Show ona dollars worth of gratitude la one of the cites large dry gooda shops last week a little cash girl brought to one of the heads of departments in the coarse of the early afternoon haars hoars of tuesday a comans womans purse she had just picked it tip she said on the floor beai the counter and she remarked as she passed it over that she guessed it was stuffed fall the floorwalker opened it and saw at a glance that her opinion was justified carrying it to the superintendents office he with that personage counted the money the purse contained there were ten five hun bills a check for forty dollars and some small bills and change within half an hour a pale faced woman appeared at the office asking breathlessly if a purse bad been recently found in the shop the well stocked pocketbook was hers she had not left the shop before missing it discovering her loss at an ap stairs department to which she had gone from the one where the purse escaped her her identification of the money including drawer and of the check was complete and it yaa promptly delivered to her she thanked the superintendent warmly and was about to leave the office when that gentleman suggested that she owed the recovery of her money to the honesty of the little cash girl do yon think madam he said pointedly such honesty ought to go the woman stopped no of course not she said hastily and opening the just recovered purse she produced a silver dollar which she gave to the girl then she departed with the fortune of whose keeping she was so careless and of whose finding she was so unappreciative her point of view in kew york times |