Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-02
THE HABIT or LYING.
r>lsehoods That Are Really Credt q
Those who Tell Them.

ralsehoods That Are Really Credit 70
Those who Tell Them.
Have YOU ever noticed how general
the habit OF telling falsehoods is among
your acquaintances and even with your
selfp II not just set apart one day to
keep track OF your own sayings ana
those OF others. and il you can not say
mt the end OF the day that this world Is
made up OF people who habituaiiy teu
fibs and falsehoods then IL can be safely
inferred that you have not talked with
any body and have been silent yourself,
or else that you have grown iorgetiui
and have not Tailed correctly. 10 MOI
hold up your hands in holy horror nj
This Statements but read on and find out
the use and abuse OF untruths- false
hoods. when used in the proper place
are not. as many suppose, things 10 DC
marked up against us ia the records by
which we shall eventually be judged.
but on the contrary, according 10 my
ideas. will ent.tle US 10 bright
sunny spot in the great Okla
boma OF the future. What can be
more noble than the words OF the
sick man who. although he feels that
his maiady is growing worse. in order
to save Is friends anxiety declares that
he il getting better. and while pains
rack his body declares that no Is rest
iugcomforiab,y What more generous
than the words OF the child which viii
give 10 It's sweets to another and say
that il does not care for them. while
In reality its mouth Il fairly water
lug for thesna What can cause us TO
respect young lady more than to hear
berteli her parents, whc>n she knows are
averSed to her attending an opera Or
some other amusement shat she does
not care 10 go. thus relieving the pa
rental minds Of the idea that possibly
they have caused pain by expressing
their wishcss Or who II more deserv-
ing OF a kindness than the man who,
in order to help iellow-being, will
devote valuable time 70 his assistance
and then declare that the act did mol
Inconvenience him In the least and that
the time he spent In doing II was value
less? These are the kinds OF false
hoods and tbs that are IA credit
to those who tell them. There
are only two other kinds OF un
truths. and one OF those, ! think. Il
the kind which should cause us u
pity. not TO blame. the one who tell'
them. These are the malformations o
truth which the genus yarn spinner
gets on. which. although they may BE-
"whoppers. never harm anybody. ans
you generally find that the man wh'
gets of yarns Of this sort is Harmless
and will not tell a falsehood In order Il
Iuiure his neighbor. That which ha
ruined the regulations OF fibs, false
hoods. untruths and yarns is the genu
Inc lie. by that word is meant tina
which is told by the scandal-monger
the sneak. aud those who, although
they may bear the appearance and rel
utation' of honest people, have yet tina
on their tongues which Is more dar
rerous than the venom OF the vlper
By all means encourage the productto
Of the harmless bat useful ib OF whit
lie. and don t. discourage the man VIII
In fond OF telling yarns. as he derives
pleasure from them himself, even II "A
outsider does not and he never harm
but of all things avoid vicious an
deliberate liar Chicago journal