"MOTHER O' MINE."

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 48, 8 May 1930, Page 2

"MOTHER O' MINE."

"First of all, I. am glad, so very glad, that you did not lot love of ease and comfort- make you put aside the claims of motherhood. Little babies ~do make such, a lot of work: they bring anxiety; they Ibring r-esponsibility; and when means aT<? small it is 'hard to scheme/ and pinch, and contrive' to make the money go round. " .' But you were wise. You knew that if., you loved your own. particular bent of life too well, you would lose it. You knew that little children, open doors; that they widen one's outlook. Ami so. you sat in Merlin's Chair! Toe: lost yourself—and you found that holy, true, and lovely personality which) I cull '' Mother." Then, again, I feel so glad that you were not a ricJa woman; but that you had to think out ways and means. Because, I fancy this has mj£e you the gentle, sympathising creature that you,are. There never was a poor tramp woman wiio came to the door but you spoke \ kindly to her, and sent her away a little happier than she came. You never met a weary mother in train or tram but you found opportunity to nurse her baby, or to offer biscuits to heT restless toddler. I am glad tha£ you made out clothes; glad that you had to save up pence to got them. Mother o' Mine, I thank CKrd upon every remembrance of you!. And, "Qamy knee X pray, that thus my child shall thinJ of me." —Prom "Homely Talks of a Homelj Woman," by ijay Xnchfawn. w