The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

With this spirit of comradeship there Is never any thought of settling the question of "who Is hoss?" for such question never arises. When prob lem comes up before this home SUI preme court, they have quiet little earnest session and if they do not see the issue from the same point of view, by concession and compromise the one who has thought most deeply on the subject. who feels it most intently or who is most affected by it casts the deciding vote.
 COmradeship inspires tolerance and throws little peeuharities into the shadow; 1t ignores or obScures petty failings as of no real consequence; 1t concentrates on the fine sterling qual- lties and forgives and forgets the little mortgages. Love oftImes Is exacting; in its intensity 1t may place undue im- portance on trifle and be seriously disturbed at a flaw or failing that seems a scar on q noble character. Comradeship helps love to q more hu- man view, saner. wiser charity in J0NEAAS. A iiitliA says u AliiAi'i OI Nlipth he Is genuinely fond. he Is a bully good fellow" and all the emphasis of his heart goes into the words and atones for the phraslng; he knows his friends failings but loyalty minifies their importance. the eyes are trained not to see. the lips keep si- fence.
 In his bachelor days the husband may have had some friend tried and true who was dear to him. whom he trusted as one good man does another. If the golden light of some success or prosperity threw glow of radiance across his pathway an involuntary smile frightened his face as he thought how pleased his friend would be to hear 1t. how unsefish would be his sympathy, how hearty would be his congratulations he could bank on his friends happiness just as certainly and absolutely as If his own dear mother were listening to the story and eager for every word of detail.
 If the hand of sorrow pressed heav- fly on his soul and the night of doubt and fear settled down on his life, ard the ship of his great hope had sunk when it was almost in port, and he faced failure and defeat, he knew one who would be unchanged. whom he could count on to the very end. And when some problem affecting the wei- fare of either had to be solved 1t was the problem of both and they would stay up half tfse night to settle 1t like jury locked out until they came to n 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 instinctive impulse to confidence Is carried into married life and the heart and the lips and the out stretched arms turn to the wife as naturally as the magnetic needle finds it's north, with the truest comradeship made greater and finer by love, then married life has no real problems that the two, united and in unison, cannot solve.
 Comradeship holds the specter of monotony at bay. With two ever bringing their best sweetly to each oth- CT, as a little child carries to its moth CT wayside flower it has plucked, just because it is most natural to bring if to her, there Is little fear that their days will be long or that they will hun ger for change from each other when they are finding this change in each other and with each other. Whatever tends to lessen their eomradeship and to decrease their dependence on each other Is 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 it is proposed that they can take the entire third floor which is not really needed" by the home company who are willing to donate 1t or sublet it to the young firm. The advantages are obvious, the disadvantages are more subtle, but it is a hazardous experiment.
 The opening words of the worlds 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 and injustice that may throw the dark shadow of despair over the life of one and perhaps even finally separate for ever the two who have loved may. In a spirit of calmness. courage and wis dom. be silenced forever "in the be- ginning" If there have been mis- takes and blind blundering and folly, if the two determine to start afresh, to begin all over again and wipe out the past, letting love, comradeship and trust be their watchwords they can have a new-beginning.
 And what was true of that first mar riage in the dim dawn of history. in that garden of Eden, Is true of all mar riages and will be till time shall end that their paradise is committed to the absolute keeping of the two, and that they shall watch it and guard 1t and care for 1t and that only by their own wrong shall this paradise with ell its joys, and its peace and its sunshine ever pass from them.