Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BY MARJORIE HOWE DiXON It" you and I wire suddenly transplanted back to the days of Louis XVI tnd found ourselves dressed to ' i court ball in Versailles we \vi ihl :crtainly be impressed with the stores if candles lighting' the biillia it hall. The candelabra hanging from the nlng and the scones at the walls woukl be elaborately fluted in scrolls and Ih-iecked with glass prisms, reflecting igh* in countless lays. I Candles had been the main source Of artificial light for centuries, not only for social gath rrings but in the secluded home cf the pe; ant. Indeed the quaint old saying: "Early to bed and early to rise Makes you healthy, w< lthy am' v:i may not have been originated for ; ay particular moral purpose but to save the expense of candle light. Candles Recently Disused. Candles have always been us. more or less but about a hundred yc rs ago when little oil lamps with a glass chimney were invented, candles with their dripping and smoking wme V carded for what seemed a het'.m- lighting device. I.ater on, kerosene la. i were perfected, then the gas jet and electric bulbs entirely supplanted the tapering stick. Today with out efficient lighting, is It not interesting 1hnt \vc lmvi i t discovered candies and their use? Xow the beautiful housekeeper supplies herself with candles and cardlrsticks. For their decorative be: uty she stands a pair over the mantle, another on the luuif/l nH sfiH another on the consul table while sometimes she has a little row of bedroom candles'.icks at the head of the stairway. The housewife of today permits romance and a spirit of stood cheer to enter, when she turns off the electric glare and lights her candles. She has found there is no substitute for the soft shielding glow, they give. ' There Is nothing more flattering to her din-' ner guests than to light the table v i'h a beautiful glass candelabra as a centerpiece. Beauty and Romance in Candies Modern fixtures may have efficiency nnd convenience written all over them, but beauty, romance, conviviality, de /V v- tj| ; w |b# jK % A/4a / shaded gas j?. t or electric I>ull>. ('audits bring a sense of quiet and rest- i fulness which is so desirable in tfccoc | 1 days of rush and hurry. '1 he old disadvantages of the candle I 1 have been greatly eliminated under. ' modern manufacture. Candles today ' are so composed of the various quali- ; f ties of wax that many varieties will c stand quite gracefully during the cum- c r.ior heat, will not smoke with a disugreeable odor nor drip. They are col- ' -* u""a nr.l mfldo ! orcrt in many pieasiug nun uuu .....v.^ . in quaint rind interesting patterns such as the conical, the .square colonial, the ; c twisted and Anted and those that are , t modeled with flowers in relief. * i h A lavender pair or perhaps a rich < blue or an orange may he just the ^ neccs iary r.otc to heighten the beauty ^ of a room. An uninteresting tahlo j may he enlivened by a pair carefully | chosen for their striking color. Suggestions for Use. 3 At evening when the family are a gathered ahout the fireplace what is I more enjoyable than a pair of tall'S ivory candles in old brass candlesticks.? fi Does not a goo I time, a jolly evening. g a happy memorable occasion result?.! What can be mnro of a welcome | than to come down the street at!] Chris tmaslido with soft snow flying i . 