The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-23

A cursed with motherhood Of vice
and crime, and there are marble
palaces on the princely avenue,
with every convenience that mind
can conceive. or wealth furnish.
Those well-fed, well-dressed chill
dren have mothers who are light
in intellect and shallow of heart,
who are bewildered in the mad
rush for pleasure, or tripped up by
the temptations that SO often lie
in the path of idleness and luxury,
and the champagne and the rapid
pace of the social engagements
saddle their minds and tire. their
bodies, and vitiate their mother
hood.
Some Of them get dissatisfied
with their luxurious palaces and
families and make a change. For
tunately, this type Of womanhood
is an exception, both in poverty.
and in wealth. The average moth
er amongst the poor In this coun-
try is a true, good woman.
The domestic fidelity of the
common people of this country is
a source of greatest pride, and a
measure Of its future prosperity.
In our free institutions there is an
opportunity for success to the
child that comes out of a home un-
blessed with motherhood.
| Thirty years ago, when a Re
publican governor Of Tennessee
was inaugurated, no one would
have thought that a little newsboy
on the street corner, a poor little
waif who had no name but Ben,
and did not know who his father
or mother were, would be the next
Republican governor to be inaug-
urated. That little waif was Ben
Hooper, recently inaugurated as
governor of Tennessee. Homes
that took the place of motherhood
were kindly furnished him One
of the beauties of the benevolence
of our times is that where mother
hood is lacking ii. shall have a sub
stitute as near as possible to. it
in the institutions of beneficence
The untrue mothers of the rich
are the exceptions, too. There can
be no more beautiful specimens of
an ideal home life than can be
found amongst the Intelligent, cul-
tivated and wealthy of our coun-
try. These mothers hire help, but
do not farm out their care nor
withhold their love from their lit
tie ones. They keep their eye on
the fashion plates, but they have
the teachers and the schoolbooks
ready as we'll They meet their
obligations to society, which are
becoming and expected of them
at the same. time that they render
the most unselfish devotion to
their children, and recognize the
responsibility that is upon them to
train them In intelligence, virtue
and piety Because a few rich
mothers are silly and wicked, 1t
would not be the fair thing to
overlook the multitude of the true,
virtuous mothers amongst the rich
who do not figure in the public
prints or In the courts, but are
steadily performing the duties that
are upon them.
We have spoken of the glory
and royalty of motherhood. 1t
must not be forgotten that the
father has to found the home, fur
nish its support, and example and
noble inspiration. In the raising
Of an ideal family an able and true
fatherhood is essential. And
motherhood, however attractive
d. devoted, is badly trammeled it
5he fatherhood be weak or uncon-
;erned, or untrue
In these days, when woman is
in justice 10 herself to
inter the doorways into the new
.allings, to the learned profess
,ions or business or art, or some
,ther employment, it may be we'll