The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-12-07


these unfortunate people, who seem to
have turned their home into a common
sewer, through which all the sins and
foibles Of the neighborhood run. Have
they minds aud hearts2 Yes, but their
minds have run to waste, and there is
some taint, fear, at their hearts. |
The noted gossip, Miss -, makes a
visit in town where she has been pre-
viously a stranger. She divides her
time among several families; she is So
cial, aud what we think is miscallcd
agreeable, for she is perpetually talking
of persons and things; she wins q too
easy confidence, and she returns home =,
with an Infinite store of family anec-
dotes. She knows that Mr.. and Mrs.
So and So, who are supposed to live
happily, are really on bad terms, and
that he broke the hearts Of two other
women before he married his wife; she
knows the particulars, but she has pro
missed not to tell. She has found out
that a certain family, who for ten years
have been supposed to live very har-
moniously with step m other, are really
eminently wretched. She has heard
that MIR. =, who apparently is in very
fourishing circumstances, has been on
the brink of bankruptcy for the last ten
years--&c., &c. Could this woman find
nothing in visiting new scene to ex-
cite her mind but such trumperyP We
have given you this example to show
you that the sin of gossiping pervades
some communities. This woman did
not create these stories; she heard them
all, the individuals who told them to her
little thinking that they 10 turn would
become the subjects of similar remar k
to the very persons whose afflirs they
were communicating.
What would we think Of persons who
went about collecting for exhibition
samples of the warts wens and cancers
with which their fellow beings were af
fiicted? And yet would not their EN-
: ployment be more honorable, more hu
name, at least, than this gossip p-monger's 5
We have heard such talk as follow
between ladies, wives and mothers, tn
wives of educated men, and person
who were called educated women:
"Have you heard that Emma Ellis il
going to Washington"
ITO Washington! How on earth cal
the Ellis's afford a winter in Washing
ton?"
"Oh, you know they are not particu
lar about their debts, and they have si
girls to dispose of, and find rather
dull market here"
Have you heard the Newtons ar
going to the country to live?"
"Bless me l--no! What's that for?
q "They say to educate their children
but my dress maker, Sally Smith, VIII
: works for Mrs. Newton, says she is wor
out with dinner parties. H. runs tn
house down with company."
, "Oh, I,suspect they are obliged to e
= to economize. I'saw Mary Newton {
t. the theatre, (she is not older than N
n Grace,) with diamond ferrouiere."
!, Diamond, was ii? Julia told me
Is was aqua-marine. The oxtrava yanc
of some people is shocking l don
a wonder the men are out of patienc
Is Don't tell it again, because Ned Mill
Ib told me in confidence, He actually h
re locked up all his wife's worked pockc
y. handkercbiefs. Well, whatever else Il
to husband complains of, he can't fl
I'd fault with my extravagance."
an Perhaps not; but faults far more hei
is, Gus than extravaganza this poor WON
Is, had to account for--the psrnicious Ioor
h. for which, we must, bo brought il
IT. judgment. -ritsIs t.- s.r
wv 1 hope it may appear incredible
zee you, my young friends, that womon b
he through this short life, with knoV
q edge of their immortal destiny, with
-r world without them aud q world with
'g- to explore and make acquaintance wi
ne; the delightful interests and solemn
wo sponsibilitiss of pSreAts upon tho
should so dishonor Gods good gift
lp, the tongue, should so waste their ii
nd and social life. But be on your qua
If your minds are not employed
at higher objects, and your hearts on
the ter things, you will talk idly about y
mo friends and acqpainta nee.
leir The habit of gossipiug begins
ich youth. l once attended a society
her young persons, from thirteen to seV
teen years of age, who met for
nth nevOlent purposes. Hr. 1 la.
day sis this rcaling or talking af
noOn?' asked one Of the girls. y .