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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. 1029, September 16, 1899 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: November 15, 2020 [EBook #63772] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER, SEPT 16, 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. 1029.] SEPTEMBER 16, 1899. [PRICE ONE PENNY. - - - - -ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY. - - -[Illustration: WRITING A NEW STORY FOR “THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER.”] - -_All rights reserved._] - - -In an age when many books on every sort of subject and vexed question -are being daily launched into the world, it is a relief to turn to the -pure, wholesome novels of Rosa Nouchette Carey, the popular authoress, -who has steadily held her ground with her public since the production -of her first book, _Nellie’s Memories_, composed and related verbally -to her sister, while yet in her teens, though not actually written -until some few years later. - -The youngest girl but one of a family of seven, and in her girlhood -delicate in health, which caused her education to be somewhat -desultory, Rosa Carey soon displayed an aptitude for composing fiction -and little plays which she and her sister acted, one of her chief -amusements being to select favourite characters from history and from -fiction, and trying to personify them, while her greatest pleasure -was to relate short stories to this same younger sister over their -needlework. It is a strange fact that, during her simple, happy, -uneventful girlhood, chiefly spent in reading, in writing poetry, and -in other girlish occupations, Rosa Carey, who was of a somewhat dreamy -and romantic disposition, feeling the impossibility of combining her -favourite pursuits with a useful domestic life, and discouraged by -her failures in this respect, made a deliberate and, as it afterwards -proved, a fruitless attempt to quench her longing to write. This -unnatural repression, however, of a strong instinct could not be -conquered, and after some years she yielded to it. - -She was born in London, near old Bow Church, but has no very distinct -remembrances of the house and place. Later, the family moved to -Hackney, into what was then a veritable country residence, and there -many happy years were spent. Her mother was a strict disciplinarian, -and very practical and clever, while her father was a man universally -beloved and respected, by reason of his singularly amiable character, -his integrity, and his many virtues. - -The next move was to Hampstead, where the young girl’s schooldays -began, and it was then that she met and formed a strong friendship -with the late Mathilde Blind, the talented author of _The Descent of -Man_, and translator of Marie Bashkirtseff’s Journal and other works. -This attachment, mutually enthusiastic and full of interest, was only -interrupted by a divergence of religious opinions. Rosa Carey, adhering -to the simple faith of her childhood, could not follow Mathilde Blind, -who was educated in the extreme school of modern free-thought, and the -friends, with sorrow but with yet unabated affection on each side, -drifted apart. - -Meanwhile, the large and happy family was being gradually broken up. -First the beloved father passed away. On the same day that, three -years before, had witnessed his death, their mother, too, was taken -to her rest, and shortly after, the two sisters went to Croydon, to -superintend their widowed brother’s home. Miss Carey’s real vocation -in life seemed to spring up, and the literary work was but fitfully -carried on, for, on the marriage of her sister to the Rev. Canon -Simpson, vicar of Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, and the subsequent -death of her brother, the sole charge of the young orphans devolved -upon her. - -As the years rolled by, circumstances tended to break up that home -also. The young people grew up and scattered, and out of Miss Carey’s -four charges three are now married. Then, her pleasurable duties being -accomplished, the partially disused pen was resumed, and the author -found leisure to return to literary pursuits. She has for the last -twelve years made her home in the ancient and historic village of -Putney, which, although it has lost much of its quaint and picturesque -environment since the destruction of the toll-house and the old bridge -of 1729, with its twenty narrow openings—erstwhile the delight of -artists—has yet a few “bits” left that have escaped the hands of the -Philistines. - -Miss Carey’s pretty red-brick house of the Queen Anne style of -architecture, and into which she has only more recently moved, is -situated near the bend of the road. A broad gravelled path, running -the whole length of the house in front, is bordered with shrubs and -flowering plants. The spacious hall opens on the right and front into -the chief living-rooms, the long French windows of which lead into -the conservatory. One of the great attractions of the commodious and -artistic residence is the pleasant garden at the back, at once the -pride and delight of the author, where countless blackbirds, thrushes, -and other singing-birds, are wont to congregate, and where in summer, -under the gigantic chestnut tree with its widely-spreading branches, -she and her home-mates spend many a happy hour. The home party consists -likewise of her widowed sister, Mrs. Simpson, and of her friend, Helen -Marion Burnside, the well-known poet and author of _The Deaf Girl Next -Door_, and of a lately-published volume entitled _Driftweed_. - -The drawing-room is bright and cheerful with its wide, lofty window, -and pretty side windows, its parquet floor liberally strewn with -Persian rugs, and its cosy corner hung with Oriental tapestries. Miss -Carey’s own study is upstairs, half-way up the wide staircase, and -overlooks the garden. There is an oak knee-hole writing-table, with -raised blotting-pad. On one side well-filled bookcases, here a low -spring couch, there lounging-chairs, big and little, and a cabinet -covered with photographs, together with vases of flowers, and many -little odds and ends of china. The whole is restful to the eye, -thoroughly comfortable and attractive. Amid these peaceful surroundings -Miss Carey writes her novels. She recalls to mind a little anecdote -connected with her earliest effort—_Nellie’s Memories_. With no -introduction, and quite unacquainted then with any publishers, she -took the MSS., with much trepidation, to Mr. Tinsley, who refused to -read it. This was a great disappointment, and some months later, she -mentioned the matter to Mrs. Westerton, of Westerton’s Library. This -kindly woman volunteered to induce him to change his mind, and did so -with such good effect that, on hearing at a wedding-party the reader’s -opinion was distinctly favourable, she hastened away from the festive -gathering to impart the good news to the young author, a kindness that -Miss Carey declares she “shall always remember with gratitude, and the -very dress that the good-natured messenger wore on the occasion is -stamped upon her recollection for evermore.” - -This pretty domestic story of English home-life found favour with the -public from the outset. It became widely known, and has been constantly -republished up to the present date. The girl-author’s name and fame -were made at once, at which no one seemed surprised but she. Old -and young alike “took to” the charming tale, free from any dramatic -incidents or mystery, owing to the unflagging interest, and the high -tone of the work, not to speak of the striking individuality of the -characters. _Wee Wifie_ followed, and the author, who alone pronounced -it to be a failure, actually refused at first to allow it to be brought -out again when demanded lately, as she feared it might not add to -her literary reputation, but upon being pressed, she re-wrote and -lengthened it, without, however, altering the plot, and it has passed -into a new edition. - -Among her succeeding novels, which are too well known to need more than -a passing comment, may be noted _Barbara Heathcote’s Trial_, _Robert -Ord’s Atonement_, _Wooed and Married_, _Heriot’s Choice_, and _Mary -St. John_. Ever anxious to do good and not harm, and to write books -that any mother can give her girls to read, Rosa Carey’s works are -characterised by a tendency to elevate to lofty aspirations, to noble -ideas, and to purity of thought. During her residence at Putney she -has also written _Lover or Friend_, _Only the Governess_, _The Search -for Basil Lyndhurst_, _Sir Godfrey’s Grand-daughters_, _The Old, Old -Story_, _The Mistress of Brae Farm_, and _Other People’s Lives_—a -collection of short stories—while her latest book is entitled _Mollie’s -Prince_. In THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER her short stories, which run serially -for six months, are well known and eagerly looked for. In these, -alike as in her longer works, the descriptive power, the fertility -of resource and originality, prove that unceasing interest can be -maintained while dwelling in a thoroughly healthy literary atmosphere. -The first chapters of a new story will appear in our next monthly part. - -It is clearly noticeable that while some of Rosa Carey’s earlier books -indicate a tone of sadness running through them—a circumstance that she -is somewhat inclined to regret, but they were tinged with many years -of sorrow—the healing hand of time has done its merciful work, and -she now writes in a more cheerful vein. Nor is there wanting a strong -sense of quiet fun and humour which especially permeates her delightful -novel _Not Like Other Girls_, a book that should surely stimulate many -young women to follow the example of the three plucky heroines therein -depicted with so much spirit. - -While never exactly forming plots, when Miss Carey is about to begin a -story, she thinks of one character, and works around that, meditating -well the while over the others to be introduced. Then she starts -writing, and soon gets so completely to live in and with her creations, -that she feels a sense of loss and blank when the book is coming to an -end, and while she has to wait until another grows in her mind. But, -after all, her writing—the real work of her life—has often to be made -a secondary consideration, for in her strong sense of family duty and -devotion, and being the pivot round which its many members turn in -sorrow or in sickness, the most important professional work is apt to -be laid aside if she can do aught to comfort or to relieve them. - -Nor have her sympathies been exclusively limited to her own people. -Ever fond of girls, and keenly interested in their welfare, Miss -Carey conducted for many years a weekly class that had been formed in -connection with the Fulham Sunday School for young girls and servants -over fifteen years of age, many of whom have had good reason to -remember with gratitude the kindly encouragement and the wise counsel -bestowed upon them by the gentle and sympathetic author, Rosa Nouchette -Carey. - - HELEN C. BLACK. - - - - -VARIETIES. - - -MANSIONS. - - “I am glad that His house hath mansions, - For I shall be tired at first, - And I’m glad He hath bread and water of life, - For I shall be hungry and thirst. - I am glad that the house is His, not mine, - For He will be in it, and near, - To take from me the grief I have brought, - And to wipe away every tear.” - - _T. O. Paine._ - - -DEATH THE GATE OF LIFE.—Plato, the great Athenian philosopher, who was -born 427 years before Christ, recognised the doctrine that death is -but the gate of life. “My body,” he says, “must descend to the place -ordained, but my soul will not descend. Being a thing immortal it will -ascend on high, where it will enter a heavenly abode. Death does not -differ at all from life.” - - -USELESS TROUBLE. - - “Why lose we life in anxious cares, - To lay in hoards for future years? - Can these, when tortured by disease, - Cheer our sick heart, or purchase ease? - Can these prolong one gasp of breath, - Or calm the troubled hour of death?” - - _Gay._ - - -WOMEN IN BURMA.