Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-02


query rests the whole matri-
monial problem and in ninety-nine cases
out of hundred the solution TO the
great and much exploited divorce ques-
ton.
Why will man never offer the naked
truth to the woman he loves without
dressing it up in lot of frills'
1t is folly to deny the accusation Be.
cause it is known and long accepted
fact that, while woman will lie to any
body else on earth sooner than to the
man She loves, man will lie to the
woman he loves sooner than to anybody
else on earth 1t is one of the proofs
that lie loves her, and his love is never
quite dead until he ceases trying to
whitewash himself and begins telling her
the brutal truth
But--why? This sounds like a simple
proposition, but il is as cryptic and un-
fathonlable a mystery as the ancient
question Of whether the hen or the egg
came first 1t is the first white lie that
casts the first dark cloud over the hon
eymoon--the cloud that later bursts i'm
to the domestic storm which causes the
matrimonial shipwrcck.
Butts it feminine suspicion that
causes the first masculine lie, or IS il
the masculine lie that causes the FIRST
feminine suspicion? II you should take
worldwide ballot on that question ev-
cry man on earth would answer Il un-
conditionaily in one way, and every
woman on earth would answer it just az
positively and Internationally in the 9TH
or way And we would still be in dark
ness as to the truth In a recent edi-
torial in newspaper bachelor who
happened TO be stalled in a snowbound
suburban train during blizzard is quot
ed as expressing his establishment at
hearing half dozen married men dis
cussng the problem of how to explain
to their wives their unwonted hts ar
rival when the train should get in.
When the bachelor suggested thar
they explain" by telling the simple
truth every one of the benedicts laughed
a short bitter. Mortified laugh At the
mere idea. No woman they declared,
would believe THE truth
Is it fact that no woman believes
the truth--or is il merely masculine
fallaeyi Whatever the answer, Il GER
tainly seems never to occur to the aver
age man to tell a woman the truth 80
long as he can think of anything more
convincing or interesting to tell her The
only way for woman 10 get the truth
out of a man is 10 put him under hyp-
motto influence and make him tell II
while he is unconscious-an then, Of
course she wouldn't believe him.
A woman always suspects that . man
is lying TO her long before she catches
him, and he always suspects that she
suspects linn long before he begins lying
to her.
There IS no solution 10 the problem
and apparently no cure for the malady
The only two possible remedies have
been tried and found wanting There
have been sensible women who have
gone into marriage determined to place
blind faith in their husbands, believing
that faith begets aithfulness-on1y to
awaken too late to the knowledEs that
their husbands were lying to them quite
as casually and habitually as other wom-
ems husbands.
There have been idcalstic men who
have gone into matrimony determined to
be ION the square" with their wives and
to tell them the truth at any cost-onfy
to discover that they were living under
just as deep and eternal suspicion as the
faithless husbands around them. In one
case the egg, or the lie, come frst-in the
other the hen, or the suspicion.
A mans faith in the policy Of never
telling he-truth-to-a woman is so firmly
rooted that even though she might catch
him with anoher woman in his arms he
would declare that it was only her 'fm-
agination" and that there was nobody
there"