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Mothers Idolized
by the Famous
Pages of History Full of
Glowing Tributes to
“Mother” Made by
Great Women
and Men.
Men and women have laid the best
-and supreme efforts and fruits of
their careers as tributes at the feet
-of their mothers.
The Roman orator declared, “The
empire is at the fireside.” Mohammed
said, “Paradise is at the feet of moth-
ers.” A Scotch saying has it that an
ounce of mother is worth more than
-a pound of clergy. Benjamin Frank-
lin’s love and devotion®to his mother
‘is axiomatic. He not only thought of
her, but gave concrete expression to
‘those thoughts, when he sent her a
“moidore,” a gold piece worth $6 “to-
‘ward chaise hire, that you may ride
warm to meetings during the win-
ter.”
Whistler's Great Picture.
That erratic genius, who quarreled
with his patrons, sometimes repudi-
ated his birthplace, antagonized crit-
ies and friends alike, James Mec-
Neill Whistler, painted a beautiful
and tender picture called the ‘“Por-
trait of the Painter’s Mother.” Among
all of his brilliant and delicate works,
this picture is probably the best
known,
This man in his devotion to his
mother forgot to be a cynic, and be-
came a loving son. One critic states
that, in this picture, a harmony in
gray and black, the artist undoubted-
ly touched the highest point of ex-
cellence. This portrait of his mother
as an old lady in the calm and se-
rene dignity of age has brought tears
of sweet remembrance to the eyes of
many a man and woman. He has de-
picted her as an old woman, in a black
gown, with a white cap, sitting at
ease, with quiet hands, waiting and
thinking.
As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face.
England's best-known short story
writer, a witty reconteur, whose prose
Mother
If I could mark it on the sands of time
Or write it on the sky of every clime,
1 This would I write, and write in bold-
est band
That all the world might see and un-
dowstand,
That far and wide, there could not be
' another
+ So fine, so sweet, so wonderful as
MOTHER.
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is brilliant, sometimes satirical and
scintillating, dedicated one of the
earlier of his volumes of short stories
“To the Wittiest Woman in India”—
his mother. This book contained a
tale which Cyril Falls, one of Mr.
Kipling’s critics, calls “one of the
best short stories ever written”;
which is fulsome praise enough!
The story is one of the
ing and laughter raising
able old Mulvaney tales.
Found Types in Mother.
It is said that the popular Scotch
author, Sir James M. Barrie, whose
charm is so appealing to young and
old—some one flippantly and smartly
calls it “that d—d charm”—intro-
duces into his writings characters
derived from his mother up to the
middle of the nineties, when she died.
Prof. Robert E. Rogers of Technology
says that “Doctor Freud’s hypothesis
of the mother complex in its purest
form seems almost invented to fit
Barrie.”
The man’s genius is thought by
many to have found its most charae-
teristic expression in his Thrums
stories. These tales were the stories
his mother used to tell him. “She
told me everything,” says the author,
“and so my memories of our little
red town ‘were colored by her mem-
ories. Sir James’ early writings
were over the signature of Gavin
Ogilvy, and, in 1894, he published
“Margaret Ogilvy,” based on his
most amus-
of the lov-
mother’s life, and his own tender re-
lations and love for her.
Mary Ann Evans, that English
woman with the “masculine” mental-
ity, who is known to posterity as
George Eliot, lost her own mother at
the age of sixteen. She never had
children of her own. Yet the ma-
To Mother
Mother is the dearest word in any
mortal tongue;
Over all the earth so wide we hear her
praises sung.
Through the greening valleys, now that
spring has come again,
Hear the crooning lullaby that crowns
the songs of men;
Ease your heart, dear mother mine, and
throw your cares away,
Rest your busy hands and smile, for
this, dear, is your day!
ternal instinct in her led her to write
. many things which speak directly to
the heart of a mother. “A mother
dreads- no memories,” writes this
woman, who had educated herself in
the languages, metaphysics and Spen-
cerian philosophy: “those shadows
have all melted away in the dawn of
baby’s smile.” Which is exactly the
mental state which Margaret Sangster
reports finding in the mother of a
numerous flock in a home of the
direst poverty. “‘She is my sixth
baby,” said the sweet-faced German
woman. ‘Hasn't God been good to
us?”
