Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 13, 1912, Page 2

~AGE TWO BED “How nice to meet you, Martha | Shaw!” exclaimed the little woman with her hat awry as she sank into ‘the vacant seat on the elevated train | beside a serene faced young woman. Post‘ “I suppose you also are bound on that nd hecessary errand. Don't you abso- tely dread Christmas shopping?” “Not in the least, you funny Josie | Graham,” Mrs. Shaw answered with {a superlor air, “I don’t believe in rushing madly around at the eleventh | hour to select gifts that invariably | prove unsuitable and oftentimes are | unappreciated. I'm giving only to my ' Sunday school class and the children New line Beds in two-inch Verni Martin, Oxodized, a 1 Near Brass Finisles from $2.75 ™ and up. ! SPRING THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA.,, FEBRUARY 13, 1912, counter matching a cord to a pillow | top that T know is for me; I have always openly admired hers, I think I'll give Jenny and Jack a plece of cut | glass; they are starting housekeep- | the more unselfish, may be shown ing, you know.” { when our friend does not appear to “Haven't your Christmas plans be-'peed ys, when he can give to us rath- come a little disarranged, my dear?’ | op than we to him, It is not always Mrs, Graham asked, unkindly. more blessed to give than to receive; “No, indeed,” Mrs. Shaw returned | gometimes the position is reversed. quickly, giving her hat a push which | Begides which there are more ways of landed it over the left eye instead of giving than one, and the prosperous the right. She held out her hand en- | griond may really be in sore want of cased in a sofled white kid glove for | our sympathy, our tender affection and her package and added with dignity, | counsel; he may also long for our ac- “I am simply elaborating on mY | ceptance of that which it will be a plans. joy to him to expend upon us. To | give nobly is a very fine thing; it is an equally fine thing to accept nobly. It is easy to be true to our friend when he is in trouble, when he is down, when others fly from him, when others despise and neglect him, The response to such a call is one of friendship’s deepest joys, But in times when we can do nothing for him, when he makes no claim upon us, when he is in the sunshine and all cling to us; it is merely a perversion ’ of our better natures. The good things in us may so easily be wrongly em- ployed. The true friendship, because and touches the h.gpr. thinking of purcha.; . come in and listen to sounds of our pianos, | for themselves, V. 1., say a word. Tests of Friendship ki RO b | S | = i W | e Clgttants F 37 & (%2 46 y | s | Our line of Springs are cul'l'cc“ and prices right. From SL.75 and up. ! ROCKER | Rockers in Oak, Reed, Rattan and Misslon at prices to suit. Cash or Instaiment. Your Credit Is Good With Us. LAKELAND FURNITURE & HARDWARE CO. S. L. A. CLONTS DEALER Real Estate CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS, IN ' my plan,” Mrs. Shaw sald. in the family. For the girls I have made dainty little fancy things dur- ing the summer; for the children I bought books away back in Septem- ber. Today I'm going downtown to lunch with a dear friend.” “Fortunate creature!” Mrs. Graham sighed, enviously, another wrinkle appearing in her forehead as she opened her bag, drew forth a list and hurriedly added another line of cramped writing. “I've just remem- bered that I must get something for the little girl next door. Last year her mother sent the baby a book, and, of course, she'll expect some- thing for Betty this year.” “Don’t you think that is a wrong conception of the Christmas spirit, giving because one gets?” Mrs, Shaw asked. “I never will be a party to such a mercenary arrangement.” “It doesn't seem quite right, but I hate to hurt any one's feelings by seeming to slight her,” Mrs. Graham replied, looking out of the window anxiously, “Mercy! How this train crawls, I know I won't have time to buy half the things on my list.” “I wish I could persuade you to try “Outside the children and the Sunday school class not a single soul will receive anything from me but a card express. ing a Christmas sentiment. You know, that is the custom abroad, and it is a very convenient and pretty one.” “But I'd feel awfully embarrassed on receiving gifts, especially if they happened to be things I really want. ed, knowing that I had sent the donor | merely a trifiing card,” Mrs. Graham demurred. “Wouldn't you feel embar- rassed under similar circumstances?” “Not in the least,” Mrs., Shaw an: swered, placidly. Mrs. Graham looked dublous as she removed a needle from the front of her shirt waist and picked a strand of red silk thread from her skirt. “It ! one could only make up one's irind to begin one's Christmas work early in the year!” she mused. “Some of my friends did and— That reminds me; can you keep a secret? I can't, I'm afrald. When we were at the lake last summer Mrs. Kemper knit you the most exquisite pale pink porch shawl for a Christmas gift.” “How sweet of her!” Mrs. Shaw ex: claimed delightedly. “And pink, too! She knows that pink is my favorite color.” A thoughtful look came into her eyes. At the next stop the two arose and left the car together, parting when they reached the sidewalk. Late in the afternoon when Mrs, Graham paused beside a handkerchief ' counter she bumped elbows with Mrs, Office in Clonts' Building. NEW MARKET MEAT MARKET AND GROCERY STORE. Good Meats, Fresh Groceries, prompt service, reasonable prices. Call or phone J. ). Thompson & Som 809 North Florida Ave; 'Phone 287 Black. VPO VO SMITH & STEITZ Real Estate of All Kinds Rooms 19-23 Raymondo