Mothers' Day
> In an age when it is the custom for • sentimental impulses to take refuge i in an uneasy cynicism the survival ! of Mothers' Day is a happy remindei ■ that things are not what they seem. The younger generation —it always : has been and probably always will ; be—is charged with a lack of reverence, a scorn, a disregard for the . finer things of life, for grand traditions, for splendid loyalties. And ■ youth, as ever, hides behind its careless mask in shame of displaying emotions that its elders take pride in parading. But there are occasions to which even youth must surrender, when it must drop the outward show that hides its inner feelings, must without shame and without self-consciousness bare its essential soundness of heart. Mothers' Day is one of them. For there is no affection so deep, so lasting, and so binding as the love of the child for its mother, except, of course, that of the mother for her child. And the quality of this mutual love survives beyond all others the passage of time, the blows and smiles of circumstance. That is why young and middle-aged and even old will join to-morrow in common, if not united celebration of a day that is worth remembering, when thought will be turned in affection and reverence Lo the mothers of the race.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21470, 11 May 1935, Page 14
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224Mothers' Day Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21470, 11 May 1935, Page 14
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