Alice Cary’s Tribute.
In “An Order for a Picture,” Alice
Cary has left us a beautiful tribute
to mother: 4
A lady the loveliest ever the sun
iwooked down upon you must paint for
me;
Oh, 1 I could only make you see
The clear blué eyes, the tender smile,
The sovereign sweetness, the gentle
grace, .
The woman’s soul and the angel's face
That are beaming on me all the while,
I need not speak these foolish words;
Yet one word tells you: all 1 would
say— .
She is my mother; you will agree
That all the rest may be thrown away.
The better the mothers physically
and mentally, the better the race, is
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tion. Higher education for women!
How can education for the mothers of
a race ever be too high! Some wise
and good man has said recently:
“Educate a man, and you educate an
individual; educate a woman, and
you educate an entire family.” Isa-
belle Beecher Hooker recognizes it
strongly when she writes: “To my
“A Mother’s Love”
“The love of a mother is never ex-
hausted, it never changes, it never tires.
A father may turn his back on his child,
brothers and sisters may become invet-
erate enemies . . , and she can never
be brought to think him all unworthy.”
—Washington Irving.
conception, one generation of edu-
cated mothers would do more for the
regeneration of the race than all oth-
er human agencies combined; and it
is an instruction of the head they
need, and not of the heart. The doc-
trine of responsibility has been
ground into Christian mothers above
what they are able to bear.”
“Maternal Efficiency.” !
The Medical Research council of
Great Britain reports, after a long
and exhaustive investigation among
some 12,000 young children, that it is
“maternal efficiency” that influences
the health and growth of children in
any and all ;walks of life. An efficient
mother, in the squalid conditions of
the slums, in the poverty of the min-
ing districts, can outwit circumstances
“so that her children get a physical
start equal to" that of better circum-
stanced families.” The committee
states that “even ameng animals
there are good mothers and bad
mothers.” The first rear a large pro-
portion of their young, and the sec-
ond neglect or are indifferent to their
offsprings.
A worker of experience is able to
classify mothers in this respect into
good, bad and indifferent. “When the
children are repeatedly found to be
dirty or verminous, badly clothed and
left in bed until all hours of the day,
when the house is constantly dirty
and uncared for, the mother without
doubt is inefficient. It is in this sense
that the term ‘efficient mothers’ is
used her. Bad parents, irrespective
of their income, tend to select bad
houses, as the money is often spent
on other things.” :
Sons of Great Women.
Great men often have weak chil-
dren; great women seldom. It is an
interesting fact that students of he-
redity are agreed that girls often re-
semble their fathers in mentality, dis-
position and constitution, while boys
“take after” their mothers. But the
most interesting of all is the state-
ment that the sons of intelligent moth-
ers will be intelligent; while it does
not follow that intelligent fathers
will have intelligent sons. It is said
that the poets Burns, Ben Johnson,
Goethe, Walter Scott, Byron and
Lamartine were all born of women
remarkable for vivacity and brillian-
cy of language.
O wondrous power! how little under®
stood!
Entrusted to the mother’s mind alone,
To fashion ;enius, form the soul for
good.
—Ann Low, in the Boston Globe.
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Weekly Health Talk
“A learned man of fifty years of
age the other day toppled over in his
chair and died. The newspapers car-
ried fine accounts of his academic ac-
hievements and his authorship in
scientific books and articles. Yet, in
spite of all his intelligence, he was an
exceedingly ignorant man,” said Dr.
Theodore B. Appel, Secretary of
Health, today.