'bout and see the candle lights of J heme reach out .across the wall; and i erect you from the window? What ] is more heart warming when you en- fl ter the hall from the bitter cold with- j out than to find a candle lighted and I reflecting its glory to you from the ( mirror?' - 1 Is it not high time we .should re- ( discover the candle? Yes it is. It is I even quite hard now to realize how | this soft light was ever in disuse. It J lias been wisely said, "Candle-light < knows no favorites. Whatever it j touches it beautifies." i ? It is said that Governor Cox. of j J Oljio, went uUh the gurdejju. ?>f the i Tuillefdes in Paris in-the cooi of the ] evening with an interpreter, sounding i the man-in-the-strect for his views on the League of Nations. i ? Pifty years ago platinum was!1 worth but halt* the present price of i i silver. IS HSI Y\'o arc loaders in Stylo for mo Y.-vsurcs you of Values as wel YOUNG- MEN'S SU In Two and Three Button SIZES 32 to 42 Young Men's Spoil M< SIZES 33 to 42 Regular Consorvati\ SIZES 33 to 44 For the Tall Man SIZE 36 to 42 Shorl Stouts Foi- Short Heavy M CJTTOQ AO 4ft -L Li uv EAST SCHAFFNER & MAI OTHEIt GOOD MAKES These are tho dollies tha Collie and See Cs. Parker C 4'The EAST MAIN STREET flBg a PPlWHi illMKS't <-'*? ? fi 8?MH H 'Ml jftv \ TR. > jfllflB f t 18^5 M i ^WPiilSp g Story,- : \aMdMs jc ? An experiment in international el- ! ^ ication was begun three years ago i " then Dr. Rosaile Slaughter Morton.;1 if New York, brought over from Scr- i1 ?ia, fort.V girls . ml boys to be cntfercd ! nto the schools and college- of. j he United States. Today part of the j xperiment is finished for four stud- i ^ r.ts are returning to holp^their homennd after three years of study in ; 5 1 his coin try. , c ? Of so little account arc women j c ensidered in many par's of China j j hat a father if asked the number of j t lis children, will probably leave the (r rirls out of his reckoning. c ftAAftAftiraftAMAAAAAft AfWt&APWW | Old Saint Does Not Leave Any Gr Christmas Gifts At Our BUT AN S At'n / b f I *4- f\ 1 ttY .Ml j ??r\\uili win v uniwiiiuin ?n ! soo us dining' tho Holiday | have some articles they nee j AND WE WA ! That we are appreciative to ! iness given us during the p* | Christmas for all of our fri | and that the Xew Year sin I prosperous. ! J. F. c /v i -k/r 7 1 u-enerai iviero'riaiiuise an I South Congress St. . I Regardless of Sh YOUR ! IE READY TO PUT 01 n as well as Quality in all M 1. ITS YOUNG ] Models SIZE! Seini-Consi ,del SIZE! I? em ,*o SiZE Lull; - For Tali SIZE Regu ci i For SIZE EtX, FASHION PARK, ANI $32.50 T 0 $47.50 \ Look Good, WYar Long ai SHOP EARLY Nothing Co Men's Store of Rock Hi BOLL WEEVIL FACTS j\ ["hings About the Pest That Everybody Should Know. )cnr Hoys and Girls:? t or course, all of you know about the < otlon boll weevil, but I wonder if you , 1 1! know how it lives and works. t The weevil does not like any k>r.d or > cod except cotton. Therefore, after j he rotten is killed by frost, the wee- < ;ils mvi no loon, nm iue;ti>- ?,? . nade l\v nature that they can cto for a ? T- time without m.c.I f'o what docs ' t Jr. Weevil do? Ho flics or crawls i:n- \ il lie fl!id< n cr-ini ?!tt r in tlu- woods, ) * loiiR fcnec io\yk? ditches, around build- ^ n?f, in haystacks or under trash. In * nc of tlie^e places, ho makes a bed and jj lcepn all winter. jjf With the cnniiner of spring:. the woe- j ; il wdkes up. A few industrious ones ) Mine out about the tfrhe the cotton i! omes up, Cithers are Jazv and don't j! cave ilu i - beds until as late a* June, j! Catuvally after sleeping: nil winter, j j hey are kurtjfry. At first they feed on ; : he tender leaves of the cotton plant. > ,Vhon the squares oc bolls form, Is. j then the weevil does its damage. The j emnlc weevil makes a hole with her j j ong: bill in the cotton square or boll, j Cext she lays an e.erp in the hole and jj icals it over with a waxy