Show RESENTED LIKENESS harlem arlem Youth to Take Talce Kind Kindl ly l' to Compliment Comparing Slim Him with wit II Father According to the New York Sun two Harlem men were coming coining downtown the other morning in u a surface car one of whom has has' hasa a state reputation for forMs Ms his plainness of person lie He calls it an absence of personal pulchritude but that is merely a euphemistic distinction distinction tion without a difference Part of the way with them came the year ten son of the other one who left the car carat carat carat at a cross street a bright boy said the fond fa father ther looking after him k kHOW t HOW MUCH YOU LOOK LIKE LUCE YOUR TOUR FATHER Yes said the homely man Ive e got one m myself elf They re a n gr great t blessing arent aren't they That depends admitted the homely homely home home- ly father as if In doubt I dont don't understand said the other in a more or less horrified tone Well Wen a bright boy explained the th homely m man n his is is right up to a certain in limit but you rou dont don't want him to be too dazzlingly brilliant That's the kind I think mine min is Im I'm afraid hell he'll strike a a. sort of meteoric career when he grows rows up and land in the legislature or on the penitentiary or some place like those Last week a friend of mine met him on on the street with his bis moth mother mothr r It was an old friend who had known knoWD us I before we were married My fy my he said pa patting the boy on the head j how hov Fuch much you look loo like your father And instead of thanking him and being pleased what do you suppose my brilliant brilliant brilliant bril bril- offspring said Why he gave a n short grunt of bf disapproval and re responded responded re- re Well I think that's a hard thing to say about a boy who ne never er done anything to you Did hi his mother reprove him 7 in inquired inquired inquired in- in the other sympathetically Xo No she sh-e only laughed Im I'm begin ing to lose confidence in the mothers of the rising generation too and the sensitive father bowed beneath his bard burd burden bur bar d den zi n o of homeliness |