Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — Give the Old Man a Chance. [ARTICLE]

Give the Old Man a Chance.

New York Tribune. We are glad to see numerous protests in the press against the way in which the Old Man has been ignored. The many virtues and good qualities of the mother have been celebrated bothr te poetry and prose, in connection with the lives of all our great men. This is as it should be. Perish the wretch who would blot out a line of this praise. But in remembering the mother, why forget the father, better known as the Old Man? It is true the Old Man is not always a person of ideal physical beauty. You don't feel like writing sonnets about him. and even a rondeau would be out of place in celebrating his homely vir. tues. But he tolled to feed and cfothe the'future great man, perhaps sat up at night with him in his sickness. And in a multitude of ways he denied himself the pleasure and comforts of life in order to give the young man a chance. Poor, patient, brave, uncomplaining, awkward Old Man, how litr tie our literature has to say about him! How generally he is ignored when living, and forgotten when dead!