Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-12-29

some of these old saws. Here is
one that says.
A spaniel. a woman and a wa a'nnt tree.
TIE more they are beaten the better
still they be.
Another has it:
You may beat the devil into your
wife. but you will never bring him out
again.
The childish notion that women
ought habitually to keep silence is
expressed by a number of sayings ::
Silence is the best ornament of a
woman.
Silence is fine jewel for woman
but it is seldom worn.
Let women spin ard not preach.
Maidens should be mild and meek,
Swift to hear and slow to speak.
Naidana nl,ould bc Min TIN they're
married, and then they may burn kinks
No greater degree of contempt
could possibly be expressed than
by the comparisons tc which women
are subjected:
It's rs great a pity to see n woman
weep as to see Il goose 20 bar foot.
\ woman's tongue wags like i lambs
tail.
Women and hens, through too much
gadding. are lost.
Women and dogs set men by the
ears.
Here is one of the articles of the
cid marriage creed:
Go down the ladder when thou maa-
riest wife; go up.when thou ehoosest
Il friend.
Here is encouragement for con-
slant home keeping and drudgery:
TIE wife that expects to have a good
name is always at home, as if she were
lame; and the maid that is honest. her
chietest delight Is still to be doing from
morning till night.
His Satanic Majesty, it would ap-
pear by these saws, is on intimate
terms with the sex:
Tell 4 woman she's beauty, and the
Devil will tell her ten times.
Man is fire; woman is tow the Devil
comes and sets them in Il blaze.
Here is terse expression of a
very pernicious belief:
Women commend n modest man, but
like him not.
Woman's capacity for intrigue
and deceit is thus expressed:
Women, in mischief, are wiser than
men.
Women conceal all they know not
Who hath a fair wife needs more
than two eyes.
For whom doth the blind mans wife
paint herself?
The shrewish qualities of women
are drawn in no alluring colors:
If you can abide a crust wife you
need not fear any company.
Every man can tame u shrew but he
that hath her.
Here is compliment to womsnly
intuitions.
Take your wife's first advice, not her
second.
Proverbs complimentary to WON
en- are seldom met, bnt these that
follow express hnmely truths:
One hair of woman draws more than
a team of oxen.
She tnat gazes much spins not much.
Silks and satins put out the kitchen
fire.
Observe the face of the wife and
know the husbands character.
The penury of woman is here ac-
k-owiedged:
Women must have their wills while
they live, because they make none
when they die.
Old maids are subjected to a hor-
rible fate by proverb mongers:
Old maids lead apes in hell.
Young maids without matrimo
NAL prospects are of course depic
ted as drug:
The worst store is n maid unbestowed
Maids want nothing but husbands,
and when they have them they want
everything.
We have failed to find any con.
siderable number of proverbs con-
tanning sarcasms and structures upon
men in their relations with women.
We, therefore, conclude that these
churlish saws were made wholly by
soured and disappointed bachelors
and old curmudgeons among bene-
diets. As women are now learning
to use the well nibbed pen of sar
casm, perhaps in a century or two
proYerbial literature may come
into existence which will tell some
plain and certain truths of men in
the briefest and pithiest manner.