—In Burma women are probably more free and happy than -they are anywhere else in the world. Though Burma is bounded on one -side by China, where women are held in contempt, and on the other by -India, where they are kept in the strictest seclusion, Burmese women -have achieved for themselves, and have been permitted by the men to -attain, a freedom of life and action that has no parallel amongst -Oriental peoples. Perhaps the secret lies in the fact that the Burmese -woman is active and industrious, whilst the Burmese man is indolent and -often a recluse. - - -SHE KNEW NOTHING OF CYCLES. - -Here is a story for cyclists. At a party on the Scottish Border last -autumn, to which many guests rode on their cycles, the hostess made -elaborate arrangements for the care of the machines, and a system of -ticketing similar to that in use at hotel cloak-rooms was adopted, each -cyclist being provided with a check ticket. - -The housekeeper was entrusted with the care of the machines and the -issuing of the tickets, and as they arrived the machines were carefully -stored and labelled so that there should be no difficulty when they -were required again. - -But the housekeeper was not a cyclist and did not understand the -mysteries of the pneumatic tyre. She pinned the labels on to the front -tyres of the machines, where they could best be seen, and took good -care that the pins were stuck well into the tyres. - -The language that was heard when the guests came to take their machines -away, was, as may well be supposed, more emphatic than polite. - - - - -THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. - -BY ISABELLA FYVIE MAYO, Author of “Other People’s Stairs,” “Her Object -in Life,” etc. - - -CHAPTER XXV. - -THE NEWS THAT CAME AT LAST. - -Mrs. Bray’s end did not prove so imminent as her faithful Rachel had -feared. She lingered on, though still unable to leave Bath for return -to her desolated home. So Florence Brand came back to London, but she -and Jem still often took “a week’s end” to run westward and visit the -old lady. They never offered to take Lucy with them, and if “Jem” could -not go Florence went alone. As for Lucy, she often yearned for those -associations with her old easy girlish life which she would have found -in Mrs. Bray’s presence. Such associations help to uphold our sense -of identity, and often comfort us by revealing our own growth. They -keep us tender, too, and tolerant, reviving the consciousness of what -we were ourselves before we learned bitter lessons which may not yet -have come to others. Also they strengthen us by revealing that not even -to regain our old careless joys could we willingly be again our old -careless selves. It is the “look backward” which best spurs us to go -forward. - -But Lucy could not afford any “unnecessaries” of leisure or railway -travel. She turned at once to her life of steady labour, knowing that -she must be henceforth a working woman, not for any temporary exigency, -but as part of the natural and persistent order of things. - -Even thus she had problems to solve. Her earned income, more or less -uncertain, was not adequate for the reliable upkeep of the home of her -married life. Nor could the demands upon it grow less, since Hugh’s -education and start in life had to be taken into account. - -Lucy could not yet give up all hope of her husband’s return. But her -sweet, sane nature speedily realised that whatever hopes she might -secretly cherish, she must nevertheless act as though Charlie had -indeed “sailed for that other shore” whence he “could not come back to -her.” - -Yet these secret hopes made it very hard to contemplate the surrender -of the home Charlie and she had made together—the sale of the -leasehold, the dispersion and shrinkage of the household gods. These -seemed almost sacred now when they might be all that remained of the -old life. - -The Brands warmly advocated giving up the house and selling off the -furniture. - -“It may not bring in much,” Florence said airily, “but what it does Jem -will get well invested in some paying concern. Then you and the boy -can board with somebody. You may do that moderately enough, for people -who are glad to take boarders can often be screwed down to low terms. -Then apart from that definite outlay, you’ll have whatever you can earn -for yourself, and you’ll have no more worry with housekeeping. Many -would envy such a lot. You see there are compensations in all things.” - -Then it struck Florence that Lucy’s hesitancy might arise from -reluctance to give up all hope of Charlie’s return, so she added -hastily— - -“And if what we all hope for should really happen, why, you would still -have your capital, and you could buy another leasehold and get new -furniture; it would just make a lovely new beginning!” - -Lucy shook her head. - -“I don’t want to do this if I can find some other way,” she said. “No -other house could be to us what this one is, nor any new furniture that -which Charlie and I bought bit by bit in our courting days. Practically -speaking, too, breakings-up and sales, and buyings again, all mean loss -in cash as well as in feelings.” - -“Then, too, if you and the boy were boarding,” Florence went on -hurriedly, “your wants would be drawn within narrow and defined limits, -so that if there was any sort of misfortune, it would not be difficult -for us to help you. We are not really rich, Lucy. We live as we do and -spend as we do only that we may go on getting more. That is the way -with one-half of the people in society. It’s trying. It tells upon Jem, -it’s that which makes him take so much wine,” she whispered. “I should -not like my family to heap any burdens on Jem.” - -“I shall not do that, Florence,” replied Lucy, cool and quiet now, -where once she would have been indignant and stung. “I shall certainly -not allow myself to get into debt. I will look well ahead. If we have -to go to the workhouse, I will make our own arrangements for going -there!” - -Other people took counsel with Lucy in a far different spirit. Miss -Latimer said Lucy might rely on her remaining with her as long as they -could possibly share a common home. That added her little income to the -household funds. “Little indeed,” she said, but Lucy answered— - -“Every little helps. And the greatest help is in the knowledge that one -does not bear one’s burden alone.” - -“Ay, two are better than one,” rejoined the old governess, “and a -threefold cord is not quickly broken.” - -“I’d like to be the third cord, but I’m only a bit of twine,” said Tom. - -Another and stouter strand was soon to be woven into the household -coil for that “long pull and strong pull” which Lucy was determined to -make. The death of his old landlord had broken up the house where Mr. -Somerset had hitherto lived. Diffidently, as if he were asking a great -favour, he inquired if Lucy could entertain the idea of allowing him to -rent her first floor, for which he was willing to pay a rent which at -once made a substantial addition to the household finance. - -As for poor Tom Black, he was distressed to think how small his -payments were. “If he went away,” he said, “somebody more profitable -might occupy his place.” Lucy had to reassure him by her own words and -by the sight of Hugh’s tears at the bare thought of “Tom’s going away.” - -Three months later Tom got a rise in his salary, and then he insisted -on raising his monthly board fee. Lucy was slightly reluctant and -almost aggrieved, but when she saw the lad’s face beaming with the -power of his new prosperity, she let him have his own way in the matter. - -So life settled down. Florence resented that her sister had chosen “to -turn into a lodging-house keeper.” Lucy marvelled to note how strangely -it “comes natural” to some women to belittle and contemn those ways of -honest industry which lie nearest to woman’s true nature—housekeeping, -house-serving, the care of the aged, and the young, and the solitary. -And, oh, the pity of it! if such belittlement and contempt tend to -relegate these high womanly functions only to unworthy “eye-servants”! - -Months passed, yet the silence of the seas remained unbroken. Now and -then Lucy and the captain’s wife wrote and asked how each fared. There -came no day when either drew a line across life and forbade that hope -should cross it. They did not put on widow’s mourning, yet when Lucy -had to buy a new dress or ribbon, Miss Latimer noticed that she bought -it of black or of soberest grey. - -Months of such waiting had gone by ere Lucy wonderingly observed -that there came to her no more her old nightmare vision of herself -struggling lonely between a wild heath and a dead wall against a -midnight storm. There was a sense in which the allegory of that vision -was converted into fact—the silence as of death on one hand, the great -rough world on the other, the storm of sorrow beating on herself. Yet -now she realised that God Himself was with her on the dark wild way—she -was not alone—and that made all the difference. God does not promise -to uphold us in our fears and forebodings. These ought not to be. He -has promised to be with us and to comfort us when the dark days shall -really come. - -Lucy never gave voice to many of her deepest experiences at that -time—that secret speech which the Father keeps for each of His -children. Sometimes it seemed to her as if shafts of light penetrated -her very being, revealing or illuminating the most solemn mysteries of -life. Sometimes she thought of Paul’s allusion to being “caught up into -the third heaven” and “hearing unspeakable words which it is not lawful -for a man to utter.” - -This fleeting glory would fade out of Lucy’s soul even as sunshine -fades off the earth. Yet Lucy felt that those “hours of insight” left -her seeing “all things new.” - -Lucy began to understand how martyrs can smile and speak cheerfully at -their stake, because from that standpoint their developed spiritual -stature lifts them to wider horizons than others know. What a message -the blue sky must have had for the white depths of the Colosseum! Yet -these things can never be told or written. Whoever would know them -must learn them for themselves, though it be but “in part.” But it is -because of these things that faith and hope and love have never died -out of the world, since all the forces of unfaith and despair and -cruelty end only in producing them afresh, because they are of the -eternal life of God. - -Lucy’s picture-dealer felt kindly towards the quiet client who gave -so little trouble, showed so little self-conceit, and, while steadily -business-like, was never exacting or suspicious. He thought “it would -do Mrs. Challoner no harm” if he told her that one or two purchasers -had said, “There is something in that lady’s sketches which we miss -in many greater artists,” one old lady adding that “when she looked -at Lucy’s pictures, she felt as if there was a soft voice beside her -whispering something pleasant.” - -That brought the tears to Lucy’s eyes and made her feel very humble, -possibly because she could not deny to herself that there was truth in -the gracious words. Oh, to have Charlie again, and yet to be all that -she had grown into since he had gone away—since this awful silence! And -an inner voice bade her take cheer, for was not this what was sure to -happen here or there—sooner or later? - -“What a pitiful bliss we should make for ourselves if we were left to -do it without God!” Lucy cried, thinking even of the sweetest dreams -of courting days, the best aspirations of married life. For after one -taste of “the peace which passeth understanding,” one vision of the joy -which has absorbed the strength of sorrow into it, mere “happiness” -looks but a poor thing, even as a child’s cheap, pretty toy shows -beside a masterpiece of genius. - -Lucy’s slumbers now were deep and calm. Almost every morning she awoke -with a sense of refreshment, as when one returns to labour after being -among kind hearts in lovely places. Sometimes she knew she had dreamed, -and such dream memories as lingered, elusive, for a few waking moments, -were always bright and cheering. Visions of Charlie had come during -the first nights after the great blow. He never seemed to speak, but -he was always smiling, always confident that all was well and would be -well. His dream form always appeared in positions and in scenes which -Lucy could recall as having figured in peculiarly happy times. And yet -these scenes had been at the time so slight and evanescent that Lucy -had quite forgotten them till the dream revived the remembrance. It was -as if, in her sleep, her soul was drawn so near the light and warmth of -love that even the invisible records of memory started into view. - -After those first few occasions Charlie came no more into any dream -which she could recall even at the instant of waking. But the soothing -spirit of hope and reassurance remained. If she dreamed of Florence, -Florence wore the simple frocks of her girlhood and spoke as she used -to do. Jem Brand, too, appeared only on his kind and helpful side. Once -she had a curious dream of seeing two Jem Brands exactly alike, save -that one was fresh and smiling and friendly, and inclined to nudge his -strange dissipated-looking twin, and to ask why he was so grumpy and -heavy. In her sleep, too, she saw Mrs. Morison, and Jane Smith, and -Clementina, and each was back in her old place and doing well. Lucy -could never remember what passed between them and her in the land of -sleep, but somehow she knew it was something that explained things, -something which made them feel that the past could not have ended -otherwise than it had, but which also made her feel that it was quite -natural that they should begin again and do better. - -She thought to herself once as she awoke— - -“I feel as if wherever Charlie is I am in his every thought, and that -his every thought is a prayer always ascending on every way by which it -can bring back blessing.” - -It was about this time that it struck Lucy that strangers very -often spoke to her. She scarcely ever entered an omnibus or a -railway carriage without somebody appealing to her for some trifling -assistance, or confiding to her some little difficulty which they -seemed to think might grow clearer if it were talked over. Once or -twice she noticed that old folks or little children let ever so many -people pass them by and then asked her to ring a stiff bell for them or -to decipher an address. - -Sometimes she caught herself softly repeating Adelaide Proctor’s lines— - - “Who is the angel that cometh? - Pain! - Let us arise and go forth to greet him. - Not in vain - Is the summons gone for us to meet him; - He will stay and darken our sun; - He will stay - A desolate night, a weary day. - Since in that shadow our work is done, - And in that shadow our crowns are won, - Let us say still, while his bitter chalice - Slowly into our heart is poured— - ‘Blessed is he that cometh - In the name of the Lord!’” - -Of course beneath all this high experience ran the undercurrent of -simple daily living. Lucy was in no danger of losing hold of the -practical. She had her regular duties at the Institute, and many little -opportunities for the exercise of tact and common sense at home. -The little household had a real organic unity in its common service -of true friendship, but that did not rub off all the little human -angles. Sometimes Pollie would say that “Mrs. May was more particular -than a real mistress.” Sometimes Miss Latimer found a trial in the -romps of Hugh and Tom Black. Mr. Somerset adopted vegetarianism and -puzzled Mrs. May by desiring her to concoct dishes which seemed to her -unsatisfactory and uncanny. But each trusted the other. Everybody knew -that everybody meant well. If a sharp word were spoken unwarily, a kind -word followed hard upon it. Each understood that all joys and trials -were common property; shares therein might differ, but everybody had a -share. - -So the weeks grew into months, and the months completed a year. One -evening Lucy was sitting in the dining-room glancing over her completed -balance sheet with its tiny “surplus,” when suddenly it seemed to her -that there was a new sound in the very rumble of the cab which was -depositing Mr. Somerset as usual at the door, after his day’s study at -the British Museum. She looked up, her pen in her hand listening. - -Mr. Somerset generally went straight to his own apartments. -Occasionally, however, when he had any news to tell or any request to -make, he looked in upon the little party in the dining-room. - -He did so now. - -He sat down on the sofa and said abruptly— - -“Mrs. Challoner, do you think joy ever hurts anybody?” - -“Surely not,” she said, looking up with wide eyes. “The Bible says that -hope deferred maketh the heart sick, but that when the desire cometh, -it is a tree of life.” - -“Do you feel sure, dear friend, that you could bear——” - -She had risen from her seat with clasped hands. - -“Mr. Somerset, Mr. Somerset!” she gasped. - -He rose too. - -“Trust me,” he said, gently leading her mind to its new attitude. “I -would not stir expectation ever so lightly for nothing. To-day I have -received a message from the shipping office to deliver to you. Listen! -The long looked-for word has come at last. Charlie lives! Charlie is -quite well! Charlie is coming home! He is on his way!” - -Lucy did not faint. She did not cry out. She sat quite quiet for a -moment, and then broke into a peal of low happy laughter, which died -away in a flood of soft healing tears, from which she looked up and -said— - -“Is it all true? Is it quite true? I can scarcely believe it!” - -(_To be continued._) - - - - -THE PLEASURES OF BEE-KEEPING. - -BY F. W. L. SLADEN. - - -PART V. - -August is the month we most associate with all the active interests of -the height of summer, but the bees in the hive are already quieting -down and making preparations for their long winter sleep. The duty -of the bee-keeper will be to make sure that these preparations are -properly carried out by assisting them if necessary. One reason -for their diminished activity is the disappearance of several -honey-producing flowers on which the bees depend for their main crop. -Breeding is not kept up so largely—the brood nest growing smaller; -and many cells that contained brood last month will now be filled up -with honey and pollen. Most of the bees now in the hive are to survive -the coming winter, and they must preserve their energies as much as -possible, because the colony will stand in great need of their services -in the following spring. The drones, who gather no honey, and are of no -further use in the hive are now attacked and killed, or turned out of -the hive to perish from exposure. The ejection of the drones is rather -a gruesome proceeding, but it is one that should give satisfaction to -the bee-keeper, because it shows that the colony possesses a healthy -and vigorous queen, and this, of course, is an essential condition for -its well-being. - -All through this month robbing will have to be guarded against, as, now -that honey is scarce, it is easily induced, especially where there are -a number of hives. To prevent robbing, the hives should not be opened -too often, and then only late in the afternoon, and the work done as -speedily as possible. No drops of honey or syrup should be left about, -and if feeding is going on, care should be taken to prevent any bees -from outside getting to the feeder. - -When robbing and fighting are found to be in progress, the best means -of checking the trouble will be to reduce the entrance of the hive with -perforated zinc, so as to allow only one bee to pass in or out at a -time. A rag soaked in a weak solution of Calvert’s No. 5 carbolic acid, -wrung out nearly dry, and spread out on the alighting board will also -help to keep the robbers off. - -These measures need not be taken unless there is considerable -excitement around the hive entrance. At this time of year there will -often be a few strangers on the alighting board, which get pulled about -rather roughly by little groups of over-zealous sentinels, but no -notice need be taken of this. - -The middle or end of August will be time enough to think about getting -the bees into condition for the winter. A careful inspection of all the -hives should now be made, and the following points carefully noted: - -(1.) Every colony should have a good laying queen. The appearance of -worker brood in all stages will be sufficient evidence of her presence -without our taking the trouble to hunt her up. - -(2.) The colony must be strong, the bees crowding on at least six -standard frames. - -(3.) The combs must contain not less than twenty pounds of good honey -for food during the winter. - -These three conditions being fulfilled, we may be satisfied that the -colony is in good condition to withstand the rigours of winter without -further attention, and only requires to be wrapped up warmly later on -before the advent of cold weather. - -If, however, the colony should happen to be queenless, or weak (that -is, covering less than six standard frames), it will have to be -_united_ to another colony. Thus, two colonies, neither of which, -alone, would be strong enough to stand the winter, can be united -together to form one strong colony, which, if properly looked after, -will almost certainly turn out strong in the spring and do well the -following year. - -The colonies which are to be united should stand near to one another; -by this I mean within a yard or two of one another. If they are further -apart or have several other hives standing between them, they will have -to be brought together, the moving being done by degrees, a yard or -two at a time, and only on fine days during which the bees fly freely, -otherwise many bees will be lost. - -For the operation of uniting a flour-dredger will be required, -containing about half-a-pint of flour. Also a goose-wing for brushing -the bees off the combs. The dome queen-cage is an appliance that may -come in useful. It is made of tinned wire-cloth, and shaped like the -strainer that is sometimes hung from the spout of a tea-pot to retain -the leaves. Such tea-strainers make very good queen-cages. To use the -queen-cage it is pressed into the comb with the queen inside. - -The hive to contain the united colonies should be placed midway between -the two old stands. The alighting-boards should be extended by means of -the hiving-board which was used in hiving the swarm. - -A bright calm afternoon will be the best time to do the uniting. We -have already seen that bees belonging to different colonies when mixed -will not, under ordinary circumstances, agree. If, however, they are -prevented from recognising one another they will unite together quite -peaceably, and this condition may be brought about by dusting them -over with flour. Every comb must therefore be lifted out of both hives -and the bees on them well powdered with flour from the dredger. In -replacing the combs, one from one hive should be put next to another -from the other hive, thus ensuring the better mixing of the bees. Combs -containing brood should be placed together in the middle of the hive. -The bees on the lightest of the outside combs may be shaken off on to -the hiving-board, where they should receive a sprinkling of flour, the -combs being then taken indoors at once. - -During the operation a sharp look out should be kept for the queens on -the brood combs, and if one of them should be preferred for heading -the new colony she should be caged by herself on a comb in the manner -described above to prevent any hostile workers from attacking her. The -other queen must then be found and removed, and the bee-keeper must -remember to liberate the caged queen on the following day. If left to -themselves, however, the workers soon learn to recognise one of the -queens as their mother, so that the trouble of finding and caging the -queen is not really necessary in uniting, but it is an additional -safeguard which the practised bee-keeper is glad to be able to take -advantage of. - -It was stated just now that the presence of _worker_-brood in the hive -was sufficient evidence of the presence of a good queen. In some cases -where there is a bad queen or no queen at all, _drone_-brood may be -found in the hive. Usually the bees build a special comb with cells -of a larger pattern for raising drone-brood in, but a bad queen will -often lay drone eggs in worker-cells. In either case drone-brood may -be known from worker-brood by its raised convex cappings, the capping -over the worker-brood being almost flat. The best thing to do with a -drone-raising colony is to unite it to another good colony without -delay in the manner described above. - -Having settled the question of strength, the next thing to see about -will be the food supply. If each hive does not possess the minimum -weight of 20 lb. of stored honey, combs containing food must be given -from another hive that can spare them, or syrup must be supplied -through the feeder. - -Syrup for winter use must be made thicker than that used for -stimulating in the summer, 10 lbs. of cane sugar being dissolved in -only 5 pints of water. The syrup must be given quickly (5 or 6 lb. -every day), otherwise much of it may be used for raising brood. For -this purpose special rapid feeders, made to hold 6 lb. of syrup, are -made. - -If the stock-box contains more than 30 lb. of honey, we may take and -extract the surplus from the outside combs, or one of these combs might -with advantage be given to a colony that stands in need of it. - -Bee-keepers who live in the heather districts of Scotland and the north -of England will now be reaping the late honey harvest that this plant -affords, getting their supers filled with the delicious heather-honey, -which is so highly esteemed for its fine flavour. Persons keeping a few -colonies a little distance from the moors find it worth their while to -send their bees there while the heather is in bloom. Heather-honey has -a deep colour. It is so thick that it is extremely difficult to remove -it from the comb by means of the honey extractor. It should therefore -be stored in sections, as these do not require extracting. Sections of -heather-honey should fetch about threepence more than ordinary sections. - -What to do with the honey obtained from their bees is a question, I -expect, that will not trouble many of my readers. Still it will be a -good thing to know some of the uses of honey. In the first place it -is delicious eaten with bread and butter. It contains grape sugar, -which makes it wholesome and easily digested, and particularly good -for children in moderate quantities. Honey-vinegar and mead when well -made are acknowledged to be excellent. As an ingredient in cakes and -confectionary, honey greatly improves them. A delicious flavour is -imparted to tea or coffee if sweetened with honey instead of sugar. “My -son, eat thou honey, because it is good” (Proverbs xxiv. 13) is the -recommendation the wise King Solomon gave honey. - -Honey is also valuable as a medicine. Mixed with the juice of lemons -it is universally acknowledged to be one of the best remedies for sore -throat and cough. It has been proved to be beneficial in cases of -rheumatism, hoarseness, and affections of the chest. - -(_To be concluded._) - - - - -THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN LONDON ROOMS. - - -CHAPTER X. - -Marion’s wedding-day was near at hand. Mrs. Grant, her cousin, who -lived in Norfolk Square, had very kindly offered to have the wedding -from her house, and this arrangement was the most convenient for -everybody concerned. It had been at first intended that she should be -married from her own home in Northamptonshire, but there would have -been such a difficulty in putting up all the wedding guests, and Dr. -Thomas’s house was already a very full one. So when Mrs. Grant offered -the loan of her house for the occasion it was thankfully accepted. - -Marion was glad to be in London for a week or two beforehand as she -was so busy with her _trousseau_, and it made the shopping and trying -on of dresses so much more easy. Her mother came up to town to stay in -Norfolk Square for a fortnight before the wedding to help her with her -purchases. The rest of the family were coming up for the wedding on the -day and were going back to the country as