The Washington herald., 1909-05-30

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Mamie now she is looking i'm. Yes dear 1 would
Run along and tell her. and bring her in to see
Mother
To My Little Woman;
TT WELVE years odl Twelve years oldi It
seems only yesterday since you were my baby.
Have you changed much? Yes, dear. Your hair is
darker, 1t is like your fathers now, and your face
is oval. Your eyes are the same color but
can see the first trace of coming maturity there,
the awakening of your own judgment They can
see relative values little You would not
cry tonight If you could not get your tomorrOws
lesson The teacher is still an exalted parsonage
but she is not superior being; sometimes you
see a mistake that she makes. And you leave
school at the school house now. oh, you are get
ting big fast too fast.
No. you win never be too big for mother to oud-
die. DO 1 think you will be pretty? What was it
papa said when you asked him that? That you
would get the swell head" If he told you? Well
that was telling you, wasn't it? But ara not
afraid of that Heads with brains inside never
swell, and hope you have few Yes, 1t is gOoi
to be pretty but prettness is only the charm that
You don't understand all that, do solemn eyes?
but you will after awhile, Oh, you are such dear
little comrade, my daughter. So many things
have talked over with you. Hug me tight. my lit
tie woman, my little girl. No matter what hap
pens, you shall always have this memory of
Mother
To My High School Girl
RI AVE you finished your Latin and Greek and
A. the rest? I'm glad. Mother likes to have you
SIT the porch with her, in the dusk. 1 wonder
how much of 1t all you viii remember whom you
have a fifteenyearold of your own. No, mother
doesn't remember much of hers. She has thopght
of you much, deare, that things of lesser value
were crowded out Which year of you have /
liked the bestP Bless you, every year you are
everything you have been and something
You haven't lost anything worth the womans keep
ing and like to keep even the little silly things
you put away. That gggle that used TO worry
your father-it didn't show any great intellectual
tendency-dont pinch so hard, dear-but it never
worried me; knew. There are other things about
your age that worry more
DO you remember ! told you when you began
school that there things you would like 20
remember? Well at your age there is danger that
you will put in your memory things it will hurt
TO remember You shocked at the way
Mamie acted with Billy last night DO you think
she will like to remember that when she is grown?
know that you are seeing already, In shy
way the possible lover among your boy frienus.
Every girl of fifteen is going TO have lover. But,
dearie would have you think of the
you saving yourself for the you going
TO love you will waste nothing precious before he
comes And when he comes, my dearest, you viii
be able to measure him by your love. AS you
would not, even for your sake have him do aught
that did not exalt him, so you would know ne
could not ask you for aught that would not eXalt
YOU
Would write to Fred when he goes to school?
Surely; why not, so long as you write so that the
neighbor? And you may dance with Joe and play
golf with Jim, so long you can keep them feeling
that while they are part OF the pleasure they are
not the pleasure You wouldn't give a merchant
two dollars for piece OF lace he offered for
and no one Will give you more respect than your
selfrespect demands. oh, want you to have such
q good time, deare, such good boy and girl time.
BE my girl now, sometimes blithe and gay, on.
thusiastic and gushing and gggly, sometimes seri-
Gus and steady and dreamy, and hopeful and help
ful-just a girl; but keep a shrine in your heart
for the woman who is TO come into her own by
Mother.
To Mothers Young Lady.
r. IGHTEEN tomorrow What do think Of that?
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