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Show jS1 I KINDLY CROWDS. I pHAT New York ia not too busy to f J be kind was proved by a woman who, . walking at the rush hour through oue . j.f the busiest streets, fell the cord upon Which were struug aomc handsome beads nnp. The beads rolled in all directions j over the sidewalk and out into the asphalt i ; paved street, some of them going to dirty t-little puddles in the gutter. She rc- ' garded thwn In dismay. The beads were jt highly prized gift aud there seemed no chance of recovering them. As she pur- ' sued one little globule ncrc and another ' there a muu who had been rushing by at 'j top speed .stopped and began to pick up the beads, lie was jolued by a little girl '- Erom a millinery shop who put down her box to hunt for a. bead that had rolled uuder a step. A rough looklug teauistei j pulled $ big lior&es uwny from one ol die bright liltl beads lyiug in hi.s way. A 1 rery nice young man took off hi- glovt 1 1 ind fished one from a dirty puddle. Tin j ; tfomjn was overwhelmed. When alio ar J rived at her own home she counted then i ind found the number of her treasure 'J :omplele. Henceforward she -will refu.-, , i to believe anything she hears ubout th 3 hcurtlessncas aud rudeness of the strcc I :rowds in busy old Nevr York. . ml- |