Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-04-22
HoTcH-PoTcH, No q.

THE weather is now ftful and ugly in the e1-
trrme. How long it will remain 30 is difficult 10
tell For this is the changeful month Of April
All! April was the word, ell! Well, let US see
April is said to be derived from the Latin word
aperiO, sgnifying to open because the buds then
open, and genial Spring opens her lap full of flow!
ers Would that some diminutive human hearts
would follow SHIT and open then also! Better
once year than never. But miser is not alto-
gether unlike April either. The only difference
IS that one is full Of change and the other Of
changes
And that reminds us that ii is time to change the
subject, our object being 10 ring the changes"
as fast as possible
"Ring that bell, hawled out one of our hotel
keepers the other day, about l2 NJ "What"
said stranger" dinner at this time Of day!"
Even 50 it was. And even so it is, every day,
among these ravenous villagers Of Edgefeld. A
man, who lives four miles out, fIas scarcely Time
to ca, his breakfast, ride into town. open his office
and read the papers, before the dinner bells greet
his ears. OF course its none Of our business.
Doubtless it is custom well adapted to the busi.
ness purposes of our ci,izcns-but it is certainly
hurrying upthe victnals with clattcring rapidity-
Speaking Of hurrying, there are other things we
would like to see getting on with little more
celebrity. Among these, the one which occurs 10
us at this moment is the Plank Road. We would
upper end of the road. The warm days are COM
ing on, and that heavy sand, between the upper
terminus and the Pine House, is terrible 10 get
over Mr. Xxx, do come along with your
dirt.carts and diggers.-
"Diggersw Well, "diggers" rhymes with
"niggers," and "niggers" are selling still at the
tallest prices. And the question at once arises,
what is it that keeps ,heraup! Any one who will
sulve this question on one page Oh holscnp. and
send it 10 us, will do the Advertiser office favor,
and the Advertiser in return, will offer him what
ever thanks may he found due
Talking about being found due," we were
glancng over certain little bills, dne TO Us, the
other day, which we would be extremely delighted
10 have duely cashed. For in due time We pro-
pose, as we said some weeks ago, TO enlarge our
pages, which will cost us some five or six hundred
dollars, certain. Indeed We have already sent on
for the new type and enlarged paper, and in a
month or six weeks perhaps in less time, We will
come out in our new Dress
New dresses" why they are decidedly the
order Of the day. Old l'amc Nature has just
assumed most beautiful one. The woods are
clothed in freshest grecn-the gardens shine ou
in all the coors of the rain bow--:hc little girls
ore dunning their gay spring apparel the young
ladies are blending about their lovely persons, ir
most becoming contrast hues we'll adapted to til.
scason-the young gents are hauning their Part
colored n,ck-ties and fancy vests-and even the
old gentlemen and ladies are freshcning up iliei
cxternals considerably Nor can We See anything
of vanity in it, for it is bnt following the example
of all nature, animate and inanmate.-
This brings us, some how or other, To speak o
| inanimaiion-wc mean in the ligh, Of persona
chara cteris ic. 1t is one which too often attach
es to girls in their teens. Parents shonld stud!
TO Danish it. Sprightness, girlsh sprighilnes
is charming-but an absence of animation, glce
lulness, Fl'aclt!, is al "hi"it"ha'e "e'esS e'P'
cialy in the young With some, perhaps, it is {
4agua safs ShfRu hsRu uitsa sssidHity viii
most, however, it is nothing more than bat
habit. We exhor you girls, TO correct it, unless
you wish TO he - wall-flowers" when you entel
society and merc household fixtures when you ge
married. Let this dulncss of demeanor grow
upon you AMI it will become second nature
and, whether Ounce or not, you will be apt tt
pass for one all the days Of your life.
And so forth