Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1912 — COLD COMFORT FOR MOTHER [ARTICLE]

COLD COMFORT FOR MOTHER

Comment of Booton Belle on Young Man’s Conduct Was Icy in the Extreme. General F. D. Grant, at a Washington's birthday dinner in New York some years ago, told a story about a young Boston Tory. "This Tory,” he said, “fought during the Revolution neither on one side nor on the other. He took a pleasure trip on the Continent, and he didn’t come back home again until the war was over. “He was treated very coldly by society on his return, and this grieved his good old mother to the heart “The dear old lady tried to explain the matter one afternoon to a Boston belle. “ 'Naturally, as the head of the family,* she said, 'my son could not take part in the war. To him fell the duty, perhaps the more arduous duty, of protecting his mother and sisters and looking after the interests of the estate.’ “ ‘O r madam,’ said the belle, with an icy smile, ‘you ned not explain. I assure you, I’d have done exactly as your son did —I’m such a coward!’”