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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29
FOLLIES OF FASHION.

A carricature published in 1910 is still to
be found in old collections, which represents a
fine gentleman and lady walking hopelessly
around handkerchief, which the lady had
dropped on the street. Both of them were too
tightly laced to be able to stoop to pick it
up.
In the first years Of this century, men, aq
we'll as women, strove to exhibit the wasp-like
waist, which was held in admiration. Even
as late as twenty years ago, it was common
for fashionable lady to put on her hat be-
fore her corsets, as she could not lift her hands
to her head after they were laced. The press
and even the pulpit attacked this suicidal
folly. 1t has almost disappeared among edu'
Gated people.
Women in this country have become famil.
lar in statues and pictures with the ideal
forms of beauty which the world in all ages
has admired. They have learned how hid.
eous to an artists eye is the lean, consumptive
waist which was once decreed by fashion.
There are one or two ways, however, in
which the fashionable dress of to day still in.
lures health and deforms the figure. One OF
these is the high, ungraceful hat perched on
the back of the head. An eminent aurist at
tributes the rapid increase of diseases of the
ear to this recent uncovering Of the ears by
women.
Another is the massing of heap of un-
clean, dead false hair upon the back of the
head, the heat of which frequently Injuries the
scalp and produces an affection of the brain.
The most common and ludicrous error is
the high.heeled narrow shoe, which women
not only wear, but put upon their helpless
children. The muscles of the instep and
foot are completely displaced by these shoes.
1t is impossible to wear them year without
deforming the foot displacing the toes, and
crippling the muscular power Of the leg.
Some time, probably, our women, better ed,
ucated than now, will learn the beauty Of the
natural foot and Of free, light step-a charm
which few American women (except those
with red skins) can boast Youths Com.
panlon.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29
CAusE OF HEADACHE AMONG SCHOOL

CAUSE OF HEADACHE AMONG SCHOOL
CH1LDREN.-A German physician, in paper
read before the German Association of Natu-
raj Historians, discusses headache among
school children. He says the principal cause
Of headache is intellectual over.exertion. He
attacks the present system of education as
tending to produce mental confusion, instead
ofIincreasing knowledge He protests against
night study az causing an exhaustion of the
brain, 40 that new ideas cannot be really
grasped, while confusion is produced with re-
gard to subjects that have been studied du-
r;ng the day. The same views were recently
expressed by an eminent American physician.
Both critics are on the right track. The re-
suits which they deplore are owing to the am
bition of parents and scholars themselves,
rather than to the work of teachers. The
teacher, under present methods, suffers as
much as the scholars. The greatest present
evils of the schools are crowded rooms and
bad air. These alone would produce head.
ache, and render child unfit for study and
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

The EDUCATION OF WILD BEAsTs.-The
veteran animal tanner, Alfred Still, says that
too much whipping makes wild animal sulky
and vicious, but certain amount Of whip
ping is necessary. To train wild beast, he
said recently, you must FIRST make its &C.
quaintance from the outside of the cage, and
get the animal acquainted with your face; but
above all, with your voice. They become &C.
customed to voices sooner than faces, and are
governed more by sound than by sight. Hav'
ing got accustomed to your beasts, and they
accustomed to you, your next step is to train
them to their tricks. Though these tricks are
simple, they require great deal of time and
patience and good deal Of whipping to &C.
complish them. The lions are the smartest
of the wild beasts. You can train lion to
do the ordinary tricks of the trade; jumping
through hoops and over gates, standing on his
hind legs, and so on-in about FIVE weeks
constant work. 1t will require about week
longer to teach a lioness and leopard,
which comes next to lion in intelligence,
about six weeks to learn the same feats. 1t
takes about seven or eigh weeks to teach q
tiger, and tigress from eight to nine weeks,
WHlle you COLL heeP ou pooIinS ono 'o"oiii"6 4"
hyena for four months before you can do
much with him. The most difficult thing to
do is to teach wild beast to lie down on him,
without his trying to make you lie in him by
eating you up. Kindness-that is, anything
but ordinary civility-is absolutely thrown
away upon a wild beast. With tiger, or IT,
gress especially, all affection is literally vast
ed. A tigress is as apt to eat you up after an
intimate acquaintance of six years as one Of
six weeks. As a rule, the whip is the most
efficacious instrument for training. 1t can be
used quickly, and it hurts. If l were to drop
my whip the beasts would fancy had lost all
my power over them and would first pounce
on the whip and then 60 for me. Four tt.
crosses trained are estimated to be worth
$4,000; but good tiger unbroken, is not
worth more than $1,000. Lions are worth
about $4,000 to $4,000 each /; panthers, $500 !;
jaguars, $4Oo; hyenas, $3.50, if unframed !;
leopards, $3.50 to s4OO, according to their
kind"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

