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Rev. J. L. Drake Herbert Summers A. D. Summers Gailey Summers Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Robins Dr. Parish Smith Mr. and Mrs. James Mann Frank Morris Susie Lee Plunkett Lillian Plunkett Harry Hugh Langford H. C. Cowan MOTHER’S DAY THE ROCKDALE RECORD. CONYERS. GEORGIA Q WOTHER-MY LOVE, if you'll give me Anil go where 1 uk you to wander, * ( 0 I will lead you away to a beautiful land— W The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder. \ A Wtok -< We’ll walk in a sweet posie garden out there EM , V / 5 IML Where moonlight and starlight are streaming, WMSfe. V t And the llowcrs and birds are Idling the air With fragrance and music ol dreaming. yM There'll be no little tired-out boy to undress, 4# No (paestions or cares to perplex you; - fc'i * There’ll be no little bruisesorbunips to caress, WT*- ?■:' ' frl Nor patching of stockings to vex you. gp jj For I’ll rock you away on r. silver-dew stream, ' rfjSr’Jtf. Anil sing you asleep when you re weary, y|L And no one shall knowof our beautiful dream, > But you and your own little dearie. -,3 Jp H And when lam tired I’ll nestle my head VW , ' > " In the bosom that’s soothed me so ollen, k: , , - And the wide-awake stars shall sing in my stead '■*ik A song which our dreaming shall soften, ■ So Mothcr-My-Love, let me take your dear */“* And away through the starlight we’ll wander— ffc* Away through the mist to the beautiful land— *•.„ f * ,e Dreamland that’s waiting out yonder! R —Eugene Field Mothers Idolized by the Famous Pages of History Full of Glowing Tributes to “Mother” Made by Great Women and Men. Men and women have laid the best and supreme efforts and fruits of their careers as tributes at the feet of their mothers. The Roman orator declared, "The empire is at the tireside.” Mohammed said, "Paradise is at the feet of moth ers.” A Scotch saying has it that an ounce of mother is worth more than a pound of clergy. Benjamin Frank lin's love and devotion to his mother Is axiomatic. lie not only thought of her, hut gave concrete expression to those thoughts, when he sent her a “moidore,” a gold piece worth $0 “to ward chaise hire, that you may ride warm to meetings during the win ter.” Whistler's Great Picture. That erratic genius, who quarreled with his patrons, sometimes repudi ated his birthplace, antagonized crit ics and friends alike, James Mc- Neill Whistler, painted a beautiful and tender picture called the “Por trait of (lie Painter’s Mother.” Among all of his brilliant and delicate works, this picture is probably the best known. This man in his devotion to his mother forgot to he a cynic, and be came a loving son. One critic states that, in this picture, a harmony in gray and black, the artist undoubted ly touched the highest point of ex cellence. This portrait of his mother as an old lady in the calm and se rene dignity of age has brought tears of sweet remembrance to the eyes of many a man and woman. He has de picted her as an old woman, in a black gown, with a white cap, sitting at case, with quiet hands, waiting and thinking. Asa white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face. England’s best-known short story writer, a witty reconteur, whose prose Mother If I could mail, it on the sands cf time Or write it on the sky of every clime, This would I write, and write in bald est hand That all the world might see and un derstand. That far and wide, there could not be another So fine, so sweet, so wondei-ful as MOTHER. Is brilliant, sometimes satirical and scintillating, dedicated one of the earlier of his volumes of short stories J ‘To the Wittiest Woman in India”— his mother. This hook contained a tale which Cyril Falls, one of Mr. Kipling's critics, calls “one of the best short stories ever written”; which Is fulsome praise enough! Mr. and Mrs. Harry White whose discipline contributes to the strengthening and enrichment of char acter inevitably produces impairment of domestic felicity. Mother’s Sunday compels us to think more definitely of those fundamental things that constitute the strength and Sanctity of home life. It is demon strable that the homes of a nation have the power of making or unmak ing it. They either exalt its standards or debase them. They either con tribute to the wholesomeness of our social life or they gravely impair it. Indeed the home standards affect for good or ill every phase of our cor porate life. No home liveth to itself. We are living in an age in which the duties and privileges of women have been infinitely broadened. They are equal sharers with the men of the na tion in its large concerns and oppor tunities. They have to do with the making of policies and the shaping of national ideals. All tills should make for greater refinement and wliosesome ness in all that concerns our well being. Mother's Responsibilities. If these new privileges and oppor tunities detract in any wise from the high claims and responsibilities that peculiarly belong to mother life and mother influence, they must ultimately work disaster. No social occupations, no indulgence in those tilings that con cern tlie state and the nation, may be substituted for those holier responsi bilities that have to do with home and family life. The greatest trust that God has committed to His children is that which is given to the mother of the household. She, more than all others, determines the moral worth and strength of our domestic and so cial life. To her hands is given the incomparable privilege of shaping the characters of her children. The moral and spiritual ideals of the nation, as a whole, are largely determined by its mothers. The Savior’s Mother. Little as we know of that simple home in which the child Jesus was reared, sufficient is told us to indicate His mother’s influence as well as her understanding sympathy. She, above alt others, discerned the high and holy purpose of His ministry. With pro phetic instinct she saw from His earli est days what no other eye could dis cern. Poets and painters have exhausted their genius in portraying this sacred relationship. The modern mother may find in this lowly home at Nazareth an ideal of transcendent loveliness. We may change our customs and our ways of living, but we dare not lower those high and holy standards that give to the mother the sovereign place to which by divine sanction she was appointed. She must continue to be the guardian of a nation’s character. High and Holy Day Mother’s day, and its proper ob servance, means more than a mere gesture. It is legally required that every person shall associate the love of mother, whether living or passed, witli the love of country. It is a day set aside for concentration upon the ideals of home and the ideals of our institutions of government. A good home stands for good citizenship, and the home is made by the mother. Rev. J. R. Jordan ■■■■■■iMHflanßßHßmn HHUHBMMBIRSMBBSMHnjiII HMWiiIOIHIIMHMaHI Pierce Baggett Robert Baggett Horace Baggett Elizabeth Baggett Mr. and Mrs. Aubie Bennett Minnie Almand irunann iMiiimiihiim—an i Golden Dennard i Novelty Cash Shoppe Miss Emma Reagan S. C. Wilson Fred Nix WEDNESDAY, MAY g,