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If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1015, June 10, 1899 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: October 19, 2019 [EBook #60519] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER *** - - - - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER - -VOL. XX.—NO. 1015.] JUNE 10, 1899. [PRICE ONE PENNY.] - - - - -SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE. - -A STORY FOR GIRLS. - -BY EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN, Author of “Greyfriars,” “Half-a-dozen -Sisters,” etc. - -[Illustration: “THE MAN GRINNED AND SHOOK HIS HEAD.”] - -_All rights reserved._] - - -CHAPTER X. - -AFTER-EFFECTS AND CYRIL. - -The whole place was in a tumult. The streets were thronged. Passionate -inquiries and greetings were passing from mouth to mouth. The chief -thing was to get the girls under cover as quickly as possible, out of -the hubbub all round the municipal buildings. The Bensons threw open -their house; the Cossarts did the same. Sheila soon found herself, -together with May Lawrence and Miss Adene, in her aunt’s drawing-room, -where Raby and Ray had preceded them, and they were received with the -warmest effusion by the company gathered there, for in the confusion -and alarm nobody was confidently reckoned to be safe till he or she had -been actually seen. - -North came in a few minutes later. - -“Effie has been taken straight home in our uncle’s carriage. We could -not get at you, Sheila, so Oscar is to take you back later on, when -the excitement is abated. Are the girls there? That’s all right. Yes, -mater, I am safe enough; but don’t keep me. There are frantic mothers -hunting up their children still. I believe no lives have been lost; but -I must go and do what I can to reassure them. We must find the waifs -and strays, and get them to their right owners!” - -He kissed his mother and swung himself off; and then a little more -quiet fell upon the room, whilst those who had been eye-witnesses of -the catastrophe were eagerly called upon to relate their experiences. - -Mrs. Cossart had not been at the hall that afternoon, being fatigued -by her exertions the two previous days; and her husband, having let -all the boys off, had had to keep to the office himself, and only came -hurrying home in alarm and consternation when the news reached him that -the Town Hall was on fire! - -Sheila, listening breathlessly whilst some ladies who had been in the -lower hall related their experiences, thought that they had escaped -the worst of the terror by being in the upper room. Several of the -children’s frocks had caught fire, and it seemed at one time as though -the whole place and the hapless people would be in a blaze; but there -were plenty of exits, and the police at the doors kept their heads, and -passed the children out with great rapidity; and the firemen were on -the scene almost at once. The flames got firm hold upon the temporary -structures of stalls and so forth, but the building itself never took -fire, being of solid stone. - -There had been fearful screams, and wild panic; but on the whole -the people had behaved exceedingly well, and though there was some -inevitable crushing, there had been no actual block, and it was -believed that no lives had been lost. - -“The only man I saw who behaved really badly,” said one lady, who had -evidently been instrumental in saving several children, and whose dress -was much burnt in consequence, “was one of the actors from upstairs, -who came flying down, and pushed and fought his way out without heeding -anything or anybody. He overturned several little children, and one of -them would have been trampled to death had not a policeman snatched it -up. I was really glad to see another man—a fireman, I believe—give the -young man a sound cuff on the side of his head that sent him reeling -out into the open. I won’t say that nobody else hustled or pushed—at -a time like that one cannot observe everything—but I saw no one else -disgrace his manhood in that way.” - -“Shameful,” said Mr. Tom sternly. “One of the actors, you say. One -ought to be able to find out who it was.” - -“He had on a white satin suit—that made him the more conspicuous. I -suppose he had completely lost his head. One must not be too hard on -people who do that; but one rather hates to see it.” - -At that moment the door opened and Cyril came airily in. His cheek was -very red, as though from some sort of injury, and his mother sprang -forward exclaiming— - -“Oh, my boy, did you get burned?” - -Cyril put up his hand and laughed. - -“Did I? I did not notice. One has not time to think of that sort of -thing at such a time. Besides, I was out of it sooner than many. I was -afraid the people in the council room, which was the theatre, would be -cut off from help. I made a dash for it to get the fire-escape brought -round to them at the windows. One could not tell at the outset how -fast the fire would spread. I was horribly afraid they would all be -suffocated up there, whilst the energies of the rescuers were directed -to the larger hall. I’m afraid I was rather unceremonious in my flight, -but, at any rate, I accomplished my purpose, and that’s the great -thing.” - -Sheila and May exchanged quick glances. Was that really Cyril’s motive -in making that wild bolt? Certainly it had not been the impression -produced upon those who had heard and seen him at the time. His father -looked at him steadily, and said— - -“I hope you were not the man in white satin, who overturned little -children and pushed aside women and girls in his determination to get -out. Whatever your motive, nothing could excuse conduct like that.” - -Cyril’s face flushed, but he answered airily— - -“In such confusion I think nobody can quite say what it is that -happens. I am quite willing to bear any odium my townspeople like to -put upon me, so long as I know that I was in time to accomplish my -errand, and send the escape to the windows where my sisters and cousins -were waiting.” - -Nobody spoke for a few minutes, and then Raby remarked slowly— - -“It was Lionel Benson who went for the escape and brought it.” - -“Yes; Lionel came up in time to escort it. I was hardly in the costume -for that part of the business. Well, he is quite welcome to the honour -and glory. So long as you are all safe, I care for nothing else.” - -A carriage presently drew up at the door, and one of May’s brothers -came in, saying that the streets were getting quiet, and she could -drive back safely now. Miss Adene and May were now the only guests left -in the Cossarts’ drawing-room, and they bade a very warm adieu to their -entertainers, drawn together by that common bond of sympathy which an -experience such as had just been passed through quickly establishes. - -“You must come and see us very soon,” said May to Sheila, “and tell us -how Effie is. I’m afraid she will feel the shock.” - -Sheila kissed her and Miss Adene affectionately, promised to ride over -as soon as she could, and soon afterwards started off on foot with -Oscar for Cossart Place, he having leave from his uncle to remain there -over the Sunday if he were invited. - -“For I don’t think any of you will be much good to-morrow,” said he, -with a hand on Oscar’s shoulder. “It has been a bit of a shock to us -all. Take a day off, and come back like a giant refreshed on Monday. -Let us have word of poor little Effie. I hope it won’t throw her into a -fever.” - -Brother and sister went off contentedly together, and they could not -but take a look into the open space round the Town Hall before starting -out into the country. - -The crowd was still large about it, but it was known now that no -serious harm had been done to the building, and that there had been -no loss of life, though a few persons had been injured, and many were -suffering from the effects of fright and burns. - -As they passed by the fire-station they saw the grimy face of the man -who had come with the escape, and he, recognising them, put up his hand -in salute, and said— - -“The young lady none the worse, sir?” - -“Not a bit,” answered Sheila, answering for herself; “you came and took -us away before there was any real danger. Who was it told you about us -up at the windows?” - -“Mr. Benson, miss—Mr. Lionel, I should say. We might not have known -about it but for him. We thought as everybody had come down and were -getting out by the doors.” - -“Was it not Mr. Cyril Cossart who first gave the alarm?” - -The man grinned and shook his head. - -“Bless you, miss, that young gentleman lost his head quite. They say -he fought his way out like a madman, and lots of people saw him flying -home in his white finery like a cat with a cinder on its back! No, -no, missie, it was Mr. Lionel as brought us news of the folks at the -windows. We musn’t be too hard on the people as loses their heads -at such a time; but we likes better to see them behaving themselves -rational like. It was fine the way the ladies in the hall behaved! They -thought nothing of themselves, but all was for getting the little ’uns -safely out. If they’d gone and lost their heads and made a rush, it -would have been a terrible nasty business, and some of ’em had bound to -be killed; but what with them behind and the police at the doors, it -all went off beautiful, one might say.” - -They talked a little more to the man and then went their way. - -Sheila’s face wore an indignant flush. She said in a low voice to Oscar— - -“I think I could have forgiven him the panic; he mightn’t be able -to help that. But to tell that mean lie afterwards! Oh, I can never -respect him again.” - -Oscar was silent a few minutes, and then said slowly— - -“I think, Sheila, that we had better try to forget it, and not to say -anything to anybody else about it. It hurts people’s feelings if their -next-of-kin are proved unworthy, and Cyril has been thought so much of -at home. Perhaps in the confusion nobody will think much more about -it. You know it is often the nearest relatives who do not hear the -exact truth about a bit of a failure like that. We won’t be the people -to talk of it. Our uncle and aunt have been very kind to us. We must -remember that, and I think it would be a terrible trouble to Aunt Tom -if she were to think——” - -Oscar did not complete his sentence, and Sheila said quickly— - -“Isn’t it better for them to know the truth?” - -“But perhaps it isn’t really the truth,” said Oscar, “I am not sure -that a man should be judged for what he does in a time of panic——” - -“No, but the lie afterwards——” - -“Yes, that was bad; but think of the temptation to make some excuse for -himself! Do you know I can fancy being tempted to it. He had always -been thought so much of at home and in the town. To be branded as a -coward! It would be almost unendurable.” - -Sheila was silent; she felt that Cyril deserved the brand, and her -youthful clearness of judgment made compromise difficult. - -“Well, I won’t say anything if you don’t think I ought, but I can never -like Cyril again. I shall always despise him.” - -“We must not despise one another more than we can help,” said Oscar -soberly. “You know, Sheila, we have so many faults ourselves. We ought -to try and think of that.” - -Sheila was accustomed to defer to Oscar’s judgment, and she was kindly -by nature, though frank and candid. She did not see much good in -hushing things up, but she promised not to speak herself of what the -fireman had said. She rather hoped it would come out to some of the -rest; she did not think that North would be easily deceived. He had -been very indignant about Cyril’s conduct. - -But upon reaching home the current of her thoughts was soon turned in -another direction. - -Effie was ill! - -There was no gainsaying it this time. Fanciful she might be, and -others for her, but the shock and the fright of the fire had been too -much for her. She had lapsed into unconsciousness during the drive home -with her father, and now, though put to bed and with the doctor in -attendance, she had shown no signs of animation. - -Sheila was not permitted to go up to the room, and glad was she that -Oscar was with her. Suppose Effie should die! The thought sent the -blood ebbing from Sheila’s cheeks. - -“Oh, I wish I had cared more for her, I wish I had not been so selfish -so often. Oscar, I begin to be afraid I am selfish. I do think first -what I like myself, and then I try to invent reasons for doing it. I -have so often left Effie alone and gone out riding, or doing things -that amused me. Oh, I wish I hadn’t now!” - -“I’m afraid we’re all rather like that,” answered Oscar. “I know I am. -Perhaps things like this—that fire, and now Effie—are sent to pull us -up and make us think. It came over me when for a moment one wondered -whether there would be any getting out, how little one had done with -one’s life. Perhaps it will help us to think more, Sheila. I’m sure I -need it.” - -“If you do, I do much more,” said Sheila; and they sat clinging -together in the dusk, till at last the sound of steps and voices on the -staircase roused them, and Sheila started up crying— - -“Oh, there is the doctor. Let us go and ask him.” - -He was coming down with Mrs. Cossart; she was looking greatly upset, -but his face wore a look of grave cheerfulness, and they heard him say— - -“Yes, she will want care—great care—for some time to come, but there -is nothing to agitate yourself about—no probability of a return of that -condition. Let her be kept perfectly quiet, and she will sleep right -away now. What I have given her will ensure that. I will look in first -thing to-morrow morning.” - -Sheila stood trembling in the hall below, and hearing words which -proved to her that Effie was better, she suddenly burst into tears and -sobbed uncontrollably. - -“Tut, tut,” said the doctor kindly, “what is the matter here?” - -“She was upset to hear about her cousin’s illness,” said Oscar, -answering for her. “She was in the Town Hall too, and I think we all -got a fright, and coming home to hear of illness had upset her quite.” - -“Send her to bed, send her to bed,” said the doctor kindly, “and keep -her there till I come to-morrow. I can’t stay now. I am wanted in all -directions at once. It has been a bad bit of business, but thank God -things are wonderfully better than we might have looked to see.” - -And the doctor went off in haste, being wanted, as he said, in half -a dozen different directions, whilst Mrs. Cossart took Sheila in her -arms, in an almost motherly embrace, for her tears over Effie’s illness -had touched a chord of sympathy. - -“Is dear Effie better?” sobbed Sheila. - -“Yes, just a little; she’s come to herself, but he would not let her -talk, and gave her an injection of morphia which sent her off to sleep. -Perhaps she will wake up much better. And now, my dear, you must come -to bed and tell me all about it, for I have not been able to hear -anything, and I am all in a tremble still to think of you all—and my -precious child—in the midst of such terrible danger.” - -“And I don’t feel as though I could do anything,” cried Sheila, “till I -have thanked God for saving us and for making Effie better.” - -(_To be continued._) - - - - -VARIETIES. - - -THE DISHONEST SERVANT. - -A well-known firm in Edinburgh consisted of two partners, and -to provide against dangers from fire and burglary it was made a -stipulation in the deed of partnership that one or other of the heads -of the firm should always sleep on the premises. - -In the course of years this became rather an irksome restriction on -their liberty, and in order to free themselves from it they agreed -to take into partnership their manager, an old servant of the house, -on condition that he should occupy the bedroom and so fulfil the -requirements of the deed. - -The old servant was naturally very much moved by this recognition of -his services, but pleaded that he had not the necessary capital to -qualify him for partnership. As to that it was only £500 that was -required, and that the firm had decided to give him. - -And so the matter was settled. The trusty servant became a partner and -took possession of the room, and in it he was found dead next morning, -having committed suicide. - -He left behind him a letter in which he explained that all those years -during which he had been so trusted by his employers, he had been -robbing them, and their great kindness had so filled him with remorse -that he could not live under it. - - -THE POWER OF MUSIC. - -The late Dean Stanley was very fond of Jenny Lind, but when she stayed -at his father’s palace at Norwich, he always left the room when she -sang. - -One evening Jenny Lind had been singing Handel’s “I know that my -Redeemer liveth.” Stanley, as usual, had left the room, but he came -back after the music was over, and went shyly up to the great singer. - -“You know,” he said, “I dislike music. I don’t know what people mean in -admiring it. I am very stupid, tone-deaf, as others are colour-blind. -But,” he added, with some warmth, “to-night, when from a distance I -heard you singing that song, I had an inkling of what people mean by -music. Something came over me which I had never felt before; or, yes, I -have felt it once before in my life.” - -Jenny Lind was all attention. - -“Some years ago,” he continued, “I was at Vienna, and one evening there -was a tattoo before the palace performed by four hundred drummers. I -felt shaken, and to-night while listening to your singing, the same -feeling came over me. I felt deeply moved.” - -“Dear man,” Jenny Lind used to say, when she told this story, “I know -he meant well, and a more honest compliment I never received in all my -life.” - - -BAD TEMPER. - - “Of all bad things by which mankind are cursed - Their own bad temper surely is the worst.” - - _Cumberland._ - - -ANSWER TO DOUBLE ACROSTIC I. (p. 364). - - 1. O a s i S - 2. B a l A - 3. E lectri C - 4. D u r b a R - 5. I lluminat I (a) - 6. E thelwol F (b) - 7. N a n c I (c) - 8. C ambri C (d) - 9. E uphrosyn E (e) - Obedience. Sacrifice. - -(a) A secret society founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt at Ingolstadt, -Bavaria, for mutual assistance in attaining higher morality and virtue. -It was suppressed by the Bavarian Government in 1784. - -(b) The son of Egbert, and father of Alfred the Great. - -(c) Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, besieged Nanci in 1476; but -he was defeated and killed. - -(d) So called from being made first at Cambray. - -(e) One of the three Graces, or Charities. - - - - -BOOKS BEFORE TRAVEL. - -BY DORA DE BLAQUIÈRE. - - -PART I. - -And even as I write this heading I feel my heart failing me somewhat. -First the largeness of the subject before me is a cause of misgiving -and next the thought of the many differing minds and impressions of -the people who travel nowadays, and who, most of them, are of the -generation of globe-trotters. These care more about covering the -surface of the earth with their tracks, and are not in the least degree -anxious about the culture that may be acquired in travel, and the -nearly dormant condition of the intellect carried about with them in -their peregrinations. Others who travel are eager to see, but have had -in their past life neither the time nor the means to educate themselves -for enjoyment; or they are too young to have had the opportunity to do -so. We all meet with examples of these classes on our own travels, and -there are few of us who have not, at some time, had cause to exclaim, -“Good gracious! what on earth did these people come abroad for?” so -little interest do they find or show in the beauties of nature or art -which surround them. They are far more interested in their meals, the -bills at the hotels, and the extortions of the shops, than in the -finest pictures by Guido, or the loveliest and grandest view from a -mountain-side. - -But even while I write, this I know, that the earnest study of years -and the reading of many books would hardly suffice to the knowing of -it all; and we often have to be content with the careful reading of -Baedeker or Murray, and the use of our eyes; and reserve the reading-up -of the subject until we have reached home once more. Even then, we -often do not know what to get in the way of reading, unless we have -some direction to aid us. It is to help those who have time before -starting, and those who desire to read up, as I have said, afterwards, -that these articles are written, and if there be some shortcomings, -some books left out, or others inserted that should not have been put -in, it must be remembered that my views of what I personally want to -prepare myself for a journey may not be your views; and that everyone -is not interested in a special object. Therefore the list must be -comprehensive, so as to take in all comers. - -It always seems to me a good plan to start with the history of the -country to which your steps are turned, because the chief interest of -every land must naturally be derived from its past, from the people who -made it what it is, and who lived in its buildings, on its lands, and -worshipped in its temples. If the country in which we travel be our own -England, we generally have learnt enough of its history to make the -names of the actors in it household words; and the local histories have -been carefully collected for us by the many archæological societies in -all parts of England. So that we may, if we like, know all particulars -of the styles of living, and the people, and manners of the past -centuries. In England especially, men who lived in it made the interest -of the land they lived in, and the same is true of Scotland. But in -Ireland it was different, and there the land is the chief point of -interest, and the interest is with legend more than with real people -and things. If the Green Isle had only been fortunate enough to have a -wizard-like Walter Scott to touch the scenery, and make it alive with -people, what a change it would have worked for her to-day! - -For a history of England we cannot do better than select Green’s -_History of the English People_, which is not only history, but -history written in a delightsome manner, and quite long enough to be -interesting and concise enough not to fatigue the reader of any age. -But if time be not an object to you, take Miss Strickland’s histories -and read them through, every one of them, even including those of the -_Bachelor Kings_. It may be the fashion to think her gossipy, but her -gossip is worth anything in making you feel that the people of whom you -read really lived, breathed, and walked the earth. Scott, Wordsworth, -and Tennyson, Shakespeare, and Ossian; and in Ireland both Lever and -Lover should bear you company, while the reminiscences of Dean Ramsay -and Wilson will make you feel Edinburgh doubly delightful. In the far -north, William Black has touched Thule and the Hebrides with the pen of -romance; and Kingsley and Blackmore have done the same in the south, -with _Westward Ho!_ and _Lorna Doone_. And in London we walk with -Thackeray and Dickens, on every side, from Piccadilly and Clubland to -Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Fleet Street. - -Beside the romancer we must also read Freeman’s _English Towns and -Districts_ and Fergusson’s _Architecture_, George Barrow’s _Wild -Wales_, King’s _Handbook of the Cathedrals_, and Cassell’s _Old and New -London_. Alfred Rimmer’s book on the _Ancient Streets and Homesteads -of England_ is most helpful, and I will end by remarking that you had -better begin Ruskin, with, I think, the Elements of Drawing and the -_Lectures on Art_. - -In France we are very well off for books in all languages; but in the -way of history, Guizot’s is rather a long business, and any shorter -history which is available is less tiring, if you be not a rapid -reader. Viollet le Duc will be a great delight to you, I am sure, and -Hare’s _Walks in Paris_ and _Ways near Paris_, and Eastlake’s _Notes on -the Louvre_, with a good guide, should be enough for the capital. In -the way of romance, you have Victor Hugo’s _Hunchback of Notre Dame_. -Miss M. B. Edwards’ _France of To-day_, _A Year in Western France_, and -_Holidays in Eastern France_ are charming books, and so are Hamerton’s -_Round my House_, _Modern Frenchmen_, and _A Summer Voyage on the -Saône_. Miss Pardoe’s books on the Court of France are also well worth -reading for the historical side of life. - -Switzerland I have always thought most resembles England, in the -interest of its history, and in the character of its people. In many -ways it is the model country of Europe, for the Swiss are ever open to -change and improvement, and to trying experiments in all the social -walks of life into which many other greater nations would shrink from -embarking. A book recently published on _Social Switzerland_ gives a -view of their charitable and other institutions, and shows this very -clearly, and it is worth reading if you be interested in that side of -the country. General Meredith Reade’s two great volumes of _Vaud and -Berne_, deal entirely with the historical, descriptive, and family side -of the country, and are very interesting. Foreigners have done much to -make Switzerland delightful, and especially the English, for have we -not that delightful _Playground of Europe_ by Leslie Stephens, and -J. A. Symonds’ _Swiss Highlands_, _Tyndall’s Glaciers_ and _Whymper’s -Alps_, to say nothing of a long series of most excellent guide-books, -and histories, and the finest of poetry, beginning with Coleridge’s -_Hymn to Mont Blanc_, and Byron’s _Prisoner of Chillon_. - -There seems to be hardly a foot of this most delightful country that -is without its interest, and its literature; and if we read French and -German it is well worth the trouble to read Vinet, the philosopher and -religious writer, and Amiel’s Diary, the saddest and most beautiful of -records. - -If you are interested in the flowers of the mountains, you have a -delightful book by W. Robinson, _Alpine Flowers_; and _The Alps in -Winter_ are written of by Mrs. Main (Mrs. Fred Burnaby), and the -many books on Davos Platz, and the Engadine, may all be found in any -catalogue, if health be in question. If you were interested in geology, -glaciers, and botany, you can study them with ease in Switzerland, as -well as Lancastrian dwellings, and the last methods in tree-culture. -As for schools, they abound, and the Swiss education is the best in -the world, in its thoroughness and complete grounding in all subjects. -Lately, too, it has been found worth while to study the Swiss army, and -its manœuvres which take place every year in the month of September. - -One of the European countries round which both history and literature -have been making and growing is Holland; and for so small a country -the amount of both is quite marvellous. It is all so interesting too, -and most of it in our own tongue, so that we need not be professors in -Dutch. The most delightful of all histories have been written for us by -American hands, and no library is complete without Motley’s two great -Dutch works, _The Rise of the Dutch Republic_ and the _History of the -United Netherlands_. The great Italian writer, Edmondo de Amicis, has -written two books on Holland—_Holland_, and _Holland and its People_; -and we have the charming volume on the _Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee_, -H. Taine’s _Low Countries_, and _Holland and Germany_, by J. P. Mahaffy -and J. E. Rogers. In the “Story of the Nations” Series there is an -excellent volume by J. E. T. Rogers, and there are several delightful -tales published lately, with the Low Countries for a background. And -we have made acquaintance with Maarten Maartens, the author of stories -that are Dutch in their characters and surroundings. - -You must bear in mind that the Netherlands means Holland and Belgium. -For so small a portion of the earth, the history of Holland is most -interesting; and we must remember that she was once the mistress of -the seas. There is a popular history of the _Great Dutch Admirals_, -by Jacob de Liefde, and he has also written _Beggars, Founders of -the Dutch Republic_. Prescott’s work of _Philip II. of Spain_ covers -much the same ground as Motley’s _Rise of the Dutch Republic_, though -from the point of view of Spain. In this connection, W. C. Robinson’s -_The Revolt of the Netherlands_ may be read. Holland claims to be -the birthplace of printing, and advances the claims of Haarlem, in -opposition to Mentz, and the record of the Elzevir presses at Leyden, -Amsterdam, and the Hague is a very famous one. Lord Ronald Gower has -written a _Pocket Guide to the Art Galleries of Belgium and Holland_, -containing both the public and private galleries; and Kate Thompson has -contributed a _Handbook to the Picture Galleries of Europe_, while -there are several very excellent guide-books in the ordinary way. - -Now that Norway is so much visited, it would not be well to leave it -out of the list of places to be seen, and read up before visiting. I -think the most charming book I have ever read about it is Mrs. Stone’s -_Norway in June_, which is quite as delightful as her _Tenerife, and -its Six Satellites_. _Round about Norway_, by Charles W. Wood, is -another pleasant volume; and Professor Boyesen’s _History of Norway_ is -one of the best-written of histories. - -There are several best books on Sweden. _The Land of the Midnight -Sun_, by Du Chaillu, and _Under Northern Skies_, by Charles W. Wood, -are concerned with both countries; and in the way of romance, we have -Frederica Bremer’s works, which are full of national colour. Paul du -Chaillu has also written a delightful book called, _The Viking Age_, -in two volumes, illustrated. The _Story of Norway_ has been written -also by Mrs. Arthur Sedgwick. In the way of Historical Biographies, -there are many. Charles XII., Gustavus Vasa, Gustavus Adolphus, and the -Thirty Years War; with that wonderful woman, Queen Christina, and Queen -Caroline Matilda, who was the sister of George III. - -The early history of Denmark is of course comprised in the history -of Scandinavia generally; and the same may be said of Iceland and -Greenland. An excellent Handbook of Runic Remains and Monuments, both -in England and Scandinavia, has been written by Professor George -Stephens, and these you should know something about in reference to -both countries. The Danish novel _Afraja_, and Björnstjerne Björnson’s -_Stories and Norse Tales_ are well worth reading. Mrs. Alec. Tweedie -has written _A Girl’s Ride in Iceland_, and a pleasant book about -Finland. And there is the _Ultima Thule_ of Sir Richard Burton, and -_The Story of Iceland_, by Letitia MacColl. _The Land of the North -Wind_, by E. Rae, and _Under the Rays of the Aurora Borealis_ is a book -written by a Dane, and translated. One of the most delightful books I -ever read of, one of which a new edition was issued in 1887, is that -entitled _Letters from High Latitudes_, by the Earl (now Marquis) of -Dufferin; and there is a charming book by Baring Gould, on _Iceland, -its Sagas and Scenes_. Iceland is a country which is more and more -visited every year; but there are no more recent books than those I -have mentioned. - -We are so near to Russia that it seems foolish to pass it by, though -I feel it is a difficult country to deal with. The history of Russia -is dealt with in the “Story of the Nations” Series. Mr. A. J. C. Hare -has given us _Studies in Russia_, and the R.T.S. a charming _Russian -Pictures drawn by Pen and Pencil_. Mr. W. S. Ralston’s _Songs of the -Russian Peasantry_ contains an excellent account of the social life of -Russia. In the way of poetry, the Rev. T. C. Wilson has translated for -us _Russian Lyrics into English Verse_, which gives specimens of all -the best recent poets, and there are translations of the works by most -of the Russian novelists, as well as of Tolstoi’s books. But I do not -feel inclined to advise you to enter on this troubled sea of thought. -As a mere traveller you will not need to do so. Turner’s _Studies in -Russian Literature_, and his _Lectures on Modern Novelists of Russia_, -are quite enough for you, I fancy. The latter were delivered at the -Taylor Institute, Oxford, and are pleasant and instructive, both. An -_Art Tour to the Northern Capitals of Europe_, by Atkinson, includes -those of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kiel. - -In Germany the poets are our best travelling companions. I remember -Nuremberg best through the medium of Longfellow, and its history -through the historical tales of Mühlbach, Auerbach, and Marlitt. The -Baroness Tautpheous, the Howitts, and even Hans Christian Andersen, -and Grimm, have all, too, lent a magic to the land. The literature -that has arisen with Wagner and Bayreuth, for a centre, is very wide, -and begins with the _Arthurian Legends_ and the _Nibelungen-Lied_. Of -the first you will have some knowledge from our own Tennyson and the -_Idylls of the King_, even if you do not go as far as the _Mabinogion_, -which was edited and translated by Lady Charlotte Guest, of which there -is an abridged edition. We have a translation of the _Nibelungen-Lied_ -by W. N. Lettsom, and another by A. G. Foster-Barham, in the “Great -Musicians” Series. _Wagner_ is written by Dr. F. Hueffer, who has also -written _Wagner and the Music of the Future_. There is a volume to be -obtained at Bayreuth of all the operas given there, which you will -most likely procure, if you should be led there any August to assist at -the Wagner festival. - -For Austria we have several delightful fellow-travellers. Amelia B. -Edwards, in _Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys_, deals with -the Dolomite region; a more recent book is Robertson’s _Through the -Dolomites_; and there are two books by W. A. Grohman on _Tyrol -and the Tyrolese_, and _Gaddings with a Primitive People_. Victor -Tissot’s _Unknown Hungary_ has been translated from the French, and -the little-known _Dalmatia_ has been dealt with by Mr. T. G. Jackson. -C. W. Wood has written _In the Black Forest_. There are several modern -books on Bismarck and his master, the Emperor William I., and also -on Imperial Germany, and you should choose the most recent of these. -There is an illustrated book, by K. Stieler, called the _Rhine from its -Source to the Sea_, which has been translated and is very interesting. -As a general thing, the guide-books are so many and so various, dealing -with health, baths and spas, and the various artists, musicians, -battle-fields, and seats of learning, that unless you were looking up -any special subject, they will give all the information you require for -travelling in the Fatherland. - -In the way of extended literature, you may read, if you like, Helen -Zimmern’s _Half-hours with Foreign Novelists_, and in the way of -distant travels there is, to me, the ever-fascinating Ida Pfeiffer, -that wonderful German woman, whose wanderings were worldwide, and the -contents of whose purse was microscopic at all times. Mrs. Bird, Miss -Gordon Cumming, Lady Brassey, Miss Kingsley, and that delightful Miss -Gates, who is quite the equal of Madame Pfeiffer in her fearless and -adventurous spirit, are all worth reading. James Gilmore, as a writer -and traveller, is so delightful that one feels the deepest regret at -his early death. Mr. and Mrs. Pennell are always excellent companions, -whether they travel to the Hebrides or take a _Sentimental Journey -through France_; or one nearer home, _On the Stream of Pleasure; The -Thames from Oxford to London_, or _Play in Provence_. They are the -pioneers in cycling, for the tourist, and have steadily ridden from -the days of the tricycle, till it has been eclipsed by a more rapid -machine. - - - - -A QUIVER OF QUOTATIONS. - - -“Let a girl grow as a tree grows.”—_Mrs. Willard._ - -“She gave me eyes, she gave me ears.”—_Wordsworth._ - -“Education is but another term for preparation for eternity.”—_Sewell._ - -“By dint of frequently asserting that a man is a fool, we make him -so.”—_Pascal._ - -“To assert a child is indifferent to its parents is not the way to make -it affectionate.”—_Guyau._ - -“Our children should be brought up, from the first, with this magnet, -‘Ye are not your own.’”—_Mason._ - -“All education should be directed to this end, viz., to convince a -child that he is capable of good and incapable of evil.” - -“The art of managing the young consists, before everything else, in -assuming them to be as good as they wish to be.”