The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-26
Woman in Proverbs.
[Lipscomb's Monthly Magazine. ]

Lipscomb's Monthly Magazine
Popular proverbs of all nations are
full of unkind illusions to women. 1t
is rare indeed to find a popular saying
that speaks well of the sex. "Women
are variable as April weather." say the
Germans; ''Women, wind, and fortune
soon change" say the Spaniards; while
mind ai and April wind change Oft:
Women are talkative: "a Woman's
tongue wags like lambs tail" ENG
lish). "a woman's strength is IN her
tor guen (Welsh). women are never
at loss for words" Germany. "Three
women and three geese make mar
ket" Italian). "Foxes are all tail and
women are all tongue" (French). "Al
women are good Lutherans: they would
rather preach than hear mass" (Dan-
ish). "a woman's tongue is her sword,
and she does not let it rust" (Chinese).
They are great blabbers: ITO woman
and a magpie tell what you would
speak in the market-place' (Spanlsh).
"a woman conceals what she does not
know" (English). woman can keep
secret, but it takes a great many OF
them to do so' (American). They nave
little logic, yet their intuitions are
sometimes valuable: "Women are wise
offhand, fools on reflection" 1tallan).
"Take womans first advice, but not
her second" (French) "a womans
counsel is no great thing, but he who
does not take it is a foop' (Spanlsh).
"Summer-sown corn and womaE's adj
vice turn out we'll once in seven years
(German). "Women are watches that
keep bad time" Ubid). "It is some
times right even to obey sensible
wife, (Servian). To the latter proverb
there hangs tale. A Herzegovinian
once asked kadi whether man ought
to obey his wife, and was answered IN
the negative. Then said the HerZego-
vinian, MY wife pressed me this
morning to bring thee a pot OF beet
suet, but 1 rejoice to know that have
done vel! in disobeyingher." "Veryl-
ly.n returned the kadi, lit is sometimes
right even to obey sensible wife. "
! Women are quarrelsome and self-wlll-
OIL. "secause is Il woman's answer"
iEnriish). "He that has a wife mas
strife" (French). "What woman wills
God wills" (Ibid.) "Gie her will, OF
she'll bu1stn (Scotch). They are vain
and greedy of praise: "Woman ano
maidens must be praised, whether tru'
~ or falsely" (German). every wo
man would rather be handsome thar
pood' ibid. They are untrustworthy
"Beware of a bad woman, and put nc
trust in a good one" (Spanish). They
must be handled roughly. Here are
Latin. an Italian, and All English coup
let which all teach the same ungallan
doctrine:
Nux, asinus, muller simili SUM leg
, ligata,
E;rc tria nil recte faciunt 81 Feroer
cessant.
Donne, asSini nocl
Eoylion' lie mani atroce.
4 s,,auiel. a woman, and walnut-tree-
The more they are beaten, the better the
be.
: Nucb wiser is the Scotch saying, "Io'
: may ding the dell into wife, but ye!
4 ne'er ding him out o her" With sue
: 4 catalogue of faults, it is no wonde
y that in French proverbial phllosoph
: "A man of straw is worth woman
r gold" that the Germans think "Iher
l. are only two good women i'll the "orle
n one of them is dead, and the other
$ not to be found" and complain ths
4 "A bag of fieas is easier to keep guar
r over than woman" that the Indian
It sav, "Women rouge that they may nc
k blush" and "He that loseth his Wi
!. and a farthing hath great loss of h
II farthing,' that the Spaniards sa,
, s.Therc is only one bad wife, and ever