Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-12

governor and his wife. and of the visit
the governor and his wife asked her 10
make to the nursery TO see the baby.
When they reached the nursery, she said.
the governor took the baby in his arms
and sang a verse of Dutch sleep
song
Mrs. Schoff Reminiscent.
Then Mrs Schoff told how the kiad exc
pressions of fealty to the mothers
cause of that Governor of New York had
helped the cause along. Finally, she
stated, that governor came to fill higher
office-that of President of the United
States.
Here we found him just as strong for
the work of the mothers, Mrs. Schof
said, land he is just as earnest in his
efforts to help US. We have found the
doors of the White House open to us.
just the doors of the governors man
sion were. / feel that il is due to Presi-
dent Roosevelt that the mothers con-
gress idea has spread to the uttermost
parts of the civilized world declared
Mrs. Schoff, and I'VE are proud to num-
ber among our members the wife OF the
President of the United States, and to
have her with this morning. Ladies.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt
At the announcement the audience arose
and enthusiastically applauded: Mrs.
Roosevelt also arose and bowed In
encouragement OF lIle ONdtioli.
Spirit of the Home.
The first paper of the morning was pre-
sented by Mrs. Henry J. Hersey. president
of the Mothers Union of Colorado. who
spoke on The Spirit of the Home
Mrs Hersey said, in part
I'm speaking 10 an organization which
pledges itself first of all to raise the
standard of home life it may be unneces-
sary to suggest the importance and dig
nifty of what we call small things The
true mother learned long ago that while
her sphere is in her own home. she must
draw from the whole wide world the helps
which enable her to bring that home up
to its highest possibilities.
NO one said Mrs. Hersey, can
live another's life nor solve anothers's
problems The Divine purpose which
has made individual forces each
to do for himself. Methods are methods
only--not principles AS we look back We
all see how hard 1t was to learn. How
confident we were, after the first baby
was well out of infancy, that we had
learned all about it The second baby
brought a rude awakening. Everything
that had worked so beautifully before
failed this time. He would not sleep as
the other had done He could not digest
the same kind of food. And he grew
older the methods of correction and dis
cipline tried and proved with the first
were found useless now.
SO continued Mrs. Hersey. we learn
we really learn--that method is not
principle and that when "A woman says
4 always do and so she is not master
of her subject Yet there is a right and
a wrong and we all yearn for the one
and shrink from the other. Our common
purpose is to find the touchstone which
will discriminate between them. This
to,,chstone" she added. may be called
The Spirit of the Home and the three
sides of it's symbolic triangle are unity.
corporation and courtesy Think what
1t would mean she said If the heart
of every man and every woman wera
hidden a definite home ideal. a conscious
purpose toward which every thought.
word and deed would contribute.
Presence of the Ideal
when the mother sees her daughter.
Continued on Fourth Page.)