Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-06

easily nlong through life. They ~
everyone, and everyone ljkeg th1-.
ana Il all means nothing vhatnoe1.ss
You never really know them: 49,
likely for the reason that there p
nothing to know except what appdnro
upon the surface; and certainly thev
never have any especial or partjculs,
feeling with regard to anyone e.
They are perfectly happy in any com.
pany 50 long es there IL someone x
whom they can talk and chan ~
chatter They are merely nleaoans
Eight, selfish. superficial men ana -.
men.
There are other men and other -.
men, however. who have cerfsl,
psychometric quality aboue. 49,
v hich On the first place enables tfem
and. indeed. cOmpeIs them, to receive
d stinct and very intimate impresuiore
of all with whom they come into NJ.
sonal contact. They do not merely !.
1t were recognize your face when thev
meet you. but they recognize and ~,
as well your mood. It affects ther.
somewhat as 1t does you. because
they have the sympathetic temper..
ment which takes It's color partly from
Its surroundings. Your happine.p
then. becomes partly theirs; thew
half unconscjously share IN your
anxiety. your sorrow. your depression
|-iueverything. in fact, that belooes IA
you. In like manner they can coe1no1j
you to feel with them: and the reSr6a7
while it il often hardly reconntsea
the time. ID to make you aware. fiest
all. that you have been inter
most Intensely. that you havss
out, without intending II, DoIpe7 -
almost too intimate and 70 Hucis -
own to be 50 given, and mt youz IL
received in turn q myriad HIRE ~
revelations and Impressions ana - 81
tions that are no less powerful beca1
they battle all description Of ano1yz
Those who possess this kind OF hnfnfe ]
who look. az II were, into yOliF 8or4
mind and heart and soul, ara No
whom you share this stranee Sn
subtle sort of sympathy, are the
whose friendship means the moot 49,
cause II is a friendship that e nat
lightly given and because It estab-
fishes companionship In which -.
ternals play but little part.
II Is just these friendships, hevever ~
truest and the best Of all-4kAt can6f
panionsh!p. Just because one kapoe.iS ~
FnOw the power of giving out 10 much a
feeling so intensely. Of being for the DE-
SO very much to those for whom Re caros
precisely for this reason will he need A.
times to draw into himself, to 20 tWay. %
be alone. to rest. 1t II not precisely phyS-
ical exhaustion which comes upon him Il
is something much more difficult 10 e.
il rather weary OF the exaltation that has
reached the limit OF his psychical capac1.
ty. Hence 1t is that even friends Whv
know each other through and throueh.
lightest mood. ought still to shun NE
that will bind them fast together IN al
their pleasures and their other occnpa-
are friends in this way. II they have thstr
bachelor apartments just across the han
from one another they xill-be friends III
common, SO that neither can be absoiuts- :
ly certain OF being quite alone when he
desires. thep their friendship win =
strong indeed. II it can last cut the ycaf.
There is physical fatigue which man
feels after a hard days work. and which
is smoothed away if he can put ON -
old smoking jacket and a pair Of sKnpds
in a cavernous chair and put his feet Il
on the table. So, also, there is s0methQ5
like a mental and psychic lassitude WIZ
represents an inevitable reaction from -
strain and tension of a perfect intim40,
and the strain and the tension are an ~ Z
sreater when that intimacy has been ~
cinatiIig and supreme. The mood - ~
action cries out for solitude. Al -
less this solitude can be Obtaine4 lhGe
supervenes "a feeling which will hn1 e
traneous expression In irritability 0lten-
per and in nervous fretfulness.
This necessity Is far too seldom recoor
nized, and when recognized II is iaf To-
often misinferpreted. When the moment
comes at which the need of solitude an
separa lion comes TO any man and he re-
spends to it, the friend for whom his very
fondness has brought about the need VIM
often feel extremely hurt and VIII Quee-
ton him and badger him. and with unsee-
ing sympathy. and will insist more tnnn
ever on being with him and upon making
demonstra tons over what appears to Be
the eccentricity or the unkindness q
mood 1t Is at such times as this and un-
der the influence of such absolutely mad
dening affection that friendships frequen!.
~ break down. Yet the meaning OF
m~ty tnat everyone who has to some eA-
tend blended his individuality IN an0tn-
ers must tor the moment get - oacA
again. so that 1t can be all his own 0nce
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