Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-30


COMBINATION IN COLORs.-To dress we'll
nowadays, it is essential to thoroughly un-
derstand the combination of colors. There
are many new ones this season for exam
pie, mouse and brown. The brown is just
the tint of brown paper. Red and brown
blend we'll. There is great deal to study
with regard to color. Fabric exercises a
most powerful influence on certain shades.
Brown paper is hardly thing of beauty,
but the same shade in velvet or plush is
really beautiful. Agood blue in velvet may
be hideOus in cotton or Woolen stuff No
material displays beauty of color better than
plush. 1t reflects the light, as it were, and
you see the color in thousand tones. 1t is
being much used for tea gowns, plainly
made, just en- Princesse, with robing in
front. 1 will more minutely describe one.
1t was made a brilliant mouse tint of
plush. The back was cut en- Princesse and
bordered with black fur, carried up either
side of the front. This was of white satin,
veiled in lace, with looped bows of white
ribbon. The lace used is generally machine
made Mechlin or Valenciennes. The worst
ed lace is to be recommended to those who
desire durability without much outlay. 1t
can be had in almost any color. WoOlen
velvet is new material to which would
call your attention. 1t is good looking and
good wearing so also is the silk velvet
made on the principle of corduroy, which
has found special favor with the best dress
makers.
HAVE A HoME-There are multitude
every year who are commencing home life.
With hands and hearts linked together,
they enter upon their new stage of existence.
TO such the voice Of experience says, have
home. Do not hang about hotels and
boarding-houses; keep house, if there is
only one room in it, provided there is wit
enough in the firm to do it. 1t is wretched
policy to live a nomadic, boarding house
life, in trunks and band-boxes, in the midst
of idleness and filtration, and finally, after
years Of wretchedness, have divorce suit,
pack two trunks, and then 60 different
ways to the ends of the earth.
Let there be home where household
treasures can be gathered, household pleas
of life preserved and where God can give
prosperity and fruitfulness, and peace and
gladness.
Let the home be not goddess home; let
it be place of prayer, of worship, of praise:
Let there be church in the house, and
the Lord who loves "the tents of Jacob"
will deign to bless the abodes of his people,
and crown them with his grace, his mercy,
and his peace.
From such homes 60 forth men strong to
| fight the battles of life, women wise and
gentle for all gracious ministries, and chill
dren that are like cOrner-stones, polished
after the similitude of a palace.-The Com
mon People.
DON'T USE Big WORDs.-In promulgat-
| ing your escoterie cognitions, or articulating
your superficial sentimentalities and amica-
BILE, philosophical or psychological observa-
tions beware of platitudinous ponderosity
Let all conversational communications pos
sess clarified conciseness, compacted COM
prehensibleness coalescent consistency, and
a concatenated cogency. EscheW congiom-
erations of flatulent garrulity, jejune. bab-
Element and asinine affections. Let your
extemperaneous descantings unpremeditat-
ed expatiations have intelligibility and We
raciOlls vivacity, without rhodomontade or
thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all
polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity,
psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity,
and vaniloquent vapidity,, Shun double en-
tendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous
profanity, obscurant or apparent. In other
words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally,
sensibly, truthfully, purely. Keep from
"slang;" don't put on airs; say what you
mean; mean what you say. And don't use
big words !-Jomnal Of Education.
aSgA Professor Sergeant, of Harvard col
| Iege, estimates thatat the present rate of cut
ting and consumption of timber the whole
| of the great forests of the United States
will be cleared in little more than quarter
of a century. No less than 100000, 900
cubic feet of white pine are required for
present needs per annum, and the total an
nual value of timber consumed for fuel,
constructive purposes, etc., is S2OO,OOO,0OO.
BaH When it was suggested to Bonaparte
that he attempt the conquest of the Chinese
he declined, saying "there are too many Of
them. Once teach them the art Of modern
warfare and they will overcome Europe and
crush out our civilization" Had the French
Republic kept this warning in view it
would not suffer the ignominy of invent
ing stories to cover up its frequent defeats
at the hands of the Celestials.
JOKING AT DEATH.-When Dumas was
on his death-bed and his end rapidly ap--
preaching, his faithful servant, who adored
his master, was sobbing audibly in corner
of the chamber. Turning toward the spot,
his eyes dimmed in the death struggle,
Dumas family uttered, Don't weep, my
friend if want anything up there, Ill
ring for YOU"
pa5~ The highest railroad viaduct in the
world is claimed to be that of Garabit Bridge
in France That remarkable structure is