The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-08-18
SIGHT OUT OF MIND.
DisagreeaLe Traits Among those zee
Lore-SoMe Things About Y
Best Frieads sehick are Cassnot bit
Deprecdte-Timae az a Healer.

Best FrieNds shick are Cdstn0t bxt
Deprecdte-Tinse az a Healer.
That cynical old proverb-one Of the
kind which disbelievss in human nature
and fnds more 10 blame than to praise
in the conduct Of life makes being ont
of sight synonymous With being ont nf
mind, aud reduces the sentiment Of af
fiction. fondly said to be eternal. to
the hnE Hating chances Of Temporary
association. Well. there is a certain
truth in this-there always ia 3 Ger
tain truth in everything diSagreeable
aud disheartening but it is not the
whole truth. thank heaven, and that per
picking converse to be found in all pro
verbs ONE to bottress up. our faith Oh
the one side after it has been knocked
down by this automatic battering ram
Of distruSt on the other. aud tells us
that absence makes the hear: grow fan
der. aud by imn!icAti,n i~!-tance lends
enchantment to Ire view. Thus We
are '.shuttlecocked' between the two
in a which helps to confuse the
uncertain aud 10 distress the weak
according IS they accept the sorrowful
dictxM Of distrust, Oh take comfort from
the hopeful assurance of faith. We
may take it. however, that both
views are false. and both true;
that with some shallow and i'm
pressionable souls absence includes
forgetfulness through inability to re
tain aud facility to receive alike /; with
others it increases love. aud. being out
Of sight. far from effacing the remem
brance Of the dear picture, only soft
ems the harsher lines and beauties the
less lovely features, adding a golden
haze Of tenderness and regret. through
which everything becomes SiOrifed and
perfected.
IDlOsrNCRACIEs OF OUR FRIENDS.
We have friends whom We dearly
lore, but whose personality aflicts us
with various forms of distress. One
is y right good fellow. with all the
solid virtues, If not many surface graces.
He saved = man from ruin. at the cost
of no small risk aud sacrifice to himself
and he forgave him his gross ingrati
tude afterwards but he has 20 love for
q we'll supplied bath. and he takes
snuff as if his salvation depended on the
numb-r Of ounces c0nsumedfn the week.
Another is af-ctionate and geneross,
but burdened with u peccant liver, and
irritable accordingly We never knew
when no may not break out into u
storm of angry accusation, which it
takes all III appreciation Of his ster-
ling value aud all our personal. attach
ment for him to bear at the iime and
forgive after it is owe ; but no took
his widowed sister and her children in
IL his house, aud. because he had not
enough for all. gave up the one q
whom he had set his heart, and for
hope Of whom he had toiled hard and
endured much, that he might do his da
ty BY his sister Who had married against
his consent . man who had never been
his friend. and who had made things
unpleasant in the family all the time
he had belonged to it. A third tries
our patience and e1hausts it by perpc
tuai contradiction, with or without
reason ; but with this perpetual contra
diction he has a power Of work which
makes him = true Intellectual Hercules,
and Q manly capacity for endurance a.
heroic As his capacity for labor.
AxxorED BIT THOSE We LOVE.
For it 10 endurance. We cannot
blind ourselves to the fact that we are
bored. aud moro than borsA-resolted,
annoyed, irritate1-whsn we are too
mseh in tho society Of these people.
whom yet We sincerely esteem and faith
fully love. But in absence We forget
these non vital de fleets, and dwell only
on tho good that IL in thsa. not On tie
bad that appears. We remember the
kind thines that they have do6e, the
sterling worth that they have proved ;
aud the personal hydrophobia. with the
he and the familiarity, the inceseant
talk and the sxssperatlog oontradiesion,
the peaalant temper and ungenial 81
lenee, the vanity and all the rest of it
sink into the hackgroead. Gilded over
by the softe0ing haze Of absence which
has blsrred the intrasive lines ard
brought into greater distinctness the
beauty of the general Composition, No
lose sight Of al that annoys % when in
close contact, and the heart grows fon
def by absence - the view gains en-
ehantment BY distance. The good
cones oas. the bad fades away. and 90
far falfls the proverb which makes oct
Of sight equivalent for being out Of
mind.
ABSENCE COxQUERING SORROW.
Necessarily there 10 . wearing away
Of sharp Outlines By sbsenee, and this
has been found the mese e6e.eiocs wsy
Of getting rid OF that unhappy state It
mind known rs love disappointment.