The Detroit times., 1909-03-16
IN Tit SHADOW OF EVERY GREAT
MANS FAME WALKS HIS MOTHER

I fame walks his mother. She has paid
the price OF his success. She went
down into the Valley of the Shadow 10
give him life. and every day for years
! and years thereafter she toiled inces-
I sanity TO push him on toward his
| goal
She gave the labor OF her hands for
his support: she poured into him am
bition when he grew discouraged; she
supplemented HIS weakness with her
strength; she filled him with her hope
and faith when his own failed.
AT last he did the Big Thing. ana
people praised him, and acclaimed
him. and nobody thought OF the quiet.
insignificant little woman In the back
ground. who had been the real power
behird the throne Sometimes even
the king himself forgets who was the
k.nyraker
II is wonderful what mothers do II
T. wonderful to think that there is
more than one mother sitting with an
OBJ, 1og-eared history upon her lap.
ana with little curly-haired boy
leaning against her, listening with
thrilling heart while she pours into
his ears the glorious story OF his
country. who is giving that child the
Impetus that some day will make hin!
president Of the United States
l. Is wonderful To think that there
is many mother tonight telling her
little 10y. as she gets him to sleep. the
tale OF Franklin and his kite and OF
now the wizard Edison found the fairy
that dwells in the electric light bulb.
who IL setting the little feet upon the
ioau OF electrical discovery that will
take hlm further than our magma
tons can even conceive.
Wonderful Things Mothers Do.
II is wonderful to think that there
is some mother who is teaching her
oaGy to bite back the cry OF pain
when be falls, who IS developing for
our need some soldier as brave as Lee
or Grant
Ii is wonderful 10 think that some
mother WHO is teaching her boy not
to mouth his words, is laying the foun-
dation for great orator TO build a
career upon. ana that some other
mott er who is encouraging and prais-
ing her little boy in his first effort at
Whiting is cherishing the flower OF a
great literary genius.
we look az great man and admire
his achievements, but IL we only fnew
Ne 81 ould see that his success is often
aud often cemented together with his
mothers blood.
lOI the men who do things have
nearly always had poor mothers. Many
Il great scholars education mas been
paid for by his mother standing over
cock stoves and wash tubs. Many u
.ublit man has owed his ability to
dress we'll and make show l., Dub-
lie, to his mother wearing patched and
turned garments and living in dingy
rooms.
Real Secret OF Mans Success.
Many an athletes mother has
scrimped herself Tor food so that her
boy might have the nourishment to
grow up big and strong The nucleus
OF many fortune has been handed
to some boy by his mother who took
down an old stocking from its hiding
place and poured into his hand the lit
tie nest egg that she had scraped to-
gether for him by incredible self.de-
NAL and economics.
Every man mounts TO success upon
the patient, brave shoulders OF his
mother II may be little success or
a great one. but she lifted him up just
as high Us she had the strength TO.
II the most egotistic self made man
in the world. drunk ON his own
achievements. could see clearly. he
would behold. as the real secret OF his
success. littb worn. old woman
that he calls mother And she would
have a visible halo about her head to
his eyes. as she went on her unpreten.
a.