The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-20
SOME MAxIMs OF oBfNDAGA.

SOME klAxIMS OF OBfNDAGA.
~ BENDAGA has S. wives. AS he sat
l J in the shade of a coya in the Afri-
can village yesterday, he kicked at
the shadow of a slave spat on the bayuse
Of benegor. and nodded solemnly that he
had spouses two store and fifteen. RAM
gootula. the priest, Interpreted into French
from Senegalese Of the twenty ninth dia-
ect! At times Obendaga wearied of think
ing, and Ramgootula took up the task and
thought as we'll as talked for the great
chief of the savages. At such time Oben-
daga spat and snored and twice took SNUFF
of plug tobacco that had been cheWed into
guilds by the wives dried In the sunshine
and powdered by groyula stones In the
moonlight.
Obendaga marries with nod. He ducks
his head and grunts twice and the cere-
mony is as binding in Senegal as If 1t were
held In a grand cathedral with parade
up the main aisle to the altar while
''Lohengrin's' march poured forth. In the
marriage line Obendaga has ducked about
2S6 times. according to the reedta graves
and surviving spouses. BY the banyada
count of bamboo rows he has been a wild
over 231 times and is a husband to IS more
| women now living as his wives. How many
more Obendaga won with q nod in the
days of youth history tells not, and the
banyada count has left no bamboo row to
relate.
what is bygone the burial Claims says
Obendaga. "A bygone wife Is better dead:
her life is spent her days are over"
Ramgootula here needed few words of
French. and cautiously led the great chief
| to speak of domestic matters. The utter
ances of Obendaga are the words of a seer.
Ramgootula, with profuse obeisance, ex-
planned that the great and good and wise
| and sublime Obendaga would condescend
to speak of Memories of my wives and
| how to pick them"
| wives are ...-e weeds, sometimes: UNI
less you choke them they choke you; UNI
less you cut them off they poison you."
| grunted Obendaga.
when a woman smiles and keeps her
teeth shut. marry her for colula who
can bite when Sac laugs.
1.-The wife VINO scra -~..es her left side
with her right hand is good; she who
scratches her lett side with her left hand
can scratch with both hands: shun her.
when a woman weeps pat her once: il
she still weeps. beat her twice.
IF you do not like a woman's ear. cut
it of: she will hear no less and may look
more beautiful.
'Despise not all women bui., Ke cocoa
nut trees: in every forest must be some
cocoanut trees.
"A yellow woman is like muddy water.
fit only for cooking.
"Why kiss? 1t is like patting a sugar
tree.
when you want woman, take her II
you can; If you cannot. make her feel her
loss.
BE condescending always to a wife; she
likes it. Cocoanuts grow simply to fall
and lie around the foot of tree. A man
with many wives Is a cocoanut tree with
much fallen fruit.
"A woman fights with glances, man
with spears. Some glances are sharper
than some spears.
IF there is trouble in your huts si4.At
the women; women must live together a
week before they fight.
Some wives nurse grievances like chill
dren, and love them full as well: see that
such wives have family Of grievances.
lone OF my best wives hated me when
l married her and loved me when I told
her to die.
Zone wife is as If the clock always
marked high noon; there are o.-4er houro
on the clock.
zone wife Is like one meal every day,
and that one meal always boyada, the
same food; The stomach w.. not stand 1t.
IF wife sneezes at you, take snuff and
sneeze thrice at her; then spit.
when a wIIe cuts your gums while she
picks your teeth with her loppa, make no
sound MAKE no vince or sign of feeling;
later. see IL she can do likewise under
pain.
Some women must be won in the sun.
others In the shade. Judge them by their
eyes, not by their skin, as some burn
quicker in the shade than others in the
sun.
SLAP some. pinch others. never pat them
unless to save a word.
Talk hole to women; listen much. They
talk for many and listen for few.
Better to have a woman fear you than
to think she can wave doga to a lover
behind your back. A woman admires q
hon that will eat her more than a monkey
that will CHATTER for her peanuts.
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1.-THE wink Is not known in Senegal; We
do not blink at the sun or at each other
What we see, we see. What is. we see
What is not, other countries can wink at
"Fifty-five wives are nike a .ong journey
When the traveller Wearies he can rest by
the wayside in the moonlight.
. do not worry over what woman
means. A dog follows you whether yo,
understand his barks. lie uarks to thu
than the moon.
Il bring three wives here; leave behint
, 50 for what you call modesty. Modesty ii
, funny; it means clothes. bushes and les:
. wives known to oluers.
, always have an odd number of wives
D that Is true already In this country. saw
when they punish for an even number
, men are in prison for two wives. but no
, for three. Bigamy is even numbered, polyg
, amy is odd numbered. One Is an oou Aum
, Der.
, 1.-THE less CLONES a wife wears the NOR
! she has to hue In her head IL sne would
! keep It from you. Clothes are foo..sn
tattooing is far more ornamental and doe
, not chafe. Ta..ors are like monkeys tails
, good only for hanging
what is ar. / never saw 1t before
/ came here. In Senegal, art, as see it II
, this country. would be for a monkey t.
hang by its tail in q cocoanut tree ant
make all tribes believe 1t was q man II
? high suspense.
. "Wlves are useful. particularly il 70,
smoke. Let their teeth be good: 1t mean
= better snuff.
/ children. They are incidents. Grea
men deal only with events.
, ssMarry much. Do not take j. seriously
!, Often bad wives MAKE good W.uows. 1t l
> hard to be re widower of q good wife. N
! man ever was the widower nj a goo
4 widow.
/ IAN that Americans need, to teach tn
real stage of life where Others viii do al