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MOTHERS or GREAT MEN.
Many of Them Really Remarkable
Women Who Welded Much In,
fluence Over Their Sons ~

A'AsSA.S " AAAOAsa sASS1ktlly AAt1AAAdI A0OAC
Women Who Welded Much In
fluence Over Their Sons.
The mothers ofimen Of genius have
been frequently somewhat remarka BILE
women, more remarkable than the
fathers. Caesar s. mother was "a
strict and stately lady of the old
school. unaffected by the cosmopoli-
tan laxity of her day. It's. greatest
son was always passionated devoted
to his mother, who. Shared his house
up to the time OF her DEATH: when
he was 4G years olds II Her: influ-
ence upon him was doubtless great
and beneficial. s~sG. '"..> ~
Charlemagne's mother also was "a
matron of the old school and made
her mark visibly upon the nature of
her son. who grossly ,deteriorated
after her death in his 42d year.
Cromwell's. mother was STRONG,
nomely andy keen''Sof face, with a
firm mouth and penetrating eyes, a
womanly goodness and peacefulne So
of expression" Cromwell thought
more of her than of ANY other woman
more than of his wife, She sur
vived her husband thirty seven years,
remaining throughout her life to her
Goth year by her sons side, "was
lodged by him in Whitehall palace
and royalty inferred in the Abbey
The mother of William the Silent,
who had seventeen children, five by
a husband previous to Williams ia
Their, was deYouts and affectionate.
endured a long life of calamity and
bereavement with heroic serenity and
courage. and died after an honorable
career, aged IT,: -' :
Napoleon attributed 'i1is elevation
to his mothers, training. laying down
the maxim, that the: future good or
had conduct Of "a Child depends en-.
tirely on the mother
Mozart, Goethe, scott, Leibnitz, Au-
gustine, Gregory and Francis d. Assist
all these had mothers of some note
and fathers of ess---Augustine's ia
ther was IAN unprincipled SCAMP"
1t is quaint to discover that. among
the ancestors Of Goethe-''the most
interesting, though not the greatest
man that ever lived"-there were
three tailors. His: mother was 1S, his
father 80, when he was born Mo-
zart who died of tubercular neph-
ritis-"a tubercular or strenuous faint
is in some way: q: .favoring condition
Of certain types OF esthetic and INTEL
lectual capacity had a lively but
delicate mother.,s. The mother Of
.Leibnitz was peacemaker, like her
son. 50 :
- .Augustine's $. ! mother. twas often
beaten BY her husband, and saw Wis
ions, and had "a i Aia1ectical subttety
that is reflected III the immortal
Confessions, '',t~fth much of the
1ooseness Of THE, saints own. earlier
/: days" ~: E ~ -. ~.
: Gregory's mother was a. veritable
saint. From his mother Francis d.
Assist: Inherited "his. delicate body,
gracious nature, courteous manners,
:intuittve reverence and dainty fastid-
iousness:" ;. s,|..
Martin Luther took after his
mother, who. although She had a rep
utation for m11dness, whipped him
till blood came for stealing nut!
Renan mentally was q true son of his
Gascon mother. small trad esman's
daughter--althougl. tinged by his ia
theirs. excessive sensibility, and Elmer
son was two thirds his mother, all
belt from. his father he inherited a.
trace of eccentricity.-Ma Manchester
. Guardian. : -: ;
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