The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-10

most EXPRESSIVE IL tmacks OF t1e Qre5iue.
Wine in, secret out. :" Sufficient the pain
when il CT mes, /" Fodder for one, fodder for
more" pride IL the sign of poverty and
Don't throw n stone into the well from
which sou have drunk" suggest their obvious
English parallels, while Light for one. light
for hucdred," Drop By drop the cistern Ia
6lled." "a hundred aatterers. and not one
to tell The truth, THE as Is cold in mid
sumner" Care kills half the man." .Who
goes to The wars must be prepared to lose,"
aud Boy ing and selling don't make NOR
chant" ere TalmCdic gems OF which the set.
ling VIII be more or less familiar. The COM
mon say ing etont silence being gold finds
rsia'ltl in the Jewish Speech is worth
seiah, but silence two" Better ones own
tub than sDothei's cistern," is almost Saxon
in It's homsliness. ks Better the grain one
hss town than the buflel one has bought"
"1be camel gsnisd horns and lost his ears
appears in every European collection of pro-
VERDE, and our sdsge IF you want to hang
ytuIself, cheese q high tree" is another
piece of popular wisdom We can trace back,
il bot home, 10 the pages OF Talmud.
Women were undoubtedly considered
somewhat doubtful blessings as the follow.
ing indicates: Ten measures of talk were
sent down from Heaven, and women took
nine." She is NEEDLES ONE, and is told-"A
woman's wisdom is in the spindle" She
will not do one thing st time-"A woman
spins and talks" She is vsin-"With her
foet in the grave, a woman clings to vanity.
She is bold and immodes.-"Aw woman would
SCORER have one measure of forwardness
than forty of modesty." And worse; she
likes darcing-"At sixty her feet tingle
VIXEN she hears the 81 mhals Her power lie,
nevertheless, admitted. woman is q macs
of corruption. yet ell men pursue"-the
original, says the translator, has stronger
word than corruption though.s
However, Notwithstanding, the foregoing
woman is desirable as a companion, for "Hs
who hab no wife is 10 man." Apropos of
marriage, there is word of advice in Take
wife from beneath, friend from above
you Coed looks aye not of much account
In the chsice of partner, nor indeed in
any other transaciion-''Be the goat white,
be the goat black, so sac give good, milk"
OslefeICe 10 a vile IS Recommended.
your wife is little bend down to her," aud If
things go wrong in The house the husband is
tod to look at home for the cause, since
Every man gets the wife be deserves
Next TO marriage friends are considered de-
sirsble. Have friends or de" says much
in little. and is impressive in it's simplicity.
OF course, sincere friends are meant, for III
your friend he deaf WHEN you call, turn
your back on him."
Many CT the popular and provsrbisl locu.
lions preserved in the TalmEd are among
the best aid NEST expressive of their kind.
Vinegar, the son of Wine.n for instance,
described the unpopular son OF popular
father: "a box full CT books," a learned
man. from whose learning the world had de-
rived 10 advantage. "Grspes with grape
sauce" a discourse where that matter was
neither much nor TO the point. He has
words in his backbone" applied to talka.
tive bore. He scalds himself with luke.
wsrm water" TO the man who made q mud.
die OF the simplest matter int-usted to his
management; and He will make the ocean
sweet" to one whose pretensions were as ex-
travsgsnt as i'll founded. He loses what be
has and what he has not" was said of an
unfortunate man: HE puts his money on
the horns of a deer of an imprudent one;
and His cheeks grow grass" of a cunning
and impudent fellow.