The Carlisle independent., 1920-12-09
THE PARADE
Adders' Tongues

The pathetic story of young girl ruined by false insinuations, and her subsequent suicide is narrated by an Eastern paper.
 Some peoples limbs are faint with haste" to bear an evil tale. That 1t may mean life or death to another af- fects them not at all.
 These adders infest every commu- nity and sting as the snake sings treacherously. When you hear nas- ty tale, don't repeat it. When some
 one tells you "they" say so and so, turn deaf ear or let it die out of con- sciousness. If # be true more's the pity. If false. greater the pity stili. The peddling of gossip often is done
 thoughtlessly; but the dagger is not
 more deadly than an unbridled tongue. What should be the proper punish
 ment of the one who drove the unfor-
 tunate girl to seek death and oblivion
 What should be the punishment of all those who by slander or careless and
 reckless speech drive out the sum- , shine and hope from the life of an- other who may be innocent of wrong ,? No man may justly measure the ex- tent of the penalty for such crimes. There are natures which seem to take fiendish delight in denying the light of hope to the fallen; and in this wo- men are more cruel than men. Their
 words blister and burn. They push the struggler back into the mire, and forgiveness is denied. Such cruel in- tolerance is not the result of the
 prompting of innate virtue; it is the | tigerish instinct of the primal time. With men there is even less excuse. No wholesome, cleanminded man will stoop to such infamy.
 Guard the tongue.
 Suppers
 The return of autumn brings the
 church supper, as one of the leading institutions of village life. On the fi-
 nancial side, no one ever figured out
 real profit on this enterprise. A doz-
 en women put in several days work collecting and cooking food. The SUD- plies are all given out of home stock.
 The supper would cost dollar or more at the average hotel where equal | ly good food is served. The common price average 50 cents. At the same time, you might not be able to raise the same amount of money in any
 other way. The women give their time free, and give 50 cents to dol lars worth each of flour, sugar, eggs and butter. Perhaps neither they
 nor their husbands would give 25 cents in cash. Financially wasteful, yet the church supper meets real
 demand If you undertook to SUD- port churches by advertising lecture
 on the poetry of Browning or Kip ling, you would not get enough to pay the janitor's salary. But people will stand in line for church suppers. l The SnunIber Mho, flee the church
 suggests that good fellowship is not
 the primary motive in drawing the
 crowd. Probably it is the reputation
 of first class home cooking. Women
 are tired of eating the things from
 their own kitchens They want to get out and see what other cooks are
 doing. In preparing church suppers
 the cooks are on their mettle, feeling
 that their regulations are at stake.
 The supper assemblies the finest cuii-
 nary art of the town and puts it on prices.
 Ragged Homes
 It is natural for visitors to size
 up town by appearances. A dirty, rusty town appeals to nobody, and
 we must keep Carlisle from such un- sightliness as will cause people to
 think we are on the down grade. Doesn't it make something in you
 ache when you pass a residence O.
 basintess property, that looks like
 it had weathered the blasts and re- l fieected the suns of fifty or more feet ing seasons? There are splotches ] and blotches all over it, the shingles
 or pieces of roofing often curl up at the ends like a reformer's hair; neg lect seems to have covered it with a frayed and tattered mantle; the
 doors sag, and the windows blink at you with bleary indifference. And l people live and try to do business therein.
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