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Show Smile and $2 Given Tramp Brin Riches (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) OSAGE, Iowa, Nov. 7. There are fairy godfathers and godmothers. godmoth-ers. Sometimes they come dressed as tramps or homely old women all wrinkled and bent, but they may be your very own godfather or godmother, god-mother, and if you don't treat them with respect and are grouchy and unhappy they will fly away. Sarah Lindley, the "prettiest girl in Osage," is sure of this. Nine years ago an old tramp came to the Lindley home. Sarah, then fifteen years old, called him In, gave him his dinner and a $2 bill and her happiest smile, and the other day she received notice that this tramp, John Brumsiek, later a prosperous pros-perous farmer of Melissa, Minn., had willed her $65,000. "'I didn't know it was that old man who was my fairy godfather, but I did know it would be some one, ' ' she said today. "I have always al-ways believed that if I was always good-natured and smiled at every old person who seemed to be unfortunate un-fortunate some day I would be made very happy by one of them." |