Evening star., 1924-12-07
Rolling Stone Gathers Lots of News,
But. Some Of It Doesn't Stand Test
Nina Talk Stop En- Anyway"

Queen Victoria so truly said.
" "A rolling stone gathers no
~ moss, but IT picks up an awful
4 L lot of news"
or course, / personally my
self don't believe In gossip, and I
never talk about other peoples busi-
ness only when it's absolutely neces-
sary.
But then / am entirely different to
most of the ladies in our crowd.
Why most of them girls will enjoy
retailing any little bit of news they
amt able to wholesale, and are In
terested in unloading everything
from full portion scandal to the
effect somebody has run away with
a wife which didn't belong to them
down to a lite II portion item such
as are Mrs. Goofnah's pearls real,
d'you think so. / don't.
Especially the last. know, on
account of the way several of my
best friends admired my Undetect-
able pearls that l got for three nine
ty- eight at the Emporium, and re-
strung them with knots In between
each bead, making them look just
the same as real. And then the other
morning at breakfast, George, that's
my husband, put down his paper long
enough to talk five minutes before
train time, and with his first words
! seen where them pearls of mine had
already got into the gossip hatchery.
Well dear, he says, | heard some
thing about you yesterday, you'd be
surprised.
I would not George, l says Moth
ing that the cats in this town could
say would surprise me, SO don't
bother to tell II, ! won't listen to a
word on account 1t amt true, l am
already sure of that before you
speak, and I don't want to get mixed
up with no gossip. l despise 1t,
says, so let's forget what you heard
And Geo. says all right, suit your
self, but you are jake on the gossip
stun, kid, / admire you for Il, men
never do start that kind of thing,
am delighted you don't, neither. And
then he got up to kiss i and Junior
goodbye.
Well, I'll have to run for il now.
he says, meaning the train. Gee! he
says, | wisht that 1 had my car out
the shop or else a new one, like Old
General Bluster has.
And I says you don't say that old
boy has bought a highway horse?
Ond Geo. says sure he has,
heard II coming out III the smoking
car last night, and l do think it's aw-
-
a car and learning to drive, first
thing you know he will have a bad
accident.
And I says. why he may OF had
1t already, the poor feller, he ought
to have somebody to look after him
And then Geo. says yeh and beat IT.
Well. of course that got me to
worrying over Gen. Bluster. And a
little later in the morning Mrs Joe
Bush called me up on the phone to
tell me where she had heard a lob
ster down 70 the fish market was
sick and might not live and had
heard anything?
And ] says no. ! hadn't not a thing
but wasn't 1t too bad about dear old
Gen. Buster, and she says what, and
told her where | had heard the Gen.
had bought car and learned to drive
il himself, and believed he has had
accident already, which was the honest
truth. | did believe It,
Well of course Mrs. Bush says why
YOU don't say. And ! says yes, / do
and then she says whatter shame. he
him, and then l says, yeh, well, it's 10
o'clock and not dish washed, SO good
bye for now, dear. and went back 20
chasing the dust from one refuge to
another until Annie Gooch come in to
lift her daily dollar off of me and do a
little work on the side.
But scarcely had this faithful servitor,
as they call 'em down South, taken
off the coat of her green satin ensem-
ble-suit, then ! seen she had something
TO tell me. And inside OF five minutes
without absolutely no encouragement
from me except few words to the