Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — The HONEST LIAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The HONEST LIAR

Here’s to the man who lies to us, who’s careless of the truth, Who slaps us on the back and says, "Gee 1 how you hold yotir youth !" Who shrinks not at the future when he has a lie to- tell, - 1 But, when you’re sick and tired and blue, declapdi, "You’re looking well!" Here’s to the man who tells us lies when solemn truth would hurt. Who says: “I’ll back you through and through, if it should take my shirt.” Who, when you’re "off” and cannot write just as you think you should, Will tune you. up for better things, with, "That’s what I call good I” Or, when you paint a picture that is wrong in every part, Will make you think the daub is great by saying, “Now, that’s art I” He lies—but’s it’s in charity, if lying ever was, So, here's his health, for, though he lies, he's honest when he does. —josh Wink, in the Baltimore American.