Arizona republican., 1911-03-27
Your Mothers Old Age


Your mother in her old age? Have you ever thought about that? Have you ever thought about your mOth CTS future even before she reaches old age?
 All mothers that are mothers at all, are more or less sacrificing and yours no doubt is no different than the rest in this respect Perhaps she has been wonderfully self sacrificing in her efforts to raise you and give you your chance in life. What are you going to do for her after you get your opportunity and are established in life? Marry and leave her to pick her way alone through life?
 Or are you going to think of her first as she used to think of you and as she thinks of you now? If you are you are showing the right kind of principles and proving your claim to womanhood or manhood.
 Unfortunately it is the habit of young people to forget that life is just as sweet to those who have passed beyond youth or middle age as it is to the younger generation and so the elders are left to eat their hearts out in loneliness and longing
 mother sews. keeps boarders and does other honest things to provide for the children an incapable or dis solute father will not She gives her children every advantage that is pos sible. She teaches them to be good men and women and she builds her ,r-tn frrft Thax- up. They enter upon life. They start off better than she had ever dreamed One enters hopefully upon a professional life and another takes up something else with as good pros poets. And so it goes through the whole list.
 For a fw years the mother is hap py. A part of all she has worked for has come about. One son vows he will never marry as long as his mother needs him. He starts to buy home which shall shelter them through life. Again the mother sac rifices and works to help him ac- complish his task. How hard she works no one realizes. least of all herself until long after. Things run along beautifully for few years The mother dreams of her beautiful serene old age with her kindly bach elor son. Life is particularly rich and attractive. She has come to a point where she need not work so hard. She can rest without depriving others of necessities or comforts.
 But one day there is a discordant note. The son introduces the name of another woman into their conver- sation and the way he utters it with fear And these fears grow Then one day a new daughter is brought into the home.
 She brings no love for the patient old mother. Only contempt for the work marked hands. Extravaganza dssipatss all the mothers sacrifices had won. Then comes the breach between mother and son. and the mother goes her way
 Curiously enough the other children tincture every morsel of bread and every cup with the thought of de- pendence and the mother feels her self burden where she should be the honored guest.
 Is this history of you and your mother? If it is hasten to write a new and brighter chapter before it is too late. for only curse can follow those who neglect or abuse the moth CT who has made life a success for them or who has helped them lay the foundation of that success. And the bitterest hours they will ever know will come when it is too late to rem edy their thoughtlessness and when reproach eats into their souls.
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