The Washington herald., 1910-02-27

thing and is calculated to make life more
enjoyable to man or woman. But think
lin choosing comrade care should be ex-
lereised that We choose one that In every
way will be an uplift TO us and not some
lone that Will drag us down. We should
be sure of his moral standard; then we
can enjoy to the fun the comyanionship
lsuch a one can afford US.
So often we sec young men and women
associating with those whom we know
viii prove a detriment TO them and who
viii sooner or later bring them to grief.
Such state of affairs is indeed very sad
and very much to be deplored. When we
find that we have made a mistake in this
line. we should try. by our example and
admOnitiOn, 10 restore such q one but
after repeated efforts we find that we
/ cannot do this. sc should simply drol
/ them, for we are sure to be judged 10y
tie company We keep. / had much
ather remain at home an indefinite
period and really suffer lonesomeness
/ than 10 associate with person that
knew was not living a pure life.
1t is to he greatly deplored that in
America, as nowhere else. this spirit of
comradeship is carried to extremes. for
/ it seems we fail in more readily with any
one that comes along. We are not a con-
servative people. That is why the youth
of our country are more prone 10 fan into
| dire temptation. Oh, how careful we
| should be of whom our boys and girls
seek 10 have for associates Study them,
inquire into their habits. II you are con-
WINGED that they have chosen correctly.
you can invite them to your house and
encourage their intimacy.
Mrs. J. ELIZABETH HAWKINS.
nl6 Bedford avenue. Lynchbug, Va.
I love to see comradeship in the home
sweet eompanonship between father,
mother. and the children. If the even
ings were devoted TO talks on books,
plays. music. nature. art pictures. and
the larger affairs of the world. what
difference it would make in the training
of parents and in the education of the
children. II father would take time 10
develop eomradeship with the boys and
mother with the girls, sharing with the
children their fullest knowledge and
their best thoughts, Such talks are
liberal education and remembered years
after by young and old with pleasure.
Compani0nship furnishes the best at
mosphere for companlonship Children
who have grown up in homes In which
the talk ran on large lines and touched
all the great interests of life will agree
that nothing gave them greater pleasure
or more genuine education. There are
homes in which the very atmosphere
makes for wide knowledge OF life, for
generous aims. for citizenship in the
world as well as In the locality In which
the home stands"
Mrs F. l. BARRINGER
We shall be fortunate indeed II in this
stirring business Of life. we can count
ourselves possessed OF half a dozen
friends. with all that that beautiful name
implies: bat Of comrades we should have
a host For surely those who walk on
our right hand and on our left hand
along iife's highway are our Eomrades,
and II is our duty, as it should be our
pleasure, TO prove our comradeshlp by
words Of cheer and deeds Of heIpfulness.
In body Of soldiers much depends upon
the esprit de corps. that spirit of mutual
interdependence which governs the ae-
tons Of each individual unit OF the regf-
ment from the latest recruit to the col
onel. So should We feel that we are link
ed in bonds Of comradeship with the
ranks Of orr fellows who. along some
what different paths perhaps. pursue with
us a common destiny
ARTHUR W BEER.
Seventeenth ard Hamlin streets northeast
Much Of the happiness and purity of
our lives depends upon our making a
wise choice Of our comrades and friends.
Many people seem to trust in this matter
10 accident. II is well and right indeed.
10 be courteous and considerable to every
one with whom one is thrown into con
tact, but to choose them as real friends
Is another matter. Some seem to make a
man a friend because he is in the same
business, travels on the same line Of rail-
way. or for some other trivial reason.
There cannot be a greater mistake. These
are only, in the words of PIutarch, the
idols and images of friendship. If our
friends are badly chosen they WIN inevi-
tably drag up down; if well, they will
raise us up.-Lubboch H. SHAW.
rs North Carolina avenue.
I think Il Is expedient to have an ac-
quaintance with those who have looked
into the world. who know men. UNDER
stand business. and can give US good in
teiligence and good advise when we need
them. and as George Washington ex-
pressed himself in the following words.
THAT the company in which you viii
improve most viii be least expensive to
you seems to prove the fact why the
0ptimist Club is increasing in member
ship 50 rapidly.
Miss RosALIE B. McGRATH.
Jlt ii street southeast
The DAD Of life is hard enough,
Bestrewn with snag and thorn.
l would not mock the simplest Joy
That made it less forIorn.
But ill It's evening path with flowers
As fresh as those of morn
Charles Mackay.
Mrs. NJ A. McGRATH.
$40 Second street southeast
The ideal comradeship is that which |
exists, or should exist, between every
good mother and her children. It is ex-
emphfied in the little tot who runs to |
mother with a bruised finger to be kissed |
or wounded spirit to be soothed; in |
he growing boy or girl who can go with |
perfect confidence to their only true com |
'ade and pour into her willing ears all |
heir doubts and childish questionings.