Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-05-02

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certain exteut plain. 4,
Lovely spring prints are selling very low.
Plat skirts have deop yokes, which giyo
q splendid appearance.
BaSques, entirely covered with flowers,
are in:yogue for evening toiettes.
All straw hats and bonnets are principally
restricted to the dark. oolors.
Cream color and groenish gray are the
populartipts in linen dress goods.
Missess sparasols are of small size 10 tho
designs and oolors used for ladies.
Byron collars and cuffs in guipure lace,
for the ladies, are among tho latest.
Yokes and plated and gathered waists
arc very becoming to tall, slender women.
Tho cold color, flashes of roses," so long
out of fashion, will be revived this summer.
Handsome evening dresses are made Of
plush grenadine in solid oolors Of light
huos
Colored cmbroideries appear on many of
| the handsomest sets of wide collars and deep
| cuffs. .sipay 98,.
There is decided change in the shape
of tho parasois this season from those of
last summer. fGs
Flowers should bo worn mostly on tho loft
| side. Of bull dressos, as the escort walks on
the right.
Ono Of the novelties for summer dresses
is cepe fbhtiste---a thin linen fabric orinkled
like Grape.
iSoarfs of crepe lisso, with the ends em--
broidcred in silks or oriental oolors, aro
prettypoyeltics. a
AVHy SHoUtD ANY MAN SwEAR?-I can
conceivoof no reason why he should, but of
ten rdasons why ho should not.
1t is mean. A man Of high moral stand
ing would almost as soon steal o sheep as to
swear.
1t is vulgar. Altogether too mean for a
decent man.
1t is cowardly. Implying fear Of not
being believed or oheyed.
1t is ubgentlenanly. "A gentleman, ac..
oording to Webster, is 6. gentleman, we'll.
bred refined. Such ono will no moro
swear than 80 into the stroot to throw mud
with olodhoppcr.
1t is indecent, offensive to delicacy, and
cxtromoly unfit for human ears.
1t is foolishness, 3 Want of dcconcy is
want of good common sense
1t is abusive TO the mind. which con-
cciyes the oath, to tho tongue which utters
it.and to tho person at whom, it is aimed.
}lt is tcnomous: Showing q mans heart
toihe inest of vipers, and every time he
swears One of them sticks out its hoad
1T islcontemptible. ForfoitiDg tho re-
speot off ALL tho wise and good
1T is Wiokod. Violating the Divine law
provoking the displcasure Of Him who
will not hold him guitlcss who takos his
name in vain.
Every objection urged is we'll taken, yet
We find somany of our leading mon indulg.
ing in the useless habit. It docs them no
good they admit yot why will they CON-
tinue in tho habit7
Alas! how many mon learned to swear
when they Wero boys, and now they haze
become hardened. Dear young reader,
beware and swear not.
4 MODERN DEFINITION OF COMMERCIAL.
'TERMs.A s.ABankrupt-A man who gives
everything to lawyer so that his croiitors
will not got it.
.Assignec--It is the chap who has the
deal and gives himself four aoos.
A Bank-Is the place whero people put
their money 80 it will bo handy when other
folks want it,
!, A Deposition Is man who don't know
how to spend his money and gets the cash.
ior to show him.
President--Is the big fat man who
promises to boss tho job and afterward sub.
lots it.
IA Director-Is ono Of those that accepts
a trust that don't involve either the, use of
his owes or his ears.
Qashier--1s often man who undertakes
to support a'wife, six children and brown
stone front, on forty dollars month and be
honest.
sCollaterals-Are certain prices Of paper
as good as gold, due and payable on Ist day
Of April.
Assets Usually consists Of five chairs
and on old stove, and to these may bo
added spittoon, if the "bust' amt bad
one.
Liabilties-Are usually big "blind"
that the assets won't $500" nor "raiso."
A Noto-A promise to do on impossible
thing OF au impossible time.
An Endorser-Is a man who eigus
commercial pbilopena with friend and
gets caught. .@A ~
CHEERFUL WoMEN,-In marrying, mon
SHOULD seek happy women; they make a
terrible mistake when they marry for beauty,
or for talent, or for style; tho sweetest wives
arc those who possess tho magic secret Of
being happy under and every circumstance
Rich or poor, high or low, it makes no
difference; tho bright little fountain bubbles
up just as musically in their hearts. No
thing ever goes wrong with them - no
trouble 10 too serious for them "to make the
beat of it, Was ever the stream of ca.
lamity 80 dark aud deep that tho sunshine
Of q happy face falling across its turbid
tides would not make an abswerinp pleam2