St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27
ARE ALL MEN LIARS :?
It Was David Who Said in His
Heart That They
We're.
And There Doesn't Appear to
Be Much Improvement
Since His Time.
Professor Lombroso Says
That Women Also Are
Liars.
De Fremont Discusses the
Topic in Sprightly
Fashion.

New YORK. Nov. 26.-It was David
who said in his heart that 'all men are
liars" and it is more recently the
learned Prof. Lombroso, who says that
all women are ditto.
Now, without giving my support to
either gentleman's statement, | must
say that | think women have more rea-
son to lie than men have. No, we won't
call 1t lie: that's. such coarse word to
apply to ladies. We Will say they have
more reason to romance and veil the
bare, naked. naked, ugly truth.
There are certain things that a woman
always lays ella n to having. She
doesn't always have them. Oh, no!
But Tradition says that she has them,
and she upholdS Tradition; that's all.
AND tits upon these points that she per-
verts the truth and tells those ugly
thngs-lieS; or those half-hearted
affairs about which the late lamented
laureate spoke when he said: "A lie
that is half the truth is ever the black
est Of lies"
Another thing is the size of her hands
and feet. She invariably mlsrepresents
the size. A little thing, very little
thing, and hardly worth cenSuring a
Woman for, but according to history
and Romance, with the grand example
of Cinderella always before them,
women are supposed to have small
hands and feet. So if woman takes
tours, she always says that she takes
three and half in shoes, and as for
gloves if she can force a number six
hand into a five and three quarters
glove, well, then, she thinks that she
10, hi nd
doesn't hesitate to mention the latter as
her size.
Another point on which she is apt to
be quite inventive is
Her Lovers
Few women ever own to being with
out one. There are such things as wom-
Ell who, through adverse circumstances.
scantiness of male population, or, want
of charms either of person or DISPOSE
ton, live without that which is ''wom-
ans whole existence" but they don't
admit it.. No, they all have lover
somewhere in the background; some
times he is a sailor, sometimes he is
away for his health, sometimes he is
Simply "abroad." But they all hate to
give him up, even if he Is that hollow
thing, a fiction. You see, woman
without lover is considered an anom-
ally, and she'd rather be liar than an
anomalyany day.
Then there is another point-compli-
ments. 1t is a sad thing to relate, but
il is the truth, that few men can pay
the pretty compliments that women
novelists say they pay. So with women
who are not nOveiSts. Most women
could give men pointers in the way of
compliments. A woman in relating a
conversation between herself and a
male admrer to another woman will
put the most forid compliments into a
mans mouth.
According to her account the man was
80 overcome with her personality that
he left nothing unsaid that was pretty
and that he could say. The other
woman listens ard is envious-that's
why those sort of lies are told.
But. then, what would woman be
without her weaknesses?
When man is liar, he is liar in
altogether bigger way of business. He
does not periure his own soul for
nothing.
The picturesque liar is often met
with, and no one blames him because
he is so entertaining. What would
dinner patty be where every one was
entertaining truthful? The picturesque
liar is aabrilliant talker. and tells won
deIful anecdotes in which he always
figures as the hero. If he had really
been truthful partaker in all the
revels which he tells of he would be at
least 200 years old to have crowded
them all in, without taking Sundays
off. And when he relates a dialogne
between himself and another he al
ways represents himself as saying all
those brilliant and witty things which
we always wish we had said when we
are thinking of the affair afterwards.
But the picturesque .talker takes the
credit to himself for having said them.
And the listener thinks, "What an aw-
fully entertaining man, but great
Caesar! how busy he must keep the Re-
cording Angel"
And now what4ean we say about
gowns. Well, firstly, that in spite of
Worth's assertion to the contrary, skirts
are decidedly shorter, and they are ever
80 much fuller; at the back than they
were a short time back. There are no
skirts made without trimming at the
loot. A rouleauX of velvet or a tiny
band Of fur or baby ruche of silk, one
Dr the Othei.-iS seen.