The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1839-12-05
GnSSIpING.

towns, where there is the most extended
mutual acquaintance, where persons live ~
the closest relations, resembling large
family circle. To disturb the sweet uses
of these little communities by gossiping, IS
surely TO forfeit the benefit Of one of the
kindest arrangements Of Providence.
The habit of gossiping begins in youth.
| once attended society Of young persons,
from thirteen TO seventeen years ofage, who
met for benevolent purposes.
Is this reading or talking afternoon :!
asked one Of the girls.
Reading, replied the President and |
have brought Percy's Relques Of Euglish
Poetry to read 10 you
Is not that light resdingf asked Julia
lyers. These are old ballads and songs.
Yes, suppose /. would b. called hight
readiog'
Then I vote against it mother don't ap.
prove of light reading
Julia, who bad the lightest Of all minds,
and tho most valuable OF tongues, preferred
taking 10 any reading, and without loss of
time she began TO knot Of girls, who too
much resernbled her.
Did you notice Matilda Smith last Sun.
day 2
Yes, indeed she had on rev silk dress.
That is the very thing ! wanted 10 find
out whether you we're taken in with 1t. 1t
was nothing but her old SKY blue dyed
/ Can that be why she has worn II ever
~. tE. ,a1t4lar | did NJ
see the prints Of the acks
Il did, lnterposcd another Of the young
committee Of Investigation. i took good
look a, /, as she stood in the door. She
couldn't deceive the with aunt Sally's we'd
ding sky blue dyed black
4 don't think Matilda would care wheth.
err YOU were deceived or not, SAID liItle Ma.
RI Morris, the youngest member OF the So
cIety colourlng up to her eyes.
Oh forgot, Mary, said julia lvers,
that Matilda is your cousin
1T IS not because she is my cousin, re.
Piled Mary.
'Wen, what is il thcu'
Mary's tears dropped on her work bot
she made no other reply. She had too much
delicacy TO proclaim her cousins private
good deeds; aud she did not tell how Ma
llda, having had a small SUN Of money,
which was to have been invested 10 a new
six gown, gave il instead 70 her kind aunt
Sally, who was sinking under long IN
disposition, which her physician SAID might
be removed by q Journey II was-and
we believe Matilda little cared how much
these girls gosslped about her dyed lrock.
julia ivers turned the conversation by
saving, Don't YOU think It strange that
Mrs. Sanford lets Maria ride out with Wal.
ter lsbeIl
Yes, indeed and, what is worse yet, &C
ccpis presents from HIM
WHY does she 2 exclaimed Jala, star
ing open her eyes, and taken quite aback
BY another person knowing bt Of gossip
which bad not vet reached her ears.
Yes, she does he brought her three ell
egan; plants from New York, and she wears
rnn which he must have given her; for
YOU know the Slnfords could not afford TO
buy such things and, besides, they never do.
| have given but a specimen. Various
characters and circumstances were discuss
ed, ;il the young gossIps were interrupted
BY q proposition from the president, that
the name Of the society should be changed
for, as she said, 'tae little charities they
did with their needles we're a poor Offset
auainstlhe unchariiab lcness oftheir tongues.
There is a specimen of gossiplng aggra.
waited by treachery but, bad as this Is, ii
is sometimes committed more from thought.
lessness than malice. A girl is invited 10
pass a day, a week, or a month II may be,
in q family, Admitted TO such an intimacy,
she may see and hear much that the family
would not wish to have reported. Circum.
stances often occur, and remarks are made
from which no harm would come If they
we're published to the world, provided what
went before and came after could likewise
be known but, taken out Of their connec'
ton, they make false impression. 1t is
BIZ relating dlSJo,n,ed circumstances, and
repeating fragments of conversations, that
so much mischief is done by those admitted
into the bosom Of family.
You know that, with the Arabs, parta
king sal, is pledge OF fidelity, because the
salt symbol Of hospitality. Show sa.
cred gratitude for hospitality by never ma,
king any dlsparagipg remarks or idle com
muncatlons about those into whose families
YOU are received. know persons who
will say, unbush,ugly, Il am sure that MIR.
So aud So is not kind to his wife. | saw
enough TO convince me Of It when | stayed
there. Mrs. S. is very mean in her FAM.
w. How do YOU know that ? lam sure
ought to know, for stayed a month in
her house Ii YOU wish to be convinced
that Mrs l.. has no government over her
children, 90 and stay there week, as did,
The BIS and their stepmother try TO 1--we
happily together; but If you were in their
family as much as am, you would see there
is no love lost between them
Now YOU perceive, my young friends,
that the very reason which should have
sealed this gossip's lips, she adduces as the
ground of your faith IN her evil report.