THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 17, 1007.
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Clara Bloodgood on Lying
N
EW TORK. Feb, IA -Jm I have
become acquainted with osntxoo
tors." says Mr. Clara Blood
rood, "I u perfectly
. that all men are Ham."
Mrs. Bloodgood make thl statement
calmly. a anyone could undar tha cir
cumstonces, tha circumstance being a
half finished houm, which to not to ba
cai(fd "Tha Palac af Truth," situated In
Gnat Thirty-ninth street, which, at tha
moment of the remark quoted. sheltered
a half aoora of carpenters, an equal num
ber of plaster. Clyde Fitch, tha pres
agent, tha artlat aad lnterriewsr for Tha
Bun and herself.
"Somebody quoted ma, or rather mis
quoted ma," continuaa Mrs. Bloodejned,
"a saying that woman lied much mora
than mep. I never said that at all. I
couldn't, ' for I don't believe It and really
I consider myaelf mora than uaually
truthful woman, aa women ro and com.
If you oould ae tha letters and hear tha
telephone protest that I bara been tha
recipient of ainoa that unfortunate speech,
you wouldn't wonder that I am glad to Ret
myaelf right In thla matter. All my friends
resented that remark with a ferror that la,
to say tha least of It,' suspiclou
"When wa ret into tha subject of lylnc
wa are getting Into a dm of oomplexltle
and rabtletles that are difficult to manage
adroitly. Naturally rraryVdy starts out
by saying that a lie la an awful thins and a
liar an abhorrent person, and yu end by
reaching- tha point where yeu realise that
without lies there would be no social or
domestic life possible, net to touch the
business world too quickly.
"If there Is any one I hate, positively
hate, it la tha type af woman described
in the play, 'one of those straightforward,
narrow minded New Shigland women, who
think everything- that Isn't tha truth la a
lie.' She la In the same class with tha New
Jersey woman who when you go to see
her takes a broom and commence to sweep
until you hare te mora from your com
fortable corner and then expects you to go
home and say what a rood homakaeper
she la."
"Then you really approve of tha Bat" la
Yentured.
I won't go so far as that," aaswera Mrs.
III M?f'
CLARA BLOODGOOD. DRAWN FROM A PHOTO BT BtTRR MACINTOSH.
Bloodgood. "but I think that lies ara ta be V1". from nejtt Thursday. If you met
divided into two classes, the decorative face on the street you d have
and tha vldooe. A woman ktaows without " ""
reasoning about tha matter that to etal cu" nougn. ut to say over
facta lust aa the rtt would not allure 1 a IOV 10 como " 1 can- lun
the
hold
be mad that they weren't Invited.' "
"I know a story," says Mrs. Blood (rood
suddenly. "It's about a woman in New
York whom everybody knows and every
one will recognize her, and she'll hate me.
any one to further desire for her company. w wlr" "unuie wn" ,OOB- " 00 D" uoes anyway; ou 1 11 leu you 11
ai0osmsiaK. o engagements.- wnen ui time is up you yeu won 1 aK me to ten anotner one aDOUt
Rha la Irr training ani natweml aonemttllah-
ment the conversationalist of the two "urn Ma W neanoreicen,
sexes, for If tha average worn did not but ou nnd th- " Jroady taken
talk any mora than the average man does. and then J talk fart and say good-by
there would soon be tha sad of all social bf"'e th Pr at th other ,md h"
Intercourse. I heard of a man the other ra te 7u flx "other date,
day. very quiet and uaobtruatv la manner "Then th lu bou th '
and speech, who yuat loves to hear his UPP ther a woman in New York
chatterbox of a wife nam an with rauoa wh hasn't sent back a hat that aha has
talk about her friends) aad their happen- rrl. explaining that her husband don't
ings. When she get ahselutery run dawn uk although she herself simply loves
he rises from his chair and gaea out with Jt when Becky In Truth' tells that fib
a very bored look on, 'saying. , I cant th maaengor there is a telepathic look
stand any more of this." but ho always Jl ov,r tr9m the woman in the
waits until she Is through, gaUry tq the woman In the stage box.
"A woman levee to embroider her con- mere la a fashionable milliner in New
my friends. I couldn't do that really, al
though I know some rlppln' ones.
"This woman waa the type who always
says she's been to a function If you weren't
there, and if you were she tells you that
she waa Invited and couldn't go. Some
body spoke one day of a dinner party and
she said, 'Oh, yes, I was invited there, but
I couldn't go.'
" You were invited? said some one, in
credulously. " Tea, I was invited,' she said again.
