THE STORY OF A CHAPEL BAZAAR

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1649, 7 October 1903, Page 10

THE STORY OF A CHAPEL BAZAAR

A Birmingham tradesman just no w has a grievance which makes him hot whenever he thinks of it. He was asked by a customer (says the “Birmingham Daily Mail”) to give something for a bazaar at a neighbouring chapel, and very reluctantly he gave a piece of fancy work which sells, retail, at about a guinea. A day or two after the sale a customer who had purchased a similar piece of fancy work from him returned it, with the intimation that she did not require it. He questioned the girl who brought back tho article as to the cause of its return, and finally elicted that “Mother has bought one just like it for five Shillings, and she thinks your price is outrageous.” Sorely troubled at the prospective loss of a good customer, he went to see her, and discovered that the article which the lady had purchased for five shillings had been bought at the bazaar, and was tlie one wnich he had presented to help the cause. I am * afraid that the next applicant to him for a donation will have a discouraging reception.