Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1884-04-18
"A Village Gossip

IlUNh hHHHg WNEl -r--- Nistt $50 al
! write this from a country Village
containing about 1000 inhabitapts, Il
is lovely little, town, nestled on side
bill to break off the raw winds Of winter
and the hurricanes of summer When
arrived this morning il seemed to me
as if there could not DO a bad man or
scolding woman in the village; but four
hours have passed, and I am a wiser
man, ! came here TO, see old Mrs
Brown about a pension she wants from
the government, and when We had I'm
ishcd our business | said aA' g'4,,,' y
81 sec you have four churches here. !"
ayes; but we never have dry ser
mons worth listening tor aai % la'8'
i "The men look intelligent and smart. .
"Humph aTheyare regular pckss!
There isn't u man 10 Farmville Who
knows enough to ask boot 10 horse
trade" sal on4 q % "a ta aa
''But the women look happy fpre.
tested. araa Or. ti.l.e - t
Then they look what they ain't,"
she answered. II don't believe there
is happy woman in the whole village
If you knew of the. awful carryings-on
here you would not look for happy
wives a3aij aai
what awful things do men do p
"You better ask what they don't do !
It's wonder to me that Farmville hasn't
shared the fate Of Sodom and Gomorrah. "
"Do they drink p
"Do they? Didn't | see even old
Deacon Harris weaving this way and
that as he climbed the bill last evening?
It's slippery path, Of course, but sober
men don't climb hill sideways"
"Do they gamble"
"Gamble What did Mrs. Potts tell
me that her brothers wife told Mrs.
Davis not month ago? Four of the
leading men in the place were caught
playing checkers for soda water. That's
nice example, isn't it?"
as Mrs. Potts nice p
"Nice. Why. she's the worst gossip
in town It's wonder the men don't
duck her in the mill-pond Y
"And Mrs. Davis? y
shes a hypocrite She'll talk sweet
to your face and abuse you behind your
back"
"Mrs George is well spoken Of 2"
by whom? I've known her fifteen
years, and never heard human being
speak well Of her! She eats opium aud
lies like trollep!" 80
isn't Mrs. McHenry all rrightT
"All right ? Why. no one can live in
the house next TO her,"
1.-THE Postmaster seems like a good
man." ventured to remark.
GOOD man Why, my husband al
ways believed that he was the very man
who threw yallar dog down our we'll
| don't say that he steals letters, but |
know that when sent two three-cen.
stamps in letter to my daughter in
Illinoy, sho never got it,
"But there must be one good man
here p
"There must, eh Well, wish you'd
pint him out to me. I'd like to polish
up my spectacles and take good look
at him."
"And isn't there faultlcss woman p
"Well, | don't want to seem vain and
oonccited, because none OF US are long
for this world, but ! expect I'm the
faultless one you are inquiring after p
| think | shall go out on the evening
train. Mrs. Brown says that every
house and lot is mortgaged, every bust
ness man is ready to Dust" and every
family has at least one scandal about
them On my way over to the postoffice
an hour ago | asked grocer il he knew
old Mrs. Brown.
know her! Why, she's u gossip, a
liar, a hypocrite and dead beat, and
too lazy to change her stockings more
than twice year.--Detroh Free Press.