—_Guyau._ - -“The best service a mother can do her children is to maintain the -standard of her own life at its highest— - - “‘Allure to brighter worlds and lead the way.’”—“_A Great Mother._” - -“A child should not need to choose between right and wrong. It should -not conceive of wrong. Obedient, not by sudden strain or effort, but -in the freedom of its bright course of constant life. True, with an -undistinguished, unboastful truth, in a crystalline household of truth. -Gentle, through daily entreatings of gentleness and honourable trusts. -Strong, not in doubtful contest with temptation, but in armour of -habitual right.”—_Ruskin._ - -“Right dress is that which is fit for the station in life, and the work -to be done in it, and which is otherwise graceful, becoming, lasting, -healthful and easy, on occasion splendid. Always as beautiful as -possible.”—_Ruskin._ - -“God made the child’s heart for Himself, and He will win it if we do -not mar His work by our impatient folly.”—_Anon._ - -“Omnipotent the laws of the nursery and the fireside. Fatal for weal or -woe the atmosphere of the home.”—_Delano._ - -“The soul is hardened by cold and stormy weather.”—_Bunyan._ - -“System is a fundamental basis of education.”—_Sewell._ - -“Harmony, not melody, is the object of education. If we strive for -melody we shall but end in producing discord.”—_Sewell._ - -“The prayers, the love, the patience, the consistent example of -holiness, which are to-day in our power, may be committed to God’s -keeping, in the full confidence that even if not permitted to gather -their reward on earth in the present conversation of the children -we love, it will be ours in the great to-morrow of eternity, when -we shall be permitted to recognise the fulfilment of that enduring -promise—‘Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after -many days.’”—_Sewell._ - -“Fiction is natural to children. They do not, as a rule, lie -artificially. The lie is the first exercise of the imagination—the -first invention, the germ of art. Children often invent or lie to -themselves. The lie is the first romance of childhood. The child plays -with words as with everything else, and makes phrases without troubling -himself as to reality. The _real_ lie—the _moral_ lie—is dissimulation -which only arises from fear. It is in direct ratio to ill-judged -severity and unscientific education.”—_Guyau._ - - - - -“OUR HERO.” - -BY AGNES GIBERNE, Author of “Sun, Moon and Stars,” “The Girl at the -Dower House,” etc. - - -CHAPTER XXXVI. - -Rapid travelling, ninety years ago, was a comparative term, but Ivor -performed the journey as fast as relays of horses could convey a -post-chaise to the coast, and as quickly as contrary winds would allow -him to cross the Channel. - -He sent no warning of his approach. A letter could not go with greater -speed than Denham went himself. Now that he was actually on the road to -Polly, each hour’s delay became all but insupportable. Six long years -since he had said good-bye for one fortnight to Polly! Would she be -altered—as much as he himself was altered? - -It was a cold day, late in spring, when he found himself at the front -door of the Bryces’ comfortable mansion. The old butler opened to -Denham, as once before to Roy, but this time Drake was not taken in. -One glance—and his face changed. - -“Sir!” - -“You know me? I hardly thought you would.” Ivor grasped kindly the old -retainer’s hand. “I am taking you all by surprise.” - -“It is a surprise indeed, sir. And I’m heartily glad to see you again. -Not but what you ain’t looking as you should, sir. Them furrin parts -haven’t suited you, I’m thinkin’.” - -“Captivity has not suited me. And I have travelled hard, and taken -little rest. But the old country will put me right. Who is in?” - -“My mistress, sir, is in the drawing-room, and Miss Keene and Miss -Baron. I was about to take in lights.” - -“Wait till I have gone in. And Drake, you can announce me, but don’t -say my name so that it can be heard.” - -Drake obeyed to the letter. He threw open the drawing-room door, and -mumbled something inaudible. Denham entered, bowing ceremoniously. - -“You can bring lights, Drake,” said Mrs. Bryce. The room was dark, and -the fire had fallen low. - -“Yes, ma’am.” - -“I’m excessive glad to see you, sir,” Mrs. Bryce declared cordially, -after a hurried whisper to Polly, “_Who_ did he say, my dear? Oh, well, -’tis easy to see—he’s one of the military. A soldier home from the -wars.” Then she turned to Ivor with her welcome. “Mr. Bryce is away, -I’m sorry to say, but doubtless you can await his return, and Mr. Baron -will be in this minute.” - -Ivor had some difficulty in recognising his friend Roy under this -designation. Polly was casting half-shy glances at him. Something in -the outline of his figure, dim though the light was, brought Denham to -her mind, but it was not until he spoke that her colour changed fast -from pink to white and from white to pink. - -“I shouldn’t be surprised to be informed, sir, that you are but just -home from the war,” said Mrs. Bryce. - -“I have not been fighting, I regret to say. My turn for that will no -doubt come. I have been long a prisoner.” - -“And you have obtained your release?” - -“The Emperor has consented to my return.” - -Mrs. Bryce held up both hands. - -“That is excessive gracious of him, truly. You are more fortunate than -many. Roy Baron was not so well off, and he had to make his escape. But -he has been since in the Campaign in Portugal and Spain under our great -Commander, Sir John Moore. A truly melancholy story that, sir,—yet he -died as a soldier would choose to die, covered with glory. And Roy—Mr. -Baron, I should say—is now back with us for a little space; and we, his -friends, fondly think he has done well. But will you allow me to offer -you cake and wine? You have a very tired look. What can Drake be about -not to bring the lights?” Mrs. Bryce’s hand was on the bell. - -Denham was gazing earnestly towards Polly, so earnestly that she could -not but return the gaze. A thrill ran through her, for there was no -mistaking that voice. Molly took upon herself to put a pointed question: - -“Have you come from Verdun, sir, if I might ask?” - -“Pray take a seat, sir,” Mrs. Bryce was reiterating. She might as well -have spoken to stone walls. - -“I am straight from Verdun,” Ivor replied to Molly’s query. “As I am -fain to think Miss Keene has already divined.” - -Polly dropped a curtsey and said nothing. It was not for her to make -any first move. Nobody could hear how her heart fluttered. - -“Then, sir, doubtless you will bring messages for us all from the -unfortunate prisoners there detained,” said Mrs. Bryce, not yet -grasping his identity with one of those prisoners. - -Drake at this moment carried in the lights, and Roy, entering with him, -cried out in astonishment. - -“Den! Why, ’tis Den himself! Can it be in very truth? Den, dear -fellow!”—nearly wringing Ivor’s hands off with the energy of his -welcome. - -Pre-occupied though Ivor was with Polly, his gaze rested with -satisfaction upon “his friend Roy.” The boy who had left Verdun for -the dungeons of Bitche was a man now, broad-shouldered, well-built and -soldier-like, frank as ever in manner, yet with a certain something in -the young face, which told not only of endurance, but of the touch of -sorrow. At the present moment, however, Roy’s look was all sunshine. - -“I _am_ glad, Den, more glad than words can say. Little I dreamt who I -should find in here! And you’re free! But how is it? How has that come -about? You don’t say old Boney has let you off! Of his own free will? -I wouldn’t have given the old chap credit for so much generosity. What -made him do such a thing? Lucille? No! Bravo, Lucille!” - -Nobody else had a chance of being heard. Mrs. Bryce exclaimed and -talked in vain. Polly and Molly waited. Roy’s eager questions had to be -answered, before Denham was allowed to turn elsewhere. - -Then came a change of manner and a lowering of voice. - -“I shall have no end of things to tell you, things _he_ said of -you too, Den. Ay, I know”—at a slight gesture. “Another time. Yes, -by-and-by. But you’ve seen accounts of the battle. That charge of the -Reserve through the valley wasn’t bad! French column tried to turn -our flank, you know. We did just knock ’em into a cocked hat and no -mistake. The column just simply ceased to exist.” - -Molly tried to put in a word, and was baffled. - -“You’ll be as furious as I am at some of the comments in the papers. -The utter ignoramuses! What about? Why, the state of our Army getting -back from Spain. I should think the poor fellows _were_ scarecrows, -after all they’d gone through. Small wonder either! The scarecrows -made the enemy give an uncommon good account of ’emselves at Coruña, -all the same. But people here seem to think an Army can walk through a -Campaign, and come back every inch as spick and span as when it left -British shores. Much they know about the matter! And if shoes did wear -out, and our fellows got back barefoot, whose fault was that but the -fault of those who made the shoes at home?” - -So much Roy poured out impulsively. Then he stopped. A consciousness -had broken upon him of something unsatisfactory, something impending. -Denham’s face was to him as an open book, and he saw written there -more things than one. One thing that he saw made him turn sharply to -Polly, as she stood a little way off, prettily composed. Was _this_ the -meeting of the two, after six years of enforced separation? - -Roy recalled his talk with Polly on his return from Bitche, and in a -flash he read the true state of affairs. He looked hard at each in turn. - -“Polly, didn’t I tell you? He has come back.” - -Polly stirred slightly. - -“You understand? ’Tis Den himself.” - -It was necessary for Polly to answer. - -“Captain Ivor is indeed most fortunate to have obtained his release,” -she said, adjusting her scarf. - -“Fortunate to have obtained his release!” repeated Roy slowly. - -Then he acted, with a decision and promptitude worthy of his vocation -in life. A gesture ordered Molly to make herself scarce. Seizing Mrs. -Bryce by the arm, he dragged away that astonished lady, reserving -explanations till they were outside the room. After which he poured -forth profuse apologies, but would allow no re-entrance, literally -setting his back against the door. - -(_To be concluded._) - - - - -ON SOME POINTS OF DEPORTMENT IN SINGING. - - -I hope you who read these words will not think that I am encouraging -the vanity of which we all, girls and boys too, possess a certain -amount, in giving a few suggestions which may help to dispel some of -the awkwardness so often shown by the young and inexperienced vocalist. - -How often, usually at the moment of going on the platform at some small -amateur concert, have I heard the cry, “Oh, I must have a piece of -music to hold in my hand!” from some nervous young singer, oppressed by -the feeling that she is all hands and has nowhere to hide them! - -How often has a pretty song, tastefully sung, been spoiled by a -wriggling of the shoulders, or a rocking of the body from side to side -most irritating to behold! - -How often has a song “breathing of scent and flowers,” of love and -spring-time, been warbled with a forbidding scowl and wrinkled -forehead—the expression of the whole face suggesting some hidden agony -rather than interpreting the spirit of the composition! - -All these things are most distracting to a listener and detract -considerably from the effect of the performance; and a little trouble -and study, combined with the assistance of your good and true friend -the looking-glass, will do much to improve matters. - -Let us take the three points I have mentioned in their order. - -First the hands. Clasp them loosely in front of you and then forget all -about them! Make a point of practising it whenever you are fortunate -enough to obtain an accompanist to play for you, or when you are having -your singing lessons. Commit your song to memory so as to dispense with -the music, stand away from the pianoforte, avoid propping yourself -against the wall or leaning upon the furniture, stand easily, and let -your hands clasp naturally and comfortably. - -Now for the wriggling. Any of you who have had your photograph taken -must remember the unpleasant little arrangement which the photographer -sticks behind your head to keep it still; and some of you may have -protested against the discomfort and unnaturalness of it and have -appealed to be allowed to pose without it, only to get the answer that -it is indispensable, as the head moves constantly, though not enough -to be noticed, yet sufficiently to spoil any exposure longer than an -instantaneous one. And yet the person being photographed is apparently -motionless! Now watch someone who is telling some exciting news or -some funny story, and you will see that the head moves with every word -spoken—the more emphasis, the more movement! - -I remind you of these things in order to show you how very necessary -movement is to us and how, naturally, the head moves in speech rather -than the body. - -If you carefully watch a confirmed wriggler, you will notice that, -though the body sways or the shoulders move, the head is very rigid -and is usually held very high, and altogether the position looks -constrained and awkward, and it has a disastrous effect upon the voice, -for all these little awkwardnesses and uglinesses mean that there is -a corresponding unnaturalness of production, and the memorable maxim -in the Koran, that “there are many roads to Heaven, but only one -gate,” applies forcibly to singing, in the respect that the only true -singer is he who produces his voice with the most ease and simplicity -(though that may have only been acquired by the hardest study) quite -irrespective of the particular method by which he has been taught. - -There is one great drawback which we must take into consideration from -which all singers suffer more or less, and which is at the root of most -of these faults of “deportment” and of this one in particular, and it -is this. - -A certain amount of nervousness is inseparable from singing, -whether we sing to just one or two chosen friends or before a -large concert audience, and even when we won’t confess to “feeling -nervous,” we cannot escape from another form of it and a very trying -one—self-consciousness. And the usual result of self-consciousness is -to seize upon the muscles of the throat, to cramp and contract them -till the head is held as if in a vice, so that the voice comes hard and -strained; and as the natural movement of the head is prevented by this -rigidity, Nature (who never stands still) asserts herself by giving -the necessary movement to the body instead; hence the wriggling of the -shoulders and the rocking from side to side. - -In this case prevention is better than cure, and the best thing to do -is to practise diligently moving the head from side to side whilst -singing, especially when practising exercises. Do not raise it high, -and avoid the inclination to raise it as the voice rises to the higher -notes; but move it freely and constantly from side to side. At first -you will find this very awkward, and it will seem terribly unnatural -and ridiculous; but persevere, and you will find that not only your -appearance will be improved, but your voice will come easily and -your throat will not get that aching, tired feeling of which so many -complain after singing for quite a few minutes, and which is due to the -contraction of the throat and the constrained position of the head. - -For the third point, facial expression, I commend you to your -looking-glass. Indeed, the greater part of your study should be done -with its assistance. First to be assured that your mouth is open, then -to watch that no grimaces appear, no pucker between the brows, no -opening the mouth crookedly, no blinking of the eyelids. Try to let -your expression vary as freely as it does when you are talking. - -Remember you have only your face to assist you. A reciter can call -gesture to her aid; but a singer does not want to do anything that -might bring down upon her the accusation of being “theatrical.” She -wants to stand quietly and naturally, her hands folded, her head rather -low, and tell her story, her face changing with the changes of her song. - -But bear in mind that all these things which come naturally to us when -we are not thinking about them or about ourselves become unnatural when -we are struggling in the grasp of the demon self-consciousness, and it -is for that reason that I conclude these hints with the paradoxical -reminder that as the unstudied and natural usually looks constrained -and unnatural, our aim must be to learn artificially and to practise -incessantly to look natural. - - FLORENCE CAMPBELL PERUGINI. - - - - -HANGING CASE FOR UMBRELLAS AND STICKS. - - -From Edinburgh comes this very useful pattern. It can be hung -permanently in one’s bedroom to preserve parasols, etc., from dust, in -which case we suggest the use of two nails, eight inches apart, instead -of one as in A, Fig. 3; it can be rolled up when travelling, and when -unpacked suspended from any hook in the wardrobe. One yard of strong -art serge or any other suitable material not less than forty-two inches -wide will make two. The back part is cut according to Fig. 1. Fig. 2 -represents the front portion which has two box pleats at the lower -edge to make the necessary fulness and should be so folded as to fit -exactly on to the back part. There is a line of stitching through back -and front from C to D, thus making two pockets. Tack the corners AA and -BB together and continue round each side to D. The whole case must be -neatly bound with ribbon or braid, and the loop added for hanging. The -front of the pocket (Fig. 2) should be bound from A to B before fixing -it in position. - - “COUSIN LIL.” - -[Illustration: _FIG 1_] - -[Illustration: _FIG 2_] - -[Illustration: _FIG 3_] - - - - -“AFTERNOON TEA;” A CHAT OVER THE TEACUPS. - -BY AMY S. WOODS. - - -Within the last twenty years the simple but most popular meal known by -the name of “afternoon tea” has become a prominent feature in domestic -and social life. - -“Afternoon tea!” The very words suggest to our minds pleasant visions -of cosy fireside tea and talk on winter afternoons, or lazy enjoyment -of the “cup that cheers” under the welcome shade of some spreading tree -in drowsy summer-time. - -True, the institution of this meal has been much condemned of late. We -are told that women drink far more tea than is good for them and are -growing more nervous in consequence; while the sterner sex complain -that the enjoyment of their dinner is spoiled by their previous -indulgence in the dainties of the tea-table. - -Nevertheless, I think even those who cavil most at the evil influence -of tea and its accompanying delicacies would, in their hearts, be sorry -to witness the abolition of a meal which has won the support of so -large a section of English society, from royalty downwards. - -[Illustration: AFTERNOON TEA.] - -To those who are weary of formal entertainments, it comes as a boon and -a blessing, while to those whose love of social pleasures is larger -than their purse it is even more welcome, as it enables them to -entertain their friends more frequently, with but little of the cost -and trouble which more elaborate social gatherings involve. And it is -to this latter class of afternoon-tea devotees that I dedicate the -following recipes and suggestions. - -It is easy for dwellers in London or other large towns to obtain a nice -variety of cakes and biscuits wherewith to grace their tea-tables; -but those who live in country villages are less fortunate, and are -sometimes sadly conscious of lack of variety in the cakes they can -make or procure. I hope therefore that the recipes here given will be -acceptable to all those who are willing to spend a little care and -trouble in carrying them out. Most of them are capable of further -variation, and clever heads and fingers will devise artistic and dainty -decorations and ornamentations for themselves, the result of which -will be that their cakes will be quite as beautiful to look upon, and -probably more beautiful to eat than those supplied by a fashionable -confectioner. - -One thing must be remembered by all aspiring cake-makers, viz., that -dainty cakes and biscuits require time, care, and patience in their -production, and cakes that are hurriedly made are seldom satisfactory. -Another point to be remembered is that afternoon tea is not a -substantial meal, so that we must endeavour to have all our dishes as -dainty and elegant as possible both in their composition and manner of -serving. - -We cannot perhaps all boast of silver or Sheraton tea-trays, or of -Dresden or Worcester china; but a plain linen or small-patterned damask -cloth embroidered with a large initial, and either prettily hemstitched -or edged with Torchon lace, will hide all the deficiencies of our -tea-tray, and now that such pretty Coalport china can be bought at such -a reasonable price, no one need be without a charming tea-set. - -In arranging the china and linen for afternoon tea, it will be well to -remember that coloured china looks best upon a white cloth or upon a -cream-coloured one embroidered in silks or flax threads to match the -colours in the china, while for use with plain white or white-and-gold -china a cloth of art linen, in plain blue, yellow or pink, with white -embroidery is most suitable. - -Nor need any hostess lament over her scarcity of small silver table -appointments in the way of teapot and cream jugs and sugar basins, for -a china teapot and hot-water jug and the sweet wee cream jugs and tiny -basins now sold to match almost every stock pattern of china, look -quite as dainty and artistic as their more imposing silver brethren. - -See that your bread-and-butter is delicately thin, and that it and your -cakes and sandwiches are served upon dainty doyleys of fringed damask, -and if you provide two small plates, one with brown and one with white -bread-and-butter, they will be found more convenient to hand about than -one large plate. - -When there is only a small party, the use of a luncheon tray, with -three divisions, will save trouble in handing cakes, etc., and, be it -whispered, these same trays are also convenient when your stock of cake -is low, as small pieces of cake which could not possibly attain to the -dignity of the cake-basket, will make quite an imposing appearance -if cut in slices and arranged in one division of the tray, with some -biscuits in the second and some carefully-rolled bread-and-butter in -the third. - -No doubt all my readers are acquainted with the silver or -electro-plated handles which are now sold for attaching to cake and -bread-and-butter plates, and a very convenient invention too; but -should your means preclude your indulgence in these luxuries, do not, -I pray you, be inveigled into buying the substitutes made of a sort -of millinery arrangement of wire, ribbon, and artificial flowers. -They soon become shabby and tawdry, while even when they can boast of -pristine freshness the idea of ribbon and artificial flowers in such -close proximity to eatables is to my mind at once incongruous and -inartistic. - -In cutting bread-and-butter or sandwiches, a loaf at least twenty-four -hours old should be used, as it is impossible to obtain a satisfactory -result with new bread. Servants, it may be noted, are as a rule far -too liberal with the butter, which they often leave in lumps in any -holes there may be in the surface of the bread; and should the bread be -cut as thin as it ought to be, the butter will probably work its way -through to the other side with very unpleasantly greasy results. - -And now for the recipes themselves, and as savoury sandwiches—and, -indeed, sandwiches of every kind—are always favourites we will have a -friendly chat concerning them before passing on to cakes and biscuits. - -For the foundation of all sandwiches, we must use evenly cut, and not -too liberally buttered, bread, and be very careful that our seasoning -is generously used, but with discretion. To crunch a lump of salt in a -sandwich is by no means a pleasant experience. - -_Cress Sandwiches_, though always appreciated, are simplicity itself. -Carefully wash and thoroughly dry the cress, arrange on slices of -bread-and-butter, sprinkle with salt, and, after pressing the covering -slices firmly down, cut into two-inch squares and pile on a doyley, -garnishing with tiny bunches of cress. - -_Watercress Sandwiches_ are made in the same way, using only the -leaves, which must be most carefully washed in salt and water. Most -people consider the addition of a little mayonnaise sauce a great -improvement, and the following will be found a simple but excellent way -to make it: - -Rub the yolk of a hard-boiled egg very smooth, adding a good pinch of -salt, a grain or two of cayenne pepper, and a quarter of a teaspoonful -of made mustard; then add alternately, and drop by drop, lest the sauce -should curdle, one tablespoonful of vinegar and two of salad oil, and -one tablespoonful of very thick cream. Use a wooden spoon for the -mixing, and do not make the sauce too liquid or it will ooze through -the sandwiches. - -_Chicken Sandwiches_, made with a little finely pounded chicken with a -layer of watercress or lettuce and a little mayonnaise, are excellent. - -_Cucumber Sandwiches_ are always welcome in hot weather. Soak the -slices of cucumber in some well-seasoned vinegar for two or three -hours before using, turning it frequently. Cut the bread round each -slice of cucumber with a small round pastry-cutter and garnish with -parsley. A little dab of mayonnaise in each sandwich is a great -improvement. - -_Shrimp Sandwiches_ are delicious. From a pint of shrimps, pick out a -few of the largest with which to garnish your sandwiches, shell the -remainder and allow them to get thoroughly hot over the fire (but not -to boil) in a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, or two ounces of -butter and two tablespoonfuls of thick cream, and a discreet seasoning -of salt and pepper. Pound the mixture in a mortar until perfectly -smooth, and then spread upon either white or brown bread-and-butter, -and cut the sandwiches into rounds. A dariole or tiny pudding-mould -with a crimped edge answers capitally for the purpose. Pile upon a -doyley and garnish with the shrimps upon some fresh parsley. - -Crab or lobster paste prepared in the same way but with the addition of -a little mustard and vinegar, and no cream, makes excellent sandwiches. - -_Anchovy Sandwiches_ are made in the same way, using a good brand of -anchovy paste instead of the shrimp mixture. If you have plenty of -eggs at command, the hard-boiled yolks of two, pounded to a paste with -two ounces of butter and a tablespoonful of anchovy paste, will make a -superior sandwich. - -_Egg Sandwiches_ are filled with the same paste of pounded eggs, well -seasoned, but without the anchovy; another ounce of butter or two -tablespoonfuls of cream is an improvement in this case. - -So much for sandwiches; the eight varieties I have mentioned will serve -as a foundation from which clever housekeepers will devise numerous -other kinds. Almost any scraps of shell-fish, game, or poultry, can be -pounded and used as I have described, and if the seasoning is all that -it should be, and the sandwiches are delicately made and served, they -will always find some appreciative mortals to enjoy them! - - * * * * * - -And now to turn our attention to the cakes and biscuits, which I hope -my fair readers will make with their own dainty hands, and thus ensure -success, even if it be evolved from early failures. - -Before passing on to the actual recipes, will they accept six general -hints as to successful cake-making? - -Firstly (as I have said before)—Give yourself time, and do not hurry or -slur over any part of the process. - -Secondly—Be sure your oven is at the right temperature before you put -in your cakes. A quick oven is best for buns and small cakes, and a -tolerably quick one to raise large cakes, and then the heat must be -lowered and kept at a regular temperature to bake them through. When a -cake has risen, lay a sheet of buttered paper over the top to prevent -it blackening. To ascertain if a cake is sufficiently baked, plunge a -clean knife or skewer through the centre; if it comes out clean and dry -the cake is baked, if sticky, it requires further baking. - -Thirdly—Be very careful that your cake-tins or moulds are thoroughly -clean and well greased. Line your plain tins with well-greased plain -paper, not printed. The tins for small cakes such as queen cakes should -be sprinkled with flour and castor sugar after they are buttered. - -Fourthly—Use only the best flour, and see that it is well dried, -sifted, and warmed before using. Clean currants and sultanas with flour -on a sieve; this not only cleans them but prevents them from sinking in -the cake. - -Fifthly—Before commencing to mix your cake, be sure your tins are -ready, and that you have round you all your ingredients weighed and -prepared, so that you may not have to leave your cake unfinished while -you fetch something you have forgotten. All cakes but those made with -yeast should be baked directly the mixing is finished. - -Sixthly—Do not be disheartened if your first attempt to make a new -cake is a failure. We too often forget that success is frequently the -outcome of many failures. - -Before giving any recipes for fancy cakes, let me advise you to give -the following recipes for “Sally Lunns” and “Tea Cakes made with -yeast,” a trial. - -For the former, mix half a teaspoonful of salt in a pound of flour, and -add three tablespoonfuls of sugar. Melt half an ounce of butter in half -a pint of new milk, and when milk-warm pour it over half an ounce of -German yeast. Add a well-beaten egg and a little grated nutmeg. Stir -lightly into the flour with a wooden spoon, cover with a cloth and set -it in a warm place to rise; then bake from fifteen to twenty minutes in -a quick oven. Some well-greased hoops are best to use for baking Sally -Lunns, and the cakes should be brushed over with some beaten egg before -they are quite baked. To serve, split each one into three slices, toast -a delicate brown, butter and cut each slice in two, place together and -serve on a very hot plate. - -For _Tea Cakes_ take two pounds of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt, -quarter of a pound of butter or lard, and three ounces of sugar, with -a few currants or sultanas if liked. Mix half an ounce of German yeast -with three-quarters of a pint of warm milk and one egg. Rub the butter -into the flour, and add the other dry ingredients, mix in the liquid -part and knead lightly, and then set to rise. When sufficiently light -divide into round cakes, place on a baking-sheet and allow them to -remain a few minutes longer to rise again before baking. They will -require from a quarter to half an hour in a good oven. They may either -be split open, buttered, and eaten while hot, or toasted in the same -way as Sally Lunns. The great culinary authority, M. Soyer, recommends -that after toasting cakes or hot buttered toast, each piece should be -cut through separately and then placed together, as when the whole is -divided at once the pressure needed to force the knife down to the -plate, forces the butter into the lowest slice, which is often swimming -in grease while the upper slices are comparatively dry. - -And now we will turn our attention to a few cakes which I can cordially -recommend. Let us take _Cherry Cake_ to commence with. For this you -will require six ounces of flour, three ounces of butter, three ounces -of castor sugar, two eggs, the grated rind of half a lemon, two ounces -of crystallised or glacé cherries and a teaspoonful of baking-powder. -Slightly warm but do not oil the butter, beat it to a cream with the -sugar and lemon, add the eggs, well beaten, then the flour and cherries -(cut in halves), and lastly the baking-powder. Whisk thoroughly, pour -into a paper-lined tin and bake from three-quarters to half an hour. -Another plan is to bake the cake in a Yorkshire pudding tin, and when -baked to cover the top with pink icing, made with the white of an egg -beaten up till fairly liquid but not frothy, and mixed very smoothly -with sufficient icing sugar to make a smooth paste. You will find the -readiest way of doing this is to use a wooden spoon on a dinner-plate, -holding the bowl of the spoon with the fingers; a little practice and -patience are needed to make the icing perfectly smooth, but remember -one lump spoils the appearance of the icing. Add a few drops of -cochineal and a few drops of vanilla flavouring, and spread the icing -evenly over the top of the cake with a paper knife or dessert knife; -a steel one must not be used. Take off any drops that may run over the -sides of the cake and divide it in two pieces while the icing is wet, -then dry at the mouth of the oven. - -For _Orange Cake_ take the weight of three eggs in butter, sugar and -flour, the grated rind and strained juice of an orange, or two, if -small, and a teaspoonful of baking-powder. Make and bake the cake in -exactly the same way as the preceding one, but if iced, use white -icing, or colour it with a little grated orange-rind and juice, using -orange-juice to flavour it. - -_Madeira Cake_ is made in the same way and with the same proportions, -but the orange is of course omitted and some finely-sliced lemon or -candied peel substituted as a flavouring, or a little essence of -vanilla. - -For various kinds of cake you cannot have a better foundation than by -taking the weight of as many eggs as you wish to use, in flour, butter -and sugar, and then adding the various flavourings and a teaspoonful, -more or less, according to the number of eggs, of baking-powder. - -Desiccated cocoanut makes a nice change if _Cocoanut Cake_ is desired, -or, if you do not mind the trouble of grating it, the fresh cocoanut is -of course superior. After the cake is baked brush the top over with a -little white of egg and scatter some of the cocoanut upon it. - -Twelve delicious little _Rice Cakes_ may be made by taking one egg and -its weight in sugar and butter, half its weight in ground rice and half -in wheaten flour. When mixing add the rice after the flour, and also -a few drops of flavouring or the grated rind of half a lemon. Bake in -small tins in a quick oven for ten minutes. If two or more eggs are -used and the other ingredients increased in proportion an excellent -cake can be made. - -_Almond Buns_ are also nice. For these take half a pound of flour, six -ounces of butter, six ounces of castor sugar, four ounces of almonds -blanched and chopped, and a teaspoonful of baking-powder. Mix together -the butter, sugar, eggs and flour, add the almonds and baking-powder -last, form into buns and bake on a buttered tin for twenty minutes. - -_Queen Cakes_ are always favourites but require careful making and -the proper heart-shaped tins to bake them in. Prepare the tins as -previously directed by buttering them very thoroughly and sprinkling -with castor sugar and flour. Then take three eggs, their weight in -fresh butter, sugar, flour, and currants, and the grated rind of a -lemon. Cream the butter and sugar together, add the eggs, fruit, and a -pinch of salt, then the flour and half a teaspoonful of baking-powder, -and lastly a small wineglassful of good brandy. Whisk thoroughly, shake -off any loose flour or sugar from the tins, fill them three parts full -of the mixture and hit each one sharply on the table before putting in -the oven. Bake for twenty minutes. - -_Genoese Pastry_ is also popular, but cannot be made in a hurry. Take -half a pound of butter, half a pound of castor sugar, half a pound of -flour, the yolks of two eggs and the yolks and whites of two more eggs, -and half a teaspoonful of baking-powder. Mix thoroughly, spread evenly -over sheets of buttered paper placed in Yorkshire pudding tins, smooth -over with a knife dipped in boiling water, and bake twenty minutes in a -moderate oven, but keep the cake a pale brown colour. - -While it is baking prepare some icing as directed for cherry cake, -using the two whites of egg left over from the cake. Divide into two -portions on two plates, colouring one pink and leaving the other -white; flavour the former with a little raspberry syrup, or juice -from some jam, and the latter with vanilla, lemon, or a little -maraschino liqueur. Dissolve half an ounce of grated chocolate with -two tablespoonfuls of water and stir it over the fire till thoroughly -smooth and liquid, adding two or three lumps of sugar. If you have not -a forcing bag with which to ornament your icing, or if you are not -an adept in the use of it, provide yourself with a few crystallised -cherries, blanched almonds, chopped pistachio nuts, and pink and white -comfits with which to decorate your cakes. How they shall be decorated -I leave to your own artistic minds to decide—only reminding you that -almonds, pistachio nuts or a neat pattern of pink and white icing, or -a border of alternate pink and white comfits are most suitable for -decorating chocolate icing, while cherries and pink sugar look best on -white, and almonds and white sugar on pink. A very speedy and effective -decoration is to sprinkle white grated cocoanut on your pink cakes, and -a mixture of pink (coloured with cochineal) and pale green (coloured -with spinach juice) on white icing, using a mixture of all three -colours on the chocolate. The study of the cakes in some high-class -confectioner’s will help you here. When the cake is baked lift it by -the paper on to a clean pastry-board, remove the paper, divide each -slab of cake across, and then split it open. On one piece put raspberry -jam and press the other half upon it while hot; on another marmalade, -on the third apricot, and on the last strawberry or pineapple. Pour -over the apricot cake your chocolate icing, and while still hot cut -into strips about two and a half inches wide, and then cut again -slantwise across the strips so as to form diamond-shaped pieces. Then -place them at the mouth of the oven to dry, while you proceed in the -same way with your other cakes. Be careful to use your pink icing -with the red jam, and white with the yellow. When partially dry the -decorations must be added, otherwise they will not adhere to the icing, -and then the cakes must be again dried until the icing will not take -the impression of the finger when pressed upon it. - -_Scotch Shortbread_ is a favourite with many people, though hardly to -be commended to the notice of dyspeptic sufferers. The following recipe -for it, given to me by a Scotchwoman, will be found a very good one. - -One pound of flour, four ounces of ground rice, one pound and a quarter -of butter, three-quarters of a pound of sugar, a little candied peel, -and a pinch of salt. Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar, and -very gradually sift in the flour and rice; work with the hands till -quite smooth and divide into six pieces. Put each piece on a sheet of -paper and roll out to the thickness of half an inch, prick it all over, -lay on it the pieces of candied peel, pinch the edges, and bake in a -moderate oven from twenty minutes to half an hour. - -_Fancy Biscuits_ can be made at home, and will be found quite equal in -taste and appearance to the more expensive kinds sold in the shops. -Care must be taken that the oven is not too hot as they will not look -well if they are browned; and the flour and sugar used for them must -be very finely sifted and thoroughly dry. To make four varieties of -these biscuits at once, take one pound of fresh butter and cream it -with half a pound of castor sugar, and add two well-beaten eggs. When -well whisked divide the mixture into four basins. Divide also a pound -of fine flour into four parts. To the contents of the first basin add -a quarter of a pound of flour and two tablespoonfuls of ground ginger. -Mix well. Turn on to a floured board, roll out to the thickness of a -quarter of an inch, cut out with a small pastry-cutter or the top of a -wineglass, place a piece of candied peel or a preserved cherry on each, -and bake on a sheet of buttered paper laid on a baking tin for about -twenty minutes. Proceed in the same way with the second portion, but -instead of the ginger add the grated rind and juice of an orange, and -if needed, a tablespoonful more flour. To the third division add half a -teaspoonful of vanilla flavouring, and ornament the top of each biscuit -with a little pink and white icing after baking. If the biscuits are -made stiff they will keep their shape well in the baking, and may be -cut into various fancy patterns such as ivy leaves, stars, diamonds, -etc. Ivy leaves with the veins put on in white or pink icing are very -pretty. To the last basin add one ounce of finely-chopped almonds, and -make the biscuits oval in form with two strips of blanched almonds -on the top. Walnuts may be used instead of almonds, in which case I -should make the biscuits in the shape of a half walnut shell with half -a peeled walnut on the flat part. These would require to be made very -stiff. Chocolate icing is very nice to put on vanilla biscuits. - -And now space warns me that our chat over the tea-table must come to an -end. I hope that the few simple recipes I have given will be found both -good and economical. Too economical perhaps for some of my friends, but -I would remind all who wish for richer cakes that in the many excellent -cookery-books, both French and English, now published, they will find -recipes which cannot fail to win their most cordial appreciation. Yet -in all humility I venture to hope these few hints of mine may win a -meed of fainter praise from those who, appreciating dainty cookery, -have yet to study economy in their household management. - -[Illustration] - - - - -THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. - -BY ISABELLA FYVIE MAYO, Author of “Other People’s Stairs,” “Her Object -in Life,” etc. - - -CHAPTER XI. - -A MOTHER AT HOME. - -“This holiday season is bad for advertisements,” Miss Latimer decided. -“I fear you must give another trial to registry offices. Other methods -take time, especially private recommendations among shopkeepers or -acquaintances—which is the best. You have only a week in which to make -your arrangements. But do not go again to great registry offices, which -let down their nets in wide waters, and catch many queer fish. I know a -little quiet registry about midway between this house and my lodgings. -Not a big professional place, my dear, but a shop. I suppose the -registry is little more than an adjunct to the shop. But when I pass, I -see a great many young women going in and out.” - -“Should I have to go there to meet them?” asked Lucy, with a look of -repugnance. - -“Oh, dear, no,” Miss Latimer answered. “That is not done save in the -big offices, unless an appointment is desired by some mistress from -the country. Young women who seem likely to suit are sent to wait upon -you in your house. If you decide on this, you can go there and give -instructions to-morrow morning; I can keep house and look after Hugh -during your absence. I wish I could give you better advice, but I think -you must avail yourself of this for the present urgent necessity.” - -Lucy accepted the counsel. She found the address Miss Latimer gave -her. It was in one of the long roads which skirt the centre of -London—roads which were rural once, and where, here and there, a garden -still lingers isolated among the shops which have been built over its -neighbours. Lucy’s destination was one of these shops set out with -servants’ caps, aprons, small haberdashery wares, stationery, and a few -cheap books. On the little counter was a big desk laden with ledgers -and festooned with files of letters, and behind the desk stood an -elderly woman. She had an air of old-fashioned gentility about her. She -wore no cap, but her glossy, waving hair, unmingled with silver, hung -in two or three curls and was done up in a crisp little knot behind. -Her brown merino gown was severely simple and well kept, with no frill -or ornament whatever, save an out-of-date embroidered collar, fastened -by an “In Memoriam” brooch. There was nothing frowsy about this woman, -nothing unctuous or self-indulgent in her thin sharp face, nor servile -or fawning in her rather abrupt manner. Lucy was prepossessed by her, -because she was so unlike the official at the big registry office. - -This alert person had little encouragement to give. “Generals” were -said to be few and far between. She asked Lucy searching questions -about the situation she had to offer, saying that the young women would -expect her to tell them all about it before they walked so far. She -said that it would not recommend the place to most of them that it was -very quiet; they generally thought that meant a “particular,” fidgety -mistress, and “they didn’t mind a little more work if they could get -the more of their own way.” Lucy said she would prefer an elderly -woman, as she would be left much alone in the house. But the alert -person shook her head, saying that in nine cases out of ten an elderly -woman who would take such a place would drink—a statement which Lucy, -after her recent experience, was not prepared to deny. The alert person -promised “to do her best.” The fee for putting Mrs. Challoner’s name on -her “book” would be only one shilling; she would go on sending girls -till Mrs. Challoner was “suited,” when there would be another charge of -four shillings. - -Lucy walked home, feeling that she and the post she had to offer were -at a terrible discount. As she watched the half-starved, slipshod, -ill-clad girls who were carrying packages in and out of various small -“home” manufacturing premises in the district through which her journey -lay, she wondered bitterly what had gone wrong with domestic service, -that its wholesome food, snug shelter, and respectability were rejected -in favour of this tramping, trailing drudgery. She knew enough of -social conditions to know that few of those girls earned wages higher -than her servant’s salary, while these had to provide everything out -of their earnings, and her maid had to buy only her clothes, and had -plenty of leisure to make and mend them. This proved that no mere -increase of wages will bring back the tide of female labour to the -haven of domestic service. It has already voluntarily ebbed away to -decreased emoluments. - -This actually comforted Lucy a little. For though she was already -paying all the wage her means could honestly afford, yet she had begun -to reflect bitterly that, between the two registry offices, she had -already laid out six shillings in less than two months, not to mention -“deterioration of household stock” in burnt napery and other kitchen -damages, still less to consider the wear and tear of her own nerves and -the loss of her own time. If she was to go on paying and losing at this -rate, she had realised that it would come to the same thing as offering -twenty or twenty-two pounds a year. - -But as she saw those squalid workgirls, it was borne in upon her that -the form of labour she wanted had become scarce at any price, and that -at any wage she might find the same heart-breaking disappointment. - -Lucy gazed curiously at the crowds of young women who lounged or -hurried past her. By the signboards on the forlorn houses behind -the decaying gardens, she could guess the callings of the crowd. -There were tailoresses, hat-sewers, cardboard-box makers, artificial -florists. Looking at them, Lucy could not wish that any of them should -change her mind and seek the vacant place in the kitchen. From their -appearance most of them had been living poorly on sedentary work for -years, and whatever they might have been at the beginning, they were -sallow and haggard now. No signs of self-respect were visible on their -raiment, though there was a pitiful display of draggled plumes, and -sham jewellery worn over garments which seemed to have been bought -third-hand, and boots such as one often sees thrown away on road-sides. -Such strength as they had was clearly the strange perverted strength -that resists bad atmospheres and monotonous misery, but few indeed had -any sign of the wholesome vigour that is needed for honest household -work. - -“They must have their freedom, I suppose,” said Lucy to herself, -dreamily repeating an axiom which she had often heard thrown down in -scorn and contempt by irate matrons caught in the strait where she was -now fixed. - -Their freedom to do what? Freedom to toil at some soul-deadening task -for eight or ten hours to earn a shilling—for the whole round of -the clock to gain eighteenpence. Freedom to live crowded in noisome -rooms among ever-shifting “neighbours,” to go untidy, to eat bad food -ill-cooked. Freedom on Bank holidays with their rowdy crowds; freedom -(when one is not too tired) to run about the gas-lit streets, or to sit -in tobacco-reeking music-halls; freedom, in such dangerous proximity to -the hospital, the casual ward, the pauper’s grave! - -Lucy thought of what she understood by freedom. A life of useful -labour, leisure for friendship, books, the joys of music and of -pictures, of flowers and sunset skies, of wild wood and breezy shore. - -And then she reflected. If it should be this kind of freedom that girls -wanted—the sort of thing that Lucy herself meant by freedom—could she -promise them that this was to be found in average domestic service any -more than that other freedom for which the poor souls around her were -willing to pay so dear? - -“The matter has got out of joint somehow,” she thought. “New social -ideals, both good and bad, have gained sway in these days, and I fear -that the majority of the mistresses have tried to shut out both from -influencing the ways of domestic service. The consequence is, the bad -ideals have withdrawn the mass of girls from household life. I should -not wonder but the mothers of most of these girls have been domestic -servants. Yet what they have told their daughters (possibly quite as -often in commendation and praise as in bitterness and warning) has not -attracted the girls, because they are not living in the same world as -their mothers lived, and they have picked up the fact that domestic -service is, in the main, left stationary in the out-of-date sphere.” - -Lucy knew that she had not got her own progressive ideas concerning -domestic service in her own parents’ house. She had got suggestions -when visiting in the houses of schoolfellows belonging to thoughtfully -“advanced” families, and these suggestions had opened her eyes to see -the connection between this department of human life and the teachings -she found in the best books she came across. Miss Latimer herself -had often been helpful. Also when once Lucy’s days of courtship and -marriage had begun, there was a fresh humanity in all Charlie’s ways -of looking at things, which permeated her mind, and carried away -lingering prejudices and preconceptions as a sweet breeze blows away -the stuffiness of long-closed chambers. - -Lucy’s own mother, who had died two years before Lucy’s marriage, had -been a matron of the old school, kind and considerate to her servants, -as she would have been to her pony or her dog, but with far less -consideration for their individuality than many sympathetic people give -to that of their four-footed pets. She expected her maids to go to -her place of worship. She would have been surprised ever to see them -with a book, save on Sunday, and then only with books which she “lent” -them. She allowed no variation in their household uniform, and in -their “best” dresses she looked askance at a puff or a flounce. Their -letters had to be addressed to their unprefixed names. No visitors -were allowed. They had their regulated “hours off” once a week, and -these were never diverged from, varied or exceeded. A request for an -arrangement for a fortnight’s holiday would have been met by instant -dismissal. - -Even in those earlier days, when Lucy had never questioned the -righteousness of these domestic methods, she had yet somehow got an -uneasy consciousness that they were tottering to their fall. She could -not tell how she had got that impression, whether from murmurs in the -kitchen or from added tenacity in the hand laid on the domestic reins. -The house had been handsome, well kept and comfortable; the service -perfectly regulated and reasonably well paid, the conditions which -long defer catastrophe whether in states or households. It had been as -one of the last strongholds of an ancient _régime_ still holding out, -though outposts are fast falling. - -Lucy’s father had not survived his wife many months. He had been -counted a wealthy man, but there had been such a revolution in his -special article of commerce that when he died his estate barely met his -liabilities. Jem Brand, the young stockbroker, had received a small -dowry with Florence when he married her. But after the father’s debts -were paid, there was not a penny left for Lucy, who had thankfully -utilised her natural gifts and the excellent training they had received -by accepting the position of art teacher at the St. George’s Institute, -which position she had filled for more than a year before her marriage. - -Perhaps Lucy had grown more inclined to broader ways of thought and -simpler ways of life, because they had brought its crowning joy into -her own life. Charlie Challoner had met her first in her independent -breadwinning capacity. He was wont to say that if he had known her as a -rich man’s daughter he would not have dared to woo her, and it is quite -certain that a young professional man, with all his way to make, and -with neither family nor fortune to serve him, would have received scant -welcome from either of Lucy’s parents. - -All these memories glanced through her mind as she hurried home. She -reflected too, that the present transitional and contradictory state -of the domestic world was further indicated by the fact that though -her sister, Mrs. Brand, held all their mother’s household theories, -yet their mother would have disapproved far more of the Brand _ménage_ -than she would of Lucy’s household, as that had been conducted during -the seven years of Pollie’s service. Surely this went to show that -the desirable results of the old order of things were now best to be -secured under the new order! - -Lucy said to herself— - -“Well, I must be patient, and remember that my own position is rather -exceptional. Domestic life, just now, seems to be of the nature of a -series of experiments, while I stand at too critical a corner to find -such experiments edifying or pleasant. I must do what everybody has to -do—from prime ministers down to chimney-sweeps—make the best of the bad -job left by those who have gone before me, and try my utmost not to -make it worse for those coming after me!” - -She entered her home, tired enough, and knowing that there could be no -rest till bedtime. But she had made up her mind to be cheerful at all -costs. Lo, on the hall-table lay something which made overflowing joy -to be the easiest thing possible. There was a letter from Charlie! - -It was marked “Ship letter,” and the last few lines (which in her -bewildered joy she read first) had evidently been written in wild -haste: “Homeward bound ship in sight—passing close by—Grant thinks -opportunity for letter. God bless and keep you.—CHARLIE.” - -“God bless and keep you!” The benediction folded her round. She was no -more tired, no more disheartened. She was ready for anything! - -And how much more so after she had read the whole letter! All was going -well. The weather had been so propitious that Charlie had been able -to be on deck nearly all day. He had grown so brown and plump that -he scarcely knew his own face in the cabin looking-glass. It was a -guarantee of the calm weather and of his own strength to enjoy it that -his diary recorded that he and Captain Grant had played chess every -night, and that their games were becoming prolonged and scientific. - -When Miss Latimer had joined in the rejoicing, when Hugh had had his -father’s letter to kiss, when the cat had had it to sniff—and had -been decided to show much more interest and emotion than when the -performance was repeated with a circular—when Lucy had written a -postcard to hurry after the letter she had just sent to her husband—an -ecstatic postcard, “Your ship letter received. Oh, so happy—so thankful -to God!”—when all these things were done, then she turned back to her -household cares and burdens, strong enough to bear the heaviest. - -By this time Miss Latimer had taken her departure, and Lucy and her -little laddie were alone. There was something for her to do from -morning till night. She would not even call in the service of the -charwoman, for she remembered that its results had not been too -satisfactory even upon the perfect order and straightforwardness that -Pollie had left behind her. Mrs. Challoner soon found that Jessie -Morison’s month of service had not been quite so satisfactory as it had -seemed. Little things had gone astray, little household matters, for -which she had given Jessie money, were left unpaid—the whole amount -perhaps not rising above three or four shillings. Still, all this -determined Lucy to keep her own hand on the household helm for the -moment. She could postpone the duties of wardrobe and store closets -which she had assigned to herself for this last week of leisure. She -would be general servant, nurse, and housemistress for once before she -turned breadwinner! - -The weather was cold, but it was bright and cheerful, and Lucy got real -enjoyment out of her mornings in the genial warmth of the kitchen, with -Hugh eagerly watching and proudly helping in those homely labours which -delight all children. Do the banquets of after-life ever furnish such -delicious dainties as that scrap of paste, extra from the pie-crust, -which mother or elder sister sweetens, and rolls out, and cuts patterns -upon, and pops into the oven, all before one’s eyes, and which we wait -to see taken out crisp and brown? - -Hugh was a happy little boy in those days. Had not papa’s letter -enclosed a scrap of paper covered with o’s, and inscribed, “All for -Hughie himself,” and didn’t Hugh know that these meant kisses? Then -there was nothing to hinder him from trotting after mamma all day long, -and she often sent him upstairs or downstairs to fetch her a brush or -a duster. She even let him help her make a bed. She told him he was “a -useful little boy,” and that praise came to his ears with a pleasing -novelty, which “a sweet darling” or “a precious dear” had lost. She -let him watch her cleaning his little boots, she let him try to do it -himself. That effectually convinced him how naughty it is to dip one’s -foot in mud just for the fun of doing it. And while these delights went -on the mother and child talked about the time when Hugh would be a man, -perhaps a great explorer, alone in strange countries, and how well it -would be for him to know how to do things for himself. - -“Or I’ll do them for you when you’re very, very, very old, mamma,” he -had said, and Lucy had been half-staggered and half-amused when he had -next asked whether it would not be fully time for him to begin next -year! - -“No, I don’t think I shall want much done for me quite so soon,” she -had cheerfully replied; “but you may be able to do something for -yourself. I think boys and all men who are not very busy and tired out -with doing other things, ought to clean their own boots.” - -“I think I’d like cleaning boots,” said Hugh. “If papa doesn’t come -home soon, I’ll get a box and go to the corner of the street and say, -‘A brush, sir!’ and I’ll bring you home all the pennies, and we’ll have -a lot of money, and you can tell papa he needn’t hurry, I’m taking care -of you.” - -If here and there the childish prattle touched chords athrill in Lucy’s -heart, there were full amends when Hugh put his little arms about her -and whispered— - -“Don’t let’s have any new servant, mamma—you be the servant yourself.” - -“Ah, my pet,” she answered, “I’m afraid that’s a luxury out of my reach -just now!” - -She questioned herself sometimes whether it might not have been wiser -had she never taken up her money-earning scheme, but had simply -resolved to live within narrowest limits on their savings during -Charlie’s absence? Yet the answer always came, that but for this -money-earning scheme, she would scarcely have dared to propose this -journey to Charlie, and it was still less likely that he would have -entertained the idea. All seemed turning out so happily that perhaps -such a venture might have well been made; but before ventures are made -one has to reckon with fears as well as with hopes, to provide against -mischance as well as to prepare for good fortune. Also, when Charlie -should return in restored health, however strong and cheerful he might -be, a depleted treasury would have been a drag, which might easily have -destroyed much of the benefit received. - -Yet strong was her own longing for quiet home life, and keen was her -consciousness that the impending arrival of another dubious stranger -was the sole element of anxiety and difficulty following her about -among her household tasks. From these she didn’t shrink in the least, -and she felt sure custom would soon make them easy and pleasant. She -could not help feeling thankful that decision or reconsideration was -now out of her reach. Her engagement with St. George’s Institute was -made for the year, and must be honourably fulfilled. - -It was tiresome to be interrupted in some kitchen or bed-chamber task -by a ring of the door-bell, and only to find some obviously unsuitable -“young person” sent from the registry office. She had to meet the -half-derisive smile with which some of them noted that “the missus” -herself had answered the door. She had to endure the contemptuousness -of their rapid survey of her working toilette—the white handkerchief -knotted about her hair, and the blue-checked apron. One or two of them -at once said candidly “that the place would not suit.” To others she -had to say the same. Yet her week of choice was rapidly passing, and -she feared she might be forced to accept Mrs. Brand’s advice and “not -be too particular about everything.” - -Sometimes she wondered, after all, if she and Charlie had made a -mistake and had started too ambitiously at the very outset. Yet they -had then seemed entrenched on the safe side. Her own kin, beginning -with the Brands, had all thought the little house with the verandah -only too small for a young man of Charlie’s talents and prospects. - -“You will have the trouble and expense of speedy removal,” they had -urged. - -These kindred had said, too, that the furnishing was unnecessarily -simple. “That was a fault which might be gradually remedied,” Florence -Brand had remarked. “But it was well to make a dash at the beginning, -even if one economised afterwards, because in the first year of one’s -married life people noticed one’s house more and talked about it more -than they ever did afterwards.” But Charlie and Lucy had been firm, -because they were determined not to run in debt, because they wanted to -save as much as they could, to possess nothing that would be costly in -its up-keep, or likely to tempt them into expensive ways, and because -they both loved the beauty of simple form and the sweet cleanliness of -things that are easy to dust and possible to wash. - -Then Florence had privately urged Lucy to start with two servants. - -“Get two smart girls for low wages,” she had said, “you won’t have much -to do for a long time, except to watch that they are honest. It sounds -well to say ‘my cook’ and ‘my housemaid.’ People think of a general -servant as a mere slavey.” - -But Lucy had steadily persisted in having only one, and Pollie’s -diligence and progress had rewarded her. - -Now, however, Lucy asked herself whether Charlie and she had done -the very best after all. True, they had not satisfied the ideas of -the Brands and others; but ought they not to have gone still farther -in the opposite direction and contented themselves with a tiny flat -and foregone any regular servant? It was true that the plan they had -followed had been sound enough economically. The lease of the little -house in Pelham Street had been bought by Charlie’s prenuptial savings, -and the yearly expenditure had not been much larger than it must have -been in the imaginary flat, Pollie’s domestic help having given Lucy -time to do all the family needlework and to economise in those ways -which leisure makes consistent with grace and beauty. To Lucy the life -seemed to have been idyllic. But, then, at its foundation had been -Pollie. So, if Pollies were an element not to be readily reckoned upon, -life only was secure when it was planned to do without them. - -(_To be continued._) - - - - -USEFUL HINTS. - - -GENERAL RULES FOR MAKING JAM. - -1. Gather the fruit on a dry day. - -2. Pick it over carefully and see that it is free of insects, and take -away any that is decayed. - -3. Put the fruit in the pan and let it juice over the fire; add the -sugar, which should be warmed, by degrees. - -4. Use good white sugar for preserving; the cheaper kinds do not go so -far. - -5. Three-quarters of a pound of sugar is enough for any fruit unless it -is very sour, when a pound may be used. - -6. Stir often and do not let the jam burn. - -7. Skim well. - -8. Bring to the boil after the sugar has melted, and boil until done. - -9. Put a little on a plate, let it cool, and see if it will set; if so, -it has been cooked enough. - -10. Let the jam cool, and pour it into jars. - -11. Let it get perfectly cold, lay a round of paper that has been -dipped in brandy on the top inside the jar, and tie down larger pieces -outside. When tied down brush over the top with white of egg. - - -TO RENDER DOWN FAT. _Method._—Take any pieces of fat, cooked or -uncooked, cut them up and remove all skin and any pieces of meat there -may be on them, put them in a saucepan with enough water to come -halfway up the fat, put on the lid and boil for half an hour; take off -the lid and let the water boil away; when the pieces of fat are brown -and crisp, take the saucepan off the fire and let the contents cool a -little; strain off the liquid fat into an earthenware pan or tin. This -can be used again and again for deep fat frying, if strained after each -using, and will keep for a long while. It is excellent for cakes and -pastry. - - - - -STRAY LEAVES FROM ASSAM. - -TWO WIVES. - - -“And my man?” - -“Your man was shot down amongst the first who fell.” - -The questioner turned away without a word, and lifting her child from -the ground, slung it in her cloth and left the bungalow. - -A terrible disaster had occurred. A political officer had been attacked -and killed, and his escort cut to pieces, by the Angami Nagas. A few of -the survivors had succeeded in reaching the stockade, and one of them—a -bright young fellow who had marched out two days before, leaving behind -him a one-week’s bride—was having an ugly wound on his head dressed by -the native doctor. - -A crowd of terrified women surrounded him, eager to hear his fearful -tale, and by degrees they learnt the truth—not one could hope her -husband had escaped, for he believed himself and one companion -to be the only survivors out of eighty men. It was a sad tale of -mismanagement, treachery, and bloodshed. - -“We were in a trap,” the young fellow explained in broken sentences. -“They fired upon us suddenly and killed a lot before we could escape to -open ground. Kama Ram got us together at the foot of the hills, and we -fought hard until he fell.” - -A fair-faced Nepalese woman covered her face with her cloth and broke -into low sobs. - -“Yes,” he continued, “we fought hard; but half our men were killed, -and the Nagas were there in hundreds. If we could have kept them off -till dark we might have got away; but they surrounded us, and after -Kama Ram was shot there was no one to lead us, and we got broken up and -scattered. He told us to leave him there and fight our way back to -warn the Sahib at Kohima; but how could we leave him? We carried him -away, firing and then retreating. And so we got away, a few of us; but -Kama Ram was heavy—was he not a big man?—and he said, ‘Oh, brothers, -let me alone to die! I am dying now, and you must save your lives and -get back to Kohima and help the Sahib; they will go there. You cannot -save me. Put me where they cannot find me, as they will take my head.’ -And then he died. We hid his body well, and then came on, and only two -of us are here, and the Nagas are now on their way; they wait to take -the heads. By daybreak they will come.” - -The little Nepalese woman crept quietly away. Her child was sleeping -in a corner of the over-crowded room, and she sat by him with her head -turned against the wall and cried not loudly but most bitterly. - -“What is the use of crying?” asked the other women in high-pitched -trembling voices. “We shall be killed too in the morning.” - -“Yes,” said the wounded man, “we shall all be killed. There are -thousands of them coming on us.” - -Then came the quiet question from a broad-faced rosy Naga woman— - -“And my man—did you see him?” - -Without the slightest sign of sympathy or feeling the curt answer came— - -“Your man was shot down amongst the first that fell.” - -Without a word she went away. None of the women had any sympathy to -waste upon a Naga woman, even though her husband had been a constable -and she had left her home and people to live with him. No one -attempted to detain her, or said a kind word as she passed. - -Following her out, I asked her why she went away, and warned her not to -go. Her child would probably be killed by the first Angamis that she -met, because her husband was well known. - -“They will not harm the child. I must go and find my husband,” she -replied, and passed on into the darkness and the rain. The chance -of finding him alive urged her to hurry on. If he had fallen in the -first attack, she knew the place, and made her way straight for it. -But perhaps he was not killed. He might have been one of those who had -rolled down the steep khud from the narrow pathway where they fell, and -she would find him wounded, but safely hidden, at the bottom of the -khud. If he was dead, she might yet be in time to save his head and -bury him, and hide him from the cruel hands of her savage countrymen. - -The Nagas met her on her way and jeered at her, asking her where her -Sepoy husband was; but still they let her pass, and on she went. Who -can describe the horrors of that journey! - -The darkness hid many a ghastly sight, but daybreak found her near the -scene of her disaster. Murdered men lay across her path headless, with -gaping wounds; shrieks of despair rang in her ears from many a poor -wounded wretch who had escaped in the night only to fall into the hands -of his enemies in the morning; and yells of fiendish triumph went up as -each new victim was discovered and despatched. - - ESMÉ. - - - - -ON A VERY OLD PIANO: - -LATELY SEEN IN A LONDON SHOP WINDOW, AND LABELLED, “CASH PRICE, TWO -GUINEAS.” - - - Poor faded, long-neglected thing, - Not worth a glance - From eyes disdainful as they pass, - While you stand there, the sport, alas! - Of circumstance. - - Too true! and yet if you could speak - Of years gone by, - How many happy memories - Might whisper from your yellow keys - With muffled sigh. - - For, as I look, the street and shop - Both disappear— - I see a room with cheerful light, - A ruddy fire, and faces bright, - And _you_ are here. - - Before you sits a little maid, - Her dainty feet - Scarce touch the floor. She proudly plays - A quaint old tune of other days, - Most strangely sweet. - - The vision fades, but once again - My eyes can see - A pleasant chamber, long and low, - With antique chairs placed in a row, - And tapestry; - - With solemn portraits on the wall, - And goodly store - Of silver, china, bric-a-brac, - Carved shining tables, old and black, - And polished floor. - - The windows open on a lawn, - The sunset glows, - The birds sing on in pure content, - The air is perfumed with the scent - Of summer rose; - - While strains of music, softly sad, - From fingers white, - That rise and fall in cadence clear, - In sounds melodious to hear, - Float through the night. - - Quick steps approach: and hushed your strains - (The birds still sing)— - Imprisoned is the player’s hand, - The lovers twain beside you stand, - And Love is King! - - So wags the world—’tis up to-day, - To-morrow down. - _Your_ reign is over: here you wait, - “_Cash price, Two Guineas_” is your fate - In London Town. - - - - -SOME HOLIDAY MUSIC. - - -Fine fun can be had out of two action songs by William Younge and -Lionel Elliott (J. Williams). They just suit the merry season for -youngsters of the family who must have amusing and interesting ideas -to keep themselves and others happy. One is called “Home for the -Holidays,” and the other, “Making the Pudding.” - -For our tiny nursery people there is a really capital shilling book by -Florence Wickins, consisting of “Merry little tunes, including all the -original melodies to the nursery rhymes and a complete set of dance -music for little folk” (Wickins & Co.). It is in clear, big print, with -a gay cover, and there are some dear old favourites therein, such as -the undying Miss Muffet, Tom Tucker, Lucy Locket, Baby Bunting, and -other heroes and heroines of nursery lore in days of yore. - -Schoolboys and schoolgirls too will join with fervour in Scott-Gatty’s -new “Country House Songs” on “Golf” and “Cricket” (Boosey), and -these will not fail to attract boys and girls of an older growth, so -admirable are they. - -Some stirring ditties suitable for musical entertainments after -schoolroom teas are two rousing naval and military lays with telling -refrains, namely, “Beresford’s Boys,” by Lionel Hume (Weekes), and -“The Life of a Soldier,” by Gerald Lane (Enoch); “Two Gay Owls,” by M. -Van Lennep (Doremi), with characteristic “tu-whit to-whoos” capable of -expressive rendering, and “De Blue-Tailed Fly,” a plantation song by G. -H. Clutsam (Stanley Lucas), the buzzing chorus of which can be given -with much dramatic feeling! - -Pretty little light pieces, all suitable for bright occasions, -interludes for tableaux, charades, &c., are the following: “Danse -Chic,” by Arnold Olding (Cramer); “Mountain Gnomes,” by Wilhelm -Popp (Ashdown); “La Lucette,” by Gladys Hope (Weekes); “Vous Dansez -Marquise,” by Augusta de Kabath (J. Williams); “Chanson de Louis -Seize,” by G. Bachmann (Ashdown); and a small book of “Three Dances” by -Corelli Windeatt (J. Williams). - -These popular marches are desirable for the same purposes, namely, -“Santiago,” by Walter von Joel (Ashdown); “The Charge at Dargai” -(Cramer); and the “British Outpost,” by Lionel Hume (Weekes); while the -quicker polka marches of “Gringalet” and “Automobiles,” both by Ad. -Gauwin (Chappell), are spirited in music and in dashing frontispieces. -Two nice little operettas for children are “Cock Robin and Jenny Wren,” -by Florian Pascal, and “The Maid and the Blackbird,” by Ed. Solomon (J. -Williams). - -James C. Beazley writes a humorous and useful little partsong entitled, -“There was a Little Man” (Doremi), who, as we know, “had a little gun,” -and this sporting episode is facetiously and effectually carried out in -the music. - -Songs from Lewis Carroll’s “Sylvie and Bruno” (all in one small cover) -are most amusingly quaint. Listen to the euphony of “King Fisher’s -Song.” - - “‘Needles have eyes,’ said Lady Bird— - Sing Cats, sing Corks, sing Cowslip Tea— - ‘And they are sharp—just what - Your Majesty is not. - So get you gone—’tis too absurd - To come a-courting me!’” - -And other lines linger in our memories like— - - “Sing Prunes, sing Prawns, sing Primrose Hill,” - -and so on in the inimitable spirit of “Alice in Wonderland” again. - -The “Witch o’ the Broom” Lancers and Quadrilles by Fabian Rose -(Phillips and Page) are as easy as easy to play from sight, so is “The -Farmyard” Barn-dance, with a racy title-page for small folk (Phillips -and Page), and in a loftier sphere the “Malmaison” Waltz by Caroline -Lowthian (Metzler), and “Poppyland” Waltz by Cyril Dare (Cramer). - -There are four “Characteristic Dances” by H. J. Taylor (Weekes), all of -which might be prettily danced in character, the Grecian (No. 2) and -the Japanese (No. 4) especially. - -Some exceedingly facile and effective violin solos are No. 1, “The -Children’s Home” of Cowen’s, and No. 10, Canzonetta by C. Borelli, of -Morley’s Melodious Gems; “Sunny Memories” and “Good Wishes,” by Henry -Tolhurst (Phillips and Page); a “Song Without Words,” by M. Marigold -(Novello), and a convenient shilling book (Wickins) containing the -beautiful “Träumerei” of Schumann and other choice little pieces for -pleasurable performance. “Twelve Carols,” by M. C. Gillington and F. -Pascal, are full of interest and of beautiful and original ideas in -words and music (J. Williams). - - MARY AUGUSTA SALMOND. - - - - -[Illustration: ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS] - - -STUDY AND STUDIO. - -KATIE ROBERTS.—No apology is necessary in sending your verses, but we -fear you would scarcely be able to write anything for publication. The -metre of your lines is incorrect; occasionally you begin a verse with a -line far too short, _e.g._, “He is, we all know it.” “The Unseen Guest” -is the better of the two poems, and we think it is natural to beguile -hours when you are not on active duty by expressing these thoughts. It -is not the substance but the form that we criticise. You should study -the laws of versification. - -LISA.—We must commend to you the advice contained in the last clause of -the preceding answer. If you wish to improve in writing verse, study -the laws of metre, which you will find in any good handbook of the -English tongue. In “Wait,” the second line is two syllables too long. -“Guest” and “bless” do not rhyme. - -APPLE BLOSSOM.—We have read your story, and are afraid we must -literally comply with your request to “pull it to pieces.” The central -incident is most improbable. Prosperous theatrical managers do not -steal plays by copying manuscripts left with them for perusal. As -“Claude” received his MS. again, you must see that detection was -absolutely certain, and no motive is suggested for the extraordinary -act of Sir Francis Lockhart, whom you should not call “Sir Lockhart.” -Claude acted with foolishness and ingratitude in angrily refusing the -offer of his uncle, which is so scornfully mentioned, of a “stool in -his warehouse,” and genius does not burst forth in a moment in the -construction of a successful play, nor the production of widely-read -magazine articles, by a half-educated youth. These faults in your story -proceed from ignorance of real life, but there are also very many -defects in style; tautology is frequent, and you should not write of -a “flunky,” nor of “Belgravia Square.” We hope you study the book we -recommended to you. There is no “royal road” to literary success of any -kind, even for aspirants with talent. - -ARBUTUS.—We can mention in reply to your query, the Cambridge Training -College for Women Teachers (fees £60 to £70 a year for residence, -tuition, etc.), and recommend you, for particulars of teachers’ -training, also to apply to the Secretary, Association for the Education -of Women, Clarendon Building, Oxford. You do not say for what sort of -teaching the training is required; but for elementary schoolmistresses -there are a great number of colleges. The Bishop Otter Memorial -College at Chichester is intended for the daughters of the clergy and -professional men: fees, £20 per annum for Queen’s scholars, £50 for -private students. In Ireland there are the Marlboro’ Street Training -College, and the Church of Ireland Training College, Dublin. Stockwell -College, Stockwell Road, London, is a fine college: fees £25 for two -years’ board and tuition. For a full list of these training colleges -for elementary schoolmistresses, and particulars of the entrance -examination, apply Education Department, London. - -MOLLY.—It would certainly not be “waste of time” to take lessons in -drawing. You evidently have a love for it, and a good idea of copying. -It would always be a pleasant resource for you. - -CONSTANCE.—Apply to the _Times_ Office, London, for the number -containing Rudyard Kipling’s Jubilee poem. We believe it first appeared -in _Literature_, but you will obtain information there. - -MRS. E. M. L. KNIGHT.—1. We think you could not do better with your -little boy than to adopt, as far as you can, the Kindergarten system. -If you were to write to the Froebel Society, 12, Buckingham Street, -Adelphi, London, W.C., you would probably be told of some book or -books by which, as you seem a thoughtful and intelligent mother, you -could guide yourself in the work of training the child’s faculties -of observation and attention, and imparting knowledge of “natural -surroundings.” It is pleasant to see the little children at the -Kindergartens modelling in sand the promontory, island, hill, and -showing the course of a river from its spring on the mountain to the -sea. This is just one instance of the sort of occupation that teaches -and amuses them. Considering what you tell us, we think if you could -devote a part of each day to your boy, it would be far better than -sending him to the village school. As he is only 2½ years old, there is -plenty of time for school life.—2. A very useful though not new book -on children’s ailments is Dr. Pye Chavasse’s _Advice to a Mother_. The -National Health Society, 53, Berners Street, London, W., will send you -a list of medical books or pamphlets for household use. - -ELIZABETH.—1. We should consider that Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, Sir -James Simpson, Sir Richard Owen, Lord Lister, Edison, Röntgen, Sir -William Huggins, Professors Dewar and Ramsay were among “the greatest -scientists of the present age.” We cannot possibly give you a full list -here.—2. Your writing is clear, but inclined to be too childish in -its thick down-strokes, and long loops to y’s and g’s. It needs more -freedom. - -J. J. A.—We refer you also to Mrs. Watson’s articles on “What are the -County Councils doing for Girls?” and—if you cannot consult them—to -the Secretary of the Board of Technical Education, St. Martin’s Lane, -London. You might also write to the Secretaries of Queen’s College, -Harley Street, W., and of Holloway College, Egham, for particulars of -scholarships in connection with those institutions. - -EDYTHE.—We think a very interesting way to teach young children -spelling is to give them a good box of letters (“Spelling-Game”), and -let them fill the frame with words, either from memory or from a book; -or the letters of a word may be given loose to the child, and he be -required to form the word himself. Games may easily be arranged with -the letter-box for several children. Many thanks for your enclosure. - - -GIRLS’ EMPLOYMENTS. - -ISABEL (_Art Needlework_).—You would be very well taught in the Royal -School of Art Needlework, Exhibition Road, South Kensington; the fee -for instruction is £5. The School does not, however, guarantee to find -work for its pupils, but some of the latter earn an average income of -£1 a week. In art-needlework shops, the payment is usually much lower, -14s. or 15s. a week being not unusual. If you are fond of needlework, -could you not learn dressmaking at a technical institute, and then go -out as a visiting dressmaker? You would do better in this way than as -an embroideress, for you could earn about 2s. 6d. a day, and would -receive board during the time of your engagement. - -A YOUNG CORRESPONDENT (_Helping others_).—The fact that you are very -young need not prevent you from helping other people as you wish to -do, and from making yourself useful in the world. If you can knit, you -might write to the secretary of the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, 181, -Queen Victoria Street, E.C., and ask whether you could knit mufflers -or mittens for the fishermen. Another kind of work in which help is -required is in embossing books in Braille type for the use of the -blind. In regard to this work, you should apply to the Hon. Secretary, -British and Foreign Blind Association, 33, Cambridge Square, W. Do not -trouble about the other matters you mention. Girls in their teens often -do not look their best, and the complexion nearly always improves in -later life. With a pleasant manner and a neat becoming style of dress, -a girl may always make an agreeable impression, whereas there are many -handsome girls who are so selfish and disagreeable that their beauty -gives no pleasure to anybody, not even to themselves. - -PANSY (_Advice_).—It would be a great mistake to become a companion, -although you do say that such a career is your ambition. Companions -occupy an anomalous position; their duties are undefined, and their -services are consequently little valued. And, after middle life, the -companion usually finds herself without an engagement, and without a -profession of any kind. You say you do not wish to become a governess, -but at the same time you feel yourself competent to teach children from -seven years old to twelve. Now, under these circumstances would it not -be wise to become an elementary school teacher? Your pupils would be of -the ages mentioned, and you would have an occupation by which you could -almost certainly earn a living. Elementary teachers are now in great -demand, for this very reason, that so many girls will try to become -companions and secretaries. Had you been under eighteen, you might have -become an apprentice as a pupil-teacher in an elementary school; but as -you are eighteen already, you had better pass the Queen’s Scholarship -Examination, and then seek employment as an assistant teacher, or, much -better, enter a teachers’ training college. You could study all the -requirements more fully by obtaining through a bookseller a copy of the -New Code, issued by the Education Department. If you wanted further -advice, it is probable that some Board School or National School -mistress in your own town would give it. - -SNOWBALL (_Typewriting, etc._).—A typist and shorthand writer, employed -as a clerk in a City office, usually receives a weekly salary of from -18s. to 21s. to begin with, rising at the end of a year or two (if she -is really competent) to 25s. and, after that, rising again possibly -to 30s., 35s., or any amount not exceeding £2. But many girls do -not advance beyond 25s. per week, and employment is to some extent -precarious, as so many girls can now do typing and write shorthand with -moderate skill. But we consider that a girl occupies a tolerably secure -position who can do verbatim reporting, and can be relied on to take -down all that is said at a long meeting, which, when interruption and -discussion takes place, is by no means an easy task. But as you are -quite young, write a good clear hand, which you will doubtless improve -within the next twelvemonth, and are determined to work, we should -counsel the Post Office Department of the Civil Service in your case, -especially if you pass the Cambridge Junior Examination well, for which -you are preparing yourself. You should try to get into the Service as -a girl clerk as soon as you are sixteen; that is better than waiting -till you are eighteen to enter as a woman clerk. Pay great attention -meantime to your studies in French, German, geography, arithmetic, and -handwriting. Girl clerks begin at a salary at £35, and women clerks at -£55. The latter are eligible for a pension after a certain number of -years’ service. - -KALIFA (_House Decoration_).—We do not quite agree with you that there -is an increasing demand for ladies who undertake house decoration. To -succeed in the business, a girl ought to be apprenticed to a decorator -who will teach her how to draw and design furniture, and to see that -workmen carry out orders properly. To learn the business thoroughly, a -girl must either give time or pay a high premium; one of the foremost -decorators charges £100. It is not an employment for everybody; and a -good many ladies of taste have failed because they have not carried out -their work in a sufficiently responsible and business-like manner. - -ESPÉRANCE (_Suggestions_).—If you shrink from nursing, it is difficult -to know what you can do in the way of philanthropic work without -possessing some private means. Perhaps through the church or chapel you -attend you could be put in the way of doing something for the poor, -such as district visiting. There are also, as you perhaps know, several -settlements in the East of London in which women work. For instance, -there is the St. Margaret’s House, Bethnal Green, a Church of England -Settlement, and there is also the Canning Town Settlement, 459, Barking -Road, Plaistow, which is unsectarian. You would probably find that -should the occasion arise for you to earn your living, the experience -gained by working in one of these settlements would help you to obtain -a position as matron of some charitable institution. There is now a -considerable demand for philanthropic workers who have been trained in -settlements. - -LOIS (_Librarianship_).—We hardly think your scheme is feasible of -obtaining a librarianship in a charitable institution or in a ladies’ -club. In a workmen’s reading-room and institute it is quite possible -you might obtain employment, or in a free library. The branches of -the Manchester Free Library employ women. Some post of that kind you -would probably fill well, as you have had several years’ experience -already, and have interested yourself in the work. Then there is a -large circulating library at Norwich, the property of a private firm, -where some women are engaged. Otherwise, if you wish to make a change, -you would have to seek a secretaryship, or post as book-keeper, as you -say; but this seems to us rather a pity as you have done so well as a -librarian. - -INGEBORG (_Needlework_).—You had better communicate with the secretary -of the Society for the Advancement of Plain Needlework, 16, Stafford -Street, Marylebone Road, N.W., and ask what courses he would advise you -to pursue in order to obtain a teachership of needlework. Very likely -it may be thought best that you should pass the examination at the City -Guilds’ Institute, as this qualification would help you materially to -secure an appointment. - - -MEDICAL. - -EGLANTINE.—If the teeth become loosened, and the gums show a tendency -to bleed on slight provocation, use a mouth-wash of tincture of myrrh; -add about a teaspoonful of tincture of myrrh to half a tumblerful -of water, and rinse out your mouth and wash your teeth with it. The -“tincture of myrrh and borax” of the shops is made by mixing tincture -of myrrh with glycerine of borax. Both these are pharmacopœial -preparations. - -A JAPANESE GIRL.—In common parlance we use the term “fainting” to -express any condition in which a person acutely loses consciousness and -falls to the ground. The term therefore includes epilepsy, apoplexy, -sunstroke, acute syncope, and the condition which you wish to know -about, ordinary fainting fits, or semi-syncope. The fits, as everybody -knows, occur chiefly in young women and girls who are anæmic or -hysterical. They consist of a momentary weakness of the heart-beat, as -the result of which the brain is insufficiently supplied with blood, -and the person drops down “in a heap.” This sudden falling lowers the -position of the head, and so prevents the brain from becoming anæmic. -When a person faints, or feels faint, her head should be lowered; if -she is sitting in a chair, her head should be forced down to her knees; -if she is standing up, she should be placed upon her back. How often we -see kind-hearted persons carrying a fainting girl out of church, taking -care to keep her head well raised! Sal volatile, cold water and brandy -are sometimes given to fainting girls, but none of these is necessary, -and the brandy usually does harm. Though fainting looks very dangerous, -it is really very trivial. We have never seen a death during one of -these young women’s fainting fits. - -LADY BABBIE.—It is related of a great physician that a girl once came -to him complaining, as you do, that she made horrible grimaces, moving -her scalp and eyebrows about in a most absurd manner, and making -herself look ridiculous. Of course he knew at once what was the matter, -and said to her, “Let me see you make these grimaces.” When she had -finished, he said to her, “What you have got the matter with you is -of no moment, but I warn you not to let anyone see you making those -grimaces, because when you do so you present a striking resemblance to -Mrs. ——” (a famous criminal of the time, then “wanted” by the police), -“and you may get run in if you don’t take care!” This so frightened -the girl that she never made grimaces again! This curious habit can be -cured, as you see. It is semi-involuntary—that is, it was originally -voluntary, but from constant repetition it has become a habit. It is -a habit from which you must break yourself. It is no good saying you -cannot—we say you can; but you must try, and at present avoid anything -which is liable to produce it. We have not asked you to do anything -impossible—“to do lessons or anything of _that_ sort”—but why do you -have such an objection “to do lessons or anything of _that_ sort?” You -will find that there are more unpleasant things in life than lessons! - - -MISCELLANEOUS. - -REBECCA.—The invention of the gamut and the lines of the stave is -attributed to D’Arezzo, an Italian who flourished in the eleventh -century. At the Vatican, and in the King’s Library, Paris, there are -valuable copies of his famous _Micrologus_. - -PERPLEXED.—We think it would be for your own happiness if you cleared -up the question, as no honest man has any right to be paying his -addresses to two women at once. If you have a mother, you had better -let her make the inquiry. - -MARGUERITE.—The simnel-cakes made in Lent, at Eastertide, and -Christmas, in Shropshire and Herefordshire—more especially at -Shrewsbury—date back to great antiquity. Herrick speaks of them in -one of his epigrams, from which it appears that at Gloucester it was -the custom for young people to carry simnels to their mothers on -mid-Lent Sunday, called “Mothering Sunday.” In Mediæval Latin it is -called _siminellus_, and is derived from the Latin _simila_, or fine -flour. Like the religious signification of the hot-cross-buns, the -simnel-cakes were, in early times, marked with a figure of Christ or of -the Virgin Mary. The Pagan Saxons ate cakes in honour or commemoration -of their goddess Eastre, and, unable to prevent people from so doing -as a heathen custom, the Christian clergy had the buns marked with a -cross, to remind them of our Lord and His work of redemption. - -TROUBLED ONE.—We are well acquainted with the infidel argument that -“the death of one man could not atone for, nor make restitution for, -the sins and the debts of millions of other men.” But first, Christ -was the Second Person of the Divine Trinity, and _One_ with the Father -and the Holy Ghost, and His was an infinite sacrifice for finite sin; -an infinite satisfaction for finite indebtedness. Secondly, as man’s -rebellion was against his Creator, and the unfulfilled obligations were -to Him, his Creator had an absolute right to punish, or forgive, to -claim, or to remit man’s debt _on His Own terms_. Thus, if He said, “I -will accept man’s acknowledgment of sin and indebtedness to Me, if he -offer a lamb in token thereof,” He had an indisputable right to do so; -and when He accepts a Divine, and therefore infinite sacrifice, He has -a right to do so. Who may presume to question it? - -TWO CHUMS.—The phrase, “Once in a blue moon” means “very rarely,” and -the originator of the phrase exaggerated what it was designed to mean, -as it expresses not rarity only, but impossibility of occurrence, as -there is no such thing as a “blue” moon, any more than a personage -correctly designated “Blue Beard.” - -CONSTANT READER appears to have overlooked many answers to her -question. Brides do not supply house-linen, nor furniture, nor any -household requisites. If her parents like to make a present of such a -nature, it is perfectly gratuitous. The bridegroom is naturally to have -a home suitable for the reception of his bride when he takes her from -her father’s house. - -TOM TIT.—Certainly there are books on conchology. You have only to -inquire at a good librarian’s. - -MACNALLY.—Inquire in the Will Department, Somerset House, and see those -of that date. You should give the names and probable date; 1s. is -charged for a search through each year, we believe. We have looked in -the _London Directory_ and the _Royal Red Book_, and did not see your -cousin’s address. - -A. NEIGHBOUR.—To obtain any particulars respecting the writer Mary E. -Wilkins, you had better write to her publisher. - -ANTIQUARY.—Of all the ancient nations of which we possess historical -records, Egypt stands first. According to Canon Rawlinson (quoted by -Dawson), history and archæological discoveries give the earliest date -as 2760 B.C.; of Babylon, as 2300 B.C.; of Phœnicia, as 1700 B.C.; of -Assyria, as 1500 B.C.; of India, as 1200 B.C., and of China, as 1154 -B.C. Whether any new light has been thrown on the subject by more -recent investigations and discoveries than what we receive from Canon -Rawlinson, we are not at this moment prepared to say. - -COUNTRY LASS.—Rosemary-tea is excellent for promoting the growth of the -hair. Chemists prepare it in a cleaner form than you can at home. You -cannot make your hair “wavy and glossy” unless the hair have flattened -sides to each tube (we mean if the hair be round it will not curl), -and if naturally rough, any gloss artificially produced would only be -through greasiness. Joan and Jane are feminines of the Hebrew name -John—“the gracious gift of God.” - -AMATEUR STAMP COLLECTOR.—With reference to the uses made by the -authorities at the Asile des Billodes, at Le Locle, we can only repeat -what we were told by a Swiss lady, who has long maintained a girl -herself in this special institution, that “she believed the stamps were -sent to, and made into _papier maché_ at, Nüremberg”; so for whatever -other uses they are employed, or to whatever other destinations they -may be sent (perhaps exclusive of those at Le Locle, according to their -printed advertisement), it seems that a large proportion goes to that -place. We have the paper, a copy of which you are so good as to send, -and are quite ready to believe our friend was mistaken as regards the -Asile she helps to support. - - * * * * * -[Transcriber’s Note: the following changes have been made to this text. - -Page 579: Effiie to Effie—“and now Effie”. - -Page 580: Soâne to Saône—“A Summer Voyage on the Saône”. - -Symond’s to Symonds’—“J. A Symonds’”. - -Edmond to Edmondo—“Edmondo de Amicis”. - -Taines’ to Taine’s—“H. Taine’s”. - -Page 581: Teneriffe, and its Seven Satellites to Tenerife, and its Six -Satellites. - -Vesa to Vasa—“Gustavus Vasa”. - -Alex. to Alec.—“Alec. Tweedie”. - -Grohmann to Grohman—“W. A. Grohman”. - -Page 583: conciousness to consciousness—“self-consciousness”. - -Page 586: baking powder to baking-powder—“baking-powder. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1015, June 10, 1899 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: October 19, 2019 [EBook #60519] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER *** - - - - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_577" id="Page_577">{577}</a></span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /><div class="chapter"> - - -<h1 class="faux">THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER</h1> - - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/header.jpg" width="600" height="202" alt="The Girl's Own Paper." /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<div class="header"> -<p class="floatl"><span class="smcap">Vol. XX.—No. 1015.]</span></p> -<p class="floatr"><span class="smcap">[Price One Penny.</span></p> -<p class="floatc">JUNE 10, 1899.</p> -</div></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="center">[Transcriber’s Note: This Table of Contents was not present in the original.]</p> - -<p class="center"> - - -<!-- Autogenerated TOC. Modify or delete as required. --> - -<a href="#SHEILAS">SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE.</a><br /> -<a href="#VARIETIES">VARIETIES.</a><br /> -<a href="#BOOKS_BEFORE_TRAVEL">BOOKS BEFORE TRAVEL.</a><br /> -<a href="#A_QUIVER_OF_QUOTATIONS">A QUIVER OF QUOTATIONS.</a><br /> -<a href="#OUR_HERO">“OUR HERO.”</a><br /> -<a href="#ON_SOME_POINTS_OF_DEPORTMENT_IN_SINGING">ON SOME POINTS OF DEPORTMENT IN SINGING.</a><br /> -<a href="#HANGING_CASE_FOR_UMBRELLAS_AND_STICKS">HANGING CASE FOR UMBRELLAS AND STICKS.</a><br /> -<a href="#AFTERNOON_TEA_A_CHAT_OVER_THE_TEACUPS">“AFTERNOON TEA;” A CHAT OVER THE TEACUPS.</a><br /> -<a href="#THE_HOUSE_WITH_THE_VERANDAH">THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH.</a><br /> -<a href="#USEFUL_HINTS">USEFUL HINTS.</a><br /> -<a href="#STRAY_LEAVES_FROM_ASSAM">STRAY LEAVES FROM ASSAM.</a><br /> -<a href="#ON_A_VERY_OLD_PIANO">ON A VERY OLD PIANO.</a><br /> -<a href="#SOME_HOLIDAY_MUSIC">SOME HOLIDAY MUSIC.</a><br /> -<a href="#ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS">ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.</a><br /> - -<!-- End Autogenerated TOC. --> - -</p> - - - - - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="SHEILAS" id="SHEILAS">SHEILA’S -COUSIN EFFIE.</a></h2> - -<p class="ph3">A STORY FOR GIRLS.</p> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN, Author of “Greyfriars,” “Half-a-dozen -Sisters,” etc.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w450"> -<img src="images/i_577.jpg" width="450" height="571" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p class="center">“THE MAN GRINNED AND SHOOK HIS HEAD.”</p></div> -</div> - -<p class="smalltext"><i>All rights reserved.</i>]</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER X.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">AFTER-EFFECTS AND CYRIL.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">The</span> whole place was in a -tumult. The streets were -thronged. Passionate inquiries -and greetings were -passing from mouth to mouth. -The chief thing was to get -the girls under cover as -quickly as possible, out of the -hubbub all round the municipal -buildings. The Bensons -threw open their house; the -Cossarts did the same. Sheila -soon found herself, together -with May Lawrence and Miss -Adene, in her aunt’s drawing-room, -where Raby and -Ray had preceded them, and -they were received with the -warmest effusion by the company -gathered there, for in the -confusion and alarm nobody -was confidently reckoned to be -safe till he or she had been -actually seen.</p> - -<p>North came in a few minutes -later.</p> - -<p>“Effie has been taken -straight home in our uncle’s -carriage. We could not get -at you, Sheila, so Oscar is to -take you back later on, when -the excitement is abated. Are -the girls there? That’s all -right. Yes, mater, I am safe -enough; but don’t keep me. -There are frantic mothers -hunting up their children still. -I believe no lives have been -lost; but I must go and do -what I can to reassure them. -We must find the waifs and -strays, and get them to their -right owners!”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_578" id="Page_578">{578}</a></span></p> - -<p>He kissed his mother and swung -himself off; and then a little more quiet -fell upon the room, whilst those who had -been eye-witnesses of the catastrophe -were eagerly called upon to relate their -experiences.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Cossart had not been at the hall -that afternoon, being fatigued by her -exertions the two previous days; and -her husband, having let all the boys off, -had had to keep to the office himself, -and only came hurrying home in alarm -and consternation when the news -reached him that the Town Hall was on -fire!</p> - -<p>Sheila, listening breathlessly whilst -some ladies who had been in the lower -hall related their experiences, thought -that they had escaped the worst of the -terror by being in the upper room. -Several of the children’s frocks had -caught fire, and it seemed at one time -as though the whole place and the -hapless people would be in a blaze; but -there were plenty of exits, and the police -at the doors kept their heads, and -passed the children out with great -rapidity; and the firemen were on the -scene almost at once. The flames got firm -hold upon the temporary structures of -stalls and so forth, but the building -itself never took fire, being of solid -stone.</p> - -<p>There had been fearful screams, and -wild panic; but on the whole the people -had behaved exceedingly well, and -though there was some inevitable -crushing, there had been no actual -block, and it was believed that no lives -had been lost.</p> - -<p>“The only man I saw who behaved -really badly,” said one lady, who had -evidently been instrumental in saving -several children, and whose dress was -much burnt in consequence, “was one -of the actors from upstairs, who came -flying down, and pushed and fought his -way out without heeding anything or -anybody. He overturned several little -children, and one of them would have -been trampled to death had not a policeman -snatched it up. I was really glad -to see another man—a fireman, I believe—give -the young man a sound cuff on -the side of his head that sent him reeling -out into the open. I won’t say that -nobody else hustled or pushed—at a -time like that one cannot observe everything—but -I saw no one else disgrace -his manhood in that way.”</p> - -<p>“Shameful,” said Mr. Tom sternly. -“One of the actors, you say. One -ought to be able to find out who it -was.”</p> - -<p>“He had on a white satin suit—that -made him the more conspicuous. I -suppose he had completely lost his -head. One must not be too hard on -people who do that; but one rather -hates to see it.”</p> - -<p>At that moment the door opened and -Cyril came airily in. His cheek was -very red, as though from some sort of -injury, and his mother sprang forward -exclaiming—</p> - -<p>“Oh, my boy, did you get burned?”</p> - -<p>Cyril put up his hand and laughed.</p> - -<p>“Did I? I did not notice. One has -not time to think of that sort of thing at -such a time. Besides, I was out of it -sooner than many. I was afraid the -people in the council room, which was -the theatre, would be cut off from help. -I made a dash for it to get the fire-escape -brought round to them at the -windows. One could not tell at the -outset how fast the fire would spread. -I was horribly afraid they would all be -suffocated up there, whilst the energies -of the rescuers were directed to the -larger hall. I’m afraid I was rather -unceremonious in my flight, but, at any -rate, I accomplished my purpose, and -that’s the great thing.”</p> - -<p>Sheila and May exchanged quick -glances. Was that really Cyril’s motive -in making that wild bolt? Certainly it -had not been the impression produced -upon those who had heard and seen him -at the time. His father looked at him -steadily, and said—</p> - -<p>“I hope you were not the man in -white satin, who overturned little children -and pushed aside women and girls in -his determination to get out. Whatever -your motive, nothing could excuse -conduct like that.”</p> - -<p>Cyril’s face flushed, but he answered -airily—</p> - -<p>“In such confusion I think nobody -can quite say what it is that happens. -I am quite willing to bear any odium -my townspeople like to put upon me, so -long as I know that I was in time to -accomplish my errand, and send the -escape to the windows where my sisters -and cousins were waiting.”</p> - -<p>Nobody spoke for a few minutes, and -then Raby remarked slowly—</p> - -<p>“It was Lionel Benson who went for -the escape and brought it.”</p> - -<p>“Yes; Lionel came up in time to -escort it. I was hardly in the costume -for that part of the business. Well, he -is quite welcome to the honour and -glory. So long as you are all safe, I -care for nothing else.”</p> - -<p>A carriage presently drew up at the -door, and one of May’s brothers came -in, saying that the streets were getting -quiet, and she could drive back safely -now. Miss Adene and May were now -the only guests left in the Cossarts’ -drawing-room, and they bade a very -warm adieu to their entertainers, drawn -together by that common bond of -sympathy which an experience such as -had just been passed through quickly -establishes.