The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-09-12
OROvILLE WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 12. 1918
JUST GOSSIP.
Gossip-to tell idle tales.

Gossip-to tell idle tales.
10 many people the chief attraction
on small town is the human interest
ihe qulck sympathy in time of sorrow
Vi misfortune; the neighborly pleas
ure IN success or advancement is ever
pieasing. To some, no lonesome c;tv
wnere even the name of the next door
heighbor is unknown, can compare
with the more cOngenial country town
unfortunately this interest or
Rhowledge Of the affairs of others oc-
casionally makes life most Disagree
aole for some individual. 1t NAV he
that Jim Goodenough has painted his
chicken coop. A neighbor thinks 1t
would have been better had Jim used
the money to buy his wife a new dress.
Next we hear that Jim is too stinpy to
ouy his wife necessary clothing and
even refuses to let her have the egg
money. Then Jim's wife has gone home
10 her folks and Is suing for a divorce
on account OF non support. BY the time
the little visit is over their affairs are
forgotten and other people are occu-
|pying the attention of the gossipers.
Humorists have made one society
the authorized headquarters for Cos
sip. we now suggest that the sewing
circle be incorporated into a secret
society; one of the bylaws to read
Nothing said at any meeting to be re-
peated outside"
1t seems hardly believable that any
real he man" could be guilty of re-
peating the disgusting twaddle that
|circulates as news about town. But in
the race to get there first with the
story the man and woman appear to
be neck and neck at the finish. More's
the pity there seems to be no finish
but the story grows and grows.
Again and again the evil tit bit is
rolled under the scandal monger's
tongue. Some shallow minded gossip
pounces on the trivial circumstance
and with whisperings. .shakings of
head and you can't tell me" throw
common sense to the winds and i'm
pute what he chooses. Usually proving
nothing except that regulations are in
danger when he Is abroad
The story is told of a spinster, of
some fifty cold bleak winters, who
mentioned an early indiscretion at
confessional. The good father assured
her that the sin was long past and re-
pented, "it could not omatter." At
which the spinster exclaimed: II
I'm hrf I do 70 to1 L. = ~
So also many timid, covetous persons,
afraid to sin themselves, delight to
talk about such escapades with many
"a sh! sh! sh! and you must not tell
soul"
Most gossip is so absurd and weak
not die bornin" but the ever ready
busybody, acting as midwife, blows
so large the mother would not recOg-
nize her child. Like poison oak, it
grows and spreads only to corrupt ev-
cry one it touches.
if all made it a practice to say nothing
but good about anyone and If all ap-
preciated that:
Good name, in man and woman. dear my
lord
Is the immediate jewel of their souls
Who steals my purse steals trash; t Is
something, nothing;
But he that filches from me my good
name
Robs me of that, which not enrches him,
And makes me poor indeed"
If the growing story be true then
the least said the better Minds of good
people should not be made sewers in
which to pour the mental slush of
some idle tattler. And HE that is
without sin among you, let him first
cast a stone at her." II the story be
false then the originator is most de-
spicable. He is worse than the thief
who steals the good name for he kills
the reputation. He has killed that
without which, life may be worse than
death and he should be treated as any
other murderer.
The most conclusive evidence can
only be given by participant and
damned be the man who will partake
of forbidden fruit and then tell on Eve.
Finally let US know that Unto the
pure all things are pure" Then shall
we "See no evil, hear no evil, speak
no evil" Let us ever give the gossiper
the cold shoulder, have better COM
munity and sweeter lives.
OPTIMIST.