Show DEPEND I AIM In ono one of the stores up Main street there Is a picture of or a young oung woman sitting silling In the glow of or a firelight ht a world of trouble In her face one hand reaching back the back the body slightly turned until turned-until until It 11 lies in the clasp of ot a good black mammy who is stroking ing the delicate fingers and looking vcr very Intently on the averted faco face Of t ther her young youns mistress and speaking In oven tones the simple philosophy o of ofa ofa a human comforting You know tho the girl is an aristocrat That Is evident e In every line lino and pose poso You know she is passing through the trouble which nearly always finds the heart hearl of or women as aM they como come up from girlhood to lo the Iho higher You know tho the old woman Is speakIng speaking speak speak- ing and sa saying little that could be ho weighed In terms terms but bul a whole world worM of or helpfulness J that Is apprehended only In the scales of or a souls soul's elation But Bul over o and above all else elte you OU know the tho value of or the tho old black comforting Is In the sim pie fact that thai she is there that she has always been there In times limes of or trouble that she always will be there She Sho Is 18 not nol tolling telling tho the girl an anything new She Isn't advising her how to proceed in the labyrinth where the heart hearl I Is tangled She isn't counselling counsell counsell- ing Ins spiteful reprisals Sho She is simply being there with her low breathing comfort her human sympathy and the blessed fact that her love lovo Is big enough to reach all over and around the tho fact fact of or race and line fine enough to burn with the same sarno fires as those In thet heart rt of ot a girl It Is the quality of dependability It usual usually Is found In women There ar are aro some sortie men men big big quiet slow fellows follows fol Cel- fel- fel lows never pushing themselves es Into tho the thick of your confidence but bul al always always al- al ways was by some somo strange miracle just there at the edge edgo of the jungle when you see Hec ce fit to lo come out and want for ministration You talk to them freely Creely and you know they will never abuse the thc confidence You dont don't ask their advice You wouldn't take It II If It y you ou did ask and the counsel were given He doesn't make malec an any suggestions suggestions but In some subtle way he soothes and calms and makes cs you ou more serene And In that better mood you ou are arc equal to the lie demands fate fal la lays upon you ou More l often ofton though It 11 Is a woman who helps you ou with her steadfast steadfast- ness Her lIeI life Is linked with your own Her lieI Interests arc are your own Sho She I Ithe is hs the background round a against which all thaIs that tha thatIs Is good of the picture your our activities arc are making will bo thrown thrown thrown-In In relief She Is the lie theme profoundly I un- un in el lying lack hack of oC the tho melody your our acuter airs construct Sho She Is th the tho being that fills illis for your our wearied sou southe soul the need that thai the ancient Jew felt and 1111 found expressed in the tho sentiment from rein everlasting e to everlasting e thou art arl the Lord Lon The Tho mountains waiting wailing In strength and Immeasurable reserve typify the same thought One comes from Ioni tho the store stOle or the lie vOIce office or the field at night wearied with the cares of or the day Ir Irritated in- in with tho the Ilett petty things that tha make up so much of lifes life's enactments enact enact- monts ments and there are UIO tho lie mountains lifting their rounded sl sides es rearing th their lr familiar crowns with a new beauty of tint and glowing with witha a l new glory of Impressiveness and and you ou are waked to tho the relief of a hope that Is 18 now new It rests you ou II It comforts com com- forts you ou It Il gives gl you new 11 life fl There Is something that doesn't chan change e. e something that can be he depended depended de de- IC- IC on something that lint will await you no matter how tardy turdy you ou may be bo and that simply can not be alienated Always the same in the blessed quality of ot dependability these comforters comforters comforters com com- are aro alwa always s 's clad In a new garment garmont gar gar- mont ment of ot atmosphere As tho the help holl of the tho mountains glows through the Ow pearl of sun sunsets or the lie blue of or noon 01 or tho the vivid vi reds of morning yet et are aIe always alwa's the Iho same game In their form and message so 0 these people you depend on speak in iii the lie tone that thai is best at atthe atthe atthe the moment The They never ne mistake The They never antagonize antagonise They never add to the limitation Irritation It Is a blessed thing to foil find such sucha a 3 friend to fasten him hini to your our soul with hooks of ot steel to know that whatever the he need his presence and anti his benison will be there al at hand The picture is a comfort to lo see an nn expression o of a human need need need-ans- ans answered |