Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — The Gift that Fritz Sent. [ARTICLE]

The Gift that Fritz Sent.

When good-natured, easy-going Frits asked his American wife to go downtown and pick out some little present for his sister in Germany he sighed. He had squandered his fortune, but his sister still had hers, which careful Teutonic management bad aided and swelled to a beautiful degree. The American wife knew nothing of her sister-in-law, but she fully appreciated the limitations of her own finances as well as lhe difficulty of sending a gift so far as Germany, so she went to repository for woman’s work and discovered there a dainty bag of chamois leather embroidered with wreaths of forget-me-nots and emblazoned with the one word “Money,” to indicate its use as a secret purse to be worn about the neck for safety In traveling. It semed an innocuous little gift, but Fritz nearly went Into hysterics of delight when he beheld it “Ach! the very thing,” he gasped. “I would not write and ask her—no! but ’Money* and ‘forget-me-not,’ ach! It is the ftiost beautiful reminder!” At that the American wife protested and would fain have withheld the present, but Fritz was firm. <lt was sent to Germany at Christmas. Last week a lovely substantial check came In acknowledgment The old lady had appreciated and understood the gentle hint and hereby bangs a fruitnil suggest ti°nt\_g V-Jjk JF The Adams homestead at Quincy, Mass., has been restored under the direction of the Quincy Historical. Be* otaty.