The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-03-13

can got 0xactly inc same tnln8 "
Blank & Blanks for half the price"
when she was well aware that such .
thing was impossible. He stated that
much of the shrewdness attributed to
women In making bargain was due
in large part to their ability to sub
serve the truth.
He said he did not draw his conclu-
sions from his experience with men,
as he fully realized that his own sex
in department store were as much
out of place as the proverbial bull In
a china shop" and in the struggle to
get out would buy at any price. In de-
tecting thieves. whose operations make
constant vigilance necessary in large
store, he declared he would rather deal
with six men than one woman. Their
guile, even when caught red-handed,
he declared. was often the means of
their escaping punishment.
License Clerks Testimony.
G. II. Ruedi, who has acted In the
capacity of marriage license clerk at
the city hall for six years. aligned
himself on the women's side. mas
much as he has to ask every appli-
cant for his or her age. this would al
most seem to put an end to further
discussion. II there Is one subject
upon which a woman is tender, It is
her age. From time immemorial she
has considered 1t her special privilege
to make use of sliding scale In this
respect. AS schoolgirl she delights
in adding on one or two years, and
when the score and ten mark is
reached she stops counting altogether.
Mr.. Ruedi was unqualified in his as
sertion that women are more honest
than men. His great trouble, he de-
clared, was with young girls under
age who were obsessed with loves
young dream. They did not seem to
have any scruples, he said, about add
ing year or two to their ages when
1t was palpable they had not reached
the age of discretion established by
statute.
It will be surprise to many to
learn that men are not exempt from
weakness in regard to their age. Mr..
Ruedi said he frequently had cases
where men, in the presence Of friends
and neighbors, without the least con-
Germ, deducted from five to ten years
from the number of summers which
had passed over their heads.
James H. Smith, chief of detectives,
when asked his opinion, quickly d.
vided women with criminal tendencies
into two classes. Into the first he put
the woman who was brought before
him as a result of her first venture be-
yond the pale Of the law. AS for the
professional woman criminal he
showed little mercy. He stated that
men, no matter how hardened, when
they found the evidence so strong
against them as to render their case
hopeless, usually came out with the
truth. With the woman criminal the
department has to overcome all the
articles which she uses to battle the
sleuths.
Says Women Are More Honest.
GAS a rule" said Chief Smith, "the
women that stoop to the minor crimes
are not in the professional class, and
when confronted with proof of their
wrongdoing readily admit their guilt
The same can be said of men, though
to lesser degree. 1t is my opinion
that under ordinary circumstances
women are much more honest than
men.
when It comes to professional Grim
inals, however, women far outdistance
men in their dishonesty. They are
more shrewd and crafty and exceed