Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — Choosing Her Gifts. [ARTICLE]

Choosing Her Gifts.

A charitable Englishwoman, who Insists on a personal acquaintance with all her pensioners, recently contributed to the London World an account of some of her amusing experiences. A small girl of eight-called at the lady’s house soon after Christmas with a bundle under her arm. “Please, yer ladyship," she began, "please, mum says thahk yer kindly, an’ says tell yer-thgt down our way capes is worn now, an’ if she was to wear this shawl yer sent ’er all the neighbors would think she was one of them ladles what sells flowers in the street; so, please, yer ladyship, mum sayß will jrer seqd ’er a cape ’stead of the shawl? ‘"Or, If yer ain’t got one, a plcksher’ll db. One in a gold frame for the front room; an’ please,” concluded the child, with delicate Insistence, "mum says she ’opes It’ll be of Bobbie Burns and gentle Mary.”