Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1917 — DECEIVING ONE’S HUSBAND OR WIFE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DECEIVING ONE’S HUSBAND OR WIFE

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY

So you think you love me, do you? .Well. It may be bo. But there are many ways of I have learned to know— Many ways and but one trqe way. Which Is very rare: The i-ounterfelts look brightest Though they will not wear. A mnn thinks that It Is no harm to tell his wife a fib, as to why he stayed

out an bout or so later than usual • nf an evening. Jf lie takes a Brink - ] with a crowd of: convivial companions, lie doesn't hesitate to tell his i wife who notices at once the odor of juniper \ berries on his i breath —lie had to take a customer j from out of town j to the nearest j case, taking a; drink with him, of course, etc., etc. But let a wife deviate ever so

slightly from the truth and her husband will look-upon her with reproach, not to say stern anger. Much depends upon which one is telling the fib. Many a wife thinks it is no harm to tell her husband she pays so much for the family upkeep and clothes, when in fact site has managed to save quite a little. sum by,heii shrewd bargaining, salting it down for a rainy i

day. She thinks she is perfectly Justified in this course* The husband aif such ft" WfflHiTn never kntfys really “w 1 lere hp Is a..” i a i He believes that it actually costs more to run the house than it real lit, does. How mueli better it would be for the wife to take her husband into Irer telling him that shetmtde 'purchases -trader-- the- -fig**re and „ she has put h.v the balance for their . mutual good later on. As~7«Tr "rtrcerriirg him about the habits of her home folk that is quite another story. Their faults and their follies are their own ufTairs. She lots no right to exploit them. If he finds thorn out lie cannot blame her for keeping mum. He will have all the more confidence ill her, realizing she will ktjep his affairs to herself and not tell them about his shortcomings or troubles in n burst of confidence. Married couples should he careful as to which tells each other the first tih. and slop tittering it its it rushes to their lips. To love truly each must have confidence in the other. If either is suspected of deliberately falsifying to the other, one does not know how far he or she could trust the other. Little fibs lead to graver and greater ones. Happy is the husband who. can say in all truth. “My wife has never knowingly deceived me even in the most trifling affair.” Happy is the wife who can say the same of her husband. Rut is there: such a one? . - ■. (Copyright, 1917.)