Word: mother
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...McGraw complicates the working-out of Winton's scheme by falling in love with Priscilla. All plans fail, however, for the elder Winton makes a very poor apology for a governor and disgusts Priscilla, who accepts John Alldone. Through a locket which he recognizes as having belonged to his mother, McGraw discovers that Priscilla is his own great grandmother...
...well as regular members, the two most desired changes would be brought about--membership increased, and the price of board to regular members greatly reduced. In the first place, if the new scheme is adopted, the hall will accommodate those members of the University, who, for one reason or mother, miss a number of meals during the week. Men who breakfast at their dormitories, men in Boston departments of the University, club men whose tables are not open on Sunday, and many others, come under this head. From them have come the chief complaints against the present system...
...Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands," by Bjornstjone Bjoruson...
...most pretentious piece in the issue is "The End of the Journey," by E. B. Sheldon, a longish story dealing vitally with an ever-important theme--a son's belated grasp of a mother's love. So long as merely mother and son are before us, the author fares well, both in character-drawing and in his ability to sustain the scenes; but in the son's brief interim of idiocy, which involves an unscrupulous actress and her vulgar but honest husband, there is an undue amount of melodrama, even cruelty. For blind idealizing, even of the pertinacious, youthful sort...
Ephemeral as the stock-market quotations which lend humor to the situations, and as slender as the broker's tape out of which the plot is spun, Mr. Owen Wister's little story of "Mother" is nevertheless not unworthwhile. On these few genial pages, the author's touch is light and graceful; and if one cares for a moral, there is perhaps, one to be found. Not the least amusing part of the story is that "Mother" turns out to be--but this is infringing on Mr. Wister's copyright. P. A. HUTCHISON...