Wichita eagle., 1889-01-05
TWO KINDS or FRIENDS.

| Their, Are Those Who Are Reserved and
Others Who Show Their Love.
The pleasantest things that come to writers
are the letters from strangers, who know US
! only through our published thoughts. They
are frequently letters full of appreciation
| and sympathy, that cheer and warm our
hearts and set Us to sharpening our pencils
to finer point.
| Strangers did say1 1t would have been
better to have written acquaintance instead,
/ for who knows US so well as a sympathetic
readerl
| Writers are often shy about expressing
! their thoughts by TIE tip Of their tongues,
but give them pencil and bit Of paper and
they can no more help dropping bit Of
their hearts blood on it than a bird can fly
among flowers OF spring and not sing song
/ to them.
| And that drop of hearts bloodl how it
widens and spreads. and what magic and
magnetism there is in I'll 'Just so my heart
has bled," writes some one from little town
close by, and lust SO my heart has bled,"
writes another from a distant city, and ''just
so my heart has bled," writes some poor,
desolate soul with q pen that Is ignorant Of
the rules OF grammar and the art OF spell
ing, and all the more pathetic for it
So the sympathetic letters come, proving
always that one touch Of nature makes all
of US little bit akin.
''PoohT' said a shallow woman to nc one
day, lyon can't make me believe that you
writers feel what You write" II shall not
try" answered languidly, life is too short
and your brain is too narrow"
Sho cut me dead the next time she met me
on the street, and | was glad of it. She is
cold, fshy sort Of wop7En anyhow, and her
hand is Is limp as IN Oyster. Thank heavenl
shall never be- obliged to shake it again, lis
owner, as it were, having shaken mel
There Is saying that sit ia better TO bave
the good will than the III viii Of even a dog
but it is not saying Of mine. II is a posi-
tive luxury TO me to feel that certain people
dislike me Is heartily as | dislike them.
There is q flavor about it, and I ike favor
in dislike as well as in love
II al Of Us would come square out In our
likes and dislikes believe the world would
be happier for it. Such an homes. arrange
ment would certainly savo Us from much
boredone and from few big lies and many
little ones; and sare Us to from the pain Of
misunderstanding and doubting the friend
ship Of our friends Give me an enemy with
a flaming torch in his hand aad I viii move
cut Of my straw house into house Of brick
Give me an enemy with shotgun il his
hand, and viii run around tee corner; but
give me enemy with sharp little asp TIA.
ssings under her kisses, or an erezay who
gives ne glass Of vine with poison in Il: CT
a slice Of bread r.ised by the yeast Of Islander.
and have no WY 70 protsc. myself
Give me friend who says frankly, IL love
you who shows il II her glad sEEsiis wbsa
we meet, makes ros feel IL Ia the warm clasp
Of her hand, and who dos &c; leave ne IN
dou6: Of her sympathy when TIE Ernzt.ns II
happine@s brigetens NY pathway, CT ire
thrnders Of trouble roll over my head
Such fr;eod, fun Of dszoOasratsvs ts--
dsrnsz. IL . daysp-irg It dslight and not 20
be svapped Ct for rasnr Wcrth costumes Or
much fne gold
But tbe fris-sd whose syes never brighten
=. M approach. whose lips never Say II am
glad Tor yo1T glxdnszz sad for yo1r ssdns..s
whose hands are never stretched ct 20 hreax
my fail into trouble. and VITO turzs away hts
face les. I kaorld discover faA. he gym
ps1.hizes with rss-pxsAwl rzca ar s.derzcr,-
s.rGttve friend az tia. zbo0la be laid across !
tie lap o. negsees ard sTss1ks6 With evxv.
II there Is oce is~ ia. sla hivh n, o, G I
beach ADORE al ;oe oske- - x zith a ss.srfax I
o1<In-eGarsce. dressed 10 tie S1~reous acp.r.i /
O. Judge oF tie U1E.ed State sz,rY-rss /
cur, tie rz5ss e Ia. Av IA "r1yys re Ca .
eootcs-. and / ossea so5xies WY tes loTirg /
Lard ef lore did &C. s15-ass4 tel each !