“Of course this unfortunate man
knew a great deal, but for some
strange reason he never considered it
worth while to apply his great now-%
er of observation to his own body.
And yet, if anyone had told him while
he was living that he was neglecting
his physical self, he undoubtedly
would have laughed at the statement.
He would have said that for years he
had eaten by rule, slept by rule, ex-
ercised by rule; in short, that discip-
lining his body had been one of his
real hobbies. And he had undoubted-
ly done so. But it was the other fel-
low’s discipline. Not his own.
“Now the point of this story is in
the fact that human beings are not
factory developed propositions. Con-
sequently, standardization of conduct
so far as health is concerned can not
be relied upon with absolute safety if
carried beyond a certain point.
“Certainly there are thousands of
things that people can do which ev-
eryone knows are definitely harmful,
but on the other hand, there appear
to be many other things that some
people can do harmlessly that actu-
ally injure others.
“Coffee, tobacco, setting up exer-
cises, cold baths, types of food, sleep
and rest do not develop reactions.
Every individual has his own idiosyn-
crasies.
“Therefore, quite apart from the ef-
fect upon others, carefully study your
response to your living habits. To a
certain extent you are a law to your-
self, and you only can discover and
apply that law. ‘What is one man’s
meat is another man’s poison’.”
CHORAL SOCIETY
SPRING CONCERT
Preparations for the Spring concert
of the Somerset Choral Society are
rapidly nearing completion. The con-
cert will be given at the Somerset
High School Auditorium on May the
17th at 8:15 o’clock P. M. The mem-
bers of the Society have been rehears-
ing all winter in preparation for this
event.
The officers of the Society are as
follows: President, Mr. John H. Fike,
of Somerset; Vice President, Mrs. E.
Scott Brashear, of Somerset; Treas-
urer, Mr. Floyd Beeghley, of Listie;
and Secretary, Miss Edith Flummer,
of Somerset. _Tk# Soctety has. a total
membership of over one hundred peo-
ple from Somerset, Berlin, and sur-
rounding vicinity.
Professor Hans Roemer. who is
Director of the Society is also the
Director and organizer of the Johns-
town Symphony Orchestra. He has
had much experience with various
musical organizations in all parts of
the country. In the near future he
will accompany ‘two organizations
trained and directed by him, the Con-
cordia and Harmony Singing Societies
of Johnstown to New York where
they will compete in a singing contest
in Madison Square Garden.’
Navy Officers to Study
College Diesel Engines
Diesel engines for submarine use
will be studied by seven officers of the
U. S. Navy at the Pennsylvania State
College. They have been assigned to
graduate study for one year in the
School of Engineering, celebrated for
its unusual equipment for studying
Diesel engines.
The officers, of the rank of lieuten-
ant, and lieutenant, junior grade, ‘who
will come to Penn State July 1 are
graduates of Annapolis between 1920
and 1923, have had three or more
years service at sea, and have just
completed a post-graduate year of
study at the Naval Academy. The
instruction for the naval officers will
be largely in the field of internal com-
bustion engines, with electrical en-
gineering and a graduate course in
mechanics and one in metal lography
in the School of Mines and Metal-
Jurgy.
Penn State Students
To Entertain Mothers
A special entertainment program
has been arranged by students and of-
ficers of the parent’s association of
the Pennsylvania State College for
the week-end of National Mothers’
Day when a thousand or more parents
are expected to visit the college.
One of the features of the week-end
celebration will be the girl’s annual
May Day fete.
Other features on the Mothers’ Day
program include a tea for the moth-
ers to be given by the women stu-
dents, special entertainment by the
Thespians and Players dramatic or-
ganizations, and athletic events. The
Rev. Philip J. Steinmetz, of Philadel-
phia, will speak on “A Mother’s Mem-
ory” at the Mothers’ Day chapel ser-
vice Sunday morning.
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St. Rombold’s Singing Tower, Malines.
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(Prepared by the National Geographic
Society, Washington, .D. C.)
