A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1928, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

HUMAN WASPS-

1 hon’t believe ilia! women gossip mon than men, but I do believe that wmnor gossip as much as men.

I don’t Iwdieve that the groat major ity u 4 women are gossips; hut 1 d< believe there are enough—and lo spare

I don’t believe all gossips realize the harm they do; hut I do believe no gossip ever had a pure motive. 1 d m’t believe the gossip always means to destroy; hut T do believe she is more, dangerous than dynamite. 1 don’t believe that the poison from liio longue of the gossip will kill as prompt I v as the poison Iruin the death adder; hut t do believe it is just as deadly.

I don’t believe the gossip realizes Hull, fiiere is the outside, the inside, Ihe right side, and I lie wrong side ot every slorv; but I do believe she gravitates lo the wrong side by natural selection and instinct.

I don’t believe the gossip would shoot down an unarmed adversary; Iml | do believe she would shoot her adversary liv a cowardly lie, which is Hu 1 weapon of the assassin; and, as the gossip always attacks only the absent, it amounts to the same thing. I don’t believe gossips know how (ii : iiiv hearts they have broken, how many altars they have desecrated, how many beautiful things they have defamed. how many ambitions they have destroyed, how many careers they have blasted, or what innocence they have Tesmirched : but 1 do believe that gossips are the meanest people on earth, more untruthful than liars, more coward I v than cowards; they are the carrion creatures of the human race. —.5 1 Rit ESTO NSTAN LE Y .