One fatal mistake that is made today is gossip;
Too many women, I am sorry to say, love to gossip.
The height of their ambition seems to be
To talk about their neighbor across the way
And to pick her to pieces as we commonly say, in gossip.

Find fault with her clothes, her husband or home,
Her style of living, her manner or brogue,
If not the poor girl who is struggling alone
To make for herself a comfortable home,
Or the boy that meets misfortune while through this world he roams,
Instead of simply gossip.

To gossip, my friend, is a terrible sin, it doesn't a fortune
For anyone win, but makes enemy and strife,
And wrecks some one's life and often breaks up homes,
And parts husbands and wives, and sometimes causes the use of a knife—
Then what is to blame but GOSSIP .

Now let us as club women do something else
To make the world better by looking at self
And talking of the things that make happiness and wealth,
And make ourselves useful for GOD and be blessed,
And be excused from GOSSIP .