The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-04
For the Cairo Bulletin.
TO KATE W.

III KATE W.
am an earnest admirer of your poems,
and the first thing do when the Sunday
mornings BULLETIN is placed in my
hands, is to hastily scan its familiar pages
to see if we are to be favored by one of
your gems, and always feel disappointed if
fail to find one; but upon reading your
"poetical contribution in this mornings
issue, | must confess, was somewhat dis
mayed, to say the very least. Why! my
dear Kate, are you not aware that we live
in too CLASSY house to admit OF our
throwing stones at our nelghboring towns,
this is the reason that the cudgling you
gave the Anna gossips in your contribu-
tons this morning, has so rufllcd my com
posurc. am not personally acquainted with
Anna or its inhabitants, but must say that
if it is really worse cursed with gossips
than our own town of Cairo,
then its inhabitants have my
deepest commiseration understand me-
| do not think Cairo is the worst place OF
all tor gossips, but it is bad enough in all
conscience, and so bad that do not think it
safe for us to point our fingers at other
towns, least they should say Look at
home" There are many good whole
souled Christian people here, who would
scorn to say, or do anything to injure a
neighbor, but to my sorrow am constrain-
ed to say that we have our full share Of
gossips, and as many poor unsuspecting
victim has been made to realize, busy
bodies, also. What do you think of a
woud-be leader of some society, associa-
ton, club, or whatever you may call it,
getting up in public and throwing out
insnuatlons and making assertions, as in.
furious as they were false, against one of
his or her nearest neighbors, against whom
they could have nothing, except that said
neighbor minded their own business and
refused to he hand and glove with scandal
mongers. What do you think I say of
person who would take this
cowardly way to assail another's
character, naming no names, but throwing
out hints so broad "that even he who runs
may read" So you think Anna can Oxford
worse "snake with vemon'd dart, than
the one OF which we have Just spoken. And
do you not think it would be a good time
and place, to establish mind your own
business club, or don't bear false witness
against your neighbors' club, or something
OF that sortl merely mention this Incl
dent, which was SO public that all must
know it, as one among many to prove to
you that CAIRO has its "slimy, twisting
ugly things" as well as Anna, and most
fortunate are you, if you never have, nor
never will be made to feel their sting.
have wished often that Kate W, l. A. NJ,
or Linwood would take up the pen against
the conscientiousless gossips that infest our
| town, or that the Reform Club would make
war against them. But after all, where is
the use, they exist, have ever and always
will exist in every town, hamlet and neigh.
borhood and all that can even be written,
said or sung will never extermnate them.
Then Kate don't feel so badly if your con-
fidence in anna" has been shaken, but con.
slider yourselffo fortunate if your confidence in
our own little city remains intact and that
you may have no rude awakening is the
wish of Your admirer
PAULINE.
Cairo H., Feb I'd 1881.