substance, j; riie average f'male weevil will lay i j iver 100 rjjps before she dies. jj Now in about three to six days the j j cir hatches into a grrub or larva, which i j s white* in color. Then the .'jrub berins to eat the square or boll. Hhis nnkes the square turn yellow and drop iff the stalk, or hurts the boll .to it ?r? I I ' ' ' Nicholas eat Amount of Special ! Store at Christm&s^ : < 1 | i ! . Y W A Y ; I (1 Friends to come in and j ! s, knowing that we will ! ! id and want at that time. < ; NT TO SAY all for the generous bus- ! ist year and we trust that ! ends shall lie very merry J ill prove very happy and ] | Carroll} I * ) f ^ { . ] d Plantation Supplies YORK, S. C. ? _' ] s I i _ ii i| KCl^ mar / I ! * :e or Build jj suit" i i -r 1 6 * !? roaring Apparel, which |j s MEN'S STUBS S 34 to 40 i) | * ?rvativc Models \\ 3 34 to 44 ;] liar Stub S 35 to 40 [> Stouts I Heavy Men I S 44 to 48 lar Stouts ' Stout Men i S 38 to 50 ) MICHAEL STERNS - S20.00 TO $3U.'JU | id give (Joo'.l Service1. ! mpany ill" ROCK HILL, S. C. ' 2 4 w, . _ vuA't open properly. Thi- grub ea{s >n the square and hr.ll from one to two veeks and then becomes what is called i pupa. The pupa stage lasts from our to eight days. During this time he weevil does not oat, but nature is ausing a great change to take place, jfgs, beak, wings and other parts of he body are forming and soon a ftillrrown weevil crawls out of the boll. Thus, we see lhat nature hat a wonlerfutly interesting way o? making the vocvil grow and develop. The weevil vmg&MtemssMM I '* I I A Ch ^ j ** THK ROOM DID DOOR s< The ^RCOLA was working beat cd Table and Floor Lamps mn< note among the "what-wouldmonotonous coloring of mahogi wood work, while the tasteful C brightly, doing more than its shi the living room livable. A dea sat under one of these Lamps "Dear, dear me," she inurmi most Christmas and us not any Of course, wo have plenty of toj They are not so hard to pleas folks! How in the world can \ fied? I don't know what they v Just at this time a loud wh the stillness and Mrs. Santa C alarm for, of course, it must machine, and since he hadn't ex for several days, something sure Every year at this period he 1 gifts for the grown people and I at least a week. She jerked open the door i My, but the air did feel cold! I have long to wait before Mr. running up the steps and gave h thereby releasing the door so th a "bang." "What is the matter with good woman asked when sh breath, "Coming homo this time "Nothing bad, at least," repl band, "or I wouldn't be in sue Come, sit down and I will tell jw. news." yA Mrs. Claus wouldn't even wa jj& move his great big red coat, so h SiJ soon as they were comfortably ro "I went around, as I always yJ ing to find what my people wan K* thorn Christmas. I peeped in o: ! W. W s I r\L v_ fv/n te OLD MAN SAN1 liorc and we bolie ? for your Christm; & FRUITS, FI $ DIES, CRAC $ CLES THAI | AND WE'D HAVE That we npprccia A have been in Yorl L tu re to give such i jjg- to continue that $ WE WISH TO ALL 0 R A MERRY CHR w. i HEAVY AND FANCY i. is Telephone No. 46 9 ^ -i^ gS 4 ^hr./. f ittr :flanes--1n its life: ?l) the egg,! | CJ) the grub or larva, t.lj the puj-a, and i j (4) the full-grown weevil. It takes ' s from two to /our weeks for a weevil to i 1: become; full grown. Therefore, during L one summer several families of weevils l are raiaiti. Children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc., ail coming along before frost. i c Another thing I want you to remcm- 1 her is that the full-grown weevil stage ; 1 is the only time during which the in- | i ' sect can move freni boll to boll or r *rv?k v^fa. ^ iristmas !