Show truth highest ideals of honesty received leveir IS from mother by ISABELLE HATCH ONEILL ja F bonten are poets who believe their own poetry and few will vill be inclined to quarrel with that definition does docs it rot not follow that a woman thoroughly convinced vinced that what she is h saying is is tile truth oven even though man by his logic proves it to ba false cannot bo be called 1111 untruthful truthful A woman is guided to truth bagely by liar her intuition a roan by his logic to woman the modern world is is a new strange tiling thing she grasps neither the meaning nor tile sity of law business philosophy politics mathematics to tier her logic 0 is only a name a mans way of looking at things in her own mind woman envelops her acts in a bright and ideal atmosphere and thus often men aves a high motive in in what a man would call dishonorable it has often been assert asserted cd that on an the witness stand a woman will more 0 commit perjury than a man this however does docs not prove that hat site she is dishonest it only shows that a trained lawyer is more clever than khan site she and that by liis his art lie ho forces tier glicr into false positions the reason why women do not always tell ell the literal truth on tile witness stand Is because they neither fit into nor understand the conditions which surround them they aru arc out of their sphere they lose the real ni meaning caning of the hie whole court proceedings proceeding Is iq a womans comans standard of honesty higher or lower than a mans if it t is a question of commercial integrity of common business honesty there can be but ono one answer and that answer lies in the comparative number of men and women worthen in jails for crimes against property women do not deliberately steal they do ao 30 not deliberately misrepresent goods they ney are arc not embezzlers or defaulters default ers there could have been iq art for a pure food law if women had sole sale charge of manufacturing ill folds if women are not innate lovers ot of truth why does religion appeal in more re forcibly to them than to men why do women outnumber th the e men t in the churches and to abom from mother eve to this do day has been in trusted the task of teaching the young Is it possible that two thirds of the human race irom from the X dawn of civilization could have instilled into children tile tho lionor honor and truth which jhc thc they themselves did not obey no matter malter what may have been eat said d or written about aomen not telling the truth the fact still remains that it is at the mothers knee that children learn truth and receive their highest ideals of honesty and of 0 life |