Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-12

velvet coats. My friend was very handy 1 and did not mind hard work, so she used to rip them up and fix them over. I have heard people reprimand her for being so extravagant when they owed bills, wearing silks. They would think MT Smith would be crazy with such an extravagant family" I have seen her shed tears. What will I do,'' she would say. Anna has to go out to business and I don't care to have her wear silks. but if she must wear silks I want them plain as possible, so make them over" she said Tt seems to me if those people knew how 1t made me feel they would not make such unkind remarks about me- and 'tis true, there are very few, people who love to make another unhappy. Most people would be terribly shocked by the imputation that they minded other peoples business, yet the fact remains the same-people who know about other peoples business so as to find fault with what they eat or what they put in the garbage can, or what they wear or what they shouldn't wear, who comes to see you, whether ; their character Is what it should be or not It's certainly. minding someone elses business, and get themselves and also others into 8 sea of trouble, and under the pressure of calamity and gets you in most discouraging frame of mind. and when our neighbor hears of 1 things we say. They feel friendless, it makes them hopeless, and undone, in 1 other words 1t makes regular pessinist 1 of them, and they feel that they are l horn to trouble as the sparks fly upward. l "A sense of desolation seizes them and they get in most discouraging frame Of mind.
 I What do you or I care what a fel- low does with his money. It does not 1 belong to US, in other words it Is none | of our business. And to think of talk ing over our nefghbors'. friends or ac- quaintances, in that manner. Why the suggestion should arouse in us disgust. Not under any circumstances have we any right. to tell the other fellow what | to do with. his. property. and it is not exactly fitting for us to try.
 ! I am going to write about two moth CTS and how differently they brought up | thieir children.
 Kate's. mother had high ideals In what should be talked of before her daugh- ter. She never permitted unkind gossip | about the neighbors to be uttered in her presence. It became understood among her friends that she did not wish Kate to know of the faiiings, sins, shortcom- l iags, defects and crochets of the men and women up and down the street, SC all the neighbors spoke charitably kindly pleasantly of every one else. Sc Kate grew up. thinking well of her neighbors. She saw good in all. and all people naturally revealed their better side to her. She called out the angelic qualities that turk in every disreputable folk. She was sweetminded. sweet 1 hearted, sweet-souled and those about her became better and their faults dwin. dled and withered. because she gave nc heed to evil but made much of thet, good characteristics.
 How about Sarah? Her mother never gave thought to the influence that The talk Sarah heard at home would have upon her, When the neighbors cared or the sewing circle met at their. home It was, not an uncommon thing for tfe company to begin. in conversation. si one end of the street and go to the othe, and trounce and denounce pretty nearIy everybody. Little Sarah used to sii with open mouth and hear the dreadful
 tales about A and 2 and all the resi until, when she saw any of these per sons. her first thought was of the, faults. Innocent men and women thu, became to her objects of suspicion. ar5 1 to her they looked like big bIotches oi 9lHS. ioHe topk up the same habit an6 became q little tattling. gossiping mag pie. 1 She was the daughter of her mothe,
 between those two" no reputation wa, safe. Sarah babhled on. she was dis
 liked by, some and feared by others. ana some declared she was like the one
 who the psa1mist said he had 'tile poi
 son of aspss under his tongue Sara
 married, and now. as matron. She 1, the, most -ossip in her town and is uni
 versallv hated.
 Yet the blame was really her mother, for she allowed her child from earIy years to. hear. daily unneeessa-y rnalic ious scandal of the community.
 KITTY Ta0Ir