SHE TAUGHT HIM TACT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 21 January 1905, Page 13

SHE TAUGHT HIM TACT.

The late boms Fleiscfamann, the millionaire baker, not only distributed food to poor men in the "bread line" he had established in the city, but he also got these men employment He went among them and conversed with them, and the delicacy of his uorstioas to them, the rare he took not to hurt their feelings, was remarkable. One day he said: "The more unfortunate and wretched people are the more sensitive they are—the more easily they are wounded. The public docs not bear this fact enough in mind. "And yet it is a fact that is contiunaliy being proved—sometimes pathetically, sometimes humoronsry. It was proved humorously to a friend of mine last summer in Scotland. "He was making a walking tour. He was climbing mountains and viewing lakes and torrents. One morning on a quiet road he met a young woman, tall and comely, who walked barefoot. "Surprised, my friend stopped the young woman and said— " Tjo ail the people hereabouts go barefoot?' "She answered— " •Some- of then an* <fee rest oamft, .their oww IhwTm w'-'