Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-02-01
OLD FRIENDS
VERSUS new ONES

We all love the friend who remains
true to us-who takes us as we are. re-
gardless of fortunes changes: yss
friends like these are very rare. and the
fortunate girl who can boast OF such Is
indeed truly favored.
However We all know girls-and WON
en-. too-who enjoy the hospitality OF
good friends. yet will criticise these
sterling souls as soon as their backs are
turned; and we know persons who will e..
even further-who will belittle the
homes, and. yes. the very tables TO which
they were invited. The dictionary does
not contain words strong enough TO CON
denim girl or woman OF this type. AMI
| If later on some one ridicules her home
and the food served at her table she will
be receiving only her Just dues
Another type of false friend is she who
forgets the kind offices of some one who
helped her to get start in the business
world. If person is aided and assisted
at a time when his or her bread and but
ter are at stake, the good friend who
came forward and smoothed the way of
the dependent one, should never be for.
gotten. But he or she is forgotten III
nine cases out of 10.
The girl who will turn aside from per
| haps humble friendship to new fash
ionable' ones will get a worth while
| surprise at a very early stage In the pro
| ceedings. When she finds that the new
friends are not anything like the oil
ones: when they. too, prove false dike
HERSELF, she will try very hard to ger
back into the good graces of those who
were sterling through and through.
Sometimes she is taken back, but wounds
leave scars. and the person who has been
deeply hurt by an ungrateful friend has
never the same confidence in her again
She will be good to her. and kind To her
and help her in any way ihe can, but she
does not believe in her. and IL we cannot
believe in person we are never happy
in his or her comapny.
Let us be true to our good friends. and
even though we do get little higher on
the social or financial ladder let II not
turn our heads. The fact that such and
such a girl cannot keep up" like others
of our smarter friends should not con
Germ us. One good honest heart can
bring more happiness to the right think
ing girl or woman than all the smart
sets in the world. There isn't much
friendship Of the bona iide sort In many
of the "smartest' sets. Indeed. the old
woman who sells apples at the corner
who knows us from seeing us go by-who
takes us into her confidence and tells Us
her little lfe's story with its mingled
sunshine and shadow. has more real feel
ing for us and would prove truer friend
to us than 30 per cent. of the ultra fash
ionable persons many girls and women
are anxious to call friends.
Hold fast to those good souls who have
proved true to you. Should reverse-
come to them. we will. II we're made or
the right stuff. be drawn all the closer
to them; we will try to share their bur
den whatever it may be; will endeavor
TO cheer them up and thus demonstrate.
by our kindly interest in them. that we
are. in every sense. friend.
New. fashionable acquaintance NAV
fascinate us for awhile, but somehow
we do not find them what we fondly
hoped Their world is entirely different
from ours-we are rot OF their world AMI
they are not of ours.
True friends are few and far between
and only very weak minded girl or
! woman will let dress position" sever
a friendship worthy OF TIE name