An instructive story reaches one of those mendicants who go round from office to office collecting what they can. This particular mendicant was a boy of 16 oF 17, with a type-written appeal for help on the ground that he had two brothers to support, and no parents. Below this were several illegible signatures of people who had apparently handed him a dollar. The reader who tells this tale, however, kept the boy waiting while he wrote to the Charity Organization Committee asking them to look into the case and saying that he would be happy to help on hearing from the €.'0. C. But on his handing the letter to the boy, the latter took tone look at the address and then rly dropped the note on the table and walked out of the offic Comment is. superfluous
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.