The San Francisco call., 1904-06-12
THE REFORMATION OF
A BROTHER.
Fable For the Foolish.

dressed to him. He had had such
wide and varied experience with that
article in all it's forms that he hadn
a doubt in the world Of his ability TO
handle all that might come down the
pike. The first night that the two
brothers foregathered in James Hen
rvs choice apartments George sug-
gested that they do a little turn with
'sRomola" by way OF stimulating the
Imagination. He informed James
Henry that he had mapped out
course OF reading that would last
them through the winter and was
guaranteed to give them more pure.
dyed-in-the-wool culture to the SUPER
fetal square inch OF gray matter
than any other intellectual programme
that had ever been put together
James Henry's reading had been Inn
tied to the hotel directory and the
tips for the next days races, but he
wasn't averse to trying his hand at
new game II 1t promised any sort OF
stimulation. Stimulation was the
thing that he was after.
The course Of every man his own
culturine sailed along beautifully for
a week or two until even George began
to wonder II there wasn't something
that he could do that would break up
the monotOny little. Away from the
family circle without any obligation to
the cCnG4uAE anu
time Of his next trip, every time he
went outside the house after dark he
felt that II would be a pity IL he
couldn't put his time to better use than
in reading about things that never
happened and wouldn't have interested
very many people II they had SO
when James Henry suggested one
evening that instead Of sitting down
and cornmuning with the spirits OF the
past they should saunter around the
corner to where some spirits OF the
very immediate present held forth he
was nothing 10th
James Henry let him down rather
easily the first night. although George
had a dim idea when he pried his eyes
the next morning that the ginger ale
he was supposed to have absorbed
must have been in proximity to
something stronger at some period OF
its career Every one knows that gin
ger ale under certain circumstances
has tremendous absorbing powers, but
In the course OF the next month George
developed similar powers that made
ginger ale look Ike stone wall He
could go the pace with James Henry
any night in the week and two OF
three times had been the only one who
could tell the cabman the way home
after the meeting had adjourned.
All this while the people at home
they had struck the nail on the head
when they sent George down to reform
his brother; they hadn't heard the lat
est bulletins from the seat Of war II
they had they would have considered
the adVisability OF recalling James
Henry to keep him from being ruined
by associating with George. The lat
ter had by this time displaced his
brother from all the official positions
enumerated in the Introductory para
graph of this brief but exceedingly In
teresting account and had doubled the
quarterly dividend OF the whisky trust.
James Henry was so far in the rear
that he wouldn't even be mentioned
in the list of entries. At last accounts
George was still running strong with
two new bars to his credit and James
Henry was trailing along in the dust
The people in the grand stand say
that it Will be a hot finish, whatever
happens.
The mistake that the people who ara
ranged the contest made was in not
recognizing the fundamental fact i'm
human pomology that it is always the
good apples that are spoiled. If that
wasn't the case there would never be
any damaged fruit in the barrel.
Copyright. 1908. by Albert Britt.)