THE GOOD UNCLE
Someone who has failed to get work in England and has gone to seek it in South Africa writes home that he has met the happiest man in the world. . , He is a little Polish Jew, who works like a slave and keeps hardly a penny of his earnings for himself. He is always cheerful, always helping newcomers to,.find work or cheap quarters. Some years ago this man’s sister married a man who emigrated and was earning a decent living in South Africa when he was stricken with leprosy. Now ho is in a leper camp. What was to hapen to his wife and three children? His brother-in-law came out to work for them. Ho might have said; “i will send you vour fares to como back to me.” But ho would not ask them to leave the poor leper on the other side of the world. Instead, lie said good-bvo to his native place and his old friends, gave up all hope of a home of his own, and went to work lor his sister in a foreign land. His coat is threadbare, but it is more honourable than any of the dazzling uniforms worn by Henry the Eighth.
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Evening Star, Issue 20428, 8 March 1930, Page 9
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203THE GOOD UNCLE Evening Star, Issue 20428, 8 March 1930, Page 9
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