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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. 1023, August 5, 1899 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: July 3, 2020 [EBook #62547] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER, AUGUST 5, 1899 *** - - - - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -https://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER - -VOL. XX.—NO. 1023.] AUGUST 5, 1899. [PRICE ONE PENNY.] - - - - -SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS. - -BY LILY WATSON. - - -[Illustration: OPEN-AIR SKETCHING.] - -_All rights reserved._] - - -PART VII. - -After all the serious advice we have given to our readers as to the -literature that is to make them wise, it is pleasant to write of -self-culture through the study of the best poetry. - -It is, however, not by deliberately taking poetry as a vehicle of -education, hunting up every allusion, parsing difficult sentences, -and picking the whole thing to pieces, that readers will fall under -its sway and know the power of its magic spell. We have often mourned -in secret at the prevailing fashion of “getting up” this, that, and -the other poem for examinations, and have wondered what such an -introduction to English literature is worth. Of this method of handling -the work of poets one may use Wordsworth’s phrase: - - “We murder to dissect.” - -Is it desirable, then, to pass by allusions without comprehending -them? Have we not praised the aspiring student who wants to know, for -instance, who was the - - “daughter of the gods, divinely tall - And most divinely fair,” - -or who it was - - “Who saw life steadily and saw it whole, - The mellow glory of the Attic stage, - Singer of sweet Colonus and its child”? - -We can only say that, whereas anxiety to understand whatever one reads -intelligently is to be commended, no individual knowledge about a -masterpiece of poetic genius is to be put in place of the masterpiece -itself. And we unhesitatingly condemn the practice of using poems as -vehicles for lessons in grammar, Grimm’s Law, or any other technical -matter whatsoever. For instance, if Wordsworth’s “Excursion” has -any meaning for your heart and mind, do not read it with notes which -stop you four times in the first three lines, with the derivation of -“landscape,” the explanation of “downs” and other kindred matters, -which are undoubtedly useful, but should not be learnt by the medium of -an immortal poem. If you need lessons in this elementary sort of thing, -we should advise you to find them elsewhere. - -If you have to read one of Shakespeare’s plays edited by such admirable -commentators as Mr. Aldis Wright or Mr. Verity, do not adopt the -method of the girl who covered up the text, lest it should divert her -attention from the notes! But the notes are the most important matter -to the minds of thousands of middle-class girls and boys, because it is -on the notes they are going to be examined. - -A suggestive and amusing essay on this subject for elder readers is to -be found in _Reviews and Essays in English Literature_, by the Rev. D. -C. Tovey, M.A., Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge. - -The well-known couplet: - - “You must love him ere to you - He will seem worthy of your love,” - -is true of the poet. And does the utilising of Shakespeare as a -class-book make him beloved by the young? We are afraid it does not. -Yet do not throw notes aside—only remember—do remember!—they touch -nothing but the form; the spirit of poetry eludes them altogether. - -We may imagine two students of a poem brought into comparison. The one -regards it as a task alone; she has conscientiously learnt by heart -the notes of an erudite commentator, has looked up every allusion, can -expatiate on “Grimm’s Law,” and give instances of its working. The -other can do none of these things; she has found the volume in some -library, has pored over the poem till it has become part of her inner -life; its music rings in her ears; she loves it passionately, and it -haunts her inner consciousness like sweet, strange music. If both girls -are suddenly examined for the “Cambridge Local,” the latter will fail -and the former will pass. Yet the latter is the one for whom the poem -has really done its true work. We are not denying that she would be the -better for the technical knowledge possessed by the other; but if one -has to choose between them, she it is who really understands her poet. - -Love and knowledge should go hand in hand, as Browning has taught us -by his legend of Paracelsus and Aprile; but the modern tendency in -much-examined young people is to dwell so largely on the knowledge that -the love flies away. - -Read and love poetry as much as you can. It will open and enlarge your -mind; feed and enlighten your imagination; make life beautiful to you, -and teach you of the greater things that lie beyond life. - -One sometimes hears a girl remark in a self-satisfied voice, “Oh, I -don’t care for poetry!” Dear young friend, are you aware that Goethe -said: - - “Wer der Dichtkunst Stimme nicht vernimmt, - Ist ein Barbar, er sei auch wer er sei”? - -(He who has no ear for the voice of poetry is a barbarian, be he who he -may.) And there is considerable truth in the statement. No one would -be proud of physical partial deafness and blindness; they constitute -nothing to be elated about in the mental sphere. If you “do not care -for poetry,” you had better at least give yourself a chance of caring -for it by reading some poem on a subject which seems likely to appeal -to you. In this way you may find out that you have an unsuspected -capacity of being touched by this music. If you do not appreciate -Milton, you may enjoy a simple poem by Coleridge; if Tennyson does not -please you, Rudyard Kipling’s stirring words may cause your heart to -throb and your eyes to melt; if Browning is too obscure, Tennyson’s -melody may charm you; if Keats and Shelley are too mystical, Scott’s -“Marmion,” or “Lady of the Lake,” may prove fascinating. In any case, -give yourself every chance of entering into your immortal and divine -heritage of “truth and pure delight.” - -The greatest literature of all ages has a tendency to become poetry, -as you will see if you consider the Hebrew Psalms, Homer, Æschylus, -Sophocles, Virgil “lo buon maestro,” and Dante his pupil, Shakespeare, -Goethe. Poetry is the language in which highest aspirations, loftiest -truths, naturally clothe themselves. Coleridge’s definition in _Table -Talk_ is worth remembering. - -“I wish,” he says, “our clever young poets would remember my homely -definitions of prose and poetry: that is, prose—words in their best -order; poetry—the best words in their best order.” - -We must not, however, be led away into a disquisition on the extremely -difficult question of the true nature and scope of poetry, but must -give a few hints to the reader. Here much depends, and must always -depend, on individual taste and habit of mind. - -Dante, the great poet of the Middle Ages, should be read and studied -by all who have the necessary time and capacity, but unfortunately no -translation can render the poetry of the original. It is worth while -to learn Italian in order to read the “Divine Comedy,” but if that -is impossible, it is also worth while to read it in Dean Plumptre’s, -Cary’s, or Longfellow’s translation. Longfellow’s is absolutely -literal, but truth compels us to state it is often very unmusical. For -“self-culture” the intelligent study of this great poet is a mighty -instrument. To enter into Dante’s thought is to enter into the view of -human life and human civilisation as it appeared to the greatest man of -the time, and anyone who can understand the historical allusions of the -“Divine Comedy” need not blush for her knowledge of history. - -Do not take Shakespeare “as read.” That is even worse than concerning -yourself principally with the notes on his plays! There are small -editions of separate plays, such as Cassell’s sixpenny edition, too -numerous to mention, which are small enough to slip into the pocket, -and may form a companion on a wearisome journey. _The Merchant of -Venice_, _As You Like It_, _The Tempest_, _Richard II._, may be quoted -as good plays to begin with if your knowledge of the poet of poets is -scanty. But you may study Shakespeare all your life without exhausting -the wealth contained in his pages. Every succeeding generation sees -more and more meaning in what he says, because he is true to the inner -life of the human heart. The life is there. The lessons that can be -drawn from the life are practically endless. - -The constant issue of fresh cheap editions of the plays is a good -sign. Perhaps Milton is not so much read nowadays; and yet you cannot -afford to neglect him. If you are alarmed at the length of “Paradise -Lost,” begin with some of his shorter poems and sonnets; and if you do -not read right through Spenser’s “Faerie Queen,” you will find many -beautiful scenes and thoughts here and there. - -We have spoken of the great Florentine poet and the study of Italian; -it will not perhaps be quite out of place to hint to students of German -that a rich reward lies before them if they can master the language -sufficiently to enjoy the lyric poems of Goethe, the higher flights -of Schiller, and many others. The “Erl-König” (Erl King) by Goethe -and the “Farewell of Joan of Arc to the Mountains” from Schiller’s -play, _The Maid of Orleans_, were great favourites of the writer in -her girlhood. German poetry is true music, whatever may be said to the -contrary by those who only half know the language. - -Space fails us to write in full of modern English poetry. Wordsworth, -Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning, Mrs. Browning, Keats, Shelley, -Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, William Morris, are names of -varying fame, but each name brings unspeakable associations to those -who know and love the poet through his work. Surely one of these may -become to you a teacher who will help and inspire. - -Wordsworth will transport you into the world of nature. How much those -are to be pitied who live in the “stony-hearted” street, far from -the sweet influences of wood and meadow, moor and mountain, lake and -waterfall! These exiles from the true home of man may find solace in -the poet of nature. - - “Keep fresh the grass upon his grave, - O Rotha, with thy living wave; - Sing him thy best! for few or none - Hears thy voice right, now he is gone.” - -Thus Matthew Arnold apostrophises the little river that washes the -Grasmere churchyard. The epitaph to Wordsworth in the Grasmere church -so aptly describes his work that we cannot refrain from quoting it here. - -“To the memory of William Wordsworth, a True Philosopher and Poet: who, -by the special gift and calling of Almighty God, whether he discoursed -of Man or Nature, failed not to lift up the heart to Holy Things: tired -not of maintaining the cause of the Poor and Simple; and so in Perilous -Times was raised up to be a Chief Minister, not only of noblest Poesy, -but of high and sacred Truth.” - -Robert Browning, unlike Wordsworth, is a dramatic poet at heart. We do -not mean that his plays are his best work, but that he has unerring -skill in reading the human heart and translating into poetry its loves, -hates, fears, and ambitions. If you will try to understand him, do not -be discouraged by obscurity, but begin by some of the shorter, simpler, -and yet characteristic poems in the volume of _Selections_. - -As for Tennyson, who sings alike of man and of nature, you will -probably be more readily lured to his pages than to those of Wordsworth -or Browning. If you are in sorrow, _In Memoriam_ may prove a faithful -comforter. - -It is impossible, of course, to expatiate on all the poets named and -many others who are not named; a volume would not be sufficient. -All one can say is—read for yourself, and if you are ambitious for -self-culture, remember that the reading of the best poetry will do more -for you than can possibly be expressed by any words here. - -There are two minor poets whose works you will probably much enjoy—Jean -Ingelow and Coventry Patmore. The “Angel in the House” by the latter is -greatly esteemed by Mr. Ruskin. - -“Teach your children poetry,” says Lord Macaulay; “it opens the mind, -lends grace to wisdom, and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.” And -the rugged old philosopher, Carlyle, speaks thus of the influence of -poetry on any living human creature— - -“Tones of sphere-music and tidings from loftier worlds will flit round -him if he can but listen, and visit him with holy influences, even in -the thickest press of trivialities or the din of busiest life.” - -(_To be concluded._) - - - - -THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. - -BY ISABELLA FYVIE MAYO, Author of “Other People’s Stairs,” “Her Object -in Life,” etc. - - -CHAPTER XIX. - -CHRISTMAS AGAIN. - -The missive in Lucy’s hand was no simple workman’s clumsy bill. It was -a sheet of blank paper. - -“What can this mean?” said Lucy, turning it about, while Miss Latimer -and Tom watched her. - -“You may be sure it ought to be the bricklayer’s bill, but that he has -put in the wrong piece of paper,” observed Miss Latimer. - -“Or it may have come from that stupid fellow we found in the area,” -said Tom. “Perhaps his next tipsy fit has taken this form, and he is -under the delusion that he has written a letter to Jane Smith.” - -“That is not unlikely,” Lucy admitted, still turning the paper about. -“The letter has been posted at this district office, and there is no -maker’s name on the envelope. Anyhow, there it goes,” and she tore it -in two and dropped it into the waste-paper basket. - -“I wonder if Clementina would notice the strange-looking letter,” -said Miss Latimer. “I’m always afraid of something stirring her -superstitions and making her take flight to her Highland hills on the -score that ‘Babylon’ is too terrible a place to stay in.” - -That was all. It was but a nine minutes’ wonder. Yet they remembered it -afterwards. - -Early in December there came a letter from Mrs. Grant in Peterhead. -Lucy and the captain’s wife had kept up a slight correspondence during -their husbands’ absence on the _Slains Castle_. Each had always written -to apprise the other of any news she had received. Once or twice, -indeed, when unexpected opportunities for ship’s letters had arisen, -the busy captain had contented himself with sending a message to his -wife _viâ_ his passenger’s home epistle. Mrs. Grant had always promptly -and cordially acknowledged these curtesies on Lucy’s part. But she was -not naturally a letter-writing woman. Her missives were always of the -briefest, and never until now had she taken the initiative. - -Mrs. Grant’s letter seemed, on the face of it, both as cheerful and -as brief as usual. She “supposed Lucy had heard nothing lately, as -she knew she would have let her know if she had.” “Sailing vessels -are often out of their reckoning for weeks and weeks,” she added. She -dropped a word of congratulation that Lucy’s own welcoming day was -assuredly near at hand now, and of half-comic self-condolence that -hers was so much farther off. “In my case, too, one suspense is no -sooner over than another begins,” she wrote. “But that’s the lot of -the sailor’s wife, and I know it was all in my bargain when I took the -captain.” - -There certainly seemed nothing in that letter to alarm Lucy, and she -marvelled at a strange uneasiness which she felt stirring within her. -Was she intuitively aware of some anxiety on the part of Mrs. Grant, -which she had studiously kept out of her words? Lucy wrote a prompt -reply, saying that she had heard nothing yet, but was daily looking for -tidings. She tried to make her letter cheerful, and wondered whether -Mrs. Grant, in her turn, would read anything between the lines. - -Lucy scarcely liked to think of the approaching Christmas Day. If -Charlie had returned, it would be a day of supreme joy; if timely sea -news came in, it would be one of gladdest thanksgiving. But if——! There -Lucy paused, and turned aside as from a great mist advancing to enfold -her. Yet she must make her little plans to be fit for the fulfilment of -her hope. Not to do so, would seem like creating an omen of prolonged -separation and anxiety. So she and Miss Latimer sent out a Christmas -bidding to Mr. Somerset, Lucy saying with pathetic playfulness that -under the circumstances she scarcely knew whether she ought to issue -her invitations in her own name only or with Charlie’s joined thereto. -“For he may be among us on that day yet,” she added. Writing down her -hope seemed to make it more tangible. - -Mr. Somerset called in reply to Lucy’s invitation. He told her that -in accepting it, he was accepting a real kindness. Without it, this -Christmas might have been very lonely and desolate for him. His -old landlord lay at the point of death, and consequently the whole -household was saddened and absorbed. - -“How much sadness there is in the world!” sighed Lucy. “And how -terrible it is that there is a sort of consolation in realising that -one is not the only burdened and anxious soul. It seems a selfish and -cruel feeling to find comfort in that thought!” - -Mr. Somerset looked up brightly. - -“Yes, it seems so,” he said. “I used to think so, and probably it is -so in the spirit in which the idea may sometimes be suggested and -received. Yet I have learned to understand that it does not have a -selfish and cruel origin. I think I have discovered what the idea -springs from, and how it is that such a thought may really soothe and -strengthen. After all, what is the very depth of woe—its unendurable -sting?” - -Lucy mused. - -“I think it is the failure of our faith,” she said gently. “The chilly -feeling that God has let go of us and that there are none to help.” - -“Exactly so,” answered Mr. Somerset, “and I daresay all of us have -known that feeling more than once. It calls our very humility and -littleness to its aid, so that we ask, ‘Who am I that God should -remember me?’ But can any sane mind look upon another, the lowest, the -worst and the most abject, and deliberately say, ‘Who is he that God -should remember him?’ I think not. We can feel that would be the vilest -blasphemy against God. It would at once strip God of all that makes Him -good, ay, or great either, with that wonderful greatness, before which -earth’s highest and lowest and best and worst are all the same. No, -Mrs. Challoner, in realising the fellowship of others in suffering, we -at once realise that God must know all about it, and that there must be -some wise purpose in it, and if so for that other, then for ourselves -too.” - -“Did not some philosopher say that death, being universal, could be no -evil?” asked Lucy. - -“I think it was the poet Schiller said so,” returned Mr. Somerset, “and -I believe it is the consciousness of this, however little realised, -which keeps life brave and bright and sane in the perpetual presence -of death. The ‘solidarity of humanity,’ though the phrase is one which -they may scarcely understand, is the secret treasure of the humble. -It never occurs to them to be surprised and shocked when those evils -befall them which they always knew befell others. In their eyes ‘it is -the Lord, let Him do what seemeth to Him _good_,’ always ‘good,’ you -may observe. ‘It is all in the day’s work,’ they tell one, when their -lot is hardest.” - -Lucy thought of Mrs. May, and of the strength and comfort she had -gathered, more than a year ago, from that good woman’s calm outlook -on events, and her fixed conviction that there is inward strength -at command sufficient to lift us elastic after any outward blow. It -seemed to Lucy that she too might rise equal to the sublime suspenses -and sorrows of life if only her strength and spirits were spared the -perpetual corrosion of petty cares and worries which fretted them away -as moths consume a garment. Then the wiser reflection came—that neither -were such petty cares and worries special to her; they too entered into -every lot; one could not doubt that brave cheery Mrs. May had her full -share. The same inward strength must be as ready and able to bear the -perpetual little trials as the occasional great ones, if only we invoke -it and know how to use it. The great ocean of Divine love and strength -is always waiting to flow into our smallest trials, if we would but -hold them ready. - -Once more the Institute holidays began. Lucy had now made arrangements -for continuing her services there into the next year, under a -running “quarter’s notice.” She had in readiness all her little gala -preparations with which to greet Charlie’s return, however unexpected -it might happen to be. - -Of late she had seen very little of the Brands. She knew that Jem had -made a great success in some of his speculations. In newspapers she saw -that his name was held in prominent place at “financial” meetings, and -she noticed mention of Florence as among the guests at showy social -functions. Taking up a “society paper” by chance, she actually read an -account of her sister’s toilette! To Lucy’s ideas, such a thing was an -indecent intrusion into the affairs of a private lady. When Florence -called on her, elate over all these things, she could not congratulate -her, and Lucy felt that her simple silence chafed Florence. Even as -the boy-boarder, poor Tom, “degraded” Lucy in Florence’s eyes, so, -from Lucy’s standpoint, these vanities degraded Florence. The sisters -were drifting ever further apart. Lives with aims and aspirations -diametrically opposed cannot keep together, however household love and -the memory of old associations may yearn that they should do so. Nay, -the more these struggle against the separating tide, the more ghastly -is their shipwreck likely to be. There is “a time to embrace, and a -time to refrain from embracing.” The most poignant tragedy of life -comes in just here. For whatever love has ever been, will persist, and -has to learn to rest patient in the faith that “God seeketh again that -which is passed away.” - -Christmas morning came. Miss Latimer had her Christmas offering of -daintily hemmed net ruffles, just the sort of thing which Lucy had -now no time to make. There was the usual budget of Christmas letters -and parcels. A book for Hugh, from “his father’s friend Wilfrid -Somerset,” sent by post, because Mr. Somerset knew that a “post parcel -for his very self” would bulk so largely in a child’s delight; and a -magnificent hand-painted glove and handkerchief sachet in white satin -from Jem and Florence. - -What significance there was in those gifts! Miss Latimer and -Mr. Somerset gave with theirs a wee bit of themselves, the kind -consideration for a tired woman’s inability to serve herself, and for -the eager vanity of a little child. But that costly and delicate sachet -could have had no proper place in the little house with the verandah at -any time, and certainly could have no function in the life of a working -woman-artist, who bought no gloves but dark “suedes,” and who could -scarcely find time or spare energy to dust her books! Lucy expressed a -desperate admiration of the thing’s delicate beauty, and so did Miss -Latimer. There was nothing else to say. Each knew the other was not -deceived as to her estimate of the thoughtlessness of such a gift. - -“But poor Florence means to be so kind,” Lucy urged upon herself. “That -is in her taste, and it would suit her own white-and-gold bedroom. -She cannot realise the difference between us! We always used to have -everything alike. And she means to be kind!” - -Lucy secretly pressed a yearning kiss on the soft white thing, ere -she refolded it in its dainty papers, from which, she knew, it -would not be taken again for a long time. They rend us terribly, -do these thoughtless favours in which a kind intention seems to -blunder. Possibly this pang of remorse for seeming ungraciousness -and ingratitude might sometimes be lessened if we could look deeper -into the matter. It might have been spared to Lucy had she known that -Florence had neither chosen nor even bought this gift. It had been -sent to Florence herself, but she had just received another, much -handsomer, so after writing a gushing note of thanks to the donor, she -had promptly forwarded it to Lucy! - -Mr. Somerset himself arrived in due time. Lucy sat amid her little -circle with a smiling face, but they all felt that she must feel a keen -disappointment that, after all, she still remained the sole head of the -household. They pressed upon her all the cheer possible. - -“After all, the weary waiting time is all behind you,” said Mr. -Somerset. “Only fancy if last year you could have felt as you may now, -that all which remains is but a few days more or less.” - -“We’ll have to be quite sure that we recognise Mr. Challoner when he -appears,” put in Miss Latimer playfully, pointing to Charlie’s portrait -over the fireplace. “Remember he has had long voyagings through sunny -seas even since that was taken, and his present self may be as much of -an improvement on that as that is on the pale invalid who went away.” - -“You have made a supreme effort to win this triumph, Mrs. Challoner,” -remarked Mr. Somerset. “It may all seem easy to you now it is ending so -beautifully. But you made the effort in the dark, not knowing how it -might end.” - -“But it was right to do, and that was Lucy’s part, and the disposing -of it is God’s,” said Miss Latimer. “We must not do evil that good may -come. But we must do right, however its ending may seem to us.” - -“But possibly right is somewhat different with different people,” -remarked Mr. Somerset. “What was right for our friend here to do was an -action right only in those as brave and capable as she is.” - -“I am no casuist,” returned Miss Latimer. “My idea of right is that it -is what each person knows he or she ought to do and can do.” - -“Ah, but there is a great deal in that ‘can do,’” smiled Mr. Somerset. - -“None know what they can do till they try,” retorted Miss Latimer. - -“Dr. Ivery has been so kind,” said Lucy. “He had sent two or three -times to inquire after Charlie’s progress. So when I got that -photograph I thought I ought to let him see it. I said I hoped he would -excuse me for bringing it, but I thought it might help him what to -advise in similar cases, and he said, ‘Yes.’” Lucy broke off abruptly -with a little laugh and a heightened colour. - -Mr. Somerset and Miss Latimer also laughed. They both guessed what Lucy -did not choose to tell them, that the doctor had said he would often be -happy to prescribe such a cure if the patient were but provided with -such a wife to help him to carry it out! - -“All this is very well,” said Tom Black, assuming a grumbling tone. -“But I should look forward to Mr. Challoner’s coming with much more -delight if I did not fear that it will end my days here; he will want -all his house for himself!” - -Lucy laughed very sincerely now. - -“Charlie’s coming will bring you nothing but good, Tom,” she observed, -“and you know that well enough. You have been a great help to me, and -Charlie will be even more grateful than I am. But there is something -for which we can all be grateful together, at the very present -moment—to wit, that no poor Jessie Morison is spoiling the peace -of this Christmas Day. I was in the kitchen half an hour ago, and -Clementina has got everything most conscientiously in order.” - -“Nevertheless she’s something of a spoil-sport,” put in Tom. “I wonder -if it takes any nourishment out of one’s food when the cook is always -sighing?” - -Hugh had been perched up in the window, watching cabs which were -bringing Christmas guests to the neighbours. At this instant he turned, -crying— - -“Something is the matter opposite. Policemen!” - -They all rushed to the window. - -“Is it a chimney on fire?” asked Miss Latimer. - -“There is no smoke,” said Lucy. - -(_To be continued._) - -[Illustration] - - - - -SUNSHINE: A SUMMER SERMON. - -BY Dr. GORDON-STABLES, R.N. (“MEDICUS”). - - - “Catch, then, O catch the transient hour, - Improve each moment as it flies, - Life’s a short summer, man a flower, - He dies—alas! how soon he dies!” - - * * * * * - -I will not begin by saying—as so many people do—that the small amount -of sunshine we get in this country is not worth mentioning. This is -not the case. Would you be surprised to learn that we have enough for -health’s sake, and that when we do not get actual summer sunshine, we -get the summer light all around us out of doors? That this light is -diffused, filtered for us through the clouds that float high above, -and that many people of wealth who leave this land of ours to seek -for sunnier soils and sunnier shores, about the Riviera, the isles of -the blue Levant or Madeira and the Canaries, make a most egregious -mistake, and their health would be vastly improved were they to spend -their time in the cool green midlands of England, on the sunshiny -braes and hills of majestic Scotland or even down at our own seaside -watering-places—quiet ones, mind you—where the wavelets ripple with -gladsome laughter as they break on the golden sands? - -The maids of merry England seldom need the dry hot sunshine of the -Soudan or banks of the gliding Nile. Our maidens, I maintain, are -flowers, and beautiful flowers too, but not like those on far southern -shores that can without hurt or harm stare the sun in the face. There -is as much difference indeed between an English, Scottish, or Irish -girl, and an Italian or Spanish as there is between the violets blue -and the crimson flower of the cactus. - -Our sunshine—our own _own_ sunshine—is best for _us_, unless our lungs -and blood are weakened by the on-coming of ailments like the deadly and -all too fatal disease we call phthisis. - -Well, all my readers, even the youngest I hope have heard of the -sunshine bath. It is a very old form of bathing indeed. It is said to -have been invented by the Romans in their palmiest days, but it was -used by Indians and Africans or Egyptians long long before Rome or -Greece itself was very much of a country or kingdom. And they no doubt -were but following the example set to them by the birds and beasts in -forest and wildery. - -The Romans before they became demoralised and effete had special baths -in which they could revel in the sunshine. These were very luxurious, -and splendidly draped apartments open only to the sky, in which one -could sit or lounge uncovered save by garments of gauze, and where, -with the head alone protected at times by a shade, one could benefit in -a most especial way from direct sun-rays. We have none such in our day. - -The strong need none such, and may best take the sunshine out of doors -when it comes, not even troubling themselves to go in search of it. - -But so convinced am I of the benefits of sunshine that I confidently -advise girls—young or not quite so young—to court it, to enjoy it all -they can, to sit or recline in it, to hang their hammocks in it, and -with or without a sunshade to dream and revel, laugh and live in it, -for verily, verily, to the delicate, summer sunshine is life itself. - -Yes, and if it makes them drowsy when in their hammock, let them place -the magazine they have been reading over brow and eyes and go to sleep -in it. - -But supposing the sun is not shining but the day is dry, well, you -still have light. And a bath of diffused light is a bath of health. -Don’t swing your hammocks under trees except in too bright sunshine. -Only beetles and toadstools can flourish under a cedar or spruce. - -But what I want you, reader, specially to remember, and I’ll be -fearfully cross and grumpy if you do not remember it, is this: don’t -take