Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-08
Ten Commandments
Of Ma+rino0nu
Many Marriages Fail Because Founded on FalsehoOd

! frank with each other. and explain the
situation honestly, but such csndor is
never INDUCED In matrimony.
No man, for Instance, in popping the
question to n girl would dare 70 say.
Mary Jane, you have no beauty TO boast
Of, and am under no illusions that you
will set the world on fire with your brill
liancy, or are pinfoathered angel, but
you are healthy and wholesome, and
practical and domestic, and are the sort
OF a girl who makes a good wife and a
good mother. / like you and I'd like
TO marry YOU. but II you marry ME you
will have to put up with a lot Of cranki-
ness and selfishness in me, and for the
next few years, while l am getting a
good start you will have to do your own
housework, and mako your own clothes.
and do without Injuries to which you
have been accustomed. How does the
proposition look TO your
/ Oh. no, no man ever proposes TO n girl
in that fashion. On the contrary he
tells her that she Is the most beautiful
creature that ever lived and that he'll
die II she says no." ana that IL she
married him. her little white hands shall
never have aught to do except to smooth
his fevered brow. Then. when she does
marry him and finds out that natrimony
is a gas range and sewing machine in
stead of silk cushions, there Is small won
der that she feels that she has been
swinded.
/ Nor are women any more honest before
marriage with men than men with wo-
men, Every girl who is misunderstanding
pretends to be what she thinks the man
she desires to charm wants her to be-
She never has the courage to let even
ther fiance see her with her complexion
loft, and her temper and her views of life
In good working order Wherefore many
a man who thinks he is leading a mild.
meek little creature to the altar. that he
expects to mould to suit his own tastes
gets the Jolt Of his life when he finds
that he has been united in the holy bonds
or wedlock to virago instead of Patient
Grizelda
Undoubtedly It is more important that
man should be Truthful James, and a
woman Veraclous Jane before marriage
than 1t is they should be strictly truthful
with each other afterward. Indeed. II
they have been candid with each other
before marriage they will have no need
to be afraid to tell the truth to each
other.
The real reason that most husbands
and wives lie to each other Is because
they dare not tell the truth The man
who wants to stay down town and have
dinner with a friend, or play a game OF
cards would prefer to tell his wife about
IL, but experience has taught him thai
she will lecture him half the night about
n II he does, so ne tells her a whoppel
about being kept by business. or having
to meet man from Oshkosh, -+,.
A woman would much rather tell hel
husband that her new hat cost $40 In
stead of $l5, except that she knows thai
in one case she will be berated for hei
extravaganza, and In the other she viii
get off with merely a conjugal grunt OF
disapproval. So, human nature beinI
weak and domestic peace precious eaci
is forced by the other into becoming
members of the Ananias society.
Thus does falsehood become one OF th'
sunken rocks on which the good shiI
matrimony founders. For in the end ly.
ing is one OF the things with which on,
. never quite gets away. Sooner or late
the liar is found out His little air castl,
falls in ruins at the first touch of realit.
and leaves nothing but a handful o
( broken dreams and hopes.
Moreover. the man who has once lieS
> TO his wife. or the wife who has told fib,
TO her husband, is forever after unde
,, suspicion, and love. especially conjuga
: love, can have no peace unless 1t rest
upon unquestioned faith, and that mus
l rest upon truth.
Remember the first commandment, tho
shalt not lie. Leave the man or womai
: who is not strong enough TO stand tn
|, truth to be a fit companion for som
other liar: