Show WHY MEN LIETO LIE LIETO TO THEIR WIVES By HELEN ROWLAND Copyright 1915 by the Press Publishing Pub lishing Co the the New York Evening World Why do men lie he to their wives I IOn On the answer to this simple query rests the whole matrimonial problem and in ninety ninety nine nine cases out of a ahun- ahun hun hundred dred the solution to the gr great at and much exploited divorce question Why will a man never offer the naked truth to the woman he lie loves without dressing it up in a lot of frills It Itis is folly to deny the accusation Because it is a known and long accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac fact that while a woman will willlie willlie willlie lie to a anybody body else on earth sooner than to the man she loves a man will willlie willlie lie he to the woman he lie loves sooner than to anybody else on earth It is one of the proofs that he loves her and his love is never quite dead until he ceases trying to whitewash himself and begins telling her the brutal truth But WHY But WHY This sounds like a simple proposition but it is as cryptic and unfathomable a mystery as the ancient question of whether the hen or th the egg came first It is the first white lie that casts the first dark cloud over the honeymoon the honeymoon the cloud that later bursts bursts' into the domestic storm which causes the matrimonial shipwreck The Fath Father r of the First Lie But But is is it feminine SUSPICION that causes the first masculine li lie or is s it the masculine masculino LIE LIB that causes causes' the first feminine suspicion If you should take tako a world wide ballot on that question question ques ques- tion every ever man on earth would answer it unconditionally in m one way and every overy woman fin on n earth would answer it just as positively and unconditionally unconditional unconditional- ly in the the- theother other ther way And we would still be berm in darkness as to the truth In a recent editorial in a morning new newspaper paper a bachelor who happened to be stalled in a snowbound suburban suburban suburban I ban train d during ring the late blizzard is is quoted as expressing his astonish astonish- astonish I merit ment at hearing hearing half half a dozen married men discussing the problem of how I Ito j to explain to their wives their unwonted un wonted wonted- late arrival when the train tram should get in in Mien n the bach bachelor lor suggested that they explain by telling the simple TRUTH every everyone one of the benedicts lau laughed hed a short bitter horrified laugh laught at t the mere Idea woman they de declared dared would believe the truth Is it a fact that n no woman believes the tho truth truth truth-or or is it merely a masculine e fallacy Whatever the answer It certainly certainly cere seems never to occur to the average man to tell teIla a woman the truth so long as as' he can think of anything more convincing or interesting to tell her The only way for a woman to get the tle truth out of a man is to put him under hypnotic influence and make him tell teU it while he is unconscious I and and then of course she would not believe believe- believe himA him A woman always suspects th that t a aman aman aman I man is lying to her long before she I catches him and he lie always suspects that she suspects him long before he begins lying to her On the List of Incurables There is is' no solution to the problem and and apparently no CURE CURB for the malady The only two possible remedies rem reme reme- reme dies have been tried and found wanting want want- ing There have been sensible women women who vho have nave gone into marriage DETERMINED DETERMINED DETER DETER- MINED to place blind faith in their husbands believing that faith begets faithfulness only faithfulness only to awaken too late to the knowledge that their husbands were lying to them quite as casually and habitually as other women's hus hus- bands There have been idealistic men inea who have gone into matrimony determined to be on the square with their wives and to tell them the truth at any cost only only to discover that they were living liv Hv living ing under Just as deep and eternal I suspicion as the faithless husbands around them In one case the egg or the lie came first first in in the other the hen or th the suspicion A mans man's faith in the policy of never nevel telling truth the truth the the truth truth-to woman to-a-woman woman a-woman is so firmly firm ly rooted that even though she might catch him with another woman in his arms arms he would declare that it was only her heir imagination and that there was nobody there A womans woman's faith in the policy of nev never r believing a man is so deeply implanted implanted implanted im im- I planted so firmly fixed that she wont won't even believe him when he tells her that he is sick and tired of herIt her It is useless to argue about it and hopeless to try to remedy it It cant can't be cured and MUST be endured The hen lien will go right on laying the egg and the egg in turn will become a hen ben and nobody can tell you jou which came first Why do men he lie lies to o their wives wives wives' Oh just just for for instance |