HE dedication by President
4 Coolidge recently of a carillon
or tower of bells in Florida cen-
ters attention on these sources
of music and on the region in which
they were developed: a strip of land
that extends from the North Sea
shores inward for 50 miles or more
in plains which are largely just above
high tide.
On every side one sees scores of
cities, towns, and villages. In the
foreground these are clearly defined,
but in the middle distance they be-
come less distinct, and on the horizon
in soft and misty outline they almost
disappear. In every such extended
view, above town hall and city gate
and “ancient church, rises dominant
here a rugged tower, there a tall bel-
fry or a graceful, slender spire. And
each of these skyward-soaring struc-
tures becomes for the traveler a sing-
ing tower if, on nearer approach, he
finds it crowned with that majestic
instrument ef music called a carillon.
The word “carillon”—pronounced
“car’ i-lon,” with the “0” as in “atom”
—and the derivative, “carillonneur,”
are French in origin, but now general-
ly accepted in English.
Landing at Rotterdam, one finds
the tower of St. Lawrence’s church,
whose old bells make not merely a
great musical instrument, but by their
melodies express the spirit of the
country over which they sound.
The traveler should mount the cir-
cular stone stairway leading to the
‘heights of tower after tower to see
the bells of carillons in all their beau-
ty of decoration and arrangement. He
finds himself among a great company
of bells, fixed upon a heavy frame-
work and extending in parallel rows,
tier above tier, completely filling the
great tower room.
Bells Ranged in Tiers.
The little bells hang in the highest
tier; the big bells just clear the floor;
the intermediate sizes hang in tiers
between. The largest bell of all is
taller than a tall man and it may
weigh four, five, or even six or eight
tons. The smallest bell has a height
of 10 or 12 inches only and perhaps
a weight of less than 20 pounds.
Soon it is realized, however, that of
greater consequence than number, or
size, or weight, is the pitch relation-
ship of the bells; for the bells of a
carillon always progress by regular
semitone or chromatic intervals. The
carillon of St. Lawrence’s tower has
these intervals complete through more
than three octaves, except that the
two lowest semitones are lacking.
The arrangement and character of
the bells first attract the observer’s
attention. Then he begins to study
how the music is produced. He soon
discovers that a carillon is played in
two ways:
First, automatically by a revolving
barrel connected with a tower clock,
which starts the music at the hour,
the half hour, and at the quarters, and
sometimes even at the eighths.
Second, by a trained musician, a
carillonneur, seated at a keyboard-like
that of an orgdn. Six and even more
notes can be struck in chords on the
carillon keyboard, and, so delicate are
the adjustments, that sustaining tones
on the lighter bells are easily accom-
plished by “tremolando.” :
Automatic playing of simple folk
songs, chiefly on the light bells, with
now and then the addition of a deep
bass tone, is what the traveler con-
stantly hears as he wanders through
old towns in Belgium and Holland.
The tower of St. Lawrence’s church
was begun in 1449, and the city placed
a carillon in it in 1660. In the tower
of the Rotterdam Bourse is a smaller
carillon of 27 bells, also more than
two and a half centuries old. A third
carillon in Rotterdam has just been
placed in the new city hall. It is
larger, both in weight and in number
of bells, than any carillon made in
the last 100 years.
Cities Own the Carillons.
Rotterdam’s three singing towers,
rising one above the city hall, one
above the Bourse, and one above the
church of St. Lawrence, gives one a
clew to the variety of structures which
may possess a carillon. And further
investigation shows that similar music
has floated for more than two cen-
turies over the city gate at Enkhui-
zen, the Rceyal palace at Amsterdam,
the Weigh house at Alkmaar, the
“loth hail at Ypres {destroyed dur-
ing the World war), the University li-
brary at Ghent, the Wine house at
Zutphen (burned in 1921), and the
Abbey at Middelburg, and that the
spires of not a few of the historic
churches of the low countries are
singing towedrs.
