WONDER if there is anything

in this world as beautiful as

good, strong friendship between two men? They don't go round doing the molly coddle act; they don't kiss each other every time they meet; in fact, they never do kiss each other, unless one is lying cold in death; but they are sure one knows the other is always going to stand by him, and they feel that, no matter what happens, each can rely on the other.

WE

-Unknown.

E talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self elected.

-Emerson.

O MOISTEN with one's tears the other's brow,
If needs be.

To turn one's back on pleasure, maybe life,
To take and hold all troubles, burdens, strife,
If needs be.

To bind oneself with an unwritten vow,
If needs be.

To ever yield a sympathetic ear,

If needs be.

To laugh when laughter onward flies,
To laugh, though for us mirth but cries,
If needs be.

To bravely face, and show no cowardly fear,
If needs be.

To be stone deaf when censure's in the air,
If needs be.

To lose one's wit and give no apt reply,
To seem a fool, rather than draw a sigh,

If needs be.

To yield in all thy dealings double share,
If needs be.

-Charlotte Mansfield.