Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1910 — An Honest Giver. [ARTICLE]

An Honest Giver.

When Mrs. Rawson and her cousin. Miss Leland, went down to the city to spend a few days, It was agreed that Miss Leland should carry the pocketbooks in her bag, which was firmly attached to her belt by a strap, while Mrs. Rawson was “liable to be left anywhere.” As they were together all the time, the arrangement worked to a charm In shops and cars and restaurants. It never occurred to either of them when they stood modestly waiting at the back of a crowded church on Sunday morning that they would be ushered to seats which were not side by side. They were not disturbed, however, until the offertory anthem had begun, and Miss Leland saw the fine-looking man with the plate slowly but surely making his way down the aisle. Fortunately her seat was at the end. “One of these tens-is for the lady in a brown-feather hat and gold-bowed spectacles sitting five or six pews back,” she whispered, and she dropped the coins and began to enjoy the music thoroughly.