Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16

Beats gladly IN Ine April ram.
The little leaves leap out and look
To see the marching of the troops;
The vines beside the singing brook
Release their coiling curves and loops;
THE rose awakes within the bud,
The trees are tingling in their veins
with sap that courses like new blood
When comes the first of summers rains.
And you and l. we marvel most
Al all the miracles it brings
This herald rain that calls the host
OF bursting leaves and blossomings;
And when the rainbow filings its blaze
Of living color as of old
We know that in the woodland ways
II rests on summers buried gold
Exchange.
Good Mothers as
Makers of Great Nations.
The old saying Like mother like son"
is historically correct. Henry ". of
Germany becomes a miserable prince,
bur. blest with a wise mother, Louis TX
nf France grows up into a man of God
4 distinguished writer has called atten-
ton to the fact that of the sixty-nine
mouarches who have worn the French
crown only three have loved the people.
and all these three were reared by their
mothers. st. Louis was trained by
Blanche, Louis MI. by Maria of Cleves.
and Henry ~. by Jeanne d'Albret; and
these three were really the fathers of
their people.
Sir Walter SCOTS mother was a su-
perior woman, a lover of poetry and
painting Byron's worst enemy was his
mother-She was proud and ill-tempered.
The mother of Napoleon was of superior
mind and deep piety. The mother of
Nero was murderess. The mother of
Patrick Henry was marked by superior
by Blanche, Louis XII. by Maria of the
Wesleys was distinguished for her intel
lectual powers and executive ability. so
that she has been called the mother of
Meth0dism.
Mothers have trained our presidents
and statesmen. Washington's father
died when George was only II years old.
jefferson, Madison, Jackson and Harri-
son, the elder, were left fatherless when
only small boys. Tyler, Hayes and
Cleveland depended upon their widowed
mothers for their training. Abraham
Lincoln confessed that among his most
pleasant "reminiscences were those of his
excellent mother, to whom he imputed
the best and brightest qualities he had
Inherited Lincoln also owned that it
was his Stepmother, more than any 9TH
er persons, that made him the man he
was.
Gen. Grants mother went into a room
at certain hour of each day during the
war to pray for her Ulysses. President
Mckinley left the capitol and the affairs
OF state to watch at the side of his dy-
Ing mother, TO receive her last blessing
and to give her his last kiss. Garfeld's
father. died when the future President
was babe. On the day of his Inaugural
ton he turned away from all the repre-
seltatlves of kings and queens and from
q al the great men and beautiful women
VINO had gathered to do him honor. and
Il ha n Of box fol 10,
the oath of office was to kiss the wrink-
led face of his mother and say: Mother,
You have brought me to this
John Quincy Adams till the day of
ms death, said the little prayer his moth
er taught him, Now l lay me down to
sleep" Daniel Webster's mother first
fostered those abilities which ultimately
made him so long distinguished.
II the world was lost through woman
she alone can save it. The future of So
Gety is in the hands of the mothers.
Inc mother in her office holds the KEY
OF the soul, and she it is who stamps
the coin of character.
our homes have made America peer
les samOng the nations. Any encyclo-
Pedia of American biography will prove
mat our most Industrious statesmen, our
most distinguished scientists, our most
eioQuent preachers, our merchant princes
ana our great benefactors came from the
humble families, where the mothers rule,
not as queens of fashion, but where the
nursery for the family is the nursery for
tne church; where the first lispings of
childhood are the accents of player and
me hrst thoughts of the heart are the
thoughts of God.
The Jews are universally admired for
tne affection which adorns their domestic
NE The foundation of the Jewish faith
was laid in the sancity of domestic af-
lection ntNI ~
maze the mistake of separating the
church and the home. His piety nestled
meath the shelter of two truths-one was
me dwelling where he lived with his
MHIe and children in some corner of the
lHioiy Land and the fear of his father 8
Tod. According to the Jewish magma
uoh' the Divine presence was the atmos-
pleFe OF that house and gave it an indie
%cr6able beauty. His wife was q vine
God's hand had planted, and his children
as olive trees around his table. We need
iu1l wonder that these synagogue Jews
"9Fe gwen to the world a greater number
VI great men than any other race in pro-
portion to their numbers.
=, lac German empire is great because
GGFIlhan homes are good, because the
Imam mothers are industrious, eco
D3mical, honest and virtuous.
treat Britain is great because it has
I'ueI homes, because British mothers
4re intelligent and pious. In the special
g-piay Of the Victorian jubilee nothing
vas so beautiful or so glorious as the
queen kneeling at the altar, taking com
-.hion' throwing her arms around her
14uaren and grandchildren, as they came
,'4e after another to kneel at her side.
.t>Hihg and crying over them like a child.
n4e never rose so high in her royalty as
z@-en she knelt, simple mother. cry
~ over her children at the altar of God
English ships and soldiers ana gold and
ZONES are the incidents; the real secret
nations greatness is a sauctified
, -sshood. The Angl0-Saxon people
"a' continue to march to the mastery of
.. world and be the teachers Of truth,
ss aFolterS of right and the proclaimers
Peace as long as they hold woman
- III ue7st regard and preserve the purity
q. napoleon recognized the fostering in
vy,-eAce Of the home when he said: What
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