Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-20


to multiply instances sirnplv ha~au,s
they are parallels. but to mint os,s tho.s
which. like the one laet mentiones ~
eAsiint. apt, hulnoroua and possessed cf
the brilliant power q ''gDtne one bet
ter " And in.doins ttes it win scsrcelv
pc necessary tosattempt any nina Il
classification or order. for, though Il i
true that gems of speech look we'll
when they are dexterously set IN 3
orators discourse, it is equally t,,,a
that they have their beauties whan
massed in Heterogeneous nrofusion m
begin. then, anywhere. the Enelisb sew.
ing, Don't do as do, but do AZ ! ,s,,
you, is good but the Dutch. "The ynorL
breaches against thieves With the xoo.a
in his larder," is better ana hest 81 ~,
Is the Spanish. The friar conelemnc ~.
thief with the pudding UP his sleeve !.
Where we say. III you want 4 th;np
done do it yourself the Wes- Indian
gets shade ahead with the adv;ce
Send dog and the dog will send bis
tail" and the Armenian. EFF vo,, xs,,.l
"a messenger on an errand 20 wiz.
him." and the astute. unhe,;a inn.
Chinaman. who like ;,is prove,.,,aI
imasemaker. puts no faith either in ;he
gods or in the messengers Of the
gods, for he knows what thew ara
made Of" sums uD the situation IL, a
way that. perhaps. is as correct as i. ,s
sweeping: IF you want a thing done =
ne says. go yourself: If not. send
Still waters run deep,'' if not. one of
the best hundred proverbs, is certainly
letter than the Turkish saying: ..Mis-
trust the water that does not MARBLE.
end the bird that does not chirp.'. 1t
lacks. nevertheless. a certain ellen emf
or paradox which would have made i.
as near perfection as proverb Nigh.
Re. 1t is merely because the following
parallels possess this element that we
r,esume to mention the.3 in tn. same
d! cath with our own 5roveib. Says
the African. Beware OLA silent man.
me has brass band in Ibis mouth
The Arabian with his mtditative a.,.i
habit renders this as:
mild i'm spirit" and various savage
tribes of South and Central Africa
have the somewhat remarkable
SILENCE hath a mighty
l,oise." 1t goes without saying that !
ali the nations of the world formed |
the same opinion about woman long. !
long ago. and up to the present none IF |
them have seen any reason to alter ii. |
But. whether this opinion in which tiey |
all concur is concealed or revealed, III |
Proverbs. it would be an insult to tine |
reason and common sense 10 \
state. AS for the proverbs them |
elves. which can readily be dis |
as true or false at sight by /
The clever studen: Of human nature !
they yield a good harvest of parallels. |
A woman n dog and a walnut tree.
The more you beat them the better they |
be-
is remark upon the wisdom or FOO |
shness of which no two sane PERSONS !
c"n hold two opinions. and the same I
ray be claimed for the Sawhii say /
ing: "A man is not obeyei by his WIFE
i'm his own house. nor does she consider |
him her husband unless he thrash he I
trwack!' or for the Corsicans asser- |
ton that Just as good horse ana Il I
lad horse both need the spur. 50 4 i
good woman and a bad woman both i
ne ed the Stick
When the Spaniard says: Were a /
Cd would make her a gown and [
hood" when the FrenChman rauses /
between his absinthes 20 remark. "a /
man of straw is worth a woman Of (
rnld;" when the Italian leaves off kill /
ing his kings to whisper: IF 4 nan |
loses woman and farthing. he will i
be sorry he has lost the farthing," II
when the negro medicine man swcars 4
10 his tribe that words are women, |,
deeds are men," when they say in Fife Il
hat 1.-The next best thing to ,lae wife 4
is guild wife," when tie Sc itch " /
general admit that honest men marry \
soon. but wise men never" when the i
Persian asserts that women and n
dragons are best out of the world
when the German SwearS that, "wher- Il
yer there is mischief brewing there n
are a woman and a priest at The bot II
tom of it," that there are oniy two II
,ood women in the world-one is deal 4
ard the other cannot be found" and u
that every daughter of Eve would H
rather be beautiful than good" wnen
he Pashto seeing man" tells mis- peo-
rle that "a woman's wisdom is under
hei heel" when. to make a long sorry II
short. all tneSe people anu moe are III
;: wing all these things about woman. H
very full-grown man with the slight
st spark of chivalry lefl in him will II
sdmit that no woman could have been II
present at the making of any proverbs II
IF this kind. In glancing at some in 4
stances of proverbial paralle!;sm we
begin to get an uncomfortable feeirs 1
that possibly many of our choicest say
lHgs are not really INDEPENDENT eX-
pressions of ideas which nave occurred
% the Chinaman and Peruvian. as well
IS to the peoples in between, but they
have actually been borrowed by us
from distant sources and without az
X acknowledgement. Very grave is the
on this Doin. caused by t"'
fact that such an essentially Ensisn
set Of rhymes rs who Killed Cock
Robin" is taken almost bodily from
a section of the Hindu Ramayana er-
Titled "The Dream of King Ravan.' a
" ork which was hoary before the first
English Cock Robin of any note was
II ought of. From this fact we begin