According to an old legend, there once lived a widow who had two daughters. The older daughter was so proud and disagreeable that no one liked to be around her. The younger daughter was just the opposite. She was cheerful and helpful and everyone liked her.

One day the younger, pleasant daughter was at a fountain drawing water, when an old woman asked her for a drink. She readily gave the woman a drink. "You are truly kind and helpful, dear," the woman told the young girl, "so I have a gift to bestow on you. Whenever you speak, a rose or a jewel shall fall from your lips." Sure enough when she returned home and spoke to her mother, "two roses and a few pearls and diamonds fell from her lips."

Her mother was truly amazed, so she sent her older, unpleasant daughter to the fountain hoping s…