A KULTURED PARENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 102, 1 May 1916, Page 6

A KULTURED PARENT.

WOUNDED SON TURNED AWAY

Here, from the Berlin Post, is an illustration of German refinement—and, according to the same authority, it is only one of many and "not even the worst":

Germans are not all of them immaculate saints as the folowing incident shows. The son of a farmer of Agawang returned from the war blinded in both eyes and decorated with the Iron Cross. On arriving at his parental home the door was literally shut in his face, the father remarking that he had not sent his son blind to the war, and that his house was no charitable institution. The soldier, after wandering for six days and nights about the streets, sleeping in the adjoining fields, and subsisting on a morsel or two of bread which compassionate wayfarers gave him, was finally afforded shelter by a married sister living in Augsburg. When his father learnt that the soldier ad been granted a war pension he hastened to the residence of his daughter, whom he peremptorily ordered to deliver the son into his custody, promising to provide him with all necessary accommodation. The daughter declined to comply with his demands, on which he, in his rage, smashed the windows with his walking-stick, and was duly' arrested for creating a disturbance. We do not think that even the annals of English infamy can show an instance of heartlessness to beat this one, and it i s not the only one, nor the worst!