Arizona republican., 1917-03-04

Mrs James Wilson ard Mrs. Arthur T. Eseate will preside at the tea | hour
 l Chapter A of F. F. O., will hold it's annual election of officers Tues l day evening at the horne of Mrs. l. W. i.McCurr, Sl1 North First street
 At the home of Mrs. J. NJ. Gleason, interesting session Wednesday after
 noon. oliver Wendell Holmes" and his works was the subject that w;ts | cleverly presented by various mem ! bers of the club. There were several { guests who enjoyed the clever dis : cussiS.n led by Mrs. r l.. SterlSel. { The poetry class of the Woman~ i club will meet al ten o'clock Wednes . l day morning in the department room
 Mrs. ". C. Ellis. chairman. has ar ranged the following program: Life of Blion. Mrs. L. N. Stilwell, Read
 ing from Byron. Mrs Franklin Me
 CMskey: Life of Shelley. Mrs. II. |. Chandler: Reading from Shelley. Mrs
 IT, C. Lockett; life of Keats, Miss
 Sadie Atherton; Reading from Keats
 Mrs. w. (. Ellis.
 i Through the efforts of the Glendale ! Woman's club. the city council Of Glendale, has established and will as 1 sist to maintain a woman's rest room 1 The rest room which is in the Stauffef ! building, was opened Thursday after noon. Mrs C. H. Tinker, chairman oi
 the Civics department of the clul
 presiding. The club held particular
 ly busy week for in addition to theit .ts-. claimed quite q Dlt of their attention ! On Tuesday evening Gentlemen { evening was observed with q delight 1 ful program presented by the Arizona
 School Of Music. The following day
 the clul held business session.
 One of the most interesting papers ! presented before the Arizona Congress 1 of Mothers in session last week. was the article on The Psycoiogv oi Lying" by Professor l.. w. Fine oi | the Tempe Normal scoil. The handl | ing of the subject appealed to the mothers present and the request was ] made of Professor E'ike to contribute l the article as a loan paper. IL will 1 be read during the wear in many of | the Parent Teachers association ga theringa It follows in part:
 | Now just what do We mean by the 1 psychology of Lying? We mean an | attempt to explain the fundamental I principles underlying lying; and by 1 lying We shah mean an, perVersior | of the truth.
 1 Moresoever. we shall limi; our dis ] cussion 10 that of children's lies. w. l find that they may bc classified into two great categories: l. Those due 1 to imagination. and; .. Those due | to certain instincts.
 l l. might be said at the outset that there is a wide difference of opiniof l concerning the imasnation of child ren. An illustration. We see a Dos astride long stick and using 9 | string for q bridle. a blanket for q
 saddle. and welding whip vigorous ly, We ask him what he is doing an, he instantly replies. Riding my pony
 We naturally conclude that the Do, is using constructive imagination Hut along comes Madame Montesorri
 who calmly announces that we are 0l
 wrong-that the hoy' has no imagina
 tion at all. The boz is riding q sticl
 simply and solely because kc has nc
 horse or pony 10 ride. That th'
 stick Is just plain. natter of fac substitute for pony. The same ttini
 may be said of Mary playing witt
 her doll. She does not deceive her
 self in thinking that the doll is a req
 baby. quite the contrary. she playe'
 with it for she has no real baby q
 play with
 However we believe It will be some
 time before the theory oi the learned
 doctor of Italv win be able to con
 vince the psychoioglsts ot the |. <. A
 that she is correct. We would rathe
 hold with Professor Patrick of tn University of Iowa that the fancifu
 playing of children is dnc 10 a desr
 for relaN;ltion--a going back 10 prim
 itiVc conditions when tho lower cen
 tres of thinking and acting were su preme. The higher centres or cere hrpin has been developed very recent ly. compared. There is in every chil' m inherent dislike of untrS,th and | is only vancliished because of tn corstant encroachment of the world Q make believe upon the child oftel times making him captive. There i thus a constant confusion of fact an fancy existing in the mind of th child which produces painful ludicrou inconsistencies. The boy wno. upo going out to the old walnut tree. find t number of tracks and never think Ing that l single squirrel could pos sibly haVe made them, comes rush  all seriousncss that he has seen million squirrels Now. Robert" gay his cautious mother. did you reall se( million squirrels" 'Wel Mother, saw at least a hundre l thousand Again mother earnestl | i inquiries the number and now tn | ndmber has declined to one thousan 1 and finally Robert confe4ses. bcin l greatl. irritated and agitated oye 1 such. to him, insignificant matte l that he had seen no real squirrel l But. gee. there was an awful lot ( | tracks anyway"
 \ All this comes about. not thrnue i any wilful preversion of nature. bl \ partly through the unaided tendenci, If of his own mental life and part Il through suggestion from his eldel l and playuates.
 III The child k in much greater dar H ger when the skilful and successfl !! lie of others extorts from him admir- Ii tion for the feat. There is no one III stupid who has studied children at q III hut wIll admit that it does so Ar |t unusual exhibition of ability ar III daring arouses in the child lis ii III stinct of wonder and provokes a, I'll miration. Then using his instinct III irritation he yields readily to Il III temptation to deceive others or arou | in them also wonder and admiratio