The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-11

she would come.
 The Mother Heart is ALWAYS on the job.
 Because a mans in prison she doesn't pass him up. No indeed.
 Parodists. have tried hard to get funny over the old song, "A Boys Best Friend is His Mother" but there's too much honest truth in it for anybody to under mine it's appeal. Anybody's best friend is that persons s MOTHER.
 There's a good old ringing toast that l dearly love.
 Maybe you know it:
 We have toasted our sweethearts
 Our friends and our wives;
 We have toasted each other,
 Wishing all merry lives;
 Don't frown when l tell you
 This toast beats all others:
 Drink one more sip, boys,
 Toast to Our Mothers"
 One good mother is worth-but why try to express in cold, gray type compari- son for which Bankrupt world holds not enough preciousness to balance?
 The fount of deep, strong and deathless love that wells up in Mothers heart has been the theme of many a poet after life had taught its sad lesson of the lighter loves that pass.
 A Mothers love believeth all things. trusteth all things, endureth all things, and suffereth ali neglect without ever having its affections diminished
 It's the ONE certain thing in this fleet ing old world of vacillating uncertain ties.
 read a pretty Dedication" once, in little book, something like this
 My Mother will read this book through two pair of spectacles; one will magnify it's virtues, the other diminish its de- fleets. It is therefore dedicated to HER. ,
 Every mother wears two pair of inyis- ble spectacles-always
 The fortunate ones are the children who are not too mole-eyed to see and appre- ciate what an alchemist a Mothers Love is.
 Each mother Crow thinks her own lit- tie old Crow is the whitest-and Heaven knows, most young crows are black enough in all faith. But she doesn't think so.
 You remember what Mark Twain said about not all of us having the good for tune to be Ladies.
 We said the clever humorist, ..have not all been generals, or poets. or states men. but when the toast works down to the Babies, we stand on common ground because we've all been BABIES. '' 1 And having all been babies. if we have the saving grace that bows down before long suffering. devotion and, patience and 1 love justified and undeseIved, we will not withhold our tributes Tomorrow Mothers Day-to the Mother who bore us, when we must have been merely a hideous, little chubby, fat. red atom to al. the rest of the world
 There's just ONE mother-YoUR motheri
 Remember that, - Tomorrow is a good time for you to take a Trial Balance and see just how much you owe her.
 Because she is your mother; no doubt she will erase all the pages on which il might be written down. how much she l has given you. of affection and tenderness and how very little you have given her \ in return.
 Tomorrow will be an excellent day fol you to turn over a new leaf on which HER name will play an important part | for it's as true now as the time wher the poet wrote the worlds M pThou canst replace friend. husband | wife. @A
 But not thy blessed Mother" | There's "a very old song, in very old i play, that pays fitting tribute to thu Queenhood of MOTHERS, in saving: l 'Then crown her Queen Der all thf | World. l For she's the Realest Queen of then | all.' SOJrTHERN RAILWAY