WOMAN WISDOM

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 250, 16 July 1919, Page 10

WOMAN WISDOM

$ (By Saito-Man, in the "Daily Mail.") Many foreigners have been pleased to cnil my country tho land of proverbs. A largo percentage of our proverbs, it is needless to say, concern women. Most of tho old well-known ones have been freely translated, or stolen, by foreign writers. But we are not worried. New and clover proverbs are fast being created by tho new generation of men and women. r translate below somo of the gems which have recently come under my no tice. 'l'hey do not necessarily represent the opinion of the present-day Japanese people, but they are at any rate a contribution to the abundant world wisdom on the immortal problem: "Tender and hard is woman's he.iTt." " 'New' women are created to replace good women." "If you want to love women, begin by loving money." "Women who remember shop-signs and trade-marks mako good wives." "Very jealous women are easy to control." "Pride goes before a fall, especially in beautiful women." "Women and mountains should ba looked on at a distance." "Women fall in love with their pro. tectors; men with women." "Men who can neither brag nor flatter need not fear being loved by women." "Bather than mako love in clumsy i language, bite your tongue out." "Plain women bewail their misfortune in proportion to their learning." "When marriage agents praise any woman for her virtues, you may be certain that it is another way of saying that she is ugly." "Women who seek liberty too often loso it." "A wife who does not know how to please' her husband makes him commit no end of blunders." "Men who liko to take photos with their wives are hen-pecked.'" "Thin-lipped women tell lies; thicklipped women are lazy and jealous." " 'Tis women who know they are ugly that powder their faces." "Women admire women of their own type." "Tho 6ecret of winning tho woman who jilts you is—perseverance." "Women understand men; those who understand women are also women."' "Poisonous Hies carry shiny wings; bad women pretty faces." "Men laugh with their hearts; women only with their mouths." "Women who habitually bite their lips are jealous." "War makes men strong and women lovely."