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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 705, 19 September 1914, Page 3

KINDNESS MISPLACED. The kindly old gentleman paused in his afioruoon walk to watch a wee tot, who was diligently searching the pavement for something she had evidently lost, and at the same time sobbing loudly. "Come, come, litfclo girl!" ■ Le ventured at last. "What have you lost?" "800, hoo!" came the reply, between many sobs, "I've lost the penny ;randpa gave me. I came along the way you've just come, and I missed it about here!" Touched by the child's grief,- the benevolent old gentleman ponderously extracted a penny from his pocket, kindly pressed it in the little tot's hand, and said: "There, there, little girl, here's your penny. Now stop crying, and run along. You must hold your money tighter next time." To his utter surpriso the chilcl stopped her crying immediately, and flashed on him a look of bitter contempt. "Why, you wicked old man," she said, stamping her tiny foot, "you had my penny all the time.!" Poets, reformers, and philosophers—even religions—change nothing. " They merely give humanity new reasons for doing old things," or old advice in fresb language.—John Oliver Hobbes. -