GIRLS WHO EXAGGERATE.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 73, 23 March 1918, Page 2

GIRLS WHO EXAGGERATE.

It requires a nice discrimination to make distinction between the one who exaggerates and the liar. Great would be the indignation of most girls if not considered truthful, yet their habit of embroidering the. truth makes it a queer fabric. One exaggerates from various motives. Sometimes it is clue to a vivid imagination. The girl hears something, and before long has let her imagination run riot until she actually believes her story. Again, a girl exaggerates from a desire to he interesting. She wants to create a sensation, and if the truth cannot do it she adds to it. A too keen sense of humor often leads to exaggeration. A girl sees the funny side of a story, and to make others sec K she sacrifice* the strict facts. Heedless exaggeration is common. A girl from talking superlatives thinks them. She will tel! you she has seen a hundred people when she means lerhaps a dozen; that a friend’s new diamond is as big as a hen's egg: that some one else was “in a frightful rage” when perhaps she was slightly peevish. No harm'in all this, for the speaker is not taken seriously, but it weakens other things she says and makes her conversation 'without force. Occasionally a girl exaggerates maliciously, which brings her into the class of the “liar at heart.” The instant a story is wilfully enlarged it becomes quite inexcusable.