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WOULD GIVE UP $600,000 FOR LOVE?
Boston, Mass. "I only did what , As regard's the forfeiture of his
any clean, square-jawed man would
do. There was no temptation, no de
liberation. I came to two roads; at
the end of one was the palatial man
sion and money, and at the other the I good - fortune! to nieetaiiss.-yinton,
beautiful home of love, and I chose
the road of love because I knew it
was the right one."
Thus Frank Palmer Speare, a man
whose business, as he said, is "mak
ing men," in the office of educational
director of the Boston Y. M. C. A.,
explained why he sacrificed a fortune
of $500,000 when he decided to marry
Miss Katherine May Vinton of Ston'e
ham. '
Speare's' first wife died about four
years ago, and in her will left the in
come of her large estate jto her hus
band on condition he should not mar
ry again.
"Just why she put such a restric
tion on me I can't explain," said
Speare, "unless at some time ehe
read of such a thing in some popular
novel. But I knew it all the time, and
the fact is she always intended' to
change it, and no doubt would have,
but for her sudden death. " -
"That there are grave and serious
dangers in the making of such a will
is apparent. It puts a premium on a
double life, for the immoral man
could easily take advantage of-it But,
of course, the ethical .side of it never
entered in my wife's head, for her
action was merely a whim of fancy,
"And another side of it," continued
Speare, "is that every business man
should be married. The -business
man's crying need is a home. No
other life fornmAe; it'sflat and va
cant. I know because I've lived, it
, "I've known Miss Vinton for nearly
two years ; she is interested in every
thing that interests me, and two
weeks ago when I decided to 'marry,
the thought of the money I should
lose never entered my head, so you
see after all I have done nothing remarkable,
legacy with, its peculiar! condition,
Speare" says' that ,it was a. condition
which h'e might havebe'en Very will
ing to observe bjid he, not had the
The money -thus left by'the'lafe Mrs.
Speare wilLnow. .revertttf her rela
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" "ONEGftAND. PROMOTER
"You ought to have stock in my
proposed rubber plantation?'
"What wjllit cost to seFit out?"
"Won't cost anythng. Another big
idea. I am also "organizing a school
of forestry and shall charge boys one
hundred, .dollars per, year each for
the privilege of planting the trees.
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