The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-04-12
A REVERSED JUDGMENT
The Conflict Of Ambition and SUM
bering Love in the Breast Of
Great Jurist.
by ROBERT 6. Y. MEYERS.
(oopwight-An Rights Reserrei,)


eating all that to the often incapable
wife, who Is hampered by church work
and trying to escape the scrutiny Of the
women of the congregation. Again the
light laugh came in. John Elwyn
came home from the reception with us.
| Gen. Wayne was telling me that Johns
father viii make another half million
out of those coal fields of his. Has that
English syndicate really made oyertures
toward buying him out?"
The judge laid down his pen; ever
since John Elwyn's name had been men
toned the pen had not made a stroke.
81 don't altogether like young Elwyn,"
he said deliberately.
.What is there against him" asked
| his wife, as though she had never before.
heard the objection; was she not care
full mother, determined to have her way
against whinl of the father?
.'In the first place." said the judge,
che is an idler; he promenades the
streets, goes to horse races, and SO on"
/ the $50 on" remaining unexplained.
"There is no necessity for him to
work, pursued the wife; she would be
taking the bread from some poorer man
| if be were to work. y
every young fellow who is worth his
salt viii have something useful to occu-
by his time argued the judge ''Ihave
too much to do with the results of idle
ness to admire it.
s'And you compare the son Of mill
ionaire TO the criminal classes you have
to do with professionally -idle pickpock
cts, drunkards and the Like? Possibly
your structures apply to women as well,
seeing that You have to do with the re-
suits of idleness in women as well as in
men"
Every one should have some employ
ment, some avocataon."
She took him up at that word.
II am glad you say avocation instead
Of vocation. For what vocation has
Estelle? And as to her avocations, what
are they but those which you infer lead
poorer girls away from the right? She
is fond of gayety, dress; she likes ad-
miration; she''-
But the judge frowned-
II wish you would not class our
daughter with the women see in the
dock, he said.
"Then why should you class John
Elwyn with the men you see in the
docky demanded his wife. John
has his horses, his coach, his steam
yacht
eHis London tailor, his several clubs,
his insuferable valet"
Tln+ %l,nv, ~ 41.sc, ~
cord with his life, from bis cradle down.
His father worked hard that this sort of
thing might be brought about"
did he? His father worked hard, but
scarcely that he might have an idle son"
ssWhy do you work. srnilingly asked
his wife. sis it all for yourself alone?
Do you not always think of idle Estelle
when you have a success? have you not
thought of her when you thought of the
governorship, and that even higher hon
ors to you would be pleasant for her? l
hope to see you in the cabinet yet"
The judges countenanee cleared, and
he said lightly:
My dear, who can argue with wom-
an? Don't know what all this means?
Some evening this study door will open
and Estelle viii come in with half
frightened eyes and throw her arms
around you. You viii say Is Mr.. Ell
wyn goneY and her only answer will be
to kiss you-you. mind, for I shall not
be thought of just then, or thought of
little shyly; and viii understand? Yes,
/ think SO, and-welll WE'LL suppose
may be little hard on young Elwyn--
maybe every father questions the life
and proclivities of the young fellows
4 who cut after the daughters. But, go
ing back to first principles, don't like
idleness. The arrogance of idleness is
something appalling. Young Elwyn in
time will show Estelle how superior ne
/ is to her father, because heidi not come
from the country poor boy while her
4 father did"
His wife did not like this reverting to
the first principles of his own life, though
/ she said that self made man was an
American honor.
Mot in the eyes of young men whose
fathers make fortunes for Them re-
torted the judge.
The lady was still less pleased.
Judge she said, '.you are evidently
ruled by what you have written tonight
your decision In the Dunlap affair" -
the case Of a bookkeeper accused Of
hypothecating large sum of his en-
ployer's money. s'That man was not an
idler; he Is said to have been indefatiga-
bic in business, and yet he became a
thief. Your experience with the Grim
inal class makes you doubtful of every
other class. call that perversion of
mind. The next thing you will be hav-
ing grave suspicious of me-"
The judge made smiling rejoinder
such as husband may venture with his
wife, and turned again to his writing.
The blazing logs cracked, the wife
gazed into the flare, her face lighted
with an inward as well as an outward
radiance Had she not for several
months been DESTROYS of just such a re-
suit as she hoped would soon come
about? She would yet, she was con
WINGED, see her only child the wife of the
heir to millions, woman at the height
OF social matters, an authority and the
envy Of other women. She could appre-
ciate it to the fullest, for she had long,
long ago, against the sage advice and
the warning Of friends, married strug-
Cling lawyer in whom she saw what he