The San Francisco call., 1913-09-16

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ADA has deported Harry Thaw after
all. and he IS travelling the trail that
his enemies hope may lead him back
again to the living death of the mad
house
# has aIls been a great adventure
his escape from sMatteawan, his spec
tacular flight his gallant and cour-
aE@ous fight for hbertS-and many
other people besides the warm hearted
and sympathetic Canadians will wish
that it may have a happy ending.
Particularly for his mothers sake.
The Heart of every mother in the land
is with that other gray headed old
mother en- route to Concord today
who is. waiting for the coming OF the
ssn, Svf0m she believed she was to see
free. at fast..
For seven long years she has kept
her faithful vigil without the gates
Of Mattea wan, spending herself and
her pforey without stint to Hberate
hira believing, hoping. praying that
she would succeed at last.
EPIC IN MOTHERHOOD
Never was there more profoundly
touching human tragedy than the
story Of. Harry Thaw ard his mother
1t sis. the epic of motherhood-of
d q
thousand deaths in the suffering of
its children. and only grieves because
it can not pay all of the price of the
prodigal's sin.
If she could take his place behind
bars Mrs. Thaw would not hesitate at
the sacrifice, for she loves Harry. not
only with the affection that the ordi-
nary mother bestows upon her men
children. but she worships him with
the impassioned love of a mother who
sees ia her son her own replica, one
who Is literally bone OF her bone, and
flesh Of her flesh. and spirit of her
Z. spirit.
No son was every more like a
mother than Harry Thaw is like his.
There, isn't a popularity of character
that one has that the other does not
also possess Not a mental quirk or
twist that he has. that she has not
Thev look at life from the same angle.
They put the same values on things.
They ahaEe the same curious streak
Of wild generosity and penurious
thrift. .-Tsley are even as one in their
cgoism and their belief that to be a
Ahae is to hold a sort of American
patent Of nobility
1T was because that she saw herself
reincarQated in Harry that Mrs. Thaw
has always loved him best OF all Of
her children. and that she spoiled him,
and stood between him and his stern.
hardheaded old fathers discipline,
when he was a boy. Perhaps that was
Why she. always has been able to
understand and make excuses for ex-
eesses that. one would have thought
would aIfave merited her severest cen
sure.
HER DEVOTION NEVER WAVED
~
When her Benjamin married against
her wishes' a woman who must have
been the most tagondstic person on
earth to the rigid Calvinist she is.
she forgave him and his bride and
took theni to her home. When he
COMMITTED murder in a moment OF
drunken and Jealous fury. his mother
rsshed 10 him as fast as steam could
bring her, and poured out her fortune
like water to protect him. And when
he was finally sent to Matteawan, she
took Up her residence in a little cot
tage at the gate With her own
hands she took him his food and she
spent with him every hour in which
he was allowed to see visitors.
The wife Cor whose sake he had
committed "a crime that jeopardized
his life. the. gay companions who had
feasted and frolicked with him, the
sycophants who had lived upon his
bounty, all fell away from him and
left him alone in the desolation of the
rnadhouse, but not his mother. Hers
was the only love that never failed.
And this is the tragic part Of It:
Reward Of all OF this devotion has
been with her, as with so many
other mothers, d living grief that has
brought her gray. fairs down in sor-
row 90 the grave. And that she
knows now is to have no ending.
Harry Thaw's favorite study is
philosophy He even knows he needs