The Yale expositor., 1899-07-14

| The chief requsition is that the wom-
an have a small family or no family
at all, because, if she have large
family, then she would have to stay
at home and look after theIa. 1t is
very important that she be single, or
have no children at all, and Lien she
can attend to all the secrets OF the
| neighborhood all the time A woman
with large family makes a very poor
whisperer.
1t is astonishing how these whisper
ers gather up everything. They know
everything that happens. There are
telephone and telegraph wires reach
ing from their ears to all the houses
in the neighborhood. They have no
taste for healthy news, but for the
scraps and Feelings thrown out OF the
scullery into the back yard they have
great avidity. On the day when there
is a new scandal il the newspapers
they have no time 10 go abroad. On
the day when there are four or five
columns of delightful private letters
| published in a divorce case, she stays
at home and reads and reads. No time
for her Bible that day. but toward
night, perhaps, she may find time to
run out little while and see whether
there are any new developments.
Satan does not have to keep very
sharp lookout for his evil dominion In
that neighborhood He has let out to
her the whole contract. She gets hus-
bands and wives into quarrel, and
brothers and sisters into aItagonism,
and she disgusts the pastor with the
flock and the flock with the pastor, and
she makes neighbors, who before were
kindly disposed toward each other.
over suspicious and critical, so when
one Of the neighbors passes by in a
carriage, they hiss through their teeth
and say: "Ah, we could all keep car
riages if we never paid our debts!"
When two or three whisperers get
together they stir caldron Of trouble,
which makes me think OF the three
witches of Macbeth dancing around a
| boiling caldron in a dark cave:
Double, double, toll and trouble,
| Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of fenny snake
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind worms sting
Lizards leg, and owlet's wing
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like hell both boil and bubble.
Double, double, toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble,
Scale Of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches mummy; nav and gulf
or the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Make the cruel thick and stark;
Add thereto tigers chaudron
For the ingredients of our caldron.
Double, double. toll and trouble,
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with baboon's blood;
Then the charm is firm and good.
l would only change Shakespeare in
this, that. where he puts the word
witch" l would put the word "whis-
perez" All, what caldronl Did you
ever get taste of it? / have more
respect for the poor waif OF the street
that goes down under the gaslight,
with no home and no God-for she de-
ceives no one as to what she is-than
l have for these hays of respectable
society who cover up their tiger claws
with a fine shawl, and bolt the hell
of their heart with a diamond breast
| pin!
The work of masculine whlsperers
Is chiefly seen In the embarrassment
Of business. Now, / suppose, there
are hundreds of men here who at
some time have been In business
trouble. l will undertake to say that
in nine cases out of ten it was the
result of some whisperer's work. The
whisperer uttered some suspicion in
regard to your credit. You sold your
horse and carriage because you had no
use for them, and the whisperer said:
sold his horse and carriage because
he had to sell them. The fact that
he sold his horse and carriage shows
he is going down in business"
One of your friends gets embarrassed
ard you are little involved with him.
The whisperer says: II wonder IL he
can stand under all this pressure?
think he is going down. l think he
will have to give up" You borrow
money out OF bank and a director
whispers outside about it, and after a
while the suspicion gets fairly started,
and it leaps from one whisperer's lips
to another whisperer's lips, until all
the people you owe want their money
and want 1t right away, and the BUSH
ness circles come around you like 4
pack of wolves. and though you had
assets four times more than we're nee
essary to meet your liabilities, crash!
went everything. Whisperers Oh,
how much business men have suffered.
Are any of you given to this habit Of
whispering about others? Let me per-
suade you to desist. Mount Taurus
was great place for eagles, and
cranes would fly along that way. and
they would cackle so loud that the
eagles would know of their coming,
and they would pounce upon them and