Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — To His Mother. [ARTICLE]

To His Mother.

In a recent book on “Woman Through a Man’s Eyeglass” the authoi pays this beautiful tribute to his mother, to whom he dedicates the volume. “When one has reached middle life and the wheels of existence need oiling with the encouragement of affection; when one is wounded and weary, he seeks again the steady starlight of a mother’s love. . . . For a man who is growing old, with neither wife noi child to bring him greetings on hit birthday, 1 can conceive nothing more awful than to have no mother whc shall say, ‘Bless you, my son!’ while in so doing she happily remembers, in a gentle autumn mood of love, all that full flowering summer love with which she greeted him on that first birthday. ” Tubs will not warp or crack open 11 the precaution is taken to put a pail oi water into each directly alter using.