Sampler, What is a Home Without a Mother

“What is a Home Without a Mother,” embroidered in variety of stitches on ecru linen. Pictures a seated woman, needle in hand, sewing and floral spray of green leaves, purple, red and pink flowers, with a light blue border and script.  19-1/2” x 21,” could have been used as a small tablecloth or framed for hanging.  Saying appeared in the song Mother’s Good Night Kiss, Copyright 1887 by Willis Fagan, “What is a home without a mother dear? Nobody ever can be to me, What mother was when I was a child, And sat with my head upon her knee….