Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-17


- that all men are Hasa"
Mrs. Bloodgood makes this statensnt
calmly. as anyone could under the cir
cumstances, the circumstances being a
half finished house, which n not to be
called The Palace II Truth" situated In
East Thirty-ninth street which. at the
moment Of the remark quoted. sheltered
q half score Of carpenters, an equal num-
Der Of plasters, Clyde Fitch, the press
agent, the artist and interviewer for Tia
Sun and herself.
Somebody quoted me, OF rather mis-
quoted me- continues Mrs Bloodeoed,
'ss saying that women lied much more
than men. I never said that at ALL I
couldn't, for I don't believe 1t and really
consider myself a more than usually
truthful woman, as women go and come.
II you could see the letters and hear the
telephone protests that have been the
recipient OF since that unfortunate speech.
you wouldn't wonder that am glad to set
myself right in this mstter All my friends
resented that remark with a fervor that IL.
to say the least Of II, suspicious
when we get INTO the subject Of lying
We are getting into a mass Of complexities
and subtleties that are diflcult to manage
adroitly. Naturally everybody starts cut
by saying that a lie In an awful thing and a
har an abhorrent person. and you end by
reaching the point where yOu realize that
without lies there would be no social or
domestic life possible, not to touch the
business world too quickly.
IF there is any one I hate, positively
hate. Il is the type Of woman described
IN the play, one Of those straightforward,
narrow minded New nng1anA women, who
think everything that isn't the truth is q
lie She Is In the same class with the New
Jersey woman who when you 80 TO see
her takes broom and commences to sweep
until you have to move frsIn yOur com
Portable corner ana then expects you to go
home and say what q good housekSepR
she Isl
Then you really approve Of the her n
ventured.
II won't go 50 far as that" answers Mrs
Bloodgood, but think that lies are to be
divided into two classes, the decorative
and the vicious. A wOman knows without
reasoning about the matter that to state
facts Just as they ecist would not allure
any one to further desire fer her company.
She Is by training ana natural accomplish
ment the conversationahst Of the tive
sexes, for II the average woman ala net
talk any moro than the average man does,
there would soon b ths end OF ell social
intercourse. I heard Of a man the other
day, very quiet ana unobcrustve In manner
and speech, who Just loves TO hear his
chatterbox of q wife run en- with much
talk about her frienAs ana their happen
ings. When she gets absolutely run Down
he rises from his chair ana goes cut with
very bored look on. saying on. can't
stand any more of this but he always
waits until she is through.
"A woman leves TO embrOtder her con-
versation with little flowers q fancy. When
the child comes and tells you Of ths big
bear he has just seen, you think him cum
ming and 50 imaginative but the woman IL
only the grown up child.
The man won't trouble to lie just to be
entertaining: the burden of that IL on the
woman. 1t Is a woman who invented the
epigram Conversation 10 born not made
When a man lies, nine times out OF ten he
does 1t to get himself out Of a scrape"
Don't you think" interpolates the mar
ried press agent, "that man Les to be
polite-to avoid ergumentr
ITO avoid argument" allows Mrs Blood
good, never to be petite. A woman does
When a friend comes TO her and asks II
the one gown allowed her for the season
ts all right, even though she may think It
q, rotten, ugly garment. IL she's any kind
OF a pal she don't say so, but tells her that
It Is very pretty and becoming I believe