Show SAID ABOUT WOMEN REMARKS MORE OR LESS UN complimentary one wonders in reading these whether men of the past were fair in their treatment of the gentle sex proverbs regard the fair sex almost exclusively from the point ot view ol 01 a man of the old school a man that is who believes in the absolute in of woman and in the necessity of making her know and keep her place there Is one with quite a spanish air of jealous jailer ship which says that a woman should come but thrice abroad to be baptized married and burled durton quotes it in his anatomy ot melan choly but Is obliged to admit that the philosopher who said it was too Is hardly the adjective that the modern suf would use another ot these masterful proprietary proverbs is the well known A spaniel a wife and a walnut tree the more you beat cm the better they be one talking proverb of undoubted truth Is that which sas A woman may knit a knot with her tongue she cannot untie with all her teeth this was familiar more than three centuries ago and may still often be heard in the north especially in scotland with reference to an or inadvisable marriage it is also used quite rightly of men in the same connection with regard to abuse in general it is quite certain and men may as well freely admit the charge which can hardly be denied that many of the lords of creation are as arrant gossips as any wearer of petticoats matrimonial proverbs as a whole bear marks of masculine authorship and press rather hardly on the weaker sex sayings in praise ot marriage and of the good wife are comparatively rare how ever cupid may be depended upon to set the proverbs of ill omen at de fiance as well as the maxims of pru dence and forethought lo rethought that are sa freely quoted by those who have es esi i the little god a shafts tor love is as warm among cottagers as cour tiers and as an italian easing has it love can neither be bought nor sold its only price is love another old saying still often heard in country places where old modes of thought as well as old forms of speech still linger exhibits a most unfeeling disregard for comans womans tears the tears of beauty in distress are usually supposed to be among the most power ful weapons in the arsenal of feminine charms but the hearts of our boreta or some of them must have been steeled against lachrymal assault when they were able to say that it is as great a pity to see a woman weep as it Is to see a goose go barefoot or as one seventeenth century writer phrased it there is no more to le taken of her than to see a goose goe bare this might have been reserved tor the sh edders ot crocodile tears or for those curiously endowed folk who are able to make their eyes overflow by a mere effort of will such as the beautiful young lady named sophy who was one of the circle that gathered round the chrales and dr jonson at streathan streatham Str eatham weep sophy sirs thrale woud say and thereupon without the movement of a muscle or the slightest disturbance of the calm repose of her lovely coun cenance sophy s beautiful eyes would slowly fill with tears and in a few sec ands the round drops of pearled dew were chasing one another down her smooth cheeks weeping was certainly no more distressing than the barefooted progress of a goose |