THINKING OF FRIENDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 302, 22 December 1933, Page 6

THINKING OF FRIENDS

"THE few remaining days which remain before the opening of the Christmas holidays cause most people “furiously to think,” as the French are supposed to say. The great, difficulty with most ordinary, average sort of men and women, is that in their friendships they think that they can rely on their memories unaided by data. This is just where the ordinary, average* sort of persons falls down on doing the rites of friendship. The very person whom you have not thought of for weeks, and for whom you cherish the deepest affection, is the self-same individual whom you would remember before many others. It is very difficult inieed to go through life trying to recollect friends. It is far, far better to have a notebook. Those who advocate the possession of a notebook have the whole of the argument in their favour. They can demolish anyone who opposes their view, but these self-same advocates of the notebook, as likely as not. will themselves possess notebooks—with empty pages.