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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 356, 5 March 1902, Page 1

Edmond Eostand has read to a committee the speech he intended to make on bej D CT received into the Academy. The committee disapproved of an oration- in verse for two reasons: First, that it would te a bad precedent; second, that this particular piece of poetry was ill-suited to the purposes and traditions of the illustrous body of “ immortals." The committee requested M. Eostand to offer another address in prose. Master Michelin, ton years old, the wealthy sou of a shoe manufacturer, got as a Christmas gift a .£3OO automobile made purposely for him on condition that he would spend the holiday week in distributing free shoes among the children ot the tenement districts. Consequently tbe automobile started loaded several times daily. In five days 5,000 pairs of shoes had been given away, , , The shoe manufacturer thought that was enough, but the hoy became so impressed with the unsuspected misery he had discovered in the course of his phai'E’-: tour that lie asked permission to sdl lno automobile in order to buy more shoes. The parents let him do so, in order that the child might have tbo_ satisfaction of porsonal charity and sacrifice.