Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — About Gossip. [ARTICLE]

About Gossip.

Tliere is not as much silence in this country as there should be. The speech crop, so to speak; is entirely too large. The female sex controls most"of the SDeech crop, or rather the speech crop controls the female sex. The entire human family is much addicted to a superfluity of words. The early-closing movement will probably never be apoliel to the mouths of the children of men. In fact, the human mouth is very much over- * worked. A man’s mouth is made to talk and eat, yet he often hurts himself dreadfully by talking, and kills himself by eating. The “unruly member” has been the cause of the largest part of all the sorrows, the quarrels and the wars that have ever afflicted mankind. Everyone, it is said, has a mission, but it seems to be the mission of very few people to mind their own business. Gossip is the business of the feebleminded, and it enfeebles any mind it captivates. Gossip, and particularly society gossip, is poor drivel. It is only chin-deep. It is, perhaps, not so hard for gossipy people to mind their own business, but it is the monotony which they cannot stand. You can get more wind out of a ten-cent fan than you can from' a SSOO one, and it is the same way with a ten-cent man. If the proverbs of all nations are to be retied on, it is the female sex that does most of the gossiping. The Persians, for instance, say that ten measures of were sent down upon earth, and the women took nine. Another saying is to the effect that the woman who maketh a good pudding in silence is better than she who maketh a last reply. Very few women can say with the governess, who advertised for a position, that she is perfect mistress of her own tongue. In Zanzibar the women bore their ears dreadfully. Iu this jountry it is somewhat different, for they bore other people’s ears, principally.—Texas Siftings.