WHO ARE THE SLANDERMONGERS ?

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 76, 18 May 1880, Page 3

WHO ARE THE SLANDERMONGERS ?

It is a singular fact that the women who are the most ready to slander other women are those whose own livep cannot bear strict investigation. One would fancy that " fellow feeling" would make a woman uwondious kind," and that the remembrance that a certain little story might be whispered about her, would >c a check upon her tongue—that she would say to herself: " What if I were thus spoken ol ?" But this is not so. Careful observation has * convinced me that while a truly reputable woman detests immorality, she is always the very last to suspect its existence, and that valuing a good character as a treasure beyond nil else that the woild can give l:er, she would never be an accomplice in the jfUealicg^of. pother woman's fair re pute. I jSwieve, indeed, that a pure and virtuous woman would be very apt to make apologies in her own mind for any past false step of a sister woman, and to hold out a helping to one who was honestly and struggling to recover lost ehe would never her the push that It j 8 ia a double

one who does this—the woir.nn who. if all were known, would bew i> brand upon her fotehend. These are censorious and eviUminded becau c they cannot, believe others letter than themselves. These utter slander because they delight to :luok fr<.m the bosoms of other women the jewel they are conscious that they themselves wear no more. —M. K. D., in Saturday Tight.