The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-03-15
BE CAREFUL HOW YOU TALK.

II corn anu cane,
When you think of your neighbor, don't
mention his name.
For such I'm told, is dangerous to do,
Your intentions perhaps, he III misconstrue.
And say you've slandered, and caused him
Because you happened, to mention his
1t behooves US then, to be careful indeed,
How we mention pames lest we sow some
seed,
OF discoid, and or us will fall the blame,
Because we inadvertently. spoke some
name.
The most CT US on this point is very weak,
We often forget, and about our neighbor
speak,
And say something perhaps, trihe it may
be,
Enough to disturb the peace, and break
the harmony.
Best close your lips tight, and be very
discreet,
Don be free with opinions, and about your
neighbor speak,
For we are strictly informed, il: is dangerous
so to do,
Your neighbor'll misunderstood, and be
very mad at you.
And then there will be trouble, as trouble
often come,
BY some thoughtless act, as it often is with
some,
/ Better keep your wits about you, and your
eyes open vide,
| Lest anfirulx1 into
tide.
Keep your lips closed tight, whatever you
may do
Don't mention names at all, it's dangerous
to you,
You will stir up dark looks, and many a
scowling frown,
From your very best neighbors, everywhere
around.
Let your good sense urge you, again and
again,
To be discreet indeed, and don't speak too
plain,
Tis wiser to communicate in whispers, and
rot speak tall,
Than arouse up the devil, and his venge.
ance on you fall.
For he'll be stalking around ready to do
you harm,
With his black scowIing face without a
single charm,
And he'll be triumphing, in his evil iame
Gloating over your imprudence, in speaking
some ones name.
For we are all more or less guilty, of this
social crime,
Have been too free with our thoughts, in
speaking out our mind,
And the consequences have, all been the
same
For having inadvertently spoken some ones
name.
for one am fully determined, and resolved,
Never any more to become so involved,
I'll hem, and I'll cough, and even stammer
| too,
To keep from talking much-yes! Won't
you?
For I've never thought so much, as OF
recent date
OF the thoughtless ones doom, and the
talking mans fate,
| their belief,
| L Ou SulltJ VI OLCaoOI anu Is WOTS6
than thief.
You'll be scoffed and Knocked and your
name banded around,
All hands will be against you, in country
and in town,
And enemies by the hundred will spring
up here and there,
Like sayages in a wilderness, ready to lift
your hair.
You cannot hear the J ellS, silently in their
hearts,
Nor see the brandished tomahawk, nor
hear their whizzing darts,
They'll be much like savages, to you all
the same,
II you be so imprudent, as to speak peoples
name
There is no surer nor quicker way to
offend
Than by calling people names, l appre.
bend,
Human nature it seems, is very much alike
Call some peoples name, and they are
| ready to fight,
1t is true there is few, not always so,
Whose natures are better, and get angry
slow,
But the majority think is not very tame,
If you happen imprudent and call some
name.
There is no easier way, to explore ones
heart
The good or the bad he II soon impart,
If his soul has been starved, dwarfed small,
His anger will rise, when his name you
call.
But if his soul he bright, with the light OF
truth,
A quiet even temper will be the proof,
And no remark in his absence that you
may make,
Will rufie his feelings. or his character
shake.
For that consciousness within, of being