</p> - -<p>“You must come and see us very -soon,” said May to Sheila, “and tell us -how Effie is. I’m afraid she will feel -the shock.”</p> - -<p>Sheila kissed her and Miss Adene -affectionately, promised to ride over as -soon as she could, and soon afterwards -started off on foot with Oscar for Cossart -Place, he having leave from his uncle to -remain there over the Sunday if he were -invited.</p> - -<p>“For I don’t think any of you will be -much good to-morrow,” said he, with a -hand on Oscar’s shoulder. “It has -been a bit of a shock to us all. Take a -day off, and come back like a giant -refreshed on Monday. Let us have -word of poor little Effie. I hope it -won’t throw her into a fever.”</p> - -<p>Brother and sister went off contentedly -together, and they could not but take a -look into the open space round the -Town Hall before starting out into the -country.</p> - -<p>The crowd was still large about it, -but it was known now that no serious -harm had been done to the building, -and that there had been no loss of life, -though a few persons had been injured, -and many were suffering from the effects -of fright and burns.</p> - -<p>As they passed by the fire-station -they saw the grimy face of the man who -had come with the escape, and he, -recognising them, put up his hand in -salute, and said—</p> - -<p>“The young lady none the worse, -sir?”</p> - -<p>“Not a bit,” answered Sheila, answering -for herself; “you came and took -us away before there was any real -danger. Who was it told you about -us up at the windows?”</p> - -<p>“Mr. Benson, miss—Mr. Lionel, I -should say. We might not have known -about it but for him. We thought as -everybody had come down and were -getting out by the doors.”</p> - -<p>“Was it not Mr. Cyril Cossart who -first gave the alarm?”</p> - -<p>The man grinned and shook his head.</p> - -<p>“Bless you, miss, that young gentleman -lost his head quite. They say he -fought his way out like a madman, and -lots of people saw him flying home in -his white finery like a cat with a cinder -on its back! No, no, missie, it was Mr. -Lionel as brought us news of the folks -at the windows. We musn’t be too -hard on the people as loses their heads -at such a time; but we likes better to -see them behaving themselves rational -like. It was fine the way the ladies -in the hall behaved! They thought -nothing of themselves, but all was for -getting the little ’uns safely out. If -they’d gone and lost their heads and -made a rush, it would have been a terrible -nasty business, and some of ’em had -bound to be killed; but what with them -behind and the police at the doors, it all -went off beautiful, one might say.”</p> - -<p>They talked a little more to the man -and then went their way.</p> - -<p>Sheila’s face wore an indignant flush. -She said in a low voice to Oscar—</p> - -<p>“I think I could have forgiven him -the panic; he mightn’t be able to help -that. But to tell that mean lie afterwards! -Oh, I can never respect him -again.”</p> - -<p>Oscar was silent a few minutes, and -then said slowly—</p> - -<p>“I think, Sheila, that we had better -try to forget it, and not to say anything -to anybody else about it. It hurts -people’s feelings if their next-of-kin are -proved unworthy, and Cyril has been -thought so much of at home. Perhaps -in the confusion nobody will think much -more about it. You know it is often the -nearest relatives who do not hear the -exact truth about a bit of a failure like -that. We won’t be the people to talk -of it. Our uncle and aunt have been -very kind to us. We must remember -that, and I think it would be a terrible -trouble to Aunt Tom if she were to -think——”</p> - -<p>Oscar did not complete his sentence, -and Sheila said quickly—</p> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_579" id="Page_579">{579}</a></span></p> - -<p>“Isn’t it better for them to know the -truth?”</p> - -<p>“But perhaps it isn’t really the truth,” -said Oscar, “I am not sure that a man -should be judged for what he does in a -time of panic——”</p> - -<p>“No, but the lie afterwards——”</p> - -<p>“Yes, that was bad; but think of the -temptation to make some excuse for -himself! Do you know I can fancy -being tempted to it. He had always -been thought so much of at home and -in the town. To be branded as a coward! -It would be almost unendurable.”</p> - -<p>Sheila was silent; she felt that Cyril -deserved the brand, and her youthful -clearness of judgment made compromise -difficult.</p> - -<p>“Well, I won’t say anything if you -don’t think I ought, but I can never -like Cyril again. I shall always despise -him.”</p> - -<p>“We must not despise one another -more than we can help,” said Oscar -soberly. “You know, Sheila, we have -so many faults ourselves. We ought to -try and think of that.”</p> - -<p>Sheila was accustomed to defer to -Oscar’s judgment, and she was kindly -by nature, though frank and candid. -She did not see much good in hushing -things up, but she promised not to speak -herself of what the fireman had said. -She rather hoped it would come out to -some of the rest; she did not think that -North would be easily deceived. He -had been very indignant about Cyril’s -conduct.</p> - -<p>But upon reaching home the current -of her thoughts was soon turned in -another direction.</p> - -<p>Effie was ill!</p> - -<p>There was no gainsaying it this time. -Fanciful she might be, and others for -her, but the shock and the fright of the -fire had been too much for her. She -had lapsed into unconsciousness during -the drive home with her father, and now, -though put to bed and with the doctor -in attendance, she had shown no signs -of animation.</p> - -<p>Sheila was not permitted to go up to -the room, and glad was she that Oscar -was with her. Suppose Effie should die! -The thought sent the blood ebbing from -Sheila’s cheeks.</p> - -<p>“Oh, I wish I had cared more for her, -I wish I had not been so selfish so often. -Oscar, I begin to be afraid I am selfish. -I do think first what I like myself, and -then I try to invent reasons for doing -it. I have so often left Effie alone and -gone out riding, or doing things that -amused me. Oh, I wish I hadn’t -now!”</p> - -<p>“I’m afraid we’re all rather like that,” -answered Oscar. “I know I am. Perhaps -things like this—that fire, and -now Effie—are sent to pull us up and -make us think. It came over me when -for a moment one wondered whether -there would be any getting out, how -little one had done with one’s life. Perhaps -it will help us to think more, Sheila. -I’m sure I need it.”</p> - -<p>“If you do, I do much more,” said -Sheila; and they sat clinging together -in the dusk, till at last the sound of -steps and voices on the staircase roused -them, and Sheila started up crying—</p> - -<p>“Oh, there is the doctor. Let us go -and ask him.”</p> - -<p>He was coming down with Mrs. -Cossart; she was looking greatly upset, -but his face wore a look of grave cheerfulness, -and they heard him say—</p> - -<p>“Yes, she will want care—great care—for -some time to come, but there is -nothing to agitate yourself about—no -probability of a return of that condition. -Let her be kept perfectly quiet, and she -will sleep right away now. What I have -given her will ensure that. I will look -in first thing to-morrow morning.”</p> - -<p>Sheila stood trembling in the hall -below, and hearing words which proved -to her that Effie was better, she suddenly -burst into tears and sobbed uncontrollably.</p> - -<p>“Tut, tut,” said the doctor kindly, -“what is the matter here?”</p> - -<p>“She was upset to hear about her -cousin’s illness,” said Oscar, answering -for her. “She was in the Town Hall -too, and I think we all got a fright, and -coming home to hear of illness had upset -her quite.”</p> - -<p>“Send her to bed, send her to bed,” -said the doctor kindly, “and keep her -there till I come to-morrow. I can’t stay -now. I am wanted in all directions at -once. It has been a bad bit of business, -but thank God things are wonderfully -better than we might have looked to see.”</p> - -<p>And the doctor went off in haste, being -wanted, as he said, in half a dozen -different directions, whilst Mrs. Cossart -took Sheila in her arms, in an almost -motherly embrace, for her tears over -Effie’s illness had touched a chord of -sympathy.</p> - -<p>“Is dear Effie better?” sobbed Sheila.</p> - -<p>“Yes, just a little; she’s come to -herself, but he would not let her talk, -and gave her an injection of morphia -which sent her off to sleep. Perhaps -she will wake up much better. And -now, my dear, you must come to bed -and tell me all about it, for I have not -been able to hear anything, and I am -all in a tremble still to think of you all—and -my precious child—in the midst of -such terrible danger.”</p> - -<p>“And I don’t feel as though I could -do anything,” cried Sheila, “till I have -thanked God for saving us and for -making Effie better.”</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chapter"> - - -<h2><a name="VARIETIES" id="VARIETIES">VARIETIES.</a></h2> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">The Dishonest Servant.</span></p> - -<p>A well-known firm in Edinburgh consisted -of two partners, and to provide against dangers -from fire and burglary it was made a stipulation -in the deed of partnership that one or -other of the heads of the firm should always -sleep on the premises.</p> - -<p>In the course of years this became rather an -irksome restriction on their liberty, and in -order to free themselves from it they agreed -to take into partnership their manager, an old -servant of the house, on condition that he -should occupy the bedroom and so fulfil the -requirements of the deed.</p> - -<p>The old servant was naturally very much -moved by this recognition of his services, but -pleaded that he had not the necessary capital -to qualify him for partnership. As to that it -was only £500 that was required, and that the -firm had decided to give him.</p> - -<p>And so the matter was settled. The trusty -servant became a partner and took possession -of the room, and in it he was found dead next -morning, having committed suicide.</p> - -<p>He left behind him a letter in which he -explained that all those years during which he -had been so trusted by his employers, he had -been robbing them, and their great kindness -had so filled him with remorse that he could -not live under it.</p> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">The Power of Music.</span></p> - -<p>The late Dean Stanley was very fond of -Jenny Lind, but when she stayed at his -father’s palace at Norwich, he always left the -room when she sang.</p> - -<p>One evening Jenny Lind had been singing -Handel’s “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” -Stanley, as usual, had left the room, but he -came back after the music was over, and went -shyly up to the great singer.</p> - -<p>“You know,” he said, “I dislike music. -I don’t know what people mean in admiring -it. I am very stupid, tone-deaf, as others are -colour-blind. But,” he added, with some -warmth, “to-night, when from a distance I -heard you singing that song, I had an inkling -of what people mean by music. Something -came over me which I had never felt before; -or, yes, I have felt it once before in my life.”</p> - -<p>Jenny Lind was all attention.</p> - -<p>“Some years ago,” he continued, “I was -at Vienna, and one evening there was a tattoo -before the palace performed by four hundred -drummers. I felt shaken, and to-night while -listening to your singing, the same feeling -came over me. I felt deeply moved.”</p> - -<p>“Dear man,” Jenny Lind used to say, when -she told this story, “I know he meant well, -and a more honest compliment I never received -in all my life.”</p> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">Bad Temper.</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">“Of all bad things by which mankind are cursed</div> -<div class="verse">Their own bad temper surely is the worst.”</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse right"><i>Cumberland.</i></div> -</div></div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chap"> - -<h2><span class="smcap">Answer to Double Acrostic I.</span> (p. 364).</h2> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="center">1.</td><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">asi</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">2.</td><td align="center">B</td><td align="center">l</td><td align="left">A</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">3.</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">lectri</td><td align="left">C</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">4.</td><td align="center">D</td><td align="center">urba</td><td align="left">R</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">5.</td><td align="center">I</td><td align="center">lluminat</td><td align="left">I (<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1"><i>a</i></a>)</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">6.</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">thelwol</td><td align="left">F (<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2"><i>b</i></a>)</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">7.</td><td align="center">N</td><td align="center">anc</td><td align="left">I (<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3"><i>c</i></a>)</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">8.</td><td align="center">C</td><td align="center">ambri</td><td align="left">C (<a name="FNanchor_D_4" id="FNanchor_D_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_D_4"><i>d</i></a>)</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">9.</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">uphrosyn</td><td align="left">E (<a name="FNanchor_E_5" id="FNanchor_E_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_E_5"><i>e</i></a>)</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left" colspan="3">Obedience.</td><td align="left">Sacrifice.</td></tr> -</table></div> - - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">(<i>a</i>)</span></a> A secret society founded in 1776 by Adam -Weishaupt at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, for mutual assistance -in attaining higher morality and virtue. It was -suppressed by the Bavarian Government in 1784.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">(<i>b</i>)</span></a> The son of Egbert, and father of Alfred the -Great.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">(<i>c</i>)</span></a> Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, besieged -Nanci in 1476; but he was defeated and killed.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_D_4" id="Footnote_D_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_D_4"><span class="label">(<i>d</i>)</span></a> So called from being made first at Cambray.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_E_5" id="Footnote_E_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_E_5"><span class="label">(<i>e</i>)</span></a> One of the three Graces, or Charities.</p></div> - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_580" id="Page_580">{580}</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="BOOKS_BEFORE_TRAVEL" id="BOOKS_BEFORE_TRAVEL">BOOKS BEFORE TRAVEL.</a></h2> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> DORA DE BLAQUIÈRE.</p> - - -<h3>PART I.</h3> - -<div class="ddropcapbox w125"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_580.jpg" width="125" height="124" alt='A' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase">nd</span> even as I write this -heading I feel my -heart failing me -somewhat. First the -largeness of the subject -before me is a -cause of misgiving -and next the thought -of the many differing -minds and impressions -of the people -who travel nowadays, and who, most of them, -are of the generation of globe-trotters. These -care more about covering the surface of the -earth with their tracks, and are not in the -least degree anxious about the culture that -may be acquired in travel, and the nearly -dormant condition of the intellect carried -about with them in their peregrinations. -Others who travel are eager to see, but have -had in their past life neither the time nor the -means to educate themselves for enjoyment; -or they are too young to have had the opportunity -to do so. We all meet with examples -of these classes on our own travels, and there -are few of us who have not, at some time, had -cause to exclaim, “Good gracious! what on -earth did these people come abroad for?” so -little interest do they find or show in the -beauties of nature or art which surround -them. They are far more interested in their -meals, the bills at the hotels, and the extortions -of the shops, than in the finest pictures -by Guido, or the loveliest and grandest view -from a mountain-side.</p> - -<p>But even while I write, this I know, that -the earnest study of years and the reading of -many books would hardly suffice to the knowing -of it all; and we often have to be content -with the careful reading of Baedeker or -Murray, and the use of our eyes; and reserve -the reading-up of the subject until we have -reached home once more. Even then, we -often do not know what to get in the way of -reading, unless we have some direction to aid -us. It is to help those who have time before -starting, and those who desire to read up, as -I have said, afterwards, that these articles are -written, and if there be some shortcomings, -some books left out, or others inserted that -should not have been put in, it must be remembered -that my views of what I personally -want to prepare myself for a journey may not be -your views; and that everyone is not interested -in a special object. Therefore the list must be -comprehensive, so as to take in all comers.</p> - -<p>It always seems to me a good plan to start -with the history of the country to which your -steps are turned, because the chief interest of -every land must naturally be derived from its -past, from the people who made it what it is, -and who lived in its buildings, on its lands, -and worshipped in its temples. If the country -in which we travel be our own England, we -generally have learnt enough of its history to -make the names of the actors in it household -words; and the local histories have been carefully -collected for us by the many archæological -societies in all parts of England. So that -we may, if we like, know all particulars of the -styles of living, and the people, and manners of -the past centuries. In England especially, men -who lived in it made the interest of the land -they lived in, and the same is true of Scotland. -But in Ireland it was different, and there the -land is the chief point of interest, and the -interest is with legend more than with real -people and things. If the Green Isle had only -been fortunate enough to have a wizard-like -Walter Scott to touch the scenery, and make -it alive with people, what a change it would -have worked for her to-day!</p> - -<p>For a history of England we cannot do -better than select Green’s <i>History of the -English People</i>, which is not only history, but -history written in a delightsome manner, and -quite long enough to be interesting and concise -enough not to fatigue the reader of any -age. But if time be not an object to you, -take Miss Strickland’s histories and read -them through, every one of them, even including -those of the <i>Bachelor Kings</i>. It may be -the fashion to think her gossipy, but her -gossip is worth anything in making you feel -that the people of whom you read really lived, -breathed, and walked the earth. Scott, -Wordsworth, and Tennyson, Shakespeare, -and Ossian; and in Ireland both Lever and -Lover should bear you company, while the -reminiscences of Dean Ramsay and Wilson -will make you feel Edinburgh doubly delightful. -In the far north, William Black has -touched Thule and the Hebrides with the pen -of romance; and Kingsley and Blackmore -have done the same in the south, with <i>Westward -Ho!</i> and <i>Lorna Doone</i>. And in London -we walk with Thackeray and Dickens, on -every side, from Piccadilly and Clubland to -Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Fleet Street.</p> - -<p>Beside the romancer we must also read -Freeman’s <i>English Towns and Districts</i> and -Fergusson’s <i>Architecture</i>, George Barrow’s -<i>Wild Wales</i>, King’s <i>Handbook of the Cathedrals</i>, -and Cassell’s <i>Old and New London</i>. -Alfred Rimmer’s book on the <i>Ancient Streets -and Homesteads of England</i> is most helpful, -and I will end by remarking that you had -better begin Ruskin, with, I think, the -Elements of Drawing and the <i>Lectures on -Art</i>.</p> - -<p>In France we are very well off for books -in all languages; but in the way of history, -Guizot’s is rather a long business, and any -shorter history which is available is less tiring, -if you be not a rapid reader. Viollet le Duc -will be a great delight to you, I am sure, and -Hare’s <i>Walks in Paris</i> and <i>Ways near Paris</i>, -and Eastlake’s <i>Notes on the Louvre</i>, with a -good guide, should be enough for the capital. -In the way of romance, you have Victor -Hugo’s <i>Hunchback of Notre Dame</i>. Miss -M. B. Edwards’ <i>France of To-day</i>, <i>A Year -in Western France</i>, and <i>Holidays in Eastern -France</i> are charming books, and so are -Hamerton’s <i>Round my House</i>, <i>Modern -Frenchmen</i>, and <i>A Summer Voyage on the -Saône</i>. Miss Pardoe’s books on the Court of -France are also well worth reading for the -historical side of life.</p> - -<p>Switzerland I have always thought most -resembles England, in the interest of its -history, and in the character of its people. -In many ways it is the model country of -Europe, for the Swiss are ever open to change -and improvement, and to trying experiments -in all the social walks of life into which many -other greater nations would shrink from embarking. -A book recently published on -<i>Social Switzerland</i> gives a view of their -charitable and other institutions, and shows -this very clearly, and it is worth reading if -you be interested in that side of the country. -General Meredith Reade’s two great volumes -of <i>Vaud and Berne</i>, deal entirely with the -historical, descriptive, and family side of the -country, and are very interesting. Foreigners -have done much to make Switzerland delightful, -and especially the English, for have we -not that delightful <i>Playground of Europe</i> -by Leslie Stephens, and J. A. Symonds’ -<i>Swiss Highlands</i>, <i>Tyndall’s Glaciers</i> and -<i>Whymper’s Alps</i>, to say nothing of a long -series of most excellent guide-books, and -histories, and the finest of poetry, beginning -with Coleridge’s <i>Hymn to Mont Blanc</i>, and -Byron’s <i>Prisoner of Chillon</i>.</p> - -<p>There seems to be hardly a foot of this most -delightful country that is without its interest, -and its literature; and if we read French and -German it is well worth the trouble to read -Vinet, the philosopher and religious writer, -and Amiel’s Diary, the saddest and most -beautiful of records.</p> - -<p>If you are interested in the flowers of the -mountains, you have a delightful book by W. -Robinson, <i>Alpine Flowers</i>; and <i>The Alps in -Winter</i> are written of by Mrs. Main (Mrs. -Fred Burnaby), and the many books on Davos -Platz, and the Engadine, may all be found in -any catalogue, if health be in question. If -you were interested in geology, glaciers, and -botany, you can study them with ease in -Switzerland, as well as Lancastrian dwellings, -and the last methods in tree-culture. As for -schools, they abound, and the Swiss education -is the best in the world, in its thoroughness -and complete grounding in all subjects. -Lately, too, it has been found worth while -to study the Swiss army, and its manœuvres -which take place every year in the month of -September.</p> - -<p>One of the European countries round which -both history and literature have been making -and growing is Holland; and for so small a -country the amount of both is quite marvellous. -It is all so interesting too, and most of -it in our own tongue, so that we need not be -professors in Dutch. The most delightful -of all histories have been written for us by -American hands, and no library is complete -without Motley’s two great Dutch works, -<i>The Rise of the Dutch Republic</i> and the -<i>History of the United Netherlands</i>. The -great Italian writer, Edmondo de Amicis, has -written two books on Holland—<i>Holland</i>, and -<i>Holland and its People</i>; and we have the -charming volume on the <i>Dead Cities of the -Zuyder Zee</i>, H. Taine’s <i>Low Countries</i>, and -<i>Holland and Germany</i>, by J. P. Mahaffy and -J. E. Rogers. In the “Story of the Nations” -Series there is an excellent volume by J. E. T. -Rogers, and there are several delightful tales -published lately, with the Low Countries for a -background. And we have made acquaintance -with Maarten Maartens, the author of -stories that are Dutch in their characters and -surroundings.</p> - -<p>You must bear in mind that the Netherlands -means Holland and Belgium. For so small a -portion of the earth, the history of Holland is -most interesting; and we must remember -that she was once the mistress of the seas. -There is a popular history of the <i>Great Dutch -Admirals</i>, by Jacob de Liefde, and he has -also written <i>Beggars, Founders of the Dutch -Republic</i>. Prescott’s work of <i>Philip II. of -Spain</i> covers much the same ground as -Motley’s <i>Rise of the Dutch Republic</i>, though -from the point of view of Spain. In this -connection, W. C. Robinson’s <i>The Revolt of -the Netherlands</i> may be read. Holland -claims to be the birthplace of printing, and -advances the claims of Haarlem, in -opposition to Mentz, and the record of the -Elzevir presses at Leyden, Amsterdam, and -the Hague is a very famous one. Lord -Ronald Gower has written a <i>Pocket Guide to -the Art Galleries of Belgium and Holland</i>, -containing both the public and private -galleries; and Kate Thompson has contributed -a <i>Handbook to the Picture Galleries<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_581" id="Page_581">{581}</a></span> -of Europe</i>, while there are several very -excellent guide-books in the ordinary way.</p> - -<p>Now that Norway is so much visited, it -would not be well to leave it out of the list of -places to be seen, and read up before visiting. -I think the most charming book I have ever -read about it is Mrs. Stone’s <i>Norway in -June</i>, which is quite as delightful as her -<i>Tenerife, and its Six Satellites</i>. <i>Round -about Norway</i>, by Charles W. Wood, is -another pleasant volume; and Professor -Boyesen’s <i>History of Norway</i> is one of the -best-written of histories.</p> - -<p>There are several best books on Sweden. -<i>The Land of the Midnight Sun</i>, by Du -Chaillu, and <i>Under Northern Skies</i>, by -Charles W. Wood, are concerned with both -countries; and in the way of romance, we -have Frederica Bremer’s works, which are full -of national colour. Paul du Chaillu has also -written a delightful book called, <i>The Viking -Age</i>, in two volumes, illustrated. The <i>Story -of Norway</i> has been written also by Mrs. -Arthur Sedgwick. In the way of Historical -Biographies, there are many. Charles XII., -Gustavus Vasa, Gustavus Adolphus, and the -Thirty Years War; with that wonderful -woman, Queen Christina, and Queen Caroline -Matilda, who was the sister of George III.</p> - -<p>The early history of Denmark is of course -comprised in the history of Scandinavia -generally; and the same may be said of -Iceland and Greenland. An excellent Handbook -of Runic Remains and Monuments, -both in England and Scandinavia, has been -written by Professor George Stephens, and -these you should know something about in -reference to both countries. The Danish -novel <i>Afraja</i>, and Björnstjerne Björnson’s -<i>Stories and Norse Tales</i> are well worth reading. -Mrs. Alec. Tweedie has written <i>A Girl’s -Ride in Iceland</i>, and a pleasant book about -Finland. And there is the <i>Ultima Thule</i> of -Sir Richard Burton, and <i>The Story of -Iceland</i>, by Letitia MacColl. <i>The Land of -the North Wind</i>, by E. Rae, and <i>Under the -Rays of the Aurora Borealis</i> is a book -written by a Dane, and translated. One of -the most delightful books I ever read of, one -of which a new edition was issued in 1887, is -that entitled <i>Letters from High Latitudes</i>, by -the Earl (now Marquis) of Dufferin; and -there is a charming book by Baring Gould, on -<i>Iceland, its Sagas and Scenes</i>. Iceland is a -country which is more and more visited every -year; but there are no more recent books -than those I have mentioned.</p> - -<p>We are so near to Russia that it seems -foolish to pass it by, though I feel it is a -difficult country to deal with. The history of -Russia is dealt with in the “Story of the -Nations” Series. Mr. A. J. C. Hare has given -us <i>Studies in Russia</i>, and the R.T.S. a -charming <i>Russian Pictures drawn by Pen -and Pencil</i>. Mr. W. S. Ralston’s <i>Songs of -the Russian Peasantry</i> contains an excellent -account of the social life of Russia. In the -way of poetry, the Rev. T. C. Wilson has -translated for us <i>Russian Lyrics into English -Verse</i>, which gives specimens of all the best -recent poets, and there are translations of the -works by most of the Russian novelists, as -well as of Tolstoi’s books. But I do not feel -inclined to advise you to enter on this troubled -sea of thought. As a mere traveller you will -not need to do so. Turner’s <i>Studies in -Russian Literature</i>, and his <i>Lectures on -Modern Novelists of Russia</i>, are quite enough -for you, I fancy. The latter were delivered at -the Taylor Institute, Oxford, and are pleasant -and instructive, both. An <i>Art Tour to the Northern -Capitals of Europe</i>, by Atkinson, includes -those of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kiel.</p> - -<p>In Germany the poets are our best travelling -companions. I remember Nuremberg best -through the medium of Longfellow, and its -history through the historical tales of Mühlbach, -Auerbach, and Marlitt. The Baroness Tautpheous, -the Howitts, and even Hans Christian -Andersen, and Grimm, have all, too, -lent a magic to the land. The literature that -has arisen with Wagner and Bayreuth, for a -centre, is very wide, and begins with the -<i>Arthurian Legends</i> and the <i>Nibelungen-Lied</i>. -Of the first you will have some knowledge -from our own Tennyson and the <i>Idylls of the -King</i>, even if you do not go as far as the -<i>Mabinogion</i>, which was edited and translated -by Lady Charlotte Guest, of which there is -an abridged edition. We have a translation -of the <i>Nibelungen-Lied</i> by W. N. Lettsom, -and another by A. G. Foster-Barham, in the -“Great Musicians” Series. <i>Wagner</i> is written -by Dr. F. Hueffer, who has also written -<i>Wagner and the Music of the Future</i>. There -is a volume to be obtained at Bayreuth of all -the operas given there, which you will most -likely procure, if you should be led there any -August to assist at the Wagner festival.</p> - -<p>For Austria we have several delightful -fellow-travellers. Amelia B. Edwards, in <i>Untrodden -Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys</i>, deals -with the Dolomite region; a more recent book -is Robertson’s <i>Through the Dolomites</i>; and -there are two books by W. A. Grohman on -<i>Tyrol and the Tyrolese</i>, and <i>Gaddings with a -Primitive People</i>. Victor Tissot’s <i>Unknown -Hungary</i> has been translated from the French, -and the little-known <i>Dalmatia</i> has been dealt -with by Mr. T. G. Jackson. C. W. Wood -has written <i>In the Black Forest</i>. There are -several modern books on Bismarck and his -master, the Emperor William I., and also on -Imperial Germany, and you should choose the -most recent of these. There is an illustrated -book, by K. Stieler, called the <i>Rhine from -its Source to the Sea</i>, which has been translated -and is very interesting. As a general -thing, the guide-books are so many and so -various, dealing with health, baths and spas, -and the various artists, musicians, battle-fields, -and seats of learning, that unless you -were looking up any special subject, they will -give all the information you require for -travelling in the Fatherland.</p> - -<p>In the way of extended literature, you may -read, if you like, Helen Zimmern’s <i>Half-hours -with Foreign Novelists</i>, and in the way -of distant travels there is, to me, the ever-fascinating -Ida Pfeiffer, that wonderful German -woman, whose wanderings were worldwide, -and the contents of whose purse was -microscopic at all times. Mrs. Bird, Miss -Gordon Cumming, Lady Brassey, Miss -Kingsley, and that delightful Miss Gates, -who is quite the equal of Madame Pfeiffer -in her fearless and adventurous spirit, are all -worth reading. James Gilmore, as a writer -and traveller, is so delightful that one feels -the deepest regret at his early death. Mr. -and Mrs. Pennell are always excellent companions, -whether they travel to the Hebrides -or take a <i>Sentimental Journey through France</i>; -or one nearer home, <i>On the Stream of Pleasure; -The Thames from Oxford to London</i>, or <i>Play -in Provence</i>. They are the pioneers in cycling, -for the tourist, and have steadily ridden from -the days of the tricycle, till it has been eclipsed -by a more rapid machine.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chap"> - -<h2><a name="A_QUIVER_OF_QUOTATIONS" id="A_QUIVER_OF_QUOTATIONS">A QUIVER OF QUOTATIONS.</a></h2> - - -<p>“Let a girl grow as a tree grows.”—<i>Mrs. -Willard.</i></p> - -<p>“She gave me eyes, she gave me ears.”—<i>Wordsworth.</i></p> - -<p>“Education is but another term for preparation -for eternity.”—<i>Sewell.</i></p> - -<p>“By dint of frequently asserting that a man -is a fool, we make him so.”—<i>Pascal.</i></p> - -<p>“To assert a child is indifferent to its -parents is not the way to make it affectionate.”—<i>Guyau.</i></p> - -<p>“Our children should be brought up, from -the first, with this magnet, ‘Ye are not your -own.’”—<i>Mason.</i></p> - -<p>“All education should be directed to this -end, viz., to convince a child that he is capable -of good and incapable of evil.”</p> - -<p>“The art of managing the young consists, -before everything else, in assuming them to be -as good as they wish to be.”—<i>Guyau.</i></p> - -<p>“The best service a mother can do her -children is to maintain the standard of her -own life at its highest—</p> - -<p class="ml2">“‘Allure to brighter worlds and lead the -way.’”—“<i>A Great Mother.</i>”</p> - -<p>“A child should not need to choose between -right and wrong. It should not conceive of -wrong. Obedient, not by sudden strain or -effort, but in the freedom of its bright course -of constant life. True, with an undistinguished, -unboastful truth, in a crystalline household of -truth. Gentle, through daily entreatings of -gentleness and honourable trusts. Strong, -not in doubtful contest with temptation, but -in armour of habitual right.”—<i>Ruskin.</i></p> - -<p>“Right dress is that which is fit for the -station in life, and the work to be done in it, -and which is otherwise graceful, becoming, -lasting, healthful and easy, on occasion splendid. -Always as beautiful as possible.”—<i>Ruskin.</i></p> - -<p>“God made the child’s heart for Himself, -and He will win it if we do not mar His work -by our impatient folly.”—<i>Anon.</i></p> - -<p>“Omnipotent the laws of the nursery and -the fireside. Fatal for weal or woe the atmosphere -of the home.”—<i>Delano.</i></p> - -<p>“The soul is hardened by cold and stormy -weather.”—<i>Bunyan.</i></p> - -<p>“System is a fundamental basis of education.”—<i>Sewell.</i></p> - -<p>“Harmony, not melody, is the object of -education. If we strive for melody we shall -but end in producing discord.”—<i>Sewell.</i></p> - -<p>“The prayers, the love, the patience, the -consistent example of holiness, which are -to-day in our power, may be committed to -God’s keeping, in the full confidence that -even if not permitted to gather their reward -on earth in the present conversation of the -children we love, it will be ours in the great -to-morrow of eternity, when we shall be -permitted to recognise the fulfilment of that -enduring promise—‘Cast thy bread upon the -waters: for thou shalt find it after many -days.’”