Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — The Birthday Present. [ARTICLE]

The Birthday Present.

Big Tim Sullivan was being congratulated by a New York reporter on the superb charity of this annual dinner to 7,000 Bowery men. “Well,” said Mr. Sullivan, modestly, “I confess it’s at least a charity that pleases its recipients. It’s not like the young woman’s birthday present to her beau. “A young woman, having landed a young man at last, thought she’d give him a birthday present So she went into a cigar store and said: “ ‘Give me five cents’ worth of your very best cigars, please.’ ’’