Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-28 | Page 16 | We Can't be Honest with Opposite Sex

We Cant Be HonestWith Opposite Sex By RUTH MILLETT Honesty Is the best policy except between men and women. There are some lies men and women had Just better tell esch other or else. Men must alwaya pretend that a woman is beautiful even if she is as homely aa a mud pie. Women must alwaya tell men they are good looking even If they are typical "blind date" specimens. Men must never let on that a woman la able to take care of her-aelf her-aelf even If everyone knows she runs the family. Women must never voice the suspicion thst perhaps a man, simply by virtue of being a man, might not know all there ia to know about politics, baseball, world affaire, women, and the weather. t . Men mjist alwaya like what women cook. Women must trest even the most old-msidish msn as though he Is a potential menace. And the less a ladiea' man he Is, the more important im-portant it ia to pretend he ia one. Women must never admit that they can't stand a woman who happens to be prettier than they. (Men alwaya chalk it up to jealousy.) jeal-ousy.) Men must never mention that a drena or hat isn't becoming even if it ought to be thrown In the ash can. Women must never even hint thst they know more about any technical question than a man. Men must uphold the Illusion that every girl haa dozena of mea chasing her. Women must never show up the ; brain of the man they happen to be talking to even though no man would defer to his opinion. Yes. my darling daughter. Hon-eaty Hon-eaty ia the best policy except in your relationship to men. J A MAGIC number Hyland 190 it helps eliminate houserleanlng , drudgery. Hyland 190 Is the tela- j phone number of tha TROY Laundry Laun-dry whose experts can help you houseclean at bargain cost (Adv.)