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Advantage Of Politeness

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
September
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Sonic years ugo, u üry goodsaalesman m a J_iondon shop had acquired suoh a rcputation for courtesy and exhaustless patienoe tliat it was suid to bo impossiblt; to provoke from him any expression of' irritability, or tho smallcst symptom of vexution. A lady of rank, hearing of his equauimity, dctiriuined to put it to tho test by all tho imiioysinces with which a vetaran shop visitor knows how to tiso a shopmas. Sho failod in the attompt, and thereupon set him up in businoss. Ho roso to cminehco in the haberdaehery tnide, and the ïiKiinspring of his later, as of his early carear, was politoness. It is related of tho late "ir. Butler, of Provideueo, R. L, that he was so obliging as to ro-opon his storo mie niglit solc;ly to sujiply a little firl with a spool of thread she wanted. he ineident took wind, brought him a largo run of custom, and ho diod a millionaire. i n Tuesday last a number of aged citizens of Baltimore visited Washington in selebration of tho dofonso of that eity, in which they took part in 1811. Thcy wero met by their old comrade-in-arms, Gen. St. Johns. B. L. Skinnor, of Now York, welconicd thein in a brief addross. Altogethor, thero wero nearly ono )mndrod vetorans, somc of thom scarecly ablo to walk from old age. They visited tho Kxocutive Mansion, but there was no ono present to foi'mally reccivo them. Af ter passing through the Troasury Department, and subsuquoiitly sponding a short timo at the Capítol, they sat down to dinner. The reunión was very pleasant.

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Old News
Michigan Argus