Show gossip a confession GOSSIP is always a personal confession c 0 either of malice or imbecility and the young should riot not only shun it but by the most thorough culture 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 by it for life in many persons it degenerates degener ates into a chronic disease which is practically incurable let the young cure it while they may J G holland |