Show TALE OF TWO BROTHERS Much has been written and much remains remains remains re re- mains to be written on the subject o of early earh conditions and surroundings in the formative formative formative for for- Influence upon the young Take Tako Jim and Jack that pair o of brothers for example Both Jim and Jack came along In the thc early sixties right over there in Swam- Swam Jim was s the first to arrive r Jack vemo happened g along l about eighteen I months month la later ter Both gr grew w as boyE ao do and both were about the same kind of ot boys boss until they attained the taking notice age ago Then they began to diverge in their methods Jim took to the playing hookey game like a fly to molasses while Jack never missed a day and Jack could hardly bojt bot his i supper fast enough to enable t l r him t to get e UJ down t to the preparation of hi hK lessons for tor the next day Jim Joined the tobacco-chewing tobacco clique and was vas tickled to death when his reproachful mother told him that he was becoming a regular tough no account reprobate while Jack passed the h hard lot of boys In his neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- up ep eph altogether 11 g h l and trained I pretty largely with the girls of his age on the block Jack made It his business to keep kep himself looking as tidy as the slender 1 means of ot his parents would permit while Jim affected the slouchy exterior as the distinguishing Cadge tadge of his gang of dead- dead games When Jack would sedately walk home from school carrying a little girl girls girl's s books Jim who had been playing hockey hookey Ok and swimming lin In bIt Rock k creek tf o or playing ray g shinny on some remote vacant lot all day dav w make It a point to hurl mud balls at atthe atthe atthe the pair pall it If he met up with them with an accompaniment of ot derisive remarks Jim only saw the inside of Sunday school once during his entire boyhood and on that occasion he crunched his hat into a aad awad awad wad ad and hid it under his Jacket so se that he ho could bolt if it the proceedings became too Irksome for endurance He lie bolted and swore ort oft on SUnday school for tor good Jack Juk on the contrary went regularly to Sunday school and by the time he donned his first pair pall of long pants he was competent to teach a class himself Jim Tim developed Into a taciturn gruff sort of a youth south who spoke straight from the shoulder when he said anything at all while Jack as he grew older developed e a fi If g mild spoken soft manner n o of speech and n became rather mouthed mealy-mouthed as a simple sire sim pIe matter of fact Jim at that age ao could look lock k everybody e rl right h s smack a fn In tle tre eC eye under n any and all f circumstances while Jack had a somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what nervous twisty manner about him and averted his gaze or looked upon the ground as often as not when he was addressed ad ad- dressed Now Nov this was the state of this pair of brothers when they were respectively sixteen sixteen six six- teen and a half halt and 15 years of age the time of life when most le lads lade are are expected to go to work And yet set such Is the strange habit of ot nature and environment In molding these thesa affairs Jim Jin didn't t all of a sudden assume the stature of a fine man and citizen and proceed to make a colossal hit with himself himself him him- self and everybody In iii If this writer were in m the habit of taking the end of these matters that Is habitually taken take i by the persons who write swinging n i called so-called homely verse or If he ha had contracted the Insidious brand of fun- fun esis which afflicts the squeezers mirth-squeezers at attached attached attached at- at to the comic weekly press he would proceed at this point In the narrative narrative narra narra- tive tivo of the pair pall of brothers of and e expatiate upon how Jim having absorbed a a. number of bottles botties of that subtle medicine known as next get-next- yourself to had gained grained a quick Nel half son on his evil instincts and won out royally while on OIl the contrary the goody- goody goody Jack having secured a position as asa asa asa a trusted bank messenger had for fcc the City of Mexico with 16 78 of the b banks bank s funds But this writer doesn't take the homely verse end nor has he lie any visible symptoms symptoms toms of the brand of fun fun fun Eve n if he were In such a state the ht hIS tory of the pair of brothers ot of is la too well known In this community to permit of any distortion The last heard of Jim ladrow he was doing a year twelve bit in Joliet Jollet mo CO fo- fo having used a and the k In an earnest but unsuccessful effort to a North Side Chicago citizen of his personal property oP You may ny see J Jack g sor rm 1 driving around Washington hi n almost any old day In a i neat buggy behind a fast stepper attending to his large and profitable profitable profitable profi profi- table real estate interests interest Jack is a Ii di director director director di- di rector In several local banks and other financial Institutions is well married and has a lot of children smokes about twelve large fat black cl clears rs a day dav and aid has all kinds ot cit fun with himself and his family twelve months per annum When you base 5 our calculations on th the tho fun fun fun-esia s according to o Hoyle I you vou are certain t t to fall P a good l 10 geographical g hj leagues beside the mark In n nine ca cases es at Jt of ten Washington Washington hi ro Star |