your sunshine bath in a window or even a verandah. This is -altogether too one-sided an affair. The light or the sun-rays must be -all around you. All around you too must circle the fresh air. - -Reverting to the Romish bath: I must say that if we had at sunny -seaside places institutions where we could enjoy such a thing nearly or -quite unclothed, with the sky alone above us, it would be a really good -thing, but following the example of the less endowed animals we see in -fields and woods we shall benefit by being out in the sunshine simply -lightly dressed. The sun can penetrate like Röntgen rays through and -through our garments and bodies if we but expose ourselves thereto. - -Mere animals, as we are all too fond of calling them, appear oftentimes -to know what is good for them better than we do. - - “Reason raise o’er instinct if we can, - In this ’tis God directs,—in that ’tis man.” - -When a favourite animal belonging to our domestic circle, such as a dog -or cat, is weak because well-stricken in years, you may always notice -that he courts the sunshine whenever he has a chance, and with it the -fresh air. - -A question which naturally enough often recurs to one is this: What is -the difference between indoor heat and that obtained from the sunshine? -Well, apart from the fact that sunshine, whether clearitically or -otherwise, exerts a very powerful influence for good on the animal -and vegetable creation, it has a hundred times more of penetrating -force than that which comes from a fire or that which we find in a -room heated by steam or hot water pipes. Moreover, the heat which -is artificial is all too often decidedly one-sided, and many a most -disagreeable cold has been caught on a chilly night from hugging the -fire, by which one portion of the body is heated at the expense of the -other. There is less oxygen to be breathed indoors, and a dangerous -amount of carbonic acid and other deleterious gases. - -Again, all nature shows us that sunshine and light permeate every -tissue of the animal or vegetable structure, so that they may be -considered synonymous with the term life itself. - -And the purer the air we breathe when out of doors the greater the -effect for good sunshine will have. - -But if we are to benefit thoroughly by summer sunshine, we must be out -every day and, if possible, at the self-same hours of the day. - -Walking in moderation will be found far more advantageous to the -delicate girl who would regain health than cycling. It must not be -carried to the boundary line of fatigue, however. One should be just -nicely pleasantly tired. Here, for instance, is a _régime_ that would -suit many a lassie who had gone to some bracing delightful spot to live -for the sixty or one hundred days of summer. She ought to adopt it from -the very second day. - -Having retired early on the previous evening from quiet but -non-exciting employment, having neither talked nor laughed nor sung -much for the two hours previous, let her pull the window down, have -sufficient bed-clothing and a not too soft mattress, and easy yielding -pillows. Let her go to bed, and having done so—think of nothing. If -this plan is adopted sleep will soon waft her away to the beautiful -Land of Nod, and if she is breathing pure air all night she will awake -betimes, refreshed and as happy as the birds on the lawn. But this -awaking betimes is a _sine quâ non_ of this health-giving _régime_, -so if not sure of being called by seven o’clock, she ought to have an -alarm. - -The first thing on getting up is tonic, bracing, cold sponge-bath -followed by a thorough towelling. She should not dawdle in dressing, -but get out into the garden for a fifteen minutes’ walk as soon as -possible. After a solid breakfast with not too much coffee or tea, the -forenoon may be said to be fairly begun. And the whole of this should -be spent out of doors in the sunshine or light. Even rain must not -confine her to the house. If she could live in a tent entirely it would -be better than a house. She ought to be back home to wash hands and -face and rest a little, a good half-hour before the 1.30 dinner. Rest -for half an hour after this. No wine or stimulant of any kind, and just -enough solid food to satisfy the needs of nature. Soup is a mistake -and so is cheese, and, as a rule, salad. Pudding is not to be eaten if -there is the slightest inclination to _embonpoint_. - -Fruit may be partaken of at any time so long as it is quite fresh and -seasonable. - -A little rest should be taken for say half an hour after dinner, then -out again for pleasant exercise or non-exciting games. One cup of the -very _best_ tea about five, and supper at seven. If sleepless and -thin, a little food should be taken the very last thing, a biscuit or -two with butter, and a large tumblerful of hot milk with sugar and -flavouring to taste. Then meditation and bed. - -Really and truly a summer spent thus in fresh air, sunshine, or light -will cure seventy per cent. of all chronic ailments, quite bring back -appetite and happiness to the dyspeptic and gloomy, and even eradicate -the first seeds of consumption itself. - -But one word in conclusion: if everything is not done day after day -with method and regularity, if late hours be kept, or the evenings -spent too excitedly, then you need expect but little benefit from even -the summer sunshine. I hope to have a paper very soon on the “_Fresh -Air Treatment of Consumption_.” - - - - -GRILLING AND DEVILLING. - -BY DORA DE BLAQUIÈRE. - - -I have taken the trouble to look in the dictionary for the word -“grill,” and I find it is derived from the French word “grille”—a -grate or gridiron—and it means to broil on a grate or gridiron. But -to-day, in point of fact, grilling is rarely performed in this manner, -few people having the gridiron; and if not done in the oven, it is -performed in an open frying-pan. - -I have begun with this piece of information because some of my readers -may say on seeing the word, “Oh, we can’t grill! We have no means of -using a gridiron!” And as all devils must be grilled or fried quickly, -without burning them in a hot oven, it is well to understand exactly -what is meant. To my mind a frying-pan is better than an oven, because -you can watch the process and see that the gravy does not waste. And -the very first thing you have to guard against with an inexperienced -or poor cook is her either wasting all the mixture for the gravy, or -else her drying it up and burning the meat, or scorching the bones, -and making them uneatable. The operation of grilling must be performed -quickly, and needs the best attention of the operator. - -Now I must tell you what I daresay you may already know, _i.e._, that -all the great cooks, like Francatelli, give you a recipe for what they -generally call “devil’s mixture”; and the following is the composition -of that renowned master in the art of cooking. Mix well upon a plate a -spoonful of either French or English mustard, a spoonful of Oude sauce -or chutney, the same of anchovy, two spoonfuls of olive oil, and a -little cayenne pepper. This should be used to cover whatever you are -about to grill. - -In the _Pytchley Cookery Book_, which is so celebrated, you will find -two or three recipes for devil sauce. The first is the simplest. Warm -and blend together a teaspoonful of mixed mustard, a tablespoonful -of Worcestershire sauce, an ounce of glaze, an ounce of butter, a -saltspoonful of cayenne pepper, one of salt, and a tablespoonful of -chopped parsley. Mix, warm up, and rub the meat well with the mixture, -serving it as gravy, should any remain after the broiling. - -The second Pytchley recipe is intended to be poured over the meat when -broiled. A tablespoonful of mustard, a teaspoonful of curry paste, a -tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce, two tablespoonfuls of mushroom -ketchup, a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, a teaspoonful of salt, the -yolk of an egg, and half a pint of thick soup from the night before, if -a thin soup. Then thicken it with some brown thickening, boil up, and -pour over the broiled bones. - -Thus, you see, there are really two methods of devilling; the one -first-mentioned when you pour the sauce over the meat before broiling, -and the second when you put it over afterwards, which really takes more -the form of a gravy, though it is not intended to be too plentiful, nor -to surround the devilled meat in the dish. For the first intention of -devils is, that they should be dry, rather crisp, and savoury, not wet -and soft in the slightest degree. This you must be pleased to remember -if you would make them successfully, and one of your great difficulties -will be to have the dish dry, yet not dried up, which is the test of a -good devil. - -What is known as Indian devil mixture is made as follows: To one -tablespoonful each of vinegar, ketchup, and chutney paste, add an ounce -of dissolved butter, a dessertspoonful of made mustard, salt, and a -small cup of good gravy. Mix all together, and rub them into the meat -either cooked or uncooked. Make all hot slowly together. They will take -ten minutes to make hot. Serve in the dish in which you have cooked -them. - -This recipe is one which was left to the cooking world by Admiral Ross, -and it is an excellent one, quickly and easily made. In all those I -have given you will see that either mustard, mixed or unmixed, is made -use of; but I myself dispense with it, as I like the mixture better -without it for ordinary use. - -What is known as a Cambridge devil was given to me long ago by a Fellow -of St. John’s, and dates certainly from the very last days of the last -century, or the early days of this one—which, if we all live long -enough, will soon be spoken of as “the last century” too! This can be -employed with any kind of meat, but I have chiefly used it with ham, -and it is very excellent in helping to use up the remains of a ham, -which is rather difficult to deal with when you do not turn it into -potted ham, which is, perhaps, the most sensible way of all. - -The rough and ready way of making a Cambridge devil is to take the -mustard pot, and with the mustard spoon to smear over the slices of ham -on one side as much mustard as you think you are likely to stand, and -then to add some vinegar—perhaps two tablespoonfuls—just enough to make -a thickened gravy with the mustard you have put in. You have first laid -the slices of ham neatly on an old plate, or, at least, on one plate -which you do not mind putting into a very hot oven, and when you have -added the mustard and the vinegar, you must put the plate into a hot -oven. When it gets very hot, take a fork and turn about the slices of -ham until they be covered with vinegar, and the vinegar and the mustard -have amalgamated in some measure, then put back into the oven, and let -it brown well and frizzle up, and then serve in the same plate in which -it has been cooked. But you should stand it, of course, on another one, -so that it may not do any damage, nor burn people’s fingers. - -I learned years ago a very nice and simple method of preparing slices -of cold meat of any kind by rubbing them with curry powder and then -frying them, or, better still, grilling. When you have cut the slices -of meat (mutton, I think, for choice), pour some curry powder on a -plate, and roll the slices in it; but if you do not like things very -hot and fierce, then mix the curry powder with flour in the proportion -of half and half, and this will make the dish more suitable for the -family. I am inclined to think that all these dishes of an extremely -savoury description are more suitable for the “grown-ups” than the -smaller fry. - -Cold meat may be also simply devilled by shaking over it a mixture of -cayenne, black pepper, and salt, and sometimes a little French mustard -is added at the last before the meat is made hot. I have also seen the -above mixed with butter into a paste, the meat slightly scored, and -the mixture rubbed into the scorings. Amongst the most delightful of -breakfast dishes are those made of drumsticks of fowls, turkeys, or -ducks. These should be scored lengthways, and the mixture inserted; -then you should put on some tiny bits of butter (if you do not use oil) -and grill. - -Now I must enter on the very important subject of bones (I am sure it -ought to have a capital B), grilled and devilled bones constituting -one of those delicacies which are always associated with club suppers, -or the midnight meals of celebrated eating-houses. In private houses, -devilled bones are not so well known, nor so successful, perhaps, -when done; and this is generally owing, as I have said before, to the -carelessness or to the inexperience of cooks, who may never have been -taught how to do them. - -The bones most used for grilling and devilling are from the sirloin -of beef, or the shoulder or leg of mutton. Of course, when we speak -of “bones,” we do not mean that they are “bare bones”; they must of -necessity have a certain amount of meat left upon them—that is to say, -enough to be scored with a sharp knife, if to be devilled as well as -grilled. If to be grilled only, and you be fortunate enough to have a -gridiron, they need nothing but a little pepper and salt, and sometimes -not even that. - -The bones require a fierce, hot, and clear fire, and the epicure of -grilled bones prefers that the meat should be black. If the fire be not -fierce enough, you can make it more so by throwing a little fat upon -it, either in the form of dripping, or of odd pieces of fat that may be -cut off from the meat. This will make a sufficient blaze, and you will -attain without trouble to the coveted degree of blackness, which really -is more smoke and scorch than burn, and gives with the grease that kind -of smoky taste to the grill that we enjoy so much with ham and any -other smoked meats. - -_Grilled Kippered Salmon._—Cut some dried salmon into small long -pieces—about four inches long and two inches wide; broil them over -a clear fire, then rub them over with fresh butter seasoned with -lemon-juice and cayenne, and serve very hot. - -_Grilled Cod Cutlets._—One ancient recipe for grilling will serve to -explain the process, and will enable anyone to perform the operation -without difficulty. The first thing to do is to dry the cutlets or -anything else in a clean cloth, and then to brush them over lightly -with fresh olive oil, place them on a hot gridiron, and grill for -about ten minutes; turn them on both sides, and, when done, sprinkle -with pepper and salt, squeeze lemon-juice over them, and serve very -hot. This is the usual process, and everything—fish, mutton, beef, -mushrooms, and chicken or turkey—can be done by it. - -And now I hope that you will have quite comprehended from what I have -written the difference between grilling and devilling, and can see that -grills need not be devilled, but that devils must always be grilled. So -I will finish up my subject by discoursing on the things to which you -may apply the latter process, which are so many that you will find your -list of breakfast and supper dishes greatly enlarged. - -I hope you are not foolishly prejudiced against tinned foods, because -they are very excellent if you do not try to purchase them cheaply, and -always go to good and reliable shops for them. Thus the matter is in -your own hands completely; and you have no one to blame but yourself if -they turn out unsatisfactorily. - -I hope you understand also that devils must not be black as grills -are, and not be placed over a too hot fire; but must be well browned -and frizzled. And while there are some people who like dry ones, there -are other people who prefer that the devil mixture should be thickened -round them like a rather thick gravy. In fact, this process rather -repeats that of curry-making, as there are dry curries, wet curries, -and very wet ones. - -And now I shall finish with a few more available dishes, which are -simple and easily made by any cook, whether good or bad, who can at -least read a recipe and follow it. - -_Devilled Lobster_ is one of the things that can be made with tinned -lobster. You must first prepare a paste of salt, dry mustard, curry -powder, black pepper, and salad oil. Spread it over the lobster, then -melt an ounce of butter in a fire-proof dish, put in the fish, and heat -it well through, browning the top. If you are using fresh lobster, it -will require fully ten minutes in cooking. - -Tinned salmon, or the remains of a tinned tongue, may be used in the -same manner, and so may the Australian beef. - -The remains of a cold roast duck are suitable for a most excellent -devil. To make it you must remove the bones and cut the meat into -rather small pieces, but not too small. (This is better made in a small -enamelled saucepan.) Take a tablespoonful of dry mustard, a teaspoonful -of salt, a little cayenne, and two tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice. Mix -these ingredients gradually and very thoroughly together, and add two -tablespoonfuls of butter melted, and two tablespoonfuls of water. When -this gets hot, put in the pieces of duck and also a gill of some white -wine—Sauterne—or even a light claret, or, if you do not like wine, use -a gill of good stock instead. Place the saucepan over the fire and stir -it carefully till smoking hot, then turn it on to a hot-water dish, if -you have it, and serve as hot as possible. - -Now, the next dish that occurs to me is devilled kidneys. For a large -dish, twelve sheep’s kidneys will be required; but, of course, you -must be guided by the number of people for whom you are catering. Cut -the kidneys in half, remove the centres and white tubes, and then -scald them, removing also the skin. Put two ounces of butter into an -enamelled saucepan; and, when it is hot, throw in the kidneys and cook -them quickly. Dust them over with salt and white pepper, and then -pour over them a tablespoonful of onion juice, one of Worcestershire -sauce, and four teaspoonfuls of light sherry. Serve smoking hot, and, -if possible, in a hot-water dish, for I hope you understand that -everything in this way must be served and kept hot while at table. - -Sardines may be either grilled or devilled. If the former, scrape them -free from skin and oil, and wipe them in a clean cloth. Oil a little -butter and roll them in it, powder them with cayenne pepper and salt, -and cover them with some finely-chopped parsley and chopped mushrooms. -Wrap each sardine in oiled paper, and put in the oven till hot; and -serve in the same papers in which they were cooked without unfolding -them, and lay each on a slice of toast. - -_Devilled Sardines_ are done in quite the same way. To begin with, -they are scraped and wiped, and rolled in a mixture of mustard, -Worcestershire sauce, anchovy sauce (be sure to shake both the -bottles), and four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, and lay each on a -slice of toast in the oven, and serve very hot. It should not take more -than five minutes to cook them in a very quick oven. - -Eggs devilled with anchovy toast is another good supper dish. You -must first put a little butter in the frying-pan, and afterwards a -mixture of half a teaspoonful of dry mustard, two tablespoonfuls of -tomato sauce, one of Worcester sauce, and one of mushroom ketchup. -Put into this four hard-boiled eggs, sliced, salted and peppered, and -when heated through, place the egg on toasts which you have previously -spread with anchovy paste. - -In conclusion, I will say that I find Worcester sauce my greatest -reliance in devilling bones, in making that thoroughly delightful -dish—a devilled shoulder-bone of either mutton or lamb, or, indeed, -where anything in the way of meat is concerned. I do not shake the -bottle; but that is a matter of individual taste. I have tried Harvey -sauce, which also answers; but we at home prefer the former. - -Tomato sauce is very excellent for some things—like pork—and is also -good with veal; but you cannot mix other sauces with it. And, unless -very very sour, I would counsel you to avoid the sugar so freely -recommended in most books on cookery. - -And I had nearly omitted to mention a very important item, viz., -devilled biscuits, which are so much enjoyed by many people. These are -done either dry or buttered. What are called American toast biscuits, -or soda biscuits in America, are the nicest; but they need a light -hand, as they break easily. Dip them twice into warm water, then pepper -them with cayenne pepper, and bake till quite crisp in a slow oven. -Serve hot in a toast-rack. - -In the other way, you must knead together an ounce and a half of -butter, a saltspoonful of cayenne, and a saltspoonful of flour of -mustard. Dip the biscuits twice into warm milk, spread them with the -mixture, and bake in a slow oven till crisp. Serve very hot. - - - - -VARIETIES. - - -LOTTERIES IN GREAT BRITAIN. - -In the close of last century and the beginning of this the lottery -system prevailed in Great Britain to a surprising extent. From 1785 to -1823 there was a Lottery Act every year which brought in the State over -a quarter of a million a year. - -Independent of the State lotteries there were lotteries for houses and -lands, jewels and plate, merchandise and ships, and even advowsons -and presentations. Tailors advertised their business by means of -lotteries; so did hatters and glovers. Even the bootblacks gave away -coupons, entitling their customers to a share in lotteries. A plate of -meat at an eating house gave the purchaser a chance of sixty guineas. -Threepennyworth of oysters included a ticket in a five guinea lottery. -Even a sausage stall had a lottery attached, offering the chance of a -five shilling prize to every one who ate a farthing’s worth of sausages. - -The whole system—and a demoralising one it was—had an end put to it by -the Lottery Act of 1823. - - -THE WEDDING-RING FINGER.—The origin of wearing the wedding-ring upon -the fourth finger of the left hand has been much disputed even from -very ancient times. A Latin writer of the fifth century gives the -following matter-of-fact reason. The fourth finger was chosen, he says, -“as being least used of any, as being guarded on either side, and -having in most this peculiar feature, that it cannot be extended alone -and by itself, but will in all its movements be accompanied by some -finger placed on either side.” - - -THEY DID NOT GET HIS FORTUNE. - -One of the great benefactors of the City of Bristol in bygone days was -Mr. John Whitson, a merchant of that place, who by his life afforded a -pleasing example of the success which in general accompanies diligence -and honesty. - -The following anecdote told of him is worth repeating:— - -As he was one day busy in his office he overheard his nephews talking -loudly in another room, and found the subject of their discourse turn -upon himself and the great fortune they would inherit at his death. -They declared they would spend it like men of fashion, in pleasurable -and expensive pursuits. - -The good old gentleman upon this burst in upon them, and with honest -indignation said that since he had heard from their own mouths their -resolution with respect to his fortune, they should now hear his. He -had long been a witness, he told them, of the abandoned course of life -into which they were plunging themselves, and had often remonstrated to -no purpose against it. They now stood self-convicted, and to prevent -the infamy which they might entail upon him, themselves and the public -by such irregular excesses, he was resolved to put it entirely out of -their power. - -He accordingly made his will immediately afterwards, and after the -death of his wife left the whole of his money to charitable purposes. - - -COURAGE. - - If courage is gone, then all is gone! - ’Twere better that thou hadst never been born. - - _Goethe._ - - -AN INDIAN SONG OF WELCOME. - -When Lord Reay was governor of Bombay a few years ago, in the course of -a tour he visited the native state of Morvi. - -Amongst other institutions shown to his Excellency was the telephone -exchange, which connects various public buildings as well as the towns -lying round about. Here the Thokore Saheb had a microphone attachment -so arranged that from a school fourteen miles off some of the scholars -sang a song specially composed for the occasion by the chief judge of -the state. - -The words of the song were as follows:— - - “Reay, the lord, our Governor good, - Eternal be your fame; - First-class State of Morvi made, - Increased thus far its name; - Visit now our capital town, - With condescension kind, - And view Sir Waghji’s works of art, - Which surely please your mind. - Tram, telegraph, railway choice, - And many another thing, - To your Excellency’s ears - Telephone by which we sing.” - - -CALCULATING HER AGE. - -An indiscreet young man once asked a lady her age. - -“Wait till I count,” she replied. “I married at eighteen, my husband -was then thirty. Now he is twice that—then I must be thirty-six.” - -“Is it possible,” ejaculated the other, amazed at this method of -feminine computation. “Well, I should never have expected it.” - - * * * * * - -[Illustration: CECILLY.] - - * * * * * - - - - -HOW WE MANAGED WITHOUT SERVANTS. - -BY Mrs. FRANK W. W. TOPHAM, Author of “The Alibi,” “The Fateful -Number,” etc. - - -CHAPTER I. - -“It is no good, we can never manage it,” cried Cecilly, half crying, -throwing on the floor, as she spoke, the book she had been studying for -the last half hour. - -“Well, Cecilly, it is no good spoiling the book. That won’t help us,” I -said, picking it up and smoothing its ruffled pages. - -“It is just as silly as the others,” Cecilly continued, starting up -and walking quickly up and down the room. “These people did not put a -majolica sink in their dining-room, or embroider their dish-cloths, -but they spent fifty pounds in having water laid on to every bedroom, -bought a new cooking-stove, and every other contrivance advertised -for saving labour. If we had fifty pounds to spend to save ourselves -trouble, we need not do without the servants. I see we shall have to -give up the idea after all. Jack is right; we can never manage.” - -“Don’t say that,” I cried, for Cecilly had been the originator of the -idea, and last evening had fought most hopefully every objection the -boys had raised against our carrying out our plan of doing without -servants. - -It was only six months ago that the first shadow had fallen on our -bright happy home. Our dear father had been suddenly struck down by -illness, an illness which had seemed but slight at first, but which, as -the weeks went by, grew graver day by day, till there came a long, long -night when we waited in silent grief for the summons to bid him our -last farewell. But God in His mercy heard our broken-hearted prayers, -and gave him back to us and life. - -His recovery was fearfully low and tedious, and no one was surprised -to learn that the only hope for his recovery was for him to pass the -winter abroad. It had been very difficult to find the means to take him -away, but they were found. At first the change did wonders, but the -improvement did not last, and in every letter we could read the anxiety -mother was trying to hide from us. - -The day before the one of which I write the first bright report had -reached us. - -“Father is really better,” mother wrote, but even as we gave our shout -of joy, Jack read these words: “but the improvement comes too late—our -funds are nearly exhausted, and we must soon turn our faces homewards. -The doctors say if only he could stay on for another few months, they -are certain of his recovery. But that cannot be, and God knows what is -best for us always.” Again and again we asked ourselves what it was -possible for us to do to keep him in Cannes, but there seemed no way. -Cecilly had found a few pupils for music when dear father had first -been ill, and she had left no stone unturned in trying to get more, -but in vain. I too had sought for employment, but beyond going to read -to an old lady two afternoons in each week, I had been unable to find -any. Jack was in a solicitor’s office, and already was filling up every -spare hour with extra work, while Bob and Phil were still at school. -Everything of value our home possessed had already been parted with for -the journey, so that it was no wonder we cried out in despair. - -“Can’t we give up meat?” Bob asked at dinner that evening. “Kitty is -always moaning over the butcher’s bill.” - -“Is it likely you can give up meat,” Jack answered crossly, and I said— - -“We might, but the servants would not.” - -Then it was that Cecilly had cried out, “Send the servants away. I am -sure we could manage without them.” - -Jack was as indignant with Cecilly as with Bob, but she would not be -quieted. - -“Listen to me and hear reason,” she cried. “We must have money somehow, -and here is a way of getting it, or saving it, which is the same -thing. Cook’s wages are £20 a year, Ann’s are £16. So in three months -we should save £9. Nine hard sovereigns—not counting their keep. Oh, -Kitty, what is their keep?” - -“Quite ten shillings a week each, not counting their washing,” I -answered. - -“And we should save the kitchen fire, except when we are cooking,” said -Cecilly. - -“And the gas,” said Phil. “They flare it away at every burner. I turned -it out myself in the scullery last night.” - -“We should be able to live much more economically, of course,” I said. -“One dinner instead of the two we always have to cook now, must be a -saving in every way. Oh, Cecilly, what a splendid idea yours is.” - -“It is all rubbish,” said Jack. “Is it likely mother and father would -allow you girls to turn into slaves?” - -But Cecilly would not be silenced, and if she had her will would have -rushed off into the kitchen and dismissed the servants there and then. -She was up quite early and off to the stores to buy two or three books -she had seen advertised on the subject of “How to manage without -servants.” But, as I have said before, the authors had all been able -to spend the servants’ wages for a year in labour-saving contrivances. -Poor Cecilly had been so excited and hopeful the evening before that -she could not endure facing all the difficulties the morning laid -before her. - -“Jack is right. We cannot manage,” she cried again, and then burst into -a flood of tears. - -I was vainly trying to cheer her when the door opened and our dear old -friend Mrs. Travers, whom we all call Aunt Jane, entered. - -“Oh, my dears,” she cried, in dismay, “you have bad news from your -mother!” - -I hastened to reassure her, while Cecilly cried out— - -“Yes, the news is bad, Aunt Jane. He will never be well again, and we -can’t help him.” - -Then I told her mother’s words, and all about our idea that had come to -nothing. - -“Why should your idea come to nothing?” she asked, and when we -both asked her at once if she really thought we could manage, and -she answered, “If you can face plenty of hard work, of course you -can,” Cecilly rushed at her to hug her in her joy. “Sit down, you -scatter-brain,” said the dear old lady, “and we will then talk -seriously. There can be no doubt that you will save considerably if -you do send away the servants, but the necessary work you will find -very hard, far harder than you can yet imagine, especially at first. I -speak from experience, my dears, for my early married days were spent -in Canada, and there I learnt to use my hands. I have known many girls -and women as gentle and refined as any English lady, doing the entire -work not only of a house, but helping husband, brother or father with -poultry or dairy as well. And if our sisters in the Colonies can do -without hired help, why can’t we here? There is nothing so healthy