Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-22
miscellaneous.
From The Boston Evening Museum.
GOSSips.
Goosy goosy gander.
Where do you wander!
Up stairs, down stairs,
In nv lady's chamber.

To be u gossip is TO be a very useful
character. 1t is 10 be gifted with The ell
oquence Of a Cicero and the ubiquity oil
a musketoe. To gossips how much So
ciety is indebted orthe latest intelligence,
furnished gratis. They are the model
reporters Of the world. They not only
know all that has been done, but all that
is being done, all that is going to be done,
all hat is proposed TO be done, and all
that is not going to be done. And these
they have a happy faculty of exaggera-
ting and embellishing. and reci'ing in
the best approved graphic style, SO that
their society is as much superior 10 The
dry and garbled rumors of a newspaper,
as they are, themselves, in point of NOR
ais and ~propriety, superior TO the rest of
this wicked world.
Has any improperly been committed
by anybody anywhere S%raightway
the g%ossip's bonnet is on, and without
stopping to change her frock, off she
goes, with charitable intent, to spread the
lidings to "a few" confidential" friends.
Then how the heads are bobbed together,
and eyes opened wide and tongues made
TO initiate a mill-clapper. Would you
have thought it? You don't say so j
What do you think | just heard Oh
don't you tell anybody, if III tell YOU
Oh, mercy's sake, not for the world
Well, won't you certain 2 No. Well
then, here it is-there-now-oh. Some
body's mares dead, and forlorn gossip
dom is terminated, and the news is
spread from clothes-pole 10 cloIhes-pole.
These amiable personages, who are
so imbued with the spirit of self-sacrifice
that they cannot attend 10 their own bu.
siness till they have taken care ~ofevery'
body's else, are like the breeze 10 the
ocean-they keep society from stagna.
ton. They stir up their neighbors with
a long pole, and wo 10 the communica'
tive or c%onfiding. IF you wish 10 adver.
Use anything far and cheap, tell it as &
secret 10 one of this industrious class,
and within a day it will come back to
you from fifty sources, and so altered
and improved upon that you will not re-
cognize it.
Sweet are the uses Of adversely,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
Seriously-ihe "precious jewel " oil
experience thus bought will be of ser.
vice to you through life. 1t will learn
you to be shy of your confidence, and
tardy in your beliefs. 1t will teach you
to sPurn from your communion those
miserable newsmongers Of society who
faiten on the faults and follies and mis-,
fortunes Of their race. 1t will teach you
that loquacity is generally a sign Of vices
in its possessor, and that those agains
whom its sallies are directed are often the
good and the harmless. 1t will expos,
the cause Of much Of the suffering of do
mesiic life, of hate and %heart-burning
jealousy, SANDER, sorrow and despair
and it will say TO you with a solem
voice, Beware of dabbling with affair
that concern you not; lest your fec
become %en,angled in a web that yo
cannot break, and you stir up the undy
ing hate Of those, whom you wrong an
~irritate by a meddlesome spirit. Min
your own business.