soon as it was over. - -Marion was disappointed at not being married from her own home, but she -saw plainly that the present arrangement would save her mother a great -deal of fatigue and inconvenience, and as Mrs. Thomas was not at all -strong now, that was a great point gained. Anybody who has experienced -the difficulties of making ready for a party, added to the planning and -contriving necessary to the disposal of guests in an already over-full -house, will heartily appreciate the benefits of Mrs. Grant’s plan. - -Jane wrote to Mrs. Grant, whom she knew very well, and offered help -for the wedding breakfast. As the cook in Norfolk Square had not been -in her place very long and was rather inexperienced, Mrs. Grant was -very glad to agree to Jane’s suggestion. The wedding was to be on a -Saturday. Fortunately the day before was a free day for Jane, and so -she would be able to devote it to making ready for the wedding. - -There was to be a sit-down breakfast in the old-fashioned style, for -the guests were limited to the relations and very old friends of the -bride and bridegroom, and as several of these would be coming up from -the country for the day, they would be glad of a substantial repast. -The bride was to be married in a travelling dress, and was only to have -one bridesmaid—her sister Lily. - -As the weather was already crisp and cold this was a very sensible -plan, for nothing is more unbecoming than the utterly unseasonable -attire in which brides and bridesmaids are sometimes seen shivering. -Fortunately Marion was not to go straight to a very hot climate, as -Mr. Scott had work at Ootacamund for the next year. She received many -delightful presents. A very useful one from one of her pupils was a -cookery-book for Anglo-Indians, which she treasured very much, as she -knew how very useful it would be to her in her new home. - -Mrs. Holden gave her several presents, amongst which was some very -beautiful lace which Marion had made up on a white silk dinner dress. - -The enterprising Jane made the wedding-cake with Ada’s help. She had -to buy a special tin to bake it in as she had not one big enough. It -was cooked with the greatest care in the gas oven in which Marion had -prepared so many meals in the days of their joint housekeeping. - -The preparations took some days, for Jane had not very much time just -then. She prepared half the fruit one evening and half the next. On -the next afternoon she got home early, made the cake, and got it into -the oven by six o’clock, and had it baked before they went to bed. The -next evening she put on the almond icing and the plain royal icing, and -on the next she ornamented it. It was allowed two or three days to set -quite firm, and then the cake was wrapped in wadding, packed in a box -and taken over to Norfolk Square in a cab, where it was kept under a -glass case until the wedding. Our readers must have the recipe of this -wonderful cake in case they may wish to emulate Jane’s industry for the -benefit of their friends. Mrs. Oldham sent up a special box of eggs for -its concoction. - - -MARION’S WEDDING CAKE. - -_Ingredients._—Two pounds of Vienna flour, one pound of French plums, -one pound of sultanas, one pound of currants, one pound of citron peel, -one and three-quarter pounds of fresh butter, one and a half pounds of -castor sugar, ten eggs, one pound of sweet almonds, and vanilla essence. - -_For the Almond Icing._—Two pounds of ground almonds, three pounds of -castor sugar, almond flavouring, enough beaten egg to bind. - -_Royal Icing._—Three pounds of icing sugar, whites of egg to mix, lemon -juice. - -_Method._—Rub the flour through a hair sieve, stone the French plums -and chop them finely, wash and dry the currants, and pick and flour the -sultanas; cut up the peel, sift the sugar, blanch and chop the almonds. -Beat the butter to a cream, and then add the sugar and work together -until very light; add the eggs one by one, flour the fruit well, and -stir it in gradually, the almonds also: lastly, stir in the flour, the -essence, and the brandy. Line a tin with paper that has been brushed -with clarified butter; pour in the mixture, and bake in a moderate oven. - -_Almond Icing._—Mix the ground almonds and castor sugar together and -then work in enough beaten white of egg to bind; knead and roll out, -lay over the cake and put near the fire to dry. - -_Royal Icing._—Rub the icing sugar through a sieve and work in with -a wooden spoon enough white of egg to make the icing of the right -consistency to spread over the cake; add a little lemon juice. Dry the -icing in a cool oven, taking care it does not colour. Ornament the cake -the next day, using royal icing mixed rather more stiffly than that -which was spread over first. Put it on with a forcer. - - * * * * * - -Jane declared that she only breathed freely when she had deposited the -cake in Mrs. Grant’s house, and saw it waiting for the wedding under a -large glass globe! - -Here we have the menu for the wedding breakfast. - - -MENU DU DÉJEUNER. - - Ox-tail Soup. - Oyster Patties. - Glazed Pheasants. - Pigeon Pie. - Tongue. - Pistachio Cream. - Claret Jelly. - Fruits. - Coffee. - -The cook at Norfolk Square and Jane both worked hard all the day before -and everything turned out very well. To ensure the pheasants and the -tongue being well glazed and looking nice, Jane made some good glaze -and brought it with her. This she did by making a pint of good beef-tea -and boiling it rapidly down to a thick syrup. The pheasants and the -tongue had each two coats brushed on and were then suitably ornamented, -the tongue with a pretty design in creamed butter put on with a forcer -and slices of notched cucumber laid round the dish. The tongue was a -smoked one and was soaked for twenty-four hours before being cooked. -Jane made all the puff pastry for the patties and the pigeon pie; the -cook made the soup, cooked the pheasants and the tongue and prepared -the inside of the pie under her supervision. She also prepared the -moulds for the creams and jellies. Here are the recipes for the soup, -patties, creams, and jellies. The quantity made consisted of two quarts -of soup, two dozen patties, two creams (quart moulds), two jellies -(ditto), and two pies. - - -OX-TAIL SOUP. - -_Ingredients._—One ox-tail, one carrot, one turnip, two onions, two -sticks of celery, two tomatoes, four mushrooms, bay-leaf, blade of -mace, a bunch of herbs, twelve peppercorns, two teaspoonfuls of salt, -two quarts of stock, two ounces of butter, three ounces of brown -thickening. - -_Method._—Cut the ox-tail into joints and blanch it. Fry it well in the -butter, add the vegetables washed and sliced, the mace, herbs, salt, -and the stock, and simmer four hours. Strain and pick out the pieces of -meat; take off the fat and return to the saucepan. Thicken with three -ounces of brown thickening. Put in the pieces of ox-tail and the soup -is ready. - - -PUFF PASTRY. - -_Ingredients._—Two pounds of Vienna flour, two pounds of butter, lemon -juice, water to mix, two yolks of eggs. - -_Method._—Rub the flour through a hair sieve; wash the butter and rub -one-third into the flour. Turn this on to the paste-board and make a -well in the middle. Beat the yolks of two eggs with a gill of water -and a little lemon juice and mix into the flour, adding more water if -necessary until you have a flexible dough. Roll out to a strip, shape -the butter to a third the size of the dough and lay it on; fold the -dough over and roll out; repeat this and put it away to cool. Roll -out again and repeat this four times. Roll out, cut as required, and -use. For patties, cut into rounds with a cutter about the size of a -wine-glass and mark it at the top with a smaller cutter. Bake in a very -hot oven a pale golden brown, and when baked lift off the lid and scoop -out the inside; fill with the required mixture and put on the lid again. - -_Mixture for Oyster Patties._—Strain the liquor from two dozen oysters -and put it to boil for ten minutes with a blade of mace, three -peppercorns, a little lemon rind, and some salt; strain and mix with a -gill of cream. Work half an ounce of butter with as much cornflour as -it will take up, stir it into the liquor and boil up over the fire; cut -the oysters in small pieces, put them into the sauce and heat gently -for a few minutes without letting it boil again. - - -PISTACHIO CREAM. - -_Ingredients._—One pint of double cream, the whites of two fresh -eggs, four ounces of castor sugar, a quarter of a pound of pistachios -(chopped and blanched), one ounce of leaf gelatine, two tablespoonfuls -of water, a half-pint packet of lemon jelly. - -_Method._—Take a plain round cake-mould that will hold a quart, and -line the sides of it with lemon jelly. Sprinkle the bottom over with -chopped pistachio, using a little melted jelly to set it. Whip a pint -of double cream to a stiff froth, and mix it lightly with the stiffly -beaten whites of two fresh eggs and the castor sugar (sifted). Pound -the pistachios in a mortar, and add the sweetened cream to this. Have -ready the gelatine, and when it is lukewarm stir it quickly into the -cream. Pour at once into the prepared mould. - -Before the wedding-day, Jane, Ada, and Marion had a little tea-party at -“The Rowans,” at which it must be confessed they talked a great deal -and ate very little. - -“Well, we have had a very happy year at all events,” said Ada, “and if -_circumstances_ had not upset our previous arrangements, I should have -been quite content to go on in the same way for a long time.” - -“As _circumstances_, named Tom Scott and Jack Redfern, intervened, our -housekeeping is at an end,” said Jane decisively. “I think I am the one -to whom all apologies should be made. Of course, with you two gone, I -could not bear starting the same sort of thing again with anyone else, -but it has certainly been a most successful experiment. Has your dress -come home yet, Marion?” - -“Yes; and fits very well.” - -“It is the prettiest dress you can imagine,” said Jane to Ada. “A grey -Sicilienne skirt, with a grey glacé silk bodice, and cherry-coloured -velvet at the throat and waist. A dear little cherry-coloured toque to -wear with it, and a smart grey velvet cape with a delicate design in -steel on it. I can’t help talking like a fashion plate when I think of -it! Our dresses are sent back at last, and there is nothing that needs -alteration.” - -Jane and Ada were to wear their new winter dresses of green cashmere -and brown velvet; big brown “picture” hats with rowans under the brim. -Marion’s wedding-day dawned bright and sunny. The wedding was to be at -two o’clock. - -Jane had arranged to go over to Norfolk Square early to superintend -the laying of the breakfast before the party went to church. The -table was decorated with white flowers in specimen vases. Azaleas, -chrysanthemums, and orange-blossoms, and sprigs of rowan-berries were -laid on the pretty white satin table-centre which Ada had worked for -her friend. - -And now they are off to church. - -Marion makes a charmingly pretty but very nervous bride. Everybody is -bright and cheerful and there are no tears. Soon they come back and sit -down to the breakfast, prepared with so much care. And now the time has -come for us to bid farewell to our young housekeepers, whose plans and -contrivances our readers have followed for so long. If their example -will induce any to try the experiment for themselves, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. -Redfern, and Miss Jane Orlingbury will feel that they have not worked -in vain. - -[THE END.] - -[Illustration] - - - - -LETTERS FROM A LAWYER. - - -PART XI. - - The Temple. - -MY DEAR DOROTHY,—As you are one of the members of the committee for the -bazaar in aid of the Nursing Home for Old People, I may be able to give -you a few useful hints to avoid certain illegalities which beset the -path of the unwary promoters of such charitable entertainments. - -The great feature of a big bazaar should consist in having as many side -shows as possible, so that people may be able, by the expenditure of a -shilling or two, to escape from the importunities of the stall-holders -into a concert-room, waxwork show, or other attraction, and not be -driven out of the bazaar altogether. - -If you want to have anything in the nature of a farce, operetta -or comedietta played in the building, you ought to inquire if the -hall which you are going to hire for the bazaar has a licence for -stage-plays. If it has not such a licence, the performers and those -responsible for the entertainment will render themselves liable to a -fine, unless the proper licence is secured. - -Fish-ponds, bran-pies, lucky tubs, and similar contrivances, are -doubtless, strictly speaking, illegal, but are always tolerated at -bazaars, where people do not expect to get the value of their money; -but it is advisable to draw the line at roulette tables or anything in -the nature of a real gamble or a lottery. - -On the last day of the bazaar, it is often the custom to sell off the -undisposed-of stock of the stalls by auction. The person who holds -the auction should be a person having an auctioneer’s licence to sell -by auction, otherwise trouble may ensue, as the auctioneers have -recently made a determined stand against unqualified persons acting as -auctioneers. - -I think that these are the principal errors into which people who get -up bazaars are liable to fall; but perhaps I ought to enlarge a little -more upon stage-plays and the necessity for