The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-24

draw to be delivered from, 1t is that OF
gossip, or rather from those who make
gossip. If you appear or the street in
suit of clothes that did you some service
las. year, the good souls marvel much
and comment otherwise that pleasantly
upon your shocking bad dress" lfyour
wife sweeps down the steps in new silk
gown, the fact is duly noted, and there
are many whispered surslises
as to whether the dress is paid
for or not. 1t amounts to lit
tie whether you are well or badly
dressed; there are dear friends to take an
interest in you and to make you the sub
iect of much vague speculation. And so
it runs through all the phases of life.
No matter what you do, the gossips will
pick you to pieces and paint you us you
never knew yourself. But the mesnest
of all kinds of gossips Is he or she VINO
seeks your confidence but TO betrsy 1t
with the hope of creating sensation.
Let US suppose you have put faith in
some one, and, for consistencys sake, we
will presume that some one to be
woman. She loudly protests that she is
different to her sex, that ii there is one
thing she does not do, it is gossip. Well,
you are q poor fool, and you believe her
You ask her advice on many points, in
the fond trust that you are safe in max
ing her the depository Of your secrets.
She says that she is different from other
women, and you hope that she Is. If
she seeks to disparage a mutual friend,
you scarcely know how to act a. first.
But when you reflect that she is no gos-
sip and that she knows the friend just as
well Us you do, and should be equally
jealous of his or her good name, as the
case may be, the thought ultimately
comes to you that she is right and you
are blind to the truth. With sly lnnu-
endo she undermines the struc
ture of your faith, and you stand be-
wldered among the ruins, she deity
plies you with questions. If you are so
far gone as to commit yourself by positive
answers, rest assured that you have not
heard the last of your folly. Or if you
have your wits about you to that extent
IS 10 fence with non cOmmittal replies, 1t
will be all the same Your words will, bn
misrepresented and your meaning per-
verted. In due time you may be as
founded TO learn that the woman who
claims to be no gossip is really the
greatest of all gossips, and that she has
done you the most injury, for
the simple reason that she artiully
made deep inroads upon your conf
dence. Alter this experience, pray do
not lose faith in human kiRd, but simply
credit the gossips with more cleverL css
than you dreamed of, aid at the same
time write yourself down bigger ass
that you, wrapped up in your egotism'
thought yourself to be. Rough exper-
fence of this kind will do you good, by
teaching you to set higher value upon
prudence and skepticism; and possibly,
after your have learned the
lesson, you will take the woman
who gossips, and is not ashamed to
own the fact, at her proper worth. OF
one thing you are thoroughly convinced,
and that is that her rambling talk is /,
harmless kind OF talk. She gossips for
the pure love of the thing, not with the
deliberate intention of stabbing you to
the heart She does not abuse your con-
tdence, because you never gave it to her'
and she i, an angel when compared with
that slyer demon of the tongue.
But must women In truth gossip or
die? 1t seems So for the moment that
they cease gossiping that moment they
do die. They are heroic to the last.
They brave!y work in harness upto the
last moment Of their earthly existence.
And after they are gonethe very tea
cups and saucers seem to speak and con-
tinue the strain through mere force
of habit. We should like
to abolish gossip from the
world, but know that it
would be hazardous undertaking. We
cannot get along very well without sweet
hearts, wives and mothers-in. law, there
fore we must learn to appreciate or make
light of gossip, and be happy-if We can.
1t costs US something of pang to say
it, but then we teiLL say it, if we choke in
the effort: Woman glorious woman
with all thy faults we love the still.
WARRINGTON COUNTY ITLuS.