GEMS ABOUT MOTHER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 67

GEMS ABOUT MOTHER.

This will a mother's heart repay, If that loved band, Amidst life's doubtful battle-fray, By grace sustained shall often say, Next to God's hand, All of true happiness we know, Mother, to thy strong love we owe. Anon. A mother is a mother still, •* The holiest thing alive. —Coleridge. "If the whole world were put into one scale, and my motther in the other," said Lord Lonsdale, " the world would kick the beam." ' Lincoln said, " All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother." " 'Tis the mothers who keep the great school of the 1 world," said an English statesman. "All that is good in me I owe to my mother," said John Quincy Adams. Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky. Hundreds of shells on the shore together, Hundreds of birds that go singing by, Hundreds of bees in the sunny weather, Hundreds of dewdrops to gre:t the dawn, Hundreds of lambs in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, — But only one mother the wide world over. Towns and countries have female names, eucT are presented bx females; and,, ia

truth, the mothers who educate for the future the first five years of then- children's hvaa do found cities and countries. — Jean Paul Eichter. .file mind that ocean's secrets knows, Perfumes the lily, paints the rose, That counts each star that shines above, ilone can fathom mother's love. Mrs E. N. Turner. Youth fades ; love droops ; the leaves of friendship fall, A mother's secret hope outlives them all. O. W. Holmes' Many an eminent man in the zenith of Ins fame is regarded as the product of some parly or system, but when the label grows dim and disappears, there stands out in the life the deepl ygraven name, " Mother," perhaps all unknown to the crowd which applauds Ler son. The first act of President Gaifield after taking the oath of office was to kiss his aged mother. " I owe everything I am and have," lie said, "to my mother." " A kiss from my mother made me a painter," said Benjamin West. God could not be everywhere, so he made mother. SMILES. Songs of School Days. (J. W. Foley, in Philadelphia Ledger.) I wunder wi shee licks uss. is she sower ur duz shee jusst becaws shee has thee powr. Uv life ann deth wile weere in skool. tooday shee took bil peersons storry boo& away wile he wuz reeden with his jogafy lielld upp befoar itt soze she coodunt see till gummy "Wudgen wennt ann wispered inn hur ere wott bil wuz dooen wenn heed bin Petenden tco be studdyen. Ann mi butt bil wuz tuvble skairt ween shee kum bi. itt wuz redd Dick thee daren devul scowt Thatt bil wuz reeden ami he wuz abowt awl fiinislit wenn shee grabbed itt and seiz ule gett punisht fore ure conduckt after skool. Ami awl the boize thay wated inn the yard till he kum owt ann ast him wuz itt hard for him to bear ann tolled birn they wuz

prowd becaws he neavur gave a cri owtlowd wenn shee wttz liken him ami lie sedd wi shee kood uv kild mcc ami ide neavur cri. Ann uv uss fealt prowd to noo thatt

shee kood wring 110 cri uv pane fruin him aim wee Awl swore ann oth uv veiijuns ann Toil sedd Thatt gummy Wudgen mite uz well be dedcl ifi lie lade lianns on him. Ann shorrty Grimes Hoo bil had lickt a haffaduzen times sedd ile foargive v bil ann hears mi hanncJ too sware eturnel friendship ware we stannd Ann bil shook hannds with him ami awl weimt well Ann brite ann merrie us a marridge bell.