| Show v GOSSIP WHEN lEN NOT DESTRUCTIVE S Let us u be courageous and spella a good word for tor a great treat evil Further let us be bones honest and admit that we love gossip But that need not oot be a aham ful till admission For goBil gossip good gossip has it Its Ita tine fine qualities Because Deause It ll is so 10 often oCten with cruelty the very nl word Is 1 In disrepute But what pray tell Is ii more humanizing than a friendly bit ot of gossip And It need not cot be destructive In fact It never Is unless It Is the I ork ot of mean little minds The man who has bas no music In his soul is fit for tor treasons strata strata gems gems and spoils says say Shakes Shakespeare peare pears And the unneighborly stick of a chap who has baa no gossip labis In his soul loul Is fit for cold storage For what Is 18 gossip an any anyhow how bow but an awareness of the fact that human beings are the most fascinating objects In the world that people are more interesting than things and that personalities ties are after afLer all the final and crowning creation pt of the Maker ot of all things the new news we e say ny to toa toa toa a friend knowing full fuli well that England has not declared war up- up upon upon up upon on and that no one has bat ba stabbed the president the news who ever expects expect anyone any one to reply The news I J believe belleve Is II that th the league ot of nations has decided that It cant can't do anything about the opium Well well well Important If It true we e say But Dut that Isn't what we were after You know perfectly well wen what the other fellow is going to say Oh no news nothing much Bills Bill's got a new now car going to take his bis wife and kids to camp caHm Rm Hm Bills Bill's a a funny tunny chap Really KeIn In debt up to his cars urs gets gots that car anyhow Wen Well hell he'll get It paid ald for somehow always does Maybe hybe Its just as good a way to get ahead ah as 58 puttering around and waiting And away they go on a 11 chain o of comments and ind observations trivial personalities you say but 1 iut it Its It's the stuff tuft of ot which life lICe is made ma After all Bill and his bis hI personality person ty his way ot of looking at life lICe Is Ismore more ore fascinating than fiction be- be because because t cause Its It's true and you know the l hero hero- But Dut gossip you aI say hurts peo peo- people p pie and ruins ruina reputations Yes It St does when It is mix mixed with slurs and Innuendoes and kind suspicions when It takes the worst for tor granted That Is the kind of ot gossip gos which Is mixed mInd with malice a and nd which hl h maims and kills and marks mark mar its perpetrator as beneath con con- contempt c n tempt In 10 fact tact it 1 is the worst woi kind o ot of sportsmanship for tor it never nev gives Elves the opponent the benefit o or of orthe the doubt But Dut for Cor good friendly gossip we enter a plea lea It Is J one of ot the ie amusing am amenities 0 ot of life human human- zing Izing friendly frIend not always prof prof- profItable table liable And since since people people eople will will al ll- ll ways rays ays be more Interesting han ihan bings Is not without some lome justl j |
