The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-07
A FRIEND or TEACHERS
AND WOMEN WHO WORK,
Tulsa. April IS
A rr,hu,c ~ Mo,hcr-Mothcr's Day, May B.

A Tribute To Mothcr-Nothcr's Day, May y.
Let stop from the huge, rushing assregate
OF lire--the crushing crowds In the streets
where friends seldom meet and there are Few
greetings the thunderous noise OF trade ana
Industry that speaks Of nothing but gain ana
competition. Pause to notice some dear ola
mother who. perhaps, iS on her way 10 NS'
sons daughters who bado her fond iare,
we'll years ago. Her face reflects the peace ana
contcntment or a happy ana we'll spent me- ana
a spiritual hope beyond the cares and sorrows OF
Garth She has long since crossed the MERIDIAN
OF life and IN slowly passing down its westward
slope. where the sunlight grows little shorter
and the shadows little longer. What history
she can unfold to those just starting out on IRE ;
toilsome journey with the cares ana respohsl-
bilities its Joys and its SORROWS, as you look on
her calm sweet face, memory carries US 1aeh
again and once more are standing beside "a
sacred mound within the silent city or the
dead" where for years the SHOWS or winter ana
the grass of summers have spread thelr mahtiVs
over the one dearest on earth, Mother She Is
the rembrant light within the sweetest mem
orics of childhood and as we stray among tlese
memories, like u harptst touching inc strlhks
as we look upon these years that nave gone
OF his instrument, we strike some lost chord
We catch "A vision of the dear old homo WhNre
the moonlight shvers and glimmers among te me
leaves and branches OF the shade trees. ana the
fragrant odor of mothers flowers tloa' "sa'"
upCn the June air OF summers long ago
sitting In a rocking chair in the corner or
many "A prosperous household ~ niue ola
wrinkled woman, having no real part IN lts AZ ,
fairs thrust aside to mak> COON for every friend
that calls made To- understand that she Is de-
pendent the indulgence OF tho son or uaush-
ter to whom she has given unreserN'uy al Inv
years OF her life, -,,,..
out on the street other mothers selling
pcncila or apples, exposed to the witherng neat
OF summer and biting winds OF winter.
Somewhere in the world are the chldren
they have borne and tended and watched over
forgetful OF the sacrifices that have been made
for them. intent only on their own seilsh
pleasures , -,
In many dreary old womans home old,
feeble mothers sit about waiting FOR the ehd
TO come their faces only LOSING their sad de -
spairing expression when they talk OF me emit
drcn out In the world-chidrcn they thlnk OF
with tender pride, despite neglect and IN
humanity. ,,
Ours is u very busy very energetic "orlu
We must all work starvc, unless our parents
have worked for as. The struggle Tor exist
cncc becomes a little more complicated every
dny that We live, the problems OF providing FOR
those dependent on US more dturul,
But no man is too busy or too occupied with
his own affairs TO make what returns ne can
to the mother who gladly gave him all the years
OF hcr NE or 20 make happy her declining years.
No man has an ambition for himself ike that or
his mother FOR him, ought to give up trying
To accomplish In the world as long az her tallh
i'm him cndures and that viii he TO the last
when as a nation We do for our mothers one
tenth az much as our mothers have done Tor Us
We can begin 10 talk about beginning OF
civilization, . 49,, ,,,,,,,,
go south Cheyenne o. u NpLlhEh'
Tulsa, Okla,