The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-11-05

things often enormously supposed to
be the best. The COWS in Connacht
used to be the Maol or hornless
breed. "a person often ties knot
with tongue that he cannot loosen
with his teeth" False economy is
expressed by Tearing a sack to make
bag" "He is poor beggar who
cannot sheen one brown" implies that
the most miserable even should have
some spirit. To express that a thing
is of no value if it cannot be made
use of the following proverb is often
said: 1.-TWO things that go to loss
turf on a mountain and sense of a
poor man." The different stages of
life are thus measured:
Twenty years child.
Twenty years going wild.
Twenty years a sane person.
And after that Offering up your
prayers.
OF household where there are
only women, the men being dead or
having gone away, it is said: st is
a lonesome washing where there is
not shirt in it." GA person in whom
God did not put any sense you can
not put it in him with a stick" shows
the folly of expecting too much Of
anyone. "Time is good story tell
err" is constantly used $when there is
uncertainty as to the real truth Of
any event. A very sensible saying is:
Columcilles advice
And it's true advice:
What does not interfere with you
Don't you interfere with it.
when the food is scarcest it tastes
BEST" though, no doubt, that is hard
ly consoling This is warning to
trust nobody: Though only the
priest and the shoemaker were pres
ent yet the awl was stolen "The
economy of the crow" is a proverb
that expresses much in few words. In
summer the crow often spends half
day unearthing potato, and then
carries it away. If the potato drops
the crow does not STOP and so it's
labor is lost. Thus man who works
hard for many years may lose all he
has gained in a short time of dissi.
patton. To show that knowledge does
not cucumber this little verse is said:
The lake is not the heavier for
! the duck,
! The horse is not the heavier for
| the bride,
The sheep is not the heavier for
the wool.
The body is not the heavier for the
| sense. ..
There are many proverbs that ex.
press the love of hospitality and open
hardness that distinguish the Irish
people.
Spend your share and you'll gel
it.
Treasure it and it will go to loss
If you don't spend it,
The Gaibhlean gobha will.
A man had hidden his gold near a
river. The flood came and it was
carried away and found and kept by
a blacksmith. The same idea is re-
peated in another form:
Spend and you will get from God
Spend generously and you will gel
more.
He who is satisfied with little
| from God,
God will be satisfied with givins
him little.
"A shut fist never caught hawk.
HE who is too mean to risk will nev
er win" "a lent horse should no.
have loose shoe" He who is bat
for hospitality is good for directins
you on the road "No one ever wen
to He'll who had not a sixpence il
his pocket shows the high value the
Irish beggars put upon the giving o.
aims. The following lines were writ
ten by a man who disguised as {
u e1iAAP DOS5Cu VI OuC uOC0u LOT nix
stinginess and got nothing:
Wide are your words but thrice mar
row your fists.
If the generous go to Heaven, sure
ly you will not try to go with
them
A number OF popular Irish sayings
are amusing and quaint. "Three
. things that will not tolerate fondlins
an old woman, hen, and a sheep.
IF you put a silk dress on a goat
, he will be a goat STILL ''Ie is bat
who does not take advice, but he i,
thousand times worse who take,
everybody's advice" Don't take tn,
thatch off your own house in order t,
put states on another mans house, il
said to be foolishly generous per
: son. The opposite idea was conveye,