till it can be charged with more heat. The
pulse runs high. Liquor quickly intoxicates,
lungs have increased labor, and evaporation
cools the body suddenly, subjecting it to
catarrhal and pulmonary arrangements.
Though nearer the sun by over 10000 feet,
its heat is diminished, showing that the sun
does not send fire to US, but chemical power,
which, according to the density of the atmos-
phere, and in all inter-planetary space light
and heat are absent. Leadville is rich in
gold, but not in health. Even flies cannot
live there.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

MEXICAN BEAUT1Es.-All the social up.
heavals in Mexico for the past sixty years
have failed to mingle the blood of the Indian
with the blue blood Of a certain element Of
their conquerors and the descendants OF their
conquerors. This is guerra element, which
has held its own inviolate amidst the surging
passion surrounding it, the temptations which
nothing but naughty pride of race would
have resisted. There are two types Of gueras.
The first has some very distinct characteris'
tics The face is spirituelle, and has that
subdued expression which invariably results
from religious meditation, and in color as
white as alabsster. The flesh is faultlessly
white, tinged with a refined but healthy ap.
pearance. The eyes are usually dark, large
and lustrous, and the hair abundant and black
as the ravens wing. The teeth are white as
snowfakes. The rubias, the second type, are
superb specimens of womanhood and are so
called because they have auburn or golden
hair, which in some instances runs into
flaming rich red color. The eyes are often
deep blue, soft and entreating in their express
sion. The flesh has sunset tinge to it, which
is more warm and sensuous nature than
that of the paler hued women. Near the
town of Aqua Cahente, State Of Sinaloa, there
is village of rubias, the young women Of
which are matchless in their style of beauty.
Tall and graceful, with richly rounded busts,
symmetrical forms and step as light and
elastic as fawn's they move about, the very
symbols of the poetry of motion. They have
something in their manner and style! similar
to the hig gher class of Russian women, whom
they greatly resemble. The rubias, like the
gueras, live mostly in the interior, where the
climate is more mild and genial, while the
dark races inhabit the hot regions along the
coast
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

BUSINESS PRovEREs.-Never sacrifice safe
ty to large expected returns.
Never borrow money to speculate with.
Never make loan on importantly.
Never loan borrowing friend more than
you are willing to lose if he can't pay.
Never speculate deeper than you are able
to lose if you lose it all.
Owe no man anything.
Be satisfied with a moderate rent to good
tenant. ts4n .. s.
Keep well insured and watch your policy.
Never consult man on business who does
not manage his own.
Avoid second mortgage for fresh loan.
Ee that maketh haste to be rich is not
wise. r
Poverty is no bar to marriage if both par
ties will work and save.
The gods help those who help themselves,
men or women.
God promises nothing to idleness.
A. man must ask bis wife if he may l,e
rich.
Little coins, like little drops of water, will
fill q bucket.
As we SOW in temporal affairs We shall
reap. ...... ..,
Short settlements make long friendship.
Fortunes are made by earning and saving
Money easily gotten is soon spent.
Money earned is money valued.
Il is easier to loosen up good property than
to reestablish it.
In discussing business disagreements keep
COOL
Less wisdom is required to make monty
thar to keep it securely when made.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29
ON DIET.

