Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-01
Ghilaren's department.
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WHERE THEY COME FROM.

You'll be shocked, fear, when tell you
that your doll came out of rag-bag, her curls
from the back of a goat, and her elegant china
tea.set out of a mud hole. ... .. ... .. ...
But what will you say when 1 tell you
that your jelley is made out of old boots, and
your delightful perfumery from horrid-smell
ing coal tar?
You don't own all the made over things in
the family, either. Johnnies new beaver cloth
overcoat was worn out on the back of beg
gar, and perhaps even played the part Of
scare.crow in some farmyard, before it be-
gan on the world again; and the ""tsble.gela-
tine," which every one of the family likes to
eat, once did duty on the back of rat.
1t is really wonderful TO trace things back,
and see where they come from, aud which has
reason to boast of his ancestors. Queer sto
ries you would hear if the things around
you could tell their history. There's your
tatting shuttle. 1t once made itself useful as
a bone in horse, while the ivory dice OF the
backgammon board adorned the jaws and
crushed the oats of another of the race.
The pearl of your paper knife lined the
shell house of a modest little creature at the
bottom Of the sea, while mammals shell comb
was the comfortable roof over a sea tortoise
Your guitar strings were indispensable to
the eternal comfort of some poor pussy or un-
fortunate sheep. and your piano would be but
dumb wooden box without some of the same
internal arrangements of horse.
Your nice hair brush first saw the light on
the skin of hog The crinoine that stffens
the bottoms Of ladies dresses was used origi
nally to switch the flies from the backs Of hor
ses, and the mattress on which you sleep SO
comfortably served the same use before it fell
into the manufacturer hands.
Your dainty toilet soap-dear ME, how can
I tell YOU was made of dead cats and dogs
found in the streets, and the "bitter almonds"
which 50 delightfully."- flavor your candy,
came from the horrible smelling coal tar,
while the choisest aes are delciously favored
with-putrid cheese.
The scent bags of that offensive animal, the
skunk, furnish some desirable additions to
the toilet table, used for removing freckles and
tan, and the dreadful stuff left in drains is
turned into fashionable toilet article, and
adorns the faces of ladies. s...
To be sure these disagreeable materials
have some pretty rough handling before they
come out in their new colors. They do not
step from the gutter into the jelley kettle, by
any means They 90 through long process
of washing and smoking with sulphur, and
steaming and boiling, before they come out
white and delicate and 6t for the table.
The coal tar, to grow into perfnmery, goes
through the hands Of chemists, who treat it to
don't know Whist dreadful chem ical process.
es and the dead cats and dogs are boiled to
extract the grease, purified, whitened and per-
fumed before we see them as soap.
The doll whose ancestors Inhabited the rag
mans den, endured unheard Of operations of
washing, soaking, bleaching, chopping, mould
ing and so forth, before she took her place in
the nursery to amuse the little folks, and the
clay from the mud.hole was washed and pu-
ri6ed, and whitened, and kneaded, and baked
and glazed, before it ventured to call itself
china, and take its place on the the tea table.
The horse tails that stffen the dresses and
stuff our mattresses are washed, and soaked,
aud boiled, and baked before We use them,
and the intestines which make the voice of
guitar and piano went through u long pro-
cess of scraping, soaking in lye, and washing.
before they we're drawn out into the fine
SIX Ills VIII WulCu JOu
The rat skin which we eat under the name
of gelatine first fourished as the thumb Of
kid glove, and after being worn out in that
capacity went through ever so many purify
ing processes, somewhat as the old boots did,
and ended on our table.
Nearly all the things we throw away in al
leys, or even through our drains, the most dis.
gusting things you can think of, are valuable,
and after going through the hands of skiIlful
workmen, come out in new shapes, and have
new fields for usefulness. C,E-T Az
The feats of old fashioned faries who turned
pumpkins into carriages, and old gowns into
elegant robes, de- not compare with the won
ders performed in our workshops by rough
looking men in shirt sleeves and white aprons.
SOAP. BuBBLEs.-May was blowing soap
bubbles in the open air on the lawn. On
what pretty pictures were painted on them
She called Grandpa out to zee them. he
laughed with her to see her portrait with his
own-her round, rosy face, and his all wrnk-
led, yet jolly. They saw Dick, the sober cat,
and the motherly hen with her chicks; the
old homestead all covered with climbing ro-
ses and the woods with trees almost touching
the blue Skies "Once upon time" said her
Grandpa, "a painter made picture Of chill
dren running sway from soap bubbles, mis-
taking them for cannon. balls. What would
little May have thought of the picture" ?"
"Were they making blieve to be afraid 7"
asked May.
"No, they were frightened in earnest
"Then the picture wasn't true" said May.
II shouldn't have liked it" -. .u..-.
"Well said," said her Grandpa; "you are
right in condemning it. Every little boy and
gir knows that soap.bubbles can not hurt
any one. But how thick do you think a
soap, bubble is, lirtle onef"
"Very thin indeed" went on her Grandpa.
"The thickest part of soap bubble is only
the two.milionth part of an inch"
"And whole inch is only as long as my
little finger" said May. "fhe two-millent
part of that2 Oh soap-bubble is so very
thin, 1 wonder l can see it at all. But I've
bright eyes," s.-e ..t.. ..a $500
HAD TO BE BOUGHT OFF.-A correspon.
dent of Harper's Magazine, at New Haven,
Conn.,, gives the following as the deftest way
for f7e-year boy to obtain glass of soda
water:
We were approaching drug store, when
Willie said. "Papa, it'll just take thirty cents"
"Thirty cents for what ?"
"Why to treat US to soda"
"How do you make that out p
"Why there's just six Of us, and it takes
nickle apiece"
"But, Willie, you don't want any soda-wa.
ter"
"Yes I do