Finally, one discovers the important
fact that wherever a carillon hangs,
its bells are owned by the city, its
carillonneur is an official chosen by
city authority, and the tower itself
is under city control.
At Delft the carillon is in the spire
of the new church, called “new,”
though over four hundred years old,
because it was begun a century later
than the old church, nearby. Here,
far above us, are to be seen nearly
four octaves of bells, ranged in rows
above and on both sides of the dial
of the tower clock.
By making The Hague® his center
a traveler can easily reach every part
of Holland's carillon region in day
journeys. One morning the trip may
be to Gouda. There, in the great
church, one may see the wonderful
Sixteenth century glass windows, the
finest in Holland, abounding in glori-
ous color, allegorical design, and his-
toric interest, and listen as the caril:
lon plays far above.
Only half an hour from The Hague
is Leiden, where the singing tower
crowns the low and very beautiful
town hall. The Pilgrims, who, after
leaving England, lived for a time at
Leiden, undoubtedly heard this musie,
for the city has had a carillon since
1578. Twenty-five miles beyond Lei-
den is Haarlem. There the carillon |
is in the tower of the old church, fa-
mous for its organ and models of
historic ships suspended high in the
groined arches of the ceiling.
Amsterdam, the commercial capital
of Holland, is first among present-day
cities in the number of singing tow-
ers it possesses. The Royal palace,
the old Mint tower, the Ryks museum,
and the Zuider, the West, and the
old church spires all have carillons.
St. Rombold’s Is Best of All
Most glorious of all the singing tow-
ers is that whicf rises above St. Rom-
bold’s noble cathedral at Malines
(Mechlin). A few years ago Malines
celebrated the anniversary of the 35
years of service of the distinguished
carillonneur Josef Denyn—*“the Pad-
erewski of the carillon.” Ancient
guilds with superb banners and mod-
ern societies of every kind marched
in the procession. Thousands of peo-
ple filled the old streets. Houses and
public buildings everywhere were
gaily decorated.
This impressive pageant was but
the beginning of events which filled
four days, during which came the in-
auguration of the School of Carillon
Instruction, free to all the world; the
meeting of the first Carillon congress
ever assembled; the opening of the
Exposition of Carillon Art, lasting
through September, and the playing of
visiting carillonneurs from France,
Holland, and Belgium.
On Sunday noon, in the crowded
town hall, the burgomaster presented
to Denyn a gold medal from the city,
and there the American ambassador
to Belgium spoke.
Malines is midway between Antwerp
and Brussels and distant only half an
hour from each, so that multitudes
from both these cities attend its caril-
lon concerts. Of late many have gone
also from much greater distances in
Europe and from all parts of the
world. A program of the music to
be played at each concert is published
months in advance. And while the
great master plays, all is quiet, even
in the Grand place. =
In the world today are 180 odd ca-
rillons. Of these 134 are in Belgium
and the Netherlands. The rest are
scattered in other parts of Europe,
the United States, and Canada.
Stockings and Sovereigns
Up to the time of Henry VIII, king
of England from 1509 to 1547, hose
were made out of ordinary cloth, says
an article in Popular Knowledge. The
king’s stockings were made out of
taffeta, cut and seamed together. Al-
though travelers from Spain told of
wonderful hose woven out of silk,
Henry never had a pair of them. His
son Edward VI had one pair, and
when Elizabeth came to the throne
she fared better still. After trying
silk hose it is; said that she “never
wore cloth hose but only silk stock-
ings” until her death in 1608.
FARM CALENDAR
Provide Roosts for Chicks—Young
chicks should be encouraged to roost
at an early age. The chicks wiil be-
come accustomed to roosting if a low
roost which slopes from the floor back
of the hover to the rear of the house
is provided. These roosts should be
covered with wire netting to keep the
chicks from crowding underneath.
Do not Work Wet Soil—Do not at-
tempt to handle soil when it is too
wet. This applies especially to up-
land soils which are rather heavy.
