ied. Yet is it your business to aintance uncomfortable by tellcts in the case? Certain things y man personally which have ith his social existence: persona toothache, he has it; socially, bothache unless he mentions it. e lies which are not verbal at mplication. The early Puritans o paint and powder, objected to on perfectly Catholic grounds1 to make yourself attractive, powder were literally meretriame principle, to this day, a nun ir. The modern feeling against der-for it does in some quars rather, I imagine, on the score You are not supposed to disguise mplexion if you really have it. e not a good complexion, you are -you are acting a lie - by f look as if you had. The ground n has shifted. -le r-is it Mr. Kipling?-says of [168] false hair to be on that even rouge false hair to be one's own, there is all the difference in the world. I protest that it is tacit falsehood to wear it at all-unless one does it after the fashionless fashion of an ancient lady I knew in my childhood who, quite bald at the age of ninety-five, hung two wads of chestnut hair across her head, like saddle-bags, on a black velvet ribbon. And such tacit falsehoods are all in the spirit of the conventional politeness we use daily. To rouge a pale face may be vanity; but to thank a stupid hostess for the pleasure she has not given, is loving one's neighbor as one's self. I am inclined to think that even rouge is more often than not altru istic in intention. One does not wish, for the sake of society, to be either a fright or a brute. Certain things are demanded of every man who meets the world on its own ground. From the moment he has "accepted with pleasure," he has agreed to play the game; and it is as unfair of him to give or take the wrong cues as it would be for the castle to insist on making the knight's move. No: we need not go out of our way to lie; but we must not, even to be ehood falls chiefly on them. = wife to do this kind of thing who accepts or refuses their ns, directs their joint social unters the world for them ely social side. He is not exy more than he is expected to There is more straight-from, I imagine, among men by among women by themselves; because women slip out of the ss frequently and less easily. en is perhaps (I speak under e inveterately his personal among women more inveterelf. It may be that it is easier -ness constantly than to gall fresh each day with putting it I to think that women are as intimate friends as are men; ad an age-long training in the ing one's self unpleasant. So s are imputed to women-and the present day, quite unjustly [170]. thought a fool y cavil at these ψευδῆ ἀψευδῆ lated as a gent when a lady has in the street. T on that side; f social exigency, one's unskilful are that she wil amateur garder to be polite, as politeness; and going to take t perhaps regret tesy even furt so worthy of ceiving them. C told one is d angry for bein however, to m There is an thought a fool when you are not, than jealo and a fool when you are neither. Comparatively few people, however, w cavil at these mendacities, which are inde ψευδῆ ἀψευδῆ — as mechanical and uncalo lated as a gentleman's "I beg your pardo when a lady has insisted on colliding with hi in the street. Truth is not so difficult to bour on that side; for most people recognize t social exigency, and if you are praising son one's unskilful cook on one day, the chanc are that she will be congratulating you on yo amateur gardening the next. We simply ha to be polite, as our race and clime understan politeness; and no one except a naïf is real going to take this sort of thing seriously. It perhaps regrettable that we do not carry cou tesy even further; for nothing makes peop so worthy of compliments as occasionally r ceiving them. One is more delightful for bein told one is delightful-just as one is mo angry for being told one is angry. Let us pas however, to more debatable ground. There is an old refrain which runs, “Ask n sel: for, as we all know, to estions no answer is the most of all. If the Devil has given you may contrive to keep the mmandment. But usually that . I dare say many moralists ith me; but I hold that a quesme one who has no right, of view, to the information -ves no truth. If a casual goswhether my unmarried greatnd her means, I should feel that she did not, although it ivate family scandal that she inquiries which are a sort of The indiscreet questioneret questions I mean questions onceivably a man's duty either y or to any individual to answer and there is every excuse for such. I am sure that every rs, in his own experience, such unts among his acquaintance at estioner. Let him say whether, [172] permissible to lie -as it was pard to declare that C In regard to th should perhaps P know the child w the garden eating delightful grown ratives. He will twice with the s that he may each the same impre entirety. It is qu exceedingly. Of his ben trovato to determine a whether he is f has a sense of s gerators of bot only picturesque picturesque adj a subtle distinc risk of being at cians, one must |