Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-12-08
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lradeship.
with this.spirft Of comradeshlp y
lis never my thought Of settling
question Of ..who is boss?" for ssucl
question never arises. When a pr
lem comes up before this home
preme court. they hive quiet ut
earnest session and If they do not f3e
the issue from the same point OF view.
by concession and compromise the one
who has thought most deeply on fhe
subject, who feels 1t most intentlyl Or
who Is most affected by 1t casts the
deciding vote.
COmradeship inspires tolerance and
throws little peculiarities into the
shadow; it ignores or obscures petty
faiiings as Of no real consequence; 1t
concentrates on the fine sterling quail
tiles and forgives and forgets the little
mortgages. Love oftimes is exacting;
In its intensity it may place undue I'M
portance on trifle and be seriously
disturbed at q flaw or failing that
seems a scar on noble character.
Comradeship helps love to a more hui
man view, saner, wiser charity IN
judging. A man says friend OF whom
he Is genuinely fond, The is bully
good fellow" and all the emphasis OF
his heart goes into the words anu
atones for the phrasing; he knows his
friends failings but loyalty mlntnes
their Importance, the eyes are
trained not to see. the lips keep ST.
lence.
In his bachelor days the husband
may have had some friend tried ano
true who was dear to him, whom ne
trusted as one good man does another
If the golden light Of some success OF
PROSPERITY threw a glow of radiance
across his pathway an involuntary
smile frightened his face as he thought
how pleased his friend would be to
hear it, how unselfish would be his
sympathy, how hearty would be his
| concentrations he could bank on his
friends happiness Just as certainly
and absolutely as If his own dear
mother were listening to the story ana
eager for every word Of detail.
If the hand Of sorrow pressed heav'
ily on his soul, and the night OF doubt
and fear settled down on his life, aEd
the ship of his great hope had sunk
when it was almost in port, and ne
faced failure and defeat, he knew one
who would be unchanged, whom ne
could count on to the very end. AND
when some problem affecting the well
fare of either had to be solved it was
the problem of both and they would
stay up half the night to settle 1t ike
a Jury locked out until they came TO
verdict and they put together their
wisdom just as they had often pooled
their meager funds when the exigen'
cies or need of the one became the
privilege and glad opportunity Of the
other
When this instructive impulse to
confidence is carried into married lire
and the heart and the lips and the out
stretched arms turn to the wife as
naturally as the magnetic needle f1nds
it's north, with the truest cOmradeshlp
made greater and finer by love, then
married life has no real problems that
the two, united and in unison, cannon
solve.
Comradeship holds the specter OF
monotony at bay. With two ever
bringing their best sweetly to each 9th
err, as a little child carries to its moth
er a wayside flower it has plucked, just
because 1t is most natural to bring II
to her, there is little fear that theii
days will be long or that they will hun
ger for change from each other Wher
they are finding this change in eacf
other and with each other. Whatever
tends to lessen their comradeship ant
. TO decrease their dependence on eacf
other is a menace to their happiness
One of the early temptations Of mar
ried life is to live with the old folks
It all sounds so alluring when 1t Il
proposed that "they can take the entire
!, third floor which is not really needed
nv the home company who are willing
|. TO donate it or sublet 1t to the younl
firm. The advantages are obvious, thu
, disadvantages are more subtle, but i
, is a hazardous experiment.
The opening words Of the world!
) greatest book are "In the beginning
, and they are the most important words
of married life; they open its chapters
of greatest JOY and keenest sorrows
, All its problems are most easily mas
tered "in the beginning;" wrongs ant
Injustice that may throw the dari
shadow of despair over the life OF on
; and perhaps even finally separate for
over the two who have loved may, IL
: a spirit of calmness, courage and wis
dom. be silenced forever Sin the be
ginning" If there have been mis-
, takes and blind laundering and folly
!, If the two, determine to start afresh, t
, begin all over again and wipe out tn
, | past, letting love, comradeship ant
!, trust be their watchwords they cal
; have new-beginning.
And what was true of that first mar
riage in the dim dawn of history, il
, that garden of Eden, is true of all mar
riages and will be till time shall en'
!, that their paradise is committed to tn
= absolute keeping of the two, and tina
they shall watch it and guard it AM
care for it and that only by their owl
wrong shall this paradise with all 1t
y lows. and it's peace and its sunshin
= ever pass from them.
: The First Headlight.
. The first headlight was Garfield nc