—<i>Sewell.</i></p> - -<p>“Fiction is natural to children. They do -not, as a rule, lie artificially. The lie is the -first exercise of the imagination—the first -invention, the germ of art. Children often -invent or lie to themselves. The lie is the -first romance of childhood. The child plays -with words as with everything else, and makes -phrases without troubling himself as to reality. -The <i>real</i> lie—the <i>moral</i> lie—is dissimulation -which only arises from fear. It is in direct -ratio to ill-judged severity and unscientific -education.”—<i>Guyau.</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_582" id="Page_582">{582}</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="OUR_HERO" id="OUR_HERO">“OUR HERO.”</a></h2> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> AGNES GIBERNE, Author of “Sun, Moon and Stars,” “The Girl at the Dower House,” etc.</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER XXXVI.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rapid</span> travelling, ninety years ago, -was a comparative term, but Ivor performed -the journey as fast as relays of -horses could convey a post-chaise to the -coast, and as quickly as contrary winds -would allow him to cross the Channel.</p> - -<p>He sent no warning of his approach. -A letter could not go with greater speed -than Denham went himself. Now that -he was actually on the road to Polly, -each hour’s delay became all but insupportable. -Six long years since he -had said good-bye for one fortnight to -Polly! Would she be altered—as much -as he himself was altered?</p> - -<p>It was a cold day, late in spring, when -he found himself at the front door of the -Bryces’ comfortable mansion. The old -butler opened to Denham, as once before -to Roy, but this time Drake was not taken -in. One glance—and his face changed.</p> - -<p>“Sir!”</p> - -<p>“You know me? I hardly thought -you would.” Ivor grasped kindly the -old retainer’s hand. “I am taking you -all by surprise.”</p> - -<p>“It is a surprise indeed, sir. And -I’m heartily glad to see you again. Not -but what you ain’t looking as you should, -sir. Them furrin parts haven’t suited -you, I’m thinkin’.”</p> - -<p>“Captivity has not suited me. And -I have travelled hard, and taken little -rest. But the old country will put me -right. Who is in?”</p> - -<p>“My mistress, sir, is in the drawing-room, -and Miss Keene and Miss Baron. -I was about to take in lights.”</p> - -<p>“Wait till I have gone in. And -Drake, you can announce me, but don’t -say my name so that it can be heard.”</p> - -<p>Drake obeyed to the letter. He threw -open the drawing-room door, and -mumbled something inaudible. Denham -entered, bowing ceremoniously.</p> - -<p>“You can bring lights, Drake,” said -Mrs. Bryce. The room was dark, and -the fire had fallen low.</p> - -<p>“Yes, ma’am.”</p> - -<p>“I’m excessive glad to see you, sir,” -Mrs. Bryce declared cordially, after a -hurried whisper to Polly, “<i>Who</i> did he -say, my dear? Oh, well, ’tis easy to -see—he’s one of the military. A soldier -home from the wars.” Then she turned -to Ivor with her welcome. “Mr. Bryce -is away, I’m sorry to say, but doubtless -you can await his return, and Mr. Baron -will be in this minute.”</p> - -<p>Ivor had some difficulty in recognising -his friend Roy under this designation. -Polly was casting half-shy glances at -him. Something in the outline of his -figure, dim though the light was, -brought Denham to her mind, but it -was not until he spoke that her colour -changed fast from pink to white and -from white to pink.</p> - -<p>“I shouldn’t be surprised to be -informed, sir, that you are but just home -from the war,” said Mrs. Bryce.</p> - -<p>“I have not been fighting, I regret to -say. My turn for that will no doubt -come. I have been long a prisoner.”</p> - -<p>“And you have obtained your -release?”</p> - -<p>“The Emperor has consented to my -return.”</p> - -<p>Mrs. Bryce held up both hands.</p> - -<p>“That is excessive gracious of him, -truly. You are more fortunate than -many. Roy Baron was not so well off, -and he had to make his escape. But -he has been since in the Campaign in -Portugal and Spain under our great -Commander, Sir John Moore. A truly -melancholy story that, sir,—yet he died -as a soldier would choose to die, covered -with glory. And Roy—Mr. Baron, I -should say—is now back with us for a -little space; and we, his friends, fondly -think he has done well. But will you -allow me to offer you cake and wine? -You have a very tired look. What can -Drake be about not to bring the lights?” -Mrs. Bryce’s hand was on the bell.</p> - -<p>Denham was gazing earnestly towards -Polly, so earnestly that she could not but -return the gaze. A thrill ran through -her, for there was no mistaking that -voice. Molly took upon herself to put -a pointed question:</p> - -<p>“Have you come from Verdun, sir, -if I might ask?”</p> - -<p>“Pray take a seat, sir,” Mrs. Bryce -was reiterating. She might as well -have spoken to stone walls.</p> - -<p>“I am straight from Verdun,” Ivor replied -to Molly’s query. “As I am fain to -think Miss Keene has already divined.”</p> - -<p>Polly dropped a curtsey and said -nothing. It was not for her to make -any first move. Nobody could hear -how her heart fluttered.</p> - -<p>“Then, sir, doubtless you will bring -messages for us all from the unfortunate -prisoners there detained,” said Mrs. -Bryce, not yet grasping his identity -with one of those prisoners.</p> - -<p>Drake at this moment carried in the -lights, and Roy, entering with him, cried -out in astonishment.</p> - -<p>“Den! Why, ’tis Den himself! -Can it be in very truth? Den, dear -fellow!”—nearly wringing Ivor’s hands -off with the energy of his welcome.</p> - -<p>Pre-occupied though Ivor was with -Polly, his gaze rested with satisfaction -upon “his friend Roy.” The boy who -had left Verdun for the dungeons of -Bitche was a man now, broad-shouldered, -well-built and soldier-like, -frank as ever in manner, yet with -a certain something in the young face, -which told not only of endurance, but -of the touch of sorrow. At the present -moment, however, Roy’s look was all -sunshine.</p> - -<p>“I <i>am</i> glad, Den, more glad than -words can say. Little I dreamt who I -should find in here! And you’re free! -But how is it? How has that come -about? You don’t say old Boney has -let you off! Of his own free will? I -wouldn’t have given the old chap credit -for so much generosity. What made -him do such a thing? Lucille? No! -Bravo, Lucille!”</p> - -<p>Nobody else had a chance of being -heard. Mrs. Bryce exclaimed and -talked in vain. Polly and Molly waited. -Roy’s eager questions had to be answered, -before Denham was allowed to -turn elsewhere.</p> - -<p>Then came a change of manner and -a lowering of voice.</p> - -<p>“I shall have no end of things to tell -you, things <i>he</i> said of you too, Den. -Ay, I know”—at a slight gesture. -“Another time. Yes, by-and-by. But -you’ve seen accounts of the battle. -That charge of the Reserve through -the valley wasn’t bad! French column -tried to turn our flank, you know. We -did just knock ’em into a cocked hat and -no mistake. The column just simply -ceased to exist.”</p> - -<p>Molly tried to put in a word, and was -baffled.</p> - -<p>“You’ll be as furious as I am at -some of the comments in the papers. -The utter ignoramuses! What about? -Why, the state of our Army getting -back from Spain. I should think the -poor fellows <i>were</i> scarecrows, after all -they’d gone through. Small wonder -either! The scarecrows made the -enemy give an uncommon good account -of ’emselves at Coruña, all the same. -But people here seem to think an Army -can walk through a Campaign, and come -back every inch as spick and span as -when it left British shores. Much they -know about the matter! And if shoes did -wear out, and our fellows got back barefoot, -whose fault was that but the fault -of those who made the shoes at home?”</p> - -<p>So much Roy poured out impulsively. -Then he stopped. A consciousness -had broken upon him of something -unsatisfactory, something impending. -Denham’s face was to him as an open -book, and he saw written there more -things than one. One thing that he saw -made him turn sharply to Polly, as she -stood a little way off, prettily composed. -Was <i>this</i> the meeting of the two, after -six years of enforced separation?</p> - -<p>Roy recalled his talk with Polly on his -return from Bitche, and in a flash he -read the true state of affairs. He looked -hard at each in turn.</p> - -<p>“Polly, didn’t I tell you? He has -come back.”</p> - -<p>Polly stirred slightly.</p> - -<p>“You understand? ’Tis Den himself.”</p> - -<p>It was necessary for Polly to answer.</p> - -<p>“Captain Ivor is indeed most fortunate -to have obtained his release,” she -said, adjusting her scarf.</p> - -<p>“Fortunate to have obtained his -release!” repeated Roy slowly.</p> - -<p>Then he acted, with a decision and -promptitude worthy of his vocation in -life. A gesture ordered Molly to make -herself scarce. Seizing Mrs. Bryce by -the arm, he dragged away that astonished -lady, reserving explanations till -they were outside the room. After -which he poured forth profuse apologies, -but would allow no re-entrance, literally -setting his back against the door.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be concluded.</i>)</p> - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_583" id="Page_583">{583}</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="ON_SOME_POINTS_OF_DEPORTMENT_IN_SINGING" id="ON_SOME_POINTS_OF_DEPORTMENT_IN_SINGING">ON SOME POINTS OF DEPORTMENT IN SINGING.</a></h2> - - - - -<p><span class="smcap">I hope</span> you who read these words will not -think that I am encouraging the vanity of -which we all, girls and boys too, possess a -certain amount, in giving a few suggestions -which may help to dispel some of the -awkwardness so often shown by the young -and inexperienced vocalist.</p> - -<p>How often, usually at the moment of going -on the platform at some small amateur -concert, have I heard the cry, “Oh, I must -have a piece of music to hold in my hand!” -from some nervous young singer, oppressed -by the feeling that she is all hands and has -nowhere to hide them!</p> - -<p>How often has a pretty song, tastefully -sung, been spoiled by a wriggling of the -shoulders, or a rocking of the body from side -to side most irritating to behold!</p> - -<p>How often has a song “breathing of scent -and flowers,” of love and spring-time, been -warbled with a forbidding scowl and wrinkled -forehead—the expression of the whole face -suggesting some hidden agony rather than -interpreting the spirit of the composition!</p> - -<p>All these things are most distracting to a -listener and detract considerably from the -effect of the performance; and a little trouble -and study, combined with the assistance of -your good and true friend the looking-glass, -will do much to improve matters.</p> - -<p>Let us take the three points I have mentioned -in their order.</p> - -<p>First the hands. Clasp them loosely in -front of you and then forget all about them! -Make a point of practising it whenever you -are fortunate enough to obtain an accompanist -to play for you, or when you are having your -singing lessons. Commit your song to memory -so as to dispense with the music, stand away -from the pianoforte, avoid propping yourself -against the wall or leaning upon the furniture, -stand easily, and let your hands clasp naturally -and comfortably.</p> - -<p>Now for the wriggling. Any of you who -have had your photograph taken must remember -the unpleasant little arrangement -which the photographer sticks behind your -head to keep it still; and some of you may -have protested against the discomfort and -unnaturalness of it and have appealed to be -allowed to pose without it, only to get the -answer that it is indispensable, as the head -moves constantly, though not enough to be -noticed, yet sufficiently to spoil any exposure -longer than an instantaneous one. And yet -the person being photographed is apparently -motionless! Now watch someone who is -telling some exciting news or some funny -story, and you will see that the head moves -with every word spoken—the more emphasis, -the more movement!</p> - -<p>I remind you of these things in order to -show you how very necessary movement is to -us and how, naturally, the head moves in -speech rather than the body.</p> - -<p>If you carefully watch a confirmed wriggler, -you will notice that, though the body sways -or the shoulders move, the head is very rigid -and is usually held very high, and altogether -the position looks constrained and awkward, -and it has a disastrous effect upon the voice, -for all these little awkwardnesses and uglinesses -mean that there is a corresponding -unnaturalness of production, and the memorable -maxim in the Koran, that “there are -many roads to Heaven, but only one gate,” -applies forcibly to singing, in the respect that -the only true singer is he who produces his -voice with the most ease and simplicity -(though that may have only been acquired by -the hardest study) quite irrespective of the -particular method by which he has been -taught.</p> - -<p>There is one great drawback which we -must take into consideration from which all -singers suffer more or less, and which is at the -root of most of these faults of “deportment” -and of this one in particular, and it is this.</p> - -<p>A certain amount of nervousness is inseparable -from singing, whether we sing to -just one or two chosen friends or before a -large concert audience, and even when we -won’t confess to “feeling nervous,” we cannot -escape from another form of it and a very -trying one—self-consciousness. And the -usual result of self-consciousness is to seize -upon the muscles of the throat, to cramp and -contract them till the head is held as if in -a vice, so that the voice comes hard and -strained; and as the natural movement of the -head is prevented by this rigidity, Nature -(who never stands still) asserts herself by -giving the necessary movement to the body -instead; hence the wriggling of the shoulders -and the rocking from side to side.</p> - -<p>In this case prevention is better than cure, -and the best thing to do is to practise -diligently moving the head from side to side -whilst singing, especially when practising -exercises. Do not raise it high, and avoid -the inclination to raise it as the voice rises to -the higher notes; but move it freely and -constantly from side to side. At first you -will find this very awkward, and it will seem -terribly unnatural and ridiculous; but persevere, -and you will find that not only your appearance -will be improved, but your voice will come -easily and your throat will not get that aching, -tired feeling of which so many complain after -singing for quite a few minutes, and which is -due to the contraction of the throat and the -constrained position of the head.</p> - -<p>For the third point, facial expression, I -commend you to your looking-glass. Indeed, -the greater part of your study should be done -with its assistance. First to be assured that -your mouth is open, then to watch that no -grimaces appear, no pucker between the -brows, no opening the mouth crookedly, -no blinking of the eyelids. Try to let your -expression vary as freely as it does when you -are talking.</p> - -<p>Remember you have only your face to -assist you. A reciter can call gesture to her -aid; but a singer does not want to do -anything that might bring down upon her -the accusation of being “theatrical.” She -wants to stand quietly and naturally, her -hands folded, her head rather low, and tell -her story, her face changing with the changes -of her song.</p> - -<p>But bear in mind that all these things -which come naturally to us when we are not -thinking about them or about ourselves become -unnatural when we are struggling in the -grasp of the demon self-consciousness, and it -is for that reason that I conclude these hints -with the paradoxical reminder that as the -unstudied and natural usually looks constrained -and unnatural, our aim must be to learn -artificially and to practise incessantly to look -natural.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Florence Campbell Perugini.</span> -</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chap"> - -<h2><a name="HANGING_CASE_FOR_UMBRELLAS_AND_STICKS" id="HANGING_CASE_FOR_UMBRELLAS_AND_STICKS">HANGING CASE FOR UMBRELLAS AND STICKS.</a></h2> - - -<p><span class="smcap">From</span> Edinburgh comes this very useful -pattern. It can be hung permanently in -one’s bedroom to preserve parasols, etc., from -dust, in which case we suggest the use of two -nails, eight inches apart, instead of one as -in A, Fig. 3; it can be rolled up when -travelling, and when unpacked suspended -from any hook in the wardrobe. One yard -of strong art serge or any other suitable -material not less than forty-two inches wide -will make two. The back part is cut according -to Fig. 1. Fig. 2 represents the front -portion which has two box pleats at the -lower edge to make the necessary fulness and -should be so folded as to fit exactly on to the -back part. There is a line of stitching through -back and front from C to D, thus making two -pockets. Tack the corners AA and BB -together and continue round each side to D. -The whole case must be neatly bound with -ribbon or braid, and the loop added for -hanging. The front of the pocket (Fig. 2) -should be bound from A to B before fixing it -in position.</p> - -<p class="right"> -“<span class="smcap">Cousin Lil.</span>”<br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter w450"> -<img src="images/i_583.jpg" width="450" height="370" alt="FIG 1. FIG 2. FIG 3." /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_584" id="Page_584">{584}</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="AFTERNOON_TEA_A_CHAT_OVER_THE_TEACUPS" id="AFTERNOON_TEA_A_CHAT_OVER_THE_TEACUPS">“AFTERNOON TEA;” A CHAT OVER THE TEACUPS.</a></h2> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> AMY S. WOODS.</p> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Within</span> the last twenty years the simple but -most popular meal known by the name of -“afternoon tea” has become a prominent -feature in domestic and social life.</p> - -<p>“Afternoon tea!” The very words suggest -to our minds pleasant visions of cosy fireside -tea and talk on winter afternoons, or lazy -enjoyment of the “cup that cheers” under -the welcome shade of some spreading tree in -drowsy summer-time.</p> - -<p>True, the institution of this meal has been -much condemned of late. We are told that -women drink far more tea than is good for -them and are growing more nervous in consequence; -while the sterner sex complain that -the enjoyment of their dinner is spoiled by -their previous indulgence in the dainties of -the tea-table.</p> - -<p>Nevertheless, I think even those who cavil -most at the evil influence of tea and its -accompanying delicacies would, in their hearts, -be sorry to witness the abolition of a meal -which has won the support of so large a -section of English society, from royalty -downwards.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w550"> -<img src="images/i_584.jpg" width="550" height="461" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p class="center">AFTERNOON TEA.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>To those who are weary of formal entertainments, -it comes as a boon and a blessing, -while to those whose love of social pleasures -is larger than their purse it is even more welcome, -as it enables them to entertain their -friends more frequently, with but little of the -cost and trouble which more elaborate social -gatherings involve. And it is to this latter -class of afternoon-tea devotees that I dedicate -the following recipes and suggestions.</p> - -<p>It is easy for dwellers in London or other -large towns to obtain a nice variety of cakes -and biscuits wherewith to grace their tea-tables; -but those who live in country villages are less -fortunate, and are sometimes sadly conscious -of lack of variety in the cakes they can make -or procure. I hope therefore that the recipes -here given will be acceptable to all those who -are willing to spend a little care and trouble -in carrying them out. Most of them are -capable of further variation, and clever heads -and fingers will devise artistic and dainty -decorations and ornamentations for themselves, -the result of which will be that their cakes will -be quite as beautiful to look upon, and probably -more beautiful to eat than those supplied -by a fashionable confectioner.</p> - -<p>One thing must be remembered by all -aspiring cake-makers, viz., that dainty cakes -and biscuits require time, care, and patience -in their production, and cakes that are hurriedly -made are seldom satisfactory. Another -point to be remembered is that afternoon tea -is not a substantial meal, so that we must -endeavour to have all our dishes as dainty and -elegant as possible both in their composition -and manner of serving.</p> - -<p>We cannot perhaps all boast of silver or -Sheraton tea-trays, or of Dresden or Worcester -china; but a plain linen or small-patterned -damask cloth embroidered with a large initial, -and either prettily hemstitched or edged with -Torchon lace, will hide all the deficiencies -of our tea-tray, and now that such pretty -Coalport china can be bought at such a -reasonable price, no one need be without a -charming tea-set.</p> - -<p>In arranging the china and linen for afternoon -tea, it will be well to remember that -coloured china looks best upon a white cloth -or upon a cream-coloured one embroidered in -silks or flax threads to match the colours in -the china, while for use with plain white or -white-and-gold china a cloth of art linen, in -plain blue, yellow or pink, with white embroidery -is most suitable.</p> - -<p>Nor need any hostess lament over her -scarcity of small silver table appointments in -the way of teapot and cream jugs and sugar -basins, for a china teapot and hot-water jug -and the sweet wee cream jugs and tiny basins -now sold to match almost every stock pattern<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_585" id="Page_585">{585}</a></span> -of china, look quite as dainty and artistic as -their more imposing silver brethren.</p> - -<p>See that your bread-and-butter is delicately -thin, and that it and your cakes and sandwiches -are served upon dainty doyleys of -fringed damask, and if you provide two small -plates, one with brown and one with white -bread-and-butter, they will be found more -convenient to hand about than one large -plate.</p> - -<p>When there is only a small party, the use -of a luncheon tray, with three divisions, will -save trouble in handing cakes, etc., and, be it -whispered, these same trays are also convenient -when your stock of cake is low, as small -pieces of cake which could not possibly attain -to the dignity of the cake-basket, will make -quite an imposing appearance if cut in slices -and arranged in one division of the tray, with -some biscuits in the second and some carefully-rolled -bread-and-butter in the third.</p> - -<p>No doubt all my readers are acquainted -with the silver or electro-plated handles which -are now sold for attaching to cake and bread-and-butter -plates, and a very convenient invention -too; but should your means preclude -your indulgence in these luxuries, do not, I -pray you, be inveigled into buying the substitutes -made of a sort of millinery arrangement -of wire, ribbon, and artificial flowers. They -soon become shabby and tawdry, while even -when they can boast of pristine freshness the -idea of ribbon and artificial flowers in such -close proximity to eatables is to my mind at -once incongruous and inartistic.</p> - -<p>In cutting bread-and-butter or sandwiches, -a loaf at least twenty-four hours old should -be used, as it is impossible to obtain a satisfactory -result with new bread. Servants, it -may be noted, are as a rule far too liberal with -the butter, which they often leave in lumps in -any holes there may be in the surface of the -bread; and should the bread be cut as thin as -it ought to be, the butter will probably work -its way through to the other side with very -unpleasantly greasy results.</p> - -<p>And now for the recipes themselves, and as -savoury sandwiches—and, indeed, sandwiches -of every kind—are always favourites we will -have a friendly chat concerning them before -passing on to cakes and biscuits.</p> - -<p>For the foundation of all sandwiches, we -must use evenly cut, and not too liberally -buttered, bread, and be very careful that our -seasoning is generously used, but with discretion. -To crunch a lump of salt in a sandwich -is by no means a pleasant experience.</p> - -<p><i>Cress Sandwiches</i>, though always appreciated, -are simplicity itself. Carefully wash -and thoroughly dry the cress, arrange on slices -of bread-and-butter, sprinkle with salt, and, -after pressing the covering slices firmly down, -cut into two-inch squares and pile on a doyley, -garnishing with tiny bunches of cress.</p> - -<p><i>Watercress Sandwiches</i> are made in the -same way, using only the leaves, which must -be most carefully washed in salt and water. -Most people consider the addition of a little -mayonnaise sauce a great improvement, and -the following will be found a simple but excellent -way to make it:</p> - -<p>Rub the yolk of a hard-boiled egg very -smooth, adding a good pinch of salt, a grain -or two of cayenne pepper, and a quarter of a -teaspoonful of made mustard; then add alternately, -and drop by drop, lest the sauce should -curdle, one tablespoonful of vinegar and two -of salad oil, and one tablespoonful of very -thick cream. Use a wooden spoon for the -mixing, and do not make the sauce too liquid -or it will ooze through the sandwiches.</p> - -<p><i>Chicken Sandwiches</i>, made with a little -finely pounded chicken with a layer of watercress -or lettuce and a little mayonnaise, are -excellent.</p> - -<p><i>Cucumber Sandwiches</i> are always welcome -in hot weather. Soak the slices of cucumber -in some well-seasoned vinegar for two or three -hours before using, turning it frequently. Cut -the bread round each slice of cucumber with a -small round pastry-cutter and garnish with -parsley. A little dab of mayonnaise in each -sandwich is a great improvement.</p> - -<p><i>Shrimp Sandwiches</i> are delicious. From a -pint of shrimps, pick out a few of the largest -with which to garnish your sandwiches, -shell the remainder and allow them to get -thoroughly hot over the fire (but not to boil) -in a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, or -two ounces of butter and two tablespoonfuls -of thick cream, and a discreet seasoning of salt -and pepper. Pound the mixture in a mortar -until perfectly smooth, and then spread upon -either white or brown bread-and-butter, and -cut the sandwiches into rounds. A dariole -or tiny pudding-mould with a crimped edge -answers capitally for the purpose. Pile upon -a doyley and garnish with the shrimps upon -some fresh parsley.</p> - -<p>Crab or lobster paste prepared in the same -way but with the addition of a little mustard -and vinegar, and no cream, makes excellent -sandwiches.</p> - -<p><i>Anchovy Sandwiches</i> are made in the same -way, using a good brand of anchovy paste -instead of the shrimp mixture. If you have -plenty of eggs at command, the hard-boiled -yolks of two, pounded to a paste with two -ounces of butter and a tablespoonful of -anchovy paste, will make a superior sandwich.</p> - -<p><i>Egg Sandwiches</i> are filled with the same -paste of pounded eggs, well seasoned, but -without the anchovy; another ounce of butter -or two tablespoonfuls of cream is an improvement -in this case.</p> - -<p>So much for sandwiches; the eight varieties -I have mentioned will serve as a foundation -from which clever housekeepers will devise -numerous other kinds. Almost any scraps of -shell-fish, game, or poultry, can be pounded -and used as I have described, and if the seasoning -is all that it should be, and the sandwiches -are delicately made and served, they will -always find some appreciative mortals to enjoy -them!</p> - - -<p class="p2">And now to turn our attention to the cakes -and biscuits, which I hope my fair readers will -make with their own dainty hands, and thus -ensure success, even if it be evolved from -early failures.</p> - -<p>Before passing on to the actual recipes, will -they accept six general hints as to successful -cake-making?</p> - -<p>Firstly (as I have said before)—Give yourself -time, and do not hurry or slur over any part -of the process.</p> - -<p>Secondly—Be sure your oven is at the -right temperature before you put in your cakes. -A quick oven is best for buns and small cakes, -and a tolerably quick one to raise large cakes, -and then the heat must be lowered and kept -at a regular temperature to bake them through. -When a cake has risen, lay a sheet of buttered -paper over the top to prevent it blackening. -To ascertain if a cake is sufficiently baked, -plunge a clean knife or skewer through the -centre; if it comes out clean and dry the -cake is baked, if sticky, it requires further -baking.</p> - -<p>Thirdly—Be very careful that your cake-tins -or moulds are thoroughly clean and well -greased. Line your plain tins with well-greased -plain paper, not printed. The tins -for small cakes such as queen cakes should be -sprinkled with flour and castor sugar after -they are buttered.</p> - -<p>Fourthly—Use only the best flour, and see -that it is well dried, sifted, and warmed before -using. Clean currants and sultanas with -flour on a sieve; this not only cleans them -but prevents them from sinking in the cake.</p> - -<p>Fifthly—Before commencing to mix your -cake, be sure your tins are ready, and that -you have round you all your ingredients -weighed and prepared, so that you may not -have to leave your cake unfinished while you -fetch something you have forgotten. All -cakes but those made with yeast should be -baked directly the mixing is finished.</p> - -<p>Sixthly—Do not be disheartened if your -first attempt to make a new cake is a failure. -We too often forget that success is frequently -the outcome of many failures.</p> - -<p>Before giving any recipes for fancy cakes, let -me advise you to give the following recipes -for “Sally Lunns” and “Tea Cakes made -with yeast,” a trial.</p> - -<p>For the former, mix half a teaspoonful of -salt in a pound of flour, and add three tablespoonfuls -of sugar. Melt half an ounce of -butter in half a pint of new milk, and when -milk-warm pour it over half an ounce of -German yeast. Add a well-beaten egg and -a little grated nutmeg. Stir lightly into the -flour with a wooden spoon, cover with a cloth -and set it in a warm place to rise; then bake -from fifteen to twenty minutes in a quick oven. -Some well-greased hoops are best to use for -baking Sally Lunns, and the cakes should be -brushed over with some beaten egg before -they are quite baked. To serve, split each -one into three slices, toast a delicate brown, -butter and cut each slice in two, place together -and serve on a very hot plate.</p> - -<p>For <i>Tea Cakes</i> take two pounds of flour, -half a teaspoonful of salt, quarter of a pound -of butter or lard, and three ounces of sugar, -with a few currants or sultanas if liked. Mix -half an ounce of German yeast with three-quarters -of a pint of warm milk and one egg. -Rub the butter into the flour, and add the -other dry ingredients, mix in the liquid part -and knead lightly, and then set to rise. When -sufficiently light divide into round cakes, -place on a baking-sheet and allow them to -remain a few minutes longer to rise again -before baking. They will require from a -quarter to half an hour in a good oven. They -may either be split open, buttered, and eaten -while hot, or toasted in the same way as -Sally Lunns. The great culinary authority, -M. Soyer, recommends that after toasting -cakes or hot buttered toast, each piece should -be cut through separately and then placed together, -as when the whole is divided at once -the pressure needed to force the knife down -to the plate, forces the butter into the lowest -slice, which is often swimming in grease -while the upper slices are comparatively dry.</p> - -<p>And now we will turn our attention to a -few cakes which I can cordially recommend. -Let us take <i>Cherry Cake</i> to commence with. -For this you will require six ounces of flour, -three ounces of butter, three ounces of castor -sugar, two eggs, the grated rind of half a -lemon, two ounces of crystallised or glacé -cherries and a teaspoonful of baking-powder. -Slightly warm but do not oil the butter, beat -it to a cream with the sugar and lemon, add -the eggs, well beaten, then the flour and -cherries (cut in halves), and lastly the baking-powder. -Whisk thoroughly, pour into a -paper-lined tin and bake from three-quarters -to half an hour. Another plan is to bake the -cake in a Yorkshire pudding tin, and when -baked to cover the top with pink icing, -made with the white of an egg beaten up -till fairly liquid but not frothy, and mixed -very smoothly with sufficient icing sugar to -make a smooth paste. You will find the -readiest way of doing this is to use a wooden -spoon on a dinner-plate, holding the bowl -of the spoon with the fingers; a little -practice and patience are needed to make -the icing perfectly smooth, but remember -one lump spoils the appearance of the -icing. Add a few drops of cochineal and a -few drops of vanilla flavouring, and spread -the icing evenly over the top of the cake<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_586" id="Page_586">{586}</a></span> -with a paper knife or dessert knife; a steel one -must not be used. Take off any drops that -may run over the sides of the cake and divide -it in two pieces while the icing is wet, then -dry at the mouth of the oven.</p> - -<p>For <i>Orange Cake</i> take the weight of -three eggs in butter, sugar and flour, the -grated rind and strained juice of an orange, or -two, if small, and a teaspoonful of baking-powder. -Make and bake the cake in exactly -the same way as the preceding one, but if -iced, use white icing, or colour it with a little -grated orange-rind and juice, using orange-juice -to flavour it.</p> - -<p><i>Madeira Cake</i> is made in the same way -and with the same proportions, but the orange -is of course omitted and some finely-sliced -lemon or candied peel substituted as a flavouring, -or a little essence of vanilla.</p> - -<p>For various kinds of cake you cannot have -a better foundation than by taking the weight -of as many eggs as you wish to use, in flour, -butter and sugar, and then adding the various -flavourings and a teaspoonful, more or less, -according to the number of eggs, of baking-powder.</p> - -<p>Desiccated cocoanut makes a nice change if -<i>Cocoanut Cake</i> is desired, or, if you do not -mind the trouble of grating it, the fresh -cocoanut is of course superior. After the -cake is baked brush the top over with a little -white of egg and scatter some of the cocoanut -upon it.</p> - -<p>Twelve delicious little <i>Rice Cakes</i> may be -made by taking one egg and its weight in -sugar and butter, half its weight in ground -rice and half in wheaten flour. When mixing -add the rice after the flour, and also a few -drops of flavouring or the grated rind of half -a lemon. Bake in small tins in a quick oven -for ten minutes. If two or more eggs are -used and the other ingredients increased -in proportion an excellent cake can be -made.</p> - -<p><i>Almond Buns</i> are also nice. For these -take half a pound of flour, six ounces of -butter, six ounces of castor sugar, four ounces -of almonds blanched and chopped, and a -teaspoonful of baking-powder. Mix together -the butter, sugar, eggs and flour, add the -almonds and baking-powder last, form into -buns and bake on a buttered tin for twenty -minutes.