The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-10-16

BE- Me Centre Bridge Correspondent of
Doulest0on Democrat


By The Centre Bridge Correspondent of tho
DoyIestoaon Democrat.
GPuBLIsHRD BY REQUEST.
Reader, do you know Mr.. Grnndy He is
most Objectionable character /; be attends
largely to the affairs of otLers, knows all
aboat the business Of his neighbors, delights
In the moral and financial downfall of all bet
ter men than himself, and having through
life looked after the business Of his neighbols
and neglected bis own, is worth but little in
property. and below the ordinary intellectual
" and morally. He seldom belongs to
church, as be cau rarely find minister or u
congregation 80 low ID tho scale Of humanity
as to suit his debased nature, His carly life
has been bad, be has ffequented places Of bad
repute, and although age has somewiAm
changed his nature, Is still as corrupt iii heat
as he was in the earlier period Of life and
judges bis fellow man by his own Standard
Long indeed would be the catalogue OF the
follies and misdemeanors of this individual If
he could spare time 10 recite them, but with
this brief notice we must leave him to attond
to that whitening curse of almost every vii
lage, and town, and of society generally, Mrs
Grundy. She is a ten.fold worse character
than her counterpart of the other sex. Her
grand hobby is defamation to collect all the
petty scandals of the vicinity, and retail them
out in such way as to cause the largest
amount of unhappiness and discor6 and the
most intense mental suffering all around her;
showing the most fendish joy when her de-
ntkn II H.. Al.
that seem to live on the noxious effluvia aris-
ing from the unhealthy marshes of the torrid
zone, does this cesspool of humanity appoar
to live and move and have her being in the
moral desolation she can produce around her.
She knows all about the shortcomings of her
neighbors, of the inidelity of the husband to
the wife, and the wife to the husband, and
their failure to train up their children proper
ly, while the rank weeds of folly, neglect and
often of gross immortality, are growing thick
ly around and within her very household -
Corrupt herself she fancies every one impure.
liar she deems all around her false, except
those who aid or conntcnance her nefarious
work. She is often the member Of church,
and age having extinguished the follies and
Intersections Of her early life, but not the re-
collection Of them, she now. judges the youth
full members of her sex by her own stand ard
during her carly career and is ever ready to
misrepresent and exaggerate slight depart
ures from reotitude, aud persecute without
mercy, when only the plying hand OF charity
and gentle admonition should be extended -
The male members Of the congregation, and
citizens not members, who have lived the
most exemplary lives are judged with merc'-
less severity without waiting for proof, II
they happen to fall under the ban of suspicion
the minister is safe as long as he is popular,
and entirely sustained, but woe unto him if he
only incurs the displeasure Or is suspected of
any imaginary wrong by a half dozen men,
bers. Nothing delights her SO much as the
reported downfall of those Of either sex who
have always led the most correct lives, who
have been the most useful to society, and per-
haps, too, to the one who is now willing to
crush them in the dust. The field Of opera
ton is the street, the yard fence, the ktch, IL
door, the vestibnle of the church, and in short
everywhere, and ct all hours where lis
teners can be found to receive the moral
poison she distills We run back for fifty
years and grasp up material to deneate
character that has lived in all ages, and which
a higher civilization has not extinguished,
and now when about to close our short COM
munication, suggest that as we have societies
for the suppression of vice, and for preven-
ton of cruelties to animals and children, that
we also have one for protection from the as-
saults of the Mr.. and Mrs. Grundys. Reader,
do not misunderstood us, our object has not
been TO personate, but to delineate a charac-
ter, leaving its application to those who are
entitled to it and If it shall cause the scales
TO fall from the eyes of the Grundys and in
duce them to lead better and more useful
lives, the community will be largely benefited
and the writer will deem himself greatly re-
warded.