Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-07-19

How TO Spend SUNDAY AFTERNOON
It may be safely said that person whose
brain is wearied with intellectual work du-
ring the week, or whose nervous system Is
exposed to the strain Of business or profess
sional life, ought to sleep within an hour or
two after his Sundays dinner, if he can
1t is surprising how much like seVen-day
clock the brain will work if the habit of a
''Sunday nap" be once formed. Nature
will take advantange of it as regul larly and
gratefully as she does the nightly sleep, and
do her best to make up lost time. People,
on the other hand, whose week of toll is
chiefly physical, may well give their mind
activity while their body is resting. Two
sermons and three or four hours Of solid
reading are a rest to some on Sunday Wllle
to others such course amounts to positive
Sabbath breaking. Sundays day 0frest-
not day Of work, religious or otherWlse-
it is day for repose, not for exhaustion;
But what the dOgmatists on one side ana
the illiberal liberals on the other are apt to
overlook is the fact that all men do not rest
alike any more than they labor alike, and
what will help to save one may aid IN Kill.
ing another. After the Sunday dinner,
then, one should seek rest, innocent recre-
alton, helpful happiness, sleep or read. or
go and help instruct or interest a mission
school, or visit the sick and suffering, ac-
cording to your needs and your gifts. We
Americans haven't yet fully learned the
art of domestic enjoyment, any more than
the law Of service to others. More men
ought to relieve their wives of the sole care
of young children on Sunday them
out to walk or ride, and inviting the moth
er to go as company, or leaving her at home
to enjoy unmolested a much-needed season
of quiet. In suitable weather a portion OF
the day may be proitably spent out of
doors. There is nothing in the example or
teachings of Christ-nothing in the nature
of His religion, Gods requirements or mans
needs-which declares that the Sabbath can
only be kept holy indoors. 1t is to be hon
ored, but its highest observance IS MINIS
tration to mans highest needs. We hope
and believe that the day will never come
when Sunday will be secularized or turned
into gay holiday in America as 1t is IN
Europe; but the progress made toward the
rational Christian enjoyment OF the day
within the last fifty years shows that the
superiority Of man to the institution, as
proclaimed by the Saviour, is coming to be
apprehended. .-AGa'y Erpres$.
MATCHES AND THE REVENUE.-Within
the past few days more than $4,000 gross of
matches of all sizes and shapes have been
sold in New York by the agents of the fac
tories. The cause Of the large sales is that
the manufacturers are no longer obliged to
pay a tax on their goods. Last Monday the
price of the ordinary "lucifer'' matches fell
from S1.5O gross to fifty cents, but as the
demand for them was so great the manufac-
turers raised the price to seventy-fivee cents,
and even then found that they were in dan
ger of running short Of the demand. The
grade known as 'parlor" matches sell from
seventy-five cents to 80 a gross. All kinds
have deprecated 200 per cent. in price, and
there is no probability that the wholesale
prices for them will rise. The retail prices
are as low in proportion as the wholesale.
Matches for which fifteen and twenty cents
a box were demanded few days ago can
now he obtained for five cents.