Affection - These are my Jewels
StoryHistorical Account★★★★A Campanian lady, who was very rich, and still fonder of pomp and show, after having displayed, in a visit she inade her diamonds, pearls, and richest jewels, earnestly desired Cornelia the illustrious, mother of the Gracchi, to let her see her jewels also. Cornelia dexterously turned the conversation to another subject, to wait the return of her sons, who were gone to the public schools. When they returned, and entered their mother’s apartment, she said to the Campanian lady, pointing to them with her hand, “ These are my jewels, and the only ornaments I adınire.”
L. M. Stretch.
The point
Cornelia presented her two sons as her only jewels when asked to display her valuables; children are true wealth.
Audience
AdultsYouth
Tone
Touching · Affirming
To tell aloud
under a minute · 97 words