The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-29
THE BEST FRIEND A GIRL HAS.

Girls who look up to and try to
makes their mothers happy are indeed
only doing their duty, yet most OF us
know young women who are not by
any means so considerate. The girl
who regards her mothers views as
passe, who is so engrossed with
modern affairs that she loses track
of what is transpiring at home, may
for the time being find the world all
satisfying.
But such a young woman will event
ually be brought to her senses, and
as sure as day follows night the hour
will come when her heart will go
back longingly to her mother and her
home.
No matter how clever or able a
girl thinks she is, she is not by
any means as important as she fondly
imagines herself to be.
Youth has lot to learn in connec-
tion with what it has absorbed from
text books, and the young woman who
looks upon her mother as back num-
Der simply because that good woman's
ideas are not modern" needs to take
up another and very necessary course
in everyday philosophy.
There are, indeed, many girls who
do not appreciate what their mothers
do for them. Such young women may
declare that they go to business every
day and help defray the home ex-
penses; but if they were alone in the
Nd
without a question, mean a serious
problem TO them, and, furthermore,
they would have to pay, and pay well,
for doing the thousand and one
things that every girls mother does
for her
The young woman whose heart is
in the right place always thinks OF
her parents first. The worlds ap-
plause is sweet-that no one will
deny-but there's a hollow ring to it.
The smart companions of a girls
triumphant hour will admire and flat
ter her, but quickly go their way if
she is brought face to face with finan-
cial or other difficulties. The world
hasn't time to bother with bruised
hearts or failures, but girls mother
always has time to listen and to SYM
pathize.
True, there are exceptions to all
rules. That some Indifferent and in
considerable mothers exist we all adj
nit, but the average working young
woman owes her mother a debt OF
gratitude that she can never repay.
She is only doing her duty in helping
defray the home expenses.
Most of us have had to do the same
thing, and it probably was the best
investment we ever made,
The girl who delights in making her
home, even though it be small and
ways on good terms with her parents.
Such young women know what it is
to give up this or that dainty blouse
or bit of finery in order that new pic
lures may be purchased for the din
ing room, or pretty rug bought for
the parlor.
Girls of this type-splendid, WON
anly, home-loving girls-are as far SUI
perior to the selfish, ungrateful young
woman as pure diamond is when
compared to paste.
A girls mother is her best friend;
indeed, the only friend that will stand
the test of time. Remember this, and
il you are. blessed with good mother,
even though her education is not as
finished" as yours, recognize the obi
cations that lie before you. Forget
the world outside.
Give the best that is in you for
your parents-the only ones that will
take you as you are. Try to cheer
them in their declining years, and try
to make them happy. Fine friends,
indeed! How quickly they will go
their way, forgetting all about you
and your. achievements; but your
mother-well, her every heartbeat
will always be for you.