The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

She Discourses Again on This, That and
the other Thing.
| Oh, for thousand tongues to sing
the praises OF the man or woman who
jog right along through life attending
strictly to their own business.
~
People who make a practice of run
ming all over the neighborhood sowing
the seeds of discord and scandal, cause
more genuine heartache and anguish
in community than forty saloons
running wide open seven days in the
week.
! Some people apparently banker for
gossip as vehemently as an old topper
longs for his grog. They love to take
some idle, groundless rumor and mag
Nifty it until the whole neighborhood is
in an uproar.
If some women would spend one
third as much time mending their hus-
bands clothes as they do in attempting
to find out whether Mrs. Jones sister,
who lives in Chicago, is really working
in law office, or is chambermaid at
some hotel, there would be fewer men
in every community with their clothes
held together with safety pins.
One little, weak woman who is "built
right" often causes father to be ar
rayed against son-wife against hus-
band = and husband against mother-in
law. Take one of those octagonal
family matinees -one of those oldfash-
toned eight cornered rows in which
every member Of the family takes an
active part, and you usually find in its
wake work for the undertaken.
Some women of this stripe, under
false pretenses, drift into the church,
and then the devil laughs out loud
They make a mockery of religion, and
after getting the whole congregation
looking cross eyed at each other, they
join some other church.
A gossip of the masculine gender is
even more of nuisance than those Of
the weaker sex. The man who stands
in the country store with one hand in
the cracker barrel, is both a bore and
an eye sore. He may not know much
about the doings of congress, but he
foil oil .1h tha I'm of
every man in town with one hand tied
behind him.
In spreading news with lightning
rapidity, the thoroughbred gossip out
rivals the telegraph and long distance
telephone Reports may be trifie
conflicting, but they get there just the
same.
Take for instance, one of those
women whose mouth looks like a saw
toothed trap and whose tongue rattles
like the loose spokes in an old buggy
wheel. She should be labeled 'poison"
and set on the top shelf out of reach of
the children.
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There is the smooth, confidential
gossip-the man or woman who always
have something to tell you ''in secret.
Turn a deaf ear to their cunning pala-
yer, for at last they Z stingeth like an
adder and biteth like a serpent.
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No human being on earth feels half
so small as the woman who has pound
ed her dear husband over the head
with a broom, because Mrs. So and So
told her that hubby" winked at the
hired girl, when she finds out that Mrs.
o-and-So is an infamous liar. Many
good man goes through life lodging
fiat irons and frying pans all on account
of some neighbor losing control of their
mouth.
Thousands of once happy homes have
been turned inside out by the prema-
ture explosion of some outsiders mouth.
1t is worse than folly for a person chat
ing under a load of SANDER heaped
upon them by some gossip, to seek
redress by attempting to disprove some
erroneous story; and he who attempts
it will wax hot under the collar.
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The man who claps his hands at the
downfall of brother. and the woman
who points the finger Of scorn at an
unfortunate sister and proclaims the
story of her shame from the housetops,
are joint heirs to the devil and should
be Stunned as a pest house.
Many an afectionate husband has
been compelled to sleep in the barn
with his horse, simply because some