SCHOOLGIRL FRIENDSHIPS

New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 37

SCHOOLGIRL FRIENDSHIPS

; I have often' noticed" (says' "the prific/ipaT'bf% girl's boarding-school), that the , ' £irls ' iwh,o / really r- Keep- <i up »;-. their ' school. friendships are the - ones \< who ~ make little \*?£ n ? 'Mss'-qver each other. J When"' 'Vacation comes, .^lts the . funniest thing to hear the protestations' of \ constancy, not merely v foi:-; a; •"season, >but" for., lifej that girls ' malce'. Promisesjtcr , write - every, .week arid . sometimes every" day ,- during ,' the Isumrnei? /are" recklessly : -given, ' between parting ; friends; and '~.y eft" it's "pretty "safe to conclude that next term' these' same' enthusiastic creatures won't even care to : "be ; ropiri-matesr.' T'tieri 'at: ; breaking-up^ time sutlr~ assutaiice' of lifelong ••fidelity* the ,• girls Indulge in. I smile to, -myself ..whenever-: they _.come to .my ear, because I - know perfectly well- that .two-thirds bf-tliese avowals will, be up, in; gush and the . a other third , will dwindle , naturally-. > as - r broader ,\ .-interests -come ..to the -fore: "When £-' keep 1 track 'of "the , girls' who, have been here, I *find"rth'atr'rfihbse whose in- ,.- terest:in each -other grows rather than Hies out with it time are, girls who ..have usver^^been .dcnionptrutiyev -* but Whose -friendship is. the outgrowth" of ..genuine""cW not\ the result "of- schoolrobin^companaoiisiMp.'