EVERY-DAY PHILANTHROPY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10, 12 March 1908, Page 38

EVERY-DAY PHILANTHROPY

A sad and seedy individual found his way Into a Baltimore office building, gained admission to the offices of one of the city's best known legal firms, and, at last, somehow penetrated to the sanctum of the senior partner. ' Well,' asked the lawyer, « what do you want ? ' The visitor was nothing if not "frank. 11 A dollar bill, 1 he said. ' Although,', he added, 'If you don't happen to have the bill, siher will do.' -The man's unusual manner caught the lawyer's curiosity. ( , ' ! ' g 1 There you are,' he said, % handing out the money. • And now I should like to ha.ye you tell me how you came to fall so low in the world.' The visitor sighed. ' All my youth,' he explained, 1 I had counted on inheriting something from my uncle, but when he died he left all he had to an orphan asylum.' ' A philanthropist,' commented the lawyer. "What did his estate consist of ? ' 1 Ten children,' said the visitor— and vanished.