The Nome nugget., 1901-12-07
TWO EVILS. UNDER THE SUM-.

 disease The one is hardto shake off the other is wel~nisA an incurable ilk Critics for ages have talked and writenAof both. Both old Eden for dsd net scandal invade the Garden? Scandal 1surshea in the days ofNOeh~ after he had emerged from the ark, planted vineyard and partsken of ths juice of the grape Scandal has existed through oa the ages, in fct for the word has its equivalent in the ancient Greek But gossip seems to have been of more modern birth. We know that the ancien, Romans talked with each other the streets of i'm peral Rome and while enjoying their baths but to suppose tka they discussed literature and the arts, politics and science, gossiped the num- Der of seserces that of their ntmates had lost game of chance? No doubt they did both. But in the days os the early Anglo-Saxons gossip a far less harmful word than it is today. In fact, its meaning has undergone an entire change The Anglo Saxon word for gossip was god-sibb, relation sponsor n baptism, or relation by religious obli- gasion Later gossi ip meant 'te be companion' The definition given by Shakespeare is ito prate; to chat; to talk much" But the modern meaning s :: "To run about and tattle; to tell tales.''
 Thus see how by easy deelensions a once re- hgiously yinclhed innocuous word has developed into strifecreating jade. Its senior sister, scandal, is not whit better. It's venom runs keener and works more deadly mischief Scandal may have its founda. ten in fact, however; gossip rarely does. Scandal may find its way into prnt in fact it does frequently; but gossip is lighter, vapid, but sometimes no less deadly. Scandal may be real, tangible, terrible Both are evils that have existed under the sum- Solomon created scandal a Israel when he took the Egyptian to wife David, when he dallied with the tair Bathsbeba- There are many instances of the early start that scandal had in the history of the human race. We need neither multiply nor moralize upon them Scandal, told, is rolled as sweet morsel under the tongue, while its knight errant, gossip fits hither and thther to the uttermos ends of the eartb Gossip is the fruit of the tongue it is rarely conceived in the brain it is as idle as it is vicious, blighting both the puryeyor and the re- cipient It St. Paul who said that the ''tongue is an evil member, full of deadly poison, working mischief" Solomon has been classed the wisest of men, but we sometimes think he had close com- petitor ID Paul. It ought to be easy to say kind word of the people yoN meet as an unkind one While it is true that 'words are but leaves and wheue they most abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found," anthecaly is just as true that many word at random spoken may bsuse or heal a heart that's broken"
 It will pay anyone to speak we'll, think we'll and act we'll toward his fellow The cultivation of envious, malicious, backbting censorious disposi-
 
 trary. it will bseed unmercful disaster whose end is contempt, if not obloquy, "A bird lying dead in its cozy nes with it's carol ne
 heard, No sadder is than human sou crushed by cruel word The scar that is made by unknd will remain till
 the heart is clay, And taught but the touch of the angel Death smooth
 the scar away. And love that is slain by scornfu word never live
 again; The merry carol of bird thrills through blindng ran The world would be happy place if harsh words were
 spoken; A
 And fewer be dimmed with tears hearts be
 broken.
 Sometimes it seems so hardso hard-for human hearts
 bear, But day will understand, some day we will not
 care. why not use the tendbr words of love- instead e4 hse Iis better far to speak them now, before too late"
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