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A Mother’s Work and Her
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This editorial is not written FOR WOMEN. It is written
for MEN, and for hoys; for the millions who fail to appreciate
the work that mothers do. for the millions that ignore the self
sacrifice and devotion upon which society is based.
On a hot night, in the dusty streets of a dirty city, you see
hundedrs o fwomen sitting in the doorways. TAKING CARE OF
BABIES.
In lonesome farmhouses, far out on monotonous plains, with
the late sun setting on a long day of hard work, you find wom
en, cheerful and persevering, TAKING CARE OF BABIES.
In the middle of the night, in earliest morning, when MEN
sleep, all over the world, in ice huts North, in Southern tents,
in big houses and in dingy tenements, you find women awake,
cheerfully and gladly TAKING CARE OF BABIES.
We respect, and praise the man selfishly working for himself.
If he builds up a great industry and a great personal fortune,
we praise him.
If he risks his life for personal glory and for praise, we
praise him.
If he shows courage even in saving his own carcass from de
struction. we praise him.
There was never a man whose courage or devotion could be
compared with that nf a woman caring for her bahy.
The mother’s love is unselfish, and it has no limit this side of
the grave.
You will find ONE man in a thousand who will risk his life for
a cauao.
You will find a THOUSAND women in a thousand who will
risk their lives for their babies.
Everything that a man has and is he owes to his mother. From
her he gets health, brain, encouragement, moral character and
ALL his chances of succesh.
How poorly the mother’s service is repaid hy men individ
ually. and by society as a whole !
The individual man feels that he has done much if he gives
sufficient money and a LITTLE attention to her who brought him
from nothingness into life and sacrificed her sleep and youth and
strength for his sake.
\ Society, the aggregate nf human beings, feels that its duty is
done when a few hospitals are opened for poor mothers, and a lit
tle medicine doled out in cold-Tiearted fashion to the sick child.
Fortunately, it may truly be saffi that the great man is almost
always appreciative of his greater mother.
Napoleon was cold, jealous of other men, monumentally ego
tistical when comparing himself with other sons of women. But.
he reverenced and appreciated the noble woman who bore him,’
lived for him and watched over him to the end. He said:
The future of the individual child depends on the individual
mother, and the future of the race depends on the mothers of the
race. •
Think what has been done for mankind by’ thousands of mil
lions of perfectly devoted mothers.
Every mother is entirely’ DEVOTED, entirely HOPEFUL, en
tirely CONFIDENT that no future is too great for her baby’s
deserts.
The little head—often hopelessly’ ill-shaped—-rolls about fee
bly on the thin neck devoid of muscles. The toothless gums chew
whatever comes along. The wondering eyes look feebly, aimless
ly about, without focus or concentration. The future human be
ing. to the cold-blooded onlooker, is a useless little atom added
to the human sea of nonentity.
But to the mother that baby is the marvel of all time. There
is endless meaning in the first mumblings, endless soul in the
senile, baby smile, unlimited possibilities in the knobby forehead
and round, hairless head. She sees in the future of the baby’ re
sponsibilities of government, and feels that one so perfectly’ lovely’
must eventually be acclaimed ruler by mankind.
As a result of perfect confidence in its future, the mother
gives to every baby perfect, devotion, perfect and affectionate
moral education. Each child begins life inspired by the most
beautiful example of altruism and self-sacrifice.
Kindness has gradually taken the place of brutality among
human beings, because every baby at its birth has found itself sur
rounded by absolute kindness.
The mother’s kindness forms moral character.
The mother's confidence and encouragement stimulate ambi
tion and inspire courage.
The mother's patient watchfulness gives good health, and
fights disease when it comes.
The mother’s wrathful protection shields the child from the
stern and dwarfing severity of fathers.
Truly, a man may and should be judged by his feeling toward
his own mother, and toward the mothers of other men of ALL
MEN.
in the character of Christ, whose last earthly thought on Gol
gotha was for His Mother, as in the character of the hard work
ing, ignorant man whose earnings gn to make his mother comfort
able, the most beautiful trait is devotion to the mother who suf
fers and works for her children, from the hours that precede their
birth through all the years that they spend on earth together.
Honor thy father and THY MOTHER.
And honor the mothers of other men. Make their task easier
through fair payment of the men who support the children,
through good public schools for their children, through respect
ful treatment of ALL women.
