The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-01
AYS Gil OWING TRIBUTE TO WORTHY MOTHERHOOD

ready cooked. Such a mother does
not make = home.
Then there 10 the faddist mother.
She buys the latest In dresses and
hats. She wears q velvet hat In
August because that liz going to be
the style In October. got down
; where you Hive there.
And she thinks all there Ia to
raising her children is q matter of
cugenics. Just a matter OF symmetry
and form. Forget 1t. A home ought
second ne ia. wi Il p, ss ne sse &
fiddle all the time.
Then there 10 the bouxe-nghting
mother. The drinking mother
soused-she il a bad one; do not
give a fig whether she 10 rich or poor.
own mothers milk. No wonder her
daughter turns out bad. She is used
to il. the seedy side OF life. she
thinks she can beat the game, but
she cannot do 1t.
Then there is the discontinued
mother. She does not like her job
She fails to make home attractive.
She is not maternal by nature. No,
she does not understand her chill
dren. Her children are mere &C
count instead of the life and the core
straight 1t is fifty-fifty,
The Unreligiors Mother.
Then there is the unreligious
mother. She has no ideals. Holds
up no picture of Love, Service or
Sacrifice. Does nothing for the
spiritual side of her children. All
human nature Graves something that
win satisfy the soul.
But mothers must not shoulder an
the blame for those irresponsible.
shiftless, drunken husbands. only
coming home to eat and get money.
He expects his wife and his children
to do whatever he says all the time.
But my friends, these brutes are
NOT always poor. They are sometimes
club-going men. Seldom see their
children. Eat their meals at the
club, get home late Mt night when
everybody Is IN bed, get up late in
the morning when the children have
gone to school. The daughters OF
such homes go wrong and 1t is no
surprise.
All simmered down. what makes
the girl good! BY being educated
by her parents. and whenever a baby
liz born be sure that it has every
religious training in this old world.
Therefore, good homes and good
fathers and mothers for good chill
dren.
The report on most delinquent girls
shows that there Is no home training.
Oh. you need not be afraid that some.
fellow will kidnap them In the street
l tell you what you need to fear is
that they will be tempted to live a
life of sin by promise of fine clothes.
or by easy living; but you do not
forget that all the time you are on
the stoboggan slide.
There In the girl that ia the street
walker. She keep going down and
down hill us sure rs you live and
breathe, and she seems to lose all
sense OF shame, and as rule when
Il girl starts out In q life Of sin and
shame she will remain there until tho
end.
Perhaps she is afraid TO face life.
Perhaps she does not care. Perhaps
nobody would care to hear her, so
aged. Now what comes from not be-
ing taught that all girls are human.
She must have life, she must have
light, and she must have Joy, and IL
she cannot have II in her home she
will get II in dance halls, cabarets
or these houses OF sin.
Prostitution IL the oldest profess
+, sion in existence and 1t will never be
stamped out until the hearts of men
the gospel OF Jesus Christ. Public
sentiment can help some.
These vital. disagreeabls subjects
have to be discussed. You have to
do something to arouse people to a
! sense OF the situation, you cannot
allow those black hearted degenerates
to go ahead and practice their trade
without a protest. Some one has got
to do II.
There is power In a mothers kiss
to give Inspiration and courage and
hope and one. kiss made Benjamin
West n painter. A kiss win cure all
the Ills OF life. A kiss will give
strength where there IL weakness.
II we knew the baby nngers. pressed
against the window pane,
Would be cold and stin tomorrow
never trouble as Again
Would the bright eyes of our darling
catch the frown upon our
hrows
MOTHERS.
Would the prints OF rosy fingers vex
us then as they do now?
Let us gather up the sunbeams lying
all around our path,
Let us keep the wheat and roses, cast
ing out the thorns and chafr:
Let us find the sweetest comfort In
the blessing OF today.
with patient hands removing ali the
hriars from the way.
That is what God wants ue TO do.
Then there is power in q mother $
smile. If you want to see n boy Guido
himself, you watch him when ne is
cheered by his mothers smile. A
long face lis the last face to be seen
In a mother.
MY father went 10 war before I
was born. My mother said Boys.
you will have to go and get wood" II
was getting dark and we were afraid.
But we went to dig the wood out of
the wood pile. The saw was duh. and
swe sawed and split it. We said:
Mother will you sit in the window
and watch us"
or course she did Every mother
would be sitting there. Mother is up
in heaven now. She went 10 heaven
last June. Just slipped away with
out saying Good bye" but l know
that she In sitting at the window OF
heaven looking down upon <rne to
cheer me in my work until my toll
IN this old world ia over and God says:
~It Is enough. Bill come UP here"
She is the inspiration OF my life