as -housework. Have your windows open while you work, and there will be -no need for any more bicycle rides. The question is, Are you really -prepared for hard work? Can you face the early rising, the spoiling of -pretty white hands, a good many backaches, and a great many irksome -duties?” - -“Of course we can!” we cried at once. “If only we can give father this -chance, we will face anything!” - -“Then, my dears, the first thing is to give the servants notice.” - -“Luckily, Aunt Jane, Ann is going; she is only staying on till we knew -when mother would be back.” - -“And I know of a place that would suit cook beautifully,” said Cecilly. - -“That’s well,” said Aunt Jane, “they are easily disposed of. When they -are gone, you must find a little girl.” - -“No, no!” we both called out. “We will do everything ourselves.” - -“Hear me out, my dears,” said Aunt Jane quietly, “and then raise your -objections. I say you must have a girl just for one hour in the morning -to clean the boots.” - -“Oh, I had forgotten the boots!” sighed Cecilly. - -“I would have said a boot-boy, but a girl can clean your doorsteps, for -you must not do that.” - -“Why not?” asked Cecilly. “I see nothing to be ashamed of in any work.” - -“Neither do I, my dear; but your mother would object to that, I am -sure, and as you must have someone for the boys’ boots, the someone may -as well clean your steps.” - -“Why can’t the boys clean their own boots?” Cecilly began, but -I stopped her, for I saw Aunt Jane was looking vexed at her -interruptions, and I knew mother would not like the boys to do such -work while they were going to school among other boys. - -“Next,” continued Aunt Jane, “I should advise you to do away with your -kitchen range and have a gas stove.” - -“No, dear Aunt Jane,” I pleaded. “We must not spend anything to save -ourselves.” - -“I am not asking you to spend anything, my dear, excepting a few -shillings. The gas company will let out on hire any stove for a small -sum, I believe about one shilling and eightpence a quarter. There -will be the cost of setting it, but that will soon be paid for by the -saving in coals. A gas stove can be turned off as soon as you no longer -require it, so is economical in every way. I know I must not add that -it will save you much work, both in cleaning and lighting, though that -is the truth.” We laughed as we told her we were quite lazy enough -to be saved any labour, and she continued, “I will tell you another -plan to lighten your work. Take up all the heavy carpets possible, -especially in the bedrooms. A stained floor with rugs you can shake is -far easier to keep clean as well as being more healthy.” - -“But we should have to have the floors stained,” said Cecilly. “And -every shilling will be wanted for father.” - -“I think you must spare one or two of them to buy a bottle or so of -stains,” replied Aunt Jane, smiling. “Stain them, and then polish them -by degrees with beeswax and turpentine. I had an oak staircase once -that I treated in that way, and it looked beautiful. Of course, if you -have mats and rugs, so much the better, but strips of carpet with the -ends fringed out do very nicely. What you will find most irksome is -the continual washing up. Take my advice and leave your evening dinner -things till the next morning. I know it is far nicer to get them washed -up overnight, but you must remember that your first duty is to make -home bright for the boys. When dinner is over, put away all domestic -duties and make the evenings as bright with music and suchlike as you -do now. Now I must be going, and will only add this piece of advice. -When you speak to cook and Ann, tell them the reason you are parting -with them. They are both kind-hearted girls and will, I am sure, help -you in getting ready to do without them, and doubtless will be able to -give you good advice too.” - -“I hope Jack won’t be very vexed,” sighed Cecilly. - -“Never mind Jack,” said Aunt Jane. “He is too sensible to be really -vexed.” - -“Poor Jack,” I said. “You know, Aunt Jane, how very friendly and kind -Mr. Marriott has always been to him. Now, although he has been goodness -itself in finding him extra work after office hours, we can all see he -does not approve of the friendship between Jack and Cynthia. Cynthia -comes to us in the daytime as much as ever, but very rarely in the -evening when Jack is home.” - -“Mr. Marriott is quite right, my love. The way they are bringing up -their daughters makes marriage with any but a rich man out of the -question.” - -“Oh, Aunt Jane, Cynthia is the sweetest girl,” we both cried, while -Aunt Jane answered— - -“The sweetest of girls can make the worst of wives.” - -After bidding our kind old friend good-bye, we went at once to the -kitchen to tell our tale to cook and Ann. As Aunt Jane had predicted, -they received our news with the greatest kindness, and immediately -offered to help us in every way. - -“You had better come into the kitchen every day while I am here, and -let me teach you the young gentlemen’s favourite dishes, Miss Kitty,” -cook said, and Ann, who was leaving because she had been so rude to -Cecilly, sat down and cried because she could not bear to think of us -having to “so bemean” ourselves. - -(_To be continued._) - - - - -THE FIRE OF LOVE. - -BY MARY BRADFORD WHITING. - - -“Come here, Lion.” - -It was not a dog that obeyed the summons, but a child, a sweet-faced, -curly-headed child, with big, pathetic eyes, and soft smiling mouth. - -Treading on tip-toe, so as not to disturb the sleeping figure on the -sofa, Lion made his way across the room and crept up to his father’s -chair. - -“What were you crying for?” asked Mr. Beresford, as he lifted the -little fellow to his knee. - -“Oh, daddy, how much, much too sharp your eyes are! I hid myself all up -with my ship book, so as you shouldn’t see.” - -“No ship book that was ever made would hide your tears from me!” said -Mr. Beresford, in a tone that was evidently more for himself than for -the child. “But never mind that now. I did see, and now you must tell -me all about it. What were you crying for?” - -“I don’t want you to go away,” said Lion, in a trembling voice. “Why -must you go, daddy, and leave me alone with——” - -The loyal little fellow caught himself up without finishing the -sentence, but Mr. Beresford knew only too well what the concluding word -would have been, and he sighed heavily. - -A wealthy man, with congenial work to occupy him, with a lovely wife -and a sweet little son, there were plenty of people who envied him with -all their hearts; but Paul Beresford, like many of those who seem the -most prosperous, had a secret sorrow that embittered his whole life. He -had married young, believing that he had found the embodiment of grace -and goodness in the beautiful girl to whom he had given his heart, only -to discover too late that she was utterly selfish and cold-hearted. It -was a terrible awakening for him, and many a man in his place would -have made shipwreck altogether; but Paul Beresford only clung the -closer to the hidden faith that sustained him, and solaced himself with -the oft-quoted lines— - - “My own hope is a sun will pierce - The darkest cloud earth ever stretched.” - -That hope seemed to him to be fulfilled when his baby son was first put -into his arms and he felt the touch of the tiny fingers, and kissed the -soft roseleaf face. Surely no woman could resist such a darling mite -as this, and he looked forward confidently to the dawn of better days. -But as time went on, the terrible truth was borne in upon him that the -child had only widened the breach between his wife and himself. Little -as she had cared for his love in the past, she was jealous when she saw -it bestowed upon another, and far from lavishing any tenderness on the -little Lionel herself, she treated him with an indifference that made -her husband’s blood boil. - -The child had never been strong, but no one but his father gave him -much attention, for the nurse who had brought him through his babyhood -was obliged to leave when he was five years old, and his mother’s -maid, who was supposed to have the charge of him, was as selfish as -her mistress. But there was a courage and pluck in his slender frame -that would have done honour to a boy of twice his age, and which -well deserved his father’s name of “Lion.” He had early seen that it -distressed his beloved “daddy” if he told him of the troubles he had to -undergo, and the result was that he tried to keep them to himself with -a self-control that was marvellous in so young a child. - -But now a terrible trial had come for Lion. They had no sooner settled -down in the little Cornish village that had been selected for their -summer holiday, than a summons had come for Mr. Beresford to go out to -his West Indian property on imperative business, and he was obliged -to start as early as possible on the very next day. Somewhat to his -surprise, his wife had made no objection to his sudden departure; he -had expected a storm of tears and reproaches, but beyond the one cold -remark that he seemed to be glad of any excuse for leaving her, she had -said nothing, and he had felt thankful at being let off so easily. - -If he could have read her thoughts, he might, however, have felt -differently. She had given him no reason for her sudden desire to -settle down in a quiet seaside village, and he had been too glad of -the suggestion for the boy’s sake to ask any explanations. But now -it seemed to her that his departure was arranged as conveniently as -everything else had been; she had known very well when she chose their -holiday resort that Lord Barfield’s yacht would be anchored in the -neighbouring bay, and on board the yacht were people for whose society -she cared far more than she did for that of her husband or child, -people whom he distrusted, and had forbidden her to visit. - -Mr. Beresford was ignorant of all this, however, and he tried to -comfort his little son with parting injunctions; it was useless, alas, -to hope that his mother would take any care of him, but perhaps it -might console his loneliness to tell him to take care of her. - -“But mother won’t let me take care of her,” said Lion piteously. - -“That must only make you try all the more,” said his father, speaking -out of the depths of his own bitter experience. “You must be very -careful not to worry her, because you know that sometimes you talk too -loud when she has a headache, or even slam the doors. Will you promise -me that you will be very good while I am away?” - -“Yes, I will, I truthfully will!” said Lion, drying his eyes with a -brave attempt at a smile. - -“I shall soon come back,” said Mr. Beresford, “and I shall write you -long letters while I am away, and tell you all about the shells and the -snakes and the little black boys.” - -“And you’ll write it like print, won’t you?” said Lion, “so as I -needn’t bother mamma to read it, because that’s just one of the things -that vexes her so, when I ask her to read your letters.” - -He spoke innocently, little knowing the wounding power that his words -contained, but Mr. Beresford was well used to hiding his feelings, and -he made the required promise in an unshaken voice. - -“That’s all right, then,” said Lion joyfully. “But oh, daddy dear, you -won’t have me to curl your moustache for you, and you don’t look a bit -nice when it hangs all down like that,” and throwing himself against -his father, he proceeded to curl the offending moustache with his small -fingers, while Mr. Beresford laughed at the sight of his earnest frown. - -“I wish you would not let that child make so much noise,” said a -querulous voice at this moment, and leaving their play with a start, -both father and son were hushed in a moment. Lion slipped down to the -floor and took up his book, and Mr. Beresford went across to the sofa -and tried to soften his wife’s displeasure with his attentions. - -The morning came all too soon, and Lion had hard work to keep a bright -face through their hurried breakfast. Greatly to his relief Mrs. -Beresford had chosen to remain upstairs, so that he had his father all -to himself and could hang lovingly about him until the carriage came to -take him to the station. - -“Don’t forget your promise,” said Mr. Beresford as he drove away. - -He spoke cheerfully, but his eyes were moist as he looked back at the -lonely figure of the little six-year-old boy at the gate. If only his -mother’s arm had been round him, he could have far better borne to -leave him; but it was useless to indulge in such thoughts, and taking -out his pocket-book he was soon deep in calculations. - -Lion, for his part, tried quite as practical a cure for his grief. - -“I’ll pick some flowers for mamma,” he said to himself manfully, -and having rubbed the tears out of his eyes, he set off round the -flower-beds of their hired house, picking a rose here, and a geranium -here, until he had as large a bunch as he could hold. - -“Mamma, I’ve brought you some flowers,” he said, as he ran into her -bedroom and laid the straggling nosegay on her lap. - -Mrs. Beresford was lying on the couch, a novel in her hand and a -breakfast tray on the table by her side. - -“Oh, you bad boy!” she exclaimed, brushing the flowers hastily on -to the floor, “how dare you put those dirty things on my new white -wrapper. And there’s an earwig running over me! Go away this minute, I -tell you! Lettice, Lettice, come here!” - -Her screams brought the maid, who succeeded in catching the earwig; but -Lion had not waited to see the end of his escapade; a sudden sharp pain -had stabbed his baby breast, pain, not so much at his mother’s anger, -as at the thought that he had already disobeyed his father’s command. - -“Oh, daddy, daddy, I didn’t mean to be naughty!” he cried, and throwing -himself down on the grass, he sobbed as if his heart would break. - -“I am going out this afternoon,” said Mrs. Beresford at lunch-time, “so -you must amuse yourself in the garden.” - -“Mayn’t I come with you,” said Lion timidly. “Daddy said I was to take -care of you while he was away.” - -“Nonsense!” said Mrs. Beresford sharply, as though the words stung her. -“Do you think I can have you always after me? You must stay at home, -and see that you don’t get into any more mischief.” - -It was very lonely for Lion that afternoon. Lettice slipped out as soon -as her mistress had disappeared, and the servants of the house did -not consider it part of their business to look after other people’s -children. By-and-by it began to rain, and the little boy stood sadly -counting the falling drops until a sudden thought seized him. His -mother’s cloak was hanging in the hall; how wet she would get unless he -took it to her! To trot out into the hall and put on his hat was the -work of a moment, and seizing the cloak, he sallied forth. - -Far and wide the poor little fellow wandered, while the driving rain -soaked him through and through; but no trace of his mother could he -see, and at last he turned back to the house. Just as he reached the -gate a carriage drove up, however, and he saw his mother alight, and -heard her parting words, “On Thursday, then; I will be sure not to -fail.” - -“You naughty boy, what have you been doing?” were her next words, as -she espied the dripping child at the gate. “Look at my cloak, all -messed and spoilt. Go upstairs at once; didn’t I tell you not to get -into mischief?” - -Weary and heart-broken, Lion attempted no explanation, but creeping -sadly up to his room, cried himself to sleep on the floor. - -At breakfast-time next morning Lettice rushed into her mistress’s room -exclaiming, “Oh, ma’am, Master Lionel’s dying!” - -“Nonsense,” said Mrs. Beresford. “I daresay he has eaten something that -has disagreed with him; but you can send for the doctor.” - -She had forgotten all about it in five minutes, but when the doctor -came he insisted upon seeing her. - -“Your child has acute inflammation,” he said, “and his life will depend -upon the nursing.” - -“Then you must send for a nurse,” she said coolly, though she felt an -inward qualm at the thought of her husband. - -“I shall do so, of course, but she cannot be here until to-morrow -morning, and in the meantime you must be responsible; your maid is -perfectly useless.” - -Mrs. Beresford assented resignedly. She was glad now that they could -not take her on the yacht till Thursday. The nurse would have come by -then, and she could leave without trouble, and with this consoling -prospect in view she even agreed to sit up with Lion that night. - -Some people would have been touched by the child’s piteous cries for -his father, and by the way in which he constantly checked himself with -the reminder, “Daddy’s gone away; I must take care of mamma now.” But -Mrs. Beresford only found it wearisome, and tried to bury herself in -her book. - -She knew, however, that it would not do to forget the nourishment that -the doctor had ordered, and rousing herself at last she tried to light -the spirit-lamp. The most simple things of everyday life were mysteries -to her, and as she bent over it, candle in hand, there was a flare and -a scream, and Lettice rushed into the room to find her mistress’s hair -in flames. - -Help was summoned, and the doctor sent for, but he made short work of -her complaints. - -“There’s not much harm done,” he said bluntly. “I daresay your hair -will grow; your skin will never look the same again, but, after all, -that doesn’t matter.” - -And this to one whose chief joy in life had been the beauty of her -complexion! Mrs. Beresford hid her bandaged face in the pillows and -gave herself up to despair. No hope of going on the yacht now. They -would sail away and forget all about her, or, worse still, make -ill-natured remarks about her misfortune. At any rate, no one should -see her altered appearance, and she had the blinds pulled down, and -admitted no one but Lettice into her room. - -But the day came when the hospital nurse forced an entrance into the -forbidden precincts. She and the doctor had held many an indignant -conclave over their little patient, and when his perpetual inquiries -for his mother could be silenced in no other way, she made up her mind -to fetch her. - -Her words were few, but they made an impression that Mrs. Beresford -could not resist, for however indifferent she might appear, she knew -that she should not dare to face her husband if the child should die -without her seeing him. - -Her resolution almost failed as she caught a glimpse of herself in the -glass that had once reflected such a lovely vision, but it was too -late to turn back now, and she crossed the passage and entered the -sick-room. There on the bed lay Lion, his curls gone, his face hollow -and deathlike, but when he saw her he held out his hands with a cry, -“Oh, please say forgive!” - -“What does he mean?” she asked. - -“I don’t know,” said the nurse, “he has been saying it ever since I -came. You had better speak to him.” - -“What do you want, Lion?” she said, repressing a shudder as she went up -to the bedside. - -“Oh, mamma, I did promise daddy to be good, and you said I was so -naughty, and then you got your face burnt, and it was all my fault. Oh, -please say forgive!” - -Forgive? If anyone needed forgiveness it was not Lion, and as if a veil -had suddenly been lifted from her eyes, Mrs. Beresford saw herself -in the true light at last, worldly-minded, selfish-hearted, far, far -different from the pure and loving nature before her! - -“Oh, my child, my little child!” she said, bending down to take him in -her arms. - -There was silence for a few moments, while Lion lay wonderingly in the -embrace that had never enfolded him before, then raising his hand to -her bandaged face he whispered— - -“Poor mamma, you’re much worser than I am; but you’ll tell daddy I was -sorry, won’t you?” - -“No, no; you shall tell him yourself,” she exclaimed with sudden -vehemence; “you are going to get well, you must, you shall!” - -The nurse looked at her warningly, and she was silent again while -Lion’s excitement subsided into a drowsy state which lasted till the -doctor came. - -He looked in amazement at the strange figure by the bed, but for once -in her life Mrs. Beresford had no thoughts for herself. - -“He is better, is he not?” she said eagerly, but the doctor shook his -head. - -“No,” he said, “I shall telegraph for your husband to-night.” - -The days passed on, and one evening a carriage dashed up to the door -and springing out almost before it had stopped, Paul Beresford seized -upon the doctor, who came forward to greet him. - -“How is he?” he asked. - -“Better,” was the answer, and waiting to hear no more he dashed -upstairs and opened the door of his boy’s room. - -“How are you, my darling?” he said eagerly. - -His wife turned away with a sudden pang. It was not likely that he -would recognise her for she had sent him no news of her accident, but -for the first time she felt that he was dearer to her than the friends -for whom she had once sacrificed his happiness. - -But Lion did not forget her. - -“Daddy,” he said, “mamma has forgiven me, but you must forgive me too; -it was all my fault, you know, that she was burnt.” - -“Lena!” cried Paul in astonishment, as he gazed at the white-capped -figure by the window. - -“You told me to take care of her,” said Lion mournfully; “but she has -had to take care of me all the time!” - -Lena had hidden her face in her hands, but in a moment she felt her -husband’s arms round her and knew that a new life had begun for them -both. - -“Are you so very sorry that mamma was burnt?” asked Lion wistfully, as -he saw the tears in his father’s eyes. - -“No, dear, he is glad,” said his mother softly, “because there is a -fire in my heart that will, I hope, burn up all the selfishness.” - -“What fire comes in people’s hearts?” asked Lion in wonder, and with a -look that made her scarred face more beautiful than it had been in all -the perfection of its bloom, his mother answered— - -“The fire of love!” - -[Illustration] - - - - -OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES; - -OR, - -VILLAGE ARCHITECTURE OF BYGONE TIMES. - - -PART XI. - -INTERIORS AND DETAILS. - -It is remarkable what pretty bits of detail we often come across in old -cottages; unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult to ascertain for -certain whether these are “in situ” or whether they have originally -belonged to more important buildings and have found their way down -to the cottages, just as ladies’ dresses find themselves after some -time in more humble hands than those for which they were originally -intended. A beautiful partition, or screen, which we give from a small -farmhouse or cottage at Toppesfield, in Essex, is a case in point; -it may have always formed a portion of the building in which it now -stands, or it may have been removed from some more stately one. It is -singularly well preserved, but seems to be almost too elaborate and -costly a work to have been made for a house which is little more than a -cottage. However, as we have seen from examples at Clare and Newport, -the exteriors of cottages were sometimes elaborately adorned; and if -the exterior, why not the interior? - -[Illustration: BRICK CHIMNEY, AMERSHAM.] - -The screen or partition at Toppesfield is carved in oak, and what is -very remarkable is the fact that while the four lower ranges of panels -are English in style, the top range, with the heads introduced, is like -French work. - -[Illustration: AT TOPPESFIELD.] - -The two mantelpieces and fireplaces, which we illustrate, are certainly -in their original places, and have not been removed. The example from -Alfreston dates from the second half of the sixteenth century, and the -very singular one at Amersham from the earlier part of the seventeenth. -The latter has a pretty but very uncommon feature about it. The ingle -nooks are pierced by little windows, so that when sitting down to warm -yourself at the fire you can look out of the window at the same time, -a great advantage to the aged and infirm, who cannot move about very -readily, and yet get tired of looking always at the fire or always out -of the window. - -Sometimes the ceilings of the rooms in cottages are very pretty -examples of ornamental plaster work. A cottage at Margate, which -was recently pulled down, had a singularly elegant plaster ceiling, -with the same motto repeated over and over again, and in every case -misspelt; the words were intended to be “Ich Dien,” but the mistake -“Ich pien” was repeated throughout. - -While speaking on ornamental plaster work it is known that during the -sixteenth century rye-dough was frequently mixed with the plaster to -obtain sharp and delicate work. This material dries very hard, as any -of our girls who have been educated at a German school will know from -their experience of black bread which is over a week old. - -Our remaining sketch represents one of those prettily-cut brick -chimneys which are so very ornamental in Tudor houses and cottages. -The example here given is at Amersham. The two chimneys are almost of -the same design, which in one case is nearly four times the scale of -the other, and it is worthy of notice how totally different is the -effect of the same pattern in a large and a small scale. A complete and -thorough understanding of this fact is all important to the architect -and the decorator! Chimneys are often very beautiful objects. Perhaps -the most magnificent examples are to be seen at East Barsham Hall, -near Walsingham, Norfolk. This building, the finest example of Tudor -domestic work in the country, deserves better treatment than it has -received. Portions of it are in ruins, and one part of it cooked -up into a farmhouse. How it is that this splendid mansion was ever -abandoned and left to fall into ruins is unintelligible. Nowhere -is more elaborate or beautiful carved brickwork to be seen. Great -coats-of-arms, badges, lions, and elaborate Gothic tracery are all to -be found carved out of the finest red brick. - -[Illustration: AT ALFRESTON, ESSEX.] - -But the beautiful architectural works in Norfolk, which are rapidly -being reduced to ruins, are indeed a sad story for those who are -interested in ancient memorials or beautiful works of art. - -[Illustration: AT AMERSHAM. (_See page 716._)] - -(_To be concluded._) - - - - -SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE. - -A STORY FOR GIRLS. - -BY EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN, Author of “Greyfriars,” “Half-a-dozen -Sisters,” etc. - - -CHAPTER XVIII. - -THE GATHERING STORM. - -“I am sorry you feel like that about it, my dear. She seems to me a -nice little girl enough—rather fascinating indeed. She appears very -much liked here.” - -Mrs. Cossart’s reply was something like a snort, and the toss of her -head and set of her mouth showed from whom Effie had inherited some of -her little tricks of manner. - -“And she is such a nice companion for Effie,” concluded Mr. Cossart -after a brief pause. - -“A fine companion indeed!” retorted his wife. “A wonderful lot of time -she spends with Effie! I call it simply shameful the way she is going -on! We bring her out with us at great cost to be a companion for Effie, -and here she is from morning to night running after some new people, -just because they are rich and well connected, and she hopes to catch -the young man for a husband!” - -Like many rather easy-going and phlegmatic people, Mrs. Cossart took -a good deal of rousing, but when once an idea had thoroughly taken -possession of her mind, there was no getting it out, and if it happened -to be one of an irritating and disturbing kind, it would gradually -work like leaven in her nature, and entirely overset her natural -equilibrium. She had been brooding for weeks over the turn affairs -seemed taking, but this was the first time she had spoken quite so -openly to her husband, and Mr. Cossart was decidedly taken aback. - -“Really, my dear, I don’t think such an idea has ever entered Sheila’s -head. She is such a child still. She is fond of Miss Adene and these -Dumaresqs, and they have taken a fancy to her; but I don’t think you -need think such things of her. She is just as happy playing with the -little boy as being with young Dumaresq; and it seems to me that he -pays quite as much attention to Effie. I have taken care to let him -know, in an indirect kind of way, that our little girl will have a -pretty dower when she marries. And in these days young men think of -such things. High time too, with the land depreciating as it is!” - -“Yes, and perhaps if Sheila were not here something might come of it. -Effie has twice the character of Sheila, but there is something about -the way that little flirt goes on that takes the fancy of people in a -way I can’t understand! And if you would believe it, on New Year’s Eve, -when I thought Ronald Dumaresq was sitting out with Effie watching the -fireworks and so on—if you would believe it he had just turned her over -to his aunt, and off he set down the hill in a carro, and found Sheila -out on the verandah here, and stayed with her all the time! What do you -call that sort of thing, I wonder?” - -“Well, my dear, I don’t see that Sheila was in fault. And there were -other people out too. She was not alone. If young Dumaresq chose to -come and watch the display from here, nobody could blame her.” - -“I expect it was a got-up thing between them. She never said a word -about it either; I only heard it incidentally a few days ago. She is a -very artful young minx—that is what she is!” - -Mr. Cossart was uncomfortable. He was a just man and a kindly one by -nature; and Sheila’s pretty ways had taken his fancy as they had taken -the fancy of others. He had no special matrimonial ambitions for his -own daughter. He would very well have liked to see her the wife of -Ronald Dumaresq; but, on the other hand, if the young man had other -ideas for himself, he would never make a trouble of it. - -“There’s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it,” was a -favourite maxim of his, and if Sheila were to get a handsome husband in -Ronald, her uncle would wish her joy and be ready to arrange matters -for her in fatherly fashion. But he knew by experience that his wife, -when once her mind was made up, was inexorable. - -“Yes,” continued Mrs. Cossart wrathfully, “you men never see an inch -before your noses, but I have had my misgivings ever since Sheila came. -Look how things were with the girls and Cyril. I don’t mean that I -think much of Cyril—he’s only a Cossart when all’s said and done. All -his grand ways won’t make him a better man than his father before him, -and of course they’re cousins. Still I had no particular objection, and -Effie seemed to think more of him than of anybody else, and to be a -good deal taken up with him. But as soon as Sheila came I noticed the -difference. It was she who was the attraction then. They were always -scheming to get together and ride off alone and all that sort of thing. -There was talk about Effie, to be sure, and teaching her to ride; but -that was just the excuse. Oh, I know what I am talking about! And now -it is just the same thing again. If it were not for Sheila, young -Dumaresq would be very attentive to Effie, but as things are he never -gets the chance. That girl, with her craving after notice, her laughing -ways and bold artful scheming, just winds him round her fingers, and -the end of it will be, you’ll see, that she lands the fish, and Effie -is left out in the cold!” - -“But, my dear, if the young man prefers Sheila (and I’m not at all -prepared to think he does; but she is pretty and taking, and he -naturally talks to her) I don’t see that we could interfere.” - -“Then you will stand quietly by to see your own child’s heart broken, -whilst this artful little minx