Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — FRIENDSHIP THAT RINGS TRUE [ARTICLE]

FRIENDSHIP THAT RINGS TRUE

Always a Condition That Requires Thorough Understanding and Complete Sympathy. Some acquaintances will never ripen into true friendship because the common bond of union, the thorough understanding and the complete sympathy are lacking. An acquaintance begun in childhood will ripen into friendship if the children develop mutual interest in a common cause of .study or pleasure. If dissimilar tastes and unlike impulses develop the children will grow apart, since each of us tends toyaibd certain centers of association. Money cannot buy us friends. It often purchases apparent friendship, but when the wealth goes that which, posed as friendship vanishes also. Friendship must be distinguished from that sentimental feeling which is so common among young girls. This ridiculous fascination, which expresses itself in extravagant terms of endearment, is very fickle. As soon as it finds faults in one idol it transfers its affection to another. Youth has yet to learn that perfection in human nature does not exist. The sensible man or woman does not set" up an ideal of friendship so high that It must be shattered. Friends influence us for good or evil. Unfortunately we can guide the formation of our friendships only to a very limited extent, either for ourselves or sos our children. Friendship springs up and grows naturally; it cannot be planted at will. Foolish friendships are often formed in youth. It is useless to talk against them, since young people always resent criticism of their friends. We must simply tolerate them and trust to the awakening of common sense to prove all frivolous friendships false and unworthy.—Philadelphia Inquirer.