The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-04-12
Always Speaking Ones Mind.

10y ~Ny NASoC' oolo MISS
Debby. Thought you'd come down
little in your pride. Well, now, l
should just like to have you come
around to our house tomorrow and do a
washing for me. I've got the rheuma-
tbs SO bad in my arm, can't do it my
self, and Jane Kennedy asks a dollar a
day, and l won't pay that to nobody.
Fifty cents is big price. Come early,
COS I've two weeks wash"
81 am sorry l can't oblige you, Miss
Debby,' said Lucy, as she went on
crimping the ruffies on baby's apron.
"But cannot go out to work. can
not leave my family, even if wished
to-"
"Don't 60 out to work ! Pretty kind
OF washerwoman, l should say Why,
you can't expect much custom at that
rate
81 have all l wish," said Lucy,
cheerfully. 81 could have more if l
would take it in"
''Well, it's my opinion folks had
better make all they can. They'll see
the time they'll need it, if they don't
now. III was young and spry and
needy, and anybody offered me fifty
cents for days work, l would take
it."
mot if you would lose dollar by
the means, would you, Miss Debby :"
said Lucy, little amused.
The spinister was getting vexed and
losing ground. So she soon beat a re-
treat, and Lucy took up her irons
again.
"What will become of that poor
woman when she is old?" thought Lucy.
"Who will have the grace to take care
of her: Her brother is too misery, and
his wife and she are on bad terms so
she could hardly make her home there.
What mistake to spend life in aliena-
ting the hearts of all her fellow mortalsl
] expect it will be my lot to heap Goals
of fire on her head! l have PRESENT.
ment of it already and she smiled to
herself, as she tried hot iron.
Who has not in the circle of her &C
quaintances a Miss Debby or two ;
Sometimes their names are less homely,
and they have wider range of accom-
plishments-tbey move in a higher cir
Gle, and dress richly. But velvet can
not hide their native coarseness, which
they try to palm off as frankness. !"
No woman is a lady who knowingly
and willingly wounds the feelings of
another. If an unpleasant truth must
be told, fine nature does it as deli
actely as it can be done, and even then it
gives almost as much pain to the speak
er as to the listener. But the woman
who tries to pass off her insufferable
impertinence as "candor" and crank
ness" and Independence" scents ill
news as the crow his food. She gloats
over it. Nothing SO suits her as to
stake up report against her neigh
Dor" and carry it home to her very
door stone. If she can make hearts
bleed and writhe, she looks on with
the secret joy of an arch-inquisitor. If
the real causes of many sad, disgrace
full divorce cases were sifted to the bot
tom, ! wonder how many would be
found to have started from some such
frank intermeddler, who "always spoke
her mind!''
Retribution may come slowly, but l
think it generally does come. Wheth-
er it is their outdoor exercise, or be-
cause they are constitutionally tough,
these candid folks are apt to live to old
age. And then those whom they have
most injured may well compassionate
them. Unloved and unhonored, oh,
how weary old age must be! Money
cannot buy loving attendance when life
has become bundle of infrmities. If
one can be found willing to heap Goals
of fire on their heads in the way of
cheering and comforting, they are for
tunate indeed.
Learn lesson from such a charac-
ter, and do not lay in store such a fut-
ure. Learn to keep great many
thoughts you have all to yourself
Don't speak your mind, if you have
reason to believe it will be even I'M
pleasant to another. Say pleasant
things when you can truthfully, and
when you cannot, keep still. Your
opinion is really of no great Importance
to the world, especially if you fancy it
quite the reverse. True merit is
always modest One true, warm friend,
whose face brightens when you come
in, may be worth untold gold to you
some day. Do not ALLEVIATE a heart
that different manner might bind to
you forever.