The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15


NJ those other resorts where newly welded
couples delight TO flock have been relieved
for this season of the sight of two young
Sefsons holding hands on all occasions and whisper
ing baby talk each other, obvious of all the rest
of creation, and these couples have returned the
city the earth and the realities of fe may
be pertinent ask why do husbands lie to their
wives and what can be done TO stop them?"
OF the june crop of brides about ninety-seven and
one-half per cent will declare with great show of
indignation that they know their husbands have not
lied and viii lie; therefore the question has
more than an academic interest to Them matter
how important it may be to other wives They
so sure of their newly acquired husbands that they
will rush right to them with this query:
Did you hear such silly question in all your
lfe?" they viii say to their husbands. Why do
husbands lie TO their wives? Good husbands don't
lie to their wives, do they, honey?"
why the very ideaI
That is all honey" will say loud enough to get
the record. When he is alone he will say some very
harsh things about persons who always making
trouble and don't know enough to mind their
business but the unsophisticated bride will know
Of this and she will take that why the very ideal"
expressed with proper amount of indignation,
proof positive that honey" will never lie to
her.
There are two per cent of the brides who will say
nothing and who will fear the They the
dimmed by loves young dream and who
Der what their mothers stood for for many years. and
they know the experience OF their married friends
They hope their Harolds or Jacks Pauls just
little different and that they will always. tell the
truth but they know in their hearts that this is
much to expect.
This leaves one-haf Of one per cent of the June
brides who know, Whatever illusions they had
gardng their husbands when the honeymoon started
have been shattered They had their little cry when
they discovered the feet Of clay, and if they wise
the tears have been brushed away and they have
mapped out plan of campaign that will reduce
minimum the of lying the young husbands
will get away with.
Every man who gives the matrimonial game the
careful thought it deserves before he has his hand
dealt IN 1t knows that he going lie to his wife
It IS instinct with He has heard his father
lie TO his mother sometimes getting away with it,
sometimes thinking he getting away with it when
he did not and sometimes getting caught with the
goods but continuing to lie just the He knows
that he is going do the thing and hopes that
with the experience of his father he will be able
10 get away with it all the time
If he is wise young man, and there wise
young in these days, the ninetyseven and one
half per cent optimistic brides will find out he will
practice the matrimonial lie during the courtship days
His mind will not be alert later on and neither will
hers so he can get away with much cruder lie than
TO match wits against those of suspicious female,
and most young men today begin with that prepare
tory schooling.
Why do men lie to their wives, or, rather, why do
they think they have TO? The to this is that
are towards. Not that they fear physical danger,
but they bear women in tears and if the
wives of this country had only the truth told to them
by their husbands enough would be shed each
day to float feet of Dreadnoughts. Therefore,
rather than this pain and suffering, the
coct stories they hope they put and trust
luck and their simple minded wives.
LIES NECESSITY
Any man who has been married two years will tell
you that the ability to lie convincingly and well is as
necessary to a happy married life income One
for this is that expect too much of
That is, all women do except widows and any man
who can pass out the usual bromdical lies that go
with young brides to widow either grass or sod,
and get away with them is entitledto all the medals
he can carry.
There are many women who will never understand
that while poker old matrimony, it is just
as much institution and provides safety valve
for many men. Every man knows that if he comes
home late and tells his wife that he has been playing
poker with the boys it rings up the curtain for
scene. So he lies. He may use an old veteran like
having work at the Office being obliged to meet
client, or he may There are dozen
real bright and original lies that are being
used poker nights in this city, but they
going to be printed here. 1t would discourage the
genius who invented them and who is permitting his
dearest friends to them, and would put end
fine a line Of nondetectable lies as any man ever
told loving wife
Another thing that do take into con-
sideration is that vain and are a trife
tickle. They love their wives but they also love to
have coryphee of the chorus chuck them under the
chin and say You're good old scout" They love
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they lose caste, and which really not bad. This
characteristic OF mere will not be believed by the
brides OF June 1909, but many brides of the Junes
before 1909 know it is all And what chance
the truth would have in explaining of these
partiesi