It is we'll established fact that in every
effort we make, however slight, whether it be
muscular, respiratory, or mental, there IS
corresponding loss of tissue. Now this waste,
as it passes out of the body by the various
excretions, is found to contain constituents,
as nitrogen, carbon, various SALTS etc., which
are exactly similar to those which enter into
the composition of the blood and tissues OF
the body; and therefore it follows, that in
order to repair the waste which is continually
going on, these constituents must enter into
the food taken. Some articles are rich in
nitrogen, as, for example, meat and peas
some are rich in carbon, as suet, sugar, etc.,
while others contain both these elements in
various proportions, and are called mixed, OF
which the best examples are milk, rice, pota-
toes, and various meals, as oat meal, wheat
meal, barley meal, etc. heterogeneous food
builds up and repairs tissue, as flesh, muscle,
etc. ; while carbonaceous food, by a process
of combustion, serves to assist respiration,
and is called the respiratory food. Certain
salts are also necessary, to form and sustain
the solid frame. work and nerve tissue, and
these are found in common salt and various
vegetables. Diet, therefore, to be whole
some and nourishing, must contain these
three elements as we'll as some fat and water;
But there are some other points about
diet as we'll as its chemical composition
which require some notice. First, it should
be regular and not hurried; second, it should
be sufficient in quantity; third, it should be
adapted to age. Regularity of diet is most
inn portant, as nothing contributes so much to
produce indigestion as irregular meals, and
too much haste in taking them. For an adult
three meals in the day are sufficient and
should be so arranged as to have as nearly as
possible an equal interval between each meal
Children require food more frequently. With
regard to quantity, much will depend upon
the nature of the work done; the greater the
work the greater the waste, and therefore
the greater the quantity of food required to
repair it. The quality Of the food must also
be good, and be of a mixed character, to full
fl the conditions already mentioned. Chill
dren require different diet to adults In
infancy, milk contains all that is necessary
for it's nature; as they grow older, other mat
ters have to be added, to give it a more
mixed character. Finally, healthy diet
should be free from excess generally, ano
should not consist of one class of food only
to the exclusion of others.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

SYSTEM IN HoUsEKEEPING.-There is
nothing mores sdiscouraging to the young
housekeeper than her first attempt at mas
tering the details of her work; she looks
with amazement at the calm faces of her
friends, who seem somewhat to have made
the secret their own. By and by she finds
out for herself that it may all be summed up
in these words: eternal vigilance is the
price of we'll kept house" She realizes
what Werner wrote about his garden
External vigilance! The spider, the moth,
the -four bug, the red ant, the black ant de.
mand it" She thinks that if somebody had
framed it for her motto, instead of "God
Bless our Home," or "Eat, Drink and be
Merry" she might have got on better One
of the first things she learns is that system
is absolutely necessary not the relentless sys-
tenn which DEGREES that Friday shall be sweep.
ing day though the heavens should fall, but
which considers calmly the whole business
to be despatched; portions out the work as
wisely as possible, and then adheres to the
plan as closely as may be. Of course at first
mistakes will be made keep this comforting
assurance in mind, that housekeeping does
not come by instinct to anybody. However
easily some may seem to get along with it,
they have acquired that ease by hard and
varied experience. If one is in dead earnest
about becoming good housekeeper, occa-
sional failures will help on the work; an
ordinarily bright young woman will only
once steam brown bread in an ungreased tin,
or build hot fire, with new oilcloth under
the stove, and leave no ashes under the fire
in the stove. 1t is a positive fact that in
time one who has an actual distaste for house
work may come to regard her kitchen as q
laboratory in which careful manipulations
will produce exact results.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

SIGN OF THE WEATHER.-Dew is sign
of fine weather, and is never seen except un-
der cloudless sky. Wind and clouds are
sure preventives of dew, for the simple reason
that clouds are able to retain some of the
solar heat; and, as they can give forth
warmth the radiation from the earth is check
ed, and the warmer temperature preserved.
Wind evaporates the moisture as fast as it
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

MORALITY OF GooD L1v1Ne.-A man Of
the kindliest impulses has only to feed upon
indigestible food for few days and forthwith
bis liver is affected, and then his brain. Ills
sensibilities are blunted his uneasiness makes
him waspish and fretful. He is like hedge
hog with the quills rolled in; and he will do
and say things from which in health he
would have recoiled. Sydney Smith did not
exaggerate when he affirmed that "old friend
ships are often destroyed by toasted cheese,
and hard salted meat has often led to suicide"
Even so intellectual q man as William Haz
lit, writing to his lady.love, could say: Il
never love YOU 80 we'll as when I think Of
sitting down with you to dine upon boiled
scragend of mutton and hot potatoes" just
ly did Talleyrand inveigh against the Erg-
lish that they had one hundred and fifty
forms of religion and but one sauce-melted
butter. The celebrated scholar, DR.. Parr,
confessed love for shot lobster, with pro-
fusion of shrimp sauce" Pope would lie in
bed for days at Boblingbrokes, unless he
were told that there were stewed lampreys for
dinner, when he would rise instantly and hur-
ry down to the table. Handel ate enormous.
", and when ne dined at tavern he always
ordered dinner for three. On being told that
all would be ready as soon as the company
should arrive, he would exclaim: "Den
bring up de dinner, prestlssimo! l am de
company"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

