A HUMAN STORY
In a London restaurant worked a traitress. She was quite undistinguished. You wouldn't notice her in a crowd, and she didn't look like a fashionplate, nor did she dip her fingernails in paint. She merely ■-vent about her work in the restaurant with a quiet efficiency. AI: /cast so thought my friend who used to sit at her table, writes an English author. He did not know her name nor anything about her; but as a successful business men he admired her competent service. One day he took his seat at the usual table, only to find the regular waitress missing. "Has she left your service?" he inquired of the management. The reply was rather saddening. The girl had been sent by the firm to act as waitress at a certain function. She had caught a chill, pneumonia supervened, and she died. Just one of London's thousands more ready to take on the work. My friend enjoyed his lunch less that day. Calling the management, he said: "Do you mind spending this on a bunch of white llowers for the funeral?" The funeral day came, and among the floral tributes was one "from a regular and very appreciative customer." That bunch of white flowers was noticed by many. It was noticed by the girl's mother, a widow. And as she read the inscription, she managed a faint smile through her tears. "And you didn't know even her name?" T asked my friend. "Not the least idea," be replied, "but I never spent live shillings better in my life." I left him feeling that there is a tremendous amount of kindness in this world. Don't you agree?
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 26, 9 March 1942, Page 5
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279A HUMAN STORY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 26, 9 March 1942, Page 5
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