" That's funny,' said the other, 'for it
waa a stag dinner.' -
"Don't think," says Mrs. Bloodgood, "that
versatlon with little flowers of fasoy. When York who saya that one of her customers I belive in chronic lying; not at all. 1
the child comes and tells you of tha big baa been making that excuse for years, can't imagine anything- more unsettling
bear he has Just seen, you think him oun- Sometimes she comes Into the shop after than to live with a person not one of whose
nlng and so imaginative, but the woman ia the return of an especially attractive one statements you could believe without hunt
only the grown up child. nd almost cries while she tells that her ln UB "r(Xrf-
"The man won't trouble to lie Just to ba husband hated her in the S one and "f M tha lies that the heroine in 'Truth'
entertaining: the burden of that to on th thought the MO one charming, while she told there were only two that were thor-
woman. It Is a woman who invented th preferred the $6S one, but what could she o"e"hly reprehensible, one where she ac
epigram -Conversation Is born, not made.' dot ouses the other woman of being a liar in
Whan a man lies, nine timea out of ten he "Just b accident the milliner discovered order to get nerMlf out "crape and the
does It to ret himself out of a scrane." one dav that tha wnman'a hiiahnA h.A other to her father In regard to her husband
"Don't you think," Interpolates the mar been dead for ten years,
rted prsss agent, "that a man lies to be "Another one of the Ideas I use In the
polite to avoid argumentr play I got from a woman in London. Mrs.
"To avoid argument." allows Mrs. Blood- A said to Mrs. B that ahe could not ao-
good, "never to be polite. A woman does, oept 'the Invitations for Sunday, as she waa
When a friend comes to her and asks If going out of town for the week end. Sat-
the one arown allowed her for tha season urdav ther met and Mrs. A exnlafna that
1a all right, even though she may think It her husband waa detained and they would your eye8 whn vou ara not telling th
. . . . . . . . . ..... . tnitfi Vt mt thft lnlr fnmm ffnt'
a. run 011, ugiy garment, 11 soe s any xina not get away untu uunaay morning. AS - - -
of a pa she don't say so. but tells her that chance determined, they ran across each "Som Ilea I think are very noble. I
It Is vry pretty and becoming. I believe other early Monday morning- la some shop, ioa,t tWnk u H" ,or womAn to wear
false hair it she looks better for It, even
that she tells because she Is afraid to con
fees her own misdeeds. They were both
malicious lies, but the rest . were merely
allly falsehoods. I think one of the moat
touching places In the play is In the scene
between father and daughter when be says,
"Becky, you're lying. I know the look In
M l,;- u s
THE EASIEST WAY TO FIB.
such a one will get Into heaven Juat as too arlT for a return from the country,
quickly as the kind who says right out. Mia. A looks slightly-very sllghtly-con-
It's the worst looking dress I ever saw." fused for a moment, and then explains
We have to put up with all sorts and again that her .mother was so ill they had
kinds of faults from people we love; why to give up the trio at the very last mo.
hould we object to the llesT" '
"1 agre perfectly with Mra. Bloodgood,"
says Mr. Pitch, putting his foot through a
nondescript article against which he I
braced. "What is diplomacy, for example,
but lying? Where would commercial trana
ac.lons end If men were absolutely frank
with each other? Wher would our friend
ships, love affairs, press agent banquets
be? I think we should always say tha
pleiaant truth."
though the Lord didn't provide her with
the quantity needed. Yet there are soma
peoale wh say that thla is a sin.
"Women, I believe, keep their faith in
sentimental matters better than men do,
while a man will be absolutely upright in
business matters and think nothing of tell
ing a dozen lies a day t a woman. Woman,
on the contrary, not having been brought
up with a proper understsndlng of the
importance of commercial Integrity, will
d all sorts of reprehensible things In busi
ness that a man can net understand or tor-give.
"You watch crowd of women In place
like the Waldorf-Astoria, matinees, shops,
you will find that women of the Becky
Warder kind have external marks of the In
ward tergiversation a I show this In the
play. In the beginning everything that
Becky wears Is a little crooked; her curl
are awry, her aklrts, her grlmaoea. When
he arts she sprawls. While she Is under
going the process of retreneratlon she combs
her hair ao that It suggest a certain up
rightness, and her gown haa simpler
straight lines.
In Secky Warder." says Mr. Pitch, "I did
not Intend to suggest a universal type
rather a character too prevalent, perhaps.
She is a brook of lie running over the
stones of fact, and her life runs smoothly
enough until the storm oomes and the
bonks are too narrow to contain th over
flow." "It is funny," says Mrs. Bloods-cod, "but
Truth" makes a more popular matinee than
nn evening performance. Women would
rather see it without a man escort. When
It was running in the evening women
used to turn and say to their hushands or
sweethearts : . "I don't see where Clyde Fitch
ever found that. type of woman; she la so
At th vrmtlnMi t Vi w tnv
ward they probably both recall that lost tverr minute of It and you never hear th
unfortunate remark. In the play, you re- word -overdrawn' used. Kach woman be-
neckye husband asks her why ii.-, . knows half a dosen woman
the character of B?cky
ment. after the bags were packed and all.
