The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-12-16
PROVERBS ABOUT MoMEN.
Whaf thc Old Bachelors ef Ancient
Days said
IFrom La Revolution.l !

uOm OF all nations and ages. The most
1 salient and universal traits of human ma
/ ture are caught and preserved in them.
] as flies are preserved in amber. The
| same is true of the deeply ingraincd pre-
! JUDGES which have come down to us
/ from Semi-b3rbaTOus time. If pro-
verbs are III many cases neat aud porta-
| bic packages in which self-eVident truths
are handed about, they also furnish con-
Yeyance Tor many ideas which do not fit
the period in which we live. Old, hate
Iul, unjust notions, about women eSDeci-
ally, are thus kept in circulation, and
show how deep was the brand other SER
Nltude IN the ages when they were coin
ed by male ingenuity. Much of this
small change of Thought is spurious, but
1t Is curious and Instructive as measur-
ing the thorough contempt men often eX-
pressed for women at the time of their
most serVile submission to male rule. IL
these brief editions of would-bc wisdom
the intellect Of woman is almost uniYer-
sally derIded:
a Hebrew prOyerb says:
When an ass climbs a ladder we may find
wisdom in women.
As another has it:
Three women and goose make a market.
And another still:
Where there are women and geese there
wants no noise.
Here is batch of proverbs illustrative
OF the utter wOrthlessness of women:
A man Of straw is better than woman of
A dead wife, it is also said, is the best goods
in mans house.
The badness of man is better than the
verb. u
The death of wives and the loss of sheep
make men rich.
IF a woman We're as little as she is good,
n pea 5 p0d would make her Il gown and a
Deeds are males; words are females.
The deceit, Inconsistency and untrust-
worthy characteristics of women have
called INTO existence q score of proverbs,
from which we select few:
No relying on women, Wine and fortune.
Women and wine, game and deceit,
Make the wealth small and the wants great,
Women, wind and fortune arc ever chang
The necessity of the personal castiga-
ton Of wives is insisted OH by some of
thcse old saws. Here is one that says
\ 4 spaniel, woman and a walnut tree,
they be.
AuOther4las it:
You may beat the devil into your wife, but
you Will never bring him out again
The childish notion that women ought
habltuallY to keep silence is expressed
~ q HuAuOCA VI say inSS.
Silence is the best ornament Of a woman.
Silencc Is q fine jewel for a woman but il is
seldom worn.
Let women spin, and not preach.
NIaidens should be mild and meek.
Swift TO hear and slow 10 speak.
NIaidens should be min till they're mar
TIed, and then they may burn kinks.
No greater degree of contempt could
possibly be expressed than by the COM
parsons to which women are subjected:
It's a. great q pity 10 see u woman weep as
4 o see q goose go barefoot.
\ woman's tongue wags like a lambs tail
Women and hens, through too much CAD
Women and dog set men by The ears.
Here is one Of the articles of the old
marriage creed; sa.s
60 down the ladder when thou lnarriest a
VIE; go up when thou chOOSest q friend.
Here is encouragement Tor constant
and drudgery:
The wife that expects to have a good name
= always at home, as fShe were lame and
| he maid that IS honest her chiefest delight
IS still to be doing from morning till night.
His Satanic Majesty, it would appear
Dy these saws, Is on Intimate terms with
the sex:
Tell a woman she's a beauty, and tie Devil
VIII tel her so ten times.
Man IS IRE; woman is tow; lie Devil comes
and sets them in a blaze.
Here is Il terse expression of Il very
perniciOus belief:
Women commend modest man, but like
him not. --lN'
Woman's capacity for intrigue and de-
celt Is thus expressed:
Momen, in mischief, are wiser than men.
Momen conceal all they know not.
VINO hath fair wife needs more than two
'For, whom doth the blind mans wife paint
herself?
The slrewish qualities of women are
drawn in no alluriHg colOrs:
Ifyou can abide curst wife ,-oi ncad nor
tear any company.
Every man can tame shrew but he that
hath her.
JuitiOns:
Take your wife's first advice, not her Sc
Proverbs complimentary to women are
seldom met, but these that follow express
homely truths:
One hair of woman draws more than a
cam of oxen.
She that gazes much spins not much.
Silks and satins put out the kiLchen fire.
observe the face of the wife and know the
husbands character.
The pcnury of women is here ackmOwI-
edged:
Women must have their wills while they
i've, because they make none when they
Old maids are subjected TO Il horrible
fate by prOverb-mOngers
Old maids lead apes in hell.
Oun@ maids without matrimonial
prospects arc OF course depicted as a
drug:
The worst store il a maid umbcStow,.tI
Maids want nothing but husbands, and
when they have them they want every thing.
We have failed to find any consider
10 RIasaUs -
caSmS and structures upon men in their
relations with women. We, therefore,
that these churlish saws were
made wholly by sOured and disappointed
bachelors and old cuTmudgeons among
benedicts. As women are now learning
to use the well nibbcd pen Of sarcasm,
perhaps in century OF two Il pTOVerbial
literature may come into existence which
will tell some plain and certain truths
of men in the bricfest and pithicst man
ncT.
In GTecnvillc Alabama, 'pIolcs-
sOr' had laborcd with the youth of
that people, and taught them TO dote
on grammar according to Morris sys-
tenn: During which the sentence
Mary milks the cow was giving out
TO DC parsed. Zach word had been
parsed save one, which fell TO Bobby
s., Il thirteen year old, near the
foot of the class, who commenced
thus; Cow is IA noun, feminine gen
der, singular rumber, third person..
and stands for Mary. Stands for
Mary! said the excited professor
How do you make that out? Be
cause, answered the noble pupil, if
the COW did't stand for Mary, how
could Mary, milk herr?
Military men have discovered a
new remedy for intoxication. 1t is
nothing more than raw potatoes,