Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-05-12
"Mother's Day.
Savannah Morning News.)

In the city of Lincoln, Neb., today
the second Sunday in May2will be
especially celebrated in accordance
with a proclamation of the Mayor, as
Mothers Day" Every man and boy
in the city, as well as every male
visitor has been invited to wear
white flower today in honor of mo
Their" All of those who can possibly
do so are urged to call on mother"
today and those who cannot call are
asked to write a letter to her 1t is
believed that the day will be almost
universally observed in Lincoln, and
the Mayor, whose name is Brown, has
expressed the hope that the obser-
vance will become national within a
few years.
If poor human nature were not so
weakly constituted there would be
no necessity for this especial obser-
vance. Every day in the calendar
should of right bea mothers day =
There is no day of the three hundred
and siXty-five, or the extra one in
leap years, on which the mothers fail
for an instant in their devotion and
constancy to their offspring. The
sweetest and most unselfish love in
the world is that of the mother Wives,
husbands, children and friend may
prove tickle, but the mothers love is
always constant and true No man
or woman suffers misfortune wholly
alone so long as mother" lives. Her
patience, fortitude and hope are
limitless. In hours of blacklist de-
spair one may always turn with CON
fidence to mother" knowing full
wel that in her heart there will be
found unbounded sympathy and affec-
ton. Disappointment, even neglect,
do not change her. She is forever
mother" and forever the same.
But sons are negligent, the daugh-
ters are negligent They leave I'M
done those things which they ought
to have done, with respect to mo
ther,' for which they ought to pray
the forgiveness of heaven and her
The mother is rarely appreciated at
her value until it is too late to rem
der her full justice and tribute. So
long as she is in the home, the ten
dency is to regard her as a fixture
and an ever ready rock of defense
that needs nor requires a very great
deal of attention. But when, by the
mutations of time she is removed and
passes on to her reward, then it is
that the irreparable loss is realized
and the hearts of sons and daughters
are heavy with the weight of obliga-
tinos to her that were poorly paid
or not paid at all In the hurry and
worry of modern life it is too often
the case that the mother is assumed
to take things for granted. If the son
at home doesn't show her much at
tention, he assumes that she will I'M
derstand that it is because he is
too busy If the son who is absent
neglects to write, he excuses himself
on the ground that mother will I'M
derstand." In each instance the mo-
theirs heart is aggrieved, but she
never for an instant charges her
boy" with anything like shortcom-
ing. She finds a reason for his de-
linquency that will answer to her for
an explanation, and goes on loving
him the same as before.
If the Mayor of Lincoln shall have
hit upon a plan for bringing to the
attention of sons and daughters an
active sense of the duty they owe to
their mothers, and of inducing them
to pay something against the heavy
debit they owe he will have accom-
plished a graceful and grateful SER
vice