Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-11-30
Scandal

are the hatetulest. Livery community mas
them. We mean those combinations of
the vul:ure and wild cat with the claws of
both. The she gossip is worse than the he
gossip, because her tongue is hung nearer
the middle. Either is an improvement on
Oh Nick's patent The entire breed is
evidently designed as a substitute for a
second food. The Lord promised not to
drown mankind again, but He did not
promise to save them from the gossips
Scandal thing quite as difficult to out
ri lie as the rain of 30 days aud 10 nights.
Do you see that aldermanic, wcll TO do
man Of the world? He has grown fat on
the fai!ings and miefortunes Of others.
His tongue is like swivel, playing faster
than a lambs tail in fly time. His nose
is in every body'S dish but his own. His
ncighbOr, perhaps, is embarrassed. He
has struggled long with adverse fortune.
\ big wave comes at last, and though,
ncrved by the thoughts of home and the
loved ones cliuging to him, he strikes out
lravcly, and struggles long and well, it
bears him under, and bankruptcy is his
dom. The fat gossip chuckles and rubs
his hands in glee. \ pleasant pucker is
on his lips; a selfish light CLEANS from his
eye. He blows the news at every man be
meets, and doles it out in his family. His
cub-gossips tell it in the street and at the
school, and laugh father ike to see how
silently the bankrupt's children hear the
cruel taunt and jecr, and slide in quiet
corner alone, as though it were a crime.
Perhaps his poor neighbor has boy in
whose bosom burns high resolve to con-
quer fortune and win wealth and fame.
He sets out nobly, yet trembling like
reed in the wind lest he should fail and
make a sorrowing mother weep. The fat
man poisons the very atmosphere in which
lie moves. "Poh what can lie do" he
will cxclaim His father is bankrupt;
lac owes every body, the dishonest dog
His mother is of poor, obscure family
What docs he think trying to be any body
for, the impudcnt puppy. He'll get none
of my influence to get up in the world,
mark that" And at every turn he crosses
the rugged path of TIE boy and blasts every
hope. If at last the boy does triumph,
he is the first to praise him and seek his
favor. :" told you that boy would make
a strike yet. | knew could help him up
in the world. tell you, people don't
know what I've done for that boy" Of
course they don't, and thus he plays the
hypocrite and the pest
But the she gossip goes it on the vine
gar, high pressure principle. She is all
over the neighborhood at once, wiring
round like basket of angle worms. Her
nose is sharp, her lips thin and eyes askew,
peering into every corner. Lord, Mrs I.
Grimes" squeals she, "did you hear the
news? You didn't! Oh my. how stu
pid! Why it's enough to kill any virtu-
Gus woman I'm half dead already You
know that Mr.. Smith, don't you? His I
wife died six months ago, and would you
believe it, yesterday he looked, yes posi-
lively 6ooked at Miss Sally Muggins twice
yes he did. | saw it with my own eyes;
you can't fool me- And there's that wild
ow Willowgiggle, she's fdgetting and
fussing around trying to get married bad,
| know she is. She pimped, and simpered,
and dlddlcd, and smiled, and bowed, and
scrapcd every time a gentleman at the .
party would speak to her, the good for
nothing huzzy. What right has a widow |.
or widowcr to 60 into company or speak
to one another, Id like to know. You'll
not catch me inviting them, indeed you
won't. Let them stay out of society where
they belong. Aud there's that Miss Ju-
niper; they do say there's light in her
parlor two nights a week, ! wonder who
is fool enough to 60 there. If they knew
her as well as some others they would
know better | don't know any thing
wrong, but then her father is poor, she
works for living, who will associate with
such girls. He must be pretty low, any
way mechanic or something. La, she's
wore that same bonnet six months, and
that same dress to the last two parties
Oh my how vulgar.
And there's Mrs Pliable Don't say
any thing about it. She goes in the first
circles with US, and | wouldn't for the
world have it ge, out. But Mrs. Gullible,
my next neighbor, said that she heard
Mrs. Tcllail say that she heard Mrs. Bring
all say that Mrs. Carryall told her that
Mrs Knowall said that she heard some
body else say that she heard Mrs. Gulli-
blc's husband say that he heard Mrs. Kill
all say that some one told her in the
stlictest confidence that Mrs. Cable said
she had been credibly informed that this
same Mrs. P!iablc looked three times and
a half and bowed to Mr. Sociable in her
L. hands 1tSauca' EnoJro.c