The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-10
SURPRISE FOR The STUTSKYS
TONIGHT JACOB WILL SHOW
THEM WHAT HE'S BEEN DOING.

Went Away and Didn't Say . Word When
They Called Him . Meadow ell. but
All the Time He Vas Getting Ready to
Take Ills Degree As a Law Graduate
When the graduating class Of the Brook
Ign Law School OF st. Lawrence Uni
versIty files across the stage Of the Ma
jestic Theatre on the other side Of the
bridge this evening to receive thsir
diplomas there won't be a proudor
young lawyer in the lot than JACOB
Stutsky.
Three years ago Jacob wa a student
at the City College in New York, and
his father and mother and sisters and
brothers were just beginning to hook
forward to the bright future that an
education would bring him when all at
once something happened. Jacob left
college. He didn't give a very salts
factory explanation to Papa Stutsky,
who stroked his Old Testament beard
a great deal in those days as be wondered
why he had brought such a worthless
son into the world. Mamma Stutsky
and Evelyn and the other sister and
brothers talked about it for a long time
in their East Side home in Division street.
and then they gave up worrying and
made the best OF it.
The only explanation Jacob offered
to feed without his. 1t was high time
he did something himself. There was
a man named Jacob Gold, a white goods
merchant, who lived over in Brooklyn,
and Jacob had worked for him for a time
as b~ookkeeper. He and mis- wife wore
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not to themI Jacob went to live with
the Colds. He resolved 10 do something
worth while and to do il quietly, and then
II he succeeded so much greater would
be the happiness OF o vino were watch
ing him. II he failed no n would DO
disappointed but himself.
He went to the law school downtown
in Brooklyn and enrolled his name, ar
ran ging his classes so that they anne late
in the afternoons. leaving his mornings
and evenings Tor other things. Then
he got to be Jacob Colds bookkeeper
during most Of the day and he began
to study law. Mrs. Gold knew his mother
and she saw her occasionally. Mamma
Stutsky always asked about her son,
and she would shake her head quietly
and nurmur: NO good can come out
Of Jacob. He is not TO be a good boy
Mrs. Gold would tell her not 70 worry,
but even she could think Of nothing good
to report about Jacob. When he went
home, as he did once in a great while,
he met the open de%nunciation of his
father and the silent circumstances
Of his mother without a word, He knew
that he wasn't what they thought him.
and he was satisfied.
Three years passed quicker than Jacob
had counted on. They had been
busy ones for him, and before he knew
it the time had come when he was TO
tell his father and mother what he had
been doing. They had thought he was
a ne'er do well and an idler. had they Z
Well, they should know better. So a
night or two ago he went to the home
and gathered them around him and told
them all about It. Mamma Stutsky
shed a good many tears and Papa Stutsky
took off his silver trimmed spectacles
and rubbed them with unnecessary
violence and Evelyn laughed as IL she
thought it the finest sort OF q joke AID
the younger ones slapped him on the back
and cried a little and Jacob was happy.
Jacob was one Of the committee to
look after sending out invitations for
the graduation exercises tonight. and
his classmates asserted yesterday that
the first two envelopes he addressed
in the careful hand which his work as
copyist in the Registers Office had taught
him were sent to Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Stutsky and family and to MIR. and Mrs.
Jacob Gold. They are all going to be
there tonight without fail.