AN UNFILIAL SON.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 91, 15 October 1881, Page 4

AN UNFILIAL SON.

A singular application was made to the committee of the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum last week. A respectable looking lady, 90 years of age, Mrs. Saxe, who was accompanied by her daughter, applied for admission into the institution. Ihe daughter explained that the object of the application was not so much to obtain admission ior her mothor as to expose the conduct of the old lady's son in re r using to support his agod parent. Mrs. Saxe had been hitherto snpported by her daughter, who was unable to do co any longer. The sons were then appealed to lor help. One had been out of work for some time, but is now in employment, and he promised some support. The other son is in the enjoyment of a good salary — £G'.<o per annum — and is in the Postal Department. To him repeated applications had been made, but. ho had treated them with contempt, and had not oven so much as replied to the letters. The committee, which was presided over by Mr. Farmer, commented strongly on this strange conduct, and it was decided to write to tho Bon about the matter, and point out to him that it wag his duty to contribute toward tho support of his aged mothor. This aeoms rather a mild way of treating such a man. Tiie Magistrate's Court would have been a more fitting solution of the difficulty.