Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-08
SeandalOus Tongues.


truth IN the common charge that men, in
their clubs and other social CouvocatlouS o.
their sex, eau seldom maintain genera
conversation very long without some ir
reverent reference 10 women. A shallow
talker, fanoying tbs. scarcely enough at
teution Is being given to his casual remarks
makes bold bid for more Of it with some
equiVooal feminine incident, real or imagiu.
Nry, Of his laIes. experience in reading, and
strAghtWGy all the others plunge glibly into
the Wowanly topic With freshness OF inter
est and AudAciIy of narration indicative OF
anything but refined standard OF chivslric
sentiment All this muss be confessed 10
the great disoredit Of the lords OF creation /;
the only practicable plea in defense being
that such talk IS generally accepted by all
hearers, aud even pArtioipAtOrs, for what il,
is exactly worth, and rarely travels beyond
the circle Of It's first audience but the
ladies have their certain proneness 10 wo.
msu-seAndalizing, also, AHd what hsy say
IN that vein is apt TO prove far more serious
in its effect. For example: In Nsnia, o.,
says = correspondent OF the Cincinnati Ea-
qairer, a respectable olergyman's wife aud
her married stop-dAughter are Just now the
defendants in a suit for SANDER, in which
damages are claimed to the alarming extent
OF 100000 and, unless thsy can either
substGn,iHte the seAndSlizing remarks at
sributed 70 them b. the sisIer-womAn whose
father proseouees, or prove that they never
made such remarks, il is TO be feared that
their husbands will be heavily mulcted for
their freedom Of speech. There resides 10
the town q young lady Of respectable and
wealthy family, who, while much admired
by the gentlemen, is, for some reason, not
30 popular with her own sex. Any one who
has ever spent month 10 small town
mast be aware that the more elderly female
gossipS Of such larger village require very
little disregard Of their dictAloriSi counsel
aud tastes 10 make them severely unfavora.
bic towards the affected or conceited "vouug
ihllg' venturing au occasional snub at their
expense and IL may be inferred from
the Newspaper report that the fair
one Of the present case earned her diIiavor
BY some such irritating desert Of 1t. At
any rate, a clergYmans wife and her step
daughter have, as above intimated, given
her excellent reason 10 think 40. Some
time ago shs left her home in Neuia tor a
visit 70 friends 10 another State, aud al
about tho same time the following incident
occurred Jus. before day light one morn,
ing Mr.. John Carey, a worthy gray-haired
lrisbmAn aud grocer, was reused from his
delicious sleep by the violent ringing Of has
street bell, and hurried wildly TO the door
under tho impression that the house must
be on tire. Pulling back bolt aud bar he
was confronted by bis nsxt-door neighbors,
candles ia hand, who having been awakened
IRON their slumbers by the noise of a strange
crying al their neighbor's door, had finally
come with lights to explore the mystery, and
found deserted infant in bAsket for their
pains OF course poor Carey WAS "a much
surprised as they a. the discovery, add on
the following day placed the uuAuthenlica-
ted little waifin the hands Of the authorities,
where It speedily died. Such was the Incl
dent occurring at about the time when the
Jouug lady above mentioned left home for a
visit and What do the olsrgyman's wife and
Atep.daugh,er do under tho circumstances
but remark TO some Of their female croniss
that the coincidence" ia very curious, and
that you never know what "pareel OF
girls may do next, and so on In short,
these pious ladies did 40 bewai themselves
over modern feminine dsgeueracy, did so
insinuAte and pat this aud that together,
tba, presently the whole town was vicious
with the cruel scandal, and the father OF the
absent girl heard and was WrA.hful. In
SsAntly recalling his daughter, to confront
and disprove the SANDER, the old gentleman
WAC Is very rich, was at the expense Of hir-
ing detectives, even, TO trace the foolish
fabrication to its source Women we're
found to confess what other women had told
them these others referred to others still
Aa their authorities and finally suit is now
being 6ereely pressed against the husband
add father of the original goSaips for such
rsparAtion as the law NAV give. Il ia sup
posed that the child found a. the door be
longsd to parents too poor to rear 1t, and
hoped that old Mr. Carey would adoptit as
his own nor is it believed that the defend
ants in the present suit know the least thing
o. the dstrimsnI Of her whom they are said
to have DETAINED but when women under
take to treat members Of their own sex dis
respectfully, they can do ii in q way com
pared with which the most vivacious mas
Sul'ne seAndAlizing is bu. the harmless
laughing Of fools.