M. VANDILLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1941, Page 6

M. VANDILLE

Made money by saving : I believe there are even now folk in I Boulogne who are willing m speak of ! M V.-mthlle for ho was an oddity ini deed. ; , And yet I ought not m put it so bluntly as ihal. for he was the chief magistrate ~f that ancient town, and 'Aoiihv of respect on that aev'tint if en no other. Besides, a man who makes a fortune of iver L 81)0.000 is not to bo despised. There must be something in him. There, was certainly something in M Van-! dill >. It was chiefly milk. For he made money by saving He' ot ked h.ird and saved sous. He foimcl that a man might get on very well in' this transitory life if he lived on bread i and tmlk -not together, but dry bread from the bakers, stale bread, bread that nobody els,- wanted, and milk ! But milk was the problem It money. i Hov.over. M Vatiddle ~f Boulogne I solved this problem | ■As magistrate lie declared that the i people of Boulogne ought not to run I •* !l ’ of buymg sour milk, and so ’ ou. the goodness of his heart <you I see what these philanthropic citizens ’ •a ill do for the good of the community» ' hr ollered to taste all the tmlk brought i io market, and to do it free of charge. ! F<* hr did. Even morning and even- ! ing hr went round the dairy stallx, I sipping at the pails, and thus getting | all the rich milk and cream he needed. ! whicn, together with the odd bits of’ dry bread made quite a respectable i me.n f..r ,i mm, who. when he died. 1 J’- f - King <>f France something | like > nid)mn pounds