Evening star., 1927-09-14
SUB ROSA
ny MIMI.
Cross-Examination.

"Have a good time last night?"
Muriel inquired pleasantly.
yep, great time" came Jerry's
answer. 'All the boys turned out,
and it was a great meeting
What time did you get homer"
Round about -. I guess-why do
you ask?"
"You couldn't have got home at II,
Jerry. None of those meetings ever
break up before l and in the morn
ing. Why do you fib like that"
well. don't remember what time
got home. 1t may have been later
than 12-what of it?'
"Who was there-anybody
know"
"Oh, just the old crowd. All the
gang 1 used 10 so with in high school.
Nobody new"
You were at Dick Sterne's house,
weren't you? Was his sister
around?"
NO, she didn't appear. What
would she be doing hanging around
a gang of fellows? She's a cute kid,
though. We didn't see her at all.
Are you sure you didn't see her.
Jerry? l notice that whenever one
of these meetings Is held it's at the
home of some boy with pretty
sister. I can't help wondering if she
doesn't have some friends who are
kind enough to come in and help her
entertain brothers boy friends
This charming little conversation,
as you may imagine. developed into a
nice, acrimonious dispute before 1t got
much further. Well. who could blame
Jerry if he did fly off the handle and
call Muriel a few deserved names?
Muriel ought TO be spanked for act.
ing the way she does. She ought to
be spanked and scolded severely. Per.
haps if some one were to tell her the
truth she'd come to life.
But at present the greatest diff
Guilty with her case is that she thinks
she's awfully clever and cute in drag
ginG information out of the reluctant
Jerry. She boasts about these cross
examination methods Of hers. She
asserts that her Jerry Is afraid Of
opening his mouth in the wrong direc-
tion when she's around.
Why, she's got so she can pin him
down the instant he tells a white lie.
He can't keep thing from her and
he can't get away with anything.
Isn't she wonderful?
Well, she may have developed her
powers of detection to an amazing
point, but no man wants to spend
the rest Of his days with trained
detective. Neither does he want to
come home every night to brisk,
snappy cross-fire of questions that
leaves him weak and shaken.
All MurieIs efforts to keep tabs on
q
IN the end. There never was a hus-
band who couldn't fool his wife if
ne really made up his mind to it. A
man has too many excuses-.He has
his office, his club. his golf TO plead
as alibis for an absence, and the best
trained wife in the world can't check
up on everything.
So that the girl friend is wasting
time trying to nail brother Jerry to
the witness stand. If she can't trust
him sufficiently to accept his word
without a thorough cross.examination
she's not carving out much of a
future for herself.
Muriefs methods would teach anv
man the art of evading and dodging
the Truth until married life would be
just a clever game in which each
player would chalk up five points for
every lie he or she got away with.
No wife ought to turn her home
into courtroom. Her husband
shouldn't be on trial every time he's
out an evening. And the girl who
SHOWS tendency to cross.examination
long pefore marriage should be
AVOIDED by boys looking for peace and
quiet in the marital state.
tCopyriRht. 1927
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