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Show Suffered for "White Lie." H Is a white lie ever Justified? That H at least somo peoplo bellovo It has H no excuse Is proved by tho following H tale: An anclont rabbi camo to a city H where all the peoplo wero truthful, H marrlod one of the Inhabitants, had H two children and prospered. One day H a neighbor called when tho rabbi's H wife was washlnc her head, and tho H rabbi, going to the door, was seized H by false 'modesty and said that she tf) H had gone out. Thereupon both ot his H children died, and, as no one died In H that city beforo reaching old age, tho H neighbors made inquiries, the rabbi H confessed what he had done, and was H ordered to leave the city Immediately. |