Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-13

cts to the Dippydrome was Leroy
Coombs. %; second, John Merrlck,
X who received a ball which had
been used once.
Tom Smith and the "N' camp
All the fun and advantages at the
Y. NJ. c "A. camps at Lake Coppos-
see contee were reviewed by General
Secretary Thomas S. Smith. He told
of some of the good times which me
bows have there and also what lot
of real good they derive from II. All
the bows who cannot swim will have
a chance to learn this week, upon
signing up with Mr.. Kennedy. rms
is in observance of a special SWIM
| ming Week.
Mrs. w. A. Smith
| 1t remained for Mrs. w. A. smith
, an Elm City mother to bring to the
| mothers and sons. humor and SIN
| cerity. pathos and real sense or
responsibility, She told funny
stories and while her audience was
! still shuckling over them, she
brought them face to face with the
more serious things of life.
There is, of course, great amount
of Adeep and noble sentiment aesociat-
cd with that word Mother. sinful
men have more often, / believe, been
| lifted to better lives by the memory
| in their hearts of their mothers pray
ers and yearning that they should be
| good men, than by any other cause.
I'm what Hardy calls the muck ana
muddle of rearing children we lose
sight very frequently If not constant
| ly of the ideals which we, as mothers
have. And | do not doubt but that
I II
ed sons get misplaced sometimes l.
! not lost in the scramble.
! For a mother to so order those
wears of strain and care that when
they are over and her children have
| emerged into maturity she has sue
Ceeded in gradually establishing her re
| lationship with her sons on basis OF
mutual confidence and adult interests
rather than on the physical fact or her
motherhood, is to have gained for her
self and them the JOY and satisfaction
| of a very deep and wonderful rela-
, tionship. If she has faithfully tried
TO answer all their childhood questions
with sincerity and truth instead OF
| turning them aside, il through the Ter
ment and strain of adolescence she has
! been their truest friend. making clear
to them that the questions they long
! TO nave answered., luc StldhbS anu
brooding thoughts that come TO them
! are neither new nor sinful, but normal
wonders deserving to be met with truth
and respectful consideration, that no
! questions that occur to them will sur
prise or shock her. but that she Is
q, there, near and human, first of all To
meet their mental and emotional need
! as far as her depth and experience and
1 love for them can do so. II she has
met them thus through the years or
| their development, when they have
! come to their own maturity and life
passes perhaps to them it's sad gifts
of failure and sin and disappointment,
| or it's glad gifts of success and fame
and joy, she will find their hands reach
| for hers. sure of sane, intelligent help
and comfort in the hour of trial or of
understanding love in the hour of JOY.
! Could any mother ask greater reward
| than this?
Loyalty is a great virtue and the
most fertile spot in which it -four
ishes is in boys heart. They may
rot always be considerate or for
giving but they are always to a man
loyal. One of the most touching
and revealing things ever heard
was this. In a Reform School where
unquestionably a large number Of
the boys came from homes of the
lowest moral level, not one boy in
filling out his blank would write any
thing but good on the line Tor his
mothers type of character. That
one fact opens to rs a depth Of
beauty in the hearts of those unfor-
tunate boys. They know only TOO
well the fact. but never will they
| testify against that piece Of frail
human clay that is their mother. II
| speaks well for that marvellous. shy
thing we call boys heart, that In
the mud and scum of things whic.l
is about all that life has meant to
them they have preserved a true
knightly quality and have not lost
sight of all the tenderer. &entler.
sweeter things. We mothers are
! sometimes appalled, by the task OF
being mother, mentor and friend to
this sensitive. potential being we call
! a son, and sons do try so hard
I (that their failures are heart break
ing) to be what their mothers want
them to be.
Each of us struggling up to the
others idea of us. What noblcr.
l ho