Show HARD TO TELL TRUE STATUS stylish people not always those who have fat accounts at the banks you d be surprised to know bow people impose on men of our cloth the sky pilot said how we get taken in you know I 1 spend a good deal of my time begging building up churches by means of donat donatone lons 3 from the generous rich well last summer some very stylish people came to my congregation and were very nice to me very nice indeed they invited me to their home a beautiful summer place up on the hudson I 1 lunched with them once then they invited me to dine I 1 thought they were lovely people well when we bad had arrived at the coffee I 1 looked them over and thought to myself this is an auspicious time it seems to me to put in a modest peti tion for that old church out there in kansas that a in such need of a few donations I 1 was about to speak in I 1 fact I 1 had cleared my throat when my in y hostess anticipated me what do you think she wanted wanted me to try to get a few hun dred dollars for her from rich people t knew she said she was in a good deal of distress that the place they were in was a rented one and unless they got the requisite rent they would be dispossessed and homeless I 1 could hardly believe it surround ed by such luxury and penniless you never can tell anything about these rich people by appearances never I 1 had just about enough people on my list to beg for so I 1 made my ex auses as best I 1 could and got away that tall fall I 1 happened to be telling the story to a party of friends when a stranger among them spoke up if you 11 find those people for me he said ill give you a hundred or two for your old kansas church it wis w is my house they rented and they skipped without paying me a penny but how could I 1 find them when the police coulden couldn V 7 new york press |