The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-24

become a habit and it can also be- come a vice.
 There are women who do not un- derstand why they have never had more attention from the opposite sex. why they never received the offers | of marriage that have come to other women who were not half so domes- | tie and capable of managing a home, no better looking and certainly not so entertaining as themselves Now, in writing the above para graph, 1 am thinking of a girl who | had lovely home, was bright. en- | tertaining, industrious, a neat house keeper, very fond of children, an ex- cellent cook, really accomplished and one who might have been a belle. might have married well, except for one thing her long, gossiping tongue and an oyer-abundance of curiosity about other peoples affairs which has caused her to be Wel-pOsted about everyone's business and in a position to start tales or to repeat 1 them. This she has done with a zeal worthy of a better cause. She has actually made herself feared by peo- pie who really admire her other many excellent qualities.
 Another thing, she invariably has something sighting to say of other girls whose names are introduced into the conversation.
 Now, man dislikes to hear girl pick ont the flaws in some other girl whom he compliments and draws the conclusion that the speaker has an unkind spirit. No man wants to marry a fault-findng girl.
 Girls should cultivate the habit of making some complimentary remark about every girl man, or anyone else, mentions. Find something to compliment. If she is ugly of face, perhaps she is a lovely figure or character, has pretty hands, or feet, or voice or lovely manners. Find something to commend If she is beautiful but has a horrid disposition, speak of her beauty, style or intellect. There is always a redeeming quality in everyone.
 ''Be to her virtues very kind;
 Be to her faults a little blind"
 Gossip and scandal are close kin but gossip is not so bad as scandal Gossip may be innocent chatter of current happenings, it may deal with the amusing frailties. peculiarities, eccentrioities and entertaining char acterstics that really exist in people and told in such way as to be in teresting without being harmful.
 Scandal has a more disastrous ef- feet because il defames the name and character of someone or more persons. It seeks to injure Men often start scandal though they pre- fer to think that women start it. Women do spread it hy much repeat ing and it often takes on additions
 Men sometimes start il by telling | their wives some ugly story about | someone. The wives tell their friends l and each, in turn, tells her circle of 1 friends. and it spreads in ever widening circles as water circles from a spot where rock falls into some otherwise quiet, peaceful pool.
 Prudes are often scandalmongers and remind us of the quotation: Thus prudes, by characters OCT
 thrown,
 Imagine that they raise their own
 The greatest injury one can do an other Is to destroy or to attenpt to destroy that ones well-earned good name and reputation.
 It takes a great soul to refrain from taking vengeance on that one who defaees her name, for
 Good name in man or woman dear,
 my lord,
 Is the immediate jewel of their
 souls"
 But, the Bible teaches, "Ven- geanoe is mine, said the Lord