carries on her games under our very -noses.” - -At that Mr. Cossart looked grave and uttered a low whistle. - -“Do you mean that our Effie has begun to—to—well, to care for this -young man? I never thought her the kind to fall in love just with a -handsome face.” - -“Ronald Dumaresq has more than a handsome face,” answered Mrs. Cossart -with slight asperity, “and I have no hesitation in saying that he -has taken Effie’s fancy in a way that no other man has done to my -knowledge. The last doctor we consulted about Effie said that some -interest of that sort in her life just now might be the best possible -thing for her. When first I saw Ronald Dumaresq I thought that he -would be the very husband for her; he is well-born, fairly well-to-do, -kind-hearted, affectionate, and, I think, very high principled. If you -watch Effie when she is talking to him, you will see how she brightens -up. But that Sheila is for ever putting herself forward. I wish we had -never brought her, and I am certain Effie is beginning to wish the -same.” - -Mr. Cossart was silent; this was putting the matter in a new light. He -rubbed his chin and looked disturbed. - -“What are the girls doing now?” he asked as though to gain time. - -“We will come and see,” said Mrs. Cossart, rising with a kind of -vicious alacrity. “I know nothing, but I can guess. Sheila will by -hook or by crook have got Ronald Dumaresq in tow, you will see, and -Effie will be left out in the cold, or reduced to fall back on those -everlasting Murchison girls! I did not bring Effie out here to throw -her into the arms of a tradesman’s daughters!” and Mrs. Cossart gave -that little toss to her head which was so like Effie’s. - -Husband and wife rose and wandered down the garden paths, too well used -to the wealth of flowers and the glint of the sparkling sea to remark -upon the beauties before them. Mrs. Cossart’s face was displeased, and -his was troubled. Presently the sound of a clear ringing laugh broke -upon their ears, and Mrs. Cossart uttered a suggestive snort. - -“There’s Sheila, on the tennis court, I expect. Come and see for -yourself how she plays companion to Effie!” - -They moved on till they could command a view of the court from a -terrace above, and then a pretty scene revealed itself to their eyes. - -On one side of the net stood Ronald, tennis-bat in hand, his white -flannels showing off his slight figure to great advantage. On the other -side was little Guy, with Sheila superintending, her bat in his hand, -as he made vigorous and often successful attempts to send the ball -across to his uncle. Sir Guy and Lady Dumaresq sat together in wicker -chairs in the shade, and Miss Adene was sketching the group, a smile on -her lips, as her clever pencil travelled swiftly over the paper. Sheila -was in the plot, and strove to keep little Guy still from time to time -in one of his pretty attitudes. Of Effie there was no trace. - -“You see!” said Mrs. Cossart triumphantly. - -“Yes, my dear; but you know Sheila offered to help with the child when -his nurse was taken ill. We must not complain if she keeps her promise. -You allowed her to undertake the task.” - -“She gave me no choice, speaking it out before Lady Dumaresq as she -did. Of course I saw the motive all the while. As though people like -that could not get a temporary nurse!” - -“Well, they have done that; but of course a Portuguese woman is not -like their own trusted servant. Naturally they do not like the boy left -much with her. I cannot find fault with Sheila for trying to help. She -is so fond of the little fellow.” - -Sheila’s voice came up to them just then clear and sweet. - -“Oh, isn’t he a darling! Isn’t he quite too sweet? Lady Dumaresq, I -hope Taylor isn’t going to get well just yet, I do so love having him. -Mayn’t I give him his bath again to-night? He likes it so when I do. -And he is such a little duck!” - -Mr. and Mrs. Cossart walked down and approached the group. - -“Where is Effie, Sheila?” asked the latter. - -Sheila looked round quickly. - -“Effie? Oh, she was here just now. We were playing tennis against Mr. -Dumaresq. We beat him, but I don’t believe he played up,” and she -threw a sparkling glance towards Ronald who was strolling up with Guy -perched on his shoulder. “Then Guy wanted to play, and Effie sat down; -I thought she was here still.” - -“The Miss Murchisons came and asked her to go down the town with them -in their carro, and hear the band play at the Casino,” said Miss Adene, -looking up from her sketch. “There, Sheila, will that do? It is the -best I could get—he is a restless little mortal.” - -“Oh, but you have got him delightfully!” cried Sheila, taking the -sketch-book, her face alight with pleasure. “Oh, isn’t it just that -pretty way of his when he tries to hit the ball, and laughs all over -his dear little face! See, Lady Dumaresq, isn’t it good? But you can’t -have it, for Miss Adene has promised it to me. You know you did, didn’t -you—the first good sketch you could catch of him?” - -Lady Dumaresq smiled and patted Sheila’s cheek. - -“You will make my boy quite vain by your open admiration, my dear; you -must remember that he is not quite a baby, and can understand a good -deal of what is said.” She looked up at the girl, and then her glance -fell upon the Cossarts, and she seemed to divine that something was -amiss. - -With ready tact she turned to them and said— - -“Will you not join us at tea? It is just coming out. We prefer having -it brought here to going to the drawing-room; and the people are very -kind about indulging us. We want to talk to you about a plan for -to-morrow or the next day. We feel we have been idle long enough. We -were thinking of taking the excursion to Camacha, and were hoping you -would join us. Your daughter seemed pleased with the plan.” - -There was something about Lady Dumaresq’s graceful and gracious -manner that Mrs. Cossart could never resist. The frown faded from her -brow, and she took the seat Ronald brought for her, preparing to be -responsive, though she could not forget her regret in Effie’s absence; -for naturally Sheila and Ronald consorted together, and they evidently -had an infinite number of little jokes in common, and it seemed to her -that little Guy made a very strong link between them. - -“You know Camacha is a quaint little village lying behind that wooded -hill we look at to the right,” said Lady Dumaresq indicating the -direction. “It is one of the easy excursions, and it is much more often -free from rain cloud than other places in the island. It is about two -hours distant, whether we take horses or hammocks or a light carro. We -think a picnic up there would be very agreeable. It will be a pleasure -to us if your party will join us. The weather is so settled again just -now that we feel we ought to take advantage of it.” - -“Very kind, I am sure,” said Mr. Cossart heartily. “We shall be -delighted to join you. I think I and my old lady had better have a -carro, and perhaps two yoke of bullocks, and take the luncheon baskets -with us. I suppose you young people will all ride. So would I have done -at your age!” - -“I think my aunt and my husband will have hammocks,” said Lady -Dumaresq, “and I fancy your daughter inclined to that method also. I -don’t know whether I can make up my mind to try one. I think I have a -greater fancy for a horse.” - -“It seems rather cruel work being carried by human bearers,” said Miss -Adene. “I did not like it at all at first, but I got used to it. And as -they say, it is the men’s livelihood. If visitors do not take hammocks, -the bearers starve.” - -“We’ll have horses,” cried Ronald, including himself, Sheila, Lady -Dumaresq and little Guy in his glance. “Yes, I’ve seen Susa, and he’s -got a good little pony, and the boy’s donkey saddle will fit on all -right. We’ll take him along with us. The man will walk alongside all -the time. Oh, he’ll be as safe as a tree! He’ll like it awfully, won’t -you, boy?” - -Guy cut capers and clapped his hands. He was a perfectly fearless -morsel of humanity, and had ridden the old donkey at home ever since he -could get his little legs across its broad back. At nearly four he was -wild to have a pony and go with Uncle Ronald and Sheila, and they were -equally eager to have him. - -When Mr. and Mrs. Cossart went back to the hotel, it was in a more -complaisant mood than they had left it. - -“You see, my dear,” he said, “they are quite friendly to us.” - -“Oh, yes, that is all right enough; but all the same I am not satisfied -with the way things are going. I mean to make this excursion to Camacha -something of a test case.” - -“What do you mean?” - -“I know what I mean myself. I mean to keep my eyes well open, and you -can do the same. If I am not satisfied with what I see, I have quite -made up my mind what to do.” - -“And what is that?” asked her husband rather uneasily. - -“To pack Sheila straight off home in the _Dunraven Castle_ that is due -next Monday or Tuesday.” - -(_To be continued._) - - - - -ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. - - -STUDY AND STUDIO. - -A LOVER OF THE “G.O.P.”—1. Albert Loeschorn, a distinguished musical -professor of Berlin, was born there in 1819. He was a pupil of Ludwig -Berger, taught in Berlin, and has held chamber concerts there. His -principal works consist of studies for the pianoforte. The title of -“Royal Professor” was conferred upon him in 1868.—2. When a canary -moults in July or August, be careful to keep him quiet and free from -draughts. Give him once a week a very small quantity of raw beef -scraped and moistened with water, with now and then a little of the -yolk of hard-boiled eggs, a piece of sponge-cake, and ripe chickweed. - -MONA.—1. Robert Browning’s poem “How they brought the Good News from -Ghent to Aix” is founded on no historical incident, but describes a -purely imaginary “ride.”—2. Our summer takes place when the earth is -at aphelion (furthest from the sun) because the sun’s rays fall more -vertically upon our part of the world at that time. Two questions are -our limit. - - -INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE. - -B. F., Scotland, would like to correspond with an Italian girl. She -is 15 years of age, very musical, and understands Latin, but not -Italian. Would the Italian girl “write a letter in English with the -corresponding Italian written below?” - -MISS MARGARETHE SCHOLTZ, 115, Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, a teacher, -would like to correspond with another lady teacher, aged between 28 -and 36. She “has no objection to writing to any foreign country.” Miss -Scholtz says, “You would be surprised to see how many girls here read -THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER.” - -FLANNEL-FLOWER, New South Wales, “in the bush,” wishes to arrange a -correspondence with a French girl. She is 25, fond of reading and -music, the French language and literature. She would write in English, -the correspondent in French. - -MISS MARGARET SPEIR, Newton Farm, Newton, Glasgow, wishes to correspond -with a French and a German girl. She is 18, but her correspondents -might be a few years older or younger. - -“LOUISA,” Aberdeen, who is studying French, would like to correspond -with a French girl about her own age (16). The correspondent might -write either in English or French, but “Louisa” would write in French. - -MISS ANICE CRESS has received no less than twelve letters from -Roumania, Belgium, France, and England, and says, “I feel that life is -indeed pleasant when I receive such kind, interesting, and instructive -letters from my dear fellow readers and correspondents.” - -MISS RUTH E. A. PERRITT, 59, Elmbank Street, Glasgow, is anxious to -correspond regularly with a young French lady of her own age (17). We -hope some French girls will reply to our Scottish correspondents. - -MISS EMILY JACOB, Belfield, Raheny, Co. Dublin (a typewriter, etc.), -and MISS F. BARTRAM, Pleasant View, Clay Lane, Clay Cross, Derbyshire, -offer to correspond with “NELLIE.” - -MRS. BARNARD, Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Rockhampton, Queensland, -Australia, sends us six pictorial postcards for “O MIMOSA SAN,” and -asks for “a few bridges in exchange.” We cannot, as we have often said, -undertake any postal communication in connection with this column, and -have not “_O Mimosa San’s_” address. - -AILEEN JACQUES (aged 13½), Queen Street, Tramore, Co. Waterford, -Ireland, wishes to correspond with a French girl of her own age, each -to write the other’s language. - -MISS ETHEL KNEESHAW, Pembina, North Dakota, U.S.A., would like to -exchange duplicate stamps with MADEMOISELLE FRANÇOIS. Why does she not -write to her direct? Her address has been given more than once. - -CARMEN would like to correspond with a Spanish girl of good family, -about her own age (18). Address: Maria Ricciardi, Madonna dell’ Aiuto, -28, Naples, Italy. - -MISS MARIE DURAZZO, Piazza Meridiana 2, Genoa, Italy, will send an -illustrated post-card to any reader of THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER who will -send her one. - -L. K. B. (not proficient in French) desires to correspond with a young -French lady, and would correct her English letters. - -EXCELSIOR is very anxious to study mathematics, Latin, and French by -correspondence. She would help in all English subjects in return, and -adds also, “perhaps some lonely girl in a land across the sea might be -pleased to have letters telling of our great England, sent regularly.” -We quote a sentence or two from her letter to the Editor: “THE GIRL’S -OWN has been my very own paper since 1890; and however lonely or tired -I may feel, it needs but the new number of THE GIRL’S OWN to put new -life into me. If we could but gather round you, what a babel there -would be! Girls _can_ talk, and what a great deal we should wish to -say!” - -SUNSHINE wishes to correspond in English with an Irish, Scotch, or -French girl of 15 or 16. Address: Miss L. Handson, 84, Cartergate, -Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire. - -MISS M. THEYNE, Wiedendamm 2, Riga, Russia, a Russian girl aged 22, -wishes to correspond with “LAURA” (March). We thank her for her -pleasant letter. - - -MEDICAL. - -E. MESSENT.—We have over and over again said that we know of no really -efficient and safe way of permanently removing superfluous hairs from -the face. All chemical epilators are either injurious to the skin, or -are else useless; indeed, most of them are both. It is obvious that -no chemical depilatory can be safe to use, for to prevent the growth -of hair it must destroy the hair root, and as the hair root is placed -deeply in the skin, the chemical has got to deeply destroy the skin -before it can commence its work. We know of many epilators which will -destroy the skin of the face, but not one of them can be trusted even -to injure the hair roots! Then as regards electrolysis, we know it -is frequently used for destroying hairs, but it is not one case in a -hundred that this treatment can benefit. It can permanently remove -half-a-dozen hairs or so, but as to destroying a beard or moustache, -why you would have to have generation after generation of electrolysers -at work before all the hair was destroyed. And even where electrolysis -is practised, a permanent cure is exceedingly uncommon, and the expense -of this treatment is very considerable. But if you cannot permanently -remove unwelcome hairs, you can with ease destroy them temporarily -either by pulling them out or by cutting them down. The latter is by -far the best way of removing superfluous hairs, and is the only way -which is absolutely safe. - -J. H. R.—1. Powdered boracic acid is very useful for those who suffer -from excessive perspiration. Another powder consisting of one part -of salicylic acid to ninety-nine parts of powdered silica, is also -frequently used for the same purpose.—2. Liquid ammonia is a very -good preparation with which to soften hard water. Ordinary household -ammonia is quite equal to the various patent preparations. About a -tablespoonful of strong ammonia will soften about twenty gallons of -London water. Failing ammonia, common washing soda is as good as -anything, and is certainly cheap enough for everybody. You can easily -tell if you have added enough of the ammonia or soda to the water by -feeling it with the hand, when the hard feel of ordinary tap water -gives place to the unctuous feel of soft water. - -JANET.—It is quite impossible to say what is causing noises in the ear -without a personal interview. Many conditions, some slight, some grave, -produce this symptom, and the necessity for a careful diagnosis is -obvious. We would, therefore, be doing you an injustice to attempt to -“cure” you. You must go to an aurist and get his opinion on the matter. -A course of quinine might do you good, but very likely it would only -make you worse. - -ARIEL.—Sarsaparilla is one of those drugs whose action upon the human -organism is practically nil! Indeed, it is not too much to say that, if -taken by a man in any quantities, it will produce no effect whatever. -It is no new remedy; it has been tried and tried, and found wanting. -The decoction of sarsa has a decided action, but it is due to the water -in it, and not to the sarsaparilla! - -HENRIETTA.—The symptom you mention is one of the manifestations of the -milder degrees of hysteria. A little rigid mental training would soon -cure you. - -INEXPERIENCED.—The best temperature for a working room is between -55° F. and 60° F. For a bedroom, between 50° F. and 55° F. For the -sick-room for ordinary cases, between 55° F. and 65° F. For some -respiratory diseases, the temperature must be kept between 62° F. and -70° F. In these diseases the temperature must be kept constant, great -care being taken that the room does not get cold in the early hours of -the morning. - -COUNTRY MOUSE.—Earache is by no means always due to trouble with the -ear. Indeed, pain of any kind is an uncommon symptom of ear disease, -and it is only in acute inflammation of the drum that pain is at -all common. Earache is most often a “referred pain,” that is, it is -a pain in one nerve due to irritation of another nerve connected -with it. This phenomenon of referred pain is exceedingly common. The -nerve which chiefly supplies the skin about the ear is a branch of -the inferior dental nerve, which supplies the sensation to the lower -teeth. Consequently the presence of carious teeth in the lower jaw is -an exceedingly common cause of earache, and is for certain the cause -of the pain which you suffer. You can tell whether pain about the ear -is due to ear trouble or to this referred pain, because in the former -case the pain is deeply seated, whereas in referred pain the pain is -situated in the skin about the ear. Moreover, in this latter case the -skin about the ear may be acutely tender. - -[Illustration] - - -MISCELLANEOUS. - -MRS. C——S.—You give no pseudonym. In the Annotated Bible there is a -note on this subject which points out that Nahash may have been another -name of Jesse, the father of David. The ancient Jews are said to have -thought that Abigail and Zeruiah were daughters of David’s mother by -Nahash, King of Ammon, before her marriage with Jesse, as it is not -said they _were daughters of Jesse_ anywhere, although they are called -sisters of David. All this is, however, conjectural. Nahash means a -serpent. - -ANNA MARIA.—1. You would require a proper butter-mould for it.—2. It is -never proper to shorten words, such as “cd.,” “wld.,” “wk.” for work, -or “tly.” for truly, at least in writing letters. If your time be so -limited, it is better to put off writing your letter till you have more -time. Such abbreviations are only intended for business men, and are -wholly unnecessary in polite letter-writing. - -DOWDNEY.—We have not heard of any lady veterinary surgeons, nor do we -find that there is any opening for their education as yet. Why spell -Britain as “Brittian”? The rest of your letter is quite correct. The -Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is at 10, Red Lion Square, W.C. -Write and inquire of the Secretary. - -OPEN SESAME.—We think the best plan is to go to a good and trustworthy -hairdresser, if you have determined to have your hair dyed, but we -will give you an old-fashioned hair “restorer” or “darkener,” as -follows:—rust of iron, 1 drachm, old ale, strong and unsweetened, -1 pint, oil of rosemary, 12 drops. Put this mixture into a bottle, cork -very loosely, agitate it daily for ten or twelve days, then after an -hour’s waiting, decant the clear portion for use. Rain water may be -substituted for the ale if you wish it. This mixture will ironmould -linen clothes. - -PETITE.—1. It is very difficult to deal with a scratched surface of -leather. A kid-restorer will sometimes answer the purpose, or one of -the creams sold for Russia leather. White of egg will also act as a -restorer, and you might stain the scratches with a green paint.—2. As -to your second question, we are of opinion that you would do best by -joining the University Correspondence College, 32, Red Lion Square, -W.C., particularly as you live so far from London. You could write for -terms. - -EFFIE.—The loosened back of your book could only be tightened by a -binder, and perhaps not even by him, unless he took the back off, when -it could be done. - -LONELY ONE.—Judging from your letter and its story only, we should say -you were very well rid of such a half-hearted lover. And now, we think -that at twenty-six, with a delightful profession to occupy you, you -ought to be a thankful and happy girl. Throw yourself into your work -with your whole heart. Discourage all repining and sorrowful thoughts; -be resolute and determined, until your mind shall gain strength and its -normal power again. Take plenty of fresh air and exercise, and look -only on the sunny side of life. God helps those who help themselves; -and He will help you to a happy life. - -E. B. H.—We should think that your weight was about normal, if tall -for your age. Has anyone been teasing you about it? Don’t mind, you -can practise how to preserve a good temper under difficulties. The -name Emma is of very ancient date. It comes from the Latin _amata_, -signifying loved; and was used as a name of honour in the days of -ancient Rome, when it was bestowed on the newly-consecrated vestal by -the high priest. It is neither ugly nor common, so far as we can see. -You have been taking “chaff” too seriously. - -MURIEL.—We suppose that the stains on the teacups are caused by tea; -if so, rubbing them well with salt will take them off; and they will -sometimes come off when merely scraped with a knife. - -ANNIE.—A housemaid in a gentleman’s house would need three cotton -dresses, half-a-dozen linen, and half-a-dozen lawn or muslin aprons, -and a good black gown for afternoon wear. If you are one of two or -three maids, you are under the upper housemaid, and she will instruct -you in your duties. These would differ in every house respectively. - -AYESHA.—Your writing is very fairly good. The blue velveteen must -be cleaned with benzine, or some French chalk, which take out the -grease—the latter rubbed in on the wrong side. - -FLORENCE.—Lawyer is a general term which comprehends attorneys, -solicitors, barristers, and advocates. A barrister is a councillor, -qualified and admitted to plead at the Bar, and to take upon him the -defence of clients. He is also a conveyancer. An attorney-at-law is an -officer of a court of law, legally qualified to prosecute and defend -actions in such court, on the retainer of clients. He answers to the -solicitor in Chancery, and the proctor in Ecclesiastical and Admiralty -courts, and all are comprehended under the general term lawyer. - -C. H. M. B.—1. If calling on a lady living with her brother, you would -leave two of your husband’s cards.—2. The lady herself, in calling on -you, would, of course, leave cards for her brother. - -FLOSS.—1. We are much obliged by your kind expression of opinion -concerning our paper.—2. The only way to improve your writing is to go -back to copies and improve each letter as it comes. - - * * * * * - -[Transcriber’s Note—the following changes have been made to this text. - -Page 710: tho to those—“those made of”. - -Page 713: soverigns to sovereigns—“Nine hard sovereigns”. - -Page 714: Anne to Ann—“to cook and Ann”. - -Page 720: you to your—“your husband’s cards”.] - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. 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No. 1023, -August 5, 1899, by Various - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. 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. 1023, August 5, 1899 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: July 3, 2020 [EBook #62547] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER, AUGUST 5, 1899 *** - - - - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -https://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_705"></a>{705}</span></p> - -<h1 class="faux">THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER</h1> - - -<div class="figcenter illow600"> -<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. 1023.]</span></p> -<p class="floatr"><span class="smcap">[Price One Penny.</span></p> -<p class="floatc">AUGUST 5, 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="#SELF-CULTURE">SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS.</a><br /> -<a href="#THE_HOUSE_WITH_THE_VERANDAH">THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH.</a><br /> -<a href="#SUNSHINE_A_SUMMER_SERMON">SUNSHINE: A SUMMER SERMON.</a><br /> -<a href="#GRILLING_AND_DEVILLING">GRILLING AND DEVILLING.</a><br /> -<a href="#VARIETIES">VARIETIES.</a><br /> -<a href="#HOW_WE_MANAGED_WITHOUT_SERVANTS">HOW WE MANAGED WITHOUT SERVANTS.</a><br /> -<a href="#THE_FIRE_OF_LOVE">THE FIRE OF LOVE.</a><br /> -<a href="#OLD_ENGLISH_COTTAGE_HOMES">OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES; OR, VILLAGE ARCHITECTURE OF BYGONE TIMES.</a><br /> -<a href="#SHEILAS_COUSIN_EFFIE">SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE.</a><br /> -<a href="#ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS">ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.</a><br /> - -<!-- End Autogenerated TOC. --> - -</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SELF-CULTURE">SELF-CULTURE -FOR GIRLS.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> LILY WATSON.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illow425" id="i705" > - <img src="images/i_705.jpg" width="425" height="569" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">OPEN-AIR SKETCHING.</p></div> -</div> - -<p class="smalltext"><i>All rights reserved.</i>]</p> - -<div class="figcenter illow80" id="i705a" > - <img src="images/i_705a.jpg" width="80" height="9" alt="Decorative divider" /> -</div> - - -<h3>PART VII.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">After</span> all the serious advice we -have given to our readers as to the -literature that is to make them -wise, it is pleasant to write of self-culture -through the study of the -best poetry.</p> - -<p>It is, however, not by deliberately -taking poetry as a vehicle of -education, hunting up every allusion, -parsing difficult sentences, -and picking the whole thing to -pieces, that readers will fall under -its sway and know the power of -its magic spell. We have often -mourned in secret at the prevailing -fashion of “getting up” this, -that, and the other poem for -examinations, and have wondered -what such an introduction to -English literature is worth. Of -this method of handling the work -of poets one may use Wordsworth’s -phrase:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“We murder to dissect.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Is it desirable, then, to pass by -allusions without comprehending -them? Have we not praised the -aspiring student who wants to -know, for instance, who was the</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">“daughter of the gods, divinely tall</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And most divinely fair,”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>or who it was</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Who saw life steadily and saw it whole,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The mellow glory of the Attic stage,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Singer of sweet Colonus and its child”?</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>We can only say that, whereas -anxiety to understand whatever -one reads intelligently is to be -commended, no individual knowledge -about a masterpiece of -poetic genius is to be put in place -of the masterpiece itself. And -we unhesitatingly condemn the -practice of using poems as vehicles -for lessons in grammar, Grimm’s -Law, or any other technical matter -whatsoever. For instance, if<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_706"></a>{706}</span> -Wordsworth’s “Excursion” has any meaning -for your heart and mind, do not read it with -notes which stop you four times in the first -three lines, with the derivation of “landscape,” -the explanation of “downs” and -other kindred matters, which are undoubtedly -useful, but should not be learnt by the medium -of an immortal poem. If you need lessons in -this elementary sort of thing, we should advise -you to find them elsewhere.</p> - -<p>If you have to read one of Shakespeare’s -plays edited by such admirable commentators -as Mr. Aldis Wright or Mr. Verity, do not -adopt the method of the girl who covered up -the text, lest it should divert her attention -from the notes! But the notes are the most -important matter to the minds of thousands of -middle-class girls and boys, because it is on -the notes they are going to be examined.</p> - -<p>A suggestive and amusing essay on this -subject for elder readers is to be found in -<i>Reviews and Essays in English Literature</i>, -by the Rev. D. C. Tovey, M.A., Clark -Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge.</p> - -<p>The well-known couplet:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“You must love him ere to you</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He will seem worthy of your love,”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>is true of the poet. And does the utilising of -Shakespeare as a class-book make him beloved -by the young? We are afraid it does not. -Yet do not throw notes aside—only remember—do -remember!—they touch nothing but the -form; the spirit of poetry eludes them -altogether.</p> - -<p>We may imagine two students of a poem -brought into comparison. The one regards it -as a task alone; she has conscientiously learnt -by heart the notes of an erudite commentator, -has looked up every allusion, can expatiate on -“Grimm’s Law,” and give instances of its -working. The other can do none of these -things; she has found the volume in some -library, has pored over the poem till it has -become part of her inner life; its music rings -in her ears; she loves it passionately, and it -haunts her inner consciousness like sweet, -strange music. If both girls are suddenly -examined for the “Cambridge Local,” the -latter will fail and the former will pass. Yet -the latter is the one for whom the poem has -really done its true work. We are not denying -that she would be the better for the -technical knowledge possessed by the other; -but if one has to choose between them, she it -is who really understands her poet.</p> - -<p>Love and knowledge should go hand in -hand, as Browning has taught us by his legend -of Paracelsus and Aprile; but the modern -tendency in much-examined young people is -to dwell so largely on the knowledge that the -love flies away.