Show WHAT is YOUR PET arr MEANNESS A N it la Is sold bald that nearly everybody has rooted aversion to giving away rome om one things thing no matter how generous generoux gene rouB the man or woman may be in this one thing he or sho she Is a miser baron james rothschild it la is related did riot not in the least mind giving thousands of dollars to t a hospital tons tens of thou sanda in dozens of directions but when it came to postage stamps he could not bear to pay on his private letters but would smuggle them in a at I 1 the expense of the firm frances Cour baylor contributes to the december Lippin lippincotts cotts a humorous on this fills subject from which tho the folio following NIng Is taken one of tile tho richest women comen in this country hoards boards matches as it if they were so many wands studded with mith dl diamonds amonds she A will 1 11 give alvo ono one or two under protest to a relative in need ot of them but she buys lights them horn by tho gross and lights and re lights th them e in anut the last charred bit fail off leaving her often alth burnt fin gets and a regretful wish WL that ahe he could have avo used that thai one once mote when her chil childson dion como come of age aee sho she gives each of them with tile tho greatest grea leat possible cheerful cheerfulness nese but if they were ere to ask her tor for a whole box bobof of matches she would feet feel that she bho was being impoverished and it if they took look six that sho she vl waa as being robbed then there Is tho the well known ca case be of ills millionaire who supports a newsboys home but m mill ill never buy a paper anle unless s he can bunt beat down tho the boy won Is 11 bellil selling i g it and ret get it at half liala price after which ho he not pru presents him with nith a quarter if ono could lay baro the secret motives and springs of action exposed in such auch cases li it would bo be curious to see how far habit prejudice and mania affect each case ono one woman kith it a davenport stuffed full of writing rials cant boar bear to lend an envelope another draws tho the line at needles though sho she haa bas moro more pockets packets of them than she bho will over open and a bank account that insures her thousands more it if she nho should nood need them one min iran will give elvo e hill friend a horse home that colli and begrudge jilin him a slit single g to ivory shirt stud another will give five a handsome dinner to twenty people that w wilt ill cost cast him hundred 4 and d feel it an aff affliction to pay a carfare car fri fare m still another haa ball been known knova to buy IL a yacht provision it sail aau around the world with it entertain successive sets bets of people on I 1 it t in tho the handsomest style und pay all hi his s bills for the choso expenses with tho the moti moat t regularity except those for lack black pepper bands to play on board bunting to decoi decorato ato thoi the yards expensive nu for tiny any number ot of people wines appers by the dozen hampers flowers enough to nil fill tho the hugest hugert conservatory additional servants tons of coal an extra launch will all pass unnoticed unchallenged but when it comes to pepper he makua notes consults cookbooks summons cooks cooka makes his stewards life a burden to him 0 so o much so 0 that ho has beon been known to havo have nine of these there bunc tion aries in his employment in tho the course of live reasons sea soni unlike the chevalier xavier do st loans bana six elx sousa ft et sans bans houct he makes make hi nitwit miserable over tho the minnow and swallows the whales without making a single face lie ho will hao hae pepper but it must he bo kot got below tho the market price all over the world and must be used an ho he uses it that Is as it if it were mold kold dust duat instead shoes were the pet meanness of a distinguished english n nobleman bleman chose w hose ground rents in london adon allone alono would bao all its inhabitants fur for centuries to C ome come I 1 it t it is related of him that be once took hla hits favorite pair in person perron to a cobbler I clr and that after carefully examining them the man bald amid to him 1 I never saw the like since ive been ut at the business lou IOU are either cither tile the greatest pauper in england or the marquis of 1 1 I link am tho the marquis not the pauper piu per said ills his lordship and tar far from ang onen often dod dw seemed greatly amus amused cil to mount a now new pair of shoo strings even Is pain and grief to him and a now pair of phiea always brings on a lit fit of gout so vehemently 1 he opposed to tho sad no ne ce conalty bilty ot of dos mieng them at all there Is in a frenchman chosa eccentricity in respect ot of a pet meanness mo anneas Is vory very often commented upon in paris for though hu he has han a model establishment und mild poel clively rolls rollof in 1 a money ho can not bear i to use tine towels freely hla his own ovin or lila ills neighbors it la is said paid that upon staying at ono one of the old cast castlo of brittany for a wook lie he took look hish his IlOSE hostess abide privately and showed ahomed her er over three dozen down towels that he had been gloating over ove r for days day all those madame I 1 have oa baked d 11 be remarked with great dp dalight light your your servants arr vanta put them in my room it li 14 truo true but I 1 and rny my afo alfa havo have only used ono cite between us servants servant s aro are wasteful creatures I 1 return rett irin the rest the most moat amusing instance i can recall 0 of if the effect of it a suddenly acquired for t un upon a pet ix L ki li Is that told by jy an english author about an old woman in an almshouse who co came me lute into a million by a chancery division decision that had been pending A hundred yearn she bought acry overy lhing that money could buy bul alaka vol vel vets veto laces furs film estates carriages cariln carr ln horses hori tn sol distant friends even sho she threw away her bank notes upon every hing i gi in a kind 0 or frenz frenzy oi of t 0 n lout ut when tt it come com to tra fen she suffer sho hr debated de baled sho eho 1 but nover could make up her to nd to buy and for ut at any or ono time moro more than a qu quarter a r of a pound of wood black bohea eart sho she would havo have felt beggared by a pound of tiny any ton tea at any price it had alwayn I 1 ra brn so precious to hr that all ha ar h and loal all 11 sense of it its intrinsic value it to some extent the bright briehl unattainable without tilt hout abich life hax has no zest test |