Montgomery County sentinel., 1931-04-10
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GILBERT
WAS NOT "A
FAILURE
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By FANNIE HURST
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"a by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.l
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OILBERT was at least twenty
y six before he first began to
~ realize that some of the noun.
tain tops toward which he had
directed his footsteps were not going
to be so accessible as he had dreamed.
Gilbert had come from an achieving
family. His father, up to the week Of
his death, had been one of the most
important barristers In town. His
mother had practiced law In highly
successful way up to the last year Of
her life. His brother, at thirty, was
already a surgeon of more than local
Importance. His sister, college grad
uate herself, had married one Of the
outstanding biO-chemlsts Of the world.
SO It was by background, environ
ment, example and possibly inner
itance that Gilbert, even before he
was finished with college, should turn
his footsteps resolutely toward aeon
pllshment.
1t Is true that the subject Of law
had never particularly interested him.
He had not a systematic mind. The
conception Of ideas interested him
more than their execution. and II he
had any preference at all, 1t was for
lying for a large part of the day be
fore good fire, or a sun-kissed
meadow, and reading.
But a man cannot foster such In
clinations If he hopes to get ahead in
this world. Gilbert knew that. Unless
YOU had a marked talent of one sort
nr another, the safest road to achieve
ment lay along lines of one Of the
substantial, remunerative professions.
Medicine. Law.
With his slender talent for writing,
the best he could probably hope for
rould be a journalistic or editorial
'areer.
And so 1t was that Gilbert turned
to law. 1t was not that he did not
bring a fairly average equipment to
this work. He had a good mind, even
IN unusual endowment Of intelligence,
and every law office of the city was
open to the son Of his father.
The secret of his failure to progress,
along about the time he was twenty
SIX was suDtie yet iuhuamehta'
one. LIS heart was not in his work.
Intellectually, he wanted to be n
successrul lawyer Emotiohally, ne
yearned Tor tne oiue days at CAPRI
where ne had oeen taken as young
BOY on MS nrst TRIP ABROAD. ne
yearned Tor the sweet indoiehce or
mat klnd OF IRE, WIN perhaps pau
ana pehcii at MS Deck anu caii' 80
nat ne eouiu "r'te US uiie''"nte
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went WIN h-"''oer' res'sneo his po
sltion as junior par,her ID wen
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ers o' "'S '"nl'y anu ",s .r'enuS'
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seVeraI huhureu do'iars anu TOOK
mp gong Mehiterraheah way
That was the beginning or nfteen
rrar' "f wandering over the hoary
face OF the hoary earth. Lingering,
hen nrressary' IN one city, In one
port, In one village or another' long
enough to lay up, by simple manual
'nbor. sufficient money to sustain him
for a brief period or the future. Those
OF ne friends who happened to en-
counter him In their travels, described
| him q11lv 1g a mile. 0rHRRlp0 fellow