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106 TECHNIQUE OF THE PHOTOPLAY Take, for an example, a widow who is trying to send her son through college. It is almost an obsession with her. She wants to have her boy enjoy the advantages that her husband lacked. She wants to give him the chance that is his heritage.. She saves and scrapes that expenses may be met. The boy tries to help by working his way, but he is sensitive. He lacks push because he fears rebuff and he keeps so closely within himself that he loses the opportunities for earning money that might otherwise fall his way. He is out of touch with his classmates and his college, partly because he is too timid to seek to get in touch and partly because he does not interest his fellows with his colorless personality. The mother pictures to herself the social as well as the educa- tional advantages. As she plies the needle with her stiff, rheu- matic ringers, she loves to think of her boy on the campus, one of his class. She figures him as a sort of college hero, and because he knows that is her dream, his letters keep up her delusion. The boy writes home that he must have a new suit. His old will not last much longer. There is no money for clothes. She remembers that once, in sport, the lad had dressed himself in the clothes that had been his father's wedding suit. The coat nearly fitted, but the trousers were far too long. All these years she had kept that suit beside her wedding dress that is to be her shroud. She had hoped to keep it, but the boy's need outweighs sentiment. She gets a pair of his own old trousers and cuts down the others to match. The suit comes. The quaintly old fashioned coat is bad enough, but the trousers do not reach the boot tops. She had forgotten that he had stretched up in the three years since he has worn out the other pair. He doesn't write home his disappointment, though in his first moments of despair and anger he is tempted to do so. Her innocent pride in the letters from him will not let him write the truth. He makes the old suit do as long as he can, but at length the day comes that he cannot wear it longer. With hot anger and shame mingling in his 'heart he puts on the old suit and faces the campus. His oddity of manner has caused him to be let alone, but now it makes the case all the worse. His classmates and the men of the other classes unite in laughter at the suit. Half blinded with tears of anger and of mortification he rushes off to his room. And in that moment comes his mother. A friend has brought her to town in an automobile, knowing her desire to see her boy, and has dropped her at the campus while he goes about his busi- ness affairs. She wears her best, but her best is poor, and this