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Show NOTHING GAINED BY LYING MasrUn Maartens, Dutch Novelist, Illustrates Il-lustrates Point by an Amusing Amus-ing Anecdote. Mnarton Maartens, (ho Dutch novelist, was talking at a magazine office about realistic fiction. "If realism is truth," ho said, "then I Km for it. In books, as in life, tho truth is always best. Lies fail. Lies fail in books as they fail in life. I know a woman who intensely in-tensely desired to have a good photograph photo-graph taken of her littlo son. But in the studio the child bawled as though he were going to bo tortured. tor-tured. It was impossible to calm him, impossible to keep him in the chair. For an hour ho filled the place with his howls and yells. For an hour ho tore up and down the room like an imp. " 'Sure, darling,' said his mother, 'tho gentleman isn't going to hurt you. Just smilo and keep still a moment, and it will be all over before be-fore you know it.' '"Yes, roared the youngster. 'Yes, I know. That's what you told mo at tho dentist's.' " |