One cannot take his friends and those he loves with him wherever he goes, but he can take their pictures in snap shots and photos. No matter how life may deal with the individual he can never look at one of those pictures and not be appreciative of the friendship and love which the persons pictured have for him. Pictures then not only connect the past with the future but they also annihilate distances that would otherwise be unsurmountable. A picture and the friend in the picture are not the same, but there is a certain quality of the picture that brings that friend nearer to one when he looks at the picture. Then there are the scenes of childhood, or those scenes experienced at any time that we like to remember because of some intrinsic value they have in our lives. Those scenes are constantly changing. The old homestead, the farmhouse or the beautiful city mansion are all subject to decay and change and alteration. The home as we know it is the one that holds things dear to our hearts. But that home is never the same once we have left it for a period of time, especially if someone else lives there now. But we like to remember the home as we loved it. To do this we must have some enduring token of it. A picture can keep alive these memories in a degree unknown to any other thing. The warmest, the most intimate pictures are those that contain our friends and loved ones. The bond between kin or friends is the strongest in the world. We are essentially in whom we know and whose memory we would always keep bright. 