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Show GOOD WISHES By FORTUNE FREE. SOMEONE said that the richest person was the one who was fullest of good wishes for others and who received their good wishes in return. Wishing others well did him or her all the good in the world, and the good wishes in return were powerful icr good. Don't we find it so ourselves? Ko one can do without with-out them. They are our dearest possessions. pos-sessions. Montague Williams, the celebrated British barrister, once relaxed the story 'f a rather unlovely old gentleman of v - miserly habits and rejoicing in the rS lUckname amongst the urchins of the - neighborhood of "Old Pickbones." Generosity Gen-erosity was not one of his virtues, and If he wished any human creatures well lie kept It a secret to himself. Ue was a man who seemed impervious to all good wishes a solitary old grudger who cared nothing for the good or the bad wishes of any human creature. "When he died, however, it turned out that he had been by no means as thick-sltlnned thick-sltlnned as he seemed. He left a will In wMch he bequeathed money to different dif-ferent persons, and ten thousand pounds to some unknown Individual whom he directed his solicitor to discover dis-cover If pwsible. That person had been accustomed to send him yearly jn anonymous post card with just, "Best wishes at this time to you." The writer gave no clue as to who he was. Did the old gentleman tear the cards up or throw them Into the tire? Not a bit of It. He had carefully preserved them tied them up in a nice packet. "If the writer can be dls-1 dls-1 vovered." he ordered in his will, "I ' bequeath him ten thousand pounds for his good will." ." I would dearly have liked for the sender of those post cards to have got that money, but all efforts to find him proved unavailing. One cannot help wishing well to the person who wishes others well. Good wishes are the biggest bond on earth. Isn't it a delightful thing to think that others are thinking of us? The well-wisher Is thinking of us. He also puts his good thought for us into words : "I wish you every good luck," or something of that kind. It is like a grasp of a hand pressing ours. It blesses both the giver and the receiver. I don't know which gets the most out of it. There are times when tne world breaks out into a mighty shout, as it were, of good wishes. Christmas time is the great season. Never had we more need of them than at this coming Christmas time. It is an enormous opportunity op-portunity for the good wisher to make his power felt. s f It is a curious and beautiful 5 thing about this Christmas spirit g M that year after year It leads us to attempt the all but impos- sible, in order to give pleasure g to others ; while In the end ev- jp eryone's joy is the result, not of & S what he has received from oth- g ers, but of what he has done g :S for them. S 'H P |