Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1912 — Mother's Chair. [ARTICLE]

Mother's Chair.

Mother’s chair had rocked the whole family. It made a creaking noise as It moved, but there was music in its sound. It was just high enough to allow us children to put our heads into her lap. That Was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. Oh, what a chair that was. ... It was* a very wakeful chair! In the sick day of children other chairs could not keep awake —It kept easily awake. That chair knew all the old lullabies, and all those wordless songs which mothers sing to their children. Songs In which all pity and compassion and sympathetic influences are combined. That old chair has stopped rocking for a good many yean. It may be set up tn the loft or garret, but It holds a queenly power yet—T. DeWitt Talmage.