RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30066, 26 February 1963, Page 23

RANDOM REMINDER

GOOD NEIGHBOURS

There was never much doubt about his good intentions. In fact, he spent the day being kind and thoughtful to other people, only to . . . but that can wait a moment He was in the house alone, his family being away. And he decided that he would go into town to help a friend in the painting of a kitchen. It was a large kitchen, and it took him most of the day, applying paint with every care and no little skill. It was a kind deed, and

it was much appreciated S the friend, who workwith him, *nd by his friend's wife, who disappeared half-way through the afternoon. When the man returned to his own house he found, on a doorstep, a large and lovely bouquet of gladioli—beautiful blooms, fresh and colourful The man, with the milk of human kindness fairly oozing from every pore, decided he would give them to the elderly lady living in the next house.

He took them to her. He explained he was living alone in the house, and that the flowers had been given to him; he went on to say that he did not appreciate them perhaps as much as she would, that if he put them in his house he would have to be bothered watering them, and that he did not really want them. But, he said, they really were very nice, weren’t they. The woman said yes, they were. She had thought ao when she picked them for him.