Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-09
THE SANITY son.

once upon a time there was a
mother who had a sanity son.
Needless to say, he was the only
one Her heart and soul was CEN
tered in him. He was the idol of
her eye.
When he was a little boy she
taught him all the goody -goody
things. He could repeat all the
fine notices from his copy book,
And thus he learned many lessons
on being a good boy
When he was old enough the
best school was found for him.
Mother took him there and told all
the teachers what good boy
Clarence was. How he had never
given her a moments worry. For
hadn't she kept him very close to
her all the time, never allowing
him out with other boys or girls?
She told how he had never told a
lie or given her a single pang all his
life. She had been his everlasting
fbodyguard. And thus far he had
turned out the product she had
planned him to be.
Now this young man, who had
been started in this right way,
knew nothing else, and went on be-
ing the goody-good little boy in his
college days.
Somehow or other he did not
mingle much with the other boys
and, found himself alone in his
room very often. He became quite
much time with himself. When
mother heard of this she was very
much pleased. He will never
learn bad habits from other boys"
she reasoned "and therefore he
will be great man.
When his college days were over
he took his sheepskin and came
home to present it to his mother,
like good boy, and now, as usual,
he turned to her for the next step
in his life. 1t was all ready for
him. She had purchased small
partnership in her fathers firm,
and he would step right in and be-
come the great man.
And he did step right in. lie
came in contact, not with college
men but men of business. 1t was
quite different. If he was gong
to succeed in his work he had to
join with them in many ways
sometimes social ways. In a word,
he had to be one of them. He was
smart enough to realize this.
At first mother demonstrated,
but finally she reluctantly agreed
to let him go his way occasionally
without her. Many evenings she
was absent from him. She was
sitting at home thinking, Where
is my wandering 10y tonight?
While newell never mind.
To make a long fable short, he
returned one evening to mother,
by beautiful lady,
who had been shining in the lime
lights and was often in the papers.
she had looked upon Clarence as
big catch because he was to be
sole heir to all his mothers money
And she caught him.
He introduced his wife to his
mother and she promptly tainted.
Most of her died right then and
there. Her only son, the one she
had so closely watched and cod
dled-the boy whom she would let
nothing touch that would give him
the least taste of any but the good
side OF life,
Being a wise woman she saw at
once that the lady did not look at
her son through the same glasses
as she-not as her idol, but as her
money getter.
Clarence wanted to show how
good a boy he was, so he told his
mother the story that he had swal-
lowed. The poor girl was in dis
tress. she needed some one to pro
tect her: she had been seen so often
with Clarence that her reputation
was in danger and she was miser-
able about 1t.
Besides, she was such fascinat-
ing and appealing creature, and
had he not always been taught to
do the good thing-the right thing
Why did, mother seem so dtsap-
pointed?
In brief, it took a good while
and considerable of Clarence's for
tune to get him out of this tangle,
But the mother learned this moral:
II YOU WOULD HAVE YOUR
SON CHOOSE ONLY THE RIGHT
THINGS IN LIFE, LET HIM
LEARN SOMETHING OF THE
WRONG ONES.
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