Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-01
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OLD.FAsHIONED FLOWER GARDENS.

There are fashions in flowers, even. Not
indeed, in the growth, tinting or perennial
beauty of each particular kind but, rather
in the selection and arrangement of the dit
ferent species. Many of the standard flowers
of former days are discarded from modern
gardens, because, apparently, they are 'old
fashion" 1t cannot be that some of the
kinds, so much priced by our grandmothers,
are rejected from lack of beauty for exam.
ined simply as flowers, they are exquisite.
Take the different varieties Of the iris, the
smaller fowered panses, "ladies' delight" as
they were called, the hardy pink-"Chinese
grass and other sorts-the London Pride, Fox
glove, and dozens that we might name, oil
beautiful and growing almost without care
How many flowers really inferior to them
are now grown. Some of the old favorites
were coarse, it is true. In the model garden
of the present, poppies would be an offence
and holly hook quite shocking Yet a
bed or border of poppies, of the best kinds
would be pronounced as superb-if we didn't
know that they we're only poppies And
even thrifty holly hook is more gratifying
sight than the sickly displays of hot house
plants which we often see struggling for life
The rose will stand at the head as the "queen
of flowers" but the most perfect as we'll as
the hardest of all the numerous varieties, the
Damascus" rose, is now rarely seen, except
near some old abandoned lot in the country,
outliving the people who planted it, and other
generations that neglect it, With the half
filled cellar and the choked-up we'll, it is Of.
ten the only torn shrub left that marks the
spot of some once "sweet home" Here, year
after year, it still blooms in beauty, as though
its bright petals clothed some lingering spirit
that still found delight in dwelling on the hal
lowed spot.
We have nothing but praise for most OF
tho kinds of flowers so carefully cultivated at
the present day. Many of the new corners
are of wonderful beauty, while some Of the
older ones have been much improved by the
skill of the horticulturist Let US have more
kinds still from all quarters of the globe. But
we do like to see one of the old fashioned flow
er gardens, with all its lack of arrangement,
its "coarse" flowers, if you please, the blush
peonies, the poppies, invading the beds of
beets and the cabbage yard, and the tower
ing cump of sunAowers by the back fence.
Look at the fashions in modern "first class
gardening. All the plants are on dress pa'
rade. Here is company straight as cord
line, of geraniums scarlet uniform; now a
company of another sort-diterent color
next, front line centouria-white uniform.
At exact right angels with these, battal-
ion of other kinds, all just the "regulation"
height; see one, you see all. Here solid
square of coteus, not a stray one any where
rose bushes all with eyes front and trimmed
a Ia mode In their season come the annuals,
all in rows here are plants in triangles, then
in elipses, and again in starts, all on parade.
They are officered by gayly.accoutred groups
of cannas, palms and other rarities from the
conservatories, and altogether form an excel
lent, we'll clothed, finely drilled, military dis.
play. We do not object to this, for those
who can afford it. There is beauty in it and
science in it; but it isn't our mothers and
grandmothers' gardens and that accounts in
part, perhaps, for our love for the latter.
BATHING-HaWs Journal Of Health has
the following advice on bathing:
Once week is often enough for a decent
white man to wash himself all over, and
whether in summer or winter that ought to
be done with soap, warm water and hogs
hair brush, in a roor showing at least 70 de-
grees Fahrenheit. Baths should be taken
early in the morning, for it is then that the
system possesses the power of reaction in the
highest degree. Any bath is dangerous soon
after meal, or soon after fatguing exercise.
No man or woman should take a bath at the
close of the day, unless by the advice of the
family physician. The best mode of keeping
the surface of the body clean, besides the once
week washing already mentioned, is as fol
lows:
AS soon as you get out of bed in the morn
ing wash your face, neck and breast into the
about minute rubbing them briskly all the
time then, with the towel, which has been
dampened by the face, feet, etc., wipe the
whole body WE'LL fast and hard, with mouth
shut and chest projecting. Let the whole
thing be done in less than FIVE minutes At
night when you 90 to bed, and whenever you
find yourself wakeful and restless, spend from
two to five minutes in rubbing your whole
body with your hands, so far as you can reach
in every direction. This has tendency to
preserve that softness and mobility of the skin
which is essential to health, and which too
frequent washings will always destroy.
A BIT OF RoMANCE.-The determination
of Gen. Sherman's son, Thomas Ewing Sher.
man, to become priest, revives the romantic
story Of the life and love Of one Of Gen.
SCOTS daughters. As the story goes, this
daughter fell deeply in love with member of
one of the foreign legations. The attachment
was reciprocal, but the match was 80 bitterly
opposed by the old hero of Lundy's Lane that
it was broken off: She cared nothing fol, the
world after that, and very soon was received
as a nun in the Georgetown convent. Her
lover returned to his native country and was
soon enrolled in the priesthood of the Catho-
lie church. In subsequent years he was Or
dered to Georgetown College, and took his
turn in hearing the confessions of the nuns at
the convent. On one Of these occasions Miss
Scott knelt in the confessional to her former
lover, and under such circumstances recog-
milton took place. She tainted, went into a
rapid decline and soon after died, and he left
the country never to return.
ADMIT THE SUN-Don't shut out the sun,
even though the carpets suffer little under
his ardent gleam We are more active under
the influence of sunlight, and can think better
and act more vigorously. Let US take the
airiest, choicest, and sunniest room in the
house for our living room-the work shop,
where brain and body are built up and re-
newed-and let us have bay window. no
matter how plain the structure, through which
the good twin angels Of nature-sun-light and
pure air-can freely enter. Dark rooms
bring depression of spirits, ;mparting sense