People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1897 — Giving Impressively. [ARTICLE]

Giving Impressively.

There are diversities of giving as well as of gifts. To give a little with a grand air sometimes seems to make more of an impression than to give much modestly. The world has not changed in this respect. Samuel Pepys wrote in his “Diary,” in 1660: “There was a great number of merchants and others of good quality (at a dinner) on purpose * • * to make an offering (to two newly married servants), which, when dinner was done, we did, and I did give ten shillings and no more, though I believe most of the rest did give more, and did believe that I did so. too.”