</p> - -<p><i>Queen Cakes</i> are always favourites but -require careful making and the proper heart-shaped -tins to bake them in. Prepare the -tins as previously directed by buttering them -very thoroughly and sprinkling with castor -sugar and flour. Then take three eggs, their -weight in fresh butter, sugar, flour, and currants, -and the grated rind of a lemon. -Cream the butter and sugar together, add the -eggs, fruit, and a pinch of salt, then the flour -and half a teaspoonful of baking-powder, and -lastly a small wineglassful of good brandy. -Whisk thoroughly, shake off any loose flour -or sugar from the tins, fill them three parts -full of the mixture and hit each one sharply on -the table before putting in the oven. Bake -for twenty minutes.</p> - -<p><i>Genoese Pastry</i> is also popular, but cannot -be made in a hurry. Take half a pound of -butter, half a pound of castor sugar, half a -pound of flour, the yolks of two eggs and the -yolks and whites of two more eggs, and half -a teaspoonful of baking-powder. Mix -thoroughly, spread evenly over sheets of -buttered paper placed in Yorkshire pudding -tins, smooth over with a knife dipped in -boiling water, and bake twenty minutes in a -moderate oven, but keep the cake a pale -brown colour.</p> - -<p>While it is baking prepare some icing as -directed for cherry cake, using the two whites -of egg left over from the cake. Divide into -two portions on two plates, colouring one -pink and leaving the other white; flavour the -former with a little raspberry syrup, or juice -from some jam, and the latter with vanilla, -lemon, or a little maraschino liqueur. Dissolve -half an ounce of grated chocolate with -two tablespoonfuls of water and stir it over -the fire till thoroughly smooth and liquid, adding -two or three lumps of sugar. If you -have not a forcing bag with which to ornament -your icing, or if you are not an adept -in the use of it, provide yourself with a few -crystallised cherries, blanched almonds, chopped -pistachio nuts, and pink and white comfits -with which to decorate your cakes. How -they shall be decorated I leave to your own -artistic minds to decide—only reminding you -that almonds, pistachio nuts or a neat pattern -of pink and white icing, or a border of alternate -pink and white comfits are most suitable -for decorating chocolate icing, while cherries -and pink sugar look best on white, and almonds -and white sugar on pink. A very -speedy and effective decoration is to sprinkle -white grated cocoanut on your pink cakes, -and a mixture of pink (coloured with cochineal) -and pale green (coloured with spinach -juice) on white icing, using a mixture of all -three colours on the chocolate. The study of -the cakes in some high-class confectioner’s -will help you here. When the cake is baked -lift it by the paper on to a clean pastry-board, -remove the paper, divide each slab of cake -across, and then split it open. On one piece -put raspberry jam and press the other half -upon it while hot; on another marmalade, on -the third apricot, and on the last strawberry -or pineapple. Pour over the apricot cake -your chocolate icing, and while still hot cut -into strips about two and a half inches wide, -and then cut again slantwise across the strips -so as to form diamond-shaped pieces. Then -place them at the mouth of the oven to dry, -while you proceed in the same way with your -other cakes. Be careful to use your pink -icing with the red jam, and white with the -yellow. When partially dry the decorations -must be added, otherwise they will not adhere -to the icing, and then the cakes must be -again dried until the icing will not take -the impression of the finger when pressed -upon it.</p> - -<p><i>Scotch Shortbread</i> is a favourite with many -people, though hardly to be commended to -the notice of dyspeptic sufferers. The following -recipe for it, given to me by a Scotchwoman, -will be found a very good one.</p> - -<p>One pound of flour, four ounces of ground -rice, one pound and a quarter of butter, three-quarters -of a pound of sugar, a little candied -peel, and a pinch of salt. Beat the butter to -a cream, add the sugar, and very gradually sift -in the flour and rice; work with the hands -till quite smooth and divide into six pieces. -Put each piece on a sheet of paper and roll -out to the thickness of half an inch, prick it -all over, lay on it the pieces of candied peel, -pinch the edges, and bake in a moderate oven -from twenty minutes to half an hour.</p> - -<p><i>Fancy Biscuits</i> can be made at home, and -will be found quite equal in taste and appearance -to the more expensive kinds sold in the -shops. Care must be taken that the oven is -not too hot as they will not look well if they -are browned; and the flour and sugar used -for them must be very finely sifted and -thoroughly dry. To make four varieties of -these biscuits at once, take one pound of -fresh butter and cream it with half a pound of -castor sugar, and add two well-beaten eggs. -When well whisked divide the mixture into -four basins. Divide also a pound of fine flour -into four parts. To the contents of the first -basin add a quarter of a pound of flour and -two tablespoonfuls of ground ginger. Mix -well. Turn on to a floured board, roll out to -the thickness of a quarter of an inch, cut out -with a small pastry-cutter or the top of a -wineglass, place a piece of candied peel or a -preserved cherry on each, and bake on a sheet -of buttered paper laid on a baking tin for -about twenty minutes. Proceed in the same -way with the second portion, but instead of -the ginger add the grated rind and juice of -an orange, and if needed, a tablespoonful -more flour. To the third division add half a -teaspoonful of vanilla flavouring, and ornament -the top of each biscuit with a little pink -and white icing after baking. If the biscuits -are made stiff they will keep their shape well -in the baking, and may be cut into various -fancy patterns such as ivy leaves, stars, -diamonds, etc. Ivy leaves with the veins put -on in white or pink icing are very pretty. To -the last basin add one ounce of finely-chopped -almonds, and make the biscuits oval in form -with two strips of blanched almonds on the -top. Walnuts may be used instead of almonds, -in which case I should make the biscuits in -the shape of a half walnut shell with half a -peeled walnut on the flat part. These would -require to be made very stiff. Chocolate icing -is very nice to put on vanilla biscuits.</p> - -<p>And now space warns me that our chat -over the tea-table must come to an end. I -hope that the few simple recipes I have given -will be found both good and economical. -Too economical perhaps for some of my -friends, but I would remind all who wish for -richer cakes that in the many excellent -cookery-books, both French and English, -now published, they will find recipes which -cannot fail to win their most cordial appreciation. -Yet in all humility I venture to hope -these few hints of mine may win a meed of -fainter praise from those who, appreciating -dainty cookery, have yet to study economy in -their household management.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w250"> -<img src="images/i_586.jpg" width="250" height="139" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_587" id="Page_587">{587}</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="THE_HOUSE_WITH_THE_VERANDAH" id="THE_HOUSE_WITH_THE_VERANDAH">THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH.</a></h2> - - - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> ISABELLA FYVIE MAYO, Author of “Other People’s Stairs,” “Her Object in Life,” etc.</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER XI.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">A MOTHER AT HOME.</p> - -<div class="ddropcapbox w150"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_587.jpg" width="150" height="268" alt='"T' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase">his</span> holiday -season is -bad for -advertisements,” -Miss Latimer -decided. -“I -fear you -must give -another -trial to -registry -offices. -Other -methods -take time, -especially -private -recommendations -among -shopkeepers -or acquaintances—which is the -best. You have only a week in which to -make your arrangements. But do not -go again to great registry offices, which -let down their nets in wide waters, and -catch many queer fish. I know a little -quiet registry about midway between -this house and my lodgings. Not a big -professional place, my dear, but a shop. -I suppose the registry is little more than -an adjunct to the shop. But when I -pass, I see a great many young women -going in and out.”</p> - -<p>“Should I have to go there to meet -them?” asked Lucy, with a look of -repugnance.</p> - -<p>“Oh, dear, no,” Miss Latimer answered. -“That is not done save in -the big offices, unless an appointment is -desired by some mistress from the country. -Young women who seem likely to -suit are sent to wait upon you in your -house. If you decide on this, you can -go there and give instructions to-morrow -morning; I can keep house and look -after Hugh during your absence. I -wish I could give you better advice, but -I think you must avail yourself of this -for the present urgent necessity.”</p> - -<p>Lucy accepted the counsel. She -found the address Miss Latimer gave -her. It was in one of the long roads -which skirt the centre of London—roads -which were rural once, and where, here -and there, a garden still lingers isolated -among the shops which have been built -over its neighbours. Lucy’s destination -was one of these shops set out with -servants’ caps, aprons, small haberdashery -wares, stationery, and a few -cheap books. On the little counter -was a big desk laden with ledgers and -festooned with files of letters, and behind -the desk stood an elderly woman. -She had an air of old-fashioned gentility -about her. She wore no cap, but her -glossy, waving hair, unmingled with -silver, hung in two or three curls and was -done up in a crisp little knot behind. Her -brown merino gown was severely simple -and well kept, with no frill or ornament -whatever, save an out-of-date embroidered -collar, fastened by an “In Memoriam” -brooch. There was nothing -frowsy about this woman, nothing -unctuous or self-indulgent in her thin -sharp face, nor servile or fawning in her -rather abrupt manner. Lucy was prepossessed -by her, because she was so -unlike the official at the big registry -office.</p> - -<p>This alert person had little encouragement -to give. “Generals” were said to -be few and far between. She asked Lucy -searching questions about the situation -she had to offer, saying that the young -women would expect her to tell them -all about it before they walked so far. -She said that it would not recommend -the place to most of them that it -was very quiet; they generally thought -that meant a “particular,” fidgety -mistress, and “they didn’t mind a little -more work if they could get the more -of their own way.” Lucy said she -would prefer an elderly woman, as she -would be left much alone in the house. -But the alert person shook her head, -saying that in nine cases out of ten an -elderly woman who would take such a -place would drink—a statement which -Lucy, after her recent experience, was not -prepared to deny. The alert person promised -“to do her best.” The fee for -putting Mrs. Challoner’s name on her -“book” would be only one shilling; she -would go on sending girls till Mrs. Challoner -was “suited,” when there would -be another charge of four shillings.</p> - -<p>Lucy walked home, feeling that she -and the post she had to offer were at a -terrible discount. As she watched the -half-starved, slipshod, ill-clad girls who -were carrying packages in and out of -various small “home” manufacturing -premises in the district through which -her journey lay, she wondered bitterly -what had gone wrong with domestic -service, that its wholesome food, snug -shelter, and respectability were rejected -in favour of this tramping, trailing -drudgery. She knew enough of social -conditions to know that few of those -girls earned wages higher than her -servant’s salary, while these had to -provide everything out of their earnings, -and her maid had to buy only -her clothes, and had plenty of leisure to -make and mend them. This proved -that no mere increase of wages will -bring back the tide of female labour -to the haven of domestic service. It -has already voluntarily ebbed away to -decreased emoluments.</p> - -<p>This actually comforted Lucy a -little. For though she was already -paying all the wage her means could -honestly afford, yet she had begun to -reflect bitterly that, between the two -registry offices, she had already laid out -six shillings in less than two months, -not to mention “deterioration of household -stock” in burnt napery and other -kitchen damages, still less to consider -the wear and tear of her own nerves -and the loss of her own time. If she -was to go on paying and losing at this -rate, she had realised that it would -come to the same thing as offering -twenty or twenty-two pounds a year.</p> - -<p>But as she saw those squalid workgirls, -it was borne in upon her that the form -of labour she wanted had become scarce -at any price, and that at any wage she -might find the same heart-breaking -disappointment.</p> - -<p>Lucy gazed curiously at the crowds -of young women who lounged or hurried -past her. By the signboards on the -forlorn houses behind the decaying -gardens, she could guess the callings -of the crowd. There were tailoresses, -hat-sewers, cardboard-box makers, artificial -florists. Looking at them, Lucy -could not wish that any of them should -change her mind and seek the vacant -place in the kitchen. From their appearance -most of them had been living -poorly on sedentary work for years, and -whatever they might have been at the -beginning, they were sallow and haggard -now. No signs of self-respect were -visible on their raiment, though there was -a pitiful display of draggled plumes, and -sham jewellery worn over garments which -seemed to have been bought third-hand, -and boots such as one often sees thrown -away on road-sides. Such strength as -they had was clearly the strange perverted -strength that resists bad atmospheres -and monotonous misery, but few -indeed had any sign of the wholesome -vigour that is needed for honest household -work.</p> - -<p>“They must have their freedom, I -suppose,” said Lucy to herself, dreamily -repeating an axiom which she had often -heard thrown down in scorn and contempt -by irate matrons caught in the -strait where she was now fixed.</p> - -<p>Their freedom to do what? Freedom -to toil at some soul-deadening task for -eight or ten hours to earn a shilling—for -the whole round of the clock to -gain eighteenpence. Freedom to live -crowded in noisome rooms among ever-shifting -“neighbours,” to go untidy, to -eat bad food ill-cooked. Freedom on -Bank holidays with their rowdy crowds; -freedom (when one is not too tired) to -run about the gas-lit streets, or to sit in -tobacco-reeking music-halls; freedom, -in such dangerous proximity to the -hospital, the casual ward, the pauper’s -grave!</p> - -<p>Lucy thought of what she understood by -freedom. A life of useful labour, leisure -for friendship, books, the joys of music -and of pictures, of flowers and sunset -skies, of wild wood and breezy shore.</p> - -<p>And then she reflected. If it should -be this kind of freedom that girls wanted—the -sort of thing that Lucy herself -meant by freedom—could she promise -them that this was to be found in -average domestic service any more than<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_588" id="Page_588">{588}</a></span> -that other freedom for which the poor -souls around her were willing to pay so -dear?</p> - -<p>“The matter has got out of joint -somehow,” she thought. “New social -ideals, both good and bad, have gained -sway in these days, and I fear that the -majority of the mistresses have tried to -shut out both from influencing the ways -of domestic service. The consequence -is, the bad ideals have withdrawn the -mass of girls from household life. I -should not wonder but the mothers of -most of these girls have been domestic -servants. Yet what they have told their -daughters (possibly quite as often in -commendation and praise as in bitterness -and warning) has not attracted the girls, -because they are not living in the same -world as their mothers lived, and they -have picked up the fact that domestic -service is, in the main, left stationary -in the out-of-date sphere.”</p> - -<p>Lucy knew that she had not got her -own progressive ideas concerning -domestic service in her own parents’ -house. She had got suggestions when -visiting in the houses of schoolfellows -belonging to thoughtfully “advanced” -families, and these suggestions had -opened her eyes to see the connection -between this department of human life -and the teachings she found in the best -books she came across. Miss Latimer -herself had often been helpful. Also -when once Lucy’s days of courtship and -marriage had begun, there was a fresh -humanity in all Charlie’s ways of looking -at things, which permeated her mind, -and carried away lingering prejudices -and preconceptions as a sweet breeze -blows away the stuffiness of long-closed -chambers.</p> - -<p>Lucy’s own mother, who had died two -years before Lucy’s marriage, had been -a matron of the old school, kind and -considerate to her servants, as she would -have been to her pony or her dog, but -with far less consideration for their -individuality than many sympathetic -people give to that of their four-footed -pets. She expected her maids to go to -her place of worship. She would have -been surprised ever to see them with a -book, save on Sunday, and then only -with books which she “lent” them. -She allowed no variation in their household -uniform, and in their “best” -dresses she looked askance at a puff or -a flounce. Their letters had to be -addressed to their unprefixed names. -No visitors were allowed. They had -their regulated “hours off” once a -week, and these were never diverged -from, varied or exceeded. A request -for an arrangement for a fortnight’s -holiday would have been met by instant -dismissal.</p> - -<p>Even in those earlier days, when Lucy -had never questioned the righteousness -of these domestic methods, she -had yet somehow got an uneasy consciousness -that they were tottering to -their fall. She could not tell how she -had got that impression, whether from -murmurs in the kitchen or from added -tenacity in the hand laid on the domestic -reins. The house had been handsome, -well kept and comfortable; the service -perfectly regulated and reasonably well -paid, the conditions which long defer -catastrophe whether in states or households. -It had been as one of the last -strongholds of an ancient <i>régime</i> still -holding out, though outposts are fast -falling.</p> - -<p>Lucy’s father had not survived his -wife many months. He had been -counted a wealthy man, but there had -been such a revolution in his special -article of commerce that when he died -his estate barely met his liabilities. -Jem Brand, the young stockbroker, had -received a small dowry with Florence -when he married her. But after the -father’s debts were paid, there was not -a penny left for Lucy, who had thankfully -utilised her natural gifts and the -excellent training they had received by -accepting the position of art teacher at -the St. George’s Institute, which position -she had filled for more than a year -before her marriage.</p> - -<p>Perhaps Lucy had grown more inclined -to broader ways of thought and -simpler ways of life, because they had -brought its crowning joy into her own life. -Charlie Challoner had met her first in -her independent breadwinning capacity. -He was wont to say that if he had -known her as a rich man’s daughter he -would not have dared to woo her, and it -is quite certain that a young professional -man, with all his way to make, and with -neither family nor fortune to serve him, -would have received scant welcome from -either of Lucy’s parents.</p> - -<p>All these memories glanced through -her mind as she hurried home. She -reflected too, that the present transitional -and contradictory state of the domestic -world was further indicated by the fact -that though her sister, Mrs. Brand, -held all their mother’s household -theories, yet their mother would have -disapproved far more of the Brand -<i>ménage</i> than she would of Lucy’s -household, as that had been conducted -during the seven years of Pollie’s service. -Surely this went to show that the -desirable results of the old order of -things were now best to be secured -under the new order!</p> - -<p>Lucy said to herself—</p> - -<p>“Well, I must be patient, and remember -that my own position is rather -exceptional. Domestic life, just now, -seems to be of the nature of a series -of experiments, while I stand at too -critical a corner to find such experiments -edifying or pleasant. I must do what -everybody has to do—from prime ministers -down to chimney-sweeps—make the -best of the bad job left by those who -have gone before me, and try my utmost -not to make it worse for those coming -after me!”</p> - -<p>She entered her home, tired enough, -and knowing that there could be no rest -till bedtime. But she had made up her -mind to be cheerful at all costs. Lo, on -the hall-table lay something which made -overflowing joy to be the easiest thing -possible. There was a letter from -Charlie!</p> - -<p>It was marked “Ship letter,” and the -last few lines (which in her bewildered -joy she read first) had evidently been -written in wild haste: “Homeward -bound ship in sight—passing close by—Grant -thinks opportunity for letter. -God bless and keep you.—<span class="smcap">Charlie.</span>”</p> - -<p>“God bless and keep you!” The -benediction folded her round. She was -no more tired, no more disheartened. -She was ready for anything!</p> - -<p>And how much more so after she had -read the whole letter! All was going -well. The weather had been so propitious -that Charlie had been able to be -on deck nearly all day. He had grown -so brown and plump that he scarcely -knew his own face in the cabin looking-glass. -It was a guarantee of the calm -weather and of his own strength to -enjoy it that his diary recorded that he -and Captain Grant had played chess -every night, and that their games were -becoming prolonged and scientific.</p> - -<p>When Miss Latimer had joined in the -rejoicing, when Hugh had had his -father’s letter to kiss, when the cat had -had it to sniff—and had been decided to -show much more interest and emotion -than when the performance was repeated -with a circular—when Lucy had written -a postcard to hurry after the letter she -had just sent to her husband—an -ecstatic postcard, “Your ship letter -received. Oh, so happy—so thankful -to God!”—when all these things were -done, then she turned back to her household -cares and burdens, strong enough -to bear the heaviest.</p> - -<p>By this time Miss Latimer had taken -her departure, and Lucy and her little -laddie were alone. There was something -for her to do from morning till -night. She would not even call in the -service of the charwoman, for she -remembered that its results had not -been too satisfactory even upon the -perfect order and straightforwardness -that Pollie had left behind her. Mrs. -Challoner soon found that Jessie -Morison’s month of service had not -been quite so satisfactory as it had -seemed. Little things had gone astray, -little household matters, for which she -had given Jessie money, were left unpaid—the -whole amount perhaps not rising -above three or four shillings. Still, all -this determined Lucy to keep her own -hand on the household helm for the -moment. She could postpone the duties -of wardrobe and store closets which she -had assigned to herself for this last week -of leisure. She would be general servant, -nurse, and housemistress for once -before she turned breadwinner!</p> - -<p>The weather was cold, but it was -bright and cheerful, and Lucy got -real enjoyment out of her mornings in -the genial warmth of the kitchen, with -Hugh eagerly watching and proudly -helping in those homely labours which -delight all children. Do the banquets -of after-life ever furnish such delicious -dainties as that scrap of paste, -extra from the pie-crust, which mother -or elder sister sweetens, and rolls out, -and cuts patterns upon, and pops into -the oven, all before one’s eyes, and -which we wait to see taken out crisp and -brown?</p> - -<p>Hugh was a happy little boy in -those days. Had not papa’s letter -enclosed a scrap of paper covered with -o’s, and inscribed, “All for Hughie -himself,” and didn’t Hugh know that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_589" id="Page_589">{589}</a></span> -these meant kisses? Then there was -nothing to hinder him from trotting -after mamma all day long, and she -often sent him upstairs or downstairs to -fetch her a brush or a duster. She even -let him help her make a bed. She told -him he was “a useful little boy,” and -that praise came to his ears with a -pleasing novelty, which “a sweet -darling” or “a precious dear” had -lost. She let him watch her cleaning -his little boots, she let him try to do -it himself. That effectually convinced -him how naughty it is to dip one’s -foot in mud just for the fun of doing it. -And while these delights went on the -mother and child talked about the time -when Hugh would be a man, perhaps a -great explorer, alone in strange countries, -and how well it would be for him -to know how to do things for himself.</p> - -<p>“Or I’ll do them for you when you’re -very, very, very old, mamma,” he had -said, and Lucy had been half-staggered -and half-amused when he had next asked -whether it would not be fully time for -him to begin next year!</p> - -<p>“No, I don’t think I shall want much -done for me quite so soon,” she had -cheerfully replied; “but you may be -able to do something for yourself. I -think boys and all men who are not very -busy and tired out with doing other -things, ought to clean their own boots.”</p> - -<p>“I think I’d like cleaning boots,” -said Hugh. “If papa doesn’t come -home soon, I’ll get a box and go to the -corner of the street and say, ‘A brush, -sir!’ and I’ll bring you home all the -pennies, and we’ll have a lot of money, -and you can tell papa he needn’t hurry, -I’m taking care of you.”</p> - -<p>If here and there the childish prattle -touched chords athrill in Lucy’s heart, -there were full amends when Hugh -put his little arms about her and -whispered—</p> - -<p>“Don’t let’s have any new servant, -mamma—you be the servant -yourself.”</p> - -<p>“Ah, my pet,” she answered, “I’m -afraid that’s a luxury out of my reach -just now!”</p> - -<p>She questioned herself sometimes -whether it might not have been wiser had -she never taken up her money-earning -scheme, but had simply resolved to live -within narrowest limits on their savings -during Charlie’s absence? Yet the -answer always came, that but for this -money-earning scheme, she would -scarcely have dared to propose this -journey to Charlie, and it was still less -likely that he would have entertained -the idea. All seemed turning out so -happily that perhaps such a venture -might have well been made; but before -ventures are made one has to reckon -with fears as well as with hopes, to -provide against mischance as well as to -prepare for good fortune. Also, when -Charlie should return in restored -health, however strong and cheerful -he might be, a depleted treasury would -have been a drag, which might easily -have destroyed much of the benefit -received.</p> - -<p>Yet strong was her own longing for -quiet home life, and keen was her -consciousness that the impending arrival -of another dubious stranger was the sole -element of anxiety and difficulty following -her about among her household -tasks. From these she didn’t shrink in -the least, and she felt sure custom would -soon make them easy and pleasant. -She could not help feeling thankful that -decision or reconsideration was now out -of her reach. Her engagement with -St. George’s Institute was made for -the year, and must be honourably -fulfilled.</p> - -<p>It was tiresome to be interrupted -in some kitchen or bed-chamber task -by a ring of the door-bell, and only to -find some obviously unsuitable “young -person” sent from the registry office. -She had to meet the half-derisive smile -with which some of them noted that -“the missus” herself had answered -the door. She had to endure the contemptuousness -of their rapid survey of -her working toilette—the white handkerchief -knotted about her hair, and -the blue-checked apron. One or two -of them at once said candidly “that -the place would not suit.” To others -she had to say the same. Yet her -week of choice was rapidly passing, and -she feared she might be forced to accept -Mrs. Brand’s advice and “not be too -particular about everything.”</p> - -<p>Sometimes she wondered, after all, if -she and Charlie had made a mistake and -had started too ambitiously at the very -outset. Yet they had then seemed -entrenched on the safe side. Her own -kin, beginning with the Brands, had all -thought the little house with the verandah -only too small for a young man -of Charlie’s talents and prospects.</p> - -<p>“You will have the trouble and expense -of speedy removal,” they had -urged.</p> - -<p>These kindred had said, too, that the -furnishing was unnecessarily simple. -“That was a fault which might be -gradually remedied,” Florence Brand -had remarked. “But it was well to -make a dash at the beginning, even -if one economised afterwards, because -in the first year of one’s married -life people noticed one’s house more and -talked about it more than they ever did -afterwards.” But Charlie and Lucy -had been firm, because they were -determined not to run in debt, because -they wanted to save as much as they -could, to possess nothing that would -be costly in its up-keep, or likely to -tempt them into expensive ways, and -because they both loved the beauty of -simple form and the sweet cleanliness -of things that are easy to dust and -possible to wash.</p> - -<p>Then Florence had privately urged -Lucy to start with two servants.</p> - -<p>“Get two smart girls for low wages,” -she had said, “you won’t have much -to do for a long time, except to watch -that they are honest. It sounds well to -say ‘my cook’ and ‘my housemaid.’ -People think of a general servant as a -mere slavey.”</p> - -<p>But Lucy had steadily persisted in -having only one, and Pollie’s diligence -and progress had rewarded her.</p> - -<p>Now, however, Lucy asked herself -whether Charlie and she had done the -very best after all. True, they had not -satisfied the ideas of the Brands and -others; but ought they not to have gone -still farther in the opposite direction -and contented themselves with a tiny -flat and foregone any regular servant? -It was true that the plan they had -followed had been sound enough -economically. The lease of the little -house in Pelham Street had been bought -by Charlie’s prenuptial savings, and the -yearly expenditure had not been much -larger than it must have been in the -imaginary flat, Pollie’s domestic help -having given Lucy time to do all the -family needlework and to economise in -those ways which leisure makes consistent -with grace and beauty. To Lucy the life -seemed to have been idyllic. But, then, -at its foundation had been Pollie. So, if -Pollies were an element not to be readily -reckoned upon, life only was secure when -it was planned to do without them.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chap"> - -<h2><a name="USEFUL_HINTS" id="USEFUL_HINTS">USEFUL HINTS.</a></h2> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">General Rules for Making Jam.</span></p> - -<p>1. Gather the fruit on a dry day.</p> - -<p>2. Pick it over carefully and see that it is -free of insects, and take away any that is -decayed.</p> - -<p>3. Put the fruit in the pan and let it juice -over the fire; add the sugar, which should be -warmed, by degrees.</p> - -<p>4. Use good white sugar for preserving; the -cheaper kinds do not go so far.</p> - -<p>5. Three-quarters of a pound of sugar is -enough for any fruit unless it is very sour, -when a pound may be used.</p> - -<p>6. Stir often and do not let the jam burn.</p> - -<p>7. Skim well.</p> - -<p>8. Bring to the boil after the sugar has -melted, and boil until done.</p> - -<p>9. Put a little on a plate, let it cool, and -see if it will set; if so, it has been cooked -enough.</p> - -<p>10. Let the jam cool, and pour it into -jars.</p> - -<p>11. Let it get perfectly cold, lay a round of -paper that has been dipped in brandy on the -top inside the jar, and tie down larger pieces -outside. When tied down brush over the top -with white of egg.</p> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">To Render Down Fat.</span> <i>Method.</i>—Take -any pieces of fat, cooked or uncooked, cut -them up and remove all skin and any pieces -of meat there may be on them, put them in a -saucepan with enough water to come halfway -up the fat, put on the lid and boil for half an -hour; take off the lid and let the water boil -away; when the pieces of fat are brown and -crisp, take the saucepan off the fire and let the -contents cool a little; strain off the liquid fat -into an earthenware pan or tin. This can be -used again and again for deep fat frying, if -strained after each using, and will keep for a -long while. It is excellent for cakes and pastry.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_590" id="Page_590">{590}</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="STRAY_LEAVES_FROM_ASSAM" id="STRAY_LEAVES_FROM_ASSAM">STRAY LEAVES FROM ASSAM.</a></h2> - -<p class="ph3">TWO WIVES.</p> - - -<p>“<span class="smcap">And</span> my man?”</p> - -<p>“Your man was shot down amongst the -first who fell.”</p> - -<p>The questioner turned away without a word, -and lifting her child from the ground, slung it -in her cloth and left the bungalow.</p> - -<p>A terrible disaster had occurred. A political -officer had been attacked and killed, and his -escort cut to pieces, by the Angami Nagas. -A few of the survivors had succeeded in -reaching the stockade, and one of them—a -bright young fellow who had marched out -two days before, leaving behind him a one-week’s -bride—was having an ugly wound on -his head dressed by the native doctor.</p> - -<p>A crowd of terrified women surrounded -him, eager to hear his fearful tale, and by -degrees they learnt the truth—not one could -hope her husband had escaped, for he believed -himself and one companion to be the only -survivors out of eighty men. It was a sad -tale of mismanagement, treachery, and bloodshed.</p> - -<p>“We were in a trap,” the young fellow -explained in broken sentences. “They fired -upon us suddenly and killed a lot before we -could escape to open ground. Kama Ram -got us together at the foot of the hills, and we -fought hard until he fell.”</p> - -<p>A fair-faced Nepalese woman covered her -face with her cloth and broke into low sobs.</p> - -<p>“Yes,” he continued, “we fought hard; -but half our men were killed, and the Nagas -were there in hundreds. If we could have -kept them off till dark we might have got -away; but they surrounded us, and after -Kama Ram was shot there was no one to -lead us, and we got broken up and scattered. -He told us to leave him there and fight our -way back to warn the Sahib at Kohima; but -how could we leave him? We carried him -away, firing and then retreating. And so we -got away, a few of us; but Kama Ram was -heavy—was he not a big man?—and he said, -‘Oh, brothers, let me alone to die! I am -dying now, and you must save your lives and -get back to Kohima and help the Sahib; -they will go there. You cannot save me. -Put me where they cannot find me, as they -will take my head.’ And then he died. We -hid his body well, and then came on, and -only two of us are here, and the Nagas are -now on their way; they wait to take the -heads. By daybreak they will come.”</p> - -<p>The little Nepalese woman crept quietly -away. Her child was sleeping in a corner of -the over-crowded room, and she sat by him -with her head turned against the wall and -cried not loudly but most bitterly.</p> - -<p>“What is the use of crying?” asked the -other women in high-pitched trembling voices. -“We shall be killed too in the morning.”</p> - -<p>“Yes,” said the wounded man, “we shall -all be killed. There are thousands of them -coming on us.”