The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-03
My Shrine

My Shrine
 "A picture where I daily place The fairest flowers by her fair face; Where, half believing that she knows,
 I twine the lily and the rose. Each morning since the day she died
 search the hills and valleys wide For bud and bloom and clinging vine,
 l To decorate this shrine of mine. 1 Somehow it helps to soothe the pain l That on my heart a year hath 1ain l It pleases me to think she knows ! Who wreathes her picture with a rose"
 To many mothers in these days of wars alarms have come from time to time the g1oomiest forebodings-th fear that further sacrifice might be demanded. Mrs. T. O. Smith, not long after issuing invitations to the lovely garden party which was consummated on Friday, thought once of withdraw ing her cards of invitation because as she said that morning, anxiety and uncertainty plaintly evident in her voice-"Unless we are assured very soon that the troops will not be called to Mexico, I shall have no heart for parties"
 But the fear of war is not the only test of this devotion that is purest and best in all the world. To the mother the side of her child, knowing the suf- ferer's every heart beat, fulfills his wish before he asks it--to her Is the glory. too. This winter Mrs. G. B. Me- Cormaclx sat and waited, alternately, hoping and fearing as she sought some t... t~.I.k l.~.t.x IL comfort to her sick son And then, through some miracle of skill and of patience, there came the turning point in her boys illness, and those who knew her loved her for the simple gratitude and the radiance of her joy that he had been spared. A similar test thought not so long, was borne daughter, Mrs. Owen Gillespy, is one of the younger mothers whose devo- tion to her children is an attractive characteristic.
 Younger Mothers
 There are scores of younger moth- CTS whom one might recount. Mrs. Leventritt of New York-Rosalie Joseph-may be claimed as a Birming .,am mother. She has named her wee son Marion Victor, in honor of his grandfather MT. M. V. Joseph, whose pride in his tiny namesake Is charm ing, though it must be expressed ever so far away from him down here in Birmingham, while Mrs. Joseph is his daily, adoring companion and will ac- company him to Mrs. Leventritts sum- mer home on the Hudson. Mrs. Rob- ert L. Gregory is another lovely young mother, and Mrs. Felton Wimberly is like a lovely Madonna as she smiles into the face of one of her two cherub like babies. Mrs. Charles Ungerman ir ict, mi bnr of mi esting little ones just as s,.e gathers them about her at home for heart to-heart. friendly talk A typical mod
 ern Madonna is the photograph chosen
 for the center of the group of mothers
 today. She is Mrs. Irby c. Hall of
 Collinsville--a former Birmingham girl
 and a sister of MT. James Randall and
 of Miss Blanca Randall the singer.
 And these are but the beginning of
 the story of Birmin gham mothers. One | might go indefinitely increasing the l list, with such charming women and
 beautiful mothers as Mrs. w. L. Mur-
 doch, Mrs. James BowI on. Mrs. F. J Dunn, Mrs. Stephen SmiSh. Mrs. Cald- well Bradshaw and her sister, Mrs l Cosby, Mrs. ]. ]. Gilmore. Mrs Ster- 1 ling Foster. Mrs. Culpepper Exum, Mrs | John Edmonson, Mrs. ]. E. Frazier Mrs Jelks Cabaniss. Mrs. Louis Un-
 derwood, Mrs. Burt Throckmorton and
 scores of others but the list, after l all, would be but a reminder that to- | day is Mothers Day If you have nc mother borrow one and-since the ob- ligations of motherhood are too neces
 sary and too comforting to be ignored l-you mother. If you are chfldless borrow one, for the sadness of Mother; | Day is that somebody mother ii
 childless and somebody's mother fs lmotherless