The citizen., 1914-07-24
Crude A Column
Thoughts 1OIIlP Dedicated
As They to Tired
Fall Nn0I0 Mothers
From the OlAOlC As They
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A THOUGHT FOR MOTHER.

A THOUGHT FOR MOTHER.
Yes. the summer is past and mother
failed to get her vacation. And now
comes the fall sewing. the winter gar
men,s to be chosen and perhaps made;
the house cleaning with all Of its attend.
ant horrors, the picking Of the autumn
dainties which will give zest to many
winter feast, and the general manage
ment of the whole domestic machinery,
so that no little part will become clogged
or its squeaking disturb the harmony Of
the home. As summer has brought
mother no vacation, no change OF seen
cry, what wonder, then if her face is
pale, and her step little slower, her
smile no less sweet but less frequent
than OF old3 Every one is sorry for
mothers disappointments, but all take it
as a matter OF course, as she never COM
plains. So the domestic mill goes grind
ing on until one day there is all confusion
in the household; the machinery is all
swrv, for the hand that guided it has lost
its cunning and has dropped nerveless
by her side. Mother has borne the bur
den too long, it becomes too heavy and
she is crushed beneath it. Is this not
true picture that we have sketched Tor
yoHl Is not mother too often left out?
Girls you know that it is So and the
conscious blush rises to your. cheeks and
you hang your heads and are ashamed
of your own selhshness. We write this
so that you may be more thoughtful OF
your mothers in the future. You will
never regret any sacrifice that you have
made to tighten her burdens and bring
into her life all of the sweetness possible.
MOTHER.
Many man has grown eloquent in
thought and word as he recalled his
mother. The word means something
different to every man. but ii means
much TO all men. A man who always
speaks we'll of his mother is generally
man who can be trusted We note the
fact that one of our Vice Presidents in
making a speech several wears ago,
paid a beautiful tribute to his mother
The Campaign Committee are now using
that part of speech with the assertion
that man who remembered his mother
like that ought to be a man who could
be trusted in the public service and this
is what he said:
ssI think back through the years, both
lean and fat, good and bad, to my ear
lieSt recollection. saw woman with
an eye that flashes swift as an archangel's
wing, and a mouth that breaks with
laughter and hardens at the sight of
wrong. singing lullabies; woman who
with her hand grasping the unseen hand,
walks the brier bordered paths Of life,
unashamed, unafrafd, and unharmed
She is clad in garments OF beauty to me-
and age does not soil them. nor years
make them cheap and tawdry. Her
tongue is without guile, having never
been the messenger of a lie. II is seven
teen years since her soul went home to
God, and her fingers became to me the
fingers OF an angel but | have not for
gotten what she said. She told me that
there was Santa Claus, and believed
her But he brings me no longer drums
and flies But he still brings to me the
vision OF my mother and the music Of
that angelic chorus which sang at crea.
TONS dawn and al the hour of mans re-
demplion.
Smoothe out the wrinkles on your
forehead when you go home to dinner.
This will help your wife TO retain her
youthful appearance.