East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-25

- other-jealous with a bitter, vengefu jealousy.
Some had told her that her husband involved
candestne love affair with the other Therefore in the fury
OF woman scorned she slew her nced rival murdered her
with barbarous brutality savoring Of the
The dispatches yet that there
any intimacy between the husband and the victim of the
deres An acquainancesp of recent origin undoubtedly
ed but the friends of the Gead vehement their
assertions that her character conduct repoah
and that there basis for the suspicious of the jealous
But Somebody" told Mrs. Clara Phillips that young and
pretty widow stealing her husbands love- Maybe they
didn't tell her that in so many words Maybe it just
vert whisper sly nnuendo or subtle taunt Whatever was
twas the tongue of gossip that phraed 1.-THE sepents tongue
of which the poet wrote.
How of the of the world the offspring Of Cos
sp How the for which Gossip ugier
sister, SANDER have sowed the sees How often they
wrecked happy homes bghted happy lives poisoned the
OF conentment destroyed faith and and ove often
nave they wearing the gse of friendship done the devils
The Gossip that released the passions of Clara Phillips
in Los Angeles until they broke down all of the restraints which
thousands of of civilization have placed upon
transformed her again into the prmeva peculiar
to Los Angeles has fixed habitat 1t is the Gossip
ha exists every community that present every day Its
handwork not always in brutal murders but less
evident in its inevitable harvest of mhappiness.
Gossip has the wings of the swallow
1t can travel farther and faster than medium of truthful
hearers
builds upon fmsy Pigments of the magma
conclusions dictated by fancy suspicion 1t ready to
seize the veriest ill rumor dress in the garb truth
guide its sinful path mouth mouth adding
1T passes along until distorted and mshaped that its
own originator could scarcely recognize it. H.
finds audience without seeking for it. 1t
parade itself openly before the public 1t backdoor
talks in whispers unfods itself freely only under the
veness of the confidential They say is its
1t asks not for credene because it
given without the asking.
Those who lend themselves the evil Gossip are
leg1onen well They its service
deliberately Most often they unconscious tools of this
banefu vice. They lend willing morsel of scandal
brought by friend The has morbid Curl
osy to learn of the private lives of others and morbid
to what he learns unthnkng of the damage
be done by giving tongue to what is pcon.
Perhaps that would be the last the world
to the reputation another repeated wrong being done
wrong that sometimes and often leads
sequences witness the unhappy plight of Mrs Phillips whose
emotional nature aroused by the gosspy tongues of friends
There little to be said in defense eXtenuacn of
bit of goSsipng. In its mldest form dangerous pastime
for it destructive and harmful in all its tendencies Malicious
gossip is criminal for is Sander he fouest whep of sir
whose edge sharper than the whose tongue outven
all the worms of the Nile whose breath rides the posting
winds, and doth belle all corners of the world"
There people think state road is worth any
thing unless from TO with Portland
mnal generally they don't know actual conditions actual
needs they would take a broader view.
This the when the fire danger greatest both in
and country Precautions in order and likewise
ample insurance.
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The Chicago Milwaukee ST. Paul which is electrified
through most of the northwest will have trouble with the
goal shortage,