having a licence for their -performance. - -It is almost impossible to give any kind of a variety concert without -unwittingly performing what is the legal equivalent of a stage-play; -any song with dramatic action is a stage-play, and so are duologues and -monologues, as distinguished from recitations. - -Some people have an idea that so long as they do not take any money -at the doors, they are quite safe and within the law in giving a -performance in the cause of charity, but such is not the case. When -money or other reward is taken or charged, directly or indirectly, or -when the purchase of any article is made a condition for admission, the -performers and the owner or occupier of the building render themselves -liable to a fine. - -This may sound very alarming, and would, no doubt, considerably -startle those good ladies who lend their houses for performances -for charitable objects in the season; but every time they do so, and -anything in the nature of a stage-play is performed, they may be -prosecuted and fined, although personally they take no benefit from -such performances. The fact that they frequently do so with impunity -does not affect the law on the matter, which is perfectly clear. Why -it has not been altered before now, I am unable to say; hardly a day -passes without its being broken, exemplifying the old proverb that “one -man may steal a horse from a stable, and another may not look over the -hedge.” - -I know of a case where a gentleman who had turned part of his house -into the Theatre Royal back drawing-room, and who permitted a -performance of a play to be given on two occasions, to which admission -was by ticket only, which could be obtained beforehand on payment -of a fixed sum, in aid of the funds of a charity, was convicted and -fined under the Act. The gentleman appealed against the conviction, -but without success; the conviction was confirmed by the Court of the -Queen’s Bench. So be warned, my dear Dorothy, and do not allow your -friends to disregard my advice, and be assured that it is much better -to avoid these risky entertainments altogether. - - Your affectionate cousin, - BOB BRIEFLESS. - - - - -OUR LILY GARDEN. - -PRACTICAL AIDS TO THE CULTURE OF LILIES. - -BY CHARLES PETERS. - - -[Illustration: _Lilium Tigrinum_ (var. _Fortunei_).] - -We will conclude our remarks on the noble family of lilies by some -notes and tables, which will be found of great value to those who wish -to cultivate these beautiful flowers. - -We told you in the first part of this book that we kept a note-book—a -kind of diary—in which we kept a record of our work among the lilies. -We advise everyone who intends to grow these plants to follow our -example, and get a large manuscript book to put down the “proceedings” -of her lilies. The following points should be noted. (1.) The name -of the species and variety. (2.) The name of the person from whom -you obtained the bulb. (3.) The day on which the bulb was planted, -with a note as to the condition of the weather at the time. (4.) The -circumference of the bulb, and a brief description of it, stating -whether the flower-spike had begun to grow, or the new roots had -appeared, or if any scales were mouldy or diseased. (5.) The soil in -which the lily was planted. (6.) The date of the appearance of the -shoot. (7.) The date of flowering. (8.) A brief description of the -full-grown plant and its individual members. (9.) The condition of the -bulb when exhumed. - -Here is an example of the record of a bulb of _L. Auratum_. - -“_Lilium Auratum_, var. _Platyphyllum_, bought from Mr. ——. Potted -on the 3rd of November, 1897; a warm, dry day. Bulb seven inches in -circumference; new roots just appearing. A sound, heavy bulb. One -mouldy scale removed. Washed in lime-water; sprinkled with charcoal and -potted in an eight-inch pot in a mixture of fine peat (one part), rich -leaf-mould (two parts), a large handful of sand and a few small lumps -of clay. Shoot appeared March 17th, 1898; grew rapidly. No disease. -Flowered September 4th, 1898; five blossoms, all perfect, largest -eleven and a half inches across. No rain when in flower. Lasted in -blossom till September 20th, 1898. Bulb when exhumed quite healthy, -showing two crowns nine and a quarter inches in diameter. Exhumed and -replanted October 21st, 1898.” - -If you have a record like this of every lily, you possess a most -valuable book on the culture of lilies; and, as we said at first, the -cultivation of these plants is little understood. - -A thoroughly authentic, practical record will help you more to become -proficient in the art of lily-growing than any amount of impracticable -theory. - -Now some words to those who are growing lilies in pots. As we have -seen, most species grow well in pots. All do well except the following, -which are unsuitable for pot culture. The reason why they are suitable -is also given. - -_L. Cordifolium_ (too straggling). - -All the _Isolirions_, because they are not sufficiently ornamental for -pot culture. - -_L. Humboldti._ This lily does not do well in pots; why we do not know. - -_L. Martagon_, _L. Pomponium_, _L. Pyrenaicum_, _L. Chalcedonicum_, _L. -Monodelphum_, _L. Testaceum_. - -The last six lilies are unsuitable for pot culture because they require -to become established before they will condescend to flower. - -Most lilies grown in pots can be kept in the open air or in a room, or -anywhere you please, but the following require protection of some sort:— - -Half-hardy species. These should not be put out in frosty weather; -otherwise they may be grown out of doors. If you have planted them -in the ground at a sufficient depth, they will stand all but a very -severe winter. _L. Giganteum_, _L. Cordifolium_, _L. Formosanum_, _L. -Wallichianum_, _L. Washingtonianum_, _L. Catesbæi_, _L. Polyphyllum_, -_L. Roseum_, _L. Hookeri_, _L. Oxypetalum_, _L. Alexandræ_. - -The following usually need a greenhouse to grow them well:—_L. -Philippinense_, _L. Neilgherrense_, _L. Nepaulense_, _L. Lowi_. - -Would you like to have lilies in pots in your room? You can have them -even if you do not possess a greenhouse. You can grow the lilies in -the ground and transfer them to pots just before they begin to flower. -For this purpose plant the bulbs in the open ground in rather lighter -soil than you would if the lilies were to flower in the open. Place the -bulbs about four inches deep. You need not remove the plant until the -flower-buds are nearly fully developed. Then take up the lily with the -surrounding earth, place it in a big pot, drench it with water, and -leave it in a cool, shady place for three days. Then give it a good -dose of liquid manure. You may then take it into your room, and it will -flower as though nothing had troubled the tranquillity of its existence. - -Not all lilies are suitable for this treatment; only those species -which will grow in light soils should be used for this purpose. _L. -Longiflorum_, _L. Auratum_, _L. Speciosum_, and _L. Rubellum_ are most -suitable for this form of culture. - -About the beginning of November all your lilies in pots will have -flowered and died down. What are you to do with them now? - -Shake the bulbs out of the pots; examine them; remove any off-shoots; -do _not_ cut off the roots; wash them in lime-water and re-pot without -delay. - -Lilies do not rest during the winter. The pots should be kept in a -place which is not too wet. The pots must not be kept too dry, but an -occasional watering should be administered. - -We append a list of the lilies, giving the exact composition of the -soil in which we have grown them best, both in the open air and in -pots. An asterisk is affixed to the most desirable species. - -Grown in a mixture of one part peat, two parts leaf-mould, and a good -sprinkling of sand: - - *1. _L. Longiflorum._ - 2. _L. Formosanum._ - *3. _L. Auratum._ - *4. _L. Speciosum._ - *5. _L. Krameri._ - 6. _L. Rubellum._ - 7. _L. Henryi._ - 8. _L. Medeoloides._ - -Grown in a mixture of equal parts of peat and leaf-mould, with plenty -of sand: - - *9. _L. Leichtlini._ - 10. _L. Maximowiczi._ - 11. _L. Catesbæi._ - 12. _L. Wallacei._ - *13. _L. Canadense._ - *14. _L. Parvum._ - *15. _L. Maritimum._ - *16. _L. Superbum._ - *17. _L. Roezlii._ - *18. _L. Pardalinum._ - 19. _L. Californicum._ - -Grown in equal parts of rich loam and leaf-mould, enriched with the -contents of an old hot-bed, but with no peat and very little sand: - - *20. _L. Candidum._ - 21. _L. Washingtonianum._ - *22. _L. Humboldti._ - *23. _L. Pomponium._ - *24. _L. Martagon._ - *25. _L. Pyrenaicum._ - 26. _L. Callosum._ - 27. _L. Carniolicum._ - *28. _L. Chalcedonicum._ - *29. _L. Monodelphum._ - -Grown in soil like the last, but with a fair admixture of peat: - - *30. _L. Giganteum._ - 31. _L. Cordifolium._ - *32. _L. Wallichianum._ - *33. _L. Parryi._ - *34. _L. Japonicum Odorum._ - *35. _L. Brownii._ - *36. _L. Tigrinum._ - 37. _L. Bulbiferum._ - *38. _L. Batmanniæ._ - 39. _L. Elegans._ - *40. _L. Croceum._ - 41. _L. Davuricum._ - *42. _L. Columbianum._ - 43. _L. Tenuifolium._ - 44. _L. Concolor._ - 45. _L. Hansoni._ - -The following species have never been grown by us:— - - *46. _L. Philippinense._ - *47. _L. Neilgherrense._ - *48. _L. Nepaulense._ - *49. _L. Lowi._ - *50. _L. Polyphyllum._ - 51. _L. Davidii._ - 52. _L. Oxypetalum._ - 53. _L. Roseum._ - 54. _L. Hookeri._ - 55. _L. Avenaceum._ - -During the greater part of the year you can have lilies in flower in -your garden. If you possess a greenhouse you can have lilies in flower -throughout the year. - -[Illustration: ASPIRATION.] - -Naturally the lilies flower in the open ground from April till October. -If you wish to have lilies in your garden in November you can do so, -but mind you, if the weather is unfavourable the blossoms will not be -worth much. - -The lilies which will flower in the open ground in November are _L. -Speciosum_ and _L. Auratum_. For very late flowering the bulbs should -be planted in May. Last Lord Mayor’s day we gathered a small bunch of -_L. Speciosum_, and one very fair example of _L. Auratum_. The tiger -lilies were also in blossom at that date. - -But this late crop of lilies is worth very little; and, unless you have -a greenhouse, we advise you to be contented with six months of lily -flowers. - -In a greenhouse it is easy to have lilies throughout the year. _L. -Longiflorum_ will flower from April to January, and _L. Speciosum_ will -flower from August to February if the bulbs are potted at intervals, -and _very_ gently forced when necessary. In the month of March you can -have _L. Rubellum_ in flower. - -Doubtless some of our readers will wish to grow lilies for show -purposes. Indeed, for this purpose few flowers are more satisfactory, -for lilies are extremely showy, they last very well in flower, and are -by no means impatient of removal. - -As a matter of fact, growing lilies for show purposes can be conducted -on two separate systems; either you can grow show plants or show -flowers. - -For the former purpose the stem, the leaves, the shape of the -inflorescence, and the number, shape, size and colour of the blossoms -must be above the average. For “show flowers” all your attention must -be concentrated upon one single blossom. - -For growing show plants choose a very big bulb. In our former articles -we warned you against these mammoth bulbs, because they are so often -unsatisfactory. But for show plants you must choose these big bulbs; -but do not imagine that from every “mammoth bulb” you will get a fine -spike. You will rarely get more than one really excellent plant out of -six bulbs. - -For prize plants pot the bulbs in large pots and keep them in a cold, -dark place for a fortnight. When the shoots appear, grow them on as -quickly as you can, but give no artificial heat. Keep the plants in a -place where they are not likely to be injured by the wind, and where -there is plenty of shade. As the flowering time arrives give plenty of -liquid manure. - -Of all manures, “Ichthumic guano” is the most satisfactory for show -lilies. - -You must turn your pots round every day, so as to keep the stems -straight. Lilies always bend towards the sun, and unless the pots are -carefully turned round every day the stems become twisted or bowed. - -For growing prize blossoms choose a small bulb. Grow it as you did for -a prize plant, but when the buds begin to turn colour, remove every one -except one—the finest. Cut the flower with as long a stem as possible, -and send it to the exhibition while it is opening, and before the -pollen has become free. - -Grow your show plants as carefully as you will, you will often find -that many uncared-for plants in the garden beat the pampered one in the -form and delicacy of their blossoms! - -Like all other flowers, the lilies possess many more names than they -desire, and in many cases even the slightest variation from the type -has been labelled with a new name. You must therefore beware of paying -high prices for cheap lilies with a new name—a fate which will damp the -ardour of most amateurs. - -Our work among the lilies is done. If our admiration for them has been -great, it has never been excessive. The lilies are the loveliest of all -flowers, and the study of them is wrought with delight. - -“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, -neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all -his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” - - - - -“UPS AND DOWNS.” - -A TRUE STORY OF NEW YORK LIFE. - -BY N. O. LORIMER. - - -CHAPTER