The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-09-22


eyes, O course it's solemn ali,
portant, you know but it's very ha.
py time, after all, when people love each
other. Shall we go on with the SER
vice2"
"Yis, your riverence," they both re-
Piled
And they were soon made one in the
bonds of matrimony, and that young
minister is now very careful how he
brings on the solemn view of matrimony
to timid couples.
A clergyman was called on upon one
occasion to oficiate at colored we'd
ling.
'We assure, sah," said the gentle
manly darkey, "that this yere wedding
is to be very abrQbOS-quite FmOde,
sah."
every well," replied the clergyman,
81 will try to do everything in my power
to crafty the wishes Of the parties.
So, after the dinner and dancing and
supping were over the groom's best man
called again on the minister, and left
MIN the usual Zee.
"1hope everything was as your friends
desired it," said the urbane clergyman.
"Well, sab, to tell the truth, Mr..
Johnson was a little disappointed" an
swered the groomsman.
"Why, l took my robes" said the
minister.
eyes, sah-it wasn't that"
81 adhered to the rubrics of the
church.
eyes, sah-that was all right. "
81 was punctual, and shook hands
with the couple. What more could 1
do ?''
"Weil, sab, Mr. Johnson he kind O.
felt hurt, you see, because you didn't
= bride"
What is the cure T0r s;yz=-7--
culture. There is good deal of fgossip
that has no malignity in it. Good ma
tured people talk about their neighbors
because, they have nothing else to talk
about. As we write there comes to us
the picture of family of young ladies.
We have seen them at home, we have met
them in the galleries of art, we have
caught glimpses of them going from
bookstore, or alibrary, with afreshvol-
ume in their hands. When we meet
them, they are full ofwhat they have seen
and read. They are brimming with queS-
tions. One topic of conversation IS
dropped only to give place to another
in which they are interested. We have
left them, after a delightful hour, slim
ulated and refreshed, and during the
whole hour not a neighbor's garment
was soiled by so much as touch. They
had something to talk about. They
knew something and wanted to know
more. They could listen as we'll as they
could talk To speak freely of neigh
boris doings and belongings would have
seemed an impertinence to them, and
of course, an impropriety. They had
no temptation to gossip, because the
doings of their neighbors formed sub
iect very much less interesting than
those which grew out Of their knowledge
and culture.
And this tells the whole story. The
confirmed gossip is always either mali
cious or ignorant. The one variety
needs change of heart and the other a
change of pasture. Gossip is always a
personal confession either of malice or
imbecility, and the young should not
only shun it, but by the most thorough
culture relieve themselves form all temp
tations to indulge in it. 1t is low, friv-
olous, and too often dirty business.
There are country neighborhoods in
which it RACES like a pest. Churches
are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are
made enemies by it for life. In many
persons it degenerates into chronic dis
ease, which is practicallyincurable. Let
the young cure it while they may
.Scy1bner'S Monthly.