Some Chinese Sayings.
Chinese philosophers have not too high ideas concerning women. Here are a few of their savings : Listen to your wife, but don’t boliove her. The happiest mother of daughters is ahe who has sons only. If one is not deaf or stupid, what a position is that of a father-in-law! If, with a wife and daugl)t«r-in-law, one has also sisters and sisters-fp-law, daughters and nieces, one ought’' to be a tiger to hold out. The minds of women.are of quicksilver and their hearts of wax. The most curious women willingly cast down their eyes to he looked at. The tongues of women increase by all that they take from their feet. Tha most timid girl has courage enough to talk scandal.
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 12, 1 November 1904, Page 3
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124Some Chinese Sayings. Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 12, 1 November 1904, Page 3
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