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Show The Problem cf Friendship. The science of making and keeping friends is a pursuit .w hich immeasurably immeasura-bly enriches one's life. It is, indeed, a far more exact science than many realize, and is governed by laws as truly as by sentiment. I Prominent among these laws is addition. No one need hope to enter the realm of true friendship until he is prepared to add the choicest of his treasures of mind and heart to the life of his friend, to give largely and generously of his appreciation, his sympathy, sym-pathy, hi6 love, "good measure, pressed down, running over." Nor is it a contradiction to say that the law of subtraction is equally essential. es-sential. A friend is pre-eminently an individual who is willine- nnon manv occasions to place before his own personality per-sonality a minus sign In order to meet the interests and needs of his friend. He who insists on filling the time of friendly intercourse with a recital of his own experiences is ignoring that law. To make one's self at times an unostentatious cipher, to which the generous gen-erous numeral of our friend's life shall be prefixed, is often to insure to the relationship a higher value. These two laws being observed there is certain to come a realization of the compensatory law of multiplication. He who would live a dozen lives in one short span of years can do it only through friendships. In the sharing of another's purposes and ambitions, he will find his intellect broadened: in entering en-tering into the joys and sorrows of his fellows, he will discover that his heart-lffc has deepened. Dlvis'on here is the supreme test of friendship, in the tactful dividing of one' experiences, in order to give to another that part of our life which shall stimulate, not depress: exhilarate, not discourage. Not too much of our triumph or success to one whom circumstances cir-cumstances have forced to live a (limited (lim-ited life, not too much of our troubles trou-bles and failures to her who looks - to us for sunshine and cheer. ( |