The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-06-17
TIT IMPRESSIONS OF ATfNDfRfOOT
BsinU OrthOdO. Sketches Of Real Human Interest

inhofn tendency, IN fact few du. Then,
may never hr anything malicious about
their stories. ~ fact u majority Ut then
obliquiiirs may br for a ,ct. olrnt
purpose at letting somebody else down
easy. ~ =" harmlrssly attain certain
ends which hey cfroncously think could
not b" achieved hl IA, truth.
u u well that there should lee 4,
brunirf understanding aud study ut this
subject, since u has 10 do with the more
common wca kncss Of mankind. u D., u
question ~ old a. the world whether
lying IL every iuStidahlr. haven I set
tied u ~ my own mind. While freely
admitting that ! can 7 lic aud get away
with u myself. except 10 most isolated
distances, see ~ much of u about me
ihat my mind waivers To III" belief that
inost at ~ are governed by rircum
stances, aud that II We think the truth
hould hc ycilcd II j. ycilcd. sometimes
10 The point 1T t"tr' o]bscuri,v. This ap
rbcs with especial force ~ married
men. some at whom tell only She truth
TO their wives. because the, know from
' e q'cri"ncc that It b, ,hc unly safe way;
wh"r"ns others never tell them % truth
Z "quivoca,ior. which l. .imrlr % uiId
word for lying. will do ~ we'll.
There are certain learned profcs,ruu.
which ! wouldu I srcriiy tor tlo per
.lScihcatiou, that always net uu ,ui.
ne also.
! do believe that p great M majority
of lies are told IN what the 'rllcr lee
hnVcs Ia ho u good cause. y, sac doctor
inN To his patient to whom the truth
would lee fatal, H. the law yer lies a. the
parents of his clients aud others To- whom
the truth would lac most ~misrhr,iuuS, ~
the preacher aud the newspaper men
III aw ~" long how IN regard ~ the min
~ virtues of the dear Departed, aud ~
the apiIniur of "nr brand ur anuihrr
,picrs HI narrative 81 fact with u gar
nl1hmrnt 1T imaginative color. Mnny
merchants lie flurntly ia small matters.
thinking II necessary ~ avoid u mild
state ni commercial chaos The moral
responsibility Tor this Tine of falschuud
must rest with the individual. simply hc
cause II j. usually impossible to idrutl
~ il ut the time Of recurrence. aud 1t
nll depends whether the rud iuvtifcs the
means. can not speak If the roli'i
cal liar. simply because have absolute
~ no knowledge Of him.
Then some more can not dgr,o with
Mr.. Crane. gallant exemption ~ the
ladies from the grand consolidated or
Ter OF prcvaricators. Yielding 20 No
man olive or dead in Difference n,d al
Mutation NJ the sisters ~ man. | m
,iSl that some Of them have ~. men
bar ked clear of the boards when II
comes Ia manipulating the truth. Any
Judge will tell Won that the sense OF
truth Of the average woman IL most
elastic IN a law suit, much more so than
the average man. Outside Of Ibis one
line the lady il far and away unc ~ the
most babitual. Her departures from
the truth are simply little more or less
white lies, generally covering social mat
tiers, and not amounting 10 much on
general principles. The mot ~ home
lie il oie of their most common, hut II
has secondary arcompanimeuts If an
sorts that run all through society and
The am %iations and notifications there
II. II the average woman told the
friend IN the sewing socicty, ana the
number of invitations she would get
would b. ~ scarce as wet days In New
Mexico. In this she is not different
with the average man, who If he told all
NJ the truth. would have q black eve
all the time that he WASH IN Jail,
- a rule most NJ MS are pretty poor
liars. Generally when we put one over
the oihcr party, IL If equal experience.
expects us "a 10 that very thing, aud
wouldn't believe il IL We didn Z. They
simply make their own estimates OF the
real truth, and there Is no material dam
npc done. The man or woman who can
tell u lie with an absolutely straight
face, without some flicker of the eve.
lash, some sign that IL j. a lie they
are telling, are mighty scarce. The NOR
nj sense OF the people has not been dull.
ed a particle by the aeons Of graduated
falschood. They take IL ~ a matter Of
course, Just the anne n the eStrava.
CANT claims Of breakfast hailed hay
makers. \ vast majority If them pre-
fer "a tell the truth when II j. cNpcdi"ut
aud do 70. another proof that truth Is
immortal, for no other principle could
have cndured such a p%erpetuiiy oi
knockouts and come Ia the center NJ the
ring again with such unvaryiug fresh.
ness.
have huown some men (there are a
few In RoswclO who prefer TO lie rather
than Ia tell the truth. The rest Of III,
people soon get onto their shape, and
give Thorn the classification they de
serve, as professional liars. whose wor'
is never b. be- taken without "A larg,
size pinch 81 the stun which makes thu
potatoes taste had when you dom pu.
It m, Apologies for them are fond o'
citing some illustrious exceptions TO Thu
rule of the ages that truth is hest, In
=, varnish Il all that you will, they ar,