Part 101 (2/2)

and in his description of the return to the house:--

Arrived at hoazed around

In every place where she no more was found; The seat at table she ont to fill; The fireside chair, still set, but vacant still; The garden walks, a labor all her own; The latticed boith trailing shrubs o'ergrown: The Sunday pew she filled with all her race-- Each place of hers, was now a sacred place, That while it called up sorrows in the eyes, Pierced the full heart, and forced theazine_

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A MOTHER'S LOVE

Children, look in those eyes, listen to that dear voice, notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon you by that gentle hand Make ifts, a loving mother Read the unfathomable love of those eyes; the kind anxiety of that tone and look, however slight your pain

In after-life you may have friends, fond, dear, kind friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a les with hard, uncaring world, for the sweet, deep security I felt when, of an evening nestling in her bosoe, read in her tender and untiring voice Never can I forget her sweet glances cast upon ht Years have passed away since we laid her beside my father in the old church yard; yet still her voice whispers frorave, and her eye watches oversince hallowed to the memory of my mother

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The mother's heart is the child's school-room

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He who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart

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Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well?

My mother

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Each mother is a historian; she writes not the history of empires or of nations on paper, but she writes her own history on the imperishable mind of her child That tablet and that history will remain indelible when tiain, and read, with eternal joy, or unutterable grief, in the coes of eternity

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MOTHERS AND MEN

That it is the mother who moulds therecorded observation of a shreriter:--

”When I lived a the Choctaw Indians, I held a consultation with one of their chiefs respecting the successive stages of their progress in the arts of civilized life; and as he inforreat mistake,--they only sent boys to school These boys caent men; but they married uneducated and uncivilized wives, and the uniform result was, the children were all like their mothers The father soon lost all his interest both in wife and children 'And now,' said he 'if ould educate but one class of our children, we should choose the girls; for, when they become mothers, they educate their sons'”

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