Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1908 — LIPTON'S CHARITY. [ARTICLE]

LIPTON'S CHARITY.

He Took First One Hint Then Another. Sir Thomas Lipton has committed rqany generous acta during his life about which he can never he Induced to talk. He is fond, however, of telling of an incident which happened in his early days, concerning an astute mother who forced him to raise her son’s wages because Sir Thomas had presented him with a brand-new suit of clothee. Sir Thomas started business with one assistant, a boy of fourteen, who was willing and honedt. One day the lad was overheard complaining that his clothes were so shabby he was unable to go to chapel. Mr. Lipton, as he then was, was making every sacrifice to enlarge his little shop, but he took a small amount from his carefully hoarded savings and bought the boy a suit of blue cloth. The next day the boy didn’t come to work, and Mr. Lipton, meeting hie mother in the street, asked her the reason. “Why, Mr. Lipton,’’ she said, curtsying, “Jimmie loks so respectable, thanks to you, sir, that I thought A would send him round the town today to see if he couldn’t get a better job." Sir Thomas meekly took the hint and offered an increased salary, which was accepted on b*Ualf of Jimmie by his mother,” —Detroit News-Tribune.