Show A homely bit of coiras e one august afternoon in 1880 an unusually largo crowd 0 people assembled it being commencement week to listen to an oration and poem delivered by members 0 tho graduating class of one of our moot prosperous new england colleges krayci was offered by W M a member of the class A hush fell upon the audience and they by hia bhart tarso petition to be carried beyond the heated room into the very presence of the great master just as the ameni died upon bis lipa an usher stepped upon the platform and whispered to him thousands of eyes centered upon bam as he passed down the aisle sitting tu one of the galleries I 1 saw as be reached the outer door his affectionate greeting 0 an elderly woman who immediately re turned with him after seating her within easy hearing range and giving her pro gramme he hurriedly ascended the platform and resumed his seat all this occupied but a few moments and the exercises halted the woman was neatly clad but in the most quaint old fashioned manner A large white straw bonnet trimmed with odd looking ribbon a long black lace veil thrown over it a dress of some light material which set off anoro a long black bilk apron and a of curious fabric upon her shoulders made up a figure long to be remembered no one in the large audience could have mistaken the resemblance they were mother and son in the face of thousands notwithstanding her peculiar dress which in many a child would have begotten shame he had the moral courage possessed by few thus to honor hia mother cor new york press |