Jefferson County KS Archives News.....Gossip.... May 15, 1880
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The Oskaloosa Independent, Jefferson County, Saturday, May 15, 1880 May 15, 1880

Gossip.--One of the worst banes of society is the disposition to indulge in 
the practice of gossiping. It is always a contemptible business in which any 
honorable man or woman ought to be ashamed; but it becomes a crime when it 
assails the reputation of others. Nothing is more disgusting to a right 
thinking person of either sex, than to see a number of men, great or small, 
congregate on the streets or in stores, making remarks about absent persons 
male or female, and often bandyng epithets unfit to be spoken under an 
circumstances. Any person who has either sense or manhood about him ought to 
be above such low business and ashamed to be caught among those who get down 
to such a debasing level.
And it is but little better for old or young ladies over their tea or in their 
social intercourse, to indulge in the scandles which may be set afloat by 
vulgar and reckless persons. Society is cursed by its gossipers from one 
year's end to the other.

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KS-FOOTSTEPS, rms

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