The mother is happy For she knows ‘ the deep joy of loving
some one else more than herself.”
You honor yourself, and prove yourself worthy of a good
mother and of final success, when you do something for the moth
ers of the world.
Begin by working to GIVE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
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The Mystery of the Gulf Stream
she Atlantic Ocean Is a Great Engine For the Conveyance of Heat
A CCORDING to the reports of
many sea captains, icebergs
have this year appeared in
the Atlantic ocean more abundant
ly and farther south than ever be
fore. Some have thought that the
Titanic disaster was the result of a
temporary change in the direction,
or force, of the gulf stream. The
captain of an Italian steamship saw
a berg 300 feet long, and rising 50
feet above the sea, in lattitude 39
degrees, 20 minutes; longitude 40
degrees. 3 minutes. That point Is
in the middle of the north Atlantic,
ns far south as Baltimore. A few'
hundred miles farther north the
berg fields of Ice have recently cov
ered hundreds of square miles of
the ocean’s surface. Some reports
indicate that the Titanic ran at a
speed of 25 miles an hour, between
two spreading wings of an immense
fleet of iceberg's, which were ar
rayed in the form of a great V, with
the opening toward the east, and
that the fatal encounter occurred
when the ship had reached the In
ner end of the V. where only the
most careful navigation could have
found a safe passage. If that be
true, the huge ship, with its cargo
of more than 2,000 lives, disregard
ing all the warnings received from
other vessels, was simply rushing
upon almost certain destruction,
like a cruiser speeding recklessly
into a cunning trap laid for it by a
squadron of battleships.
The suggestion that there may
have been a temporary change in
the direction of the ocean currents
is not. in itself, altogether improb
able There are two great currents
which are primarily concerned with
the circulation of the North Atlan
tic ocean. There are the gulf
stream and the Labrador current,
the first composed of warm, the
second of eo’d, w ater. They encoun
ter each other east, or southeast,
of Newfoundland. Tbs’ gulf stream,
after rushing out of the narrow
s’raits of Florida, gradually
away from the American eoast and
spreads more and more broadly,
until it finally divides into vast
branches, one of which trends
southward between th? Azores and
the coast of Spain, while another
goes on and warms the air around
the British Isles.
The cold Labrador current, bear
ing the icebergs from Greenland,
hugs the American coast, and is
probably mainly responsible for the
’cool spring weather we sometimes
enjoy, and sometimes denounce,
when its changeable moods become
too eccentric. If you will look at a
chart of the North Atlantic, show
ing the ocean currents, vou will
perceive how the great Labrador
stream, with its cold, heavy, ice-
SATURDAY, MAY 4. 1912.
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burdened water, seems to shoulder
the genial current of the gulf
stream away from the eastern
shores of America, forcing it far
ther out in the ocean. It Is evi
dent, at a glance, that either an
increase in the force of the cold
stream frofti the north or a de
crease in that of the warm one
from the south would tend to widen
the area covered by the icebergs,
and send them farther than usual
across the lane of the trans-At
lantic liners. t
If such a change has occurred, it
must be due to some alteration in
the force and direction of the pre
vailing winds, for the ocean cur
rents mainly arise from the general
circulation of the air, and that in
turn depends upon the rotation of
the earth on its axis. The warm
air in the region of the equator
rises and flows off northward at a
high elevation, and the cold air
from the north moves southward,
near the surface, to take its place.
But this surface air, coming from a
part of the earth w’Mere the east
ward motion due to the rotation of
the earth is less rapid than it is
toward the equator, finds itself
moving over parts of the earth
whose speed of rotation is greater
than its own. The consequence is
that a wind arises blowing west
ward over the surface.
Y’ou can see how this is if you
take a school globe and set It spin
ning on its axis. Then vou will per
ceive that a point near either pole
moves only an inch or less in the
same time that a point near the
equator moves a foot or more. In
fact, this motion of translation in
creases from nothing exactly at the
pole to a thousand miles an hour
at the equator. Now. imagine your
self to be moved suddenly from the
pole to the equator. YOU WOULD
APPEAR TO BE SPINNING
THROUGH SPACE A THOUSAND
MILES AN HQUR. in a direction
opposite to that of the earth’s rota
tion
The air from the Arctic regions
experiences no such sudden in
crease of motion because it re
quires a long time to make the
journey over the earth’s surface.
