Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-14
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lives devoted to getting and keeping.
The two children force themselves
upon their attention, and much against
the inclination of the spinster ladies'
and especially Of Miss Vilda-they
were finally given home. These
ladies had before thought that in their
peaceful, quiet and comfortable lives
they were doing their full duty and
reaping corresponding happiness, but
it is written of them, that after de-
Gliding to make a home for the waits
their old homestead wore a new as
pect. and a love of all things seemed
to have crept into the hearts of its
inmates as il some benefcent fairy OF
a spider were spinning web OF ten
derness all about that house, or as il
a soft light had dawned in the midst
Of great darkness and was gradually
Frightening into the perfect day. And
that in the midst of this new found
gladhess and the sweet cares that
grew and multiplied as the busy days
went on, Samantha's appetite for hap
piness grew by what it fed upon, so
that before long she was a little un-
happy that other people We're not as
happy as she. And Miss Vida like
one of old, hid all the doings of these
waits in her heart of hearts. and
loved them with love passing knowl-
edge. If this is the experience of
foster mothers no much more does
real motherhood add to the life of
woman.
But whatever the sacrifices made
by mothers. there are corresponding
joys. None of the satisfaction brought
to manhood by success, love or honor,
can be compared with the ecstasy
only motherhood yields. Not even
the young mans first experience in
love can compare with the Joy of
the mother heart when her first-born
is laid upon her breast, or with the
pleasure she experiences at it's first
smile it's first word, step or tooth
Man may in some measure appreciate
but he can never describe the d.
vine ecstasy and happiness of moth
erhood.
I know a lady, now seventy-six
years of age, who married just before
the Civil war. Her husband enlisted
and served three years, and during
the few remaining years Of his life,
suffered from disease contracted in
the army.
They had three children, and no
property. The mother was compelled
to support the family by working
from ten to twelve hours per day in a
cotton factory, and do her Homework
as well. She did all this and so reared
her children that one, a daughter, is
the most influential woman for good
in the county in which she resides.
One son was killed in an accident,
and the other died in young man.
hood. For years they suffered for
food and for sufficient clothing. The
mother endured severe sickness; she
buried her husband and her two
children. With her it was work,
work, work, and one sorrow after an
other, with little in the way of COM
pensation, as the world looks for CON-
pensation.
4 know of no woman, who ever had
harder lot, yet this woman, in her
old age, looking retrospectively over
her life, her hardships, her suffer
ing, her sacrifices, and casting a
balance between these things and her
joys, says that if she could live her
life over, knowing that she would
have to encounter the same exper-
fences, and with the same results,
she woulo gladly do so.
Whatever the facts may be, each
child has the right to believe that its
mother was good and pure woman.
I have seen many extraordinary
thing in he courtroom. II l were
a trial judge I seriously doubt wheth.
err would ever grant divorce to a
man who placed his child upon the
witness stand to testify against its
mother. Such an act is an act Of the
EXTREMIST cruelty toward both the
child and the mother.
/ have no sympathy with that rapid
ly growing philosophy which would
deny to mothers of the land the
privilege of guiding, teaching and
rearing their offspring, but in place Of
this would turn them over to the heart
less custody Of the state, and rear
them as wards of the public. We may
deprecate and condemn the cruelty of
capital, the hardships encountered by
the man who labors, and the greed
which makes child labor necessary
but none of these things, even in their
most unrestrained form, can compare
with the atrocity which those would
commit who advocate the destruction
Of the ties of home and the holy re-
lation OF the child to the mother, and
the mother to the child.
Young men, boys and girls, it is
some times thought that the decrepit,
the old fashioned, the wrinkled.