty and sometimes two 70
( every momen, Of the day. and perhap
! without the IDEAL Of herself to live ~
Ia. the pose OF motherhood into whicl
| 10 slip while the world looks worship
| fully on. she would have become eX
! tinct-lilIe the DOdo-long ages ago.