Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1881 — The Queen of Home. [ARTICLE]

The Queen of Home.

Honor the dear old mother. Time has scattered snowy flakes on her brows, plowed deep furrows on her cheeks, but is she not sweet and beautiful now? The lips are thin and shrunken, but those are the lips which have kissed many a hot tear from the childish cheeks, and they are the sweetest lips in the world. The eye is dim, yet it glow’s with the soft radiance that can never fade. Ah, yes, she is a dear old mother. The sands of life are nearly rim out, but, feeble as she is, she will go further and reach down lower for you than any other upon earth. You cannot enteri a prison whose bars can keep her out I you cannot mount a scaffold too high lor her to reach that she may kiss and bless you in evidence of her deathless love when the world shall dfespise and forsake you; when it leaves you by the wayside to perish unnoticed, the dear old mother will gather you in her feeble arms and carry you home and tell you all your virtues until you almost forget your soul is disfigured by vices. Love her tenderly, and cheer the declining years with holy devotion,—■/’cople’s Journal.