Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1908 — The Artist’s Welcome. [ARTICLE]

The Artist’s Welcome.

The famous son was coming home to pay his mother a visit. He was a pianist, had been sent abroad by wealthy friends for a four years’ course In his chosen art, had thereafter spent a year on the concert stage there and behind a vanguard of newspaper reports of his success abroad, both musically and financially, he was now coming home. When be stepped from the train at Plattsvflle his mother rushed to him. When she had reached him, however, she suddenly gave a gasp and stood stock still, staring at him. The next moment she burst into sobs and fell on his neck. "Henry, my poor Henry,” the poor woman cried, “they told me yon were floing so well over there and makln* money plentiful! My poor, poor boy!” “What’s the matter, mother?” exclaimed the bewildered son. “What mikes you doubt what they told your “Oh, Henry,” she cried, unappeased, "I kin see how you’ve suffered! You haven’t been able to scrape enough money together to get your hair cut!” -Cincinnati Commercial TribtMo.