GIFTS AND GIVEKS OF GIFTS.
Kindness is nob so .much shown in ' the cost of presents, but in the way oft presenting them. There is, as a German' proverb says, much honor in a glass of wine-^— which means that a gentle nature will show much more in the way sought to oblige than in the magnitude of the gift, which may depend, on the means of the giver, and not on his heartfelt wish to be kind. A man may bo able to igive an ; eagle as a charity, but may throw, the gold coin so as to avoid the tpuch of the needy person, and, by' humiliating him, diminish the value o£- 'the -gift. '-It 'is' •given' only to
few people to accompany the gift with a warm, sympathetic Jook or smile, or a kind, word, which will do more than the gift itself to console or comfort.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XVI, Issue 831, 20 June 1890, Page 3
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