</p> - -<p>Read and love poetry as much as you can. -It will open and enlarge your mind; feed and -enlighten your imagination; make life beautiful -to you, and teach you of the greater things -that lie beyond life.</p> - -<p>One sometimes hears a girl remark in a -self-satisfied voice, “Oh, I don’t care for -poetry!” Dear young friend, are you aware -that Goethe said:</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Wer der Dichtkunst Stimme nicht vernimmt,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ist ein Barbar, er sei auch wer er sei”?</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>(He who has no ear for the voice of poetry is -a barbarian, be he who he may.) And there -is considerable truth in the statement. No -one would be proud of physical partial deafness -and blindness; they constitute nothing -to be elated about in the mental sphere. If -you “do not care for poetry,” you had better -at least give yourself a chance of caring for it -by reading some poem on a subject which -seems likely to appeal to you. In this way -you may find out that you have an unsuspected -capacity of being touched by this music. If -you do not appreciate Milton, you may enjoy -a simple poem by Coleridge; if Tennyson -does not please you, Rudyard Kipling’s -stirring words may cause your heart to throb -and your eyes to melt; if Browning is too -obscure, Tennyson’s melody may charm you; -if Keats and Shelley are too mystical, Scott’s -“Marmion,” or “Lady of the Lake,” may -prove fascinating. In any case, give yourself -every chance of entering into your immortal -and divine heritage of “truth and pure -delight.”</p> - -<p>The greatest literature of all ages has -a tendency to become poetry, as you will -see if you consider the Hebrew Psalms, -Homer, Æschylus, Sophocles, Virgil “lo -buon maestro,” and Dante his pupil, Shakespeare, -Goethe. Poetry is the language in -which highest aspirations, loftiest truths, naturally -clothe themselves. Coleridge’s definition -in <i>Table Talk</i> is worth remembering.</p> - -<p>“I wish,” he says, “our clever young poets -would remember my homely definitions of -prose and poetry: that is, prose—words in -their best order; poetry—the best words in -their best order.”</p> - -<p>We must not, however, be led away into a -disquisition on the extremely difficult question -of the true nature and scope of poetry, but -must give a few hints to the reader. Here -much depends, and must always depend, on -individual taste and habit of mind.</p> - -<p>Dante, the great poet of the Middle Ages, -should be read and studied by all who have -the necessary time and capacity, but unfortunately -no translation can render the poetry of -the original. It is worth while to learn -Italian in order to read the “Divine Comedy,” -but if that is impossible, it is also worth while -to read it in Dean Plumptre’s, Cary’s, or -Longfellow’s translation. Longfellow’s is -absolutely literal, but truth compels us to -state it is often very unmusical. For “self-culture” -the intelligent study of this great -poet is a mighty instrument. To enter into -Dante’s thought is to enter into the view of -human life and human civilisation as it -appeared to the greatest man of the time, and -anyone who can understand the historical -allusions of the “Divine Comedy” need not -blush for her knowledge of history.</p> - -<p>Do not take Shakespeare “as read.” That -is even worse than concerning yourself principally -with the notes on his plays! There are -small editions of separate plays, such as -Cassell’s sixpenny edition, too numerous to -mention, which are small enough to slip into -the pocket, and may form a companion on -a wearisome journey. <i>The Merchant of -Venice</i>, <i>As You Like It</i>, <i>The Tempest</i>, -<i>Richard II.</i>, may be quoted as good plays -to begin with if your knowledge of the poet of -poets is scanty. But you may study Shakespeare -all your life without exhausting the -wealth contained in his pages. Every succeeding -generation sees more and more -meaning in what he says, because he is true to -the inner life of the human heart. The life -is there. The lessons that can be drawn from -the life are practically endless.</p> - -<p>The constant issue of fresh cheap editions -of the plays is a good sign. Perhaps Milton -is not so much read nowadays; and yet you -cannot afford to neglect him. If you are -alarmed at the length of “Paradise Lost,” -begin with some of his shorter poems and -sonnets; and if you do not read right through -Spenser’s “Faerie Queen,” you will find -many beautiful scenes and thoughts here and -there.</p> - -<p>We have spoken of the great Florentine -poet and the study of Italian; it will not -perhaps be quite out of place to hint to -students of German that a rich reward lies -before them if they can master the language -sufficiently to enjoy the lyric poems of Goethe, -the higher flights of Schiller, and many others. -The “Erl-König” (Erl King) by Goethe and -the “Farewell of Joan of Arc to the Mountains” -from Schiller’s play, <i>The Maid of -Orleans</i>, were great favourites of the writer in -her girlhood. German poetry is true music, -whatever may be said to the contrary by those -who only half know the language.</p> - -<p>Space fails us to write in full of modern -English poetry. Wordsworth, Scott, Longfellow, -Tennyson, Browning, Mrs. Browning, -Keats, Shelley, Matthew Arnold, Arthur -Hugh Clough, William Morris, are names of -varying fame, but each name brings unspeakable -associations to those who know and love -the poet through his work. Surely one of -these may become to you a teacher who will -help and inspire.</p> - -<p>Wordsworth will transport you into the -world of nature. How much those are to be -pitied who live in the “stony-hearted” street, -far from the sweet influences of wood and -meadow, moor and mountain, lake and waterfall! -These exiles from the true home of man -may find solace in the poet of nature.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Keep fresh the grass upon his grave,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O Rotha, with thy living wave;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sing him thy best! for few or none</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hears thy voice right, now he is gone.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Thus Matthew Arnold apostrophises the -little river that washes the Grasmere churchyard. -The epitaph to Wordsworth in the -Grasmere church so aptly describes his work -that we cannot refrain from quoting it -here.</p> - -<p>“To the memory of William Wordsworth, -a True Philosopher and Poet: who, by the -special gift and calling of Almighty God, -whether he discoursed of Man or Nature, -failed not to lift up the heart to Holy Things: -tired not of maintaining the cause of the Poor -and Simple; and so in Perilous Times was -raised up to be a Chief Minister, not only -of noblest Poesy, but of high and sacred -Truth.”</p> - -<p>Robert Browning, unlike Wordsworth, is a -dramatic poet at heart. We do not mean -that his plays are his best work, but that he -has unerring skill in reading the human heart -and translating into poetry its loves, hates, -fears, and ambitions. If you will try to understand -him, do not be discouraged by obscurity, -but begin by some of the shorter, simpler, and -yet characteristic poems in the volume of -<i>Selections</i>.</p> - -<p>As for Tennyson, who sings alike of man -and of nature, you will probably be more -readily lured to his pages than to those of -Wordsworth or Browning. If you are in -sorrow, <i>In Memoriam</i> may prove a faithful -comforter.</p> - -<p>It is impossible, of course, to expatiate on -all the poets named and many others who are -not named; a volume would not be sufficient. -All one can say is—read for yourself, and if -you are ambitious for self-culture, remember -that the reading of the best poetry will do -more for you than can possibly be expressed -by any words here.</p> - -<p>There are two minor poets whose works you -will probably much enjoy—Jean Ingelow and -Coventry Patmore. The “Angel in the -House” by the latter is greatly esteemed by -Mr. Ruskin.</p> - -<p>“Teach your children poetry,” says Lord -Macaulay; “it opens the mind, lends grace -to wisdom, and makes the heroic virtues -hereditary.” And the rugged old philosopher, -Carlyle, speaks thus of the influence of poetry -on any living human creature—</p> - -<p>“Tones of sphere-music and tidings from -loftier worlds will flit round him if he can but -listen, and visit him with holy influences, even -in the thickest press of trivialities or the din of -busiest life.”</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be concluded.</i>)</p> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_707"></a>{707}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_HOUSE_WITH_THE_VERANDAH">THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH.</h2> -</div> - -<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 XIX.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">CHRISTMAS AGAIN.</p> - - -<div class="ddropcapbox illow125"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_707.jpg" width="125" height="152" alt='T' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase">he</span> missive in -Lucy’s hand -was no simple -workman’s -clumsy bill. -It was a sheet -of blank paper.</p> - -<p>“What can -this mean?” -said Lucy, -turning it -about, while -Miss Latimer and Tom watched her.</p> - -<p>“You may be sure it ought to be the -bricklayer’s bill, but that he has put in -the wrong piece of paper,” observed -Miss Latimer.</p> - -<p>“Or it may have come from that -stupid fellow we found in the area,” said -Tom. “Perhaps his next tipsy fit has -taken this form, and he is under the -delusion that he has written a letter to -Jane Smith.”</p> - -<p>“That is not unlikely,” Lucy admitted, -still turning the paper about. “The -letter has been posted at this district -office, and there is no maker’s name on -the envelope. Anyhow, there it goes,” -and she tore it in two and dropped it -into the waste-paper basket.</p> - -<p>“I wonder if Clementina would notice -the strange-looking letter,” said Miss -Latimer. “I’m always afraid of something -stirring her superstitions and -making her take flight to her Highland -hills on the score that ‘Babylon’ is too -terrible a place to stay in.”</p> - -<p>That was all. It was but a nine -minutes’ wonder. Yet they remembered -it afterwards.</p> - -<p>Early in December there came a letter -from Mrs. Grant in Peterhead. Lucy -and the captain’s wife had kept up a -slight correspondence during their -husbands’ absence on the <i>Slains Castle</i>. -Each had always written to apprise the -other of any news she had received. -Once or twice, indeed, when unexpected -opportunities for ship’s letters had arisen, -the busy captain had contented himself -with sending a message to his wife <i>viâ</i> -his passenger’s home epistle. Mrs. -Grant had always promptly and cordially -acknowledged these curtesies on Lucy’s -part. But she was not naturally a letter-writing -woman. Her missives were -always of the briefest, and never until -now had she taken the initiative.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Grant’s letter seemed, on the -face of it, both as cheerful and as brief -as usual. She “supposed Lucy had -heard nothing lately, as she knew she -would have let her know if she had.” -“Sailing vessels are often out of their -reckoning for weeks and weeks,” she -added. She dropped a word of congratulation -that Lucy’s own welcoming -day was assuredly near at hand now, -and of half-comic self-condolence that -hers was so much farther off. “In my -case, too, one suspense is no sooner over -than another begins,” she wrote. “But -that’s the lot of the sailor’s wife, and I -know it was all in my bargain when I -took the captain.”</p> - -<p>There certainly seemed nothing in -that letter to alarm Lucy, and she marvelled -at a strange uneasiness which -she felt stirring within her. Was she -intuitively aware of some anxiety on the -part of Mrs. Grant, which she had -studiously kept out of her words? Lucy -wrote a prompt reply, saying that she -had heard nothing yet, but was daily -looking for tidings. She tried to make -her letter cheerful, and wondered whether -Mrs. Grant, in her turn, would read -anything between the lines.</p> - -<p>Lucy scarcely liked to think of the -approaching Christmas Day. If Charlie -had returned, it would be a day of -supreme joy; if timely sea news came in, -it would be one of gladdest thanksgiving. -But if——! There Lucy paused, and -turned aside as from a great mist advancing -to enfold her. Yet she must -make her little plans to be fit for the -fulfilment of her hope. Not to do so, -would seem like creating an omen of -prolonged separation and anxiety. So -she and Miss Latimer sent out a Christmas -bidding to Mr. Somerset, Lucy saying -with pathetic playfulness that under -the circumstances she scarcely knew -whether she ought to issue her invitations -in her own name only or with Charlie’s -joined thereto. “For he may be among -us on that day yet,” she added. -Writing down her hope seemed to -make it more tangible.</p> - -<p>Mr. Somerset called in reply to Lucy’s -invitation. He told her that in accepting -it, he was accepting a real kindness. -Without it, this Christmas might have -been very lonely and desolate for him. -His old landlord lay at the point of death, -and consequently the whole household -was saddened and absorbed.</p> - -<p>“How much sadness there is in the -world!” sighed Lucy. “And how -terrible it is that there is a sort of consolation -in realising that one is not the -only burdened and anxious soul. It -seems a selfish and cruel feeling to find -comfort in that thought!”</p> - -<p>Mr. Somerset looked up brightly.</p> - -<p>“Yes, it seems so,” he said. “I -used to think so, and probably it is so -in the spirit in which the idea may -sometimes be suggested and received. -Yet I have learned to understand that -it does not have a selfish and cruel -origin. I think I have discovered what -the idea springs from, and how it is that -such a thought may really soothe and -strengthen. After all, what is the very -depth of woe—its unendurable sting?”</p> - -<p>Lucy mused.</p> - -<p>“I think it is the failure of our faith,” -she said gently. “The chilly feeling -that God has let go of us and that there -are none to help.”</p> - -<p>“Exactly so,” answered Mr. Somerset, -“and I daresay all of us have known -that feeling more than once. It calls our -very humility and littleness to its aid, so -that we ask, ‘Who am I that God -should remember me?’ But can any -sane mind look upon another, the -lowest, the worst and the most abject, -and deliberately say, ‘Who is he that -God should remember him?’ I think -not. We can feel that would be the -vilest blasphemy against God. It would -at once strip God of all that makes Him -good, ay, or great either, with that -wonderful greatness, before which earth’s -highest and lowest and best and worst -are all the same. No, Mrs. Challoner, -in realising the fellowship of others in -suffering, we at once realise that God -must know all about it, and that there -must be some wise purpose in it, and -if so for that other, then for ourselves -too.”</p> - -<p>“Did not some philosopher say that -death, being universal, could be no -evil?” asked Lucy.</p> - -<p>“I think it was the poet Schiller said -so,” returned Mr. Somerset, “and I -believe it is the consciousness of this, -however little realised, which keeps -life brave and bright and sane in the -perpetual presence of death. The -‘solidarity of humanity,’ though the -phrase is one which they may scarcely -understand, is the secret treasure of the -humble. It never occurs to them to be -surprised and shocked when those evils -befall them which they always knew -befell others. In their eyes ‘it is the -Lord, let Him do what seemeth to Him -<i>good</i>,’ always ‘good,’ you may observe. -‘It is all in the day’s work,’ they tell -one, when their lot is hardest.”</p> - -<p>Lucy thought of Mrs. May, and of the -strength and comfort she had gathered, -more than a year ago, from that good -woman’s calm outlook on events, and -her fixed conviction that there is inward -strength at command sufficient to lift -us elastic after any outward blow. It -seemed to Lucy that she too might -rise equal to the sublime suspenses and -sorrows of life if only her strength and -spirits were spared the perpetual corrosion -of petty cares and worries which -fretted them away as moths consume a -garment. Then the wiser reflection -came—that neither were such petty -cares and worries special to her; they -too entered into every lot; one could -not doubt that brave cheery Mrs. May -had her full share. The same inward -strength must be as ready and able to -bear the perpetual little trials as the -occasional great ones, if only we invoke -it and know how to use it. The great -ocean of Divine love and strength is -always waiting to flow into our smallest -trials, if we would but hold them ready.</p> - -<p>Once more the Institute holidays -began. Lucy had now made arrangements -for continuing her services there -into the next year, under a running -“quarter’s notice.” She had in readiness -all her little gala preparations with -which to greet Charlie’s return, however -unexpected it might happen to be.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_708"></a>{708}</span></p> - -<p>Of late she had seen very little of the -Brands. She knew that Jem had made -a great success in some of his speculations. -In newspapers she saw that his -name was held in prominent place at -“financial” meetings, and she noticed -mention of Florence as among the guests -at showy social functions. Taking up -a “society paper” by chance, she -actually read an account of her sister’s -toilette! To Lucy’s ideas, such a thing -was an indecent intrusion into the affairs -of a private lady. When Florence called -on her, elate over all these things, she -could not congratulate her, and Lucy -felt that her simple silence chafed -Florence. Even as the boy-boarder, -poor Tom, “degraded” Lucy in Florence’s -eyes, so, from Lucy’s standpoint, -these vanities degraded Florence. The -sisters were drifting ever further apart. -Lives with aims and aspirations diametrically -opposed cannot keep together, -however household love and the memory -of old associations may yearn that they -should do so. Nay, the more these -struggle against the separating tide, the -more ghastly is their shipwreck likely to -be. There is “a time to embrace, and a -time to refrain from embracing.” The -most poignant tragedy of life comes in -just here. For whatever love has ever -been, will persist, and has to learn to -rest patient in the faith that “God -seeketh again that which is passed -away.”</p> - -<p>Christmas morning came. Miss -Latimer had her Christmas offering of -daintily hemmed net ruffles, just the -sort of thing which Lucy had now no -time to make. There was the usual -budget of Christmas letters and parcels. -A book for Hugh, from “his father’s -friend Wilfrid Somerset,” sent by post, -because Mr. Somerset knew that a -“post parcel for his very self” would -bulk so largely in a child’s delight; -and a magnificent hand-painted glove -and handkerchief sachet in white satin -from Jem and Florence.</p> - -<p>What significance there was in those -gifts! Miss Latimer and Mr. Somerset -gave with theirs a wee bit of themselves, -the kind consideration for a tired woman’s -inability to serve herself, and for the -eager vanity of a little child. But that -costly and delicate sachet could have -had no proper place in the little house -with the verandah at any time, and -certainly could have no function in the -life of a working woman-artist, who -bought no gloves but dark “suedes,” -and who could scarcely find time or -spare energy to dust her books! Lucy -expressed a desperate admiration of the -thing’s delicate beauty, and so did Miss -Latimer. There was nothing else to say. -Each knew the other was not deceived -as to her estimate of the thoughtlessness -of such a gift.</p> - -<p>“But poor Florence means to be so -kind,” Lucy urged upon herself. “That -is in her taste, and it would suit her own -white-and-gold bedroom. She cannot -realise the difference between us! We -always used to have everything alike. -And she means to be kind!”</p> - -<p>Lucy secretly pressed a yearning kiss -on the soft white thing, ere she refolded -it in its dainty papers, from which, she -knew, it would not be taken again for a -long time. They rend us terribly, do -these thoughtless favours in which a -kind intention seems to blunder. -Possibly this pang of remorse for seeming -ungraciousness and ingratitude -might sometimes be lessened if we -could look deeper into the matter. It -might have been spared to Lucy had -she known that Florence had neither -chosen nor even bought this gift. It -had been sent to Florence herself, but -she had just received another, much -handsomer, so after writing a gushing -note of thanks to the donor, she had -promptly forwarded it to Lucy!</p> - -<p>Mr. Somerset himself arrived in due -time. Lucy sat amid her little circle -with a smiling face, but they all felt that -she must feel a keen disappointment -that, after all, she still remained the sole -head of the household. They pressed -upon her all the cheer possible.</p> - -<p>“After all, the weary waiting time is -all behind you,” said Mr. Somerset. -“Only fancy if last year you could have -felt as you may now, that all which -remains is but a few days more or -less.”</p> - -<p>“We’ll have to be quite sure that -we recognise Mr. Challoner when he -appears,” put in Miss Latimer playfully, -pointing to Charlie’s portrait over the -fireplace. “Remember he has had -long voyagings through sunny seas -even since that was taken, and his -present self may be as much of an improvement -on that as that is on the -pale invalid who went away.”</p> - -<p>“You have made a supreme effort to -win this triumph, Mrs. Challoner,” remarked -Mr. Somerset. “It may all seem -easy to you now it is ending so beautifully. -But you made the effort in the -dark, not knowing how it might end.”</p> - -<p>“But it was right to do, and that was -Lucy’s part, and the disposing of it is -God’s,” said Miss Latimer. “We must -not do evil that good may come. But -we must do right, however its ending -may seem to us.”</p> - -<p>“But possibly right is somewhat -different with different people,” remarked -Mr. Somerset. “What was -right for our friend here to do was an -action right only in those as brave and -capable as she is.”</p> - -<p>“I am no casuist,” returned Miss -Latimer. “My idea of right is that it -is what each person knows he or she -ought to do and can do.”</p> - -<p>“Ah, but there is a great deal in that -‘can do,’” smiled Mr. Somerset.</p> - -<p>“None know what they can do till -they try,” retorted Miss Latimer.</p> - -<p>“Dr. Ivery has been so kind,” said -Lucy. “He had sent two or three times -to inquire after Charlie’s progress. So -when I got that photograph I thought -I ought to let him see it. I said I hoped -he would excuse me for bringing it, but -I thought it might help him what to -advise in similar cases, and he said, -‘Yes.’” Lucy broke off abruptly with a -little laugh and a heightened colour.</p> - -<p>Mr. Somerset and Miss Latimer also -laughed. They both guessed what Lucy -did not choose to tell them, that the -doctor had said he would often be happy -to prescribe such a cure if the patient -were but provided with such a wife to -help him to carry it out!</p> - -<p>“All this is very well,” said Tom -Black, assuming a grumbling tone. -“But I should look forward to Mr. -Challoner’s coming with much more -delight if I did not fear that it will end -my days here; he will want all his house -for himself!”</p> - -<p>Lucy laughed very sincerely now.</p> - -<p>“Charlie’s coming will bring you -nothing but good, Tom,” she observed, -“and you know that well enough. You -have been a great help to me, and -Charlie will be even more grateful than -I am. But there is something for which -we can all be grateful together, at the -very present moment—to wit, that no -poor Jessie Morison is spoiling the peace -of this Christmas Day. I was in the -kitchen half an hour ago, and Clementina -has got everything most conscientiously -in order.”</p> - -<p>“Nevertheless she’s something of a -spoil-sport,” put in Tom. “I wonder -if it takes any nourishment out of one’s -food when the cook is always sighing?”</p> - -<p>Hugh had been perched up in the window, -watching cabs which were bringing -Christmas guests to the neighbours. -At this instant he turned, crying—</p> - -<p>“Something is the matter opposite. -Policemen!”</p> - -<p>They all rushed to the window.</p> - -<p>“Is it a chimney on fire?” asked -Miss Latimer.</p> - -<p>“There is no smoke,” said Lucy.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - -<div class="figcenter illow200" id="i708" > - <img src="images/i_708.jpg" width="200" height="115" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_709"></a>{709}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SUNSHINE_A_SUMMER_SERMON">SUNSHINE: A SUMMER SERMON.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> Dr. GORDON-STABLES, R.N. (“MEDICUS”).</p> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Catch, then, O catch the transient hour,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Improve each moment as it flies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Life’s a short summer, man a flower,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He dies—alas! how soon he dies!”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="small" /> - - -<div class="ddropcapbox illow150"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_709.jpg" width="150" height="251" alt='I' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase"> will</span> not begin -by saying—as -so many -people do—that -the small -amount of -sunshine we -get in this -country is not -worth mentioning. -This -is not the case. -Would you be -surprised to -learn that we -have enough -for health’s -sake, and that -when we do -not get actual -summer sunshine, -we get -the summer light all around us out of doors? -That this light is diffused, filtered for us through -the clouds that float high above, and that many -people of wealth who leave this land of ours -to seek for sunnier soils and sunnier shores, -about the Riviera, the isles of the blue Levant -or Madeira and the Canaries, make a most -egregious mistake, and their health would be -vastly improved were they to spend their time -in the cool green midlands of England, on the -sunshiny braes and hills of majestic Scotland -or even down at our own seaside watering-places—quiet -ones, mind you—where the -wavelets ripple with gladsome laughter as -they break on the golden sands?</p> - -<p>The maids of merry England seldom need -the dry hot sunshine of the Soudan or banks -of the gliding Nile. Our maidens, I maintain, -are flowers, and beautiful flowers too, but not -like those on far southern shores that can -without hurt or harm stare the sun in the face. -There is as much difference indeed between -an English, Scottish, or Irish girl, and an -Italian or Spanish as there is between the -violets blue and the crimson flower of the -cactus.</p> - -<p>Our sunshine—our own <i>own</i> sunshine—is -best for <i>us</i>, unless our lungs and blood are -weakened by the on-coming of ailments like -the deadly and all too fatal disease we call -phthisis.</p> - -<p>Well, all my readers, even the youngest I -hope have heard of the sunshine bath. It is a -very old form of bathing indeed. It is said to -have been invented by the Romans in their -palmiest days, but it was used by Indians and -Africans or Egyptians long long before Rome -or Greece itself was very much of a country or -kingdom. And they no doubt were but -following the example set to them by the birds -and beasts in forest and wildery.</p> - -<p>The Romans before they became demoralised -and effete had special baths in which they -could revel in the sunshine. These were very -luxurious, and splendidly draped apartments -open only to the sky, in which one could sit -or lounge uncovered save by garments of -gauze, and where, with the head alone protected -at times by a shade, one could benefit -in a most especial way from direct sun-rays. -We have none such in our day.</p> - -<p>The strong need none such, and may best -take the sunshine out of doors when it comes, -not even troubling themselves to go in search -of it.</p> - -<p>But so convinced am I of the benefits of -sunshine that I confidently advise girls—young -or not quite so young—to court it, to enjoy it -all they can, to sit or recline in it, to hang -their hammocks in it, and with or without a -sunshade to dream and revel, laugh and live -in it, for verily, verily, to the delicate, summer -sunshine is life itself.</p> - -<p>Yes, and if it makes them drowsy when in -their hammock, let them place the magazine -they have been reading over brow and eyes -and go to sleep in it.</p> - -<p>But supposing the sun is not shining but -the day is dry, well, you still have light. And -a bath of diffused light is a bath of health. -Don’t swing your hammocks under trees -except in too bright sunshine. Only beetles -and toadstools can flourish under a cedar or -spruce.</p> - -<p>But what I want you, reader, specially to -remember, and I’ll be fearfully cross and -grumpy if you do not remember it, is this: -don’t take your sunshine bath in a window or -even a verandah. This is altogether too -one-sided an affair. The light or the sun-rays -must be all around you. All around you too -must circle the fresh air.</p> - -<p>Reverting to the Romish bath: I must say -that if we had at sunny seaside places institutions -where we could enjoy such a thing -nearly or quite unclothed, with the sky alone -above us, it would be a really good thing, but -following the example of the less endowed -animals we see in fields and woods we shall -benefit by being out in the sunshine simply -lightly dressed. The sun can penetrate like -Röntgen rays through and through our garments -and bodies if we but expose ourselves -thereto.</p> - -<p>Mere animals, as we are all too fond of -calling them, appear oftentimes to know what -is good for them better than we do.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Reason raise o’er instinct if we can,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In this ’tis God directs,—in that ’tis man.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>When a favourite animal belonging to our -domestic circle, such as a dog or cat, is -weak because well-stricken in years, you may -always notice that he courts the sunshine -whenever he has a chance, and with it the -fresh air.</p> - -<p>A question which naturally enough often -recurs to one is this: What is the difference -between indoor heat and that obtained from -the sunshine? Well, apart from the fact that -sunshine, whether clearitically or otherwise, -exerts a very powerful influence for good on -the animal and vegetable creation, it has a -hundred times more of penetrating force than -that which comes from a fire or that which we -find in a room heated by steam or hot water -pipes. Moreover, the heat which is artificial -is all too often decidedly one-sided, and many -a most disagreeable cold has been caught on -a chilly night from hugging the fire, by which -one portion of the body is heated at the -expense of the other. There is less oxygen -to be breathed indoors, and a dangerous -amount of carbonic acid and other deleterious -gases.</p> - -<p>Again, all nature shows us that sunshine -and light permeate every tissue of the animal -or vegetable structure, so that they may be -considered synonymous with the term life -itself.