A Tribute by Helen Hunt Jackson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 11, 1916

A Tribute

By Helen Hunt Jackson

The most perfect home I ever saw was a little house into the sweet incense of whose fires went no costly things. A thousand dollars served as a year's living for father, mother, and three children. But the mother was the creator of the home. Her relations with the children were the most beautiful I have ever seen; every inmate of the house involuntarily looked into her face for the keynote of the day, and it always rang clear. From the rosebud or the clover leaf which she always found to put beside our plates at breakfast, down to the story she had on hand to read in the evening, there was no intermission of her influence. She has always been, and always will be, my ideal of a mother, wife, and home maker.—Helen Hunt Jackson.