The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-03
IndIscrefions Of the Gossips.


Some odiOus cynic recommended a
wife and mother-in-law as the best me
diums for making known the things that
all the world is interested IN knowing.
OF course no man worthy the name will
subscribe altogether to such a brutality
as this. There have often been known
mothers in-law who didnt keep the latch
KEY nor count the wine bottles. There
are known to be wives who do not in
woke mamma" when the little aggrava-
tons that are bound to mar the smooth
est matrimonial excursions intervene be-
tween the kisses of breakfast and the
pouting Of midnight But, all this be
ing admitted, why IS 1t that a public
place Is chosen by preference for the I'M
raveling Of household knots or the toss
ing about of the ball of scandal? Why
is it that when she gets her marabout
feather, sealskin cloak and seyen-buttOn
kids on the Joy of the house carries the
pent-up treasures of the home on the
end of her tongue to shrill out to an
audience of strangers in the parquette,
balcony or dress circle
During the last Empire, as well as the
first, a favorite trick of the head of the
police was the creation of public sentl-
ment by an ingenious process, of which
Wherever crowds came together some in
tensely respectable member of society
would let fall a remark criticising sharply
the government or its measures. To
this open challenge a comrade, also
plethoric in all the outward signs Of
gentilitv. would make an equal pointed
declaration of his admiration for the
hbeled officials. The conversation
would, of course, assume the wOnted
French vivacity and airy phantasy of IL
lustration that makes even the most
ordinary talk OF the Gallo person as
good as O play. OF course IN the end the
/ imperial champion was sure to get the
| better of his artrabilious adversary, and
the listeners were of course impressed
by all they had heard from the well-in-
formed intellectual athletes. In the ma
lority of encounters the pebble of con-
versation thrown into the pool set con-
tinually growing circles IN motion, so
that the whole company were soon push
ing on the propaganda, other agents be
! ing conveniently stationed to give II the
proper piquancy of personality and rlsl-
BILE scandal.
The next great original Barnum will
| find it for his gain to seize this hlnt.
| Who that has ever been in a theater or
| crowd has not marked the proneness oil
women to take the world into their con-
/ fidence? Conversation containing init
mate details of domestic history IS
! bowled out trippIngly on the tongue, the
/ discoursive gossip casting glances on all
| sides to see if there Is an attentive circle
taking In her enlivening condolences
Who that has sat behind personages al
hicted with this craze at a public per
Torrance that has not longed for the
ancient Persian custom that forbade
women opening their mouths III the
| presence Of strangers? But the women
are not the worst in these public indus
cretions. The artless youth Of the period
has his condolences to make IN pubic
and these ut the awkward moment when
an elderly neighbor fatigued with the
inanitics of actual life seeks surcease IN
the mimic humors Of the scene. At such
a moment it really does not interest hum
to know down to the utmost detail the
lurid amours Of the callOw youths who
seek in the theater an audience for their
infinItesimal legs and indescubableb body
gear generally, rather than the wit and
wisdom of the play. 1t Is true that dur
inc iutermissiOus persons who have not
seen each other for some time have the
social rights of the drawing room; but
during such intervals every one Is sup
posed TO be bent on entertaining ms or
her neighbor, and the general buzz Is
supposed 10 cover any ordinary tone OF
voice, unless groups of lovers or moth
ers-in-Iaw protecting their darllngs from
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