Show NOT CONFINED TO STERN SEX women also are capable of pla ton fr enesh p there are instances when me i of genius have been sustains 0 ard in in their work and life by the friendship of women for years the poet cowper a victim of fits of mel anchoria anc holia was cheered and supported by the ministering friendship of mrs unwin in whose home he lived after as before the death of her husband until the end of hia own life for 16 ears dr johnson was soothed up held and inspired by the friendship of mrs thrale ft ho says his bolograph blo graph er rn ered to him in jody a mind and as the most tender 0 nur comfort that wealth could purchase or womanly ingenuity set to work by womanly compassion could devise being wanting to his sickroom through her influence her husband 1 ad persuaded the great man to leave his comfortless den and take hodg I 1 ings in the elegant thrale villa where he enjoyed as much personal inde pen dence as if living in a home of his own he repaid sirs thrale s friend ship by an affection as pure as the affection of a father tinged with a gallantry which tho agh awkward vas more prized by her than the flatteries of society montaigne asserted that women were incapable ot cicat and enduring attachments 1 ke those which history records aa having existed be kneen men but lato on in I 1 la life he was forced to lean the un selfish devotion of a woman bis adopted daughter whose soul he ac would one day be capable of that perfect and sacred friendship to which we do not read any of her sex has yet attained mary E gry an in uncle bemus magazine there really are six and not merely five ane arts the sixth and highest art is the art of living |