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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 16, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 33.

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A FRENCH journal relates a little incident which humorously points a moral. Selfishness is the bane of the natural heart, and it often exhibits itself in little things of the home as strikingly as in this case.
Friend Perrichon, accompanied by his wife, took a trip to the outskirts of Paris. Very tired and hungry, they entered an eating-house. The proprietor declared that he had nothing but a chop to offer them.
"Only one!" exclaimed Perrichon. "Then what is my wife to have?"