The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-27
The Mothers Letter .

Dear Boy: Last year, Thanksgiving
 time, also sthe. year before, You wrote you were too busy to come
 homeward, as of yore. You said your work demanded that But hoped that maybe later on" you'd I bore 1t patiently enough--you didn't
 know I cried fi Each time almost as hard as when
 your blessed father died. But this year. as the day draws near,
 1t seems ] can't forego The joy of having you at home-you
 mustn't tell me No" I'm not so strong some way, my boy:
 I'm haunted with a dream Of days when he. was with mel can
 see the firelight gleam Upon his rugged, tired-out form when
 ne came home at night
 fireplace brave and bright T see our kitchen table as we ate our
 evening meal
 No single towhead missing; then the p,u honey feelings steal .s..u an Right back into my heart-theyu all
 be here but yod, ana so That's why l write to tell you that you
 mustn't tell me No" Your mothers not weakling or a
 baby. but, my boy,
 I thought you'd like to have me tell You used ton eGhiS the soIdes ph %s days when Lisp .''Muvver, sisters helpin'--ain't
 you dot q job for me?'' -.it seems a little task, |
 me is this I ask The man that's still "my babe" to me,
 would let his business go And eat Thanksgiving dinner with his
 mother-is it "No2" -
 M a R
 DOES LOVE SPOIL MEMS WORIzt On the question Does Love Spoil Mems Work" a writer in The New Orr leans Picayune has this to say:
 ''To the Frenchman. the German, to the man on the Continent, matrimony the man who, like a piece of driftwood floats aimlessly down stream Into 2 good citizen, a careful business man and conscientious worker; she awak- ems ambition in him, she makes him. Il anything can, a success in life.
 .4TO the Englishman marriage is nothing. His wife is the cigar he smoked yesterday--not worth talking about.
 "Even when he is counting the girl he says he loves, he does not talk wo- man or make pretty speeches to her or pay her compliments, His, thoughts are not whit more or less concentrat- ed on his work because of her. His crieketa does not sufferi he is not less fit for his football matches because ot her.
 "When he has a free half hour after the serious work of life is over (the work of sports and business). he will consent to come and talk to her--prop- ably about politics or the latest cut in coats; never about love.
 After the wedding he leads the same .E.Fw a. N.a fore, except that he perhaps works Q little harder. His wife has made nc difference. He goes 70 the club as of ten, he takes as keen an interest in his sports, he bets mildly. and he gambles mildly. He is also quite as ready rf run after the next pretty face he sees And yet this Is astonishing, for ths Englishwoman is, consider, the most beautiful and clever woman m tnt s'Yet, with all her charms, she hal less influence over men than any othe whom I know. With beauty to attrac and with brains to enliven she ls onI. "a ngurehead In the social scheme. o British lite.
 And. worst of all. she does not de mana to share her huspand's work. 4 wuman's duty does not begin and enl in being a good housewife and Iaith' full mother. It is not thus that she ear influence her husban6. She must worl with him, share his business worries and troubles, understand his failure. and his success.
 "The Englishman will not allow 1t you say. I know it, but that Is because the Englishwoman does not demand il as her right.
 If she co-operated with her husband and insisted upon sharing his life, Eng land would not only be the greatest nation in the world today, but the greatest that ever existed--she would be Greece and Rome In one.
 Marriage makes a man more of a man. It teaches him lessons that he could never have learned otherwise."
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