From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
Sunday school. The ninth commandment. “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor.” That means that you shouldn’t tell lies about your neighbors. I asked if that meant people on the next block too and she said of course and it means that you shouldn’t tell lies about anyone in the whole world. I guess that is what Grandmother did when she told Grandma Uri that Mrs. Bohn starves her poor husband. Once when I was on my way to school and Mrs. Bohn was in her front garden, she stopped me and asked how my Grandmother was. I said, “Grandmother is very well thank you, but she is very worried about Mr. Bohn and do you really starve your husband?” Mrs. Bohn became very angry and said for me to tell my Grandmother that she should mind her own business and that Mr. Bohn was sick with something that sounded like “Beets,” I couldn’t understand the name of it but she told me to tell my Grandmother that she shouldn’t make any judgments out of ignorance and that she should take good care of her own husband because Mrs. Bohn was sure that she would never get another one.