Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-10
SAYS GOSSIP IS
COODFORG GIRLS
Miss HarrIe Fumade Gives
New Workers Advice on
Social Work.
Continued From Page One.

in the hat herself At any rate. here's
a safe rule 1or gossip. Say nothing
that you would not say with the best
viii in the world to the person herself
Gossip about a person that you would
repeat with a smile on your face and
glow of kindness in your heart, to her
face, will never hurt any one. I read
a story once called The Golden Cos
sip that | shall never forget. The
heroine was a circulator of small talk,
but ii was talk that mended heart frac-
lures and helped toward good feeling.
She repeated what she heard when she
knew it would do good She was inter-
ested in others affairs and liked to give
them a friendly push. That woman was
saint. If angels could descend from
heaven am sure they would gossip for
gossip is such help toward good feel
ing know a woman who ended a
neighborhood feud by gossip. Her good
gossip healed hurts and reunited
friends whose hearts had been sun
dered. After that they called her The
Little Peacemaker'
Make 1t Incidental.
SO YOU think CLUBS OF working girls
should be organized for gossip?"
Il would make it broader than that.
should like TO see clubs in which good
gossip is an incidental feature. Your
young girls don't look as happy as ours
do. would like to see their young
faces relax under the genial influence
of play. Youth needs play for its hap
piness, and for its safety
Every girl should have a chance to
see one play week. IL the theatrical
managers could open the galleries of
their houses once a week to working
girls, reducing the price OF admission
or waving it altogether the best peo-
pie would approve the measure and
give them their patronage and infiu-
ence. 1t would pay them. even In a
financial sense.
"Once a week working girls should
have a chance to get together informal
ly and have a chat. AS have said,
they should have a chance to pour tea
and to learn to gossip in the right way"
What if wealthy women would open
their homes?" / veutured.
The independent Spirit.
II don't believe that would serve.
Girls who work have n properly inde-
pendent spirit. They don't want to be
patronized, and. entering these fine
homes, they might feel that they We're
being patrouized by the mistress. No,
should like to see club houses built. or
in this city, where property is so high
in price the girls could take a. hall,
with the aid of some of their gentle
women friends who want to help. and
could drop in there on their way from
work, or at noon, for cup of tea and
some sprightly, good humored talk.
They can make it as personal as they
like. Personality is the flavor of con-
Nersauon I'm afraid | haven't quite
converted YOU to gossip"
Il beg Your pardon for suggesting
1t, but isn't the Southern woman little
more ChattN than the women of other
sections" | queried.
She has that reputation She does.
| think. strike little more intimate
note in conversation. But We like that
We believe in it. We think II helpful.
not harmful. And by their deeds rath.
er than their talk, you know them
There Is no more gracious nor charm
ing woman anywhere in the world than
typical Southern woman Proof of
that lies in the fact that there is no
servant problem there. The Southern
women's lives overflow with beautiful
deeds"
With whiya. of course. hearth,
agreed as vii. yuu if YOU know thcm