The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-20
WOMEN ano SOCIETY
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door that you might sometime pass
Int TN hsatins Of the bitter rain;
Be Be- sure You take the key to 1t with
Else may Uv you never enter there again.
For travellers often pass that fatefui
And 10. il swings behind them in
Ana he can enter there no more. no
who holds not in his hand the magic
key.
But cen In Iongings. desolate and vain,
Must wander till all wanderinss shall
Nor md again, through the strons
An entrance to the room Of holy Peace.
And SO. if you should. weeping some
Across thethreshoid Of that SOLEMN
Hold fast the golden key of Faith. for
without it you can enter there no
VIII Allen Dromsooie.
TWENTY YEARS.
Winifred Black in New York Ameri'
A woman died of joy in Sacramento.
Cal, the other day because her son
was coming to visit her.
she had not seen him for twenty
years.
He telegraphed her that he was on
his way. and when she went down "
the station to meet him, the excitement
was too much for her and she droppeo
dead In the waiting room.
Twenty years? / wonder IL 1t was
worth while waiting all that time
Twenty years-and the boy she knew
was q man grown. a man with TAM
ily, and she had never seen him since
she kissed him goodbye when he was
a rosy youngster. and let him 80 on.
into the world to seek his fortune
Twenty years!---they were snort
years to him, full of life and Interest
and adventure--hut oh, how they must
have dragged to that lonely mother.
wonder IL you realize In the faint
est degree, you men who leave your
mother alone for years and years, what
the loneliness of those years is TO her!
You have, thousand interests
dozen friends, score of new Ideas ev-
cry year; and she has. II she is ike
most women who are mothers, nothing
on earth that she REALLY cares the
weight of a single hair for--but you.
who is there IN the world that is
worth while keeping you from your
mothers?
why, he'd leave you in minute Tor
the first pair Of laughing eyes that
called him.
The woman you are so dead in love
with?-she's In love with you. too, you
say Well, maybe she is-has she given
the best years of her life to you? Has
she sat UP with you night after nightr
Has she defended you against every
hint of accusation---fought your fights
as IL they were her own? If she has,
perhaps you ought to give up your
mother for her; but X she Is the right
kind of a woman she won't admire you
for doing it..
Don't bring your mother home to
live with the woman you love; that isn't
fair. It isn't fair to your wife and 1t
isn't fair to your mother-but don't let
anybody in the world keep you twenty
years away from the truest friend you
ever had In the world.
Twenty years.-I wonder how much
the things that kept him away 80 long
were worth to that man when he
walked into the waiting room and saw
his mother dead.
Dead of JOY and the long agony OF
waiting.
MISSES RICHARDSON SPEND
ING SUMMER SOUTH :.
Misses Minnie Reese and Coralie
Richardson, and their mother, Mrs.
Minnie Reese Richardson, are spend
ing the summer with their grandmoth-
err Mrs. Mary l.. Reese, at her sum
mer home at Gilmore. They are both
beautiful and charming girls. and un-
til a few years ago made their home
in this city. Miss Minnie Reese has
just graduated from the Emerson
School of Oratory. She shows decided
talent, as an elocutionist, and her
friends predict for her brilliant ca
reer. She spent last summer in Mont
pornarv where she was one of the