Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-16
TELLlNG The TRUTH

served the lawyer in the club circle. when
his opinion was asked. A. you say.
there are persons who viii do 50 when Il
lie would answer Just rs we'll ! myself
have. ! own. lamentable tendency in
THAI direction
often in the exercise of my PROBES
sion. when justice, morality cXpediency
and common sense suggest the plain.
straight path OF falsehood ] am tempted
70 tell the truth.
Il generally have the strength to resist
it. but an social life, where the obligations
70 smooth over like difficulties seem less
urgent. / often fall.
When | have gone somewhere and
have been bored to death, I find myself
unable 10 assure my host or hostess that
have had "A perfectly delightful time.
OF course. don't actually say that
am glad to get away, but ii You place Il
,trict construction upon the omission
aln Just Is much to blame a. ii told an
mbluShing truth.
To give you an instance of this. We
my wife and l--were at breakfast Mt
friends house not long ago. Some straw
hcrric. We're served. and the cream had
get pretty we'll on the way to cheese.
Il noticed after had taken the first
spoonful that luv wife was eating hers
with difficulty She's a heroic little soul
in the face of social duty. ] passed
mine.
Then the coffee was poured. Cmr
hostess said to my wife;
Ethel. YOU take sugar and cream.
don't YOU!
Just sugar, please says the lady.
why, | thought YOU took cream?'
Just once in great while
You surely did all the time when you
were with Us last summer
II think | did them Ethel said. yer,
,weetlv and coolIy. 1 just take a fancy
sometimes for it, and then I'll use it
perhaps for a month at a time
Il wasn't paying any particular at
/ tcntion. So when it came to me ] said:
III take milk; your creams sour
Il didn't think there was ANYTHING
particularly wrong about that until /
saw that Ethel was as red as a beet. ana
our hostess was looking at her with a
peculiar smile.
Then realized that my guilty canI
had involved my wife in it's con
quences. 1t ou'd have been better
| her although her conscience would HI
{
Something very nearly as bad as
occurred to my wife, so she was tell
Ice the other day said another nj
| She is not. ! am happy to say. an
| temperate truth-telcr. though she
her apses, like everybody else
mother, however, is shockingly. veraciC S
1t really seems impossible for her to
under any circum Instances.
Her daughters have reasoned with
! ana her husband, who has suffered KID
~ from her unhappy propensity, has d
his best, but she is simply ncorTigi
She was with us not long ago, and
had with her my wife's unmarried sis
II appears that there is some fel
who is very much gone on the youl
lady, and he is almost impenetrable-
of those thick -hided. persistent me
and. much as the girl has snubbed
he never minds. Every time he come
town he calls upon her, and she find
hard to get rid of him.
'Wcll. the two girls-my wife and
~i>tcr-were chatting comfortably
2ethcr and their mother was lying d
in the next room resting when d
came a ring at the bell and a mans
called up the tube to know if Miss
tic was in.
No saws the sister in I'D
whisper to my wife. Tell him I'm
and not expected for month Don
linn come
My wife didn't know the man. II the
circumstances. so it 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 her
mother would hear. and Just as they were
congratuiatng themselves that the man
had gone he knocked at the door My
wife opened it,
- beg your pardon he said but did
You tell me Miss Payson was out?
couldn't hear distinctly
For a moment my wife was SC scared
hat she was tempted TO tell the truth
and say that Miss Payson was in and
that he had misunderstood. She stuck
to her colors however
Perhaps Mrs. Payson is in?' said the
man
My wife listened moment to hear
if Der mother was stirring. Then she
said:
Mr.. Payson Is out too. really
lon't know when she will be back
I'm sorry missed them. said the
caller You must he Mrs. Cosmoyc
I'm MIR. Gislcy You may have heard ri
me. I've often heard your sister speak
of YOU and wanted to meet YOU
That was pretty nearly Il stumper
suppose the poor woman was in mortal
anguish. She could hardly help inviting
him so come in, and if he entered all
was lost But she never turned hair.
AIRS Cosgrove Is ont too she said.
I'm awfully sorry. and III tell them that
Won called. GOOD afternoon.
As she went back her mother called
out to know who that was.
II thought recognized the voice she
slr..
1T was the directory man. dear, re.
Piled my wife.
Now, what do YOU think of that for
an example Of the tangled webs We arc
obliged to weave in consequence Of other
peoples truthfulness? Think OF what
might have happened,
Its the hardest thing in the world.
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