</p> - -<p>And the purer the air we breathe when out -of doors the greater the effect for good sunshine -will have.</p> - -<p>But if we are to benefit thoroughly by -summer sunshine, we must be out every day -and, if possible, at the self-same hours of the -day.</p> - -<p>Walking in moderation will be found far -more advantageous to the delicate girl who -would regain health than cycling. It must -not be carried to the boundary line of fatigue, -however. One should be just nicely pleasantly -tired. Here, for instance, is a <i>régime</i> that -would suit many a lassie who had gone to -some bracing delightful spot to live for the -sixty or one hundred days of summer. She -ought to adopt it from the very second -day.</p> - -<p>Having retired early on the previous evening -from quiet but non-exciting employment, -having neither talked nor laughed nor sung -much for the two hours previous, let her pull -the window down, have sufficient bed-clothing -and a not too soft mattress, and easy yielding -pillows. Let her go to bed, and having done -so—think of nothing. If this plan is adopted -sleep will soon waft her away to the beautiful -Land of Nod, and if she is breathing pure air -all night she will awake betimes, refreshed -and as happy as the birds on the lawn. But -this awaking betimes is a <i>sine quâ non</i> of this -health-giving <i>régime</i>, so if not sure of being -called by seven o’clock, she ought to have an -alarm.</p> - -<p>The first thing on getting up is tonic, -bracing, cold sponge-bath followed by a -thorough towelling. She should not dawdle -in dressing, but get out into the garden for a -fifteen minutes’ walk as soon as possible. -After a solid breakfast with not too much -coffee or tea, the forenoon may be said to be -fairly begun. And the whole of this should -be spent out of doors in the sunshine or light. -Even rain must not confine her to the house. -If she could live in a tent entirely it would be -better than a house. She ought to be back -home to wash hands and face and rest a little, -a good half-hour before the 1.30 dinner. -Rest for half an hour after this. No wine or -stimulant of any kind, and just enough solid -food to satisfy the needs of nature. Soup is -a mistake and so is cheese, and, as a rule, -salad. Pudding is not to be eaten if there is -the slightest inclination to <i>embonpoint</i>.</p> - -<p>Fruit may be partaken of at any time so -long as it is quite fresh and seasonable.</p> - -<p>A little rest should be taken for say half an -hour after dinner, then out again for pleasant -exercise or non-exciting games. One cup of -the very <i>best</i> tea about five, and supper at -seven. If sleepless and thin, a little food -should be taken the very last thing, a biscuit -or two with butter, and a large tumblerful of -hot milk with sugar and flavouring to taste. -Then meditation and bed.</p> - -<p>Really and truly a summer spent thus in -fresh air, sunshine, or light will cure seventy -per cent. of all chronic ailments, quite bring -back appetite and happiness to the dyspeptic -and gloomy, and even eradicate the first seeds -of consumption itself.</p> - -<p>But one word in conclusion: if everything -is not done day after day with method and -regularity, if late hours be kept, or the -evenings spent too excitedly, then you -need expect but little benefit from even the -summer sunshine. I hope to have a paper -very soon on the “<i>Fresh Air Treatment of -Consumption</i>.”</p> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_710"></a>{710}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="GRILLING_AND_DEVILLING">GRILLING AND DEVILLING.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> DORA DE BLAQUIÈRE.</p> - - - -<div class="ddropcapbox illow125"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_710.jpg" width="125" height="126" alt='I' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase"> have</span> taken the -trouble to look in -the dictionary for the -word “grill,” and I -find it is derived from -the French word -“grille”—a grate or -gridiron—and it -means to broil on a -grate or gridiron. -But to-day, in point -of fact, grilling is rarely performed in this -manner, few people having the gridiron; and -if not done in the oven, it is performed in an -open frying-pan.</p> - -<p>I have begun with this piece of information -because some of my readers may say on -seeing the word, “Oh, we can’t grill! We -have no means of using a gridiron!” And -as all devils must be grilled or fried quickly, -without burning them in a hot oven, it is well -to understand exactly what is meant. To my -mind a frying-pan is better than an oven, -because you can watch the process and see -that the gravy does not waste. And the very -first thing you have to guard against with an -inexperienced or poor cook is her either -wasting all the mixture for the gravy, or else -her drying it up and burning the meat, or -scorching the bones, and making them uneatable. -The operation of grilling must be -performed quickly, and needs the best attention -of the operator.</p> - -<p>Now I must tell you what I daresay you -may already know, <i>i.e.</i>, that all the great -cooks, like Francatelli, give you a recipe for -what they generally call “devil’s mixture”; -and the following is the composition of -that renowned master in the art of cooking. -Mix well upon a plate a spoonful of either -French or English mustard, a spoonful of -Oude sauce or chutney, the same of anchovy, -two spoonfuls of olive oil, and a little cayenne -pepper. This should be used to cover whatever -you are about to grill.</p> - -<p>In the <i>Pytchley Cookery Book</i>, which is so -celebrated, you will find two or three recipes -for devil sauce. The first is the simplest. -Warm and blend together a teaspoonful of -mixed mustard, a tablespoonful of Worcestershire -sauce, an ounce of glaze, an ounce of -butter, a saltspoonful of cayenne pepper, one -of salt, and a tablespoonful of chopped -parsley. Mix, warm up, and rub the meat -well with the mixture, serving it as gravy, should -any remain after the broiling.</p> - -<p>The second Pytchley recipe is intended to -be poured over the meat when broiled. A -tablespoonful of mustard, a teaspoonful of -curry paste, a tablespoonful of Worcestershire -sauce, two tablespoonfuls of mushroom ketchup, -a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, a teaspoonful -of salt, the yolk of an egg, and half a pint -of thick soup from the night before, if a thin -soup. Then thicken it with some brown -thickening, boil up, and pour over the broiled -bones.</p> - -<p>Thus, you see, there are really two methods -of devilling; the one first-mentioned when -you pour the sauce over the meat before -broiling, and the second when you put it over -afterwards, which really takes more the form -of a gravy, though it is not intended to be -too plentiful, nor to surround the devilled -meat in the dish. For the first intention of -devils is, that they should be dry, rather -crisp, and savoury, not wet and soft in the -slightest degree. This you must be pleased -to remember if you would make them successfully, -and one of your great difficulties will be -to have the dish dry, yet not dried up, which -is the test of a good devil.</p> - -<p>What is known as Indian devil mixture is -made as follows: To one tablespoonful each -of vinegar, ketchup, and chutney paste, add -an ounce of dissolved butter, a dessertspoonful -of made mustard, salt, and a small cup of -good gravy. Mix all together, and rub them -into the meat either cooked or uncooked. -Make all hot slowly together. They will take -ten minutes to make hot. Serve in the dish -in which you have cooked them.</p> - -<p>This recipe is one which was left to the -cooking world by Admiral Ross, and it is an -excellent one, quickly and easily made. In -all those I have given you will see that either -mustard, mixed or unmixed, is made use of; -but I myself dispense with it, as I like the -mixture better without it for ordinary use.</p> - -<p>What is known as a Cambridge devil was -given to me long ago by a Fellow of St. -John’s, and dates certainly from the very last -days of the last century, or the early days of -this one—which, if we all live long enough, -will soon be spoken of as “the last century” -too! This can be employed with any kind -of meat, but I have chiefly used it with ham, -and it is very excellent in helping to use up -the remains of a ham, which is rather difficult -to deal with when you do not turn it into -potted ham, which is, perhaps, the most -sensible way of all.</p> - -<p>The rough and ready way of making a -Cambridge devil is to take the mustard pot, -and with the mustard spoon to smear over the -slices of ham on one side as much mustard as -you think you are likely to stand, and then to -add some vinegar—perhaps two tablespoonfuls—just -enough to make a thickened gravy with -the mustard you have put in. You have first -laid the slices of ham neatly on an old plate, -or, at least, on one plate which you do not -mind putting into a very hot oven, and when -you have added the mustard and the vinegar, -you must put the plate into a hot oven. -When it gets very hot, take a fork and turn -about the slices of ham until they be covered -with vinegar, and the vinegar and the mustard -have amalgamated in some measure, then put -back into the oven, and let it brown well and -frizzle up, and then serve in the same plate in -which it has been cooked. But you should -stand it, of course, on another one, so that it -may not do any damage, nor burn people’s -fingers.</p> - -<p>I learned years ago a very nice and simple -method of preparing slices of cold meat of any -kind by rubbing them with curry powder and -then frying them, or, better still, grilling. -When you have cut the slices of meat (mutton, -I think, for choice), pour some curry powder on -a plate, and roll the slices in it; but if you do -not like things very hot and fierce, then mix -the curry powder with flour in the proportion -of half and half, and this will make the dish -more suitable for the family. I am inclined -to think that all these dishes of an extremely -savoury description are more suitable for the -“grown-ups” than the smaller fry.</p> - -<p>Cold meat may be also simply devilled by -shaking over it a mixture of cayenne, black -pepper, and salt, and sometimes a little -French mustard is added at the last before -the meat is made hot. I have also seen the -above mixed with butter into a paste, the -meat slightly scored, and the mixture rubbed -into the scorings. Amongst the most delightful -of breakfast dishes are those made of -drumsticks of fowls, turkeys, or ducks. These -should be scored lengthways, and the mixture -inserted; then you should put on some tiny -bits of butter (if you do not use oil) and -grill.</p> - -<p>Now I must enter on the very important -subject of bones (I am sure it ought to have -a capital B), grilled and devilled bones -constituting one of those delicacies which -are always associated with club suppers, or -the midnight meals of celebrated eating-houses. -In private houses, devilled bones -are not so well known, nor so successful, -perhaps, when done; and this is generally -owing, as I have said before, to the carelessness -or to the inexperience of cooks, who may -never have been taught how to do them.</p> - -<p>The bones most used for grilling and -devilling are from the sirloin of beef, or the -shoulder or leg of mutton. Of course, when -we speak of “bones,” we do not mean that -they are “bare bones”; they must of necessity -have a certain amount of meat left upon them—that -is to say, enough to be scored with a -sharp knife, if to be devilled as well as grilled. -If to be grilled only, and you be fortunate -enough to have a gridiron, they need nothing -but a little pepper and salt, and sometimes -not even that.</p> - -<p>The bones require a fierce, hot, and clear -fire, and the epicure of grilled bones prefers -that the meat should be black. If the fire -be not fierce enough, you can make it more -so by throwing a little fat upon it, either in -the form of dripping, or of odd pieces of fat -that may be cut off from the meat. This will -make a sufficient blaze, and you will attain -without trouble to the coveted degree of -blackness, which really is more smoke and -scorch than burn, and gives with the grease -that kind of smoky taste to the grill that we -enjoy so much with ham and any other smoked -meats.</p> - -<p><i>Grilled Kippered Salmon.</i>—Cut some dried -salmon into small long pieces—about four -inches long and two inches wide; broil them -over a clear fire, then rub them over with -fresh butter seasoned with lemon-juice and -cayenne, and serve very hot.</p> - -<p><i>Grilled Cod Cutlets.</i>—One ancient recipe -for grilling will serve to explain the process, -and will enable anyone to perform the operation -without difficulty. The first thing to do -is to dry the cutlets or anything else in a -clean cloth, and then to brush them over -lightly with fresh olive oil, place them on a -hot gridiron, and grill for about ten minutes; -turn them on both sides, and, when done, -sprinkle with pepper and salt, squeeze lemon-juice -over them, and serve very hot. This is -the usual process, and everything—fish, mutton, -beef, mushrooms, and chicken or turkey—can -be done by it.</p> - -<p>And now I hope that you will have quite -comprehended from what I have written the -difference between grilling and devilling, and -can see that grills need not be devilled, but -that devils must always be grilled. So I -will finish up my subject by discoursing on -the things to which you may apply the latter -process, which are so many that you will find -your list of breakfast and supper dishes greatly -enlarged.</p> - -<p>I hope you are not foolishly prejudiced -against tinned foods, because they are very -excellent if you do not try to purchase them -cheaply, and always go to good and reliable -shops for them. Thus the matter is in your -own hands completely; and you have no -one to blame but yourself if they turn out -unsatisfactorily.</p> - -<p>I hope you understand also that devils must<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_711"></a>{711}</span> -not be black as grills are, and not be placed -over a too hot fire; but must be well browned -and frizzled. And while there are some -people who like dry ones, there are other -people who prefer that the devil mixture -should be thickened round them like a rather -thick gravy. In fact, this process rather -repeats that of curry-making, as there are dry -curries, wet curries, and very wet ones.</p> - -<p>And now I shall finish with a few more -available dishes, which are simple and easily -made by any cook, whether good or bad, who -can at least read a recipe and follow it.</p> - -<p><i>Devilled Lobster</i> is one of the things that -can be made with tinned lobster. You must -first prepare a paste of salt, dry mustard, -curry powder, black pepper, and salad oil. -Spread it over the lobster, then melt an ounce -of butter in a fire-proof dish, put in the fish, -and heat it well through, browning the top. -If you are using fresh lobster, it will require -fully ten minutes in cooking.</p> - -<p>Tinned salmon, or the remains of a tinned -tongue, may be used in the same manner, and -so may the Australian beef.</p> - -<p>The remains of a cold roast duck are suitable -for a most excellent devil. To make it you -must remove the bones and cut the meat into -rather small pieces, but not too small. (This -is better made in a small enamelled saucepan.) -Take a tablespoonful of dry mustard, a teaspoonful -of salt, a little cayenne, and two -tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice. Mix these -ingredients gradually and very thoroughly -together, and add two tablespoonfuls of butter -melted, and two tablespoonfuls of water. -When this gets hot, put in the pieces of duck -and also a gill of some white wine—Sauterne—or -even a light claret, or, if you do not like -wine, use a gill of good stock instead. Place -the saucepan over the fire and stir it carefully -till smoking hot, then turn it on to a hot-water -dish, if you have it, and serve as hot as -possible.</p> - -<p>Now, the next dish that occurs to me is -devilled kidneys. For a large dish, twelve -sheep’s kidneys will be required; but, of -course, you must be guided by the number of -people for whom you are catering. Cut the -kidneys in half, remove the centres and white -tubes, and then scald them, removing also the -skin. Put two ounces of butter into an -enamelled saucepan; and, when it is hot, -throw in the kidneys and cook them quickly. -Dust them over with salt and white pepper, -and then pour over them a tablespoonful of -onion juice, one of Worcestershire sauce, and -four teaspoonfuls of light sherry. Serve -smoking hot, and, if possible, in a hot-water -dish, for I hope you understand that everything -in this way must be served and kept hot -while at table.</p> - -<p>Sardines may be either grilled or devilled. -If the former, scrape them free from skin and -oil, and wipe them in a clean cloth. Oil a -little butter and roll them in it, powder them -with cayenne pepper and salt, and cover them -with some finely-chopped parsley and chopped -mushrooms. Wrap each sardine in oiled -paper, and put in the oven till hot; and serve -in the same papers in which they were cooked -without unfolding them, and lay each on a -slice of toast.</p> - -<p><i>Devilled Sardines</i> are done in quite the -same way. To begin with, they are scraped -and wiped, and rolled in a mixture of mustard, -Worcestershire sauce, anchovy sauce (be sure -to shake both the bottles), and four tablespoonfuls -of melted butter, and lay each on a -slice of toast in the oven, and serve very hot. -It should not take more than five minutes to -cook them in a very quick oven.</p> - -<p>Eggs devilled with anchovy toast is another -good supper dish. You must first put a little -butter in the frying-pan, and afterwards a -mixture of half a teaspoonful of dry mustard, -two tablespoonfuls of tomato sauce, one of -Worcester sauce, and one of mushroom -ketchup. Put into this four hard-boiled eggs, -sliced, salted and peppered, and when heated -through, place the egg on toasts which -you have previously spread with anchovy -paste.</p> - -<p>In conclusion, I will say that I find -Worcester sauce my greatest reliance in -devilling bones, in making that thoroughly -delightful dish—a devilled shoulder-bone of -either mutton or lamb, or, indeed, where -anything in the way of meat is concerned. I -do not shake the bottle; but that is a matter -of individual taste. I have tried Harvey -sauce, which also answers; but we at home -prefer the former.</p> - -<p>Tomato sauce is very excellent for some -things—like pork—and is also good with -veal; but you cannot mix other sauces with it. -And, unless very very sour, I would counsel -you to avoid the sugar so freely recommended -in most books on cookery.</p> - -<p>And I had nearly omitted to mention a very -important item, viz., devilled biscuits, which -are so much enjoyed by many people. These -are done either dry or buttered. What are -called American toast biscuits, or soda -biscuits in America, are the nicest; but they -need a light hand, as they break easily. Dip -them twice into warm water, then pepper -them with cayenne pepper, and bake till quite -crisp in a slow oven. Serve hot in a toast-rack.</p> - -<p>In the other way, you must knead together -an ounce and a half of butter, a saltspoonful -of cayenne, and a saltspoonful of flour of -mustard. Dip the biscuits twice into warm -milk, spread them with the mixture, and bake -in a slow oven till crisp. Serve very hot.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="VARIETIES">VARIETIES.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">Lotteries in Great Britain.</span></p> - -<p>In the close of last century and the beginning -of this the lottery system prevailed in -Great Britain to a surprising extent. From -1785 to 1823 there was a Lottery Act every -year which brought in the State over a quarter -of a million a year.</p> - -<p>Independent of the State lotteries there -were lotteries for houses and lands, jewels and -plate, merchandise and ships, and even advowsons -and presentations. Tailors advertised -their business by means of lotteries; so did -hatters and glovers. Even the bootblacks -gave away coupons, entitling their customers -to a share in lotteries. A plate of meat at an -eating house gave the purchaser a chance of -sixty guineas. Threepennyworth of oysters -included a ticket in a five guinea lottery. -Even a sausage stall had a lottery attached, -offering the chance of a five shilling prize to -every one who ate a farthing’s worth of -sausages.</p> - -<p>The whole system—and a demoralising one -it was—had an end put to it by the Lottery -Act of 1823.</p> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">The Wedding-Ring Finger.</span>—The origin -of wearing the wedding-ring upon the fourth -finger of the left hand has been much disputed -even from very ancient times. A Latin writer -of the fifth century gives the following matter-of-fact -reason. The fourth finger was chosen, -he says, “as being least used of any, as being -guarded on either side, and having in most -this peculiar feature, that it cannot be extended -alone and by itself, but will in all its movements -be accompanied by some finger placed -on either side.”</p> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">They did not get his Fortune.</span></p> - -<p>One of the great benefactors of the City of -Bristol in bygone days was Mr. John Whitson, -a merchant of that place, who by his life -afforded a pleasing example of the success -which in general accompanies diligence and -honesty.</p> - -<p>The following anecdote told of him is worth -repeating:—</p> - -<p>As he was one day busy in his office he -overheard his nephews talking loudly in -another room, and found the subject of their -discourse turn upon himself and the great -fortune they would inherit at his death. They -declared they would spend it like men of -fashion, in pleasurable and expensive pursuits.</p> - -<p>The good old gentleman upon this burst in -upon them, and with honest indignation said -that since he had heard from their own -mouths their resolution with respect to his -fortune, they should now hear his. He had -long been a witness, he told them, of the -abandoned course of life into which they -were plunging themselves, and had often -remonstrated to no purpose against it. They -now stood self-convicted, and to prevent the -infamy which they might entail upon him, -themselves and the public by such irregular -excesses, he was resolved to put it entirely out -of their power.</p> - -<p>He accordingly made his will immediately -afterwards, and after the death of his wife left -the whole of his money to charitable purposes.</p> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">Courage.</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">If courage is gone, then all is gone!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Twere better that thou hadst never been born.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right"><i>Goethe.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">An Indian Song of Welcome.</span></p> - -<p>When Lord Reay was governor of Bombay -a few years ago, in the course of a tour he -visited the native state of Morvi.</p> - -<p>Amongst other institutions shown to his -Excellency was the telephone exchange, which -connects various public buildings as well as -the towns lying round about. Here the -Thokore Saheb had a microphone attachment -so arranged that from a school fourteen miles -off some of the scholars sang a song specially -composed for the occasion by the chief judge -of the state.</p> - -<p>The words of the song were as follows:—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Reay, the lord, our Governor good,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Eternal be your fame;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">First-class State of Morvi made,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Increased thus far its name;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Visit now our capital town,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With condescension kind,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And view Sir Waghji’s works of art,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Which surely please your mind.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Tram, telegraph, railway choice,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And many another thing,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To your Excellency’s ears</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Telephone by which we sing.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">Calculating her Age.</span></p> - -<p>An indiscreet young man once asked a lady -her age.</p> - -<p>“Wait till I count,” she replied. “I -married at eighteen, my husband was then -thirty. Now he is twice that—then I must be -thirty-six.”</p> - -<p>“Is it possible,” ejaculated the other, amazed -at this method of feminine computation. -“Well, I should never have expected it.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_712"></a>{712}</span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter illow475" id="i712" > - <img src="images/i_712.jpg" width="475" height="599" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">CECILLY.</p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_713"></a>{713}</span></p> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="HOW_WE_MANAGED_WITHOUT_SERVANTS">HOW WE MANAGED WITHOUT SERVANTS.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> Mrs. FRANK W. W. TOPHAM, Author of “The Alibi,” “The Fateful Number,” etc.</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> - -<div class="ddropcapbox illow100"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_713.jpg" width="100" height="242" alt='"I' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase">t</span> is no good, we can never -manage it,” cried Cecilly, -half crying, throwing on -the floor, as she spoke, -the book she had been -studying for the last half -hour.</p> - -<p>“Well, Cecilly, it is no -good spoiling the book. -That won’t help us,” I -said, picking it up and -smoothing its ruffled -pages.</p> - -<p>“It is just as silly as -the others,” Cecilly continued, -starting up and -walking quickly up and -down the room. “These -people did not put a -majolica sink in their -dining-room, or embroider -their dish-cloths, but they spent -fifty pounds in having water laid on to every -bedroom, bought a new cooking-stove, and -every other contrivance advertised for saving -labour. If we had fifty pounds to spend to -save ourselves trouble, we need not do without -the servants. I see we shall have to give up the -idea after all. Jack is right; we can never -manage.”</p> - -<p>“Don’t say that,” I cried, for Cecilly had -been the originator of the idea, and last -evening had fought most hopefully every -objection the boys had raised against our -carrying out our plan of doing without -servants.</p> - -<p>It was only six months ago that the first -shadow had fallen on our bright happy home. -Our dear father had been suddenly struck down -by illness, an illness which had seemed but -slight at first, but which, as the weeks went -by, grew graver day by day, till there came a -long, long night when we waited in silent grief -for the summons to bid him our last farewell. -But God in His mercy heard our broken-hearted -prayers, and gave him back to us and -life.</p> - -<p>His recovery was fearfully low and tedious, -and no one was surprised to learn that the -only hope for his recovery was for him to pass -the winter abroad. It had been very difficult -to find the means to take him away, but they -were found. At first the change did wonders, -but the improvement did not last, and in every -letter we could read the anxiety mother was -trying to hide from us.</p> - -<p>The day before the one of which I write the -first bright report had reached us.</p> - -<p>“Father is really better,” mother wrote, but -even as we gave our shout of joy, Jack read -these words: “but the improvement comes -too late—our funds are nearly exhausted, and -we must soon turn our faces homewards. The -doctors say if only he could stay on for another -few months, they are certain of his recovery. -But that cannot be, and God knows what is -best for us always.” Again and again we -asked ourselves what it was possible for us to -do to keep him in Cannes, but there seemed -no way. Cecilly had found a few pupils for -music when dear father had first been ill, and -she had left no stone unturned in trying to get -more, but in vain. I too had sought for employment, -but beyond going to read to an old -lady two afternoons in each week, I had been -unable to find any. Jack was in a solicitor’s -office, and already was filling up every spare -hour with extra work, while Bob and Phil -were still at school. Everything of value our -home possessed had already been parted with -for the journey, so that it was no wonder we -cried out in despair.</p> - -<p>“Can’t we give up meat?” Bob asked at -dinner that evening. “Kitty is always moaning -over the butcher’s bill.”</p> - -<p>“Is it likely you can give up meat,” Jack -answered crossly, and I said—</p> - -<p>“We might, but the servants would not.”</p> - -<p>Then it was that Cecilly had cried out, -“Send the servants away. I am sure we could -manage without them.”</p> - -<p>Jack was as indignant with Cecilly as with -Bob, but she would not be quieted.</p> - -<p>“Listen to me and hear reason,” she cried. -“We must have money somehow, and here is -a way of getting it, or saving it, which is the -same thing. Cook’s wages are £20 a year, -Ann’s are £16. So in three months we -should save £9. Nine hard sovereigns—not -counting their keep. Oh, Kitty, what is their -keep?”</p> - -<p>“Quite ten shillings a week each, not -counting their washing,” I answered.</p> - -<p>“And we should save the kitchen fire, -except when we are cooking,” said Cecilly.</p> - -<p>“And the gas,” said Phil. “They flare it -away at every burner. I turned it out myself -in the scullery last night.”</p> - -<p>“We should be able to live much more -economically, of course,” I said. “One dinner -instead of the two we always have to cook -now, must be a saving in every way. Oh, -Cecilly, what a splendid idea yours is.”</p> - -<p>“It is all rubbish,” said Jack. “Is it -likely mother and father would allow you -girls to turn into slaves?”</p> - -<p>But Cecilly would not be silenced, and if -she had her will would have rushed off into -the kitchen and dismissed the servants there -and then. She was up quite early and off to -the stores to buy two or three books she had -seen advertised on the subject of “How to -manage without servants.” But, as I have -said before, the authors had all been able to -spend the servants’ wages for a year in labour-saving -contrivances. Poor Cecilly had been -so excited and hopeful the evening before that -she could not endure facing all the difficulties -the morning laid before her.</p> - -<p>“Jack is right. We cannot manage,” she -cried again, and then burst into a flood of tears.</p> - -<p>I was vainly trying to cheer her when the -door opened and our dear old friend Mrs. -Travers, whom we all call Aunt Jane, entered.</p> - -<p>“Oh, my dears,” she cried, in dismay, -“you have bad news from your mother!”</p> - -<p>I hastened to reassure her, while Cecilly cried -out—</p> - -<p>“Yes, the news is bad, Aunt Jane. He -will never be well again, and we can’t help -him.”</p> - -<p>Then I told her mother’s words, and all -about our idea that had come to nothing.