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Show STORY TOLD IN NEW YORK i .Dentist Tells of Destitute Woman Check and Letter Follows New York, Dec. 25. A story which men. of tho financiaf district are telling tell-ing at their Christmas dinners today to-day had J. P. Morgan, a dentist and a washerwoman as its principals. Mr. Morgan was in a dentists chair, it was related, suffering considerable con-siderable pain for the relief of which the dentist was telling the financier how tho case of his wife's washerwomen washer-women was one of the worst instances in-stances of destitution he ever knew. "Her husband died and left her I thirteen children, only five of them being large enough to work," he said, and while keeping on with his dental work, he continued the hard luck narrative in detail. Mr. Morgan left after the operation without comment, but the next day the dentist received a letter which Is quoted as follows: "Dear Doctor: You hurt me like the devil yesterday, but you're vivid story about the widow and her thirteen thir-teen children helped some Enclosed find my check for $10,000. which please turn ovor to the washerwoman, aud tell her for me that she was a fool to eer have thirteen children." |