Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-22
Stranger at Our Side
BY ADA PATTERSON.

other" An author whose fame and
DOCKS are known to you and the world
and TO me said it. You and have
grown up together. We have known
each other for twenty years. And we
are good friends. close friends intimate
arc many things l don't know about
know"
and about YOU" answered
Tor brother for me half my life. Yet
! am not sure whom and what you like.
know only what you tell me-"
He ignored the imputation. That is
the reason for the loneliness OF souls"
he affirmed. Every soul knows the
when some one is close 10 his side It
may be the one who is nearest in his
NE Yet the feeling OF absolute alone
ness comes to torture him"
There liz much OF truth in that sn't
there. friend who reads thisp We come
into this world alone. unless we are
twins. even in which case. ! believe
there is an order OF precedence. | have
heard one OF pair Of twins boast 10
the other that she is twenty minutes
the Older. therefore entitled to defer
once from her junior. We go out OF the
world alone. Singly we join the
great procession CompanionIcss we
make our exit from the worlds stage.
The sense of this aloneness may be
the reason for the sadness in some
faces. Il sadness for which We can fur
mn no other reason. 1t is the reason
why some persons we have known seek
company OF the worse sort rather than
nave none. and yet IL is Il condition we
mus, face and facing. conquer
NO one ever appreciates nv work"
Complains an ambitious young man
who IL IN the early striving stage.
Maybe; but make II good. brother. and
quality Of difference IL an asset once
you convince folk that il is good You
may NEE; difficulty in convincing them
But first make IL as good as you can,
Slowly but surely you will.
voy,i am ,,r never po nnderstood iamen,s a
wholly understood. Every one is more
or less the stranger to that one who
walks beside him on the path of life.
est AND pIrses to our dear dear
means the same thing.
stimulating book tina, clears the murk.
vance Thompson wrote the little rcd
volume. He hears a brand new baby
roar in the lap OF its aged nurse in
IN" baby SO Interested him that he
allowed his incoming train to shrek
rs way into the hills without him.
These were the. thoughts the baby
prompted
'-Toothless and almost bald. but
fierce eyed and indomitabIe, it lay thcro
The porters and casual passengers
saw il In that bundle of lace and pink
flesh merely squalling brat, but
knew better. In him there was an ego
awake. The man inside that winglcss
lump Of flesh had been signaling TO
the outer world. He had differentiated
his individuality frnm the fuctuant
group soul of humanity. He was, at
that splendid moment. VIGOROUSLY
himself
My advice was. Roar. brother. and
atiirm your ego, and he did. He roarcd
and affirmed himself.
Ther. is nothing so absolutely fear
less as the new born man. Inside is
the valiant and vehement man who
does not know what fear is He knows
himself Why should he not he bold?
Frank and fearless he come into the
world screaming. i am L. and looks
round him for his welcome.
Now II is a melancholy, but indu-
bitablc fact. that in a few years-by
tho time he is short coated or anyway
by the time he is brcechcd-all this
fine, open courage is driven into con-
ccalmcnt
1t is a terrifying truth that nine
tcnths OF human felicity depends upon
being well born. BY this statement
do not mean that felicity depends upon
having been handled upon the knees OF
duchess. one is we'll born when he
energies INTO an environment where he