</p> - -<p>“Why should your idea come to nothing?” -she asked, and when we both asked her at -once if she really thought we could manage, -and she answered, “If you can face plenty of -hard work, of course you can,” Cecilly rushed -at her to hug her in her joy. “Sit down, -you scatter-brain,” said the dear old lady, -“and we will then talk seriously. There can -be no doubt that you will save considerably if -you do send away the servants, but the -necessary work you will find very hard, far -harder than you can yet imagine, especially at -first. I speak from experience, my dears, for -my early married days were spent in Canada, -and there I learnt to use my hands. I have -known many girls and women as gentle and -refined as any English lady, doing the entire -work not only of a house, but helping husband, -brother or father with poultry or dairy as well. -And if our sisters in the Colonies can do -without hired help, why can’t we here? -There is nothing so healthy as housework. -Have your windows open while you work, and -there will be no need for any more bicycle -rides. The question is, Are you really prepared -for hard work? Can you face the early rising, -the spoiling of pretty white hands, a good -many backaches, and a great many irksome -duties?”</p> - -<p>“Of course we can!” we cried at once. -“If only we can give father this chance, we -will face anything!”</p> - -<p>“Then, my dears, the first thing is to give -the servants notice.”</p> - -<p>“Luckily, Aunt Jane, Ann is going; she is -only staying on till we knew when mother -would be back.”</p> - -<p>“And I know of a place that would suit -cook beautifully,” said Cecilly.</p> - -<p>“That’s well,” said Aunt Jane, “they are -easily disposed of. When they are gone, you -must find a little girl.”</p> - -<p>“No, no!” we both called out. “We -will do everything ourselves.”</p> - -<p>“Hear me out, my dears,” said Aunt Jane -quietly, “and then raise your objections. I -say you must have a girl just for one hour in -the morning to clean the boots.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, I had forgotten the boots!” sighed -Cecilly.</p> - -<p>“I would have said a boot-boy, but a girl -can clean your doorsteps, for you must not do -that.”</p> - -<p>“Why not?” asked Cecilly. “I see -nothing to be ashamed of in any work.”</p> - -<p>“Neither do I, my dear; but your mother -would object to that, I am sure, and as you -must have someone for the boys’ boots, the -someone may as well clean your steps.”</p> - -<p>“Why can’t the boys clean their own -boots?” Cecilly began, but I stopped her, for -I saw Aunt Jane was looking vexed at her -interruptions, and I knew mother would not -like the boys to do such work while they were -going to school among other boys.</p> - -<p>“Next,” continued Aunt Jane, “I should -advise you to do away with your kitchen -range and have a gas stove.”</p> - -<p>“No, dear Aunt Jane,” I pleaded. “We -must not spend anything to save ourselves.”</p> - -<p>“I am not asking you to spend anything, -my dear, excepting a few shillings. The gas -company will let out on hire any stove for a -small sum, I believe about one shilling and -eightpence a quarter. There will be the cost -of setting it, but that will soon be paid for by -the saving in coals. A gas stove can be -turned off as soon as you no longer require it, -so is economical in every way. I know I -must not add that it will save you much work, -both in cleaning and lighting, though that is -the truth.” We laughed as we told her we -were quite lazy enough to be saved any labour, -and she continued, “I will tell you another -plan to lighten your work. Take up all the -heavy carpets possible, especially in the bedrooms. -A stained floor with rugs you can -shake is far easier to keep clean as well as -being more healthy.”</p> - -<p>“But we should have to have the floors -stained,” said Cecilly. “And every shilling -will be wanted for father.”</p> - -<p>“I think you must spare one or two of -them to buy a bottle or so of stains,” replied<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_714"></a>{714}</span> -Aunt Jane, smiling. “Stain them, and then -polish them by degrees with beeswax and -turpentine. I had an oak staircase once that -I treated in that way, and it looked beautiful. -Of course, if you have mats and rugs, so much -the better, but strips of carpet with the ends -fringed out do very nicely. What you will -find most irksome is the continual washing -up. Take my advice and leave your evening -dinner things till the next morning. I know -it is far nicer to get them washed up overnight, -but you must remember that your first -duty is to make home bright for the boys. -When dinner is over, put away all domestic -duties and make the evenings as bright with -music and suchlike as you do now. Now I -must be going, and will only add this piece of -advice. When you speak to cook and Ann, -tell them the reason you are parting with -them. They are both kind-hearted girls and -will, I am sure, help you in getting ready to -do without them, and doubtless will be able -to give you good advice too.”</p> - -<p>“I hope Jack won’t be very vexed,” sighed -Cecilly.</p> - -<p>“Never mind Jack,” said Aunt Jane. -“He is too sensible to be really vexed.”</p> - -<p>“Poor Jack,” I said. “You know, Aunt -Jane, how very friendly and kind Mr. Marriott -has always been to him. Now, although he -has been goodness itself in finding him extra -work after office hours, we can all see he does -not approve of the friendship between Jack -and Cynthia. Cynthia comes to us in the -daytime as much as ever, but very rarely in -the evening when Jack is home.”</p> - -<p>“Mr. Marriott is quite right, my love. -The way they are bringing up their daughters -makes marriage with any but a rich man out -of the question.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, Aunt Jane, Cynthia is the sweetest -girl,” we both cried, while Aunt Jane -answered—</p> - -<p>“The sweetest of girls can make the worst -of wives.”</p> - -<p>After bidding our kind old friend good-bye, -we went at once to the kitchen to tell our tale -to cook and Ann. As Aunt Jane had -predicted, they received our news with the -greatest kindness, and immediately offered to -help us in every way.</p> - -<p>“You had better come into the kitchen -every day while I am here, and let me teach -you the young gentlemen’s favourite dishes, -Miss Kitty,” cook said, and Ann, who was -leaving because she had been so rude to Cecilly, -sat down and cried because she could not bear -to think of us having to “so bemean” -ourselves.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_FIRE_OF_LOVE">THE FIRE OF LOVE.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> MARY BRADFORD WHITING.</p> - - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Come</span> here, Lion.”</p> - -<p>It was not a dog that obeyed the summons, -but a child, a sweet-faced, curly-headed child, -with big, pathetic eyes, and soft smiling -mouth.</p> - -<p>Treading on tip-toe, so as not to disturb the -sleeping figure on the sofa, Lion made his way -across the room and crept up to his father’s -chair.</p> - -<p>“What were you crying for?” asked Mr. -Beresford, as he lifted the little fellow to his -knee.</p> - -<p>“Oh, daddy, how much, much too sharp -your eyes are! I hid myself all up with -my ship book, so as you shouldn’t see.”</p> - -<p>“No ship book that was ever made would -hide your tears from me!” said Mr. Beresford, -in a tone that was evidently more for -himself than for the child. “But never mind -that now. I did see, and now you must tell -me all about it. What were you crying -for?”</p> - -<p>“I don’t want you to go away,” said Lion, -in a trembling voice. “Why must you go, -daddy, and leave me alone with——”</p> - -<p>The loyal little fellow caught himself up -without finishing the sentence, but Mr. -Beresford knew only too well what the concluding -word would have been, and he sighed -heavily.</p> - -<p>A wealthy man, with congenial work to -occupy him, with a lovely wife and a sweet -little son, there were plenty of people who -envied him with all their hearts; but Paul -Beresford, like many of those who seem the -most prosperous, had a secret sorrow that embittered -his whole life. He had married young, -believing that he had found the embodiment of -grace and goodness in the beautiful girl to -whom he had given his heart, only to discover -too late that she was utterly selfish and cold-hearted. -It was a terrible awakening for him, -and many a man in his place would have -made shipwreck altogether; but Paul Beresford -only clung the closer to the hidden faith -that sustained him, and solaced himself with -the oft-quoted lines—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“My own hope is a sun will pierce</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The darkest cloud earth ever stretched.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>That hope seemed to him to be fulfilled -when his baby son was first put into his arms -and he felt the touch of the tiny fingers, and -kissed the soft roseleaf face. Surely no woman -could resist such a darling mite as this, and he -looked forward confidently to the dawn of -better days. But as time went on, the terrible -truth was borne in upon him that the child -had only widened the breach between his wife -and himself. Little as she had cared for his -love in the past, she was jealous when she saw -it bestowed upon another, and far from lavishing -any tenderness on the little Lionel herself, -she treated him with an indifference that made -her husband’s blood boil.</p> - -<p>The child had never been strong, but no one -but his father gave him much attention, for -the nurse who had brought him through his -babyhood was obliged to leave when he was -five years old, and his mother’s maid, who was -supposed to have the charge of him, was as -selfish as her mistress. But there was a -courage and pluck in his slender frame that -would have done honour to a boy of twice his -age, and which well deserved his father’s name -of “Lion.” He had early seen that it distressed -his beloved “daddy” if he told him of the -troubles he had to undergo, and the result was -that he tried to keep them to himself with a -self-control that was marvellous in so young a -child.</p> - -<p>But now a terrible trial had come for Lion. -They had no sooner settled down in the little -Cornish village that had been selected for -their summer holiday, than a summons had -come for Mr. Beresford to go out to his West -Indian property on imperative business, and -he was obliged to start as early as possible on -the very next day. Somewhat to his surprise, -his wife had made no objection to his sudden -departure; he had expected a storm of tears -and reproaches, but beyond the one cold remark -that he seemed to be glad of any excuse -for leaving her, she had said nothing, and he -had felt thankful at being let off so easily.</p> - -<p>If he could have read her thoughts, he -might, however, have felt differently. She -had given him no reason for her sudden desire -to settle down in a quiet seaside village, and -he had been too glad of the suggestion for the -boy’s sake to ask any explanations. But now -it seemed to her that his departure was arranged -as conveniently as everything else had -been; she had known very well when she -chose their holiday resort that Lord Barfield’s -yacht would be anchored in the neighbouring -bay, and on board the yacht were people for -whose society she cared far more than she did -for that of her husband or child, people whom -he distrusted, and had forbidden her to visit.</p> - -<p>Mr. Beresford was ignorant of all this, however, -and he tried to comfort his little son with -parting injunctions; it was useless, alas, to -hope that his mother would take any care of -him, but perhaps it might console his loneliness -to tell him to take care of her.</p> - -<p>“But mother won’t let me take care of her,” -said Lion piteously.</p> - -<p>“That must only make you try all the -more,” said his father, speaking out of the -depths of his own bitter experience. “You -must be very careful not to worry her, because -you know that sometimes you talk too loud -when she has a headache, or even slam the -doors. Will you promise me that you will be -very good while I am away?”</p> - -<p>“Yes, I will, I truthfully will!” said Lion, -drying his eyes with a brave attempt at a -smile.</p> - -<p>“I shall soon come back,” said Mr. Beresford, -“and I shall write you long letters while -I am away, and tell you all about the shells -and the snakes and the little black boys.”</p> - -<p>“And you’ll write it like print, won’t you?” -said Lion, “so as I needn’t bother mamma -to read it, because that’s just one of the things -that vexes her so, when I ask her to read your -letters.”</p> - -<p>He spoke innocently, little knowing the -wounding power that his words contained, -but Mr. Beresford was well used to hiding his -feelings, and he made the required promise -in an unshaken voice.</p> - -<p>“That’s all right, then,” said Lion joyfully. -“But oh, daddy dear, you won’t have me to -curl your moustache for you, and you don’t -look a bit nice when it hangs all down like -that,” and throwing himself against his father, -he proceeded to curl the offending moustache -with his small fingers, while Mr. Beresford -laughed at the sight of his earnest frown.</p> - -<p>“I wish you would not let that child make -so much noise,” said a querulous voice at this -moment, and leaving their play with a start, -both father and son were hushed in a moment. -Lion slipped down to the floor and took up -his book, and Mr. Beresford went across to -the sofa and tried to soften his wife’s displeasure -with his attentions.</p> - -<p>The morning came all too soon, and Lion -had hard work to keep a bright face through -their hurried breakfast. Greatly to his relief -Mrs. Beresford had chosen to remain upstairs, -so that he had his father all to himself and -could hang lovingly about him until the -carriage came to take him to the station.</p> - -<p>“Don’t forget your promise,” said Mr. -Beresford as he drove away.</p> - -<p>He spoke cheerfully, but his eyes were -moist as he looked back at the lonely figure -of the little six-year-old boy at the gate. If<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_715"></a>{715}</span> -only his mother’s arm had been round him, he -could have far better borne to leave him; but -it was useless to indulge in such thoughts, and -taking out his pocket-book he was soon deep -in calculations.</p> - -<p>Lion, for his part, tried quite as practical a -cure for his grief.</p> - -<p>“I’ll pick some flowers for mamma,” he -said to himself manfully, and having rubbed -the tears out of his eyes, he set off round the -flower-beds of their hired house, picking a -rose here, and a geranium here, until he had -as large a bunch as he could hold.</p> - -<p>“Mamma, I’ve brought you some flowers,” -he said, as he ran into her bedroom and laid -the straggling nosegay on her lap.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Beresford was lying on the couch, a -novel in her hand and a breakfast tray on the -table by her side.</p> - -<p>“Oh, you bad boy!” she exclaimed, -brushing the flowers hastily on to the floor, -“how dare you put those dirty things on my -new white wrapper. And there’s an earwig -running over me! Go away this minute, I -tell you! Lettice, Lettice, come here!”</p> - -<p>Her screams brought the maid, who succeeded -in catching the earwig; but Lion had -not waited to see the end of his escapade; a -sudden sharp pain had stabbed his baby breast, -pain, not so much at his mother’s anger, as at -the thought that he had already disobeyed his -father’s command.</p> - -<p>“Oh, daddy, daddy, I didn’t mean to be -naughty!” he cried, and throwing himself -down on the grass, he sobbed as if his heart -would break.</p> - -<p>“I am going out this afternoon,” said Mrs. -Beresford at lunch-time, “so you must amuse -yourself in the garden.”</p> - -<p>“Mayn’t I come with you,” said Lion -timidly. “Daddy said I was to take care of -you while he was away.”</p> - -<p>“Nonsense!” said Mrs. Beresford sharply, -as though the words stung her. “Do you -think I can have you always after me? You -must stay at home, and see that you don’t get -into any more mischief.”</p> - -<p>It was very lonely for Lion that afternoon. -Lettice slipped out as soon as her mistress had -disappeared, and the servants of the house did -not consider it part of their business to look -after other people’s children. By-and-by it -began to rain, and the little boy stood sadly -counting the falling drops until a sudden -thought seized him. His mother’s cloak was -hanging in the hall; how wet she would get -unless he took it to her! To trot out into the -hall and put on his hat was the work of a -moment, and seizing the cloak, he sallied -forth.</p> - -<p>Far and wide the poor little fellow wandered, -while the driving rain soaked him through and -through; but no trace of his mother could he -see, and at last he turned back to the house. -Just as he reached the gate a carriage drove -up, however, and he saw his mother alight, -and heard her parting words, “On Thursday, -then; I will be sure not to fail.”</p> - -<p>“You naughty boy, what have you been -doing?” were her next words, as she espied -the dripping child at the gate. “Look at my -cloak, all messed and spoilt. Go upstairs at -once; didn’t I tell you not to get into -mischief?”</p> - -<p>Weary and heart-broken, Lion attempted -no explanation, but creeping sadly up to his -room, cried himself to sleep on the floor.</p> - -<p>At breakfast-time next morning Lettice -rushed into her mistress’s room exclaiming, -“Oh, ma’am, Master Lionel’s dying!”</p> - -<p>“Nonsense,” said Mrs. Beresford. “I -daresay he has eaten something that has -disagreed with him; but you can send for -the doctor.”</p> - -<p>She had forgotten all about it in five -minutes, but when the doctor came he insisted -upon seeing her.</p> - -<p>“Your child has acute inflammation,” he -said, “and his life will depend upon the -nursing.”</p> - -<p>“Then you must send for a nurse,” she -said coolly, though she felt an inward qualm -at the thought of her husband.</p> - -<p>“I shall do so, of course, but she cannot be -here until to-morrow morning, and in the -meantime you must be responsible; your -maid is perfectly useless.”</p> - -<p>Mrs. Beresford assented resignedly. She -was glad now that they could not take her on -the yacht till Thursday. The nurse would -have come by then, and she could leave without -trouble, and with this consoling prospect -in view she even agreed to sit up with Lion -that night.</p> - -<p>Some people would have been touched by -the child’s piteous cries for his father, and by -the way in which he constantly checked himself -with the reminder, “Daddy’s gone away; -I must take care of mamma now.” But -Mrs. Beresford only found it wearisome, and -tried to bury herself in her book.</p> - -<p>She knew, however, that it would not do to -forget the nourishment that the doctor had -ordered, and rousing herself at last she tried to -light the spirit-lamp. The most simple things -of everyday life were mysteries to her, and as -she bent over it, candle in hand, there was a -flare and a scream, and Lettice rushed into the -room to find her mistress’s hair in flames.</p> - -<p>Help was summoned, and the doctor sent -for, but he made short work of her complaints.</p> - -<p>“There’s not much harm done,” he said -bluntly. “I daresay your hair will grow; -your skin will never look the same again, but, -after all, that doesn’t matter.”</p> - -<p>And this to one whose chief joy in life had -been the beauty of her complexion! Mrs. -Beresford hid her bandaged face in the pillows -and gave herself up to despair. No hope of -going on the yacht now. They would sail -away and forget all about her, or, worse still, -make ill-natured remarks about her misfortune. -At any rate, no one should see her altered -appearance, and she had the blinds pulled -down, and admitted no one but Lettice into -her room.</p> - -<p>But the day came when the hospital nurse -forced an entrance into the forbidden precincts. -She and the doctor had held many an -indignant conclave over their little patient, -and when his perpetual inquiries for his -mother could be silenced in no other way, she -made up her mind to fetch her.</p> - -<p>Her words were few, but they made an impression -that Mrs. Beresford could not resist, -for however indifferent she might appear, she -knew that she should not dare to face her -husband if the child should die without her -seeing him.</p> - -<p>Her resolution almost failed as she caught a -glimpse of herself in the glass that had once -reflected such a lovely vision, but it was too -late to turn back now, and she crossed the -passage and entered the sick-room. There -on the bed lay Lion, his curls gone, his face -hollow and deathlike, but when he saw her he -held out his hands with a cry, “Oh, please -say forgive!”</p> - -<p>“What does he mean?” she asked.</p> - -<p>“I don’t know,” said the nurse, “he has -been saying it ever since I came. You had -better speak to him.”</p> - -<p>“What do you want, Lion?” she said, -repressing a shudder as she went up to the -bedside.</p> - -<p>“Oh, mamma, I did promise daddy to be -good, and you said I was so naughty, and then -you got your face burnt, and it was all my -fault. Oh, please say forgive!”</p> - -<p>Forgive? If anyone needed forgiveness it -was not Lion, and as if a veil had suddenly -been lifted from her eyes, Mrs. Beresford saw -herself in the true light at last, worldly-minded, -selfish-hearted, far, far different from the pure -and loving nature before her!</p> - -<p>“Oh, my child, my little child!” she said, -bending down to take him in her arms.</p> - -<p>There was silence for a few moments, while -Lion lay wonderingly in the embrace that had -never enfolded him before, then raising his -hand to her bandaged face he whispered—</p> - -<p>“Poor mamma, you’re much worser than I -am; but you’ll tell daddy I was sorry, won’t -you?”</p> - -<p>“No, no; you shall tell him yourself,” she -exclaimed with sudden vehemence; “you -are going to get well, you must, you shall!”</p> - -<p>The nurse looked at her warningly, and she -was silent again while Lion’s excitement subsided -into a drowsy state which lasted till the -doctor came.</p> - -<p>He looked in amazement at the strange -figure by the bed, but for once in her life -Mrs. Beresford had no thoughts for herself.</p> - -<p>“He is better, is he not?” she said eagerly, -but the doctor shook his head.</p> - -<p>“No,” he said, “I shall telegraph for your -husband to-night.”</p> - -<p>The days passed on, and one evening a -carriage dashed up to the door and springing -out almost before it had stopped, Paul Beresford -seized upon the doctor, who came forward -to greet him.</p> - -<p>“How is he?” he asked.</p> - -<p>“Better,” was the answer, and waiting to -hear no more he dashed upstairs and opened -the door of his boy’s room.</p> - -<p>“How are you, my darling?” he said -eagerly.</p> - -<p>His wife turned away with a sudden pang. -It was not likely that he would recognise her -for she had sent him no news of her accident, -but for the first time she felt that he was -dearer to her than the friends for whom she -had once sacrificed his happiness.</p> - -<p>But Lion did not forget her.</p> - -<p>“Daddy,” he said, “mamma has forgiven -me, but you must forgive me too; it was all -my fault, you know, that she was burnt.”</p> - -<p>“Lena!” cried Paul in astonishment, as he -gazed at the white-capped figure by the window.</p> - -<p>“You told me to take care of her,” said -Lion mournfully; “but she has had to take -care of me all the time!”</p> - -<p>Lena had hidden her face in her hands, but -in a moment she felt her husband’s arms round -her and knew that a new life had begun for -them both.</p> - -<p>“Are you so very sorry that mamma was -burnt?” asked Lion wistfully, as he saw the -tears in his father’s eyes.</p> - -<p>“No, dear, he is glad,” said his mother -softly, “because there is a fire in my heart -that will, I hope, burn up all the selfishness.”</p> - -<p>“What fire comes in people’s hearts?” -asked Lion in wonder, and with a look that -made her scarred face more beautiful than it -had been in all the perfection of its bloom, -his mother answered—</p> - -<p>“The fire of love!”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illow175" id="i715" > - <img src="images/i_715.jpg" width="175" height="59" alt="" /> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_716"></a>{716}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="OLD_ENGLISH_COTTAGE_HOMES">OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES; -<br /> -<span class="smalltext">OR,</span> -<br /> -VILLAGE ARCHITECTURE OF BYGONE TIMES.</h2></div> - - -<h3>PART XI.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">INTERIORS AND DETAILS.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">It</span> is remarkable what pretty bits of detail -we often come across in old cottages; unfortunately, -it is sometimes difficult to ascertain -for certain whether these are “in situ” or -whether they have originally belonged to -more important buildings and have found -their way down to the cottages, just as ladies’ -dresses find themselves after some time in -more humble hands than those for which they -were originally intended. A beautiful partition, -or screen, which we give from a small farmhouse -or cottage at Toppesfield, in Essex, is a -case in point; it may have always formed a -portion of the building in which it now stands, -or it may have been removed from some more -stately one. It is singularly well preserved, -but seems to be almost too elaborate and -costly a work to have been made for a house -which is little more than a cottage. However, -as we have seen from examples at Clare and -Newport, the exteriors of cottages were sometimes -elaborately adorned; and if the exterior, -why not the interior?</p> - -<div class="figcenter illow225" id="i716a" > - <img src="images/i_716a.jpg" width="225" height="415" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">BRICK CHIMNEY, AMERSHAM.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>The screen or partition at Toppesfield is carved -in oak, and what is very remarkable is the fact -that while the four lower ranges of panels are -English in style, the top range, with the heads -introduced, is like French work.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illow375" id="i716b" > - <img src="images/i_716b.jpg" width="375" height="610" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">AT TOPPESFIELD.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>The two mantelpieces and fireplaces, which -we illustrate, are certainly in their original -places, and have not been removed. The -example from Alfreston dates from the second -half of the sixteenth century, and the very -singular one at Amersham from the earlier -part of the seventeenth. The latter has a -pretty but very uncommon feature about it. -The ingle nooks are pierced by little windows, -so that when sitting down to warm yourself at -the fire you can look out of the window at the -same time, a great advantage to the aged and -infirm, who cannot move about very readily, -and yet get tired of looking always at the fire -or always out of the window.</p> - -<p>Sometimes the ceilings of the rooms in -cottages are very pretty examples of ornamental -plaster work. A cottage at Margate, which -was recently pulled down, had a singularly -elegant plaster ceiling, with the same motto -repeated over and over again, and in every -case misspelt; the words were intended to be -“Ich Dien,” but the mistake “Ich pien” was -repeated throughout.</p> - -<p>While speaking on ornamental plaster work -it is known that during the sixteenth century -rye-dough was frequently mixed with the -plaster to obtain sharp and delicate work. -This material dries very hard, as any of our -girls who have been educated at a German -school will know from their experience of -black bread which is over a week old.</p> - -<p>Our remaining sketch represents one of -those prettily-cut brick chimneys which are so -very ornamental in Tudor houses and cottages. -The example here given is at Amersham. The -two chimneys are almost of the same design, -which in one case is nearly four times the scale -of the other, and it is worthy of notice how -totally different is the effect of the same -pattern in a large and a small scale. A -complete and thorough understanding of this -fact is all important to the architect and the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_717"></a>{717}</span> -decorator! Chimneys are -often very beautiful objects. -Perhaps the most magnificent -examples are to be seen at -East Barsham Hall, near -Walsingham, Norfolk. This -building, the finest example -of Tudor domestic work in -the country, deserves better -treatment than it has received. -Portions of it are in ruins, -and one part of it cooked up -into a farmhouse. How it is -that this splendid mansion -was ever abandoned and left -to fall into ruins is unintelligible. -Nowhere is more elaborate -or beautiful carved -brickwork to be seen. Great -coats-of-arms, badges, lions, -and elaborate Gothic tracery -are all to be found carved out -of the finest red brick.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illow500" id="i717a" > - <img src="images/i_717a.jpg" width="500" height="324" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">AT ALFRESTON, ESSEX.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>But the beautiful architectural -works in Norfolk, which -are rapidly being reduced to -ruins, are indeed a sad story -for those who are interested -in ancient memorials or beautiful -works of art.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illow425" id="i717b" > - <img src="images/i_717b.jpg" width="425" height="299" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">AT AMERSHAM. (<i><a href="#Page_716">See page 716.</a></i>)</p></div> -</div> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be concluded.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SHEILAS_COUSIN_EFFIE">SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE.</h2> -</div> - -<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> - - -<h3>CHAPTER XVIII.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">THE GATHERING STORM.</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">I am</span> sorry you feel like that about it, -my dear. She seems to me a nice -little girl enough—rather fascinating -indeed. She appears very much liked -here.”</p> - -<p>Mrs. Cossart’s reply was something -like a snort, and the toss of her head -and set of her mouth showed from whom -Effie had inherited some of her little -tricks of manner.</p> - -<p>“And she is such a nice companion -for Effie,” concluded Mr. Cossart after -a brief pause.</p> - -<p>“A fine companion indeed!” retorted -his wife. “A wonderful lot of time she -spends with Effie! I call it simply -shameful the way she is going on! -We bring her out with us at great cost -to be a companion for Effie, and here -she is from morning to night running -after some new people, just because -they are rich and well connected, and -she hopes to catch the young man for -a husband!”</p> - -<p>Like many rather easy-going and -phlegmatic people, Mrs. Cossart took -a good deal of rousing, but when once -an idea had thoroughly taken possession -of her mind, there was no getting it out, -and if it happened to be one of an irritating -and disturbing kind, it would -gradually work like leaven in her -nature, and entirely overset her natural -equilibrium. She had been brooding -for weeks over the turn affairs seemed -taking, but this was the first time she -had spoken quite so openly to her husband, -and Mr. Cossart was decidedly -taken aback.