But all the while it is moving to
ward the equator it is continually
finding the surface beneath it mov
ing faster eastward than it was
farther north, and. consequently,
because it can not instantly take
up this increase of eastward mo
tion itself, it allows the surface to
turn beneath it; thus, with regard
to that surface, it becomes a west
erly wind.
This is the origin of the “trade
winds." which blow westward con
tinually along each side of the
equator. These constant winds set
the surface of the ocean in motion
along with them. In that way a
great current Is set flowing In the
Atlantic from the direction of
Africa tow ard America. When thia
current encounters South America
a large part of it is sheered off
northwestward, and entering the
Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mex
ica. is heaped up there, until it
escapes again, mainly through the
straits of Florida, thus giving birth
to the gulf stream. This stream,
flowing northeastward in the North
Atlantic, as we have already said,
gradually spreads wider and loses
its force, but not until it has
crossed the ocean, going eastward.
A large part of this water, turning
southward again in the middle of
the Atlantic, is drawn once more
into the w’estw'ard current caused
by the trade winds, so that the
whole ocean Is kept In motion like
an enormous eddy, whose northern
edge moves eastward while the
southern edge moves westward.
But while the principal cause of
this w’onderful circulation of the
ocean waters is that which we have
described, yet minor influences also
affect it, the chief of these being
the winds that blow across the At
lantic in a direction which is main
ly from west toward east. These
winds aid the circulation of the
water, and a variation in their force
or direction may at times greatly
affect the speed and trend of the
currents.
Looking at all this broadly, we
see that, in the great oceanic cur
rents. nature has solved a vast
problem which has always appealed
to the imagination of mdn, but
which he is too weak in resources
to solve for himself, and that is the
UTILIZATION OF THE EARTH S
ROTATION to produce mechanical
power. Through the intervention
of the constant winds, arising from -
the rotation, nature transforms
this force into a motion of the sea
watery. And. more than that, by
means of this motion, carrying
warm water from the equator to
ward the poles, the climates of im
mense regions of the earth are
changed widely from what they
would be if the ocean .were stag
nant. It has been calculated that
if all the oceanic currents w ere ar
rested. the temperature of the
equator would rise 55 degrees, and
that of the poles would become 83
degrees lower than at present. The
British Isles and northern Europe
would become almost arctic in cli
mate. for the mean temperature in
the latitude of London w’ould sink
to 10 degrees. It has also been cal
culated that the quantity of heat
daily conveyed northward by the
gulf stream is equivalent to that
received by 1,500.000 square miles
of the earth’s surface under the
perpendicular sun of the equator.
THE HOME PAPER
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
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The Effect of the
Human Voice
—-and
Hdw It Echoes the
Human Soul
Written For The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
CopyrigYU, 1912. by American-Journal-Examiner.
’OICES affect me like music;
like perfumes; like scenes in
Nature.
I have heard the voice of a man
or a woman who was not visible;
and al! the atmosphere changed as
if a sudden wind had arisen; or as
if an eclipse had taken place at
noonday; or as if a “light that
never was on land or sea” had risen
in the skies at night.
Once in the desert of the com
monplace I heard a Voice, and in
stantly I was enveloped in beauty.
Statues gleamed from hidden
niches; and fountains played; and
there -were culture and repose and
charm over all my world.
Voices are exact reflections of the
mind and sou! r or they are echoes
from past incarnations.
Not all soft voices are pleasant;
not all loud voices are unpleasant.
It depends upon the Quality.
There is a woman who is crowned
with youth and classic beauty. She
is like a marble goddess to see; and
oftentimes I have beheld "her mov
ing about exquisitely kept lawns,
under the shadow of great trees.
A Woman Whose Beauty.
Pleases Till She Speaks.
She is a picture to please the
eye; a picture —until she speaks.
Always when her voice reaches my
ears the same thing occurs. The
beautiful lawns give place to
ragged, unkempt farm house yards;
the great trees vanish, and I see
only forlorn buildings, dilapidated
stables, men in shirt sleeves and
“suspenders." coming home tired
with toil; women with calico
aprons and prematurely faded
faces, performing disagreeable du
ties. The utterly commonplace and
unromantic side of life is expressed
by the voice of this beautiful wom
an.
It is like a blow to my ear.
Her own nature is devoid of ro
mance; there is no sentiment in her
soul. And the voice tells the story
of temperamental poverty, despite
her a-ppearance and surroundings.
