The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-14
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

Mothers Day celebrated
 Yes. all over America on yesterday tributes were laid at the feet of the mothers of men.
 Joaquin Muller, the poet of the Sier- ras, centers in his famous poem to "The Mothers of Men" His verse tells the true story.
 The bravest battle that ever was
 fought
 Shall I tell you where and when On the maps of the world you will
 find it not
 'Tis fought by the mothers of men,
 Here is human interest story that's frightened the heart of every man and glorified every mother who has read 1t. It stirs the rendered chords of our being.
 A pleasant-faced woman boarded a trolley car with her two small sons Curing the busy noon hour of the hoi- iday season. The smaller boy sat with his mother upon one side of the car, while the older. who was about 4 years old. took seat opposite. It in- terested him to look out of the win- dow, but frequently he glanced across at his mother.
 At length he called softly: Moth CT" No answer. Again he spoke: "Mother!' This time 1t was said a bit louder. and the mother looked over and smiled. The boys eyes lighted, and he whispered: Mother, I love you" The mother turned a glorified face upon her small son and men and wom- en in the car looked tenderly from one to the other. The trolley car had suddenly become a place of blessing because a little boy had voiced this ever-beautiful sentiment "Mother! I love you"
 Is it any wonder that governors, yes, that even the President of the United States. thinks it we'll to celebrate Mothers Day?"
 It's well to have a certain day, but every day mothers ought to have tho love and the honor that every man owes to motherhood.
 Coleridge was a great thinker but in all of his philosophy, yes, in all of his poetry, he never competed a greater or more beautiful truth than when he said:
 "A mother is g mother still,
 The holiest thing alive"
 Froebel, who did so much for child life and made the teaching of chil- dren a new science. was in tune with Tennyson, who in "The Princess said :
 'The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom"
 It may be treason to say such a thing, but just let me ask if it isn't true that the question of children s rights and mothers rights is as fun damental as a woman's civil rights? Um in favor of the latter.)
 But one upon earth is more beau tiful and better than the wife-that is the mother. was said by a newly mar ried man who looked on his bride as the woman who was to be the mother of his children.
 Tn these days of eugenics and the cult for the limitation of families, it's to hear blunt old Walt Whitman in answer to the query, Who shall put foundation beneath the rare structure?" saying. "The be- loved mothers of large families"
 Froebel well knew that only the quiet, secluded sanctuary of the fam fly can give back to us the welfare of mankind. It's rooted deep in the home and because of this I'm boosting the "Buy-a- Home" campaign.
 Yes, buy a home first. before you ask the girl to marry you. and if you want to be strictly up- date, bring her fruit blossoms as we'll as orange blossoms from her back yard to be and when the wedding march is over you can rest assured that if you grow the vegetables she will have roses to put on the table.
 "A house is built of bricks and stones,
 of sills and posts and piers; But a home is built of loving deeds
 that stand thousand years. A house, though but an humble cot
 within it's walls may hold A home of priceless beauty rich Tn
 loves eternal gold."
 And so let each real estate man try with might and main" to sell at least one home this week. The campaign needs a lift from newspapers, preach CTS, bankers. merchants, manufactur- CTS. builders. etc.
 But don't forget that while "The men of earth build houses
 halls and chambers. roofs and
 domes.
 But the women of the earth--God
 knows!
 The women build the homes Eve could not stray from Paradise. for
 Oh! no matter where Her gracious presence lit the way, To-
 Paradise was there!'
 Yours for homes for everyone,