BETWEEN OURSELVES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5, 4 February 1909, Page 197

BETWEEN OURSELVES

The girls who win their way into the inmost recesses ot others hearts are not .usually the-»most brilliant and gifted, but those who have-syn^athy, patience, self-forget-tulness, and that indefinable faculty of eliciting the better nature of others. Most of us lznow girls who have appealed to us in this way. We have many friends who are more beautiful and gifted, but there is not one of them whose companionship we enjoy better than that of the girl who, perhaps, never makes' a witty or profound remark, but whose simple quality of human goodness makes up for every other deficiency. And if there came a time of real stress, when- we felt- that we needed the support of real friendship, we "should choose above all to go to this sweet girl, certain that we sliould find intelligent sympathy, a charitable construction of our position and difficulties, and readiness to' assist us beyond what we ought to take. Beauty .of ,spirit is more than beaiity of face and form, and remarkable intellectual qualities are not to be compared with, unaffected human goodness and sympathy.