The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-10-14
The Lack Of SYM nnthv

The other night, at d great concert,
where the music thrilled and pulsated on
the evening air like an angels voice. and
seemed to I'LL all the place with divine
glory, the attention Of everyone in the
vicinity was attracted to young couple
who occupied prominent seats. They were
fashionably dressed, and belong to what
we call the best society, and the girl was
extremely pretty, but it was not her
beauty that Grew all eyes to her. but the
fact that all through the music she kept
up an lncessant chatter of Il saids'' and
she salds." The young man had re-
hned face, and by his brief answers one
fenced his companion, if he could.
DO You suppose he will marry her?''.
asked a woman curiously, observing the
little drama. So AZ 49, = .ss.
Heaven knows" replied a man dis
gustediy, but if I was married to a
woman who would talk through this mu-
sic, would get divorce from her.
Somehow the little incident set one
thinking that there is no other boon life
can offer so precious as sympathy, or any
misfortune so deep and bitter as to be
linked by indissoluble ties to one who has
no understanding of your needs and
moods; who never knows when to sneak
ana when to- be silent; who has no COM
prehension of the times when to the up
lifted soul a word is a uesecrarion, or Of
the hours when, worn with the care and
fret OF life, a complaint or reproach is
like a blow from the hand we trusted.
In olden times the greatest cruelty that
ingenuity could devise was to bind a dead
body to living one-the pulsing heart
!; AGAINST the lumpish clay. the breathing
"a I'm rVvyIft h r1cn1
corpse, the seeing eyes gazing in horror in
to slghtless and souless orbs. We shud-
der only to recall such agony, yet how Of
ten do we see its prototype in life, where
two with no thought in common, no COM
prehension or sympathy of each others
natures, are bound together. Sometimes
it is a refined and sensitive woman tied
to brute of a husband, who tramples up,
on everything that is sacred and holy to
her. Sometimes it is a sordid souled WON
an, to whom her husbands fine sense of
honor is Thickness, his aspirations are
dreams. his interests are hobbies. Often
this lack of sympathy is between parents
and children, and it is the real reason
the family bonds are SO quickly broken.
the tie of blood is the weakest tie in the
world, and those who have no sympathy
IN common turn to those with whom they
have kinship of mind and heart as ineyi-
tably. as the needle seeks the pole. . 5.3.5s
This craving for sympathy, this desire
for comprehension, is universal need of
the human heart. The king in his palace
without It is as lonely, though surrounded
by sycophantic horde, as the solitary
shepherd feeding his hocks on some noun
tain side miles away from the sound Of
another voice. We DO not always find It.
and it is part of the pathos Of life that
we go our way, searching every face, If
perchance we may find in It what we seek.
Many Of us must be always disappointed
in our search, and then we know that no
matter what else fate has given us, that
answered to every need and throb of ours.
that understood our unuttered thought,
and whose sympathy was a diyination Of
every passing mood, we have missed the
very flower and perfume Of iife.-Boston
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