The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-01-26
THE oLD-FAsH1oNED WOMAN.

R Rs''.'ita Menf' ~ -. ''s
THE oLD-FAsHIoNED WOMAN.
No clever, brilliant thinker, she,
With college cord and degree
She has not known the paths of fame;
The world has never heard her name;
She walks in old, untradden way :
The valleys of the Yesterdays,
Around her childish hearts are twined.
As with some reverent SAIL eashirlned;
Aud following hers. the childish ieet
Are led to ideals true and sweet,
And find ali purity and good
In her divinest motherhood
She keeps her faith unshadowed still
God rules the world in gooi and ill;
Men in her creed are brave and true,
And women pure rs pearls of dew;
And life for her is high aud grand,
BY work and glad endeavor SCANNED,
This sad old earth's brighter place
All for the sunshine of her face;
Her very smile blessing throws.
And hearts are happier WHERE she goes
A gentle, clear eyed messenger,
To whisper love-thank God for her!
Boys. you have but one mother;
care for her and spare her. She
is not beast of burden to drive
along the highway of life. There
is no love like your mothers love;
you may not know it now, but you
will some day.
No home is quite complete where
everything for its comfort and
cheer has been done without the
presence in it which redeems the
too soldid perSuit of present OPP
portunities by the tender touch of
the things of the past. NV hat is
home without a mother?' the street
ballad has il, but just as true and
foreible phrase would be. What
is home without a grandmother2'
Whether it is the brisk and bust
ling grandmother, whose years
set lightly and who is more useful
than any brownie in the home. or
the dear old saint whose work is
done aud who can only sit with
folded hands and show us now
near heaven is to earth. it is the
grandmother that is the real angel
IN the home. and every child i'll
the family thinks so.
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A lady received the following
reply from a nelghbor in answer
TO the question why she allowed
her children and husband to litter
MP every room iii the house. and
the sentiment will find Judgment
in the heart Of every home loving
person in the land: The mark
of the little muddy feet upon the
floor can be easier removed than
the stain when those little feet go
down iato he highways of evil
The prints OF the little fingers on
the window pane cannot SHUT or
the sunshine half so mneh as the
shadow that darkenS the mothers
don't understand the game. The rel
that in politics, as in any other walk
good work MUST KNOW about
and the men he works with. The Be
is to go the reformers who put him
thing better, and the boss system me
q human element to stand between t
The boss was the man originally
HELP. He understood the needs {
der which they lived. 1t was nothil
gave the boss his hold, and WHEN
his influence and fell. 1t is this sv1
former must give to the people if he
he is mistrusted because the peopl
in some reformers and a lack Of tn
as though the reformers were try
THE SAKE OF REFORMING
to make their lives brighter and ha.
They look upon reformer as
man in jail than to do kind act.
they say that if reformers among III
ing spirit than they do they dom
DON'T BLAME THEM. We
manitv and less self satisfaction wit
WE NEED MORE REFoRMERS
DERsTAND, FEEL, SEE AND K
MINDED AND OPEN HEARTED n