The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-14
WOMAN'S
WORLD.

granted a man new trial on the grount
that he was entitled to a rehearing o.
his case because he had been convicted
on the evidence of women. The judge
added, by way of softening the blow, thai
he regarded women as being morally SUI
perior TO men, but that they possessed sc
much imagination they were constitution
atty incapable of distinguishing between
fact and fiction.
This is not the first time the accusation
of mendacity has been brought against
women. Solomon declared that all men
are liars, but the average man, VINO
thinks he knows great many things SOL
ONION never found out, passes the charge
on to his sisters, and there is no doubt
that there is a widespread belief that the
feminine sex is the sex of tarraddidles
and hbs. Personally I don't believe that
women are a particle less truthful than
men. The ability to tell a plain, unvar-
nished tale. and to see things exactly as
they happen is the rarest thing in the
world, and it is not a virtue of which
man possesses the monopoly by any
means. Saphira was a married lady and
according 10 all accounts was struck dead
for merely trying to back up her hus-
bands statement about their real estate
returns. Woman may have originated
pink tea gossip and the not-at-hone fic-
ton, but il is truthful man who is the
author of the weather reports and the
crop statistics and the racing tip, so there
is really no use in the pot calling the ket-
tie black. They are too much of a much
ness.
AS a matter of fact If women are I'M
duly given to falsehood nobody should
be surprised. They get precious little
encouragement from men to tell anything
else. 1t takes baby girl about the space
of her first year in this deceitful world
to find out that she can get whatever
she wants by Hsping pity papa" and
from then on, from the cradle to the
grave, she knows she must tell man
whether he is her father, or beau, or nus
band-what he wants 10 hear. not what
is, if she desires things to be made easy
for her. No man ever wanted to hear the
truth from a woman's lips, unless 1t was
fiattering, or forgave her for telling It. II
there could be a feminine counterpart of
Truthful James, you may rest assured
that "spinster' would be engraved on
her tom bstone.
If men don't like to hear the truth from
women, they are stir more averse to
sible quirk OF reasoning they have come
to believe that the truth is like strong
drink, intended for men only, and that
before it is III for feminine consumption
Il needs 10 be diluted and favored up and
sweetened. Even then they only admin
lister 1t to her, upon occasion, as a kind
OF treat and reward for good behavior.
Oddly enough too they think women like
this, but little as they may realize II
rfaas. IL
out, and tell a woman the unvarnished
truth, she invariably regards It as the
very highest and most precious compli-
ment he can pay her. 1t takes her at
one step out of the ranks of doll babies
and recognizes her as a reasonable human
being.
So far as / am concerned, think that
there is no other thing in which men
treat women so unjustiy as in this very
matter of not telling them the truth. 1t
IS because the structure of so much do
mestic life is built on rotten foundatio
OF falsehood that so many married couples
come to grief. When a young man falls
IN love with a girl and wants TO marry
her, he never dreams of going 20 her
honestly and telling her the exact truth
about his worldly affairs. For the time
being, he turns himself into Claude
Melnotte and tells her fairy stories, about
of romance. and he is going TO protect
her from all the hardships of life, and her
little white hands shall never be soiled by
mental tasks, and all the rest OF the I'M
veracious chronicles that every lover re-
cites
He sends her candy and takes her to
the theater, and mandates her with vio-
lets, and the inexperienced little girl mar
ries him, honestly believing that she is
about to be translated into an elysian
where chocolates grow on trolley poles
and new frocks are to be had for the
asking IT is no wonder that when she
finds out about what she is up AGAINST
and realizes that instead OF life being a
rosy dream. 1t is a frantic struggle for
Deefsteak and onions. she so often turns
into a sour, discontinued, disgruntled wo-
man.
In a way. no matter how unintentioual-
ly, she has been the victom of a conf
dence game, and might justly turn on
her husband With the reproach that ne
has gotten goods under false pretenses
A lot of trouble would be saved If every
good man only had the courage to go 10
the girl he loves and say to her: IT am
poor. l get only so much a month.
love you and want to marry you, but 1t
will mean many sacrifices and hardships
on your part. 1t will mean that you will
have to wear turned and made-oVsr
frocks. 1t will mean that you will have
20 do without many things that you would
like to have. and have been used to hav-
ing. but will give you the love OF an
honest heart and the labor of willing
hands. II you have the courage come
10 me, ard we will fight the battle out
together like good comrades, shoulder to
shoulder-but it's going to be a battle and
not a picnic" That would give the girl
a straight deal, and she would know be-
forehand where she stood If she turned
back al the prospect. a man should set
down on his knees and thank heaven for
his miraculous escape from great danger.
IL she accepts he has got a life partner
that will help him to win out every tina
The ruth has never been considered a
good ingredient to introduce into a court
ship. but little of It before marriage
would save great many unpleasant ones
afterward.
II seems unnecessary to insist on truth
between a man and his wife, but the
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