Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — Filial Affection. [ARTICLE]

Filial Affection.

Youth (just returned from college)— “Why, father, how shabbily you dress, nowadays! I think it is too bad, youi going around in such shabby clothes. It mortifies me, I assure you.’’ Father—“l can’t help it, my dear boy. It has taken all my savings to give you an education and supply you with pocket money, and keep you well dressed at college. I did intend to have got a new suit this spring, but you need a fashionable spring overcoat and spring suit, and the little sum I had put aside for myself must go to fix you out in a styie becoming a gentleman. 1 hope you’ll excuse me, John, but 1 really can’t wear any better clothes than I do now.” Youth (with a magnanimous air)— ‘“Why, my dear father, 1 did not for a moment think you were so hard up as that. Here 1 have been giving all my cast-offs to the second-hand clothes man for a mere song, and never for a moment thinking that you might need ’em. But that’s got to be stopped. We’re both about a size, and, in future, you must have my clothes as soon as they become too shabby for me. And, more than that, father, 1 won’t wear them so long as I have been in the habit of doing. I shall get a new suit every few months, and you can wear the old ones before they are scarcely soiled.” Then the father fell upon the youth’s neck and kissed and blessed the fate that had given him such a kind and considerate son, and then he ran to the door and shouted to the hired man to bring the lean calf out of the.barn and kill it and make a feast, adding “for my son lias shown this day that he is anxious to have his old father look respectable.”—Boston Courier.