Mother - BARRY JACKSON
Subject: Mother
From: BARRY JACKSON
Date: May 10, 1998

I found this while digging through a local paper.

The Southern Democrat
Oneonta, Alabama
March, 1912

Altoona

     In behalf of my promise to my something relative to girls
carelessness to mother, I herewith submit a few scattering remarks.
Doubtless there are very few girls who carelessly neglect
motherintentionally.  It's  the many little things all combined that has
a
tendency to bring that care worn look on her dear face. Girls it is your
duty to chase it away. how often do you kiss mother? Had you thought
that you owe her a kiss or two? Away back when you were a little girl,
she kissed you when no one else was tempted by your fever tainted breath
and swollen face. You were not as attractive then as you are now. And
through those years of childish sunshine and shadows, she was always
ready to cure by the magic of mother's kiss, the little dirty, chubby
hands whenever they were injured in those first skirmishes in the rough
old world. And then the midnight kiss with which she routed so many bad
dreams, as she leaned above your restless pillow, have all been of
interest these long, long years.
     Her face has more wrinkles than yours and yet if you were sick,
that face would appear far more beautiful than an angel's as it hovered
over you, watching every opportunity to minister to your comfort, and
every one of those wrinkles would seem to be bright wavelets of sunshine
chasing each other over the dear face.
     She will leave you one of these days. These burdens if not lifted
From her shoulders, will break her down. Those rough, hard hands that
have done so many necessary things for you, will be crossed upon her
lifeless breast. Those respected lips that gave you your first baby
kiss, will be forever closed, and those sad, tired eyes will have opened
in eternity, and then you will appreciate mother; but it will be too
late. Oh! be kind and cherish mother even beyond the tomb.

Lewis M. Thompson

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