Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-18
DIFFERENT FRIENDS.
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer.

I(f-RIENDsHIP," said the woman in
the blue hat, as she dropped
! another lump Of sugar in hel
tea, sis not only one Of the most beau
tifui and lovely things in life, it is also
one Of the most curious phenomena OIL
nature. Life without friends would
be unbearable, yet they frequently
make existence insupportable. They
are at once our support and our bur
den, and there are times when don
know which ] envy most, the friend
less or the popular"
"The worst thing about our friends
Is that they won't get along together
They hate each other at sight" said
the woman in taupe. Its easier to
make the lion and the lamb lie down
together In peace than it is to get
your friends to sit down together to
dinner table without scrapping."
That's right" assented the woman
in green. T spend my life being a
hind of human buffer between my
friends, trying to keep Mary from in
sulting Julia, and Julia from clawing
Mary, and Sally off of Fannie's toes,
and Fannie from running rough shoo
all over Sally's pet prejudices and
hobbies. Yet Julia and Mary and
Sally, and Fannie are all perfectly
good and lovely ladies, and why they
can't harmonic beats me-"
aOh,R exclaimed the woman in the
blue hat, that's easy. ] think that the
reason that our friends dislike each
other IL because we have chosen each
OF them for some different quality.
Each one IL q different note OF the
human scale, 90 to speak, and we can
make music out OF the combination,
but when they are brought together
they simply clash and make a discord
ike Kilkenny cat fight.
"For instance, I've got dozen DIFF
ferent friends, with each one Of whom
rye got something In common, and /
seek the society Of each particular
friend when / want the particular
hing that she gives me. There's Ma
ria who Is intellectual and highbrowed,
who has read and, studied, and who
discourses about transcendental philo-
eophy and the inner meaning OF
Browning and the symbolism of Ibsen.
Ike TO SIT at Maria,s feet and i'm
bibe wisdom and probe with her into
the depths Of things.
and there's Violet who hasn't got
an idea IN her head beyond the tango
and the latest thing In flealish fash
ion. She never read anything deeper
than q Robert Chambers novel In
her life, and all that she gets out
Of them Is that the heroine. was Just
9 ssweety and the hero q sswcn fel-
ler.n Now enjoy violet's society just
because she = nothing but butterfly
who doesn't understand and isn't trou-
bled by any of the great problems Of
life that tear the soul Of thinkers like
Maria. But can understand why Ma
ria and Violet don't have hilarious
time when / invite them to meet
each other at lunch at my home.
And there's Eliza, who has been
torn and buffeted and bruised by the
world, who has fought and struggled
and suffered, who has been through
experiences that cruelty, and who has
come out Of It all with q bitter and
cynical knowledge Of life. / love her
and enjoy her talk that bites like
acid. But / also love Harriet, who
has always lived In q satin lined jewel
box, and who has never been through
any ordeal more trying than changing
Z.