The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-04-18

m'nded-lnformed the ss.
King Fergus was as rnneh
Dido. ard innocent'v bro,.s
printed facts to corrohorsts !.
ment. One of the ladies 81,
crushed Mrs. Van Camp MI
in a tone Of deep personal M,
with her cap aw-y. so NJ,
worse for Dido" IL
A salient strength perslstsE
Hambletons-a strength NH
tanned its character in spite
currents. The Hambleton !.
the Hambleton ideas retais,
family color, and became !,
worthily or not, a part Of N
bleton pride. More than ons !!
lost his health or entira
=, iiu
which was apt not to be la,,,
tempts to carry on a court,
"A Hambleton trait" they Nj
with as much satisfaction as h
sidered it good form to eyhs
Lynn, where family pride
bring in large returns, this NM
came almost synonymous with
foolishness.
The Van Camp fortune, wbls
near but never actually into /
lily. was generally understood Is
been made in shoes, though /,
it was drugs.
People say shoes the mimi!
hear the word Lynn, and I'm
explaining" Mrs. Van Cam
She was third in line from h
cessful druggist, and could n
anybody could. to be SUM-
toward trade. But she was,,
after twenty years of somesbt
less submission TO the Han
yoke. And 1t was she who \,
her last visit to the family l
hold, help up before the youn,
the advantages of a commsr
reer.
You're a nice boy, Jimy. /
can't see you turned into a NuI
yer. You're not hard-headed II
to be a good one. AS for bein,lI
lister, well-no. Go into bdsinss1
boy, something substantial, ant
live to thank your stars"
Jimsy received this advice Il
time with small enthusiasm, anil
ervation of criticism that was
to his manners, at least. Sd
time came when he leaned Oh d
Her own child, however Na|
Camp encouraged to a protests
the first. "Aleck isn't smart ]
for business. but he may dcI
thing as a student" was Nm
Camps somewhat trying expl,l
and Aleck did do something ai
dent. Extremely impatient vih
exhibition of laziness, the mod:
manded a good accounting Of hg
time. Aleck and Jim, who ves
in the same year, ran more /
side by side until the end Of 4
They struggled together ia
and in arguments. rushed tie
girl in turn or simultaneous
spent their long vacations q
up and down the Maine coas
thirty-foot sail-boat. Once ths
a more ambitious journey. all .
to Yarmouth and the Bay Off
a good-sized fishing-smack.
But when college was doas
ways separated. Mrs. Van q
the prime of her unusual q
having decorated the His
'scutcheon like a gay cockads
airily up into the breeze. )
no part nor lot in the famlll
but understood 1t, perhaps
than the Hambletons themst Z
crime was that she played :
Aleck. a full-fedged biologl;!
| to the Little Hebrides to "
his fresh and salad theory Z
ing the nerve system of the .
James, third son of John 40
Hambleton Of Lynn, had d
thoroughly opened in the three
after Commencement by co
ton Of the family situation. i
to him that from babyhood
been burningly conscious Of Ia
ing and skimping necessary
tain the family pride. The y
) brothers we're exempt TO
scorching process, the eldes'
the family darling and the .
genius. Neither one could y
be expected, lust at pres
take up the family accounts .
the income square up win
decently generous outgo. Al
were the girls yet to be I
Jim had no special talent
himself with. either in art OF
: He was Unfortunately fond Oh
7 but that did not help him 10
! a career. He had good TASTE
and some little skill IN nv
q was, indeed. thrall to the hum
| especially to the low voice y
and he was that best, OF 81
a good listener. His greale'
as we'll as his greatest cnan
a spirit of invincible youln
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