III. - -If you had peeped into the big attic bedroom the three girls occupied -at the top of the high New York boarding-house, you would have seen -Ada Nicoli in her pretty white dressing-gown—such a pitiful reminder -of her former luxury—putting little Sadie’s hair into curl-papers. In -her lonely life she had grown passionately attached to her two little -sisters who were so dependent on her, and the thing that hurt her most -about her poverty was seeing little Sadie look careless and neglected. -Often at night she was so tired and weary that it took all her courage -to brush and dress their two heads of hair, and see that their clothes -were in proper order for going to school the next day. A hat-box full -of Southern bank-notes, which had been Marjorie’s and Sadie’s amusement -for many a day in their old home for playing at store-keeping, came in -handy for curling Sadie’s hair, and the child always wanted Ada to tell -her the same story, how her mother’s mother had saved up the bank-notes -during the great war, believing that the South would be victorious, and -how she had made some of the notes during the war by making slippers -out of the felt carpets and selling them. - -“If they were all real good dollars now, Ada,” the child said, “we -needn’t live in this hen-roost any longer, need we?” - -Ada took the child in her arms. “Poor little Sadie,” she said. “While -we three are together, it doesn’t so much matter, does it? We can have -a little fun sometimes, can’t we?” - -“It isn’t so bad, siss,” the child answered, “but I do want to go to -Barnum’s, and I wish the girls at school wouldn’t say, ‘When’s your -father coming back? He’s been visiting for a long time.’” - -Then Marjorie chimed in with—“I passed two of the girls I used to go to -school with to-day, Ada, and they both looked in at a shop window when -I passed.” - -“Never mind,” Ada said, with her heart growing sadder every minute. -“It’s a good thing not to be at school with girls who are so vulgar.” -Ada’s own rich friends had also disappeared in a marvellous fashion. It -is true she had left her old home so suddenly, and had to avoid seeing -people whom it would be painful to meet in her altered circumstances, -so much that, perhaps, they were not altogether to blame. She had -been working for some months at Madame Maude’s now, and she had found -that she had very little time in her busy life for musing over the -faithlessness of her rich friends. Her mother’s mental condition had -not improved, and she had not had a single line from her father. He -had left the country to avoid disgrace as well as ruin. The cold -weather had come, and Ada was feeling the hardship of walking every -morning and evening to her business. It was a long way, and the girl’s -constitution was not suited to the strain made upon it. The people in -the boarding-house had watched her growing slighter and paler as the -weeks passed, and her eyes had grown feverishly bright. Marjory was -a selfish, peevish child, who did not do what she could to help her -sister. - -“She’s not worth Ada’s little finger!” the fat boarder would exclaim, -when the child deceived her sister by making friends with girls that -Ada had asked her not to know, and had spent Ada’s hardly-earned money -on candies, and iced-cream sodas. “She’s her father’s own child, that’s -what she is, and Ada Nicoli’s too fine a girl to kill herself for that -saucy brat.” - -But Ada could see no fault in Marjory, for Marjory was clever enough -to deceive her. And so while Ada was toiling night and day to bring -her up as a refined and cultivated child, Marjory was hankering after -the society of vulgar companions, and paying little attention to -her lessons. But little Sadie was a sweet and loving child, and her -devotion to Ada was touching. At the boarding-house dinner-table it was -a pretty sight to see Ada Nicoli with a little sister on each side of -her. She was the prettiest, daintiest creature herself, and it was her -greatest joy to see people look with admiration at her two children, as -she called them. They were always wonderfully clean and freshly dressed. - -“How long can she keep it up?” the fat boarder said. “She fairly amazes -me, that girl. She had never even brushed her own hair a year and a -half ago, and now she’s keeping these two children so sweet and fresh, -and bringing them up so well, too. They are a deal nicer children than -when they first came, but it’s wearing her out—that light burning up in -her room till past twelve at night, and she’s up by seven o’clock in -the morning.” - -Beside the people in the boarding-house there was someone else who had -been watching Ada working the soft curves of her face into sharper -lines, and seeing the deeper shadows come below her bright eyes. It -was an old man who drove to business every day on the Fifth Avenue -stage-coach. He always knew that, if it was a wet day, Ada would -be waiting at 20, East 32nd Street for the coach to pass, but if it -was fine, she would save her twenty-five cents and walk. He was an -observant old man, and somewhat of a character. He was supposed to be a -miser, and very wealthy, though he lived in a small tenement house, and -kept no servant. While he sat huddled up in the corner of the coach, -which rattled and shook over the stones of Fifth Avenue like a relic -from the last century, he had noticed every detail of the girl’s dress, -he had seen the once pretty frocks become almost threadbare, and the -dainty shoes lose their freshness. He had made inquiries, and found out -her story. One day she had given the conductor a five-dollar bill to -pay for her fare. The man gave her back a quarter too much change. The -old man watched her count the money, and look at the extra quarter. It -was bitterly cold weather, and he knew that that quarter would pay for -her journey there and back for another two days. The girl’s expression -said it as plainly as words could have done. “You’ve given me a quarter -too much,” she said, with a little tremble in her voice. The man did -not even say “Thank you,” but snatched the money out of her hand -roughly. The old man smiled; he had long ago lost his belief in human -nature, and this little act of honesty on the girl’s part did him good. -If was like going near a fire on a cold winter day. The meeting of Ada -coming and going from her work grew to be the one interest in the old -hermit’s life. He had watched her so carefully that he had gained a -knowledge of her life of which she was wholly unconscious. He had seen -her tenderness to her little sisters when he met them out together on -a Saturday afternoon. Often he had wandered over Central Park with his -keen eyes looking out eagerly for the graceful figure of Ada Nicoli -laced arm-in-arm with the two young children, and when they stopped -to feed the swans on the lake, or rest in some summer-house, the old -man seated himself where he could feast his eyes on his adopted family -unseen. - -Two or three times he had seen something very like tears in Ada’s eyes -when a carriage with some beautifully-dressed women in it would pass -the girl, and they would give her a stiff little bow of recognition. - - * * * * * - -It was one of the coldest winters New York had experienced for -many years, but the old man’s shrivelled-up heart was, day by day, -stretching and expanding towards the girl, who was always gentle. She -had many times helped him as he got in and out of the Fifth Avenue -stage-coach, and she had often offered to give up her seat in the snug -top corner in exchange for his draughty one near the door, but beyond -these natural, kindly little attentions, Ada Nicoli had thought little -about the old man, whom so many people laughed and poked fun at. He -had even taken the trouble to follow her to the private asylum where -her mother lived, and would wait there until she came out with her -sweet blue eyes filled with sadness. He had heard of her father’s cruel -desertion, and many a time the old man could feel his fingers close -upon the villain’s neck in his longing to thrash him. - -On this particular day, when everything was a world of snow, and the -temperature was twenty degrees below zero, the old man had been slowly -following Ada to her mother’s home. He had long since learnt that -Wednesdays were the visiting days in this house of sorrow, and that Ada -Nicoli never failed to be there in her lunch hour. The house was in a -quiet street, where there was little traffic or noise, and Ada hurried -along as fast as her numbed feet would carry her. In the old man’s eyes -she had never looked so beautiful, for the cold, crisp air had brought -a lovely colour to her cheeks, and her hair was bright gold in the -winter sunlight. Suddenly he saw her stop, and bend over something that -had fallen in the snow on the side-walk. It was the figure of a man, -and from his position it looked as if he was intoxicated, rather than -overcome with the cold. There was no one in sight but the old man who -was following her. Ada touched the man, and spoke to him, but he could -give no coherent answer. He was too drunk to tell her even what his -name was. When the old man came up to her she was searching the road -with a troubled look. - -“There is no sleigh in sight,” she said, “and he must not lie here, he -will freeze to death.” - -“Perhaps he ain’t of much account living,” the old man said; “folks -like that are better dead.” - -“Oh, don’t say that,” Ada cried, in a reproachful voice; “he may have a -wife and family dependent upon him.” - -“A mighty poor thing to depend on, lying drunk on the side-walk at -midday. Don’t you waste your pity on the likes of him.” The old man -knew that he would have been grievously disappointed if his pretty -young lady with the sweet blue eyes had gone on her way and left a -fellow creature to freeze to death. - -“It may be hours before a policeman passes this way,” Ada said. “It’s -sheer murder to leave him. I will run down this side street and see if -I can find a cab.” The old man waited for the girl’s return, walking -up and down the side-walk where the drunken man lay in an unconscious -sleep. Soon he heard the sound of sleigh-bells, and in another instant -one appeared round the corner with Ada seated in it. She jumped out -when she reached the spot where the man lay, and told the hackman -to get down and lift him into the cab. “Take him to the nearest -police-station,” she said, “and keep him there until he is himself -again.” - -“And who’s going to pay me?” the man asked sullenly. - -“I will,” Ada replied proudly, “if you do not care to do it for -charity.” - -“If I was plying round the city looking out for driving acts of -charity, I guess my wife and young ’uns would be as badly off as these -drunken brutes are.” - -Ada took her thin little purse from her pocket. “Will you do it for a -dollar?” she said; “it is all I have to give you. Will you help the -hackman to lift him in,” she said, turning to the old man. But as she -looked at his shrivelled old figure, in his badly-fitting clothes, she -seemed to regret what she had said, and stooped down to take the man by -the shoulders, while the hackman took his feet; but the old man quickly -put her aside, with almost a cry in his cracked old voice, as he said, -“Don’t touch him, don’t touch him. To think of you defiling your pretty -fingers on a drunken brute.” - -Ada looked at him in mild surprise, and gave up her place. When the -hackman drove off she turned and thanked the old man. - -“If the friendless and poor aren’t kind to each other,” she said sadly, -“where can we look for help?” She thought that he did not understand -that she was placing herself amongst the list of the poor and -friendless. She, his daintily-reared lady, standing there, a slight, -proud figure, with her queenly little head thrown back, and her cheeks -as delicate as the pink apple-blossom in his old garden at home. In -all the big city of New York where he had worked and toiled for forty -years, this girl was the one glad and beautiful thing for him; he felt -his time-worn heart beat young again when he looked at her. - -(_To be concluded._) - - - - -SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS. - - -PART VIII. - -FICTION AND ROMANCE. - -Self-culture by the reading of stories! One can imagine some pedant -of a generation or two ago shaking his head over such a suggestion. -As well write of education by the playing of games! And yet it has -come to be recognised that neither connection of ideas is, in itself, -at all absurd or preposterous. The influence of fiction is a force to -be reckoned with in the formation of character—a force, indeed, of -no small magnitude; for there are an enormous number of girls whose -reading begins and ends with the story. - -This is, of course, a mistake. In an earlier chapter of this series we -have sought to explain why fiction, even of the very best type, should -not form the staple of reading for anybody. But it will probably always -constitute a very large proportion of the mental food of young people, -and it is better to look the fact in the face than to bewail it and -preach! - -The first form in which literature appeals, with any charm or interest, -to the child is as the story; and children of larger growth love the -story still. What would those do, whose lives are dull, sordid, or -depressing, without the power to transport themselves into the lives -of other people? It is an actual necessity to exchange their own -experience, even for a brief time, for the