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Show Partners In Joys and Sorrows. A writer says in the American Magazine: Maga-zine: "It is a good phrase we have for describing women, 'partners of our joys and sorrows. I know not how it may be with other men, but it is thu3 with me : in the regular routine of life, when nothing much is happening, when the flays go by one after the other filled with their monotonous rounds of duties, I can, if necessary, exist for long periods without the company of women. In such days and weeks they are sometimes, to be sure, a pleasing distraction ; but they are not food and drink and shelter. I can, if need be, survive. But let success break through the monotony of the daily grind ; and I must have a woman to share it ; half its sweetness Is lost otherwise. And failure without their God-given chatter chat-ter and unquenchable optimism Is utterly intolerable. I say I know not how it may be with other men, but it Is tins with me." |