The Cairo bulletin., 1905-06-11
woMAN's HONOR.


folliwing beautiful sentiment SO elo
quently expressed:
A beautiful and fragrant flower is
coaXed into bloom by the gen al sun
shine Of tropical countries II ISL
called the cameIia and is 50 Eensi
tive and tender that If 1t be touched
with hut breath no power on earth
can prevent the blight or wipe away
the stain.
Such flower is the good name Of
woman,
One breath Of suspicion, one word
Of SANDER, VII leave It married and
,ruised forever.
Men and women are net sufficiently
mindful Of this fact
Too often trifles light as air are dis
orted BY the frivolous or the tase
II the nngentle into the magnitude
IF damning facts.
Too often lies born in the hearts
If SC undrels and circulated by the
'ips of fools have VIII spered reputa.
tions to death. Once started, they
ravel like winged vampires on their
missions Of infamy. gathering filth
rs they pass from knayish lip to fool
isb ear and ont again.
Thus common gossip takes up the
work Of spreading the compost upon
| the ia rest flowers
Gossip is the black witch Of false
| hood, the courier Of bad news. the
Fhandmaiden Of SANDER. II whispers
evil into the ear Of the world. It
Is dumb to utter good, but with a
thousand tongues it spreada the base.
the vile and the impure II repeats
nothing that is not bad 1t forgets
Everything that y god 1t Is a
snake In the grass filthy reptile
that travels with its belly To the
ground. leaving its trail Of slime re
hind II can damn with faint praise
and without sneerlng teach the rest
ITO sheer. 1t is the master of in
nuendo 1t can circulate falsehood
with knowing wInks and with hundred
4 arts of deception convey the lie It
dareS not utter
This is gossip and it is more. It
lis a human Harpie who with unsated
appetite leaves its feast on fostering
regulations In the charnel house Of
character ID devour the good name
of the innocent and pure. II is the
arch enemy Of woman's honor and
has with its lying tongue stabbed
many a reputation in the back.
| There was time when it was
less common to speak lightly Of the
| reputation Of a woman There was
I'M time when newspapers were Re 4
lprone to publish stories compromis
ing q woman's honor We were near
the pioneer ways and the shotgun
methods of protecting the good name
Of women obtained by common con
sent and those who dared to speab
disparagingly Of any Of them did &
at their imminent peril But with
the advance of civ Iization people
have become more law abiding, there
is more Of a disposition to adjus
all differences in the courts Blu
this. instead of making men less
careful OF the attacks they maxi
I Iunou women 1t should make then
h more careful They should d.
a through reverence and respect for tn
sex what fear of shotgun mad
them do a generation ago. We ar
2 glad Of the growth # the law abb,
d ing shirt. but we find II in our heart
! TO with for revival Of that old tim
/ chivalry which made every man tn
guardian Of every woman's honor an
: decreed that the slightest stigm
y could only he washed away in blood
The newspapers Of this countr
10 who fight the battles Of law and 0
" der should be the first by precept an
a. example TO protect and shield ii
good name Of women No stoI
~ should be printed concerning the
IN and compromising them VIII eli migl
EN- be untrue. and when woman has I
Cd wealth. no influential friends not
i ing but her good nameshc shou
appeal for protection to no editor
ne vain.
do woman's homer is worth mo
than newspaper story, and II Is b,
ter not to print the news than TO u
Justly destroy the reputation of