experience of others. The -novel, the imaginative work, appeals more perhaps to girls than to any -other section of the community. If they are lonely, ill, unhappy from -any cause, they find their solace, companion, anodyne, here. If they -are happy, they seek the reflection of their own light-heartedness, and -greater happiness yet to come, in the story pages. - -The imagination is a factor too little understood in the training -of character. It is of the utmost importance to give this faculty -something good wherewith to nourish it, or it will prey upon itself. -Silly, vapid, or morbid girls might perchance have been made different -if they had been provided with books that were at once strong and -artistically beautiful, instead of the sentimental novelette. - -We hold a high opinion of the value of fairy-tales of the best kind for -children, and are always stirred to wrath by the superior infant who -says: “There are no such things as fairies.” Fortunately there are not -many children who cannot, for instance, enjoy the charm and pathos of -such a story as _The Little Sea Maiden_ or _The Snow Queen_, by Hans -Christian Andersen, with many others by that great author too numerous -to mention. There are also the exquisite creations of the Countess -d’Aulnoy and Perrault, not forgetting two French authors who were the -delight of our own childhood—Madame la Comtesse de Ségur and Léon de -Laujon. Those delicious volumes, the “Blue,” the “Green,” and the “Red” -fairy-book, by Andrew Lang, are a real treasure-store of delight. And -it must not be forgotten that some of the fairy-legends they contain -are of wonderful antiquity, being found, under different forms, in the -early literature of many lands. - -Girls, who are elder sisters, and possibly past the fairy-tale stage, -be gracious in the telling of stories to the little ones who cannot -read! It may be a trouble to hunt in your memory for these stories and -put them into words, but it is really worth while to do it, and do it -well, avoiding what is gruesome and fearful, but choosing all that is -charming and attractive. Even in the way of “self-culture” the task -will be good for you, and still better if you can succeed in telling a -story “out of your own head.” The present writer began her work in this -way when a child, writing fairy-tales, and recounting one by word of -mouth, entitled, _The Precipice Passage_, which continued from day to -day during many months, and was of the most thrilling description, as -well as of superhuman length. - -A most beautiful book, though not exactly a fairy-tale, for children is -_The Story without an End_, translated by Sarah Austin from the German -of Carové (Sampson Low & Marston). The child who possesses this book, -with the original coloured illustrations, to pore over, will have a -foundation of graceful and tender fancies for the “culture” of riper -years. - -“But,” you may object, “this paper is for girls, not for children, and -we have outgrown fairy-tales.” - -There is one fairy-tale which you ought to read whatever your age, if -it is not already familiar to you—_Undine_, by De la Motte Fouqué. -If you can understand German, you should certainly read it in the -original. If not, an English translation is to be obtained. It is, -perhaps, the sweetest and most pathetic legend of all romance. - -Romance! The charm of that word! One loves, even in middle age, to -linger regretfully upon it, and dream over the poet’s vision of— - - “Magic casements opening on the foam - Of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn.” - -We do not envy the youth or maiden whose pulse is not thrilled by those -immortal lines; yet who can give a reason for their charm and spell? - -The present generation, it is to be feared, do not read the prose works -of Longfellow as they should. _Hyperion_ and _Kavanagh_ are tender -mystical romances, full of charm. - -It is, however, an impossible task to stand at the door of this vast -library of the world’s fiction, and point you to the volumes you may -take down from the shelves. One general observation may be made, seeing -that our title is “Self-Culture.” - -The best novels will aid you indirectly in “self-culture.” The -worst will not leave you where they found you, but will do you -actual harm. You will be just one little bit farther removed from -“self-culture”—will be nearer that which is vulgar and paltry, and poor -and mean, to go no farther—for the reading of a “trashy” novel. - -It is, therefore, not the indifferent matter you may think it, to take -up the silly sentimental story for the sake of an hour’s amusement. -Find your amusement where there is no need of repentance. - -How ashamed one feels, even if quite alone, while reading a really -foolish book! and the feeling of shame is a right and healthy one. - -Perhaps the type of story which does most harm to girls of the middle -and lower classes, is that in which a titled lover of fabulous wealth -appears suddenly like a “god out of a machine” to wed the heroine, who -is remarkable only for her beauty. He has a great deal to answer for, -that young aristocrat, whom we have not met outside the pages of such -literature. - -No girl would deliberately reflect: “I am going to read such and such -a novel to improve my mind.” If she did, she would show she had not -much mind to improve. But she may bear in mind one or two general -principles and suggestions. - -It is very desirable to read the best historical novels. For example, -_The Last Days of Pompeii_, by Bulwer Lytton, and _Hypatia_, by Charles -Kingsley, will help you to realise the early centuries of the Christian -era. _Hereward the Wake_, by Kingsley, and _The Last of the Barons_, -by Bulwer Lytton, may be read in connection with Freeman’s _History -of the Norman Conquest_. _The Cloister and the Hearth_, a magnificent -historical novel by Charles Reade, throws light upon the fifteenth -century, and _Romola_, by George Eliot, does the same so far as Italy -is concerned. _Westward Ho!_ by Charles Kingsley, is a stirring tale of -the sixteenth century. _John Inglesant_, by Shorthouse, will do more -to explain the Stuart period than any number of dry “Outlines,” while -Thackeray’s _Esmond and The Virginians_ may follow on. The _Tale of Two -Cities_, by Charles Dickens, will help you to realise the terror of the -French Revolution, and _The Shadow of the Sword_, by Robert Buchanan, -gives a forcible picture of the days of Napoleon. - -There are many other good historical novels; but, as Scott is always -regarded as _facile princeps_ in such work, it may be useful to arrange -his novels in chronological order. - -Before the end of the fourteenth century come _Ivanhoe_, _Count -Robert of Paris_, _The Betrothed_, _The Talisman_, and _The Fair Maid -of Perth_. After 1400—_Quentin Durward_, and _Anne of Geierstein_: -1500, _Kenilworth_, _The Abbot_, _The Monastery_, _Marmion_ (poem): -1600, _Fortunes of Nigel_, _Legend of Montrose_, _Woodstock_, _Old -Mortality_, _The Bride of Lammermoor_, _Peveril of the Peak_: 1700, -_The Antiquary_, _Guy Mannering_, _Waverley_, _Rob Roy_, and _Heart of -Midlothian_. - -That history should be made real is a matter of no small importance. -After all, it is the story of men and women like ourselves, and -Professor Seeley’s remark in _The Expansion of England_ (a valuable -book) is worth remembering— - -“When I meet a person who does not find history interesting, it does -not occur to me to alter history—I try to alter _him_!” - -There has, during the last few years, been a decided increase in the -writing of romances and tales of adventure, pure and simple, removed -from everyday experience, and one need only suggest the names of Robert -Louis Stevenson, Anthony Hope, Max Pemberton, to illustrate the class -of story which much delights the author, and probably also her young -friends. - -For the general run of fiction, here are a few names: Scott, Thackeray, -Dickens, Charles Kingsley and his brother, George Eliot, Mrs. Gaskell, -R. D. Blackmore (be sure you read _Lorna Doone_), George Macdonald, Sir -Walter Besant, Mrs. Oliphant, Charlotte Brontë—that wonderful, fiery, -lonely genius—you will read her _Shirley_ and _Villette_, whether we -advise you to do so or not. And, indeed, the list of writers of good -fiction is so enormous that it is absurd to attempt to give it. As soon -as a few names are written down, others press for mention. Therefore, -we will renounce the task; first, perhaps, reminding you not to omit -Mrs. Oliphant’s _Little Pilgrim in the Unseen_. All the stories of -this writer which have a tinge of the atmosphere of the spiritual -borderland, are deeply suggestive. - -Do not read a novel only because it has a startling title and -“everybody” is talking about it. In these days that is no proof of -excellence. A story shoots up like a rocket, and its swift trail of -brilliance dies down as suddenly. - -Do not read books which leave the impression that life is after all -rather a hopeless struggle, not worth the trouble. There are a great -many such stories in the present day, whose motto is Despair. Let -them alone. They may be works of art, beautiful and pathetic in -their tragedy; but you have to live, and make the best of your life; -therefore it is unwise to let yourself be paralysed by discouragement -near the outset. Some books have a way of arranging a perfectly -impossible combination of circumstances, and then calling upon the -universe at large to bewail the result. This is hardly fair. Choose -rather what makes you better able to live and to act, and inspires -you with a feeling that to do and to be your best, even in a world of -sorrow, is very much worth while indeed. - -There are, broadly speaking, two ways of viewing art and literature: -one from the point of the “Realist,” and one from the point of the -“Idealist.” In our day the Realists have come much into prominence, -especially in France; but they are known in England too. - -The Realist school in fiction cries out for “Life,” by which we -understand the visible, the material, that which can be seen, heard, -touched, handled. A realistic novel, for instance, may be made a mass -of information upon obscure and out-of-the-way subjects. Nothing comes -amiss—“Life, life above everything” its exponents cry. “You Idealists -have long enough been teaching men to dream with their heads in the -clouds. We lead them along a plain path and show them the world as it -really is. In our way lies safety.” - -The Idealist school, on the contrary, has an absolute standard of -excellence to which it refers; it loves the hero or heroine in fiction, -the beautiful in art, and it sets itself to find out the “reality” -which underlies appearances. - -To give a simple example. A “realistic” novel of poor life would depict -the bareness and misery of the cottage, the unlovely faces and clothing -of its inmates, the toil for daily bread; not one depressing item would -be spared, and one would rise from the story feeling as if one had -indeed looked for a moment into the poor household and shared in its -meagreness. - -A novel written from the idealist standpoint, while not inventing -untrue and therefore inartistic details, would look below the surface -and bring out, besides the poverty, the beauty and the pathos that are -sure to exist wherever the human affections are found. - -As an illustration of our meaning we may quote _A Window in Thrums_, by -J. M. Barrie, which, while sacrificing no vestige of truth, is the work -of an artist who is an idealist. Set in the humble interior of a Scotch -cottage, a lame homely mother, a workingman the father, a daughter of -whom we are not told she is startlingly lovely, or indeed startlingly -anything—this is the simple little company that, for the main part, -act out a drama of such pathos, and beauty, and charm, that the heart -is full of “thoughts too deep for tears” after reading some of the -inimitable chapters. - -This is Life, and life seen in the true way—the idealist’s way—by the -artist who has imagination. - -For imagination is the faculty, not of inventing falsehoods, but of -revealing a deeper truth than that which lies upon the surface of -things. - -Are we straying into reflections that are too obscure? It is better to -suggest some means by which really artistic work shall be detected than -to string together a list of books which might not appeal to many of -our readers at all, and which might prove unsuitable for others. - -Whatever is lovely, noble, and pure in fiction—whether it be the -telling of heroic deeds, or the discerning of significance in the -“commonplace,” the homely and trivial—choose and delight in it. Avoid -what makes you listless and dissatisfied with your daily life; choose -what helps you to live and to work, and to do and be the very best -that is in you; not forgetting that what is beautiful and exalted will -purify your taste, charm your mind, and remain with you as an abiding -power for good. - - LILY WATSON. - - - - -SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE. - -A STORY FOR GIRLS. - -BY EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN, Author of “Greyfriars,” “Half-a-dozen -Sisters,” etc. - - -CHAPTER XXIV. - -AT COSSART PLACE. - -“Effie, how well you look! You are quite brown. How glad I am to see -you again!” - -“I think you have got thinner, but you look well, Sheila. Oh, yes, I’m -ever so much better! I’ve said good-bye to doctors. I mean to go my own -way now and not take care anymore. I don’t believe in