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Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1929, Page 3

FRIENDS AND VISITORS. “ Friendship with one who is temperamentally a visitor is unthinkable. Friendship involves free give and take, and the visitor ...has nothing to give. I ■would at any time gladly stuff my house with friends. They ai;e never in the way; their comings are. always opportune; their goings are always executed and accompanied with regret. But a visitor—any visitor— I. would do almost anything to avoid,” writes Mr Frank Swinnerton, the novelist, in the “Evening News” of London. “Friends, are friends because they have some community of interest, some liking, some richness of feeling or experience to share, and not because they happen to live within a walking distance dr a short driving distance, and because they are filled with bore-; dom or inquisitiveness regarding their fellow creatures. Friends come because they have something warm and cordial to exchange for your greeting. | Visitors come because they cannot think of anything else to do, and because they have nothing whatever to communicate, except weather forecasts, stale news, and dry rot.” |