Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1914 — HAD OLD LADY’S GRATITUDE [ARTICLE]

HAD OLD LADY’S GRATITUDE

Btorlea Boy Had Absorbed May Have Been Inventions, but Bhe Was Satisfied. It was on a Wade Park car, on the line of 40 angleß, and It happened but a day or two ago. A boy of perhaps fourteen suddenly arose from his seat and gave it to a stout lady. The stout lady looked up at him. “You’re a polite lad,” she said. “Few boys nowadays would do the like.” “I guess you didn’t read yesterday’s paper,” said the boy. “There’s a story about a boy who gave up his seat Jn a street car to a lady, and when she died last week she left him $7,000.” “I didn’t see it,” said the lady. “Maybe you saw the one about the boy who carried the old woman’s basket and she gave him a brick house and a moving picture theater?" "No,” said the lady; “I didn’t see that one either." "There was another one,” the lad went on, "about the boy who had a lower berth in th’ steepin’ car an’ gave it to a sick lady an’ she left him all her fortune. 1 don’t know how much it was, but It must have been an awful lot. You see how It is—you can’t afford to risk any chances." The lady solemnly nodded her head. “Blessings on the man who invents those stories," she solemnly said.— Cleveland Plain Dealer.