LEADv1LLE.-The effects of high altitude
are illustrated at Leadville. Cold water boils
at 100 degrees instead of 2l2 degrees. Moth
ing that is eaten cooks at this temperature
All sorts of devices are resorted to for con-
fining the water 80 that it will not evaporate
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29
NO. 81.

the teacher unfit for her or his duties. Our
teachers are shut up in a box with great
number of scholars, who exhaust the oxygen,
especially in cold weather when the windows
are closed. When this happens scholars ard
teachers are reduced to struggle for exist
ence, and if anything is learned it is at a great
expense of vital force. improvements In
school buildings are going on slowly, and it is
possible that in ten or twenty years teachers
and scholars can enter school"house without
danger of slow poison with carbonic acid ard
gas
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29
The Sturp Teller.
PUTTING HIMSELF IN HER PLACE.
AN ENGLISH STORY.

Mrs. Gray stood looking out of her window
while her husband put on his hat and gloves
preparatory to going into town. They had
risen from nicely spread table, and the room
was neatly and tastefully furnished. There
was no Indication of poverty there, yet Mrs.
Gray's voice and manner we're falterlng as she
asked for some postage stamps.
"How msny?" asked her husband, curtly.
"Three will do. 1 thought I would write
to mother aud the girls"
"Did you ever reckon up, my dear now
much You spend for postage stamps In the
course of the year?' asked Mr.. Gray, as he
lit his fragrant cigar. "Well, let US see.
You write at least five letters week, which
is 6vepence, and fifty-two times Eve are twen-
ty.one shillings and eightpence year. to say
nothing of paper and envelopes. maven L a
correspondent in the world, outside OF my
business"
"Your friends" said his wife, olive near
you, while mine are in another county. Do
you wish me to give up writing to them +
And her face took on an extra tlnge OF
color. -.
"By no means. only mentioned the cost
of the thing. But must 60. Goodbye,
"Albert," said she, timidly, but earnestly.
Mr.. Gray turned back.
,"Can you leave me sovereign? want
to 60 town today"
"A sovereign p exclaimed Mr.. Gray, in as
tonishment. "What on earth do you want
with sovereign ?"
II knew you would wonder, but l have
needed some money for long time, to get
some necessary articles"
II gave you ten shillings last week."
81 know it and I used it for materials to
work up for our church fair"
"Church fddlesticks." said Mr.. Gray, con-
temptuously. "Well, l can't see what you
need sovereign for"
"Here is list of what need" said Mrs.
Gray, handing little slip of paper to her
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

TIE DANGER OF BEAUTY.-Just as the
possession of money is likely to be a severe
test of character, and one which may prove
a hindrance rather than a help to the spirit
ual life, 80 there is like danger in the rich
endowments of personal beauty, or grace of
presence and speech. To personal beauty,
considered merely from an artistic standpoint
there may be sdded, Of course, those signs ''f
true nobility of character, and of winsonle
and lovely disposition, which make the face
beautiful in the true sense. But as the hav-
ing of money exposes the possessor to many
temptations unknown to the poor, so the
possession of physical beauty carries with it
dangers in the line of pride, and love of ap-
probation, and sel6shness, and devotion to
worldly pleasures and avocations, which can
only be overcome by the exercise Of far
greater vigilance than is demanded of
"plain" person. Rich natural endowments
in other lines similarly carry with them in.
creased perils and multiplied temptations. If
you know that you are handsomer than most
people, then do not forget that you are beset
with difficulties and temptations which do
not beset most people. To receive all per
sonal gifts as coming from their true source,
and to remember that with each special pos
session goes special responsibility and
special set of dangers, is the duty of every
one, and it is duty whose .non.performance
is soon followed by the discovery that tine
misuse of blessings can be made quickly to
transmute them into curses.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

