MOTHER OF FIVE.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 286, 19 April 1919, Page 5

MOTHER OF FIVE.

She mothered five! Night after night she watched a .t----tle bed, Night after night she cooled a fevered head. I>ay after day she guarded little feet. Taught little minds the dangers of the street; Taught little lips to utter simple prayers, Whispered of strength that some day would be theirs. And trained them to use it as they should. She gave her babies to the Nation’s good. She mothered hvej She gave her beauty ; from * her 1 hecks let fade I lie rose’s blushes; to her mother trade. She saw the w tinkles furrowing her brow, Aei smiling said, “M\ box grows stronger now.” Whi n pleasures «ailed she turned away and said; “I dare not leave nix babies to be fed H\ strangers’ hands; besides they aic so small I must Im• neat to answer when tliex call.” She mothered five* Night after night they s,.t about her knee And heard her toll of xxha; some dav would he. From her they learned that in the world ou;side Are cruelty and vice and selfishness and pride ; from her they learned the wrongs thex ought to shun. What things to love, what xxoik must still be done. She led them through the lahxrinth of youth And brought five men and women up to Truth. She mothered five* Her name may be unknown save to the fexv (T her the outside world but little knew. Hut somewhere five are treading A’irtue’s ways, Serving in the xvorld and brightening its day’s. Somewhere are five, who. tempted, stand upright, ( linging to honour, keeping her memory bright. Somewhere this mother toils and is alive No more ns one, but in the breasts of five. * Edgar A. Guest in ‘‘Detroit Free Press.”