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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 251, 13 December 1878, Page 3

Gossip. — Can the evil wrought by gossip be estimated ? We trow not. A wise woman can scarcely say too little in company &£ the conversation trenches in the least upon scandal. Many a social, noble-minded woman has been obliged to withdraw herself from a neighbourhood intimacy which would have been pleasant otherwise, because her remarks were returned by some -idle tale-bearer, so perverted as to make her doubt the existence of genuine friendship, and accept loneliness for the sake of the safety it brought. You Bay we must talk " about something." Yes, and through that very fact we see a remedy |br the evil, to so thoroughly interest ourselves in other and better things that we find no space to spare for our neighbour's affairs. Let ua talk of our work, our home-, our house-plants, our books, our babies. Let us teach our eyes to find beauty everywhere, while we blind them, by constant watchfulness, to blemish. Never, under any circumstances, cast the first stone. Then, if an erring neighbour goes down, you cannot blame yourself for assisting in the downfall. What a -comfort it is that the spellingmatch mania has subsided and plahi orthoejaphy resumed its sway I Some man who has been looking up the old English classics has found out that Chaucer couldn't spell, Shakspeare couldn't spell, Milton couldn't spell, Lord Bacon couldn't spell, or, rather, they were luxuriant spellers. When they were in a hurry they wrote the words short, and when they had plenty of tkne they wrote them long. They, wonld spell the word three or four different ways on the came page. If you don't want to be robbed of Y our good name,-do not have it planted on youx umbrella.