Show WOMEN CAN KEEP SECRETS chicago magistrate of experience of fers fera testimony to shatter old tradition A chicago police magistrate after long years of observation and experience declares unequivocally that women keep secrets much more surely than men joke smiths philosophers and alleged history to the contrary notwithstanding ile ho avers avera that in the smaller allor things the relatively unimportant matters matter it may be true that woman Is the more loose tongued that she abe Is naturally somewhat gossipy and her domestic status uneventful as Is usually Is inclines her to small talk but when it comes to the things that actually count the vital compelling tremendous things woman Is so far beyond man that com comparisons parl are all but ridiculous moreover he says pays that nine out of ten police officers know this to be true whatever the aspect of the question may bo be in other walks of life doubtless it Is all as the chicago man says it seems likely enough when contemplated in connection with certain characteristics of woman that are universally admitted take the matter of bearing physical pain for instance there Is scarcely a physician anywhere who will not tell you that the average woman will bear without a murmur pain that would drive men to suicide woman shrinks from the he slightest impending danger but she faces a real crisis when it Is upon her in a way man rarely rises to if we could get the wives sisters mothers and sweethearts of chicago to toll tell their secrets we should soon clear up hundreds of seemingly impenetrable mysteries that have baffled us for many years but we cannot do it methods that drag the miserable truth from men time and again fall fail utterly when applied to women there may be a way to get them to tell the ho secrets we know they possess but we have never discovered it and never expect to all of which seems to ring true I 1 it t Is so like a woman anyhow I 1 |