WHY GIRLS EXAGGERATE

Otaki Mail, 11 June 1923, Page 3

WHY GIRLS EXAGGERATE

Why must girls exaggerate; asks a writer in the “Woman's Magazine.” Take, par example. Theodora. She is a friend ol' mine, and I hate to criticise her; but honesty compels me to say that you have to winnow down her assertions till not one quarter of their original exuberance remains. Only by so doing can you get somewhere near the truth. Janette is another example, tfhe bicycled to see me the other 'lav. and the shv sun of

mi' mu uiuci ua? , emu im; ouv sun v t lffffd peep'-d coyly at In r. she rode quietly, and the v - vv. -- ■ ■ e - a short mile. Her verdiei on the excursion would have suited a frenzied sealing—without a halt— of the Den 1 . <lu Midi. The refrain wn.-. ”i am liyinv—ub-o-lutely dying!” Such damsel? are prone to sneak of an ordinary breeze as “a

positive cyclone.” and to describe the j lieh fiance of a friend as “literally kicking in money —a million a week, my dear, at least!'’ Now, nviK- of these “fact embellishers” are consc ic-u-i v dishonest. Bella. whom I know pretty intimately, w a meticulous truth-toll..i —quite Washingtonian in her dislike of the whitest be. This, however, did nut prevent her from declaring in my presence that all her front teeth wore decaying, when I happened to know that a microscopic s',:si>ieion of curie- was the extent oi the damage. lu all the profession? , , I ■ . . , .1 : a

libs'Chitd exactitude is demanded, u the ambitious girl would go fat im-bucim-ss girl, tuu. shouia particularly beware of tiorid statements. Tu tell her employer that “a hundred people have called in hi? absence,” or that one of them was “green with rage at finding him out’’ is not the way to

Uiili UIU me • • keep a situation. It strains the confidence to breaking-point. Perhaps the warning most likely to be heeded is this. Men —the right kind of men — detest exaggeration. Sometimes, it is true, they draw the fair oxaggeraior out. but only to see to what heights of verbal follv she will soar.