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1. Mother's Day: Its History, Origin, Celebration, Spirit, and Significance as by Susan Tracy Rice, Robert Haven Schauffler (1915)
"Far better taught, she lays her bosom bare, And the fond boy springs back to
nestle there. HIS MOTHER'S APRON-STRINGS * BY ISABEL C. BARROWS ..."
2. "Mother" in Verse and Prose: A Book of Remembrance edited by Robert Haven Schauffler (1916)
"Far better taught, she lays her bosom bare, And the fond boy springs back to
nestle there. HIS MOTHER'S APRON-STRINGS * BY ISABEL C. BARROWS ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"It le тегу Had and grievous to think ol the shock that a young boy's moral system
must receive when he emerges from the too tightly laced apron-strings of a ..."
4. Aids to Family Government: Or, From the Cradle to the School, According to by Herbert Spencer, Bertha Meyer (1879)
"MOTHERS' APRON-STRINGS. 68. It is an old saying that children " brought up at
their mothers' apron-strings are most likely to go wrong when thrown on their ..."
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