Show p I FAG E 5 52 2 a I v ii Ja e D xo j Told L J.-L t tt I tt lie He Ma toI soother Mother It R penned who ho ld tUP 11 s e I ph y about Ta ill F totter fetter to lie a a. lit M- 1 1 to b be tie tle than I much j to meet I like n I it ith t was as ask I h r im-r 1 k her Mr her's I thin s 1 the tell about the could 2 1 little lie Ut never Quantity r I II enters enter the equation 1 I II at stall all lIe I. I k A I. I liet lie He A I il I I Whether ether It U l Is 18 ar a r t whopper r or Just Just Justa a 0 aI ae e olce let polite white on one It U Is 15 a lie He and ami I P Just as surely l a t I joaU tour our or ot moments the bl bis S ar I IM In la trl elres jC Itts 1 truth no ma matt matteer ter 10 0 II Iry v- v I oln tO J 1 15 bf bt I am going LS I i The Beautiful Part o of Telling T e in the e Truth lruth Tro Troi TruthO O i Says Jane Dixon And here is the beautiful f ul part of telling the tru truth h even evenI I to lo your husband It makes everything so 50 easy Problems solve themselves There may be a storm now and then but afterward the sky clears and the sun shines which is a whole lot more conducive conducive conducive con con- to happiness than a lowering sky all the timeA timeA timeA time A A fre frequent prayer of a wife From the lies we have told our our husbands husband good luck lude deliver us Why not change the version From the lies we have told our husbands good sense deliver us' us I tr try to make It the biggest thin thing In m my life Ire This Is how It happened I went downtown for tea yesterday Jim like a few dozen other husbands I might mention dislikes my taking tea u unless It t la is In one of or those pokey poke cross street tearooms lie Ire dislikes Nita Price because as he says sars her conversation is too vivid and she sho uses 3 a Up lip stick I have o never no been heen ablo able to discover er which Tim Jinx dislikes tho the most the most the vivid conversation atlon or the lip stick But I havo have heard Nita outpoint him in man many an argument Maybe It Is s tho the lip III stick Anyhow I r went to tea with Nita at nt ata ata nta a French cafe fe And that Is not tho worn tot It or ll-or or tho the best as HS It afterward after arter afterward wan ward developed I didn't drink tea at lt all I had a cocktail Hilll had Jim walked in the door as I Iwas was sipping it I J suppose I would have just naturally naturally naturally nat nat- passed out of or the If Ir there thero Is one ono thing under the face of ot the shining sun Jim hates hates for for me melt mo- mo It lt is a cocktail When hen I do get het reckless reckless reck reck- less and sneak on one now and then I always carefully conceal It with perfume perfume per per- fume fumo or Ot something My 1 motto has hashen been hen what a husband does docs not know will never hurt him Nita and I were half halt way through with a rather wicked creamy concoction concoction concoction tion called an Alexander Alxander when two friends of hers camo came in Of Ot course she ghe asked them to sit down One of ot them was Just back from overseas or something at nt Chateau Thierry When I looked at m my watch i I It ft was past 6 Jim abhors getting II home before me It makes es him cross all evening Nita I whispered It Is after fi n. l What hat will I tell Jim Jims I was sure sur hein being so tremendously clover she sho I would have an absolutely new alibi for tor me What do you think she sho an an- an Why lY dont don't you ou tell him tho truth I was stunned Tell my husband I 11 had been to a 3 French cafe with Nita drinking a S1 cocktail and two men men men- Then sudden suddenly as If H someone had taken a n sharp Shari knife and ripped tho the drop curtain over the tho realities of or lIfo life i from top to bottom revealing the tawdry scenery underneath tho the whole I play was clear to mo me Tho The truth What hat a blessed sed relief relict II to tell it and let the heavens fall tall if it the they must It sounded BO so simple the tho way Nita said It Why hy dont don't you OU tell him tho the truth Why hy not I felt so RO happy about m my decision to lo go through that I stayed until half halt past 6 On the wa way home I 1 threw my phial of or perfume out thebus tho the bus window I was afraid I might weaken Just outside tho door and gulp sulp It U. U Jim was waiting I afterward learned d ho had anticipated mo by about five minutes lie lIo was waR all braced for tor the usual flimsy fabric about the shops being FO so crowded and three buses goIng going go- go In Ing by before I could get ct a 3 seat scat Well elI titi ell he growled n as I 1 walked Into tho the living living- room You should have heard tho the interrogation point after that not 1101 the least well I was nervous and a whole lot more moro natural than tho the I times I h had hd d tried to be he a domestic Sarah Bernhardt I toM toll Jim exactly what wha t I had don done There Is not tho the slightest doubt In Inthe Inthe n the world but hut that ho was angry I know he wanted to strike me me- Being Jim Tim he couldn't but he did lid explode Into tho the most fearful tirade of language language lan lan- guage I have ever heard or hope to hear heH lie He fairly frothed He told me mo all tho the things ho had been hoarding against me for ever eyer so long dangled his mean little suspicions and his hi p petty tt Jealousies raved and re rebuked rebuked rebuked re- re and threatened It was not exactly a n pretty half hour I should have havo been heartbroken but somehow I I felt I had been right I felt clean and free I I was right How do I kno know Because when it was all over and I Iwas Iwas Iwas I was wondering where I might RO go o to I find truth a wee bit hit easier casler what do doI I you OU think Jim did lid lIe He came over o to toI tome tome me put his blessed hands on my shoulders shoulders ders looked deep into m my brimming I eyes es and said Ill forgive you ou dear because you told me mo the tho truth If Ir you Oll had lied