The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-20
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People Find 1t Hard to Lie JudiciOus-

LSOPle Il 4uO II GaIu 20 Lie JuQlclOuS-
", Says Corporation Lawyer.
1T is a serious question just how far
we are justified in telling the truth.
remarked the corporation lawyer when
his opinion was asked. AS you say.
there are persons who viii do so when
a lie would answer just as we'll my
self have, I own, a lamentable tendency
IN that direction often in the exer-
else of my profession when Justice.
morality, expediency and common sense
suggest the plain. straight path of
laisehocd- I am tempted 10 tell the
truth. I generally have the strength to
resist it, but in social life. where the
obligation to smooth over little diff
eulties seems less urgent, 1 often fall
down
When I have gone somewhere and
have been bored to death I find myself
unable to assure my host or hostess
that 1 have had a perfectly delightful
time. Of course I don't actually say
that am darned glad to get away but
II you place a strict construction upon
the omission I am just as much to
blame as if 1 had told an unblushing
truth.
To give you an instance of this. We
my wife and I-were at breakfast at a
AAANAAN nuunC not lOlS dSO. some per-
ries were served first and the cream
had got pretty far on the way to cheese.
noticed after / had taken the first
spoonful that my wife was eating
hers with difficulty. She's heroic lit
tie soul in the face of social duty 1
passed mine up.
Then the coffee was poured. Our
hostess said to the madam. Ethel. you
take sugar and cream, don't your
Tss..
Why, I thought you took cream p
Just once in a great while
You surely did all the time when
you were with US last summer
3" I think did then Ethel said very
sweetly and cOolly. / Just take a no.
ton sometimes for il and then I'll use
it perhaps for a month at a time
I wasn't paying any particular at
tention. So when It came to me I said
III take mine straight; your creams
sour
Il didn't think there was anything
particularly wrong about that until 1
saw that Ethel was as red as a beet
and our hostess was looking at her with
a peculiar smile. Then I realized that
my guilty candor had involved my wife
Tn its consequences. 1t would have
| been better for her-although her con
| science would have troubled her-to
|
| IS
Something very nearly as bad as
/ that occurred to my wife. so she was
telling me the other day. said the bak-
/ ing powder man. she is not. I am
! happy to say, an Incorporate truth
teller. though she has her lapses like
| everybody else. Her mother, however.
/ is shockingly veraciOus. 1t really seems
/ impossible for her 20 lie under any cir
/ cumstances. Her daughters have rea-
/ soned with her, and her husband who
\ has suffered keenly from her unhappy
4 propensity has done his best. but she
/ Is simply incorrigibie. She was with
/ US not long ago and she had with her
my wifes unmarried sister. 1t appears
/ that there is some fellow here in Chi
younger lady and he is almost impene-
! trable-one of those thick-h per-
/ sistent men--and as much as the girl
/ has turned him down he never stays
4 turned. Every time she comes to Chi
/ cago he calls on her and she finds it
/ hard to jar him loose.
well. the two girls-my wife and
/ her sister-were visiting comfortably
/ together and the old lady was lying
I down in the next room resting when
| there came a ring at the bell and q
/ a mans voice called up the tube to
/ know if Miss Gertie was in.
/ NO says the sister in a hoarse
I whisper to my wife. Tell him I'm out
and not expected back for month
\ Don't let him come
My wife didn't know the man or the
| circumstances. so 1t happened. but she
was willing TO oblige. She called down
the tube to the desired effect, but she
/ couldn't call very loudly for fear hel
mother would hear, and just as they
were congratulatiug themselves that