El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-19
Have Mercy On Mother
She Has More to Do When Weather
Gets Hot, But Nobody Ever
seems to Think Of 1t.
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some one did not occasionally
point to the burden on every moth

IF some one did not occasionally
point to the burden on every moth
4 er's shoulders, the world would for
get she carried one. for she never com
plains. Could she have the longing OF
her heart gratified, her burden would
always remain invisible TO those she
She is happy so long as the burden
rest on her back 1t is when neg"
lect and Interpretation from her chill
dren lift the burden to her heart that
her sorrow begins.
Mother is in need of mercy all the
year, and her need is particularly great
in the hot days of summer. 1t IS then
that husband and children seek every
bit of cool air in the house and out
and mother is left in the kitchen The
Eteam from the cooking vegetables, the
wave of hot air from the oven where
the strawberry shortcake the family
demands is turning delicate brown;
the heat curling up from the iron that
is pressing out daughters dainty white
dresS-an these, if justice is done, are
mortal eyes, turning into the smoke or
incense before mothers shrine.
There must be more garments in
summer, which means more making,
more mending and a larger pile for
the laundry, and mother has only the
two hands she has at other seasons,
and the strength poured into them IS
not so great
There are preserves, and jams, and
iellies to be made, all labor that calls
for a hot fire; there are basting and
beating and stirring, all eXertiOn that
Quickens the blood and adds to the
heat, which is already intOlerable.
The buildings and cakes and pies,
which daughter spreads on a cool
messy picnic bank in the evening were
prepared in a hot, steamy kitchen in
the morning, and they represent the
work of mothers hands. Every call
ma o n
TENDER seems to carry a hot fire with
it. There is no one who can do these
things but mother. No one viii do
them but mother, and many girls argue
there is no one who should do them
but mother
1t is to these girls the plea is made;
have mercy on mother! She viii not
ask il for herself: she will not seek
it for herself She will plunge into
that fiery furnace of love and service,
commonly called the kitchen and suffer
there all day that her family may have
all the comforts of midsummer without
paying the price.
A girl must have wash dresses in
summer. She owes that to herself, and
she owes It to her mother that they
be of a fashion easy to make and easy
to laUnder. Fruits are a necessity, but
the benefit gained is lost, If the fruit
is SmOthered between rich pie crust
that increases the heat of the kitchen
in its making, and the heat of the body
in its digestion.
The office downtown was hot all day,
and the girl who has no mercy on
mother complains all evening because
she had to work in it, taking into no
account that the hottest office in town
is a delightfully."- cool summer resort
compared with the kitchen at home.
And all mother gets in pay is her
board and clothes, a great deal of
complaint, and an occasional scrap of
love which she glorifies and hugs to
her breast, and magnifies after the
manner of all mothers.
Have mercy on mOtheri Lessen her
labors and increase her wages. Pay
no heed to the foolish longing of a
fond heart that would be satisfied II
paid in love alone. but see that she
gets more.