The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1882-12-08


them. Shut them of from one
route OF per6dy aud they start on
another. No amount OF moral IN
fiuence can persuade them to de-
sist. You might as we'll read the
Ten Commandments to a iock OF
crows, expecting them to retreat |
under the force of the moral sentl-
ment. They are found everywhere.
I think they thrive best in a village |
OF 100 or 200 inhabitants, where
everybody knows everybody, but
our large cities have q full share.
They are of a prying disposition.
They look into the basement win
dows to see people ut the morning
and evening meal. They can see
as far through the keyhole as other
people can see with the door wide
open. They can overhear conver-
satious at the other side Of the
room. To them the world Is u
whispering gallery. They put the
worst construction upon every,
thing. A wife decending into the
street with eyes a little dim with
tears, the event Is stimulating to
the taIr-bearer and sets the whis-
perer up In business for many
weeks. "Guess tina. husband and
wife dou't live happily together
"Warrant you the husband abuses
herr "Outrageous.r "Shall 60
over and tell the nelghbors, for
tkis thing has got to no stopped
"Shall bring the lnatt5r before tue
church, She rushes In oat OF
breath saying: "Dou't you think,
Mrs. All.ear, that our neighbor,
poor thing, came out OF her house
this morning crying. That brute
Of A. man has been abusing her.
Isu't is awfuli just think OF hav
ing our neighborhood disturbed by
snch goings on. WeH, have sus
pected it n long while. / saw him on
the street the other afternoon very
gracious and polite. l thought then
he might better 80 home and pay
attention to his own family, who
were probably ut that very time
sitting up stairs crying their eyes
out. Now, do persuade your hus-
band to 70 over and put an end
IN this outrage. Dear me. isn't II
awful p
THE FEMALE wHIsPERERs.
Whlsperers. The fact is tha one
woman set fre with a bad spiri,
can keep q whole neighborhood
ab0il. She does not have to bt
endowed with any special brain
1t is quite requisite that she be no.
encumbered with large family
that would keep her at home Sucl
must either be single or have M
children in order that she ma,
have time to attend to all the sec e
affairs Of the neighborhood. Womel
with large families seldom succeed
as whisperers. II anything goe
wrong she is the first one to hea
it. There seem telegraph wire'
and telephone between her and al
the household OF all the town. Fo
good, healthy news she has no ap
petite, Int for scraps and peeling
thrown from the scullery into th'
back yard she has great avidily y
The only day when she has no tim'
, TO 90 abroad is some day when ther'
is q new divorce case in the papers
, with three or four delightful. col
umns Of private letters published
That morning she has no time Il
! read even her bible. She ma,
saunter out toward night just t
+ get another paper to see If Their
IRE any more particulars of the cas-
to get hold Of. Satan does not hav'
to look very sharp after his evi
, dominion in that neighborbood. H
, has let out to her the whole con
tracl. She puts husbands an'
wives out with each other ant
. brothers and siso1rs in anSagonism
and malges the pastor disguise,
with his thurch and the church il
rikated With the pastor, and make
j neighbors who feel kindly towar'
each other suspicious and critical
kissing through their tech as On
rides past in q fine carriage saying
! 1--WE cnuld keep carriages if we new
| er poid our debts.u If two OF thre
/, Of these whisperers happen to NEE
they stir o acaldron that makes m
| think of the three witches Of MAJ
! beth, dancing around the boilin
I caldron in q dark cave. l hav
7 more respect for q poor waif Of ih
] street, floating down under the ga
i light, with no house and no Cox
! for she deceives no one as to whs
/ one Of those old hags Of respectabl
/ society, who covers MP her olaw
= Of death with fine shawl and bolt
( the he'll ofber heart with q damon
! breastpin.
4 The work Of
y 1.-THE MASCULINE Whisper
IL chiefly seen in business embaras
lnent. Hundreds OF You IT SON
: ! time haye .hill business trouble