Show Most Glorious of Professions 88 By FANNIE HURST by Newspaper Syndicate Service of four brothers Myron Myro OUT Brown alone turned his face fac toward Intellectual pursuit or at ot least he turned his fa face e c at atthe the age of ot seventeen toward hi his states state's university graduated there ther thereat at twenty one and without an particular Intent or purpose drifted Into teaching At twenty five h he was holding down the ilie chair of English Eng Eng- lish history In the university from which he had graduated ills His three brothers thrown o otheir on their own resources at early age n nhe os he had been drifted the two er ones and the third his twin Int Into business pursuits that were ull ultImately ultI- ultI I to cast them all Into th destiny of big affairs Harold and Steve the younger younge boys struck it well In the radio ir Industry In- In while the vast Industry wa was still In Its Infancy Bartlett Mj Myron's My- My rons ron's twin was reputed at twenty thee to be worth three quarters o oa of ofa a million dollars from fortunate fortunat Investments In copper The three brothers successful al all at an early age were none the less les prIdeful of Myron He represent represent- represented ed the Intellectual status of ot th the family He lent and distine tIon Had Bad he permitted It It th the three brothers would willingly an and generously have hae aided and abetted hIs bis modest earnings as ns professor That however was not sary Myron's scale of life Ufe fitted and pleased him well A pleasant suite In a boys boys' dormitory where he be held the position o of dean Varied if It modest summer va vacations vacations va- va going tourist fashion I to Europe or camping In the north o ot Canada with two or three of th the members of the faculty Books Good music from the second galleries gal gal- cries of the concert halls balls Pleasant Pleasant Pleas Pleas- ant leisure Campus quiet Mill Mild Intellectual amon amont the members of the teaching stall staIT All In nIl all there was little In Myron's Myron's My My- rons ron's opinion that his brothers brother could contribute to his we well bein 1 Then too there was this differ differ- ence The rhe business boys had bad al all married There were three attractive live tive and and personable sisters law and five he or six nelces and nephews nephew in whom Myron felt a sort of benign benign be be- impersonal pride But the do clo- aspect of the lives of hi bis successful brothers helped to further further fur fur- ther estrange him from the walk they had chosen for themselves Christmas New Years and birthdays birthdays birth birth- days they met And on one occa occa- slon sJon more for the sake of quieting their than anything else Myron had bad accompanied as s two of ot his brothers and their th ir families to Europe There I as guide and norl Interpreter Interpret r to the I cultural pursuits of the Ule wives and nut But In the main Myron I ron remained not necessarily aloof for he was n greg gregariously Inclined fellow but more or less secluded among his own kind and the bool books s that as ns the years rears marched on he w vas s about himself in a modest library Then one New Year ear which he heas vas as spending In n New York where he annual gathering of ot his clan took ook place Myron l stimulated by nil ill the Wall Street gossip which be ic heard among his brothers but which never was even Intended ed for forlis his lis ears took what he called a flyer In n a stock which he selected for forthe he the euphonious quality of Its nome name He bou bought ht one thousand shares of Green Agate Copper stock for seven hundred and fifty dollars took It Ithome home lome without even revealing the to his brothers who would have lave Joked him locked It In a desk dra practically forgot It until he the next annual visit with his brothers broth broth- ers when once more his Interest stimulated for the moment by their bear icar nn and hull bull talk he remembered ils bis flyer In Green Agate Two 1 flays clays Inter before his return to 0 college he he sold hl his Green A Agate ate one nc thousand shares for twenty thousand housand dollars rentIng creating among his Is brothers n furore furor of hilarity nt his Is acumen The shrewdness they ther called ailed It It ot of a 1 babe hahe In tIP the wood If out lo 10 be lie more Mum n hat With that POI I thousand dollar ollars as uS hr Myron l r ll was as destined for a career In high nance that was far more lar than the career of any anyone one of ofIs his Is brothers even of his twin t who was reputed to be twice a millionaire By the time Myron was thirty thirty- ve his teaching career lay behind him Im as dim as ns n a dream and the library which ho he had bad accumulated In 1 his home In Hudson on was was' as estimated by Itself Usel to be worth as s much as ns his brother Steve's Steves or orIs his Is brother Harolds Harold's entire hold hold- s. s II 11 was one of ot those spectacular f e cr he touched turning to- to old successes L I Myron ron simply mu lude e mone money hand Iund over o-er fist In cop op- op er In steamship stock In General G-en- G eral al Motors In hotel hotel In cof- cof fee e. e In real estate Even E in books achieving a first edition at high price and turning It over at fabulous pronto profit Strange too apparently tempera mentally unfitted for the ired competitive race of the busies busi busl ness es world he took t to It as the pro duck Juck tales takes to water B Busi Business lIness lI- lI ness men financiers bankers magnates magnates mag mag- nates industrial C captains found him quick sympathetic shrewd and eager to match his hla wits against theirs He De was the surprise of their lives to his three brothers He De was more than that he was apparently n a surprise sur prise to himself because more and more as his fortune climbed and his authority In the business world became more established Myron found himself too dazed when he hc took time to contemplate to quite realize what It all was about He was rich He was Influential He was In n n position to gratify his whims for tor travel books erudition music and cultural pursuits of ot any and all kinds He lie was a person miles removed from the college professor and yet at heart and soul he was that college professor stran strangely cly endowed with a power which seemed to be no part of him It was not unpleasant There was was was' never a time when he found himself consciously hankering for forthe forthe the old days of the simple suite In Inthe Inthe the boys boys' dormitory where he h 1 acted as sort of overseer o of ot their conduct That was all passed now The Innocuous professor since those days had endowed the very unIversity university uni unI- where he had taught EnglIsh English Eng Eng- lish history with a library of books bools bookson on that special subject said to be bethe bethe the finest In the world and It was more than possible that similar gifts from him would b be ing No as Myron I ron grew older oler and more In Influential and certainly richer rich rich- er It could not be said of him that ho entertained regrets for those simple simI teaching days that were gone Except every time he made n noticeable noticeable no no- disposition of his money It found Its way Into college coffers Dormitories for men College lIbraries li libraries lI- lI of one sort or another Then when he was eight and reputed d to be worth more than ten millions of at dollars Myron M ron unmarried un married drew up his last will and testament It was a simple will because It diverted all this huge fortune in n none one direction on Ten million dollars ns a permanent permanent perma perma- nent fund to help keep the male mae teacher in that most glorious of professions by allowing him an Income over and above his modest salary and so male make speculation and adventure ad Into business as remote re mote n a possibility as might be |