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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20103, 9 May 1935, Page 13

“Observe how so’on, and to what a degree, this influence "begins to operate! Her first ministration for her infant is to enter, as it were, the valley of the shadow of death, and win its life at the peril of her own! How different must an affection thus founded bo from all others!” —Mrs Sigourney. “The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.” —Washington Irving.