The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-28

% go ahead and practice their trade
without a protest Someone has got
10 do it,
There is power in mothers kiss
to give inspiration and courage and
hope; and one kiss made Benjamin
West a painter. A kiss will cure all
the ills of life. A kiss will give
where there is weakness.
If we knew the baby fingers, pressed |
against the window pane, 4
Would be cold and stiff tomorrow
never trouble us again I
Would the bright eyes of our darling
catch the frown upon our brow?
Would the prints of rosy fingers vex
US then as they do now?
Let us gather us the sunbeams lying
all around our path,
Let us keep the wheat and roses, cast
ing out the thorns and chaff;
Let us find the sweetest comfort in
the blessing of today,
With patient hands removing all the
briars from the way.
That is what God wants us to do.
Then there is power in mothers
smile. If you want to see a boy out
do himself, you watch him when he
is cheered by his mothers smile. A
long face is the last face to be seen
in mother
My father went to war before l
was born. Mother said: Boys, you
will have to go and get wood" 1t
was getting dark and we were afraid.
But we went to dig the wood out of
the wood pile. The saw was dull and
we sawed and split it. We said:
Mother, will you sit in the window
and watch us?"
OF course, she did Every mother
would be sitting there. Gother is up
in Heaven now Just slipped away
without saying Good bye" but
know that she is sitting at the win
dow of Heaven looking down upon
me to cheer me in my work until my
toll in this old world is over and God
says 1T is enough, Bill; come up
here" She is the inspiration of my
life.
! There is Power In
Mothers Song
There is power in a mothers song
| The best music in the world is what
mother makes. No brass band. no
pipe organ, can hold a candle to a
mothers song. Patti and Nordica and
Homer and Geraldine Farrar-they
are wonderful, they are in a class by
| themselves. All up and down the land
| they sing, but somehow the music that
mother makes kind of tangles up in
our heart strings a little more than
anybody else's song, and l will be dis
appointed if there is no mother song
in Heaven.
What do you care about an angels
harp and song If there is no mother:
song? There is more in their sonqs
| than minstrePs or poets song.
Did you ever hear a mother sins
with her baby on her breast, wonder
ing whether 1t would get well or die
Her voice may not please an artist
but her song will. And the best mu
sic, the songs that have moved tn,
world, were not written by the grea
masters. But there is nothing in ar
that can put into melody the happt
ness that associations bring. an
when you hear song that mo . 2
used to sing, it drives your mind bac
80 or 40 years to the rocking chair.
/, And it will be found when you sc
to Heaven that many of the bes
/, songs in Heaven are mother songs.
Then, again, there is power in
mothers love. And how was Go
ever to tell this old world that h
loved 1t without a mothers love?
think if the devil ever turned pal
and got cold feet it was when a mott
er's love first flaried up in a woman
2 heart. A mother has to love her bah
before it is born. 1t may grow up an
+ may become vile, but she will sti
: love it. One of the awful things abou
/ hell will be-no mother love in hell
D Nothing in hell but black, bottomles
: hate.
: Mothers Love
Cheers World
And though her boy with bleare
and blood-stained eye stands unde
the hangman's rope. mother will Low
}. him for what he might have been.
;, Thank God for what mother low
}, has done for this old world and fc
|. putting into mothers heart thu
+ love.
7 Take this child and nurse it fc
: me-"
AS that child was put in that mot
l. er's arms as a trust SO that child h;
O been put in your arms as a trust fro
:. God. No mother has any riqht
# raise her children for pleasure ar
IS more than | have right to 90 dow
from this platform and pick yol
IL pockets or throw cayenne pepper
?, your eyes. And the mother who
' unfsithful to her trust is one of Il
e greatest sinners on the face of tn
o earth.
Take this child and raise it f
e me-" That is all the business VI
IS have with it. ut is a jewel polish
ir for me"
b, Who knows but that Judas becan
y the miserable traitor that he did /
lie cause of goddess mother?
lie Who are more to be blamed for Il
III crowded conditions of our priso
r. from Sing Sing to California?
every one of them men have ours
lie their mothers. Whenever a Spart;
erl did wrong, his mother was punish
m for it.
Id Raise The Child
n For Heaven
Do Take this child and raise it f
Is me-" Not for the world. not for t
dance hall not for auvtbipo tbat