| Show GRATITUDE gratitude is not a common hiir ir tue but it sometimes induces the biking of handsome bequests an old lady once left to a gentleman tl ernan for no other reason than because he be once held her pew door open charles reads james pay n tupper topper and se peeril eril other writers have been handsomely let le in the wills of admi admiring readers very ery thoughtful was the man who left a large sum of money to hi bi nephew on on condition that he be would get married in six months and not be a mi miserable old bachelor like his uncle the questin n is some asked women are or are not dot meaner than men some say that they the are less esi generous in giving tips to servants and others if this be the caso case which is doubtful perhaps api haps the reason is because the money they have generally belongs to some one else arid and they fire are too conscientious in the management ag ement of it to be generous at an others expense men lien appear to he be more generous because they have generally more money to spend and certainly few women would have recompensed a service as shabbily as a man lid in the following instance having been rescued fiem droznin drowning by a sailor he pre presented senteLl the latter with lith the magnificent reword reward of one shilling j As the man was wag known to be rich indignant int murmurs arose from the crowd who nho had the rescue among them was the poet burns who ubo said my friends the gentleman must know his onn oan value better than ne do A poor woman on seeing the sea eca for or the first time exclaimed it is land to ece ce something of which g I 1 here bere iere is ia enough for everybody |
