HE KNEW HIS MOTHER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 338, 27 October 1908, Page 3

HE KNEW HIS MOTHER.

My son certainly does know 1 how to get around' his. mother," 1 said a wealthy, .merchant at his "club recently. "Th'diS boy . -of -mine is a -fine fellow, But he hasp such •" quoer. 'ideas. Ho .writes, rerses ands little sketches,/.or whatever you call thoin, and is furious .because I want him to" be-"an attorney. ; ' . o ■ < • ■ - "A.few weeli3.ago lie and I hadi'a talk . about his future. 'Father,' he said, 'just givo me my fare West/ and -1 w2l> get a position on a newspaper out there aUd make you proud of me, but it would bo lawfully dull to be only a Boston lawyer.' Ihi " Well, I' bought him a ticket 1. to San Francisco, and gave him £5 for pocket-money. He had been mollycoddled guit-od ai lot and made to think he was a genius, aAd I knew to 'get out and rustle' would he'the best ■ 1 thine-for thim; • y v.cr; "I arranged through a Westerri'friend of mine to see-that the youngster did'not starve to death, and I awaited developments. He did not write for money, and<-~I learned through a friend, corroborated," by a letterthe boy wrote to my wife,-that he was earning 30s. a week. "i'-'IS t ''But_ that youngster will 'make a good lawyer just the same. Yous'dught to see the last, letter he sent to his mother. After reading it, she wired him as she co.uld get to the telegraph office.'" She never said a. word to mo until afterwards. "Here is his letter:—' DeariMother,' it says, 'I have not written tdiyou for quite a while, ■I. have been so busy. I seldom get to bed before midnight,-aild(l am usually . too tired to write. There*: is'ttti awfully nice, lot of boys on this paper, and«we are trying to save money. lam writing this in my bathrobe, because. I pawned my best suit to pay my room i-ont;' and tHe landlady is pressing the other. : I sold"the rest of my clothes, as a fellow only ( -aoojls two suits. "I think,father was so 1 wise 'to decide I must shift for myself. *- D *lfp was the best thing, and-1 am doingl.'splsndidly. Before this,.l never thought I couldilive on the food--1 eat .now, but it seems .to; nourish me.. 'I had rolls and coffee'fqrj ibrdakfast, and ; I find 'I do not need ajiyoiluncheon. Thon I have discovered a plactf, jtiyl it is quite clean,, i where for dinner I cai>-gft.beans and coffee,, i or a,stew 'and coffee, fojjfSd. Ido not-mind a bit' about the kind. <?f pgople who eat there. Theyi are. just as .I am. I hardly ever "nave to go to beiT hungry, Lovingly, your boy.' f w * . -j, "Do you wonder;,piy.,wife hurncfl down town, to'telegraph £10 £[,'[l am going'to send . for that son of mine homo, , I may be able to do something with liijm, after 1 all." "Boston Advfrci-ffir."