The Laclede blade., 1906-05-26
Some Evening Rsvsriss.

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I much Of the trouble that exists in tn,
4 world. 1t is written that Eve wa
icreated after Adam, so woman has al.
ways occupied second place in the
management of the worlds affairs.
= Yet Eve must have possessed superior
mental qualities or she could never
have led Ada m into such evil ways,
! and the circumstances attending Ewes
unhappy interview with Adam all
point to the fact that Eve wac mental
ly Adams superior.
| Notwithstanding the fact that in
the beginning woman was second in
the race, it has been demonstrated be-
yond cavil that mother love is the ho-
liest, purest passion of the human
heart. The mother instinct is almost
supernatural. Even the brute mother
will die for her offspring, and when
the light dies out Of the mothers eye.
no other eye, save the eye of Omnipo-
tence, will ever follow the child in all
his wanderings as she has done.
1t is not pleasant to record the fact
that there are mothers who have sac
rifced motherhood to worldly ambi-
tion, and the most unhappy women
on earth are those who have set aside
filial ties in order to live lives of social
frivolity, and the time comes to all
such when the bloom of youth forsakes
the cheek and the fire of youth dies
out Of the eye. Such often turn to
their homes for sympathy and love,
only to find that they too have vanish
ed with their personal charms, and
when it is too late the sad truth dawns
upon them that they are unhonored
and unloved. The path of duty is
the only safe path, let it be ever SO
Fthorny, and the only safe guide-board !
points to the christian home.
There is no earthly tie so strong or
so sacred as that of'motherhood. So
ciety is held together by social ties.
Civic societies are bound by money
and oaths. These obligations are
like glrths of steel, yet none held like
the marriage bond when inyiolated
and unpolluted by vile theories.
There is only villainous abomina-
ton in the doctrine that leads Great ,
ure, called by courtesy man, to an
nounce that transfer of lis affec-
tions warrants breach of loyalty and I
desertion of one who has become his
wife and the mother of his children.
No guise ofprophecy can coYer SO vile ]
a principle; no charm of poetry gild t
so hateful a treason, and the breath
of perdition is on the lips of all such 7
as advocacate anything else than 10y :
atty to wifehood and motherhood.
1t is the mothers who hold the world :
in place. They are the balance wheels q
Of the universe. They hold the scep-
ter of power by controlling the afec- y
lions of men. "The hand that rocks ;,
The cradle" has controlled armies. .
Maria Theresa quelled the tumult of a
/ mighty army in Austria by raising :,
Ter fair hand, and we are told that all :,
vas hushed to silence, as in clear, :
Iweet tones, she spoke: "The bravest :,
battles that ever were fought, have = =
,een fought by the mothers of men,"
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Of all the love affairs in the world, b
lone can surpass the true love. of the n
zig boy for his mother. It is pure tc
nd noble, honorable in the highest Y
egree to both. I do not mean mere n
Y dutiful affection. I mean a love q
1hich makes boy gallant and cour- th
sous to his mother, saying to every b
Ody plainly that he is fairly in love to
ith her. to
Next the love ola husband, nothing tr
, crowns a woman's life with honor eli
} this second love, this devotion Of . th