MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 301, 22 September 1888, Page 2

MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

" How came you to bave such a short nose? " asked a city dandy of a country boy. "So that I should not be poking my nose into other people's business," was the reply, There are several people who ought to join the " Anti-poke yournose into other people's business Society." The nasal organs which adorn (?) the faces of some folks, remind me of the manufacturer who met with an accident, in which hia nose received an ogly scratch. Having no court plaster at hand, he stuck on the injured organ one of his gummed labels, bearing the usual inscription, " Guaranteed length, three hundred and fifty yards." This was surely a mistake ; but there are noses which would seem of any length when the question is as to their power to poke into the largest rat-hole. Paul Pry is a leading member of this family, and we fear that he wears a charmed life, after the manner of the Wandering Jew, It has been well said that there are two reasons why £ojme people don't mind their own bu^esflr-^one is that they haven't any business, .^and the other is that they haven't any mind. At the least sign of prying, cautious people drawback, unless they want ihur private matters to be advertised. When people begin to tell you about your neighbours, it, will be wise to keep your mouth shut, for these sam«s folk will soon be telling the neighbours all about you. JDogs that fetch will carry. Never pour precious liquors into leaking vessels, nor tell your private tales to common informers. Bad name that 1 We beg the tattler's pardon, we meant common chatter-boxes. These meddlesome people are a curse to society ; fcr they invent, and misrepresent, an<i exaggerate, and insinuate, till they separate c true friends, and cause heartburns aniT jealousies. Oh, for a race of people with salted tongues, who would be silent 1 sooner than speak evil of their i fellows ! — Spurgeqn.