Embarrassing Generosity.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 22 August 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Embarrassing Generosity.

Not only tho bouses of ttia Mexicans, but whatever you admire is yourß. If you express a sentiment of approbation for anything the owner at once oays : " Senior, it ia your*," but he simply intends to say something flattering, and you are therefore not expected to accopt anything mat is offered you. An amusing stoi) i ) told of Sir Spencer St. John, the Engliah ambassador, which illustrates how this national courtesy often provokes erabarrfiaement. Sir Spencer, who is a gallant old bachelor, was promenading with some ladies in the park when he met a nurse girl with a brigbt-ej^ed baby. The ladies stopped to admire tho little one, and Sir Spencer asked whose child it wa^. " Senor, it ia your own," replied thcnurEO, with a curteny. Sir Spencer has never inquired as to the parentage of pretty children since. There ia unusual movement among men in many parts of tho world ]vat now. Italy is moving toward Mas«!owah, Kuania is moving toward Herat, Eo^l/ind is moving toward Khartoum, Franco ia moving toward Formosa, Spain is being moved by an earthquake, Germany is moving in Africa and dynamiters are moving everywhere.- Excltavyc.