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Show Gossip a Confession GOSSIP is always a personal person-al confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture cul-ture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies ene-mies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically prac-tically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may. J. G. HoUand. |