Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-21

NO one is so dCCuISSQ ny AdAOb
No one so utterly desolate,
But some heart, though unknown
Responds unto his own.
There are thousands of women, the
world over, who make the pastimes OF
their lives the hours they spend chum-
ming with some intimate women
friends. No matter how many pleas
ures classes Of bright women have,
where they go to be benefited by
changes, what new faces they see,
they long for the influence of some
particular bosom companion from
whom they have parted, Wives, as
we'll as young women, often show an
overfondness for some one of their
own sex in whom they can confide
solemn secrets, counsel, and, when
returning home, act like a different
person, from suggestions; righting
their wrongs and stamping foot re-
belliously regarding an imagined
grievance.
The soft-hearted woman's friend of
a year or so ago may have left her
prey to fears of having her best laid
plans circulated in the ears of those
she was scarcely acquainted with. She
remembers, after the days of tears and
VOWS, never to trust her cOnfidings to
another woman, having learned that
she who retails falseness and adroitly
turns the head of her tOO-trusting
visitor, will never remain for long
time true to that woman. She tires OF
her coming, and of different unfold
ings, and wishes she would cast aside
that unwelcome presence as a bauble
of little worth.
How can any female who has kept
up such wOmen's friendships befool
herself into the hope that it would not
terminate for years disastrously to
her? Despite all the promises never
to divulge a word of the others heart
woes, the news is carried of we'll
studied falsehoods, of companions who
tired of and Tilted this bosom friend.
What folly to waste ones years in
just the ending of a few juicy bits OF
scandal. That's what the banding to-
gether of women who cajole their
hapless sisters and break up by artful
influence welded families and rend
home ties asunder does.
The young girl who is inclined to
wish that she had a sister companion
more pleasing in company and OF
iollier disposition when out among de-
sirable comrades than she has. feels
the need of cultivating a companion
who is bright, attractive and can draw
congenial young people together. She
does not mean to be governed by her
ways and have no opinion of her own.
She grows interested through con-
slant listening to her superior wisdom
and brilliancy. The set in which she
frequents praises her and she leads
the list of invitations. With deep
drawn sigh her girl chum is sure she
could hardly exist without her. She
strains a point to keep in with her by
making her birthday and holiday gifts.
often going without necessities to pay
for them. If she hints she would give
anything if she could only afford to
see some high-priced entertainment
that is coming, shaking her head dole
fully, before the week is out, letter
with a ticket inclosed is sent her by
her slave-chum.
l can tell of many privations which
some girls subject themselves to for
the sweet sake of dear young woman
companion whom they cannot control
overliking. Now and then we hear
from wagging tongues of their losing
appetites for their meals, until slim
ulant has been INDUCED in before they
get up in the morning. What change
it makes for girls when they cannot
help liking beyond control, all good, or
Indifferent, which their bosom women
friends inspire in them. When these
women fall out, the willy spider has
woven its fatal web around the once
bright butterfly, and it is all that can
be done to get out of the ENHANCEMENT
unhurt More than one girl wanderer
realizes this in the passing of the
home thereby.