The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-06

If he takes up the burden of family
'Atfe and carries it like man" it puts
new power into his life
Ever see an oriental woman carry a
great jar of water on her head? What
power and poise and grace in her
movements! The burden does it, 1t
makes her figure straight and her mo-
lions supple
And so of the family load.
He who takes up the support of
Family finds that the doing of 1t keeps
him straight and well poised.
Marriage has made shy man self
reliant. a selfish man generous, an in
'afolent man ambitious, self centered
man self sacrificing.
Marriage is the acid test.
1t puts responsibility on a mans
shoulders. and responsibility. .sfightIy
assumed, develops character.
Here is d man who. unmarried, is
content to live in comparative comfort
without much exertion. He takes life
easy. He may have gifts. but is with
out ambition. The man marries, and
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ing demands make larger income
necessity. 2&
The new demand is dynamic
The man bestirs himself. He works
hard. He increases his income. Aud
in doing so he discovers new powers
In himself Marriage has developed
him
The dependence of family upon
him wakes up every fiber in manly
anan. He is made stronger in every
way. And
Aside from the financial require
ments, the trials and troubles of fam
lily life bring out in him traits of self
denial and long suffering and devotion
little suspected.
Especially does the birth of children
in his family draw out and give ez-
preston to all that is strongest and
best in husband and father
The bachelor is not so.
He is apt to live selfish life He is
apt to be cold and cautious. He is apt
to be heart calloused by the hardening
and depressing of what is best In his
nature.
Moral?
The moral Of these observations lies
lin the appreciation Of them.
MOTHER LOVE.
Look, how this love-this mother-runs
through all
This world God made even the beast, the
bird -Tennyson-
Mother love. which. as Tennyson
says, runs through all the world. is
limitless.
1t is as spontaneous. as exhaustless
as the love Of God
An exchange tells the story of an
Indian mother down on the Texas
coast who. with her children, faced
starvation. The mother searched ev
erywhere along the shore for food
Finally she could walk no more.
Then this poor mother cut strip of |
nesh from her own body, which she |
FUSED as bait to tempt the crabs.
And thus she fed her babes until help |
came to her
Mother love demanded the pound of /
sdesh, ard there was no Sinking. and |
there would have been no Sinking had |
the flesh been taken nearest the moth |
er's heart.
Motherhood pays its debts to the last
Tarthing
Not long ago the newspapers told the /
story of how Mrs. Ella Macarthur jour
neyed on foot 1000 miles, drawing d
little express wagon, that she might |
aseep her children together and reach
some relatives in the north.
1t was the only way the mother
knew, and she gladly undertook the
journey. It was a true heroic-on:y
one Of the many in the annals of mo-
'er love-
Love for her unborn child leads the
future mother down into the valley
and shadow of willingly. cheer.
fully, hopefully-and love leads her te
offer herself through all the years
living sacrifice for that child. i
1t matters not whether the neither
be rich or poor.
Against the protest of her physicians
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pulsively kissed her child who was
dying of diphtheria. The mother died
because of it, but she could not deny
the dying request of her little one for
a kiss.
Mother love gives all.
For the love of her Maynard boz
Mrs. Thaw poured out the devotion Of
a mothers heart and unstintedly gave
her money to save that boy from til
5gallows.
Mother love stops short only at
working miracles.
Somebody was it?--said that
when God discovered after he had ere
sated Adam that ne could not be around
all the time be created mothers,
Mothers take the place of God.
TARSUS.
Let brctherly love continue. Paul.