Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1917 — EAST AFRICAN WISDOM [ARTICLE]

EAST AFRICAN WISDOM

The first wife Is not abandoned. A man In need is an ax; he tires not. When a child of the house is taught Its duty the orphan child listens. An old person Is a rubbish heap to carry everything to, good apd evil. Thine own bad thing is better than the good thing belonging to someone else. If a tree leans over it is certainly rotten, and It Is unable to raise Itself again. He who pegs out the skin of an an.imal draws It toward himself. (Every man for himself.) Where the ox falls there it is slaughtered. (If you differ with a person, fight it out on the spot.) To point the finger is the root of a quarrel. (Pointing the finger at a person is regarded by the natives as a great Insult.)