The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-28
Cementine Friendships
BY ADA PATTERSON.

THERE sailed for a three months
- jaunt through Europe last week
a woman who Will be missed from the
big circle of her friends more than
any other woman ! know, She Is
beautiful woman. a clever one and
amiable, but not for any OF these rea-
sons Will she be SO greatly missed.
Other women who are beautiful and
clever and amiable might go abroad
for three months leaving no painful
void. The woman Of whom ] write has
rare talent, that OF cementing
friendships.
She lives In a midcontinent city,
and famous herself, knows hun
dreds OF famed folk In the United
states and Europe, But she knows
humble persons. too. and / have sus-
pected that they are nearer her heart
than the others. Certainly she is In
the very core of theirs. Her motto is,
Those whom | love must love each
other and most faithfully she fol-
lows It.
In the busy life which means al
ways the crowded mind some Of her
friends are prone TO forget some OF
the others The New York writer
whom she has included In the vast
is likely to allow the Image OF the
Los Angeles portrait painter who is
one OF the cementers proteges to
grow dim In her somewhat strained
y
SO many people. and the person who
is present obscures the distant one.
But quite surely. the cementer says,
or writes; Laura has just done
portrait OF Gertrude Granger's little
girl, an exquisite one. I'm sure Lol-
lie would be glad TO have d line of
congratulation from you" In one
OF her precious half-page notes, for
there are too many demands upon her
hours TO permit her to write long ones,
4 tn
ly? l wonder II she Is quite well,
She has grieved dreadfully since her
mother died. ] fear She Is lonely,
or course. II you receive such a let
ter YOU lay down your pen or your
brush or your sewing. or your broom.
as the case may be, to call on Alice.
be IL IL In the morning or at night.
II some one Is fading from your mem
ory. or IL some ones interests are
being crowded out OF your memory
by some ones else. the friendship
cemcnter in her gently firm way gives
your memory "A Jog that renews the
paint upon the fading picture or
iostles the persons back into their
relative places in your interest,
She arranges theater parties or
luncheons that might be called re-
newal affairs. where the waning ac-
auaintauce is famed back into active
interest. Or II thousands OF miles In
tervene to prevent these she talks
to one friend of the others.
when I like people ] like 10 talk
about them" she says. and what she
says OF the absent ones Is a distant
benediction.
She builds and builds. welding With
the cement Of her beautiful thoughts
and thoughtful affection until there
has risen structure. sturdy. high
and strong composed OF her friend
ships, n structure which she has made
a general friendship association, II
any OF these friends become jealous
OF each other she shames the base
sentiment out Of being. Every one
OF her friends knows she loves them
according 10, and more than, their
deserts, and 10 them she communi-
catos that fine interest I'm each other
which she has for them all.
Out OF detached. scattered bricks
she has builded house OF friendship.
Some OF the bricks OF individuality
are cracked by serious faults. but she
makes them whole by the cement OF
her wise counsel and watchfulnoss.
We who are builded, all unworthily,
into the structure revere the builder,
And because there Is something di-
vine in the beauty OF her soul and
work we have named her Santa Clara