Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — GOSSIP OF SERVANTS. [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP OF SERVANTS.

A Practice that Is I.table t. I.e«<l to Much Trouble. O'l’len the m >st vicitms and mallciou, gossip is i .’eminated thnoirgb tht medium < f indictlve ana irresponsible torvants, who currj x avor witn tb«X new mi. ire by teiling tales of tbo.f tor when; they formerly worked, va i the New i rk /Advertiser. Lt is s le.-'B to rem nstrate that rea’ •.sdle.s ,wi 1 i at listen to the gossip o! wrvants, f • <-.ven ieal ladies are onb bmnan. a d. ala* it Is very human te ->♦ interested in the misbehavior' of Jthers. T?te wri m was told the other day cd * maid who has wrought Incalealab’.e h irm in n.lrnbe.vo* families, and whose talunjnm ara so beriou® thfit they ‘really i uyht Vo be punished. SL-a hat preadh O- ?vil alln&e •.>{ calumny eve ywhere whe eit will stick. Hairdressers are nuti rieus scandal-mongers, and K> are many nurse girls, and mazty 8 sle that has wrought ruii\ nd sorrow has had its evil beginnings in the kitchen or from the mouth of the pet i/atetio bfti dresser, who “amuses” hot adios w I e smoothing their plaits. In the outh our “hired help” is par ileularly rresponsible. Most of tl • sooks a u eke£ up in the streets ait were, a th-cdr temporary mistre; knows r.-it .er the name of their las employ r ii r even their own homos "Vhat sm<> ’t u eiturv may have to sa the i t “rnadame” has about >• touch i cr.d value with a fair-mind woman tl.- ..a anonymous letter—t a wurril r . ie u’thy stiletto that is tn weapon ' the traitor, whose decei• thus -in r<_a d by th® equal «t*in v'w a.xl i •