</p> - -<p>“Really, my dear, I don’t think such -an idea has ever entered Sheila’s head. -She is such a child still. She is fond -of Miss Adene and these Dumaresqs, -and they have taken a fancy to her; -but I don’t think you need think such -things of her. She is just as happy -playing with the little boy as being with -young Dumaresq; and it seems to me -that he pays quite as much attention -to Effie. I have taken care to let him -know, in an indirect kind of way, that -our little girl will have a pretty dower -when she marries. And in these days -young men think of such things. High -time too, with the land depreciating as -it is!”</p> - -<p>“Yes, and perhaps if Sheila were -not here something might come of it. -Effie has twice the character of Sheila, -but there is something about the way -that little flirt goes on that takes the -fancy of people in a way I can’t understand! -And if you would believe it, on -New Year’s Eve, when I thought Ronald<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_718"></a>{718}</span> -Dumaresq was sitting out with Effie -watching the fireworks and so on—if you -would believe it he had just turned her -over to his aunt, and off he set down -the hill in a carro, and found Sheila -out on the verandah here, and stayed -with her all the time! What do you -call that sort of thing, I wonder?”</p> - -<p>“Well, my dear, I don’t see that -Sheila was in fault. And there were -other people out too. She was not -alone. If young Dumaresq chose to -come and watch the display from here, -nobody could blame her.”</p> - -<p>“I expect it was a got-up thing between -them. She never said a word -about it either; I only heard it incidentally -a few days ago. She is a very -artful young minx—that is what she is!”</p> - -<p>Mr. Cossart was uncomfortable. He -was a just man and a kindly one by -nature; and Sheila’s pretty ways had -taken his fancy as they had taken the -fancy of others. He had no special -matrimonial ambitions for his own -daughter. He would very well have -liked to see her the wife of Ronald -Dumaresq; but, on the other hand, if -the young man had other ideas for -himself, he would never make a trouble -of it.</p> - -<p>“There’s as good fish in the sea as -ever came out of it,” was a favourite -maxim of his, and if Sheila were to get -a handsome husband in Ronald, her -uncle would wish her joy and be ready -to arrange matters for her in fatherly -fashion. But he knew by experience -that his wife, when once her mind was -made up, was inexorable.</p> - -<p>“Yes,” continued Mrs. Cossart wrathfully, -“you men never see an inch before -your noses, but I have had my misgivings -ever since Sheila came. Look -how things were with the girls and Cyril. -I don’t mean that I think much of Cyril—he’s -only a Cossart when all’s said -and done. All his grand ways won’t -make him a better man than his father -before him, and of course they’re cousins. -Still I had no particular objection, and -Effie seemed to think more of him than -of anybody else, and to be a good deal -taken up with him. But as soon as -Sheila came I noticed the difference. -It was she who was the attraction then. -They were always scheming to get -together and ride off alone and all that -sort of thing. There was talk about -Effie, to be sure, and teaching her to -ride; but that was just the excuse. Oh, -I know what I am talking about! And -now it is just the same thing again. If -it were not for Sheila, young Dumaresq -would be very attentive to Effie, but as -things are he never gets the chance. -That girl, with her craving after notice, -her laughing ways and bold artful -scheming, just winds him round her -fingers, and the end of it will be, you’ll -see, that she lands the fish, and Effie is -left out in the cold!”</p> - -<p>“But, my dear, if the young man -prefers Sheila (and I’m not at all prepared -to think he does; but she is -pretty and taking, and he naturally -talks to her) I don’t see that we could -interfere.”</p> - -<p>“Then you will stand quietly by to -see your own child’s heart broken, whilst -this artful little minx carries on her -games under our very noses.”</p> - -<p>At that Mr. Cossart looked grave and -uttered a low whistle.</p> - -<p>“Do you mean that our Effie has -begun to—to—well, to care for this young -man? I never thought her the kind to -fall in love just with a handsome face.”</p> - -<p>“Ronald Dumaresq has more than -a handsome face,” answered Mrs. -Cossart with slight asperity, “and I -have no hesitation in saying that he -has taken Effie’s fancy in a way that -no other man has done to my knowledge. -The last doctor we consulted about Effie -said that some interest of that sort in -her life just now might be the best -possible thing for her. When first I -saw Ronald Dumaresq I thought that -he would be the very husband for her; -he is well-born, fairly well-to-do, kind-hearted, -affectionate, and, I think, very -high principled. If you watch Effie -when she is talking to him, you will -see how she brightens up. But that -Sheila is for ever putting herself forward. -I wish we had never brought her, and I -am certain Effie is beginning to wish the -same.”</p> - -<p>Mr. Cossart was silent; this was -putting the matter in a new light. He -rubbed his chin and looked disturbed.</p> - -<p>“What are the girls doing now?” he -asked as though to gain time.</p> - -<p>“We will come and see,” said Mrs. -Cossart, rising with a kind of vicious -alacrity. “I know nothing, but I can -guess. Sheila will by hook or by crook -have got Ronald Dumaresq in tow, you -will see, and Effie will be left out in the -cold, or reduced to fall back on those -everlasting Murchison girls! I did not -bring Effie out here to throw her into the -arms of a tradesman’s daughters!” -and Mrs. Cossart gave that little toss -to her head which was so like Effie’s.</p> - -<p>Husband and wife rose and wandered -down the garden paths, too well used to -the wealth of flowers and the glint of -the sparkling sea to remark upon the -beauties before them. Mrs. Cossart’s -face was displeased, and his was -troubled. Presently the sound of a -clear ringing laugh broke upon their -ears, and Mrs. Cossart uttered a suggestive -snort.</p> - -<p>“There’s Sheila, on the tennis court, -I expect. Come and see for yourself -how she plays companion to Effie!”</p> - -<p>They moved on till they could command -a view of the court from a terrace -above, and then a pretty scene revealed -itself to their eyes.</p> - -<p>On one side of the net stood Ronald, -tennis-bat in hand, his white flannels -showing off his slight figure to great -advantage. On the other side was -little Guy, with Sheila superintending, -her bat in his hand, as he made vigorous -and often successful attempts to send -the ball across to his uncle. Sir Guy -and Lady Dumaresq sat together in -wicker chairs in the shade, and Miss -Adene was sketching the group, a smile -on her lips, as her clever pencil travelled -swiftly over the paper. Sheila was in -the plot, and strove to keep little Guy -still from time to time in one of his -pretty attitudes. Of Effie there was no -trace.</p> - -<p>“You see!” said Mrs. Cossart -triumphantly.</p> - -<p>“Yes, my dear; but you know Sheila -offered to help with the child when his -nurse was taken ill. We must not -complain if she keeps her promise. -You allowed her to undertake the task.”</p> - -<p>“She gave me no choice, speaking it -out before Lady Dumaresq as she did. -Of course I saw the motive all the while. -As though people like that could not -get a temporary nurse!”</p> - -<p>“Well, they have done that; but of -course a Portuguese woman is not like -their own trusted servant. Naturally -they do not like the boy left much with -her. I cannot find fault with Sheila -for trying to help. She is so fond of -the little fellow.”</p> - -<p>Sheila’s voice came up to them just -then clear and sweet.</p> - -<p>“Oh, isn’t he a darling! Isn’t he -quite too sweet? Lady Dumaresq, I -hope Taylor isn’t going to get well -just yet, I do so love having him. -Mayn’t I give him his bath again to-night? -He likes it so when I do. And -he is such a little duck!”</p> - -<p>Mr. and Mrs. Cossart walked down -and approached the group.</p> - -<p>“Where is Effie, Sheila?” asked the -latter.</p> - -<p>Sheila looked round quickly.</p> - -<p>“Effie? Oh, she was here just now. -We were playing tennis against Mr. -Dumaresq. We beat him, but I don’t -believe he played up,” and she threw -a sparkling glance towards Ronald who -was strolling up with Guy perched on -his shoulder. “Then Guy wanted to -play, and Effie sat down; I thought -she was here still.”</p> - -<p>“The Miss Murchisons came and -asked her to go down the town with -them in their carro, and hear the band -play at the Casino,” said Miss Adene, -looking up from her sketch. “There, -Sheila, will that do? It is the best I -could get—he is a restless little mortal.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, but you have got him delightfully!” -cried Sheila, taking the sketch-book, -her face alight with pleasure. -“Oh, isn’t it just that pretty way of his -when he tries to hit the ball, and laughs -all over his dear little face! See, Lady -Dumaresq, isn’t it good? But you can’t -have it, for Miss Adene has promised -it to me. You know you did, didn’t -you—the first good sketch you could -catch of him?”</p> - -<p>Lady Dumaresq smiled and patted -Sheila’s cheek.</p> - -<p>“You will make my boy quite vain by -your open admiration, my dear; you -must remember that he is not quite a -baby, and can understand a good deal -of what is said.” She looked up at the -girl, and then her glance fell upon the -Cossarts, and she seemed to divine that -something was amiss.</p> - -<p>With ready tact she turned to them -and said—</p> - -<p>“Will you not join us at tea? It is -just coming out. We prefer having it -brought here to going to the drawing-room; -and the people are very kind -about indulging us. We want to talk -to you about a plan for to-morrow or the -next day. We feel we have been idle -long enough. We were thinking of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_719"></a>{719}</span> -taking the excursion to Camacha, and -were hoping you would join us. Your -daughter seemed pleased with the plan.”</p> - -<p>There was something about Lady -Dumaresq’s graceful and gracious manner -that Mrs. Cossart could never resist. -The frown faded from her brow, and she -took the seat Ronald brought for her, -preparing to be responsive, though -she could not forget her regret in Effie’s -absence; for naturally Sheila and Ronald -consorted together, and they evidently -had an infinite number of little jokes -in common, and it seemed to her that -little Guy made a very strong link -between them.</p> - -<p>“You know Camacha is a quaint little -village lying behind that wooded hill we -look at to the right,” said Lady Dumaresq -indicating the direction. “It is one -of the easy excursions, and it is much -more often free from rain cloud than -other places in the island. It is about -two hours distant, whether we take -horses or hammocks or a light carro. -We think a picnic up there would be -very agreeable. It will be a pleasure -to us if your party will join us. The -weather is so settled again just now -that we feel we ought to take advantage -of it.”</p> - -<p>“Very kind, I am sure,” said Mr. -Cossart heartily. “We shall be delighted -to join you. I think I and my -old lady had better have a carro, and -perhaps two yoke of bullocks, and take -the luncheon baskets with us. I suppose -you young people will all ride. So would -I have done at your age!”</p> - -<p>“I think my aunt and my husband will -have hammocks,” said Lady Dumaresq, -“and I fancy your daughter inclined to -that method also. I don’t know whether -I can make up my mind to try one. I -think I have a greater fancy for a -horse.”</p> - -<p>“It seems rather cruel work being -carried by human bearers,” said Miss -Adene. “I did not like it at all at first, -but I got used to it. And as they say, -it is the men’s livelihood. If visitors do -not take hammocks, the bearers starve.”</p> - -<p>“We’ll have horses,” cried Ronald, including -himself, Sheila, Lady Dumaresq -and little Guy in his glance. “Yes, I’ve -seen Susa, and he’s got a good little -pony, and the boy’s donkey saddle will -fit on all right. We’ll take him along -with us. The man will walk alongside -all the time. Oh, he’ll be as safe as a -tree! He’ll like it awfully, won’t you, -boy?”</p> - -<p>Guy cut capers and clapped his hands. -He was a perfectly fearless morsel of -humanity, and had ridden the old -donkey at home ever since he could -get his little legs across its broad back. -At nearly four he was wild to have a -pony and go with Uncle Ronald and -Sheila, and they were equally eager to -have him.</p> - -<p>When Mr. and Mrs. Cossart went -back to the hotel, it was in a more -complaisant mood than they had left it.</p> - -<p>“You see, my dear,” he said, “they -are quite friendly to us.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, yes, that is all right enough; -but all the same I am not satisfied with -the way things are going. I mean to -make this excursion to Camacha something -of a test case.”</p> - -<p>“What do you mean?”</p> - -<p>“I know what I mean myself. I -mean to keep my eyes well open, and -you can do the same. If I am not -satisfied with what I see, I have quite -made up my mind what to do.”</p> - -<p>“And what is that?” asked her -husband rather uneasily.</p> - -<p>“To pack Sheila straight off home in -the <i>Dunraven Castle</i> that is due next -Monday or Tuesday.”</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS">ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.</h2> -</div> - - -<h3>STUDY AND STUDIO.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">A Lover of the “G.O.P.”</span>—1. Albert Loeschorn, a -distinguished musical professor of Berlin, was born -there in 1819. He was a pupil of Ludwig Berger, -taught in Berlin, and has held chamber concerts -there. His principal works consist of studies for -the pianoforte. The title of “Royal Professor” -was conferred upon him in 1868.—2. When a canary -moults in July or August, be careful to keep him -quiet and free from draughts. Give him once a -week a very small quantity of raw beef scraped -and moistened with water, with now and then a -little of the yolk of hard-boiled eggs, a piece of -sponge-cake, and ripe chickweed.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mona.</span>—1. Robert Browning’s poem “How they -brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix” is -founded on no historical incident, but describes a -purely imaginary “ride.”—2. Our summer takes -place when the earth is at aphelion (furthest from -the sun) because the sun’s rays fall more vertically -upon our part of the world at that time. Two -questions are our limit.</p></div> - - -<h3>INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p>B. F., Scotland, would like to correspond with an -Italian girl. She is 15 years of age, very musical, -and understands Latin, but not Italian. Would -the Italian girl “write a letter in English with the -corresponding Italian written below?”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss Margarethe Scholtz</span>, 115, Friedrichstrasse, -Berlin, a teacher, would like to correspond with -another lady teacher, aged between 28 and 36. -She “has no objection to writing to any foreign -country.” Miss Scholtz says, “You would be surprised -to see how many girls here read <span class="smcap">The Girl’s -Own Paper</span>.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Flannel-Flower</span>, New South Wales, “in the bush,” -wishes to arrange a correspondence with a French -girl. She is 25, fond of reading and music, the -French language and literature. She would write -in English, the correspondent in French.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss Margaret Speir</span>, Newton Farm, Newton, -Glasgow, wishes to correspond with a French and -a German girl. She is 18, but her correspondents -might be a few years older or younger.</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Louisa</span>,” Aberdeen, who is studying French, would -like to correspond with a French girl about her own -age (16). The correspondent might write either in -English or French, but “Louisa” would write in -French.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss Anice Cress</span> has received no less than twelve -letters from Roumania, Belgium, France, and -England, and says, “I feel that life is indeed -pleasant when I receive such kind, interesting, and -instructive letters from my dear fellow readers and -correspondents.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss Ruth E. A. Perritt</span>, 59, Elmbank Street, Glasgow, -is anxious to correspond regularly with a young -French lady of her own age (17). We hope some -French girls will reply to our Scottish correspondents.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss Emily Jacob</span>, Belfield, Raheny, Co. Dublin (a -typewriter, etc.), and <span class="smcap">Miss F. Bartram</span>, Pleasant -View, Clay Lane, Clay Cross, Derbyshire, offer -to correspond with “<span class="smcap">Nellie</span>.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mrs. Barnard</span>, Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Rockhampton, -Queensland, Australia, sends us six -pictorial postcards for “<span class="smcap">O Mimosa San</span>,” and asks -for “a few bridges in exchange.” We cannot, as -we have often said, undertake any postal communication -in connection with this column, and have -not “<i>O Mimosa San’s</i>” address.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Aileen Jacques</span> (aged 13½), Queen Street, Tramore, -Co. Waterford, Ireland, wishes to correspond with -a French girl of her own age, each to write the -other’s language.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss Ethel Kneeshaw</span>, Pembina, North Dakota, -U.S.A., would like to exchange duplicate stamps -with <span class="smcap">Mademoiselle François</span>. Why does she not -write to her direct? Her address has been given -more than once.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Carmen</span> would like to correspond with a Spanish -girl of good family, about her own age (18). -Address: Maria Ricciardi, Madonna dell’ Aiuto, -28, Naples, Italy.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss Marie Durazzo</span>, Piazza Meridiana 2, Genoa, -Italy, will send an illustrated post-card to any -reader of <span class="smcap">The Girl’s Own Paper</span> who will send -her one.</p> - -<p>L. K. B. (not proficient in French) desires to correspond -with a young French lady, and would correct -her English letters.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Excelsior</span> is very anxious to study mathematics, -Latin, and French by correspondence. She would -help in all English subjects in return, and adds -also, “perhaps some lonely girl in a land across -the sea might be pleased to have letters telling of -our great England, sent regularly.” We quote a -sentence or two from her letter to the Editor: -“<span class="smcap">The Girl’s Own</span> has been my very own paper since -1890; and however lonely or tired I may feel, it -needs but the new number of <span class="smcap">The Girl’s Own</span> to -put new life into me. If we could but gather -round you, what a babel there would be! Girls -<i>can</i> talk, and what a great deal we should wish to -say!”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sunshine</span> wishes to correspond in English with an -Irish, Scotch, or French girl of 15 or 16. Address: -Miss L. Handson, 84, Cartergate, Great Grimsby, -Lincolnshire.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss M. Theyne</span>, Wiedendamm 2, Riga, Russia, a -Russian girl aged 22, wishes to correspond with -“<span class="smcap">Laura</span>” (March). We thank her for her pleasant -letter.</p></div> - - -<h3>MEDICAL.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">E. Messent.</span>—We have over and over again said that -we know of no really efficient and safe way of permanently -removing superfluous hairs from the face. -All chemical epilators are either injurious to the skin, -or are else useless; indeed, most of them are both. -It is obvious that no chemical depilatory can be safe to -use, for to prevent the growth of hair it must destroy -the hair root, and as the hair root is placed deeply in -the skin, the chemical has got to deeply destroy the -skin before it can commence its work. We know -of many epilators which will destroy the skin of the -face, but not one of them can be trusted even to -injure the hair roots! Then as regards electrolysis, -we know it is frequently used for destroying -hairs, but it is not one case in a hundred that this -treatment can benefit. It can permanently remove -half-a-dozen hairs or so, but as to destroying a -beard or moustache, why you would have to have -generation after generation of electrolysers at work -before all the hair was destroyed. And even where -electrolysis is practised, a permanent cure is -exceedingly uncommon, and the expense of this -treatment is very considerable. But if you cannot -permanently remove unwelcome hairs, you can -with ease destroy them temporarily either by -pulling them out or by cutting them down. The -latter is by far the best way of removing superfluous -hairs, and is the only way which is absolutely -safe.</p> - -<p>J. H. R.—1. Powdered boracic acid is very useful for -those who suffer from excessive perspiration. -Another powder consisting of one part of salicylic -acid to ninety-nine parts of powdered silica, is also -frequently used for the same purpose.—2. Liquid -ammonia is a very good preparation with which to -soften hard water. Ordinary household ammonia -is quite equal to the various patent preparations. -About a tablespoonful of strong ammonia will -soften about twenty gallons of London water. -Failing ammonia, common washing soda is as good -as anything, and is certainly cheap enough for -everybody. You can easily tell if you have added -enough of the ammonia or soda to the water by -feeling it with the hand, when the hard feel of -ordinary tap water gives place to the unctuous feel -of soft water.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Janet.</span>—It is quite impossible to say what is causing -noises in the ear without a personal interview. -Many conditions, some slight, some grave, produce -this symptom, and the necessity for a careful -diagnosis is obvious. We would, therefore, be -doing you an injustice to attempt to “cure” you. -You must go to an aurist and get his opinion on -the matter. A course of quinine might do you -good, but very likely it would only make you -worse.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_720"></a>{720}</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ariel.</span>—Sarsaparilla is one of those drugs whose -action upon the human organism is practically nil! -Indeed, it is not too much to say that, if taken by -a man in any quantities, it will produce no effect -whatever. It is no new remedy; it has been tried -and tried, and found wanting. The decoction of -sarsa has a decided action, but it is due to the -water in it, and not to the sarsaparilla!</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Henrietta.</span>—The symptom you mention is one of the -manifestations of the milder degrees of hysteria. -A little rigid mental training would soon cure you.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Inexperienced.</span>—The best temperature for a working -room is between 55° F. and 60° F. For a bedroom, -between 50° F. and 55° F. For the sick-room for -ordinary cases, between 55° F. and 65° F. For some -respiratory diseases, the temperature must be kept -between 62° F. and 70° F. In these diseases the -temperature must be kept constant, great care -being taken that the room does not get cold in the -early hours of the morning.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Country Mouse.</span>—Earache is by no means always due -to trouble with the ear. Indeed, pain of any kind -is an uncommon symptom of ear disease, and it is -only in acute inflammation of the drum that pain -is at all common. Earache is most often a -“referred pain,” that is, it is a pain in one nerve -due to irritation of another nerve connected with -it. This phenomenon of referred pain is exceedingly -common. The nerve which chiefly supplies the -skin about the ear is a branch of the inferior dental -nerve, which supplies the sensation to the lower teeth. -Consequently the presence of carious teeth in the -lower jaw is an exceedingly common cause of earache, -and is for certain the cause of the pain which -you suffer. You can tell whether pain about the -ear is due to ear trouble or to this referred pain, -because in the former case the pain is deeply -seated, whereas in referred pain the pain is situated -in the skin about the ear. Moreover, in this latter -case the skin about the ear may be acutely tender.</p></div> - -<div class="figcenter illow400" id="i720" > - <img src="images/i_720.jpg" width="400" height="660" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<h3>MISCELLANEOUS.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mrs. C——s.</span>—You give no pseudonym. In the -Annotated Bible there is a note on this subject -which points out that Nahash may have been -another name of Jesse, the father of David. The -ancient Jews are said to have thought that Abigail -and Zeruiah were daughters of David’s mother by -Nahash, King of Ammon, before her marriage -with Jesse, as it is not said they <i>were daughters of -Jesse</i> anywhere, although they are called sisters -of David. All this is, however, conjectural. -Nahash means a serpent.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Anna Maria.</span>—1. You would require a proper butter-mould -for it.—2. It is never proper to shorten words, -such as “cd.,” “wld.,” “wk.” for work, or “tly.” for -truly, at least in writing letters. If your time be so -limited, it is better to put off writing your letter -till you have more time. Such abbreviations are -only intended for business men, and are wholly -unnecessary in polite letter-writing.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dowdney.</span>—We have not heard of any lady veterinary -surgeons, nor do we find that there is any opening -for their education as yet. Why spell Britain as -“Brittian”? The rest of your letter is quite correct. -The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is at -10, Red Lion Square, W.C. Write and inquire of -the Secretary.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Open Sesame.</span>—We think the best plan is to go to a -good and trustworthy hairdresser, if you have -determined to have your hair dyed, but we will -give you an old-fashioned hair “restorer” or -“darkener,” as follows:—rust of iron, 1 drachm, -old ale, strong and unsweetened, 1 pint, oil of -rosemary, 12 drops. Put this mixture into a bottle, -cork very loosely, agitate it daily for ten or twelve -days, then after an hour’s waiting, decant the -clear portion for use. Rain water may be substituted -for the ale if you wish it. This mixture will -ironmould linen clothes.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Petite.</span>—1. It is very difficult to deal with a scratched -surface of leather. A kid-restorer will sometimes -answer the purpose, or one of the creams sold for -Russia leather. White of egg will also act as a -restorer, and you might stain the scratches with a -green paint.—2. As to your second question, we -are of opinion that you would do best by joining -the University Correspondence College, 32, Red -Lion Square, W.C., particularly as you live so far -from London. You could write for terms.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Effie.</span>—The loosened back of your book could only -be tightened by a binder, and perhaps not even by -him, unless he took the back off, when it could be -done.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lonely One.</span>—Judging from your letter and its -story only, we should say you were very well rid of -such a half-hearted lover. And now, we think that -at twenty-six, with a delightful profession to -occupy you, you ought to be a thankful and happy -girl. Throw yourself into your work with your -whole heart. Discourage all repining and sorrowful -thoughts; be resolute and determined, until -your mind shall gain strength and its normal power -again. Take plenty of fresh air and exercise, and -look only on the sunny side of life. God helps -those who help themselves; and He will help you -to a happy life.</p> - -<p>E. B. H.—We should think that your weight was -about normal, if tall for your age. Has anyone -been teasing you about it? Don’t mind, you can -practise how to preserve a good temper under -difficulties. The name Emma is of very ancient -date. It comes from the Latin <i>amata</i>, signifying -loved; and was used as a name of honour in the -days of ancient Rome, when it was bestowed on -the newly-consecrated vestal by the high priest. -It is neither ugly nor common, so far as we can -see. You have been taking “chaff” too seriously.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Muriel.</span>—We suppose that the stains on the teacups -are caused by tea; if so, rubbing them well with -salt will take them off; and they will sometimes -come off when merely scraped with a knife.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Annie.</span>—A housemaid in a gentleman’s house would -need three cotton dresses, half-a-dozen linen, and -half-a-dozen lawn or muslin aprons, and a good -black gown for afternoon wear. If you are one of -two or three maids, you are under the upper housemaid, -and she will instruct you in your duties. -These would differ in every house respectively.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ayesha.</span>—Your writing is very fairly good. The -blue velveteen must be cleaned with benzine, or some -French chalk, which take out the grease—the latter -rubbed in on the wrong side.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Florence.</span>—Lawyer is a general term which comprehends -attorneys, solicitors, barristers, and advocates. -A barrister is a councillor, qualified and admitted to -plead at the Bar, and to take upon him the defence -of clients. He is also a conveyancer. An attorney-at-law -is an officer of a court of law, legally -qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such -court, on the retainer of clients. He answers to the -solicitor in Chancery, and the proctor in Ecclesiastical -and Admiralty courts, and all are comprehended -under the general term lawyer.</p> - -<p>C. H. M. B.—1. If calling on a lady living with her -brother, you would leave two of your husband’s -cards.—2. The lady herself, in calling on you, would, -of course, leave cards for her brother.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Floss.</span>—1. We are much obliged by your kind expression -of opinion concerning our paper.—2. The only -way to improve your writing is to go back to copies -and improve each letter as it comes.</p></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>[Transcriber’s Note—the following changes have been made to this text.</p> - -<p>Page 710: tho to those—“those made of”.</p> - -<p>Page 713: soverigns to sovereigns—“Nine hard sovereigns”.</p> - -<p>Page 714: Anne to Ann—“to cook and Ann”.</p> - -<p>Page 720: you to your—“your husband’s cards”.]</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. 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