For Charity’s Sake. —In many of the smoking or coffee rooms of the English hotels, especially in large cities, there is on the mantel a box for contributions to some charity. On the top is a card on which is inscribed : ‘ Please give a penny, and it will thank you.’ Drop a penny in the slot, and up comes another card, ‘Thank you, sir,’ is printed. It pleases the halfbefuddled cheap swells immensely, for even automatic politeness has its effect.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XI, 14 March 1896, Page 298
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