Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-10-21
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sons. That is, it would keep their heads
above water, which is all that is necessary
when it is a case of life or death. 1t is not
at all necessary to know how to swim to be
able to keep from drowning in this way. A
little experience of the buoyant power of wa
ter, and faith in it, is all that is required.
We have seen small boy, who could not
swim a stroke, propel himself back and forth
across deep, wide pond, by means OF board
that would not sustain FIVE pounds weight.
In fact, that sometime small boy is now wri-
ting this. Children and all others, should
have practice il the sustaining power of wa
ter. In nine cases out of ten, the knowledge
that what will sustain pound weight is all
that is necessary to keep ones head above
water, will serve better in emergencies than
the greatest expertness as swimmer. A
person unfamiliar with the buoyant power of
water will naturally try to climb on top of the
floating object on which he tries to save him.
self. If it is large enough, that is all night:
But it is generally not large enough, and half
of struggling group is often drowned in the
desperate scramble of life and death strug-
gle to climb on top of a piece of wreck or
other floating object, not large enough to keep
them all entirely above the water. This often
l. ppens when cleasure boats capsize All
Immediately want to get out of the water on
top of the overturned or half filled boat, and
all are drowned except those whom the wreck.
ed craft will wholly bear up. If they would
simply trust the water to sustain ninety;nne
hundredths of the weight of their bodies, and
the disabled boat the other hundredth, they
might all be saved under most circumstances.
An overturned or water filled wooden boat
will sustain more people in this way than 1t
will carry. 1t would keep the heads above
water of as many people as could get their
hands on the gunwaie. These are simple
facts, easily learned, and may some day save
your life.-Trenton State Gazette.
FARMERS SHOULD TAKE LONGER Noon.
INGs.-Our recent advice to take longer rests
at noon than is customary among farmers,
is confirmed by this quotation from some
unknown but sensible body:
"Travelers affirm that the people of no
foreign country Go as much out of-door labor
during the heat of the day as the inhabitants
of the United States. In all the countries
about the Mediterranean sea, long season
of rest for man and beast occurs during the
middle of the day. Among the SpanIards
the practice of sleeping at noon is almost as
common as that of sleeping during the night
In Northern Europe shorter time is given
TO rest at noon, because the temperature IS
lower, and the rays of sunlight fall so as to
produce less injurious effect upon labor
ers. Still the time for rest is longer in this
part of Europe than in the United States.
With us there is no stopping work tor the
sake of taking rest at noon. Labor is sus-
pended only to allow men and animals to take
food and drink. As soon as eating aud drink.
ing are finished, work in the open sun is re-
sumed. Without doubt we should be gamers,
both in the matter of health and wealth, if we
gave considerable time during the middle of
the day to rest More sickness occurs among
farmers Immediately after haying and harvest.
ing than at any other season of the year, and
the cause of it may be attributed, in great
majority Of cases, to exposure to the heat
Of the sun when it is almost directly over
the heads of workmen engaged in the fields.
The number of cases Of sunstroke increases
every year Many who are not prostrated
by the heat are greatly injured by it. What
is true Of man is true Of animals. A long
rest at noon would prevent exposure to the
sun at the time when injurious effects are most
likely to follow. 1t would also put both men
and animals in condition to do more during
the cooler porto Of the afternoon"
TREATING WALLs.-It is much better to
paper the walls of closets than to whitewash
them, as the effect of lime upon clothing is al
ways bad. If your walls are already lined,
brush them down with vinegar and water,
and afterward with thin paste, and apply
lengths of c::eap wall paper, pasting them
over with sponge or cloth, upon the face OF
the paper, thus leaving the wrong side, which
is free from paint or chalk, for the surface
against M..,ich your clothes are to hang Stop
all breaks in the wall with plaster, wet to
creamy thickne or if the wall is cracked,
paste strips off cloth over before papering.
if there are mi holes in the wood, press wet
brown paper to them, and if you wish to
make a very neat job, cover the places with
putty. 1t is always best to do your closets
before you really get ready to do your rooms,
because that is work which requires time and
thought, as we'll as the personal supervision
of the housekeeper.
Tom BoYs.-It is bad for girls morally,
as we'll as physically, to have no muscular
enjoyment on which to expend their spare
energy. 1t will 60 off somehow, and proprie
tors Of ladies' schools had better see that 1t
does not 90 in wrong direction. Muscular
exercise is as essential to health Of mind
and BODY in girls as in boys. Decorum may
be very desirable thing, but everything must
not be sacrificed to it. If there were more
physical education in girls schools, there
would probably be fewer French novels, or
even worse The outside of the platter may
be scrupulously attended to, and be brilliant
ly clean, but that is no warrant for the charac-
ter of its contents. Athletic youth may not
always be very strong Intellectually, but they
are comparatively free from bad practices
and the morals of "tomboys" would prob
ably compare favorably with those of the
demurest boarding. school young ladies.
aar More than fifty patents have been OBJ.
tanned for cow. mixers, thirteen in England
and forty in America. These machines have
been divided into three classes First, tube
mixers second, sucking machines; third,
mechanical hand-milkers. The first are lap.
pers, the second suckers, and the third squeez-
ers and strippers. Some devices are formed
of combinations of these classes. AS yet, no
one machine can be considered success as,
Notwithstanding the apparent success in single
milkings, the constant use seems to forward
tendency toward drying off a COW, while some
injure the COW.
FALL OR WINTER PAINTING.-Good au