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Show AFFECTION THAT NEVER DIES Oid Friends Have a Place in the Heart From Which They Never Can Be Removed. As to old friends, they are liUe old ; shoes, an abiding comfort and a great solace. If they have not boon tried in extremity they have been tested by time and its mutations, and by the wear of years. There is little more beautiful in human experience than ions-sustained friendships between women grown far into the years, for example, and yet who have maintained their communion of dreams and confidences con-fidences unbroken and unspoiled. There is little more refreshing to contemplate con-template than friendships between middle-aged or old men that have existed ex-isted in strength and harmony from boyhood days. Other friendships have these folks of the passing generation, J some of them true, some of them 1 tried', but none of them as richly regarded re-garded and highly treasured as the ol'i ones. For necessarily there are many things that occur in a lifetime which jar or disturb us, which give a different turn to our tastes and disposition, dispo-sition, which introduce changing elements ele-ments and predilections into the prob' lems of the day and times of the present and future can never be the same as in the long ago. Yet the old i friends remain, possibly not in the ! same neighborhood or community, j nor in the same part of the country- F5ut they are ever within the boun- daries of our spiritual vision and they are enshrined in the sanctuary rf the heart. Without them we should be lonesome in a crowd, and sometimes should feel as if we had been abandoned, aban-doned, though surrounded by our own household and loved ones Old friends, in brief, have a niche all their , own. a position in our affections pe-I pe-I culiar only to them, which no alien in J fluence may approach. Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. |