The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-01-24

weeping is that OF the crocodile "a
woman can norm, whine, he sick or
well whenever size pleasSs, a Tom; u
and All uucuj .a=i0n sredprobIem, afe
some Of the forms ii which LlstSe old
French misaHthropes it is to be taken
for granted that lie Young are never
proverb-makers) have clothed this
thought.
The French OF the Middle Ages had
the notion that las prevailed in Rus
sia TIL d recent date, that a wife need
ed beating, or that SHE even thought
her husband S love for her getting cold
unless he administered personal cnas-
tisement at least once day. "A
woman loves 10 he beaten" Beat
your wife and she Will amend, "A
horse, whether good or bad, needs the
whip; 50 a wife. good or bad, requires
the stick. y In these days d husband
who laborS under the deiusion that
his wife needs the stick is thought by
the general public TO merit the whip
ping post. This is, perhaps, the only
case where the proYeTbial idea re-
speeding man S relation to his wife
has entirely changed. That regarding
women OF learning getting out of their
sphere has been modified, but the
point OF the satire remains. The
French OF 800 years ago said: The
woman who speaks Latin never comes
to good end, - and also, 1t is Xell
to get rid Of the woman that always
talks like man and the pullet that
crows like cock" In both of these
there is a suggestion of the English
proverb, Whi5tling girls and growing
hens. Talleyrand did not care for
learned women, and his terse remark,
'Ibsre is nothing so repOseful as a
stupid woman" illustrates the peril
macy of the idea Fhich is latent in the
lower intellectual strata of the present
generation. Clever women ike
Madame de Stael have appreciated
the domestic freedom resulting from
the possession Of spouse of mediocre
ability.
The following proverbs, indiscrim-
inately quoted, viii give q general con-
ception Of the manner in which the
French judged women and wives
three or four hundred years ago:
Never tell q woman what you wish
to conceal: = Never show woman
what you do not intend to give her."
. He who has wife has a quarrel on
his hands; He who has a wife to
keep has never a day to himself;'
God shows his love for lnan when
lie takes from him his wife" The
greatest injury one man can do to
another is 20 give him his daughter in
marriage" -. Love mires the young
and browns the old, and this, which |
seems to have inspired a familiar |
passage in Shakespeare: Women are
saints at church, angels in the street,
at their doors, goats in the |
galden and devils in their houses
English and Scotch proverbs express
similar ideas, but are usually more
The few that English |
BOOKS OF proverbs see fit to classify as
are either kindly or mildly |
'atilical. like this: " Women love their |
husbands, but worship their bonnets.n
o which no woman can object; or.
his: Marrying for love is risky, but
sod smiles en- it; CT, this again,
Th'ah is 10 Jbe point, but still not
i:oter: 4 Welnaa can't keep 4 secret.
Ter let any one else keep it," The
Oliowing-the first from the English
he second and tfriTu from the Scotch
Ire more bitter: Building and marry
ng are great masters. "''Death We may
scape, but marriage never" II
yinna max toll O. a pleasure, quo
he man when he buried his wife
Dhe English proverb, AS great a pity
o see woman weep rs to see Il goose
% barefoot illustrates the skepti-
ism that has existed in all ages and
iations regarding the sincerity Of the
ears OF woman. English proverbs re-
ating to woman's Inconsistency are
lot wanting, but those treating of
heir inhdeIity to the marriage VOW
ot numerous. Al the northern na-
ions have Il keen sense of woman's
,eakness. but maintaining loftier
deal, they prefer to rather ignore her
Incidental vices. This is the lesson
onyeyed by proverbs
FELIX ANT0NIUs.
PRoyo, Utah, Jan. %, 1891.