&?&??3E??K "1 ?&' US&KLHi ZlflZ&U AK r> warm anil cosy. other, but could o jtifully. The color- am completely wo lie a pay, cheerful or tfot through tfc have-been" rather show up this mor any lurnnmc mm .uy; mm j uh-m 'handelier sparkled Imd rather do it t are toward making: washwoman's insi r old chubby lady 'I simply cannot i busily knitting. got to do somethi ired, "here it is al- "You must k where near ready. nothing that woul ,-s for the children. to select, le. But theso big "Then I happ vc get them satis- could get some ? rant: ' men; but again it irring sound broke ' , ... " 'This darn c Iaus jumped up in , , , .. never is any hot be her husband s pected to get back ^ ',a^ waa ' ly must be wrong! ' V chance ovcrhw ivent out selecting Land and his wife it always took him " 'Sam. had j looked ind stood waiting. " I sure did, lowever, she didn't them?' Cnnta flails PJI rtlft " 'ThPV SCtlt dC era great big hug, CLEANER from ] at it went to with work, all rigi Christmas. I am you, Santa?" the an(j getting me e hart gotten her AXCES., Why w of the week?" WASHING MACI led the jovial hus- work wouldn't he h a happy mood. enough to pay for you some good ..Rlght then, it for Santa to re- 1 1 was t'1( le told his story as ( ,i dov;ri tJ tho ^ seated: ordcr for EVEI do," he said, "try- could think of. tod me to bring to So tl\at is th ie home after an- happiest Xmas ev Everything Electrical t I m di >1?? ? i??i i mjiii <I|I TA CLAUS will leave a lot of S ve that we can save you moric as IUIT CAKE INGREDIENTS JKERS AND THE MANY 0' WE CARRY. YOU KNOW to the liberal patronage we h v and we are going to do every ?rompt Service and such Yah patronage. UK JJ'KJLJUJNUS 1ST MAS AND A HAPPY X F. Jack: ' GROCERIES AND PLAE YORK, SOUTH CAROLE Mackore ilant lo plant. The <igg, ktuI> nr?d lutial stages are spent with In the iquuio or boll in which tjic egg v/its aid. AH four stages of the'weevil may >e found on one cotton . plant.?Tl"?e Progressive Farmer. ' gV ' ? ?. 1 -* ? In Denmark it Is the custom for ir.gaged girls to wear a plain gold ing on the third finger of the left land, and when they m;uVy. the ring c moved to the tlVjrd iinrfcri'. of tno Ight hand. V V, I . _ I ? aly hear something ilke this: 'I ~M rn out. It looks as though I nev- J& te work,' or 'That cook didn't Sb ning. What shall I ever do?' or Wf 1 that washing tomorrow, but I han to have to put up with that J* jets,' or more frequently of all, ' nl afford another servant; but I've now how trying It was to hear d even give me a hint pj to what kP icned to think that perhaps I yg itisfactory information from the KT. was grumblings such as these: 2 u n? 'TborA vCv ar ww;i i tiaiin n&cwu.. vi ? water when I want to Shave.' jM going to do, I wondered, when I W i:* a convention between a hus- ,'n <, something like this: rou noticed how clean the rugs jX Jane, What you been doing to tZ iwn an ELECTRIC VACUUM ' .jg BARRON'S for me to try. It did nf. I want you to give me one V. thinking about letting Sally go some ELECTRICAL APPLI- V i*h a SWEEPER, a RANGE, a yA IINE and a few other things my anything and I would soon save ? ' them.' 1ft Mrs. Claus, I knew that ELEC- Slf i thing, of course! So I march- Jjj LECTRIC SHOP and put in an OT U'THING ELECTRICAL they o reason tnis is going to uc i-k; er* 2* RONf Jj.-m VA;0 ,&<* vtfSjf v^-'rffj* tffXr vtf: i ;, **&. *??. v ?i& *?$? *H& v* 9 9 B Ipecial Christmas things Kk y by your coming to us ? !, NUTS, CAN- .g THER ARTI- ffi are received since we !E thing we can in the fu- || ucs that you arc going -jg ita&zu&XKft&iXiiSiMXiX ?| EW YEAR. j| H soil I fTATION SUPPLIES J| il-Ferguson's Old Stand