and Id I'd havo have found out there thre would bo h h- h to pa pay Tho The truth is I what I want from rom you rou what every everyman everyman man wants from his wife Just that neither moro more nor less less the tho truth I I will never tell another lie Tho diary of or a wife What a dangerous danger danger- ous volume it would be for be-for for a hus bus band banet Most wives live two lives ono lives ono for themselves and ono one for their husbands Tho first is a gay Sar careless selfish drifting fUnS wherein the senses are al allowed allowed al- al lowed rl to run riot and tho ho little weaknesses weaknesses weak weak- nesses arc indulged to their limit a sort of or a soll soiled d kimono of or an existence The Tho second for the husband huband Is a strictly strict strict- I I Iy ly blue stocking life It admits no noI lapses Tho slightest crack cmel In the I silken surface is carefully and skillfully skillfully skill skill- full fully darned In with a white lIe He Themore Tho The I more lies Ii's the more darns After Arter awhile there is no stocking left nothing but hut darns Then ono one day day tho the wife pulls pulis I the wron wrong thread and tho the whole crazy patchwork unravels and falls faHs to pieces i If she Is 18 a wise wife wise enough to have havo learned she goes oes out and starts I life over o ag again ain this time on a basis of truth If she Bho Is a mollusk with a n. cowards coward's cowards coward's cowards cow cow- I ards ard's will to face faco tho world she begs I and pleads and whines and protests and promises until her revolted husband husband husband hus hus- band begins looking up sailings for Port Said or oth other r points Far Fa I East tho the farther tho the better belter This failing in she sho puts on her veil of tears draws down the corners of ot her mouth and lets Jets It be he known through a battery hattery of Intimate Inti mate mato Instances punctuated generously g with sighs what a a. beast her husband rea really II was Tho The jud Judge e fixes tho the alimony Tho The little black devil that keeps white lies boiling In the pot guffaws with glee sice Another ma k on his slate of matrimonial disaster You know confided a wife only the theother other da day I havo have found a corking way to get set even with Ralph He never nc cares how much I spend on tho table seems to take It as a a. matter mattor of ot course Ten dollars more maIo or less on my grocery bill means nothing to him But clothes lies He's a 3 perfect crank on the Always complaining about m my gance sance I am extra a extravagant ant I love Jovo pretty prett pretty pret pret- I t ty clothes clothes always always havo have I simply I cant can't be bo harpy happy without them But nut I Ido Ido Ido do get et deadly tired of or tho rowing over them Well Veil what do you think Ive I've done Ive I've arranged with my grocer to borrow tram front him now and then and havo It put on my bill Ralph never looks at nt bills not hills not If It f the they concern tho thoI table table and and If It he does he will see Bee nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- I ing more than groceries If he Is goIng going soI go- go I In Ing to be so mean about his old monc money Ill I'll be mean too Admirable state of or affairs Here Hero Is Isa Isa isa a wife attractive competent an excellent excellent excellent excel excel- lent homemaker a devoted mother generally generall speaking all things thinG's that go golo goto O Oto to lo make a ft splendid woman actually actually- entering Into a conspiracy to steal a n afew afew few paltry dollars from tho the man she sho loves more moro than anyone In the world She Is going to demean him to ch cheapen cheap cheap- apen ap- ap en herself b by opening the family closet to the grinning gaze gazo of ot her grocer grocer gro Iro And she sho Imagines she eh has done something quite clever She might do the clever thing thIns If It she cared for clothes a n little lUtlo less and respect re respect respect re- re for herself herselt and for her own a lot more Truth fruth would be clever If It she would go co to her husband confess her happiness depended on this or that hat or frock Crock admit her weakness ss the chances aro are 75 5 per pcr cent in favor or of or her having her wa way And if It the tho man matt Is too mean to understand understand under under- stand stani too small to appreciate the tho confidence confidence con con- hlen e and reward the truth after events would at least be bt found on justification Jus- Jus tion Hettel to burst the bomb out In tho open th than n to lo carr carry It around In ones one's purse hoping it will not nut explode Better Delict to admit those nf new W summer Hummer furs cost a hundred dollars than to lo list them for husban husbandly ly consumption at tift fifty and become a n burglar Just because they happen to be bo your our Youri j I husbands husband's s 's pockets and anti tho the wears wean her lingerie and a boudoir cap instead I of ot a gun un and a mask malk does not alter the nature of or tho the crime Truo True the tho husband hus hUH husband band ma may never miss that painlessly I extracted five dollar bill but If IC he should If he awakened and knew the tho I woman oman he married was WiS u a thief thier where I would hI bo ho that blessed respect without which love and marriage is a hateful I comedy trago-comedy The white lies a wife tells beside the tho homo home fires to keep tho the blaze bright ht an and 1 I her husband good humored are arc of the same breed as ts nn any other uther lie lice Domesticity Domesticity Domes Domes- licit does oes not make them different different- DOmeS j One does dONI not beget another but an another another an- an other dozen another hundred and so 80 soon soon on without end enc A homo home Ho lie multiplies as swiftly a as asan I An nn Int Influenza un a germ It is as ay d deadly a ly to home happiness as flu I germs are aro to I human life lICe |