Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1918 — Light That Warms Heart and Makes One Love All Little Children [ARTICLE]

Light That Warms Heart and Makes One Love All Little Children

By HARRIOT RUSSELL

Some girls are little mothers at heart almost from the time their baby lips have learned to form a few words. I watched a small girl the other day as she sat rocking her baby brother to sleep-such a roly-poly, husky fellow he was-much too large and heavy to be held by so small a girl. And though he wasn’t just the easiest sort of a little tad to manage, not once did the little girl lose patience with him. Her bright, sunny face radiated tenderness and cheerfulness, and in her soft eyes was a spark of the light that some day will burn brightly when she holds her own babies in her arms, close, close against her breast.. 1 watched her all the rest of the day as she cared for the wee boy while her own busy mother went about her work and, though the little girl was very young and extremely childish in her ways—not one bit old—there wad something in her pretty face and something in her way of handling that young brother of hers that made you think of her as a little mother. ' And that is what she was—a little mother. We often see them as they bend over their dollies and sing soft lullabies to them. It is a little light that burns in their eyes even when they are scarcely beyond their own cradle days—a light that grows deeper and brighter with the passing of the years whether or not they ever have babies of their' own, and it is a light that sends a glow of warmth about the heart and that makes one love all little children. v , '