</p> - -<p>Then came the quiet question from a broad-faced -rosy Naga woman—</p> - -<p>“And my man—did you see him?”</p> - -<p>Without the slightest sign of sympathy or -feeling the curt answer came—</p> - -<p>“Your man was shot down amongst the -first that fell.”</p> - -<p>Without a word she went away. None of -the women had any sympathy to waste upon -a Naga woman, even though her husband had -been a constable and she had left her home -and people to live with him. No one -attempted to detain her, or said a kind word -as she passed.</p> - -<p>Following her out, I asked her why she -went away, and warned her not to go. Her -child would probably be killed by the first -Angamis that she met, because her husband -was well known.</p> - -<p>“They will not harm the child. I must go -and find my husband,” she replied, and passed -on into the darkness and the rain. The -chance of finding him alive urged her to hurry -on. If he had fallen in the first attack, she -knew the place, and made her way straight -for it. But perhaps he was not killed. He -might have been one of those who had rolled -down the steep khud from the narrow pathway -where they fell, and she would find him -wounded, but safely hidden, at the bottom of -the khud. If he was dead, she might yet be -in time to save his head and bury him, and -hide him from the cruel hands of her savage -countrymen.</p> - -<p>The Nagas met her on her way and jeered -at her, asking her where her Sepoy husband -was; but still they let her pass, and on she -went. Who can describe the horrors of that -journey!</p> - -<p>The darkness hid many a ghastly sight, -but daybreak found her near the scene of -her disaster. Murdered men lay across her -path headless, with gaping wounds; shrieks -of despair rang in her ears from many a poor -wounded wretch who had escaped in the -night only to fall into the hands of his -enemies in the morning; and yells of fiendish -triumph went up as each new victim was -discovered and despatched.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Esmé.</span> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chap"> - - -<h2><a name="ON_A_VERY_OLD_PIANO" id="ON_A_VERY_OLD_PIANO">ON A VERY OLD PIANO:</a></h2> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">Lately Seen in a London Shop Window, and Labelled, “Cash Price, Two Guineas.”</span></p> - - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse"><span class="smcap">Poor</span> faded, long-neglected thing,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">Not worth a glance</div> -<div class="verse">From eyes disdainful as they pass,</div> -<div class="verse">While you stand there, the sport, alas!</div> -<div class="verse indent4">Of circumstance.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Too true! and yet if you could speak</div> -<div class="verse indent4">Of years gone by,</div> -<div class="verse">How many happy memories</div> -<div class="verse">Might whisper from your yellow keys</div> -<div class="verse indent4">With muffled sigh.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">For, as I look, the street and shop</div> -<div class="verse indent4">Both disappear—</div> -<div class="verse">I see a room with cheerful light,</div> -<div class="verse">A ruddy fire, and faces bright,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">And <i>you</i> are here.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Before you sits a little maid,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">Her dainty feet</div> -<div class="verse">Scarce touch the floor. She proudly plays</div> -<div class="verse">A quaint old tune of other days,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">Most strangely sweet.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The vision fades, but once again</div> -<div class="verse indent4">My eyes can see</div> -<div class="verse">A pleasant chamber, long and low,</div> -<div class="verse">With antique chairs placed in a row,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">And tapestry;</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">With solemn portraits on the wall,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">And goodly store</div> -<div class="verse">Of silver, china, bric-a-brac,</div> -<div class="verse">Carved shining tables, old and black,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">And polished floor.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The windows open on a lawn,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">The sunset glows,</div> -<div class="verse">The birds sing on in pure content,</div> -<div class="verse">The air is perfumed with the scent</div> -<div class="verse indent4">Of summer rose;</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">While strains of music, softly sad,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">From fingers white,</div> -<div class="verse">That rise and fall in cadence clear,</div> -<div class="verse">In sounds melodious to hear,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">Float through the night.</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Quick steps approach: and hushed your strains</div> -<div class="verse indent4">(The birds still sing)—</div> -<div class="verse">Imprisoned is the player’s hand,</div> -<div class="verse">The lovers twain beside you stand,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">And Love is King!</div> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">So wags the world—’tis up to-day,</div> -<div class="verse indent4">To-morrow down.</div> -<div class="verse"><i>Your</i> reign is over: here you wait,</div> -<div class="verse">“<i>Cash price, Two Guineas</i>” is your fate</div> -<div class="verse indent4">In London Town.</div> -</div></div></div> -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_591" id="Page_591">{591}</a></span></p> - - - -<h2><a name="SOME_HOLIDAY_MUSIC" id="SOME_HOLIDAY_MUSIC">SOME HOLIDAY MUSIC.</a></h2> - - - - -<p><span class="smcap">Fine</span> fun can be had out of two action songs -by William Younge and Lionel Elliott (J. -Williams). They just suit the merry season -for youngsters of the family who must have -amusing and interesting ideas to keep themselves -and others happy. One is called -“Home for the Holidays,” and the other, -“Making the Pudding.”</p> - -<p>For our tiny nursery people there is a really -capital shilling book by Florence Wickins, consisting -of “Merry little tunes, including all -the original melodies to the nursery rhymes -and a complete set of dance music for little -folk” (Wickins & Co.). It is in clear, big -print, with a gay cover, and there are some -dear old favourites therein, such as the undying -Miss Muffet, Tom Tucker, Lucy Locket, -Baby Bunting, and other heroes and heroines -of nursery lore in days of yore.</p> - -<p>Schoolboys and schoolgirls too will join -with fervour in Scott-Gatty’s new “Country -House Songs” on “Golf” and “Cricket” -(Boosey), and these will not fail to attract -boys and girls of an older growth, so admirable -are they.</p> - -<p>Some stirring ditties suitable for musical -entertainments after schoolroom teas are two -rousing naval and military lays with telling -refrains, namely, “Beresford’s Boys,” by -Lionel Hume (Weekes), and “The Life of a -Soldier,” by Gerald Lane (Enoch); “Two -Gay Owls,” by M. Van Lennep (Doremi), -with characteristic “tu-whit to-whoos” capable -of expressive rendering, and “De Blue-Tailed -Fly,” a plantation song by G. H. Clutsam -(Stanley Lucas), the buzzing chorus of -which can be given with much dramatic -feeling!</p> - -<p>Pretty little light pieces, all suitable for -bright occasions, interludes for tableaux, -charades, &c., are the following: “Danse -Chic,” by Arnold Olding (Cramer); “Mountain -Gnomes,” by Wilhelm Popp (Ashdown); -“La Lucette,” by Gladys Hope (Weekes); -“Vous Dansez Marquise,” by Augusta de -Kabath (J. Williams); “Chanson de Louis -Seize,” by G. Bachmann (Ashdown); and a -small book of “Three Dances” by Corelli -Windeatt (J. Williams).</p> - -<p>These popular marches are desirable for the -same purposes, namely, “Santiago,” by -Walter von Joel (Ashdown); “The Charge -at Dargai” (Cramer); and the “British -Outpost,” by Lionel Hume (Weekes); while -the quicker polka marches of “Gringalet” -and “Automobiles,” both by Ad. Gauwin -(Chappell), are spirited in music and in -dashing frontispieces. Two nice little operettas -for children are “Cock Robin and -Jenny Wren,” by Florian Pascal, and “The -Maid and the Blackbird,” by Ed. Solomon -(J. Williams).</p> - -<p>James C. Beazley writes a humorous and -useful little partsong entitled, “There was a -Little Man” (Doremi), who, as we know, -“had a little gun,” and this sporting episode -is facetiously and effectually carried out in -the music.</p> - -<p>Songs from Lewis Carroll’s “Sylvie and -Bruno” (all in one small cover) are most -amusingly quaint. Listen to the euphony of -“King Fisher’s Song.”</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">“‘Needles have eyes,’ said Lady Bird—</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Sing Cats, sing Corks, sing Cowslip Tea—</div> -<div class="verse">‘And they are sharp—just what</div> -<div class="verse indent2">Your Majesty is not.</div> -<div class="verse">So get you gone—’tis too absurd</div> -<div class="verse indent2">To come a-courting me!’”</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p>And other lines linger in our memories like—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">“Sing Prunes, sing Prawns, sing Primrose Hill,”</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p>and so on in the inimitable spirit of “Alice -in Wonderland” again.</p> - -<p>The “Witch o’ the Broom” Lancers and -Quadrilles by Fabian Rose (Phillips and -Page) are as easy as easy to play from sight, -so is “The Farmyard” Barn-dance, with a -racy title-page for small folk (Phillips and -Page), and in a loftier sphere the “Malmaison” -Waltz by Caroline Lowthian (Metzler), -and “Poppyland” Waltz by Cyril Dare -(Cramer).</p> - -<p>There are four “Characteristic Dances” by -H. J. Taylor (Weekes), all of which might be -prettily danced in character, the Grecian (No. -2) and the Japanese (No. 4) especially.</p> - -<p>Some exceedingly facile and effective violin -solos are No. 1, “The Children’s Home” -of Cowen’s, and No. 10, Canzonetta by C. -Borelli, of Morley’s Melodious Gems; “Sunny -Memories” and “Good Wishes,” by Henry -Tolhurst (Phillips and Page); a “Song -Without Words,” by M. Marigold (Novello), -and a convenient shilling book (Wickins) -containing the beautiful “Träumerei” of -Schumann and other choice little pieces for -pleasurable performance. “Twelve Carols,” -by M. C. Gillington and F. Pascal, are full -of interest and of beautiful and original ideas -in words and music (J. Williams).</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Mary Augusta Salmond.</span> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div class="chap"> - - -<div class="figcenter w200"><a name="ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS" id="ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS"></a> -<img src="images/i_591.jpg" width="200" height="306" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2>ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS</h2> - - -<h3>STUDY AND STUDIO.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Katie Roberts.</span>—No apology is necessary in sending -your verses, but we fear you would scarcely be able -to write anything for publication. The metre of -your lines is incorrect; occasionally you begin a -verse with a line far too short, <i>e.g.</i>, “He is, we all -know it.” “The Unseen Guest” is the better of -the two poems, and we think it is natural to beguile -hours when you are not on active duty by expressing -these thoughts. It is not the substance but the -form that we criticise. You should study the laws -of versification.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lisa.</span>—We must commend to you the advice contained -in the last clause of the preceding answer. -If you wish to improve in writing verse, study the -laws of metre, which you will find in any good -handbook of the English tongue. In “Wait,” the -second line is two syllables too long. “Guest” -and “bless” do not rhyme.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Apple Blossom.</span>—We have read your story, and are -afraid we must literally comply with your request -to “pull it to pieces.” The central incident is -most improbable. Prosperous theatrical managers -do not steal plays by copying manuscripts left with -them for perusal. As “Claude” received his MS. -again, you must see that detection was absolutely -certain, and no motive is suggested for the extraordinary -act of Sir Francis Lockhart, whom you -should not call “Sir Lockhart.” Claude acted -with foolishness and ingratitude in angrily refusing -the offer of his uncle, which is so scornfully mentioned, -of a “stool in his warehouse,” and genius -does not burst forth in a moment in the construction -of a successful play, nor the production of -widely-read magazine articles, by a half-educated -youth. These faults in your story proceed from -ignorance of real life, but there are also very many -defects in style; tautology is frequent, and you -should not write of a “flunky,” nor of “Belgravia -Square.” We hope you study the book we recommended -to you. There is no “royal road” to literary -success of any kind, even for aspirants with talent.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Arbutus.</span>—We can mention in reply to your query, -the Cambridge Training College for Women -Teachers (fees £60 to £70 a year for residence, -tuition, etc.), and recommend you, for particulars -of teachers’ training, also to apply to the Secretary, -Association for the Education of Women, Clarendon -Building, Oxford. You do not say for what -sort of teaching the training is required; but for -elementary schoolmistresses there are a great -number of colleges. The Bishop Otter Memorial -College at Chichester is intended for the daughters -of the clergy and professional men: fees, £20 per -annum for Queen’s scholars, £50 for private -students. In Ireland there are the Marlboro’ -Street Training College, and the Church of Ireland -Training College, Dublin. Stockwell College, -Stockwell Road, London, is a fine college: fees -£25 for two years’ board and tuition. For a full -list of these training colleges for elementary schoolmistresses, -and particulars of the entrance examination, -apply Education Department, London.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Molly.</span>—It would certainly not be “waste of time” -to take lessons in drawing. You evidently have a -love for it, and a good idea of copying. It would -always be a pleasant resource for you.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Constance.</span>—Apply to the <i>Times</i> Office, London, for -the number containing Rudyard Kipling’s Jubilee -poem. We believe it first appeared in <i>Literature</i>, -but you will obtain information there.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mrs. E. M. L. Knight.</span>—1. We think you could not -do better with your little boy than to adopt, as far -as you can, the Kindergarten system. If you were -to write to the Froebel Society, 12, Buckingham -Street, Adelphi, London, W.C., you would probably -be told of some book or books by which, as -you seem a thoughtful and intelligent mother, you -could guide yourself in the work of training the -child’s faculties of observation and attention, and -imparting knowledge of “natural surroundings.” -It is pleasant to see the little children at the -Kindergartens modelling in sand the promontory, -island, hill, and showing the course of a river from -its spring on the mountain to the sea. This is just -one instance of the sort of occupation that teaches -and amuses them. Considering what you tell us, -we think if you could devote a part of each day to -your boy, it would be far better than sending him -to the village school. As he is only 2½ years old, -there is plenty of time for school life.—2. A very -useful though not new book on children’s ailments -is Dr. Pye Chavasse’s <i>Advice to a Mother</i>. The -National Health Society, 53, Berners Street, -London, W., will send you a list of medical books -or pamphlets for household use.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Elizabeth.</span>—1. We should consider that Darwin, -Huxley, Tyndall, Sir James Simpson, Sir Richard -Owen, Lord Lister, Edison, Röntgen, Sir William -Huggins, Professors Dewar and Ramsay were -among “the greatest scientists of the present age.” -We cannot possibly give you a full list here.—2. -Your writing is clear, but inclined to be too childish -in its thick down-strokes, and long loops to y’s and -g’s. It needs more freedom.</p> - -<p>J. J. A.—We refer you also to Mrs. Watson’s articles -on “What are the County Councils doing for -Girls?” and—if you cannot consult them—to the -Secretary of the Board of Technical Education, -St. Martin’s Lane, London. You might also write -to the Secretaries of Queen’s College, Harley -Street, W., and of Holloway College, Egham, for -particulars of scholarships in connection with those -institutions.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Edythe.</span>—We think a very interesting way to teach -young children spelling is to give them a good box -of letters (“Spelling-Game”), and let them fill the -frame with words, either from memory or from a -book; or the letters of a word may be given loose -to the child, and he be required to form the word -himself. Games may easily be arranged with the -letter-box for several children. Many thanks for -your enclosure.</p></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_592" id="Page_592">{592}</a></span></p> - - -<h3>GIRLS’ EMPLOYMENTS.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Isabel</span> (<i>Art Needlework</i>).—You would be very well -taught in the Royal School of Art Needlework, -Exhibition Road, South Kensington; the fee for -instruction is £5. The School does not, however, -guarantee to find work for its pupils, but some of -the latter earn an average income of £1 a week. -In art-needlework shops, the payment is usually -much lower, 14s. or 15s. a week being not unusual. -If you are fond of needlework, could you not learn -dressmaking at a technical institute, and then go -out as a visiting dressmaker? You would do better -in this way than as an embroideress, for you could -earn about 2s. 6d. a day, and would receive board -during the time of your engagement.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A Young Correspondent</span> (<i>Helping others</i>).—The -fact that you are very young need not prevent you -from helping other people as you wish to do, and -from making yourself useful in the world. If you -can knit, you might write to the secretary of the -Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, 181, Queen -Victoria Street, E.C., and ask whether you could -knit mufflers or mittens for the fishermen. Another -kind of work in which help is required is in embossing -books in Braille type for the use of the blind. -In regard to this work, you should apply to the -Hon. Secretary, British and Foreign Blind Association, -33, Cambridge Square, W. Do not trouble -about the other matters you mention. Girls in -their teens often do not look their best, and the -complexion nearly always improves in later life. -With a pleasant manner and a neat becoming style -of dress, a girl may always make an agreeable impression, -whereas there are many handsome girls -who are so selfish and disagreeable that their -beauty gives no pleasure to anybody, not even to -themselves.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pansy</span> (<i>Advice</i>).—It would be a great mistake to -become a companion, although you do say that -such a career is your ambition. Companions -occupy an anomalous position; their duties are -undefined, and their services are consequently little -valued. And, after middle life, the companion -usually finds herself without an engagement, and -without a profession of any kind. You say you do -not wish to become a governess, but at the same -time you feel yourself competent to teach children -from seven years old to twelve. Now, under these -circumstances would it not be wise to become an -elementary school teacher? Your pupils would be of -the ages mentioned, and you would have an -occupation by which you could almost certainly -earn a living. Elementary teachers are now in -great demand, for this very reason, that so many -girls will try to become companions and secretaries. -Had you been under eighteen, you might have -become an apprentice as a pupil-teacher in an -elementary school; but as you are eighteen -already, you had better pass the Queen’s Scholarship -Examination, and then seek employment as -an assistant teacher, or, much better, enter a -teachers’ training college. You could study all -the requirements more fully by obtaining through a -bookseller a copy of the New Code, issued by the -Education Department. If you wanted further -advice, it is probable that some Board School or -National School mistress in your own town would -give it.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Snowball</span> (<i>Typewriting, etc.</i>).—A typist and shorthand -writer, employed as a clerk in a City office, -usually receives a weekly salary of from 18s. to 21s. -to begin with, rising at the end of a year or two (if -she is really competent) to 25s. and, after that, -rising again possibly to 30s., 35s., or any amount not -exceeding £2. But many girls do not advance -beyond 25s. per week, and employment is to some -extent precarious, as so many girls can now do -typing and write shorthand with moderate skill. -But we consider that a girl occupies a tolerably -secure position who can do verbatim reporting, and -can be relied on to take down all that is said at a -long meeting, which, when interruption and discussion -takes place, is by no means an easy task. -But as you are quite young, write a good clear -hand, which you will doubtless improve within the -next twelvemonth, and are determined to work, we -should counsel the Post Office Department of the -Civil Service in your case, especially if you pass the -Cambridge Junior Examination well, for which you -are preparing yourself. You should try to get into -the Service as a girl clerk as soon as you are sixteen; -that is better than waiting till you are eighteen -to enter as a woman clerk. Pay great attention -meantime to your studies in French, German, geography, -arithmetic, and handwriting. Girl clerks -begin at a salary at £35, and women clerks at -£55. The latter are eligible for a pension after a -certain number of years’ service.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kalifa</span> (<i>House Decoration</i>).—We do not quite agree -with you that there is an increasing demand for -ladies who undertake house decoration. To succeed -in the business, a girl ought to be apprenticed -to a decorator who will teach her how to draw and -design furniture, and to see that workmen carry out -orders properly. To learn the business thoroughly, -a girl must either give time or pay a high premium; -one of the foremost decorators charges £100. It is -not an employment for everybody; and a good -many ladies of taste have failed because they -have not carried out their work in a sufficiently -responsible and business-like manner.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Espérance</span> (<i>Suggestions</i>).—If you shrink from -nursing, it is difficult to know what you can do in -the way of philanthropic work without possessing -some private means. Perhaps through the church -or chapel you attend you could be put in the way -of doing something for the poor, such as district -visiting. There are also, as you perhaps know, -several settlements in the East of London in which -women work. For instance, there is the St. Margaret’s -House, Bethnal Green, a Church of England -Settlement, and there is also the Canning Town -Settlement, 459, Barking Road, Plaistow, which is -unsectarian. You would probably find that should -the occasion arise for you to earn your living, the -experience gained by working in one of these -settlements would help you to obtain a position as -matron of some charitable institution. There is -now a considerable demand for philanthropic -workers who have been trained in settlements.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lois</span> (<i>Librarianship</i>).—We hardly think your scheme -is feasible of obtaining a librarianship in a charitable -institution or in a ladies’ club. In a workmen’s -reading-room and institute it is quite -possible you might obtain employment, or in a -free library. The branches of the Manchester -Free Library employ women. Some post of that -kind you would probably fill well, as you have had -several years’ experience already, and have interested -yourself in the work. Then there is a -large circulating library at Norwich, the property -of a private firm, where some women are engaged. -Otherwise, if you wish to make a change, you -would have to seek a secretaryship, or post as -book-keeper, as you say; but this seems to us -rather a pity as you have done so well as a -librarian.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ingeborg</span> (<i>Needlework</i>).—You had better communicate -with the secretary of the Society for the -Advancement of Plain Needlework, 16, Stafford -Street, Marylebone Road, N.W., and ask what -courses he would advise you to pursue in order to -obtain a teachership of needlework. Very likely it -may be thought best that you should pass the -examination at the City Guilds’ Institute, as this -qualification would help you materially to secure -an appointment.</p></div> - - -<h3>MEDICAL.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Eglantine.</span>—If the teeth become loosened, and the -gums show a tendency to bleed on slight provocation, -use a mouth-wash of tincture of myrrh; add -about a teaspoonful of tincture of myrrh to half a -tumblerful of water, and rinse out your mouth and -wash your teeth with it. The “tincture of myrrh -and borax” of the shops is made by mixing tincture -of myrrh with glycerine of borax. Both these are -pharmacopœial preparations.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A Japanese Girl.</span>—In common parlance we use the -term “fainting” to express any condition in which -a person acutely loses consciousness and falls to -the ground. The term therefore includes epilepsy, -apoplexy, sunstroke, acute syncope, and the condition -which you wish to know about, ordinary -fainting fits, or semi-syncope. The fits, as everybody -knows, occur chiefly in young women and -girls who are anæmic or hysterical. They consist -of a momentary weakness of the heart-beat, as the -result of which the brain is insufficiently supplied -with blood, and the person drops down “in a heap.” -This sudden falling lowers the position of the head, -and so prevents the brain from becoming anæmic. -When a person faints, or feels faint, her head should -be lowered; if she is sitting in a chair, her head -should be forced down to her knees; if she is standing -up, she should be placed upon her back. How -often we see kind-hearted persons carrying a fainting -girl out of church, taking care to keep her head -well raised! Sal volatile, cold water and brandy -are sometimes given to fainting girls, but none of -these is necessary, and the brandy usually does -harm. Though fainting looks very dangerous, it -is really very trivial. We have never seen a -death during one of these young women’s fainting -fits.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lady Babbie.</span>—It is related of a great physician that -a girl once came to him complaining, as you do, -that she made horrible grimaces, moving her scalp -and eyebrows about in a most absurd manner, and -making herself look ridiculous. Of course he knew -at once what was the matter, and said to her, “Let -me see you make these grimaces.” When she had -finished, he said to her, “What you have got the -matter with you is of no moment, but I warn you -not to let anyone see you making those grimaces, -because when you do so you present a striking -resemblance to Mrs. ——” (a famous criminal of the -time, then “wanted” by the police), “and you may -get run in if you don’t take care!” This so -frightened the girl that she never made grimaces -again! This curious habit can be cured, as you -see. It is semi-involuntary—that is, it was originally -voluntary, but from constant repetition it has become -a habit. It is a habit from which you must -break yourself. It is no good saying you cannot—we -say you can; but you must try, and at present -avoid anything which is liable to produce it. We -have not asked you to do anything impossible—“to -do lessons or anything of <i>that</i> sort”—but why do -you have such an objection “to do lessons or anything -of <i>that</i> sort?” You will find that there are -more unpleasant things in life than lessons!</p></div> - - -<h3>MISCELLANEOUS.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rebecca.</span>—The invention of the gamut and the lines -of the stave is attributed to D’Arezzo, an Italian -who flourished in the eleventh century. At the -Vatican, and in the King’s Library, Paris, there -are valuable copies of his famous <i>Micrologus</i>.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Perplexed.</span>—We think it would be for your own -happiness if you cleared up the question, as no -honest man has any right to be paying his addresses -to two women at once. If you have a mother, you -had better let her make the inquiry.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marguerite.</span>—The simnel-cakes made in Lent, at -Eastertide, and Christmas, in Shropshire and Herefordshire—more -especially at Shrewsbury—date -back to great antiquity. Herrick speaks of them -in one of his epigrams, from which it appears that -at Gloucester it was the custom for young people -to carry simnels to their mothers on mid-Lent -Sunday, called “Mothering Sunday.” In Mediæval -Latin it is called <i>siminellus</i>, and is derived from -the Latin <i>simila</i>, or fine flour. Like the religious -signification of the hot-cross-buns, the simnel-cakes -were, in early times, marked with a figure of -Christ or of the Virgin Mary. The Pagan Saxons -ate cakes in honour or commemoration of their -goddess Eastre, and, unable to prevent people from -so doing as a heathen custom, the Christian clergy -had the buns marked with a cross, to remind them -of our Lord and His work of redemption.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Troubled One.</span>—We are well acquainted with the -infidel argument that “the death of one man could -not atone for, nor make restitution for, the sins and -the debts of millions of other men.” But first, -Christ was the Second Person of the Divine Trinity, -and <i>One</i> with the Father and the Holy Ghost, and -His was an infinite sacrifice for finite sin; an infinite -satisfaction for finite indebtedness. Secondly, as -man’s rebellion was against his Creator, and the -unfulfilled obligations were to Him, his Creator -had an absolute right to punish, or forgive, to claim, -or to remit man’s debt <i>on His Own terms</i>. Thus, -if He said, “I will accept man’s acknowledgment -of sin and indebtedness to Me, if he offer a lamb in -token thereof,” He had an indisputable right to do -so; and when He accepts a Divine, and therefore -infinite sacrifice, He has a right to do so. Who -may presume to question it?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Two Chums.</span>—The phrase, “Once in a blue moon” -means “very rarely,” and the originator of the -phrase exaggerated what it was designed to mean, -as it expresses not rarity only, but impossibility of -occurrence, as there is no such thing as a “blue” -moon, any more than a personage correctly designated -“Blue Beard.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Constant Reader</span> appears to have overlooked many -answers to her question. Brides do not supply -house-linen, nor furniture, nor any household requisites. -If her parents like to make a present of -such a nature, it is perfectly gratuitous. The bridegroom -is naturally to have a home suitable for the -reception of his bride when he takes her from her -father’s house.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tom Tit.</span>—Certainly there are books on conchology. -You have only to inquire at a good librarian’s.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">MacNally.</span>—Inquire in the Will Department, Somerset -House, and see those of that date. You -should give the names and probable date; 1s. is -charged for a search through each year, we believe. -We have looked in the <i>London Directory</i> and the -<i>Royal Red Book</i>, and did not see your cousin’s -address.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A. Neighbour.</span>—To obtain any particulars respecting -the writer Mary E. Wilkins, you had better write -to her publisher.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Antiquary.</span>—Of all the ancient nations of which we -possess historical records, Egypt stands first. According -to Canon Rawlinson (quoted by Dawson), -history and archæological discoveries give the earliest -date as 2760 <span class="smcap lowercase">B.C.</span>; of Babylon, as 2300 <span class="smcap lowercase">B.C.</span>; of -Phœnicia, as 1700 <span class="smcap lowercase">B.C.</span>; of Assyria, as 1500 <span class="smcap lowercase">B.C.</span>; -of India, as 1200 <span class="smcap lowercase">B.C.</span>, and of China, as 1154 <span class="smcap lowercase">B.C.</span> -Whether any new light has been thrown on the -subject by more recent investigations and discoveries -than what we receive from Canon Rawlinson, -we are not at this moment prepared to -say.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Country Lass.</span>—Rosemary-tea is excellent for promoting -the growth of the hair. Chemists prepare -it in a cleaner form than you can at home. You -cannot make your hair “wavy and glossy” unless -the hair have flattened sides to each tube (we mean -if the hair be round it will not curl), and if naturally -rough, any gloss artificially produced would only -be through greasiness. Joan and Jane are feminines -of the Hebrew name John—“the gracious gift of -God.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Amateur Stamp Collector.</span>—With reference to the -uses made by the authorities at the Asile des Billodes, -at Le Locle, we can only repeat what we -were told by a Swiss lady, who has long maintained -a girl herself in this special institution, that “she -believed the stamps were sent to, and made into -<i>papier maché</i> at, Nüremberg”; so for whatever -other uses they are employed, or to whatever other -destinations they may be sent (perhaps exclusive -of those at Le Locle, according to their -printed advertisement), it seems that a large proportion -goes to that place. We have the paper, a -copy of which you are so good as to send, and are -quite ready to believe our friend was mistaken as -regards the Asile she helps to support.</p></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p>[Transcriber’s Note: the following changes have been made to this text.</p> - -<p>Page 579: Effiie to Effie—“and now Effie”.</p> - -<p>Page 580: Soâne to Saône—“A Summer Voyage on the Saône”.</p> - -<p>Symond’s to Symonds’—“J. A Symonds’”.</p> - -<p>Edmond to Edmondo—“Edmondo de Amicis”.</p> - -<p>Taines’ to Taine’s—“H. Taine’s”.</p> - -<p>Page 581: Teneriffe, and its Seven Satellites to Tenerife, and its Six Satellites.</p> - -<p>Vesa to Vasa—“Gustavus Vasa”.</p> - -<p>Alex. to Alec.—“Alec. Tweedie”.</p> - -<p>Grohmann to Grohman—“W. A. Grohman”.</p> - -<p>Page 583: conciousness to consciousness—“self-consciousness”.</p> - -<p>Page 586: baking powder to baking-powder—“baking-powder. Make”.]</p></div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. -1015, June 10, 1899, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER *** - -***** This file should be named 60519-h.htm or 60519-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/5/1/60519/ - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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