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Show JiTjk 2y Katherine if 1 Edelman (The story of a woman who had lost the greatest thir. in lite fait li In her fellowmen and how it came back to her at Christmas time.) TrLDA POTTS FIELD was very Vil unhappy. For two months she hud fretted herself because a sum of mone. which she hail invested had heen lost. She had entrusted it to nn old friend of her girlhood in a nearby city and when the news came that the money was lost Ilulda made up her i::ind then and there that nil humanity was alike eager and ready to cheat even its own friends if there was a chance. She grew more bitter and suilen each day and withdrew herself her-self almost entirely from the circle of friends that she had known so long. She never stopped to think that even without this amount she could still live in comparative ease; that there was nothing in reason she would have 10 dtiiy herself as the Income she still had was quite large. Blindly she shut her eyes to all this and would not al- Imv herself to think of her many blessings bless-ings or to frame even the slightest excuse ex-cuse for the friend who had failed. Now. with Christmas approaching, she grew even more bitter than usual. "I'm not going to do a single thing thi-; year," she repeated to herself over and over. "Why should I, anyway, iifter my great loss?" So when the Ladies' Aid called for an o.T?ring for the annual entertainment entertain-ment and Christmas baskets to be given giv-en to the poor she was ready with her answer. But when they left hurriedly afrcr her curt refusal she was more unhappy than ever. "No one seems to have any sympathy for my great misfortune," mis-fortune," she walled to herself. "What a cru'd world it Is; no one seems to care." The window where she sat brooding opened out on Arb'r street. Soon h'ht tli" Ladles' Aid left she lor. lied out to see that sne one else was corning up il.e steps. This time it v;: a young gi'l and Iluhla sniffed to herself as she saw her: "Another who comes seeding," she said under tlght"ned lips. I'.ut the young girl who entered had not come begging. Ins-fad. she had come to tell Ilul la that she was the daughter of the man to whom Iliihla had entrusted her money and that she had heard thi't iiulda was In need that her lo-s J,i,l left her stranded. Her falh'T had been ill for several mor.M;-. crushed by the failure of bis hopes, all of whbh was due to the I i-eaebei y and deceit of bis partner In business. lie wax now belter and thing-! were beginning to look brighter. There was every hope that no one would lo:e a dollar, in the mean'lme the girl had eoiao to offer 1 1 uhij some money from he' own earnings she "..a-- private secretary to some big man It) the city. After the girl b-fi HuMsi sat hud-i.'b-d In her chair, ''lodl how sollNU ', bad been - how blind bow ungrateful: un-grateful: fii-eat tears Iriehlcd slowly dov ;i lo r e,eel;j, f;irs that curried away forever the b!t:eriie:-s and self-; self-; .!, t that had been In her heart of I, ite. Tie- v. orld. after all. a won- dei -f,;l ppo-e -'id It people were wonderful won-derful people; Mal.ing her way to the phone, sdio j It no witli bands that trembled and culled for the president of the Ladies' Aid. ):'. Wt-ao.rn Nfwrapnix.r Ur,l',n.) |