Be Kind to the Cow Mother Antique Punch Paper Embroidery, Framed puzzsle The painting I'd think dates

The painting I'd think dates sometime between the 1910s and early 1940s

I did not pay a lot for this painting

This is a beautiful--and heavy

As a perfect final touch

8 1/4" t x 5 3/16" in diameter

Be Kind to the Cow Mother Antique Punch Paper Embroidery, Framed puzzsle The painting I'd think datesBe Kind To The Cow Mother The ambiguity and multiple possible readings of this old punch paper embroidery makes it is one of my favorite finds ever so wonderfully curious! Are we to be kind to the the mother cow? Or was its maker pleading to her mother to be kind to the cow?! Or, was it "Mother" who made this and decided to sign it as such? I tend to lean toward the first reading, thus loving the specificity of it being not just the cow but the cow