Show JAPANESE PROVERBS 11 dos Are A e Philosophers and v Very iy Fond of Argument New York Globe 1 Ran Itan fiort orl Those three e words attach to some of the war ar dispatches What hat do th they signify 1 lh Simply that th the dispatch to tC which they are appended mil may be depended on as veri table Ran Ibm m means mer literally ll Proof beyond dl dispute It Is a J Japanese proverb The Japanese are an a nation ot of e fond ot of ar gu This Tbs not becomes beOm s exceeding verbose and It becomes nece I BRIT to this endorsement I tense In sending a 8 telegram m the oper operator ator II d to cite hi his anee ane with the fact of the contents of the maen a b by adding the three wor o s i r The e ate titre A proverb J vt corn om i people Their language delights I In do a multitude of oC pithy and l I lon and It is their great i 1 to proverbial ophy among themselves In their conversation And a pro proverb rb aptly used Is held to em emphasis m and put an end to till all that is 18 con I Some o of these Iro are arc vary vry Thus theY ll speak ot of ft a diligent per person son flon and p parth a diligent nt soldier 88 85 one who bre ls ones boned boneA A Agala gala Ala per person cm Is 18 the w creature with a high nose It If a soldier has distinguished d himself h by his for Cor that mat matter tr ter If IC such acts have be e signalized the ex exertions ot of Is fa said to have a large spleen n while one who Is 18 lackin In coura courage e Is tle described as a creature with RO no After Atter a battle the i question uppermost In the minds of oC all ull is i How did the soldiers CArry their stomacher acher r Ig one sets seta himself up as a critic I and makes no a special of oC finding fault tault with others other he Is said to bt be one who is Ig t I looking for the holes It If O one ne undertakes It a war is III slow an ot of s speech h h he Is said Hid to he be the h heavy av white while on the other hand It his auditors are obtuse and tardy of comprehension they are said to possess far away elt ears I Although colored b by their Oriental Im Imagery tn agery many or of their proverbs convey much tits the same me line Ie of thought Is familiar to us The rh kernel Is tb the same but th the shell JI different We Vf say NY for instance Tou man many cooks spoil the broth The e are a n of b boatmen and so they ft say Too TO many bOAtmen will run the boat on the moun mountain tain In a count where irrigation Uon II IIa s sa a part o if agriculture Ile He I Is trying 10 tel to his hie own rice ricefield field takes the place or o OUr own 00 Ile Hf has An ant z tb grind glIn or Ite Ile his own nes It If we say MY Uk pouring water on n it ducks dueks back bRek the Japanese transforms trAnsform It Into Like an east wind Into the ear fIr or of II a horse Iorg or I Like throwing water Into the face of a frog A similar idea Is conveyed In the proverb Like spitting Into the sk sky Ho How often orten wr Vt seek to comfort our ourselves selves with repeating that AccidentS will happen In the bt best st regulated families The Is as philosophical and as ast t when he be says Even a mon monkey key tumble from a tree Somewhat akin to our Go the whole hog or nothing III fe their saying Ie IC you ou eat lit poison lICk the platter A narrow r minded I person is spoken of ofas as The creature T who h r looks s at the heavens ens through a tube A miser is 18 described as The man ln who O grasps millet with I 1 a anet T Wn net t hand tI The poor relation r is a common fOmmon I It the lend land of the rising risingsun sun and there 1 therefore a natural origin f for r the proverb Like our visiting friend who sends send us his platt plate the third time stealthily There ele an Inborn 4 disposition po lUon in the mind of oC the Japanese to poke fun Cun nt at poor relations and coun country try cousins but at the same time no one I is quicker e to recognize merit And to such suph recognition It is considered a pleasantry pleas antry to tie a proverb Thus If iC you were In fn at this time And were discussing some ome arm army or naval officer of oC distinction the height or of praise that could be extended ex tended to him would bE to In saying He HeI I is one who It If you ask him for II aa chisel will m bring a mallet also or His ham mpr always has a handle to It Perhaps th the person under discussion ml be young In such case your our Japan Japanese f ese g friend will dryly 1 lv remark Een n a demon is in his prime nt at IS 18 Venture to U tI the RUBs AU soldiers or art any oth other to whose welfare the islander Is 18 and ami he will 98 say with his ex expressive lve IIA Ha Ua Its that 11 to met tik a Ire fire Ireon on the other side of the Ule river Rc t tto I to hint some current St Pt Pett or Peking gossip and if he bp does nut not put any liny k 18 It And is 18 skeptical he gives tone toneto to tn 1 Wes id of oC the ot of human b thin t proy rb rbT T d We ds of oC hell belT are aM according to It a Itman amans man mans m fey You rou kno know It may be that you von aT are sleeking Information and make maken an n apology for asking for It The retort retortA is A a share ahara reproof that one is 18 slow to forget Ha Is the reply You know to Hk a k a Is the shAme oC o a mo moment ment furl nott not to ask ak Is the shame or of ft a whole Hr Ume The Jap enjoys answer answering Ing UI but he has a habit all bl blOn his On ern or of remodeling and tampering with hIs reply and then yC making It proverbial pro For instance I once asked a gentleman It II a m de locomotive was wall tr a railroad Ho He an ans s we t b b telling me that the engine was waa made matle In hia that Jt it was has over on such arill ai ouch uch a st mer that its itA gAuge was waN so 80 man many Inches and that the tho gauge auge of the road was the same Then lIt he added It will be like It a cat locked In fn a cellar ellar In fine all this ver vel signified l the affirmative Instead or of 1 g Yes II the Ule men doUgh delighted ted In t the h hI I e As they have modified Buddhism until unlit It stands a as all an Inextricable muddle In ron of rr so fIO they o making 0 over the and Its trl or western rn polities political Ids ideas ti and their applications It la is really be wilderine at AI to the num number T of oC amend mente that th the native intellect t suggested to 00 us when w we taught tM the Ten om em omma ma They endorsed the corn com respecting Idolatry pro Can It ity U b and filial respect I II a or a Quibble But In r m I to te thE Sabbath the they thought that It had to be a jail jolly good holiday and insisted l l that the strictures on carnal le should be eased UP to the dr clr um In re regard ard to sneaking the truth they werE happy and tr free In ren rec dering our proverb that Truth is 18 a I jewel b by A Cal falsehood bood Is black mud II I But after that they modestly I that the capacity of C taking In a man mand i d denoted mental acumen of high order rather than an any evidence of moral deJen degen And when It came to the tenth sit II with ORe one agreed that It meat be considered as a morAl curiosity theoretical In the extreme but altogether t top hl high h flown for Cor human nn na nature ture Then aptly the listeners quoted th the about earnestly the hest lB and naively remArked t t thy they dad not care for th the wife servants er cattle of oC their neighbors but thought t t hat hat port e es ant and ce on j coast fOA t Wt e or f the character or of the beat t |