Building * The Owner’s Price is Our Price Shaw, who was frantically inspecting the contents of various boxes. Her calm appearance of the morning had vanished and she was disheveled and wild eyed. “If it isn't the lucklest thlng to meet you now!” Mrs, Shaw exclaimed. | “Do you think Mrs. Kemper would like a lace handkerchief for a gift? I've racked my brains and I can't think of another thing. There, that's my bundle that dropped—all these are mine. I must have them made fnto one. You never know when you'll get things if you have them sent at this busy season. “But I thought——" began Mrs. Graham wonderingly, “Something fine and exquisite, of course,” Mrs. Shaw sald. “She has taken so many love-stitches for me in the pink shawl. By the way, I had a delightful visit today with my friend. She brought me an exquisite center- plece, her own handiwork. [I've just bought her a dainty short silk ki- mono. I met Mrs. Horton after I left you; she said that Fanny had made ! me the sweetest little Irish crochet Jabot; I just love them. I got Fanny a belt buckle—young girls Jove pretty ings. “I think this is the prettiest hand- kerchief. It is the last thing P'm go- ing to buy today. I'm completely worn out, aren’t you? I'm going to run down again tomorrow and buy the other gifts. I caught a glimpse of my S040$0404040M0H0I0E0I0S000 rother Jack's wife at the fancy work of There is a general idea that friend- ship is chiefly tested by adversity, that it is easy to retain our friends when things go well with us, but that they are likely to be driven off by our trou- bles, This is8 such an obvious and cheap cynicism, it has been expressed In s0 many tongues, has so often been crystallized into proverbs or fables the world over, that it hardly seems worth repeating. But one notable thing is usually overlooked--that it does not apply to friendship at all, It applies only to imitations of friendship. 1t is the very nature of true friend- ship to thrive best in an atmosphere of trouble. Assuming that we are sin- cere, we all know that we are never drawn so closely to a friend as when he is in difficulties and needs us, It is easy to be his friend then, because |- that is just the condition that friend- ship loves; it is far more difficult to be his friend when he is prosperous and seems to Lave no need of us, It may seem that this friendship in adversity is a very noble thing; cer- tainly there may be much beauty, much tender self-sacrifice and loving service in its manifestation. But let us not flatter ourselves too casily. The trouble of a friend makes Its appeal to our vanity; we feel that we are needed, and this is always a grati- fying knowledge; we feel that we are of importance and that is ever a pleas- ure to our selfesteem. But when everything is well with our friend, ap- parently ks has what he wants and is independent of us. Naturally, that is a time whem shams of friendship flourish, for their aim is to get and not to give; true friendship's aim is to get by giving, Of course the difference in our friend’s condition is really only super- ficlal; he truly needs our friendship al- ways, as much in prosperity as in trou- ble. But we are disconcerted by ap-|"? pearances; if we ever draw away from him, cool toward him, it is when he is|C, M, TRAMMELL, in the sunshine, not when the clouds are around him, His prosperity may alienate us; his trouble calls us back to him. And this fact should cause us a very limited pride. Our attitude in his prosperity is the real test. We may therefore say that a man's | prosperity is the greatest trial of his | friends—that is, of his true friends. | It ought to be true that friendship | shaves the joys as well as the sorrows : of life, but in the case of the joys the | sharing is more difficult. It is not dif- | ficult to go about seeking pleasure to- Igeth(\r, to travel, to have a good time | together; it is not difficult to share|;.y.1and ,each other's love of art or music or literature or science. Comradeship in these i very stimulating and satisfying; but | mere comradeship, good fellowship is | not quite enough for friendship. Can we be truly glad when our friend is doing better than we are !in any one of these pursuits, when he | succeeds, while, perhaps, we are do- |ing poorly, when he wins applause that is denied us? 1Is it not easy to yond measure and ours is a little be- low? Or if fortuno co::es to him as it l poured into his hande, so that he can gain whatever money will purchase and do whatever he has a mind to; is it then so easy to remain his loyal | Estimates and devoted friend, assuming that we | Let ug talk are far above any desire to sponge upon his wealth? Can we bring our selves, in proper spirit, to accept his “help instead of having the proud joy of giving help? Are we not liable to imagine an air of superiority in him? Our very self-respect renders us sen- sitive, quick to be hurt, apt to imagine that his prosperity has changed our friend for the worst. It may be pos- Sanford - sible that it has; which proves that he never needed cur friendship more. For| @, D, & H. D. MENDENHALL prosperity is the supreme test of a man, bechuse ts tendency 1s to emer| “Rooms 212-215 Drane Bldg. vate and weaken; adversity rouses and rallies all that is strongest in us. Selfishly, we like our friend to de worse off than we are; to be in need things may become very close, | JNO. S, EDWARDS think that his success is a little be- | Roor 7 Stuart Bldg. has never come to us; if riches are|J. B. Streater things go well with him—~it is then that the sifting of our friendship comes. 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