They chat for a half hour, and Just aa
Mrs. B starts to go she says, unthink
ingly, the way women do, 'How's your
mother, dear?" and Mra A says. 'Oh,
mother's fine; I never knew ber to be bet
ter.' And then they separate, and after- ... .
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would have collapsed; not she. She looked
up airily. Did I,' she Bald. 'Well. If I did.
Is proved. Bach woman as she goes out
has a story at the end of her tongue sug
gested by the play.
One says: "My dear, ah ought never to
have married that type, but I suppose
It's nature's way of balancing- accounts.
I must have been lying.' Of course we all
laughed and shs carried the day that
work and that very evening somebody
told a story about a casual event of the
day and her husband turned and .said:
Why, dear, you told mo that story differ
ently,' There was a controlled pause;
excitment wo tens. Th average woman
tlme.-
And from another: "My dear, stv
a perfect Becky perfect. Her wedding
procession lookod ilk an opera bouffe
chorus. When she got word that the three
out of town girls could not come, she wrote
again saying that she was disappointed
because she had counted on them not
merely as guests but as bridesmaid Then
they all changed their minds and accented,
explaining that they had misunderstood
so she hod nine bridesmaids and had ta
have Just "as many ushers. It wound
through th church and around the corner
like a bread line or the orlg.nal sextet of
Florodora.' "
Curious Capers of Cupid
s
member,
she don't write her friend that thev run t
At this juncture Mrs. Bloodgood utters a com, to dinner, as they are havln. on. of . '..
their own that night, and Becky answers.
"Ar. vmi . u sxtK v.. . . ' - in irio iijtt ana art-sung room mis IW l
h,ve bron Zl " " 'Und 0-inUCh " to you r The first time I saw her after the marriage
1 "w.TT.v.. a ... ..v solaM out 0f town' and bMldM- thy nubt I wondered how the combination would
Mr. Fitch looks at th dear remains with
out, a changs of feature. "If It had been
anything else. Clara Bloodgood, I would
have apologised, but I have been wonder
ing ever since-1 came Into your brand new
horn why you vr moved such an atro
cious thing into It when you could have
com away and left It. I consider I hav
don you a favor in breaking It. An uni-.
brella rack?"
"It's a Chippendale wasbstand." aays
Mrs. Bloodgood with some asperity, "and
when the big bowl gets in and It Is filled
with orchids, it will , be perfectly charm
ing I mean it would hav been,"
"It can't be I mean It couldn't hav
been," says Mr. Fitch. "But as I was say.
Ing. we. must use the pleasant falsehood
rather than the ugly truth, which only
hurts the feelings.
"The telephone has don more to foster
the habit of lying than aaythlng else la
the world. Since the telephone I used so
U.ilvrsally to make and break engage
ments of all kinds, every woman in New
York has aoqulred a tslephon vole.
When she go to th Instrument and
somebody at th other end of th line asks
If Mr. Boandso is. home, she answers In a
falsetto squeak that she den't know, but
she will find out, and then she goea away
and oomes back to say that Mrs. Boandso
Isn't home Just then, but she can take a
message,
"Or parhapa someone call you up and
wants yw t uk dinner with thexa tw
TUX DECORATIVE ROMANCES.
Medlclae Man Weds Priaeess.
EXDOM are the Inhabitants of
northern Michigan afforded an
opportunity of witnessing the
aiarriag of one of royal birth,
but such a chance oame when the
fi.uceia Xabawlsic became the wU of
Aniable Anoe, the last great medicine man
of th now almost extinct Huron tribe,
TR marriage ceremony proper was per
formed at Pine Ridee, a small Indian set
tlement about twenty-five miles from St.
Ignace, by th venerable Father Qagnieur,
a noted Jesuit missionary to the Indians.
The princes is an historic personage.
For almost half a century she has proved
herself a stanch friend to the intrepid
missionaries in that rugged country.
Among her tribe she is greatly loved and
honored. Her lover, Amable Ance, the
medicine man. might be sold to be the
power behind the throne In the eyes of the
Indians, and ha Is as much feared today
by the Indians as were the medicine men
of old.
The wedding ceremony was lacking In
savage splendor, for the Indians have long
since discarded native costumes and read
ily adapted themselves to modern apparel.
However, many of the ancient customs and
ceremonies were adhered to.
Before the marriage ceremony the couple
betook themselves to the Indian graveyard
and over th grave of th princess' father
plighted their love. Then Allowed the
ceremony of the FoJr Winds, when they
invoked In turn the north wind, the east
wind, the south wind and tha west wind, to
shower them with their choicest gifts.
