Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-11
NOT 1 BIT CURIOUS.
Mrs. Gossip Always Attended to Her
Own Business
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN
WORDS WITH STARTLING RE-
SUITS. SOMETIMES - WORD OF
FOUR LETTERS THAT CAUSES
TROUBLE AT TIMES is APPLIC-
ABLE TO HER CASE

yes, am thankful that I am not one
of those morbidly curiousminded women
who are always prying into other peo-
pies affairs" said Mrs. Gossip to Mrs.
Higgins the other day when they CHANGED
to be riding home on the same car.
You know some people are always
morbidly curious to know all about their
neighbors' affairs, but I'm not that kind.
I've got all l can do TO attend to my own
affairs without-O, do you know who has
moved into the house on the corner near
us?"
mo, DON'T
Il can't find any one who does know
anything about them, and there seems
to be something mysterious about them.
They keep their curtains down SO close
all the time, and no one ever seems TO
be going out or in. I've heard their
names are Dynaud, and If 1t is they must
be newcomers here, for I looked in the
directory to-day at the apothecary's and
there's no such name in it.
I've watched the postman and I've
never seen him call there yet, and they
take milk from our milkman, and he says
that all he knows about them is that their
names are Dynaud They take four
quarts of milk a day, so there must be
several in the family or else they are
pretty extravagant in the use of milk
Haven't you called?'
Yes, but Mrs. Dynaud was out. or at
least the girl said she was out. l no.
ticed that they had very expensive rug
on the hall floor. and the nall table looked
like solid mahogany, and the portieres
between the hall and parlor were of silk
plush, so they must be in fairly comfort
able circumstances; but 1 can't find any
one who knows what Mr.. Dynauds bust
ness is.
IT rode on the same car with him the
other day and he got off at Bedford
street, and l got off there, too, and l
thought I'd see where he went but lost
track of him in the crowd. He was going
down Marsh street, when l lost sight of
him. There's so many saloons down that
street i! Do you think it possible that he
keeps a saloon?"
40, l hardly think So
at would be awful if we got a saloon
keeper an our street They're apt to be
such unrefned people. I've noticed that
Mrs. DynaUd has sealskin sack and
Russian sable cape, and an expensive
velvet coat, and it would be easy to
have them If he is in the saloon business.
l saw the marketman taking turkey
and whole basket of things in there
this morning, SO they must be going to
have company.
Il must notice if their parlor is lighted
or not this evening-not that l care any
thing about it, for l have a perfect con-
tempt for these prying, curious-minded
people who are more interested in their
neighbors' affairs than in their own. 1t
always shows a small and narrow mind
when one is curious like that and l do
hate smallness and narrowness and pry
ing curiosity in any one, don't your
Yes, l do
80 do l., and-there is that Mrs. Dy-
maud now just going up the steps of that
third house from the corner. What num-
Der IS it? Four hundred and ten. l know
the people living at 406, and I'm going
there tomorrow and see if they can tell
me who lives al 40. That was a black
silk Mrs. Dynaud had on, wasn't It? l
wonder who lives there? But I'll find out
before Tomorrow night-not that I'm
going to pry onto other peoples affairs.
for I'm thankful that I'm not one of that
kind. New York Journal