Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30

| great, big, f1ne-looliug chap-as much as 10
say You are the dearest thing in tbs
| world And il was only the persuasion Of
my maternal parent that kept ne from tell
ing her how pretty she was. There are
lot OF pretty girls in WaShinCtOn-they are
| not particularly well dressed and they don't
seem TO know how 10 make the most OF
their good looks, but they always remind
me Of those roses that live out of doors dur
ing the winter, and bloom in the spring and
summer; that while they haven't SO many
petals and are not so large, are Yet thou
sand times sweeter than the cultivated
rose, which, gaining in size, has lost lis
chief charm
on, CAN'T THE WOMEN GOSSIP
Well, what diSpleased me The most, sha
wants to know then. The gOssipS a. the
summer hotels. l see some woman had
another one arrested, or something Of thai
sort, for talking against her. and though /
don't know VINO the people are, ! don't
doubt that It was deserved. II me o.d days
the scdndal-mOuCer used 10 nave 10 sit ia
the stocks, and il Is pity they don't revive
the custom now. Women say the most
horrible things about women without finch
ing, and the summer sun. which makes al
the weeds spring m. seems 10 bring hs
scanGal-monger 10 the fore with them. !.
is none Of your business, AMI Is none Of
u
that IS 4 favorite question by the C.sSeIa-
inator of news 1T the sumner tOJe-. US
none of YOUR business and lis none UiT.Ie.
rs 10 the relations between people, 80 loHI
as they behave themselves properly ia -
public place My friend, We hIrel beside
sinners in church. VIC are going 10 meet
them i'll great many other places. and We
may be thankful If our OWE account CD the
book Of life is rs straight THAT of some
of the so-cailed sinners. The scandal
monger elects herself q saint | ne. y hear
a woman talking about other women, a.
nouncing that she knows they are fast wO-
men, that she knows they are bad women,
or that she knows they are drUnkdrds, thai
! don't feel ike asking her II she hasn't
gone among just such i set - have gained
all this information. Good women don
know-it IS only the women who have gOuo
through the mill who caE carefully pick OUT
the chaf from the wheat
Then my friend asks me-
WILL. WHAT ABOUT TIL MEN
And am forced Ia tell tie truth, which
is that the men don't bother themselves
about gossip generally. and that when th,.y-
do they are not apt 10 be men; they hsye
either become 50 elderly that they count III
as women or else they are 50 young they
are counted sCxleSS. But ! don't want ~
think about the disagreeabie things, now
that have come home; l want 10 reiuenbe'
the agreeable ones, the pleasant people
said, the dogs with whom | became a.
quainted, even the organ grinder who mate
music for nc, and gave ne the kind of bow
that only IN Italian organ grindcrur 4 stage
brigand can manage. It's much better
after all. to just put down in your book The
pleasant things II is much better 10 blot
out even the memories Of the people yuu
didn't like, nut Try ana remember, and re
member well the lesson that the summer
time has taught YOU You have learned
that speech may be silver. but silence Is
gold. Silence is 10 the GIsd"reeabieS,
silence abou, YOUR own and other peoples
affairs.
TOW ABOUT orr FIGHTS
Have YOU or ! any right % look clrlously
or even speak about eyes that look Us II
they had been shedding tears
Have You or ] u right to wonder IL speech
why two people who arc married seem 10
try to ignore each other
Have you or ] i gi.sht 20 liud fault with
somebody because she doesn't choose 10
give us her whole history
Have You or | a right 10 take II for
granted that something is wrong simply
because we haven't had explained 10 Us the
something which is right,
No, we haven't. Socially we have but
one right in this world, and that Is to mind
our own business, and don't mean that in
its nasty. hard sense, in the sense of never
doing kind thing because we are so wrapt
up in ourselves. ] mean II in the sense of al
tending TO our own affairs and not discuss
ing or interfering with those of our neigh
bOrs. The right way to mind Your own
business is to follow the golden rule, and 10
do unto others as you would be done by.
Isn't that true, BAB.