The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27

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truth. 'fInve ~ na,u With Q pi.chfoFh
and she wiIl return crops OFT IN many q
negro tribe In quaint forms, ouch ~ Tho
following a mai that kespa tbe bifds
away heeps thsn away, but a pretty face
cahnot he kept sway The idea ron.
veyed by -He needs mus, 60 whom b devil
dFivea' IL universally recognized. some
tribes put u, The stomach has no ears
othsfs, The empty bag cannc, stand up
night
The idea We express In the words 'only
the wearer knows where the shoe pinche-'
Ia conveyed quite a. sptly by the swahili IN
his proverb. only the dead man knows
where the grave 10 too narrow Seafar-
n gtribes say The bottom Of the ship knows
hest how the sea presses.' Our familiar
sayings about running after two hares'
and falling between two stools are again
paralleled and capped by the zsmbesi prov
erb Tho rider Of two horses splits
asundsr.'
This quaintness Of setting forth often
goes one better on our homely proverbs.
Our saying Don't do as I do: do As I tell
you Ia good; but the Dutch The monk
breaches against thieves with the goose
in his larder.' or the American when the
lawyer gets the fowl stealer acquitted he
Ia paid In fowls. 10 better. But the Spanish
parallel Ia quAintest Of all, The friar con-
demns the thief with the pudding up his
sic eve.' Where we say IF you want a
thing lone do 1t yourself" the West Indian
gets Q shade ahead Of US with the advice,
FSend a dog, and the dog will send his tail
The same advice is given in a still better
form by the Armenian who observes. III
you send a messenger on an errand go with
him" And the astute unbelieving China
man who, like his proverbial image maker.
puts no faith either in the gods or the
what they are made o. sums up the situa-
ton in a way that is perhaps as correct as il
is sweeping. If you want a thing done, .
he says, go yourself; il not. send
There il probably no better proverb in
the English language than Still waters run
deep No other nation goes one better"
than this, though many come near IL. The
Turk says -Distrust the water that does not
MARBLE, and the bird that does not chirp,'
This lacks the element Of paradox which
occurs in our English rendering, b Afri-
a parallel has more Of that element.
Beware Of the silent man, y il runs; he has
a brass band in his mouth; n q more
southern tribe puts the idea equally we'll
in the shape Of 'Silence hath a mighty
noise"
On the subject Of woman it goes without
saving that all the nations Of the earth
formed the same opinion OF the fair sex
long, long ago. and up 10 the present none
of them nav seen any reason TO alter that
opinion, but whether the opinion In which
they all concur Is concealed or revealed In
proverbs, it would be an In suit to the read
er's reason and common sense to state. As
for the proverbs. which can readily be dis
tinguished at sight as true or false by the
clever student Of feminine human nature,
they yield a good harvest OF parallels.
the more you beat them the better they be-
is a remark upon which no two sane persons
can hold different opinions; and the same
may be claimed for the Central African
saying, "A man is not obeyed by his wife
in his own house, nor does she consider
him her husband unless he beats her
thwaokl'; or for the Corsican's assertion
that 'Just as a good horse and a bad horse
both need the spur, 80 a good woman and
The spaniard says, Were a woman as
little as she is good, a pease cod would
make her a gown and hood; the Italian
leaves OF killing his kings to whisper,
IF q nan loses a woman and a FAR
thing he will miss the farthing'; the
Frenchman pauses between his ~absinthes
TO remark, "A woman Of gold is worth
man swears to his tribe that Women are
asserts that Women and dragons are
best out Of the world; the German con.
tends that Wherever there Ia mischief
brewing, d woman and q priest are at the
bottom OF it"; and that There are only
two good women in the world; one is dead