BABY Is DEAD.-"Baby Is dead! lhree
little words passing along the line; copied
somewhere, and soon forgotten. Fl. s,--s,
But after all was quiet again leaned my
head upon my hand and fell into sad rev.
erie of all that those words might mean.
Somewhete-a dainty form, still and cold,
unclasped by mothers arms to night Eyes
that yesterday were bright and blue as skies
of June, dropped tonight beneath white lids
that no voice can ever raise again.
Two soft hands, whose rose.leaf fingers
were wont to wander lovingly over mothers
neck and face, loosely holding white buds,
quietly folded in cofined rest.
Soft lips, yesterday ripping with laughter,
sweet as woodland brooks fall, gay as trlll
of forest. bird, tonight unsponsive to kiss or
call. .
A silent home-the patter of baby feet
forever hushed-a cradle bed Impressed.
Little shoes half worn-dainty garments
shoulder-knots of blue, to match those eyes
of yesterday, folded away with an aching
heart.
A tiny mound, snow.covered in some quiet
graveyard.
A mothers cropping touch, in uneasy slum-
ber for the fair head that shall never again
nestle in her bosom. The low sob, the bitter
tear, as broken dreams awake to sad reality.
The hopes of future years wrecked, like fair
ships that suddenly 60 down in sight Of
land. ...
The watching of other babies laughing,
dimpled, strong, and this one gone The
present agony of grief, the future emptiness of
heart, all held in those three little words,
"Baby is dead"
Indeed, it is well that we can carelessly
copy and soon forget the many words so
freighted with woe to those who receive and
send them. And yet it cannot harm US now
and then to give q tender thought to those
for whom our carlesss pen-stroke is preparing
such 9 weight Of grief.
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appears; and if the wind is westerly, there
is little dew or cloud to be seen. The con-
trary is observed with easterly wind, but a
west wind blows over a vast expanse of land,
and having lost its vapor, dries up any mois'
ture it may come across: while an east wind,
crossing the Atlantic, is full of vapor and
sheds dew on all sides. These remarks, OF
course, apply chiefly to particular localities,
but the influence of west wind may be seen
in the spring. Dew is more copiously de-
posted in the spring and autumn than in
summer, as there is usually great difference
in those seasons between the temperature of
day and night; in the spring, however, there
is small deposit of dew when west wind
prevails; but in autumn, during the soft in.
fuences of south and east winds, the earth is
covered with moisture. 1t has also been OBJ.
served that there is a greater formation OF
dew between sunset and midnight. .,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-12-17

Notices In these columns, ten cents per line,
each insertion. Marked'
The divorce case Of Mr.. Zanone will
be called in the circuit court to-day.
Mr.. John Beecher now has charge of
the liquor department Of Smith Bros store.
--Mecrschaum pipes and cigar-holders,
large stock at +. Korsmeyers. y
Mrs. Gailney, formerly Of this city, but
now of Kansas City, is in the city on a
visit.
Mr.. A. G. LOCKER, of Cape Girardeau,
was in the city yesterday, a guest at the
Planters.
The Casino society proposes to give a
masquerade ball at Washington hall some
time during next month
Elder Petit, of the Baptist church,
preached at the Reform hall yesterday
evening TO fair audience.
--Meerschaum pipes and cigar-holdcrs, q
large stock at f. Korsmeyer's.
The colored proprietor Of the gambling
house, on Commercial, between Eleventh
and Twelfth streets, has taken up his bed
and walked.
The latest attraction at the home of
Mr. George Shook is lovely girl baby,
weighing eleven, pounds, which arrived
yesterday morning
Two engines, numbers 81 and 1903,
collided at the head of the Illinois Central
incline yesterday morning, but not much
damage was done.
The Cairo and Vincennes railroad has
lately improved the lower portion OF Com
mcrcial avenue by paving some portions of
the street with rocks
"A man named Vim, Conncll died in
the hospital in this city yesterday, after
an illness Of few weeks. lie came here IN
1878 and was for some time in the employ
Of Mr.. James Cheney, 0s driver Of The de-
livery wagon.