(Copyright, W. N. U.) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 0 N SUNDAY, Ma; 13, mil lions of Americans will be wearing carnations sas a symbol of love and re membrance for their moth. fers and sending loving greetings of one sort another to them. For R second Sunday in May ench year been aside as Mothers’ day Or the of set and despite an unfortunate ele of commerciniism that has be- associated with it, the idea of it has such a universal ap peal that few holidays or special days are more generally and sincerely ob served by all Americans of all races classes and creeds than is Mother's day. The celebration of Mothers’ day Is now twenty years old. It was origi nated by Miss Anna Jarvis of Phila. delplria In 1908 and given recognition In 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson issued the first Mothers’ day proclamation. The glory and beauty of mother love and the consequent love for mother with all the joy that it brings is as old as the human race. There is an ancient Jewish saying that “God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.” Some of the greatest men of all ages, with the frue humility of, the great and with breadth of vision which the true values of Life have acknowledged their great deb: to the guiding force that made thelr achievements possible, Such an ac knowledgement has never found a finer expression than that attributed to of the greatest men of all time. For it was Abraham Lincoln who to have declared once: “All that | am, or hope to be, 1 owe to my angel mother.” And last year on Mothers’ splendid tribute was paid that er when, to quote from a news dis patch throughout the United States from Lincoln City, Ind. : “Mother's day was commemorated here, today one of the nation's greatest mothers—Nancy Hanks Lin coln, “Gathered at the grave of the moth er of the Emancipator, the executive committee of the Indiana Lincoln an ion pledged itself to the task of build ing a oational shrine In honor of the mother who, against all the hin drances of a rude pioneer life, molded the character of Abrabam Lincoln’ “An aviator, zooming low over the grave and cabin site, dropped this message To the coin: men and women are here, your grave, Among the guarding their vow "Your name shall never their praise, We add our tribute from the sky. has ment cote back official the recognizes one is said day a moth sent to Manos of Nancy Hanks Lin. The beside trees, to make die”; and to We are the artificers of the past, Whose handicraft has gained the praise of men With stone and clay, with brush and pen, wrought, to leave expressions of the truth we. found, We you~-you dared to take a living child, a plastic infant mind, To mold into a soul of love, an instru- ment divine, Your genius used an art that ours was mean beside you, then, Master Artist, our word of praise. But we send To Through devious paths that masked the way, You led with kindly hand A child into the light of truth And made an honest man. Mother love and love for mother have been the Inspiration of our best-known poets and have re sulted In the writing of some of our best-known and best-loved poems. Rudyard Kipling was writing for all of and expressing a all us hold when for some ns belief which of he wrote MOTHER ©’ MINE If IT were hanged Mother oo lave the highest Mine, would on I Know wh foliow still $0 fother o drowned in the Mother oo" Mine, 1 know whose tears would come down to me, Mother © Mother o If 1 were damned of hody I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o Mins If 1 were deepest sea Mine, Mine and soul Mine, Mother o' Mine. [Louis Untermever confessed for all mere words th when ’ oi to of us the inndequacy our debt us birth to express wlio wou n 1 gave he wrote TO MY MOTHER Poor recompense to you fan This page with rhyme to display et and I to rhetoric were and thereby x for betray mere poetic indeed, J ) 20 ve you these, too to buy back the I am years A mother and poor you pays for with her dreams } fears, | For 1 am rich In nothing but in love So let me give my thanks, so let me be Forevesgin your debt, who gave to me The breath of life—and all the joy thereof How many “little tired out boys” —gven though they were “boys” of twenty, or ‘forty or sixty years—have not wished that they could put into words the longing that Eugene Field expressed In his CHILD AND MOTHER O Mother-my-lLove, your hand, And go where I ask I will lead you away land The Dreamland yonder, We'll walk in a sweet posie garden out thers Where the moonlight are sireaming the flowers and the alr With fragrance and music of dream- ing. ’ if you'll give me you to wander, to a beautiful that's waiting out and starlight And birds are Alling There'll be no little tired out undress, No questions or cares to perplex you; There'll be no little Lruises or bumps to careas, Nor patches of stockings to vex you For I'll rock you away a0 a silver dew stream, And sing Weary, And no one shall tiful dream, But you and your own little dearie boy to you asleep when you're know of our bean And when 1 am tired [ll nestle head the bosom often, And the wide awake stars shall in my stead song which our my In that's soothed me so sing A dreaming shall 4 soften, ———————— Preserves or Manuscript The indepedence possible to au thors who have attained literary ubiquity, and, incidentally, the gentle and chastened spirit of the modern editor who has these authors to deal with, 1s illustrated by this story from New York: A young woman who Is not only versatile in literary matters, but has her moments of domesticity, received #8 letter from the editor of a woman's paper asking her to set a date for an interview in regard to a story. She writer replied: “Unable to come, owing to quince preserves,” The editor, being a woman, recog: nized the force of the excuse and re Joined : “Are you doing them up, or are they doing you up?” The five cities having the highest suicide rate are all along the West coast, “ Mother-my-Love, dear hand, And away through the wander Away through the mist to the beautiful Inne. The Dreamland yonder! let take your starlight we'll that's walting out And of all the “familiar poems” what one is better known and strikes nt more responsive of all of us Akers Allen's chord In hearts than Mrs. Eliza. beth ROCK ME TO SLEEP, MOTHER Backward, turn backward, ©O your fight, ke me un child night! Mother, come back shore, Take me again yore: from my forehend eare, Smooth Time, In x Ma again just for to- from the echoless to yo heart as of ir Kins the furrows of the of my hair; Uver slumbers your Keo Po Rock n gleer few silver threads out loving watch my e ti mother-—rock me tc sleep Backward flow backward the I have youre! year grown weary of dust! and dee CRY = Toll tears all In va fake Again’ i have rown C Yo. Wears of aw 4 Went without recompense, Fe them and give me my childhood weary of dust and de- filnging my soul wealth for others 10 rege swing sleep, mother--rock me to the base, the ny heart calls for grass has grown ur faces bes yearnir and pas. your presence ce so long and flock me gleep, mother——rock me to gleepn! Over my heart, in the days that are flown, fove shone; No other worship abide and endures. Faithful, unseifish and patient youre: None jike pain From the weary brain. Sldmber's soft lids creep Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep’ No like mother love ever a mother can charm away sick soul and the world calm o'er my beavy Come with gold, drop over my forehead tonight; faint eyes away from the Let it Shading my Hent: more Haply will of yore: Lovingly, softly sweep lock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep! throng the sweet its bright billows Mother, dear mother, been long Since 1 last BONE. Sing, then, seem Womanhood's years have been only a dream, Cisped 10 your heart in a loving em- brace, With your light lashes just sweeping my face, Never hereafter to wake or to weep Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to the years have hushed to your lullaby wund unto my soul it shall Cousins The folder advertising the boat cruise read: “Give the number ln the party, with oames, relationship, ete.” Heller had never made reservations before and this puzzled him. He wrote: “Johnson and I will travel with you. 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