Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-05

THE CIRCUs.-All healthy boys intend to
be clowns when they grow up. Wishing to
be clown is phase through which must
not a young lady in disguise. In Great
Britain the clown whom the boy desires to
be like is the clown in the pantomime, the
parti-colored person who practices certain
merry tests in Acknowledging the slide,
for instance, and playing with the red hot
poker. In the United States the clown to
whom the boy looks up with amazement
and delight is the clown in the circus; for
as America is land given oyer to demo-
Gratis and republicans and other irreverent
persons, the due and proper observanceS OF
the sacred feast of the Christmas panto-
mines has been allowed to die out. For
this negligence the Americans have receiv-
ed signal and awful punishment-surely
there is no need for us to dwell on the pain
full picture or to point out the manifest and
immense inferiority of the circus clown to
| the true pantomime clown. Thus it hap
pens that the American boy has but stunt
! ed ideal of the best. Yet the circus clown,
in himself, and separated from any crush
ing comparison with the pantomime clown,
is a most interesting character, and the cir
Gus itself is fertile field for study to the OBJ
server of human nature. The circus, as we
find it in walled towns like Paris and
Prague, is picturesque enough; but it is not
as romantic by half as the wandering cir
Gus which leads life of adventurous
yagabondage along the kings highway.
| The Cirque d'Ete on fashionable Sunday
night in the height of the Partisan season,
and the Hippodrome on Sunday afternoon
when it's rising benches are filled, tier on
tier, with happy children, are spots upon
which the philosopher reflects with amuse-
ment; but they are not as joyful or as COM
fortng as the little ring beneath the smoky
canvas Of the equestrian strollers, who are
wont to fold their tents, like the Arabs,
land steal silently away."-London Sdt'Hr-
doy RerieU
OPTIONAL CIvILITIEs.-Optional civili-
ties, such as saying to ones inferior, ''Do
not stand without your hat" to ones equal,
"Do not rise, | beg of YOU" 'Do not come
out in the rain to put me in my carriage"
naturally occur to the kind-hearted, but
they may be cultivated. 1t used to be emu
merated amongst the uses of foreign travel
that man went away q bear and came
home a gentleman. 1t is not natural to the
Anglo-SaX race to be overpolite. They
have no petit soins. A husband in France
moves out of an easy chair for his wife, and
sets foot-stool for every lady. He hands
her the morning paper, he bringsa shawl If
there is danger Off draught, kisses her hand
when he comes in, and tries to make him
self agreeable to her in the matter of these
little optional civilities. 1t has the most
charming effect upon all domestic life, and
we find a curious allusion to the politeness
observed by French sons toward their moth
ers and fathers in one of MOliere's comedies
where a prodigal son observes to his father,
who had come to denounce him, "Pray, sir,
take a chair" says Prodigal, "you could
scold me so much more at your ease If you
were seated.-Haper's Bdzdr.
WASTES AND SAvINGS.-Peope, as rule,
are in these days very eNtravagant in the
use Of stationery and very Wastefu. 1t is
wicked, wasteful thing to throw into the
waste basket good half sheets, that might
be torn off and used for many purposes. A
very busy woman, whose time is, every mo-
ment of it, valuable, never throws away
scrap of paper that can be saved. All let
ters, as soon as answered, are torn up and
thrown into the basket by her desk-all
envelopes, cards, circulars, everything. If
there is a scrap of unused paper, it is torn
off and placed on Il certain shelf in her desk.
In that house there is always material at
hand for lighting fires and always a scrap
of paper to write excuses on for the chill
dren, or messages that can't be remembered,
or the daily order for the market. If any
one will try this plan for a month and mark
the saving, no one will need to be urged to
keep it up. Never burn papers to get rid
of them; only burn them when it is neces
sary to destroy them and when needed to
light a fire.