RECOMMENDATIONS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 206, 11 June 1887, Page 3

RECOMMENDATIONS.

It ib sometimes said that anybody can procure written recommendations ; but not every one, though many could if they would, carries such recommendations as did the lad of the following anecdote : A gentleman advertised for a boy, and nearly fifty applicants presented themselves to him, and out of the number he .selected one and dismissed the rest. "I should like to know," said a friend, "on what ground j r ou selected that boy, who had not a single recommendation." " You are mistaken," said the gentleman, "he has a great many. He wiped his feet when he came in, and closed the door after him, showing that he was careful. He gave his seat instantly to that lame old man, showing that he was thoughtful. He took off his cap when he came in, and answered my questions promptly, showing that he was gentlemanly. He picked up the book which I had purposely laid on the floor and replaced it on the table ; and lie waited quietly for his turn, instead of pushing and crowding, showing that he was honourable and orderly. " When I talked to him I noticed that his clothes were brushed, his hair well combed ; when he wrote his name I noticed that his finger-nails Avere clean. Don't you call those things letters of recommendation ?"