Sense In National Proverbs

There is a deal of sound sense in the proverbs of a nation. Earl Russell deined a proverb as being the wit of one man and the wasdom of many, and the aptness of this is well shown in the folowing f rom the Spanish, "Since we cannot get what welike, let us like what we get." The thought is as old as the race of mankind, bnt ages passed before one mau hit npon the happy expression of it. This saying, from the Chinese, is a whole homily on pride in one sentence, 'When a tree is blown down, it shows hat the branclies are honger than the oots." For a concise expreasion of the lofty aspirations of youth and the sober achievements of riper years, take this entence from Henry D. Thoreau, "The routh gets together his materials to juild a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palaoe or temple on the earth, and at length the middle aged mau conclndes