Turned the Tables on His Father.

Evening Star, Issue 8578, 27 July 1891, Page 3

Turned the Tables on His Father.

There is a military officer stationed in this city who has a son at West Point. Not long ago he bad occasion to take the boy to task for receiving such a low average for conduct. The lad, having no excuse, silently bore the reprimand. As soon as the parent had left West Point, the boy went to the library and got down the records for the years in which his father was a cadet, and oarefully marked down his father's average for conduot. Soon after the first visit the father called on bis son agaia, and began to leoture him. The son stood it for a short time, and then quiokly going to his desk, brought out an envelope addressed to his father, and, handing it to him, the boy said: •* Before you go any further you had better look at this." The father opened the letter, and as soon as he began to read it he saw that his son had made a comparison of his conduot average with his own, and aB the father's was the worse he quickly put the letter in his pocket and said: " Well, my boy, things were different then ; but we'll drop the Bubject." After that the cadet's roports were passed by the father without comment. —Exchange.