The story of a telephone that traveled from Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, to Shanghai for a day without its owner has brought a smile to thousands of Chinese people.

The owner, Wang Yueyue, did not expect to see the telephone again after she lost it on Monday. That day Wang was packing vegetables in a supermarket. And then all the foods were sent in the parcels (包裹) to Shanghai to help people in need. Because of wearing a loose-fitting (宽松的) sweater with small pockets, she had already dropped her phone on the floor three times on Monday, before the fourth time when the phone disappeared. After looking around again, Wang couldn’t find her phone on the floor or other places.

“I guess that I dropped it in one of the parcels?” said the 26-year-old, who told her older sister what had happened later that day, Her sister, wrote it on Weibo the same evening: “Anyone in Shanghai who got a telephone in a parcel of vegetables, please contact me. My sister was busy packing the vegetables and left her phone in one of the parcels. I just couldn’t help but laugh.”

The message was quickly shared online. She wrote it as a joke until she received a call about the telephone. Many volunteers helped together and managed to find it in the Lanzhu neighborhood. A volunteer first noticed the telephone in a truck when he heard its ring like the sound of a chicken. He said that we mustn’t fail the people who are helping us.

On Tuesday night, the telephone was returned to Wang by the same truck driver. He passed the telephone on to Wang and expressed his thanks from the people in Shanghai. It was a really interesting experience for her and her telephone.

A poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk.

He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"

"You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness." He said, "Then I thank you from my heart."

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Years later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists (专家) to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.

Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to the case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room.

She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She began to read the following words: "Paid in full with one glass of milk"

Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or homes for the old. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems.

Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, do their shopping or mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.

Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls.

Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.