Should She Have Left Him? — page 71: what you’re looking at

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58 SHOULD SHE HAVE LEFT HIM? the quarter back, who on last Thanksgiving Day was carried off the grounds on the shoulders of as many of his admirers as could get under him. Young Sturdy, who is advancing rapidly in grasp- ing the essentials of the difficult problems of trans portation, and is steadily promoted by his admiring board of directors, is not regarded by the wives and daughters of those directors as superior to young Brochulst, who is equally skillful at turning a corner with a tandem or a four-in-hand. We all have such different standards. I am disposed to believe that, if a jury of a hundred were picked, haphazard, from passers-by of Broadway, any fine day, and Waldemar were presented before it for judgment, he would be voted a very ordinary young man. Because the danger would be, a majority would not deem mansions, horses, yachts, and pros. pects of riches, virtues, but rather accessories, most convenient and wholly comfortable to possess, And there might be a few who would insist that morality had claims for consideration. If such an old-fashioned test were applied to young Waldemar, I am afraid the crown of superiority would be with- held by such a jury. Not that Waldemar did not pay his debts; his income provided against that vulgarity. He was honest in his dealings where money was concerned—strictly honorable, as was shown in the way he provided for the little girl whom he had persuaded to abandon her family and the six dollars a week she earned at Grabbies’ shop, when his affections were suddenly transferred, one ee GOMMGIOO cS (GO)