Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-06-20

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ting together 1t is the association togeth-
or of boys, the late nights, the early morning
drinks. taken more frequently later on,
and lastly the appetite. 1t is associating
together for the purpose of drinking that
causes that selvage of bad company to ad-
here to the good company you started
out with. earlier in the evening, and it is
the selvage Of low company that will give
every self-respecting man a good deal Of
disagreeable reflection when he comes to
look back at it. Don't buy that sort of
ticket, my boy; the show won't pay you.
Speaking of veterans reminds me of
something would like to say before the
press of the Presidential election crowds
me out of your columns. ri Do you know,
there is nothing more awkward to
man-that is, nothing more awkward to
me. and like all cyclists judge all by my.
self-than meeting familiar friend whom
I havn'I seen for twenty years. We ex-
pect each other to be the old heart-to
heart friends of long ago, but how to 60
about establishing the relation is the
puzzle. We have all had new friends,
new histories, new lives since twenty
years ago, and while we make an unsatis-
factory attempt to be the same ''old boys"
to each other, each feels the dismal fail
ure. Memory is faithful, but while we
remember with affection that we we're
Tom and Dick to each other twenty years
ago, we cannot out of that slender materi-
al build up hearty fraternal conversation
of to-day. And with advancing years we
find that the old subjects that we spent
hours of mirth over, a life time ago. are
not amusing to-day, if indeed our defec-
tive memories can recall them. All!
how little it took to furnish youth with
mirth. that common standing ground upon
which all SO easily form acquaintance and
friendship. I trust I may be forgiven,
seeing that meant we'll, but I declare to
you that have practiced most outrageous
deceit in affecting to remember Incl
dents that some of these old boys recall,
and in trying to be agreeable by SO doing.
But doubtless you have also. Perhaps we
all have. After all take it that Separa-
tion, like Time, tries everything
Friendship, even Acquaintance, and
those of the three which survive
the test are like the ruins of an
Gent cities, of great value as curiosities
but worth little for aught else. Mrs.
Boyzy remarks that this is heartless view
of it. But 1 silence that estimable woman
by the observation that philosophers do
not take the heart into account; the heart
is the field of young lovers, physician fees
and patent medicines. This observation
which she does not understand, and,
may admit to you 1 am not SO clear about
myself, convinces her that am not only a
philosopher but profound one. All! to a
man of profound observation, how many
better ways of securing the respect of the
female sex there are than the primitive
one of clubbing them.
P. BoYzY.
r. We are glad to see that our revered
but somewhat garrulous friend is one of
those rare correspondents who sees that
there might be something more important
to 60 in paper that what he, himself,
writes. He may not have an unimpeach-
able reputation as a profound philos,
0pher," but as newspaper correspondent
he is entitled to be called eminently prac-
tical. ED. INDICATOR