A Distinct Difference.
The following story is told of the late Professor S——, the great teacher of German at the University of Pennsylvania, and a man of much hard and blunt sense. A man having a son whom he had reared in a most superficial way called on the professor, whom he knew slightly, and asked how much it would cost to give his son an education. The professor, looking intently at the son, who accompanied his father, and who was attired in uncomfortably big cuffs, high collar, and gave forth an aroma of up-to-date perfume, blandly observed:
"I can't say. But you can send him through college for about $2000."