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Waiting For Frank

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Day
3
Month
June
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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An Ypsilantian reporter was one of the large audience that enjoyed Keene's rend i tl on oí Shakenpeare'. great tragedy, H unlet, at the Aon Arbor opera l-ouse. mie evening last week. Just as the triiin on wlnch e were to return had c me to a standstill, a middle-aged gentleman nd lady appeared ut the door of a sleepr nul werc aflectionately greetrd hy two or (li ree persons on the platform who Imdapparently, been expecting tlieui. 'Wlieie is Frank? "was the question that oame f rom the lady's Ups, in a tone so f uil of lüiger Inving expuctancy, that we knew ma .1 .in unjan nfn rol nn ui'k " We have but i moment to top here, Frank is coming, is he not?" she again inqiiired in a voice slightly tremblin, una in wblofa the molher-love was more plaiuly revealed thau in her firet questiou. "All aboard ! " shouted the conductor, whose train was several minutes behind time. "Can't you wait i minute, please, conductor," iuquired thegeutlPinan, "We rere expecting to meet Frank here; he will be here in a moment, I am sure? " It required no explatiation for ub to understaiid the condition of afïiirs and to becoine interested in the outcome. Frank, was probably a student in the University, and the lady and gentleman wlio were so anxiously awaiting bis coming were his parents. They were on tlieir way froui Chicago to some eastern loint, and had written to Frank to meet tlicm at the depot. How fondly ttiey had anticipated this meeting, and with what teelings of pleasure and satisfac lion llii'v had feil the living inotion of the train as it dashed through the nigbtand brought them nearer to their boy, none, perhapa, but those who have reallzed a fathi-r's pride and affection, and thal whicli transcendí all other utfection, a niotlici '.- love, can fully comprehend. And now were ihey to be disappointed; would Fr.mk fail to meet them? Already the ebglneer had sounded the warniug bell, in another moment Frank would be too late. At that moment u quick step was li. urd on the fore end of the platform ; lonk ot anxiety on the mother'g face changes to thal of lovini; recognition, and in uiiother moment Frank' arms are arouud her - the pleasant anticipations, the aiiMous waiting and the plea to the conductor to " wail a moment for Frank " wi-re uow all fully reahzed and repaid. Krank was a manly looking young fellOW, and the hearty tenderness wlth whieh he greeted his párente, embracing itud kissing his tatlier as welt as hta in itlirr p: ovcd tliat he realizi'd and ap,.recialed iheir great love for him. There was oppoituniiy for but a few basty seni enees, the kind lirarted conductor could wnll no longer, and with a last good-bye kis Ironi lus uiother, Frank jnmped trom thu already mnrlng train and was uun lost from view in the niidnight darkHH Tn many, this littlc incident may seem ciimmonplace ai.d hardly worthy of menuon; bul Hiere ¦ tliat connected with it, so retreshing and healthful, that we i-ould not but mentally compare it witli ihe glooniy tragedy we had just witnesist-d, and to wlsh that the sevural hundixd young men we had noticed lu the .piia house could have witneused this lalier scène. How inucli stronger would it have appraivd EO Iheir sympathii'S and nigher naluies tlmn did the interview HtuiiMi lliinlet and his mother. There is that which in so toachlug and tender in the love ot a mutbvr lor her boy, espt- .¦iu'.lv tor the boy who bas just leached the ihri-liiild oi inanliu.nl and to whom every temptatioo eeeUM so alluiing and enlicing that they often cause him to foryet alike her lovu, her pleadings and her prayern, tliat mut always commaud our bigbeet admirution and svinpathy. Ot the all .¦i-iimi that shnillil in return be given to her, one writer iias truly said, i li.it ol all love affaire in the world none i-an BurptM the true love of the boy for his mother. It is a love pure and noble, and honorable in the highest ilegree to both. It is not the more dutiful alfection to which we refiT, but the love that makes a boy gallan tand courteous to his mother, and that tells to everybody plainly that he is in love with her. Next to the love of her husband, nothing so crowns a woinan's life with honor as this second love, thix devotlon of her boy lovsr. There is much to aid a young man to resist lemptatiou who begins life by falling in love with his motuer. Any man inay tall in love with the sweet-faced girl, nul he who is kind and tender to the girl muy cruelly neglect the worn and weary wife, but the boy who will love his mother in her iniddle age is a true hero, who will love his wile as much in the sere-leaved autumn as he did in the daisied spring time.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News