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Show MAKING THE WORLD SEEM BRIGHTER. J. L. Miller, a wealthy retired New York merchant, has been sick, and the other day he told his hired man, Grover Henderson, that he was going to give him a check for $5 for being faithful and looking after him so well. Grover was struck dumb when, on looking at the check, he found it to be for $5,000 instead of $5. After a little he recovered re-covered enough, however, to express his gratitude for this gift and he was so happy over it that the rich man thereupon made out a second sec-ond check for the same amount and gave that also to him. It was one of the pleasantest sensations of his life, he said, to see how much this money meant to the man who had served him so well. This world can b-3 made a great deal brighter if we will all of us according to our means and limitations treat ourselves occasionally to some act of unusual generosity. It eomes hard at fir:t to give away good money, but the habit grows, and after a while one can get more satisfaction satis-faction out of a gift well deserved and well received than out of the same amount spent on one's self. Of course, charity begins at home, and our own view is that a person's first duty is to himself, his family and those to whom ho is under direct obligations but there are plenty of opportunities every day for you to be generous, without going very far abroad. And it does you good. It makes you feel better inside. It gives you a new respect for yourself. It is one way of showing the thankful spirit and this spirit, let us say here, should not be reserved all the year, to be brought out and exercised only on Thanksgiving day or at Christmas time. |