The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-01-16

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What is Gcssipl Shakespeare says-"to
be a pot companions" !" and again, Thomson;
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That eat an honest nafae."
Gossip Is defined by me TO be long string
Of puageu, neighborhooa u,-bi,s.-a kind Of
under.eurrent medley Of kitchen-girl and
housewife tAik---a sort Of invisible hut poteu,
lcaveu, that isius,rioosly works an limo.
cent declaration, or a mistake, into batch Of
lies to be baked in the hot oven Of slander-a,
20 to speak, intangible domestic backyard
journal, for the publication Of all kinds Of
pois,ed personalities and decryiug repor,s
Gossippers are the news boys, aud the quilt
ings and tea-parties Of elderly females stspd
in the relation Of associated press lor the
propagation aud dissemination Of news. II
Is common fund Of slurs, inuendocs, malic.
iousness:: lies, back-biting aud slanders-s
fund which, like water drank from pitcher,
or like the ritual Of secret society, passes
only byI worlcOfm mouth, and tho items Of
which lose nothing by repetition.
But J don't want 70 be held responsible for
coupling Gossip, aud "SOcsal Conversation
together a. congenial and synonymous, when
they really are to each other as the North Pole
Is to the South Pole can explain the dill.
crsncc In few sentences
when you see two or more females, with
sparkling ewes, and heads together over a
garden fence, or gate, or tea-tablc or quilt,
and you catch the whispered ejaculation,
+" Now don't you tell anybody, for the world"
and you suddenly appear on the scene aud
distinguish son but simultaneous hush-h-h !
while they turn 10 you as amiable as young
lambs, stick pin there, for ever after you
are justified in the belief that you have seen
that terrible coadlu'or Of Slander, Gossip
Say you are a carpenter, engaged In putting
up rear addition to somebody's house, aud
you sec over the side of your jug, as you take
a drink, female form, With barred head and
arms dart from back door across.lots, aud
in a, another back door, you may set the jug
down, aud the fact too, that she's seen or
heard something, and has gone to tell Il.
Now then, Il, while boring hole with your
anger you see the first party quietly return,
aud another form going across the street with
her sewing, you may Nuger from il that your
irst deduction was correct.
Social conversation is simply not gossip,
and doesn't fcqairc the codicil, now don't
you tell it,
Il may be inferred that deem the female
sex, in great measure, responsible for the
too often lamentable results Of gossip. Well,
! do; but don't exonoute tiny lord for
many nre the precious morsels that get into
the gossip ring through a reliable husband
Now friends, let gossip alone. Your lit
tie children may learn the habit II was not
long since that read about three little
girls who were playing together, and two
Of them were 'making believe keep house, ,
few yards distance from each other--ncigh-
bors as it were. One OF them says to the
third little girl; "There now, Nellie, you
go to Sarah's house, and stopa little while
and talk, and then you come back and tell
me what she says about me and then III
talk about her. then You go and tell her all
| say about her, and then we'll get mad and
won't speak to each other, just as oar moth
crs do, you know. o, that'r be such fun
MiSSIE MooRE.