Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-22

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BILE persons who abstain from this insane COM
petition on principle. Two questions absorb
our women. The first is, What did she wear
The second is, What did it cost 1t is not so
much matter of good taste and of true and
aesthetic effect, but badly and coarsely ques
tion of cost. Diamonds are priced not so much
for their beauty as for the money they repre-
sent. If the husband and father should show
signs of worry because the outgo exceeds the
income, it cannot be helped-one must keep up
with the neghbors Put on the steam it isa
fast age, and it will not do to fall into the
rear. Drive on. The crash may come, but
let US have good time first. We must keep
up with the times. Broken fortunes, debt,
bankruptcies are not the only and the worst
fruits of this folly. There is something worse
than squandering money. A noble woman is
of more value than colossal fortune. This
rage for costly dress takes the heads and hearts,
the time and the talent Of vast number of
our women who were born for better things.
They are ruled and absorbed by the jeweller
and the millner. They give their days and
nights to dress. They become mere bulletin
boards of fashion, and their high and noble
calling Is forgotten.
AN INVITING ENTRANcE.-Stranger are
outward appearance Of and particularly by the
entrance to the home. No matter how dearly
friends may love, or what allowances they may
make for your household cares and anxieties,
excusing you in their minds for any short
comings OF neatness or order, with strangers
it is different They, having only the out
side to Judge from, are not always slow in
forming an opinion as to the status OF the in
mate Of the house from the outside look of it.
When the pavement is well swept, the front
steps neat, the door invitingly open, else prop
erly closed, the windows clean, neat and Or
derly the brasses, if brasses there are, well
frightened, then the idea of home comfort at
once takes possession of the mind and the i'm
preston of that house being really a home will
remain 80 long as it is remembered. While,
entrance gives feeling Of discomfort, which
even the most delightful interior fails to dis
pei. The thought of the dirt will continually
serve to crowd out pleasanter associations
To keep the entrance neat, daily care is neces-
sary, and the early morning is the better time
to sweep, scrub and scour. Brasses and door
knobs and plates ought to be frightened at
least weekly, while windows need frequent
washing and polishing. They cannot be kept
too bright Plants in the basement window,
or on the ledge of the upper ones, add greatly
to the homelike appearance of city home:
In the country the entire front yard is TAX
en- in by the eye resting on the entrance to the
house, and the work Of the gardener supple
ments that of the housekeeper, and either de-
tracts from or adds to it, as the case may be.
THREAD AND NEEDLE TREE--The luxu-
nv of a thread and needle tree Who can es-
innate the comfort of such helpfulness at ones
f1,a n0trrlf nf Toofrn or
maiden dwelling under such overshadowing
Odd as it may seem to us, there is upon
Mexican plains just such forest growth.
Imagine ''sewing-bee" gathered under such
fair foliage! No need of spools forever rolling
hither and thither; no call for dainty reels
compactly wound with snowy thread If
there is seam ready for busy fingers or an ap-
pealing rent, just step outside the door OF the
much favored Mexican hOuse-mOther, lay your
hand upon a slender thorn needle pushing
itself persuasively from the tip of dark
green leaf, draw it carefully from its delicate
sheath, slowly unwinding with your hand the
thread strong well-rounded fiber, already
attached to the needle, and oh SO tenderly
folded by Mother Nature as to hold within
itself possibilities of a long stretch OF the
cord.
Travellers are enthusiastic over the resources
of the maguey tree and of it's beauty no less,
telling us of "clustering pyramids of flowers
towering above dark coronals of leaves"
The roots well prepared are most savory
dish ; with it's leaves may be make ''thatch-
ing fit for queen" and no prettier sight can
be met than the cottages of Mexican peasants
so exquisitely crowned. The rich leaves also
afford material for paper, and from the juices
is distilled a favorite beverage From its
heavier tibers the natives manufacture strong
cords and coarse strong cloth. No wonder the
maguey tree of tropical climes has attained
worldwide fame !-Harper's Bozar.
WHERE THERE ARE NO SUNsETs.-The
following is Congressman Cox's description of
scene at the North Cape Here in the up
permost point in Europe and at the midsum-
mer season there is no sunset Bring burial
weeds and sable plume, for there is no sunset
Lift the funeral songs of woe and tell through
the land that sunset is no more, and yeti live!
And must now be disenchanted Do live,
and is sunset no more Do l see country
where the sun is going down, amid a scene
equal, if not superior, to that Ohio even
ing years ago, which l tried to portray with
my poor pen, and yet it does not 60 down
Was it not enough that for ten long days there
was no night for US, and that the sun by glid-
ing and glowing in the north without any res
pte had disturbed our customary experiencesp
The reaction might be too sudden. The fail
ure of an old orb, to set might-well, there is
no telling the cataleptic and other dire conse-
quences But there was the patent fact here
were clouds and lights ; all the hues OF the
prism in splendid display and yet no sunset
after all The unsetting and unsetable sun
Midnight, and yet all aglow No gas, no can
dies, no stars, no moon-only the fiery orb and
it's travelling clouds of glory.
"But is not the sun all sufficient without
other fires If he stays up and sets not what
more can the human heart desire What won
der that the oriental mind clothed the sun
with the majesty of divinity, and that the
Magi saluted his coming with worship, as the
source of life What wonder that his beams
evoked music from Memnon Is he not the
creator of health, and the great benefactor ?
And we have found land where he will not
rest ~
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. well-meaning
busy-body, who cannot state the simple truth,
but must exaggerate everything he repeats, is
capable of doing great deal of mischief.
This carelessness is a sin of no small magnl-
tude. A mans duty to God and his fellows
requires him to be careful for what else were
brains and common sense given him or
course that other class, the malignant scandal
mongers who take fiendish pleasure in pro-
noting strife, who deliberately garble mems
words and twist their sentiments, is in the
minority, and people have a very decided opin,-
ion regarding them. Most men misrepresent
because they don't seem to think that care in
speaking the truth is il preenlinent duty: The
effect of this careless mSrepresenting Of
others is seen everywhere. Its effect on the
individual is to confirm him in a habit OF
loose, distorted and exaggerated statement,
until telling the truth becomes moral impos-
sibility. No other thing causes so many long