After th religlius ceremony came the
marriage feast, when all the delicacies of
the forest choicest cuts of venison, white
fish and wild fowl and the like were of
fered to the guests. Then came the an
cient Indian songs and dances. Here the
old medicine man for the time - threw off
hla years and led in the intricate figures
of the "Beggars' Dance," with marvellous
grace and abandon. Then followed more
feasting and drinking. Thus th feast con
tinued until the darkness of night poled
before the dawn:
'Thus ths wedding banquet ended.
And the wedding guests departed.
Leaving tha old lover happy
With (he night and N-abawisic
i
Elopes With Tula Girls.
- To few men has oom this romanitio ex
perience ol oping with twin stars. And
that la Just what Marl Alkan tc
ton, N, T did. Very fortunately for him,
he discovered his mistake in time. Very
wisely, too, he fled to New York to esrap
the wrath cf the two indignant beautle to
whom he had been paying court, utterly
careless of which one finally accepted his
hand.
To this day young Mr. Aiken ' couldn't
tall whether It was Mima or Minna Nay Lor
with whom he was so madly In love. The
girls were 18 and twins, alike as two peas
in a pod. equally pretty and chic, and
altogether attractive.
Of course, ,the sisters were Immensely
forvd of each other, as twin usually are.
But that was before young Mr. Aiken came
to Blnghamtonr- He was from Massachu
setts and he seemed to have a bit mora
polish than the Blnghamton boys.
And when he met the pretty Naylor twins
he wa smitten Immediately. Their invita
tion to call was accepted promptly. And
then the trouble began.
At first the attentions of the young man
were the family Joke. He was so impartial
with his bunches of violets snd his boxes of
bonbons that nobody guessed he was really
In love. For how could any well balanced
young man b In love with two pretty
girls at one and the same tlmeT But It was
no longer a Joko when Minna spoke out
very plainly about Mima right at the
table.
Now comes the strangest part of alt.
Toung Aiken was really In love and pro
posed to Minna to elope. She agreed.
Then be met Mima, and speaking about
their plans without thinking It was the
other sister, gave the whole thing away.
And Mima, determined to wtn the good
looking fellow anyway, made up her mind
to do the eloping, instead of revenging her
belf upon Minna by telling her parents.
Minna and her bridegroom hod planned
to go to Albany, get married there and
hurry on to New York for their honeymoon
there. Mima changed this and sent word
to their common flanc to meet her on a
train between Troy and Albany.
Each of the twins thought she bad cap
tured the quarry. Both boarded the sam
train for Albany. Neither saw the other.
At Troy young Mr. Aiken came on board to
seek out his bride-to-be. Each sister saw
him and awaited vttu thrills of expectancy
and hope to say nothing of a tiny little bit
Of triumph.
The would-be-bridegroom found Minna
first. There they sat in th car holding
hand a&d. fruiag that th trala woaa't
fast enough to take them to a clergyman
and make them on.
But young Aiken took matters in hls(
own hands while th two sisters were up
braiding each other. He exoused himself
for(a moment whan the train slowed down,
snatched hla suitcase, leaped from the plat
form and disappeared.
Baa-aced for Good.
"The permanent engagement ia announced
of Mis Louise Elmslle Hosklns of Phila
delphia and P&trlclous II. Casey of Lee,
Mass."
The accent oa "permanent" in the above
notice caused a good deal of gossip up in
the Berks hires, where Judge Casey lives.
The Judge is 63 and his friends wondered
if he was starting In to discourage trial
engagements.
But he said to a Boston Herald reporter
that th "permanent" was accented purely
from th depth of hi conviction that hi
first wife was really finally dead. At least,
so hli explanation sounds. He said:
"Miss Hosklns and I hod an understand
ing before she left th Berkshires for Phil
adelphia last October. In December I took
a vocation and went to Philadelphia for a
few days. We talked matters over and
we decided not to announc it until about
the 15th. My first wife died January 10 of
1908, and I wanted a full year to elapse
before the engagement came out. That la
why I put In the word 'permanent.' when
It was finally made public.
Judge Casey Is the only court Justice la
Massachusetts who wears a tuxedo coat
while on the bench.
"While others msy not care to appear in
a tuxedo, I consider it eminently fitting
and proper," said . the Justice. "I don't
know as it mokes much difference with th
public anyway, what I wear, so long as th
dignity of the court Is upheld."
Prattle of the Youngsters
Teacher Johnny, can you tell m what a
freebooter IsT
Johnny I guess it's a man who gives
away old boots."
"Kitty, which do you like the better, m
or candy?"
"I like you awfully well. Unci George,
but I Just love candy!"
Visitor So you went to th opera last
week. What did you see?
Little Kdna Oh, I saw a lot of women
In bathing suits, but there wasn't any
water.
Father Well, Tommy, what did you
learn at sohool today?
Tommy I learned that two negatives are
equivalent to an affirmative.
Father And what's an affirmative?
Tommy I don't know. We haven't got
that for along yet.
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