Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1884 — Love for a Mother. [ARTICLE]

Love for a Mother.

Next to the love of her husband, nothing so crowns a woman’s life with honor as the devotion of a son to her. We never knew a boy to turn out badly who began by falling in love with his mother. Any .man may fall in love with a fresh-faced girl, and the man who is gallant to the girl may cruelly neglect the poor, weary wife in after years. But the big boy who is a lover of his mother, at middle age is a true knight, who will love his wife in the sear leaf of autumn as he did in the daisied spring. There is nothing so beautifully chivalrous as the love of a big boy for his mother. — Cottage Hearth.