{"id":9611,"date":"2023-08-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9611"},"modified":"2023-08-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T05:00:00","slug":"my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/my-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the Newark Evening Star, August 12, 1915<\/a>. By Margaret Howard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Great poets have sung in high praises    Of mothers with silvery locks,Of mothers who sat in the corner,    With mending or darning the socks.They\u2019ve sung of the old, wrinkled faces,    Of hands that were toilworn and old;They\u2019ve sung of the blessed old mothers    Now gone to the heavenly fold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

But I sing of the glorious mother    Whose hair is still wavy and brown,With hardly a glint of the silver    In the braids of her hallowing crown;The mother who still loves a party,Who dances as well as her girls,    And who proudly keeps step to the musicWhen the bright suffrage banner unfurls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

The mother who sat in the corner    Was all well enough in her day,But old Father Time marches onward,    And now other notions hold sway.The mother who sat in the corner    Had none of the helps we have now;She had to do all her own canning    And spin, weave and milk her own cow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s true she did not love club meetings    In the days of the long, long ago;It\u2019s also quite true she\u2019d no auto    And never saw one picture show.She didn\u2019t clean house with a vacuum,    She didn\u2019t have electric lights.(For all they had then was the candle    And tallow dips for the dark nights).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

So while poets dwell on the praises    Of the mothers of days now gone by,Let me sing of the present-day mother,    With the sparkle of youth in her eye.Let me sing of the well-informed mother,    Who keeps young with her girls and her boys;Who understands all of their sorrows    And gladly shares all of their joys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Let me sing of the up-to-date mother,    Who follows the ball games and sports,Who not only reads of the fashions,    But the war news and market reports;Who loves to romp with her grand-kiddies\u2014    Oh, loud should her praises be sung!The best chum of all the long ages\u2014    My mother, so splendidly young!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Newark Evening Star, August 12, 1915. By Margaret Howard. Great poets have sung in high praises    Of mothers with silvery locks,Of mothers who sat in the corner,    With mending or darning the socks.They\u2019ve sung of the old, wrinkled faces,    Of hands that were toilworn and old;They\u2019ve sung of the blessed old mothers    Now gone to the heavenly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-9611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-margaret-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}