Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — A Valuable Hint. [ARTICLE]

A Valuable Hint.

“"What are you buying now?” asked Ned Stevenson of Andrew Powell, on meeting the latter in Bell’s jewelry store. “I am looking for some present to give my wife on her birthday. I tell you, making presents costs a heap of money. ” “Why don’t you do ( as I do? I have □ever failed to make my wife a present on her birthday every year for twentyfive years, and I am not out a cent thus far.” “How do you manage it?” “It is very simple. After we were married, when her birthday came around I gave her a twenty dollar gold piece. When my birthday came around she gave me the twenty dollar piece back, and we have kept that up ever since, and neither of us is out a cent.” —Texas Siftings.