Avoid walking®on wet soil either be-
fore or after preparing it for plant-
ing. Watch your opportunity and
work soil when it is in good physical
condition. :
Pasture Calves Later—Fall and
winter calves should not be turned on
pasture until after they are six
months of age. Digestive trouble will
be avoided and calves will grow more
satisfactorily if kept in clean, dry
stalls and given good legumes or cut
hay, grain and fresh water in additica
to the milk and calf meal ration.
Prevent Garlic Flavor—Eradication
of garlic or wild onions from pastures
is the best way to prevent disagree-
able odors in milk. State College
specialists say that if cows are re-
moved from onion-infested pastures
at least four hours previous to milk-
ing, there will be little of the odor
and flavor noticeable in the milk.
Thin Vegetables Early—Be sure to
thin properly all vegetables while
they are small. Thick sowing does
not mean a larger production; in fact,
a smaller yield may be the result.
The following distances in inches
should be maintained: peas 2, beans
4 to 6, beets 4, carrots 3, lettuce 10,
spinach 1, and radishes 2 to 3.
ns
A California state senator recently
testified that power interests in his
state spent about $500,000 to defeat a
bill that would have authorized a
$500,000,000 state bond indebtedness
to put California into the power busi-
ness on a large scale, while propon-
ents who sought to pass the socialistic
measure spent but $160,000.
Who should receive condemnation—
the individual or the company who
seeks to uphold American traditions
to destroy them?
Which is the worse—a campaign
expenditure of $500,000 to protect
private property rights, or ‘a cam-
paign expenditure of $160,000 to de-
stroy them, and further, to undermine
a cardinal principle of our govern-
ment which has been to encourage in-
dustrial development by private. ini-
tiative and enterprise. :
No American institution of learning
which does not inculcate love of coun-
try and, devotion to the principles and
ideals upon which it rests, which does
not impress upon youth its obligation
to defend that country against foreign
invasion or domestic violence, deser-
ves to live.
No institution of learning which
leaves patriotism out of the curricu-
lum should réceive support either
through public or private funds from
those who believe in and support the
American form of government.
The purpose of publicly supported
education is to provide a better citi-
zenship. Any institution in which un-
American theories are propagated is
subversive of that purpose.
The time has come when public
money should no longer be voted, pri-
vate funds no longer given, to institu-
tions which persist in undermining
the faith of young Americans in their
own country.
Let those who disbelieve in the Uni-
ted States of America carry on their
propaganda with their own money; go
get a soap box or hire a hall, better
still, go to some country which real-
It is too much to expect that the
American people will much longer
submit to having their pockets picked
that their minds may be poisoned.
CATTLE BREEDERS
VISIT SOMERSET
Mrs. A. H. Schutz, of Washington,
D. C., and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ady,
of Rockville, Md.. were week end
guests of ex-Sheriff and Mrs. William
C. Begley at Springdale Farm.
Mr. Ady is Assistant County Agent
of Montgomery County, Md., and Mrs.
Schutz, is an enthusiastic Jersey cat-
tle breeder, who owns some of the
finest specimens of Jersey cattle in
Jersey calves for calf club work in
the country. They were purchasing
Montgomery County, Md.
Ex-Sheriff Begley, Commissioners
Peter Saylor, Russel Stewart and
Charles Beam recently attended the
funeral of W. F. Cchrum, at Jean-
nette, Pa. Mr. Schrum was president
of the State Jersey Cattle Breeders
Association for many years and was,
perhaps one of the most widely
known cattle men in the state. He
has a host of friends in Somerset who
will mourn his death.
TWO OF A KIND
“Do you know,” said the suecessful
merchant pompously, “that I began
life as a barefoot boy?”
“Well,” said the clerk, “I wasn’t
born with shoes on, either.”
—Retail Furniture Selling
and ideals, or the individual who sees
izes their own ideals of government.
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