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That means, whenever two or three persons meet and talk, for a minute or for an hour, they should not only lift their own morale and strengthen their own friendship, but each should also be an advocate, as it were, of his other friends. In this way my friends, for example, who were but acquaintances to you will become your friends, too, and yours will become mine. When I see John, I should, if he is a good conversationalist, walk away liking his buddy, Tom, better than before, or his sister or his wife or his neighbor. Just as in a personal letter a person writes about his mutual ac- quaintances, so in a casual or short meeting each brings the other up to date, as it were, on their mutual friends and acquaintances. |
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