Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-20

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She was going away from the city to
make her home in another place. Her
friends We're at the train to see her OF. y
OF course they We're crying between
their laughs, for she was going far
away and it was probable that her.
friends would not see her for long
time. One who had been her dearest
companion was almost inconsolable and
amid her tears was heard to say that
she disliked to have her go away for.
fear she would cease TO care for her.
She was Very young or she would have
known that friendship Is not q matter
of propinquinity and that If it were 1t
Mould not be worth having. There are
those. however, who are older far than
she Who do not seem to know what
friendship really is. They would have
us believe that 1t, like everything else
in the world, may grow old and even
die. But those of us who have known.
What it is to have a friend or have
known wha. is still better, how to be a
friend know that what they would
have us believe is not true. Poverty
may come and take away the golden
coin and the beautiful gem but poverty
has no power to take away the golden
charm of faithful love nor the invalu-
able gem of a trusting companionship.
Sorrow may come and wound the.
hearts. but sympathy always walks
hand in hand with sorrow, and she
draws the two hearts closer and closer
until when they have healed 1t is found
they have been welded yet closer to-
gether. Separation and death may
come. but Of them there is no need to
have fear. for love and life are stronger
than death and distance and
Thine teaches patience at bitter cost.
For all the new loves which the years
may bring us
Fill rot the heart place, aching for the
1t is only friendship that has stood the
test that is at all worth while to the
one who has time only for the actual
things of life. II may he that in some
way which we ourselves can scarcely
tell we may lose from our life what we
was a friendship. but II il
We're not strenuous enough to bear and
to do without, 1T was not worthy the
name, and grieve tho we may for u time
over a misplaced affection, we know II
Was just as we'll that we learned when
we did that what We had believed to.
have lived and been strong had never
really existed at all.
1t was ri one of the large rece ptions
jS1 ivrop W., "A ga .
seen to take the mint passed after the
other refreshments aud place it care
fully in hei. card case Noticing n glance
which VAS not intended 10 be curious,
but which probably Was. she said. No.
ii is not q relic OF my boarding school
days ,hat makes me always carry some
thing away from every party that l at
tend. but there is a little girl at home
whose first query Will be what did you
bring meo and Lean, bear to Gisap-
point her. Sometimes 4 feel too SHY to
smEggle anything and then ! have to
stop al the candy store on the way
home. but that rather hurts my consci-
.ence. for always Imagine that the little
eyes can de tect the deception and il
isn't he bon bon that she values half
50 much as the fact that ii came from
a reception. I can syinpathize With her.
too, for i expected my mother to bring
me something from every party she
Went To, and az che never failed / al
Mays enjoyed the social festivities as
much as she. The thought came that
perhaps those who are dayotingi so much
time TO Il he development of the mind
and character of the child might depre-
cate such habit on the part of the
mother az likely to spoil the child. But
Whatever the experts may say,5that lit
lie mother looked Very sweet as she
walked out Of that dining room with a
bon-bon for the little girl All home. Love
and thought are no, apt To ruin any one,
and that little girl has muchof both.
The presence in the city Of number
LOT guests and the royal times which
have been accorded them. show at the
same time what a pleasing thing is hos
pitalitE.and how Marshalltown abounds
init. II is for just such reasons that
men and women dislike tc
Leave their homes and move to the cities
That there are advantages TO be gained
from life in the city can not be denied
I but4sNerythins has it's price. and il hap
lpenssonce in IA While that we do not fee
VIC can afford the price. Among the
iathings which must be3relinquished wher
isthe home in a little city is given up /:
| the general acquaintance with al
around. which 10 those of a social ma.
Etnre il very dear. There liz no sucf
thing az absolute Independence. and Ii,
1 who thinks he possesses 1t but delude.
himself. The crowded streets. with TIL,
/ ever changing and ever strange facel
imay be fascinating for time. but tn,
idesire TO see some one whom one knows
and with whom a pleasant chat may b.
Il had grows on one until the other thinY
Hose their value and all that one want
iis 10 go back 70 the old home and b.
Iamong old friends again. Riley tells o
4 the man who had made wealth and gon
70 the city who wanted TO go bacl
i where we USED To be SO happy and s,
i poor, and there are many who5desire Il
have a broader field" who would n
4 doubt understand how that old man fel
when they had been away from Mar
shalltoWn Just long enough to be tire,
of the Mhirr and blare Of the city. 1t i
Ia good thing when one learns in tim
althat there's no place like home"
Not Quite Rendy.