KEEP YOUR SECRETS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3137, 8 March 1879, Page 4

KEEP YOUR SECRETS.

The wn'ole. world is. full of people craving for confidence—people to whom; a secret is likegbld in a child's pocket, burning to be issued! Those who are high in rank and blessed with'every advantage are often tormented .for want of "a true friend," meaning thereby some one to whom they can confide secrets; and on those who Trill simply take them and keep them, they are willing to bestow friendship. To those who would be. in] such; confidencej it is enough that .they follow: the ad?ice already given, of never -being;.. dire^ tly or indirectly 'the"means of, disseminatipg gossip of any kind. In connection with this subject'the reader may properly be advised against curiosity/ There are people who cannot see a letter without craving to know to whom it is addressed, or who cannot find-.anything. written lying on a table without involuntarily picking it up. The Paul Pry is the meanest character of society, arid he who would feel superior ml strength and integrity should strive vigorously to have nothing in common with such a- type of-baseness. Bear continually in, mind the fact that in the art of conversation the secret of success lies not so much in knowing what to say as in what to avoid" say ing.—N orristown Herald.