Show oss ossip p De ended fas as s' s Manifest Manifestation tion on of f fN N Natural tur l' l Interest rest 1 t y When Malice Enters Talk Does Uncharitable Spirit Reign B By MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Gossip according according- to scientific t theor theory eory y is another human tare tae t B e fr fron n monkeys Dr E Edward wad Ot president th h e edu educational I extension service in iii Ul Chicago go says that gos- gos with will the moh ey chatt chattering ring about the e lion b because cause monk monk w wasn't big enough to fight Leo physically Ol on ou this point e we wee take the tIe side of the fundamentalists 8 C willing g to believe e that men Inen are de descended m m monkeys we insist that their fondness for gossip is a adr dr ar td d per lier cent human human characteristic It is the sign of ine in- in me m- m e human interest in inhumanity humanity and unless crossed with CI is no trait or pastime of which to be ashamed wo Women men are proverbial gossips gossips gossips although although no 10 f feminine o up o of df f them em if y you YOli ou ask us has has' anything on ell the club car carthe the file club dub window VJ Why y do women gossip Not because y Ina have ve nothing else to do Not sways J ays beca because se they are cr r ton to to cOI condemn others and nd thus thus to a assert art r i indirectly their n superiority Very often simply be because ause 01 oio of their warm cf e InCh e attraction fo for r th the e men women and children about a nt a zest pest in sl short ortt for lifes life's rich human comedy so much I or art fre varied and vigorous than any tale talc told by book or moor mo- mo ij pi pictures tures PEALS LIFE to under under- a woman hope w cm can an if It sho she is too hum human n nd d nor to ossip about it t Shenor She ret's tt Is s. s really Human b beings are arc ded Into those who gossip frank frank- and those thoc who 10 gossip The litter latter laller preface their IT r t stories tories with one Olle- of or two renever ret re- re Ol Tol-Of Tol 1 Af course e. I never listen while Im I'm not one oneat ossIp or 01 repeat at gossip gossip- Then the dirt More rore revelatory than all an the socI al 1 tomes about marriage is is theof the theof theof of the thc two these ardent modernIstS D could d not endure the thought thou ht beIng tied yet jet on whom the theas theof as I of or a union without benefit clergy dra drag so heavily that they re n separated bolt a n. dozen ozen times times- to reunite to tho tune of these the se e old recriminations I reassuring to parents than the books on child psychology is true hue falo tale of the Ule professional ps- ps bopst whose son Is the neighbor neighbor- I j terror terror provIng proving that the only r 1 an body anybody body can bring ur UP up children i to to do your our best and m leave leac theand the t. t and that psychology g opens nb no i I 1 ro road to perfect parenthood Add d about finances gives gIves' at 11 as mu much h ot of a a. line on hu- hu Q Ii conduct ns its g gossip about do- do When a woman r an heart hears hear hearst jit t the he friend whose t two o cars car she cries r rS hasn't handled a n. penny of s 5 allowance for three months realizes all is tR not pr prosperity that t a a. a noise like Uko and it-and it and she feels like Stumbling grumbling about the sl slow slow- kt sure fortune building of ot her 4 husband I L 1 G lp Intelligently handled then nothing D- D else Ic but an nn analysis of at i 4 human character with living JI illustrations illus mus- tr nothing moro morn nor less than thin thana thana a l commentary on human humm inconsistency tenc tency teney stupidity stupidity and and nobility It goes without saying that gossip Is 18 tremendously good fun tun What more legitimate subject of Interest for tor human human human hu hu- hu- hu man beings exists than the conduct of or equally human huma l beings Your good ool avoids oleIs con con- Men Mendo do what hat they do and tho responsibility is none J nono no ot et hers But she does does' assume assume the the- right of or comment comment amused wondering wonder ing fascinated d. d analytic detached comment In the the- verna vernacular ular th the go good d gossips gossip's point f 1 of view W i may ay be expressed d by th the phrase IC Can y Imagine M MALICE LICE SCORED Only one word vord of caution is 1 essary si ry Malice Is Ji the thc wood alcohol in hi the thee cocktail ll of gossip p poisoning the cup To repeat gossip gossi in ht quartel's quarters guar guar- tern tel's where the subject of It wilt will bo be harmed harmed to to o gossip maliciously an to his employer or or about bout a a. a wife wire to ber husband husband nd here Is is' the sum of ot all Almost equally malicious if It se self self- td t d deceivingly sois so is the candid can friend who repeats gossip to tho the subject of it it iL with the I III think you ou ought to know what people arc saying ex ex- ex cus cuse You Tau ought not to know kno If the knowledge is going to make you ou I uncomfortable or unhappy and you nev never r thank the candid friend for telling you All AU of or us sophisticated gossips ar are perfectly e aware h iu du a general way wa way that wo we 0 are arc gossiped d dI about and perec perfectly willing that It I should bo so sImply we cravo no bill of particulars ul ls l's I With the above exceptions noted th the more gossip tho the merrier An ounce of it in conversation is worth wortha a a. ton of at talk about the weather or weather or about prohibition |