Another woman who is sweet and
wholesome to look upon, and nor
mal in every respect, speaks, and I
grow dazed, as under the Influence
of some strange narcotic.
She may discuss weather or
bonnets; she may speak of art and
How to Make Life Long
and Happy
IN his work on’ “Preventative
Medicine,” Dr. Benjamin W.
Richardson has this to say on
the rules for preventing the undue
waste of the bodily energies:
“The rules of right living should
begin in youth. It should be the
habit of growm-up persons never
to subject children to mental shocks
and unnecessary griefs. When in
the surroundings of the child life
some grave calamity has occurred
it is best to make the event as light
as possible to the child, and cer
tainly to avoid thrilling it with
sights and details which stir it to
the utmost, and, in the end. only
leave upon the mind and heart in
curable wounds and oppressions.
Children should not be taken to fu
nerals, nor to sights that, cause a
sense of fear and dread combined
with great grief.
“To avoid premature old age In
mature life, the following are im
portant rules to remember:
"Dwelling on the inevitable past,
forming vain hypotheses as to what
might have been if this or that had
or had not been, acquiring a craze
for recounting what has occurred
The May King
By MINNA IRVING.
Behold him! a giant in jumper of blue,
As he dangles his feet from a drf_y,
With a pipe in his mouth and a match in his hand.
For he is the King of the May.
The sweet little May queens in ribbons and curls
Their graces in vain will display.
For to him we must bow, and salaam, and kow-tow
The big. burly King of the May.
His crown is composed of the china and glass
We have cherished for many a day;
He smashes it all. but W'e dare not demur.
For he is the King of the May.
We wish we had put off our moving a w’hile,
And view' his approach with dismay.
As he drives up In state in a lumbering van.
The terrible King of the May,
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literature; or she may talk of cur
rent gossip. Yet the same result
invariably follows. There is a lit
tle blur over my brain: a peculiar
haze; and the real things of life
seem so far away; and I imagine
incense curling up from censers in
some dim room. Some time, in
some past life, she has been a part
of such conditions.
Once I met a man of talents, a
man of whom the world had great
hopes, of whom it expected won
derful achievements. But after I
had heard him speak I ceased to
believe in his future. His voice -was
light—as thin as water running
over shallow places. It could not
be a voice of the depths.
I know a man whose voice will
bring calm out of turmoil; peace
out of'discord; and rest out of
weariness. Men. women, children,
animals, al! feel the magnetism and
charm of his modulated tones.
Each sentence is a caress, however
dignified the words may be.
There are voices which rouse you
to action, which stir you with am
bition; and there are others which
fill you with despondency. There
are voices which irritate you like
the buzzing of an insect or the
grating of a file; and voices which
hiss like serpents and snap like
turtles.
Sometimes from the rosebud
mouth of youth proceeds the crack
ed voice of age; and from feminine
lips th<= deep bass of masculine
tones; but most dreadful of al! is
the thin, piping voice of femininity
issuing from the bearded lips of
man.
That which we are, that which
we have been In some former In
carnation speaks in our tones.
That which we are, and the re
sult of that which w-e have been,
can be changed and modeled by
the cultivation of the voice.
Ask Your Best Friend
About Your Voice.
Were al! the world to speak in
a melodious and pleasing voice,
■'■any of the harsh and disagree
able qualities in human nature
would disappear.
What does your voice express?
Listen and analyze it; and then
ask your best friend, if you are
brave enough to hear the answer.
—these acts do more harm to fu
ture health and effort than many
things connected with real calami
ty. Occupation and new pursuits
are the best preventives for mental
shock and bereavement.
“Hate keeps the heart always at
full tension. It gives rise to op
pression of the brain and senses.
It confuses the whole man. It robs
the stomach of nervous power, and,
digestion being injured, the failure
of life begins at once.
“The facial expression of jealousy
is old age in however young a
face it may be cast. Jealousy preys
upon and kills the heart. So jealous
men are not only unhappy, but
broken-hearted and live short lives.
I have never known a man of jeal
ous nature live anything like a
long life. The prevention for jeal
ousy is diversion of mind toward
useful and unselfish work.
"Everything that interferes with
chastity favors vital deterioration,
while the grosser departures from
chastity, leading to specific and
hereditary disease, are certain
causes of organic degeneration and
premature old age,"