Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1884 — The Boy and His Mother. [ARTICLE]

The Boy and His Mother.

A young fellow at Council Bluffs writes as follows: “What do you think of a young lady, while in the company of a dude masher, remarking of an old schoolmate of hers, ‘that he is a good boy, but tied to his old mother’s apron strings, and is of no good on earth.’ Will not the boy come out ahead if he supports and cares for the mother?” Come out ahead ? Well, of course he will. « A girl who would make such a remark is not worthy to blacken the shoes of a boy who is kind to his old mother. Such a girl has got no more heart in her than a turnip, and is only fit —O, she isn’t fit for anything. She ought to be taken across the knee of her own mother until she thinks it is about the middle of August. It is su«h girls as this one that we hear of playing the piano while the mother is mending her stockings or washing her white clothes. It is such a girl that tells her mother to mind her own business wnen the old lady advises her not to stay out more than two or three hours after midnight with a dude. It is such girls that go to the devil flying, at the least possible excuse, and the first opportunity. The meanest men in the world aro those who have allowed themselves to drift away from tlieii] mothers and forget all about them. The best and bravest men in the world are those who have never been so proud as when doing something pleasant foi] the kind old mother. The most heart) less thing in the world is for a person, to make such a remark as that quotedj above about a young man who isi proud of his mother, and loveq her so that a tear in her eye is like a drop of melted lead on his heart. 1 The young man who heard of such a remark being made about his rela-j tions with his mother, no doubt felfl that he had rather not have heard of the remark, but it is lucky that he did, if he thought he had any affection for that girl. She would not have Said it in his hearing, which shows that she iq a hypocrite and a two-sided person. If he married that girl he would have n little hell of his own. Such a girf would make a man wbh he had never seen any woman except his own mother: No matter how close the relation between a mother and son, a day is liable to come when the son will find a girl that he will marry, and though he may not think less of his mother, he will not hive quite as . much time to devote to ‘her, but if he is such a son as the one above mentioned, there will never be a day but he will think of something that can be done for his mother. His good wife, if she is good, will join him in anything that can iiiake the mother who bore him happy. And a day will come when the mother will lay down her knitting, and take off her spectacles, and her burden of life will be laid down, and her last prayer will be for the son who has been joked by a fool girl for being tied to her apron strings, and she will close her eyes in death 'with the feeling that of all God’s best gifts to a mother, a dutiful, loving son is the greatest. Those sons who have followed the counsels of a loving mother, and who have perchance followed the remains of that mother to the grave and heard the cold clay rattle on her last resting place, and who have gone away from the scene with hearts bowed aud broken, will never, in their choice of a partner for life, take one who has ever spoken unkindly of a son who is kind to his mother. No boy need ever be ashamed to be called his mother’s boy. and no person with a soul to save wj‘, 1 ever make trifling remarks on so saer id a matter as the love of a son for a g* o: mother. The Council Bluffs youn; man is advised bo keep tied to the apvo; strings of that mother of his until h he finds a girl different from the onho lias quoted. Lot the dxide have her All a dude is fit for is to Ca ry a poodl for such o female idiot .‘-Beck’s Sun.