Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-30

11NToT learned, save in gracious household ways,
IN Not perfect nay but full of tender wants;
No Angel a dearer being all dipt
In Angel instincts breathing Paradise:
Interpreter between the gods and men,
Who looked all native 10 her place, and yet
On tptoe seemed 0 upon a sphere
Too gross tread, and all male minds perorce
Swayed to her from their orbits they moved,
And grdled herw with music Happy he
With such mother Faith n womankind
Beats his blood and trust in all things high
Comes easy him; and tho he trip and fall
He shall blind his soul with clay
G oMEoNE has said Since could everywhere He
- made mothers ruism merely figure of speech
mother is home-maker. home is haven of
refuge and of heaven.
mother IS the universal teacher From her the child
walk talk and to pray BY her he Is taught the
meaning and the practice Of all the virtues
The world its mothers than to other
source institution that has existed
Not that there are no good world There
and many of them.
But the relation of mother to her child and init
mate that of early association and
the peculiar physical relationship which exists between
and her child else does WELD such an IN
fuence she
The profession of mother only sacred and
usefu world; it the exacng and responsible
one without the least hesitation reservation
Ii is exacting the last degree.
The constant a child through the long and anxious
years Of infancy which there vacation change
Eternal vigilance is the all mothers pay for
healthy children And all mothers down to the valley of the
shadow ere they become such.
Sacrifice IS their daily lot. health beauty time, pleasure
all appeals young must be given up to the
toll day night for helpless and unconscious in
fancy Life itself often hangs in the balance
years mother and child strong
falls the mother to guide the child into the right
ways responsibility that few called upon to
and with which business ever loaded down. how
ever exacng the nature of his varied undertakings
lis note n a
credible sacrifice but it is 1lpad and equed in far too
Children we all know unhinkng They take
demand much How repay mothers care with
anything like Too often the
find adequate euogy only her tombstone
all husbands and fathers Joint with her children
and arise up call blessed her face and bring the
smile and the light eyes mothers average day is
hard all make brighter and easier for
her all days and every day.
How often do we bear this testimony:
"whatever have done that worth while it to
my mother2'
Happy the mother who receives the tribute from her children
that she deserves.
What shall daughter her mother her
She should aim at the cultivation of all that makes woman
hood attractive by tribute by appeals
chvar, by virtue Of hereditary position the weaker
But by devotion those ideals which properly belong
her the embodiment of the finer of mind and of spirit
the of God second and best thought.
How shall a son honor his mother her memory
BY remembering that womanhood sacred; that the virtue
he with his thought memory Of his mother should
the ground and personal by
remembering that there in Gods sight only standard Of
and that he be the single stand
ard in his relations with all women everasngl> to his
pighted honor husband giving love and service cheerfuy
and ungmdginely and showing ciNay and unefshnes
ashamed Of exhibiting the gener attributes OF conduct wen
the
pay srea,er compliment to memory Of
his mother than toward all for her sake especial
y toward his wife he would expect his mother his
o his wife to
man who PLAYS the Of life fairly with his follows
he has should not fail to play the farl, with
those whose relationship t. him that Of the closest affection
By lie VIII teach fairness %, showing where
exacted b the that rule his relation
ships with other