Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-09-26

101A AOeA 80 k0o(
previous to entering Harvard. No
girl and lover were fonder than we OF
each other.
Ny people had money and to spare,
and with 1t a h~ard-headed. northern
horse sense. The Brownleys were
poor as church mice, but they had the
brilliant, virile blood Of the old
southern oligarchy and the roma1tic.
"salaam-to-no-one" Dixie-land pride Of
befnve-the-war days. when southern
prodigality and hospitality were found
wherever women we're fair and mems
mirrors Ia the bottom Of their tulep-
glasses.
Bob's father, one Of the ME. white
pillars of southern aristocracy, had
gone through congress and the senate
of his country to the tune OF Spend
and Not Spare" which left his widow
and three younger daughters and a
small son dependent upon Bob. his
eldest.
Many a warm summer afternoon.
as Bob and / padded down the
Charles, and often on a cold, crispy
night as we sat In my shooting-box On
the Cape Cod shore, had we matched
up for III future. was to have the
inside run of the great banking bust
nses of Randolph & Randolph, and
Bob was eventually to represent my
fathers firm on the floor of the stock
exchange. "Td die in an Office" Bob
used to say, land the floor Of the
stock exchange is just the chimney
place to roast my hoe-cake In" So
when our college days were over my
able old father stood US up against the
wall in his office, and tried US by his
tests, and proud we both we're when
dad said: "Jim, you and Bob have
chosen we'll. You, Jim, are just the
chap to step into my shoes, and Bob is
cut to a th~irty-second and sixty-fourth
for the floor" Proud we were, not
so much because Of what my fathers
decision meant for our future, for
we knew we should get into the bust
ness all right, but because our judg-
ment was indorsed by one We both
thought as near infallible as man
could be in anything pertaining to
business affairs.
Bob was then % and I a year Ola
er-I one OF your raw-boned New Eng
land lads, not much for p%rettiness
but willing to weigh in race-day with
any of them for steadiness ana stay
ing qualities: Bob as handsome as
they made them, six feet tall in his
gym sandals straight as an arrow, with
the form of an Indian, and n Of
those clean, brave, all-for-heart-noth
ing-for-policy, smiling faces to which
men yield willing friendliness, anC
women, idolatry. Bob's eyes were al
big and round and purple-brown as al
English bulldogs, unfathomable, a
once mild and stern, with a childish
c~ome-and-go perplexity; his nose a:
straight as though chiseled by a mas
ter for a Greek medallion, with THU
curved lips to correspond, and a high
broad forehead, whose wilderness wal
set off by a luxuriance Of hair tina
seemed ~jet-black, but was of the SAM
rare purple brown as his eyes. Blu
1t was the poise of. Bob's head tina
gave his good looks their crown. Who
ever has seen a bunch of two-year-ol'
colts in a long-grass Kentucky pad
dock, when the darby boy let's loos
his shrill whistle at "taking-up time,
ia sure to remember n that thre'
ward leadership are there personln ),
Sonoa such suggestion was ever In "a
carriage Of Bob's shapeiy neau n,o,,
vigorous figure, and dull lndeeu w.
he the man or woman VINO 49,.
S~ecognize the mans rare dls1lno'i
and masterfulness. n
Indeed, as I said a DIT oacA, = !
prownley was by all DDS u u
handsomest men l have ever 30
hut besides that, he was a stefii
Daarlv unaffected fellow, as true
steel as brave as a lion anu
hest comrade friend ever nau s.4h
Perhaps it was because ms a. :.
aaath had saddled Bob's youth :
the heavy responsibilities OF naso'
,ast inc and directing his familys
,ich finances that he took to business
Nv. swallow to the air. we entei
~ omce Of Randolph & Randolph on
o.. same day, and on its anniVefSal
lsah Saar later, my father summons
,nto his office for a sort OF tai
talk. Neither Of us quite knew
-. VAS coming, and we thrilled
Iored pleasure when he said:
,,.,tv n.m. you and Bob have isiris
ta.Io .ora NV expectations. have na
aa,nh ave on both of you and wan
,,;one ~ know that the kind OF lnousti
- business intelligence you nave
mi. bere would have won you recoe
aama - anv banking house on the !
70 the I want you both in the nrm-.
M learn his way round SO ne ca
,a.her into my shoes; you, Bob. to Ia
l. - tba arms seats, on the sto
ndolph change" ~.
: tbeir pob's face went red and tne
TX per with happiness as ne reacheu
ided to fathers hanu. -. ,,o,
square I'm very era'el - SOW
light Of more SO thar moiu .osit,on
yet to want to taik TINS asst IL
the old over with Jim heio a,sa
ler and me better tnan ans 100 IA
n hands world, and I'VE SONY
'aduated Speak up nere'
ate and father.
chmond. To BE-
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