ARE WOMEN TRUTHFUL?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81889, 16 November 1906, Page 4

ARE WOMEN TRUTHFUL?

'•WHITE" LIES AND SOCIETY I LIES. There are certain qualities, such as tact and sympathy, which man regard? as essential in a woman. There are others, such as strict veracity and love of truth, in the same categury- but which every woman knows perfectly she cannot do very well without. For, although chief among the virtu** he esteems is that power of attractiveness, peculiarly feminine, which is possessed by the woman of tact and sympathy, yet the rea.ly tactful, sympathetic woman must be all things to all men, and that is an attitude of mind quite incompatible with strict untruthfulness, however charming it may appear to the opposite sex. , , , But also, in point of fact, the frank, straightforward gir! has a very hard time of it, and by no means finds her one virtue applauded by men and women, fcr the'e truthful ones are rarelv favorites with the opposte sex, and unless gifted with brain, and taknt, usually contrive to make a failure of their lives, while the women who practice the gentle art of deception most successfully generally contrive to do so at someone else's cost, at fie same time til - ing their own lap full of gojd things. Women seem to .think that thev have the right to tell an untruth; being the weaker sex they imagine that they wil: be excused if they fall back upon this [mode of self-defence. Thev are fond of calling these untruths' "white lies." These wretched white lies cover a mu.titudc of feminine sins. ~ Then there is the "society Me. which the fair -ex s.> often indulge in, in order to cover up or hde seme social blunder which must be kept secret at any co»t.—Dorothy Dix, in the "Daily Mail."