Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-04-27

Dpecial Correspondence OF GaEstte and journal
New YORK, April 2i.--"Good morrow,
Ientle gossip" used to be the greeting
n the days of the divine William. Butln
those days gossip had u different sig.
hiflcance. 1t meant God .sibb" or
Goods neIghbor.h But the meaning Is
changed nowadays, and the kindly
gossip OF long ago is replaced by the
airty, mean, scandal-monger of to-day.
A nasty word is planted, and it brings
Iorth fruit of thorns aud rthistles, that
PAUSE misunderstanding and hoartaches.
Loyalty seems out Of fashion. A man
man may love woman honorably and
aevotedly; hear her spoken Of in the
lightest way; feel his cheek grow whittier
and his heart beat violently, and vet
never dare say II word, for his defence
Of her would hurt her more than his
silence.
People always chartered; they did that
IN the ark; but nowadays it isn't lust
Chatter, it is malice. Somebody is a
woman, alone in the world, and she
gains for herself friend-a man friend
who advises her, who is considerable
oil her, and who only asks in return that
he may see her and talk to her for n
little while; and that they may have
pleasant, innocent hours together. And
what does the world say? 1t shrugs its
shoulders, it lifts its eyebrows, it laughs
tcoiilngly, and says, Perhaps" And
'he woman soon gets II bar sinister
across her escutcheon, and the sponge
Df innocence and honor cannot blot it
out
DANGEROUS TONGUES.
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promise TO his mother that he would
look after some little orphans, and he
Keeps his word. Being a man and
being generous, he makes them COM
Portable and happy, and the gossips sit
oil afar and glggle, and look knowingly
III each other, and after awhile one of
The most impudent will say something
10 the man, something intended TO
be funny, and the man will look
dazed and wondering, and then he will
go off by himself and think, "What is
the use of trying to do right when YOU
are always misunderstood? 2" And when
those orphan babies are men and women
there will be some old gossip ready to
wink and make nasty suggestions about
their birth
1t is hard to put it down, this talk of
the foul-mouthed. II had nv way |
would have everybody who said or even
limited low and vulgar things about their
neighbors made to stand in a public
square with their hands tied together.
bearing on their breasts the letter :,
which stood for "Scandalmonger," in
bright blue, and then have their mouths
washed out with vitriol, Don't You
agree we me? And then what would
you do with that awful weapon of the
scandalmonger? For he doesn't conIine
himself to his tongue. | mean The
anonymous letter. A thief in the night
Is honorable beside the ANONYMOUS
letter-wrlter. Against the first You can
use muscle, you can raise your voice,
you can make some SORT of fight; against
the last you can do nothing. The fact
that you are woman forces YOU 10
Keep sui before this indignity, against
which there is no redress, and so, woman
or man, You have to suffer like some
BODY with hidden cancer, until, thank
God, by the laws of compensation there
comes some loving act that will cause
you 70 forget the suffering
what Is the matter with men and
women that they cant do the nice. the
Kindly thing one toward the other :?
My TREND, 1t is quite as easy, and, III
addition, II would make everything 20
so much smoother, Sometimes I think
that, IN the various sort of helis that
have been described, that one will be
the most awful which is intended for
the scandalmonger, the beast in human
form Who takes away the characters Of
women, the honor of men, and even
dares throw its dirty slime over the his.
tories of little children. But, there.
don't want to talk any more about it,.
unfortunately, the scandalmonger
exists, and somebody with greater
muscle and more brain than | will dis
cover powder some day that will exter.
inmate the entire species.
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very nice woman ,Yroto
and asked me if I wnro ,,,i,, i'to letler
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/ hsd never ciyen on', ~ 10 "hictl
after readinr No ,attSyr 'usnt, p"t
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tell Won wbv. In the firsi ,,,ooa wv WV
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itouyhtn't to and mol,o 80 VIII
uncomfortahie, then ~
ridiculous weakness far haal, liz -, :,
probably mt NV foot Il, !, n,'l n. \ y
ing woman wnnld Ina :, Jas ~, ~ liy
me nc I came down stairs 'Ti,p pt'pH "a
Ekirt does not nossess a ii -. nooP'
II docs not seam co,n,.tt;sh - INC.
groceful and certoinI,i ,,,,',,t - = hnI
sesaone whnn one Il IA ,.ae2' nG'ouy
likes the mirror 10 show hnrl s,,,,,a,I, ~
rather dainty And this wnIid ~, i,',!s