He Could Afford to be Generous.

Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 284, 17 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

He Could Afford to be Generous.

One evening in March last; a Silesian lady, on a visit to the Prussian capital, had her pocket picked of a purse containing twenty marks. Ten days afterwards she received, at her home in Silesia, the purse and its contents, together with the following letter; “ Dear Madam, —When I ventured to relieve you of a portion of your personal property, I had no idea that the proceeds would fall so far below my expectations. You cannot imagine how much money it takes to live respectably in Berlin, I took you for a lady from the country, who had came to town, with a well-lined purse, to see the curiosities, etc., and thought I had made a good catch. But, finding that your purse contains so little, I have come to the conclusion that you need the money more than myself, and now return it to you, in the hope that you will henceforth cherish a good opinion of my class in society. On the following evening, I found in the pocket of a gentleman, sitting next to me at the opera a pocket-book containing 3,000 marks, something worth taking. You will wonder how I discovered y our address. Ah ! we Berliners are ’cute fellows. I managed to worm it out of your doorkeeper. Requesting you to excuse this mistake, and trusting you will bring a little more money with you on your next visit to the capital, 1 am yours respectfully, Haase.” —Berliner Zeitung.