Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1918-01-03

then pOking round a big field to
find it, but if golf gives him any real
pleasure she is glad, and is interest
ed and wants to understand. Politics
may seem to her just like something
we pay officeholders to manage, but
if he sees anything in it she is pie
.ased to give him chance to let her
in on the puzzle.
Her talk about her friends, her
clothes, her reading and the hum
dred trifles of gossip and comment
that may appeal to her he hears with
genuine interest, not with that con-
descending tolerance that some fool
ish people, unconscious of how
much they might learn, employ in
listening to some little toddler who
wants to talk. He has always rather
shifted at wemon's clubs but when
she joins one, and is scheduled to
write paper he is pleased to talk
it over and dig up some gems of ma
terial from the mine of his 4nascu-
line wisdom, just to help out. They
criticise some book eshe has been
reading as she tells him the story
or perhaps she has read it aloud to
him after dinner, and though she
may thing the hero a demigod and
she calls him a pompous prig and
they grow bit enthusiastic and fin
ally laugh at each others view, their
non-agreement really does not mack
the least difference, you know-for
this is just conradeship.
With this spirit there is never any
thought of settling the question of
"who is boss?" for such question
never arises. When problem
comes up before this home supreme
court, they have a quiet little earn
est 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 in
tently or who is most affected by ii
casts the deciding vote.
Comradeship inspires tolerance
and throws little peculiarities into
the shadows; it ignofes or obscures
petty failings as of no real conse-
luence; it concentrates on the fine
sterling qualities. and forgives and
sorgets the little petty mortgages.
Love oftentimes is exacting; in its
intensity it may place undue i'm
portance on trifle and be seriously
disturbed at a flaw or failing that
seems a scar on a noble character.
Comradeship helps love to a more
human view, saner, wiser charity
in Judging, A man says a friend of
whom he is genuinely fond, che is
bully good fellow and all the en-
phasis of his heart goes into the
words and atones for the phrasing;
he knows his friends failings but
loyalty minifies their Importance,
the eyes are trained not to see, the
lips keep silent.
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 an.
other. If the golden light of pros
perity or success threw glow of
radiance across his pathway an in
voluntary 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 congratulations; he
could bank on his friends happiness
just as certainly and basolutely as if
his own dear mother were listening
to the story, eager for every word
of detail.
If the hand of sorrow pressed he.
avily on his soul, and the night of
doubt and fear settled down on his
life, and 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 af-
fecting the welfare of either had to
be settled it was the problem of both
and they would stay up half the
night to settle it like a jury locked
out until they came to a verdict and
they put together their wisdom just
as they often pooled their meager
funds when the exigencies of need
Of the one became the privilege and
glad opportunity of the other.
When this instructive impulse tc
confidence is carried into married
life and the heart and the lips and
the outstretched arms turn to the
wife as naturally, as the magnetic
needle finds its north, with the tru-
est comradeship made greater and
finer by love, then married life has
no real problems that the two, unit
al