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Show FATHER AST) SON It has always been strange to me how fathers forget the emotions,, and the escapades and the mistakes of their youth. I have no son of my own but I presume if I had I should be telling him, as I hear other middle-aged middle-aged fathers tell their Doys, of the marvelous virtues which I exhibited a9 a boy. Just as a college boy going hom. from the regular routine of undergraduate under-graduate work, axcept when talking talk-ing to his parents, seldom talks of the strenuous life in college, but rather of its escapades, so the middle-aged father in conversation with his son almost invariant virtues he practiced and the grinding grind-ing toil he endured rather then con-fessing con-fessing what would be far more interesting in-teresting to the son the tricks ho played, the work he shirked, the es capades in which he shared. Boys are little different from what they were fortv years ago. nor will they have changed much when the boys of today have become the fathers of tomorrow. 1 listened not long ago to Brooks laving down the law to his two young .ons as possibly Brooks' father had I rtone to him some years ago. BrooK., !ndI were boys together, and he was ! never for behind the crowd wheu moev was to be spent, or some trick ! was to be Played, or work was to be 'eluded, or a pretty girl was under discussion. i .., never had the privilege w.ien I ' w ,s voung that you fellows have." i Brooks was saying. "I had precious i,i,tle money to fpcnd. and I had to V'm no. add that he worked a, mlle as was Possible and he sponr jlu .he monv. could Kovsare very often atra.d of their ,j fathers. They do not s -hrough the superficial sternness! they cannot realize that their fathers, when young very likely went through about tnu same experiences that they are going go-ing through, and very often the father fath-er has forgotten it himself. "You don't know my father." boyj sny to me over and over again when they are caught in some of the mistakes mis-takes and errors of youth. "If ne finds out what I have done. It will be the end of me. He'll kick me out." If there is anyone whom a boy can really count on to stnnd by him to the last ditih. it's his father; and If there is anyone who is generally loyal loy-al to a man. it's his "on. It's too bad that tney no not more 'often understand 'ach other. I |