coddling. I’m -going to be my own doctor in the future. I’m not sure that any of them -really understood me. Anyhow, I’ve had enough of them, and now I shall -go my own way. Mamma can have Oscar to coddle. I’m sure he looks as -though he wanted it.” - -“He’s getting into the rebellious stage now,” answered Sheila. “I shall -be glad of your assistance in keeping him in order. Isn’t everything -looking lovely, Effie? Are you glad to be home again? And how is dear -Madeira and all the people there? Did you leave any there whom I knew?” - -“Not many. Mrs. Reid sent you a lot of messages, and I’ve got a -pen-tray for you from her too. We came back in the same boat as Ella -and Grace Murchison; but you never knew them well, did you? All the -Dumaresq party had been gone some time. I suppose you heard that from -May Lawrence.” - -“She told me they had gone on to Oratava when Sir Guy was so much -better, but Miss Adene did not write very often.” - -Effie had got her arm linked into Sheila’s by this time, and had walked -her out upon the terrace, leaving Mrs. Cossart with Oscar in the -drawing-room. She was all eagerness to learn the home news from him, -but Effie wanted Sheila’s attention for herself. - -“You know it was all a great mistake of mother’s packing you off home -in one of her tantrums. I told her so at the time. I know things were a -little uncomfortable, but I was against it. I can generally get my way -with mother, but I couldn’t that time. But you hadn’t been gone three -days before she found out what a mistake it was.” - -“What do you mean?” asked Sheila with a subdued eagerness in her voice. - -“Why, you know,” answered Effie, with her curious mixture of frankness -and self-consciousness, “it didn’t seem to answer a bit. Mother thought -Mr. Dumaresq was going to make love to me or something—as though I -wanted him! I liked him all right, but I was never particularly taken -by him. He has not brains enough for me, and he never understood me. I -always felt that when we were talking together. I was always above his -head somehow. Besides, she might have seen that the Dumaresqs had taken -a fancy to you, and that packing you off would vex them. They never -were a bit the same afterwards. They sat at a different table, and -we hardly saw them. And people talked so. I got it out of Mrs. Reid. -They all said you had been sent away because I was jealous—or mother. -I don’t care what people think. It makes no difference to me. I never -care a bit about gossip. But mother was terribly put about, and papa -was very vexed too. It seemed to spoil things very much. I do believe, -if it hadn’t been for Oscar’s illness, they would have had you back!” - -Sheila made no immediate reply; she was thinking how, but for Oscar’s -illness, many things might have been vastly different, and with what -sort of feelings she would have regarded a summons back to Madeira. - -“As for the Dumaresqs,” pursued Effie, “I never made any attempts to -make up to them. That isn’t my way. I can have plenty of friends of -my own sort; and some really very interesting people came who had -travelled a lot, and were not just society people like the Dumaresqs. -We thought them a little rough at first, but we got to like them very -much. One of them admired me very much. I think he rather hoped—but -I’m not that sort of girl, and he was going back to the Cape, so it -was quite out of the question. I never was one for having a man always -dangling after me. It bores me to death! But they talked so much of -things they’d done and places they had seen or were going to see that -papa got quite a travelling mania on, and so he sent for Cyril.” - -“And they have gone off together?” - -“Yes. It was very nice having Cyril, and we stayed a fortnight longer -than we had meant, and took some excursions. After all, when I got -Cyril again, I found I liked him a great deal better than all the rest -of them put together. Don’t you think he has a very distinguished air?” - -Sheila’s admiration for Cyril was a thing quite of the past; she had -regarded him of late with aversion and contempt. But she was learning -to curb her tongue, and to try and rule her thoughts also, so after a -little pause she said— - -“I think university men always have an air about them; but, of course, -you know—about Cyril—and that it is not quite easy for me to admire him -very much just now.” - -Effie flushed up a little. - -“Yes, of course, I know,” she answered. “Cyril told me himself. If -he hadn’t, I don’t think I should have heard. Papa knows, but he has -not told even mother. He thought it would be better put aside and -forgotten.” - -“And Cyril told you himself?” - -“Yes. I think Cyril found it a great comfort to find somebody -sympathetic and understanding. I’ve never set up for being a saint, and -I have plenty of sympathy for sinners. I’ve always got on with Cyril. -He knows more about me, I think, than anybody else. I don’t think him -perfect—I’m not so silly. I’ve too much insight into character to make -mistakes like that. But I can sympathise with him, and understand how -he feels when other people don’t seem able to see anything but the -other side of the question. I think healthy, robust people are often -rather dull and dense. I’ve had lots of time to think. Cyril said I -was so different from the rest of the world. I believe I was a great -comfort to him.” - -“Well, Aunt Tom will be very glad of that, for she was very miserable, -and was afraid he would go on being miserable too. He went away feeling -pretty bad, I think, though I did not see him. I was at Monckton Manor -with Oscar. I was surprised he didn’t come over to say good-bye to us. -Once I rather thought that he was falling in love with May.” - -“Oh, dear, no!” answered Effie quickly. “That I am sure he was not!” - -She spoke almost irritably, and Sheila answered at once— - -“Perhaps not, but he used to go there very often. May never liked him, -so perhaps she got bored and gave him a hint. Anyway, he stopped going -rather suddenly, and did not even say good-bye.” - -“I suspect he found May a very empty-headed girl. I daresay he was -thinking of her when he told me how difficult it had been, when I was -away, to find anyone with whom he could exchange ideas with any sense -of satisfaction. Girls were all so selfish and empty-headed, he said. -I thought he was rather severe, but that was his idea. I told him that -he mustn’t be hard on them, for perhaps they had never had the time to -read and think as I have.” - -“Well, May is not empty-headed!” answered Sheila warmly; “but Oscar -may have been mistaken in thinking Cyril admired her and went often. -Perhaps it was only for the boys he went. I know May has never cared -for him.” - -“No, I don’t think she would have the mind to appreciate him. Cyril -does not wear his heart upon his sleeve.” - -“May is engaged to North,” said Sheila, with a little smile dimpling -the corners of her lips. - -Effie gave a slight toss of her head and laughed. - -“A very suitable match! I should think they would just suit one -another!” - -“I think they do,” answered Sheila, laughing. “I have never seen two -people more thoroughly happy together.” - -“I almost wonder Mr. Lawrence approved, though,” added Effie. “North is -so thoroughly commercial in all his views.” - -“His views seem to suit May, at any rate, and he can give her a -comfortable home away from the town. But she is too much interested -in the works to care about being far away. She wants to understand -everything and help in everything. I think she will be splendid when -she gets her chance.” - -Effie listened with some wonder to the sort of thing which commanded -May’s enthusiasm, and then said with a little shrug— - -“Well, I hope they will be very happy. All that sort of thing is very -estimable, and people without nerves and keen senses may be able to do -it, but I don’t think I could.” - -“Nobody would expect it of you, Effie,” answered Sheila, with a sarcasm -of which neither was conscious. - -Cossart Place was a more comfortable home for Sheila just now than it -had ever been before. Her aunt met her like one who wished to efface an -unpleasing impression, and never was there any slightest allusion to -the stormy scene at Madeira. Poor Mrs. Cossart had learned a lesson, -and was really humiliated by the failure she had made. Sheila was -gentler, more considerate, more tractable than ever before, and Oscar’s -presence was a certain element of tranquillity and accord. - -Effie was so much stronger, and was so resolved to manage her case in -her own way, that Mrs. Cossart felt rather like a hen taken from her -chicks, and was delighted to have Oscar to coddle. And Oscar needed -care for a long while. He had thoroughly run down in health since his -father’s death, and this wasting fever had left him very delicate -and frail. There was no reason to think that he would not in time be -as strong as ever, but it would be a long business, and during this -period it was Mrs. Cossart’s great pleasure to nurse him up, cosset him -and care for him, much as she had cosseted and cared for Effie whilst -the girl had been so much out of health. - -Sheila could not but love her aunt for all her goodness to Oscar, and -he began to take almost a son’s place in that house, advising her, in -the absence of the master, on all points connected with the property, -and showing so much knowledge and insight that Mrs. Cossart would often -exclaim— - -“I can’t think how you come to know all these things!” - -“I was brought up to them, you see,” Oscar would answer with a smile -and a sigh. “I used to help my father, and I have been used to land -from babyhood. I am much more at home still with a steward’s books than -with the office accounts!” - -“Well, I wish your uncle would make you his man of business when he -comes back,” said Mrs. Cossart one day, after Oscar had helped her -through some accounts which had often been a source of bewilderment -to herself and her husband. “I believe we get imposed upon right and -left through ignorance. And I don’t like the thought of your going back -to that nasty stuffy office. You would be much better for an open-air -life, and I always do say that John is getting too old to look after -all the land he buys, and that he ought to have a regular agent.” - -Oscar laughed and stroked his aunt’s hand caressingly. - -“Quite too halcyon an idea to work,” he said, “but I like to think that -I am helping you in his absence.” - -“You are more than helping—you are doing everything, and I’m sure I’m -thankful for it, for I never could understand the rights of things -between landlord and tenant, and we want to do what is right and just -without being imposed upon. Well, you will stay on, at any rate, till -your uncle comes back, and he seems in no hurry to do so. I wonder he -wasn’t as glad to come home as I was; but perhaps he knew there’d be a -lot of worries waiting for him. He will be very glad to find them all -straightened out like this.” - -It seemed as though some idea was fermenting in Mrs. Cossart’s brain, -for once when she was sitting alone with Sheila in the drawing-room she -said suddenly— - -“Do you ever hear from the Dumaresqs now?” - -“Lady Dumaresq wrote once, and Miss Adene once. They are soon coming -back to England.” - -“Do you think you will see any more of them when they do?” - -“I don’t know,” answered Sheila in a low voice, with crimsoning cheeks. - -“Well, I was going to say I hope you won’t,” said her aunt, “for I -don’t know what I should do if I were to lose you both.” - -“I don’t understand,” said Sheila, bewildered. - -“Well, I was only thinking that Mr. Dumaresq seemed very much attracted -by you once. It may be only a passing fancy, but if it came to anything -and I lost you, and Effie were to go too, why, where should I be?” - -Sheila looked up suddenly; a number of hints that Effie had let drop -flashed back into her mind. - -“But do you mean that Effie—that Effie—is going——” - -“Well, my dear, we don’t talk of it yet, and being cousins, of course, -it is not exactly what we should have chosen, and we want to make sure -that her health is really restored. But you know she and Cyril have -never really cared for any but each other all their lives, and in -Madeira it seemed to come to a crisis with them. Nothing is actually -settled. Her father would not have an engagement, but I believe it will -come to that sooner or later, and then they will certainly live in -London, though they will always have a second home here. But they are -both so intellectual—however, we need not talk of that yet. Only if I -lose Effie, I do not want to lose you too.” - -Sheila laughed and blushed a little. - -“You are very kind to want me, for I have not always behaved well; but -I do not think you will get rid of me if you want to keep me.” - -“Well, I do. I am used to young people about, and the house would not -be itself without them. Still, of course, I shouldn’t wish to stand in -the way of anybody’s happiness. If I do have to lose you girls, I shall -adopt Oscar. He, at any rate, will not want to marry yet awhile, and he -is a very dear boy. I should like to keep him altogether, and not let -him go back to River Street at all. I don’t care how they have improved -the town, I always do say the country is healthier.” - -“I am sure of it!” cried Sheila eagerly. “Oh, how delightful it would -be if Oscar could always live here!” - -Mrs. Cossart nodded her head with some emphasis. - -“We must wait till your uncle comes back to settle things, but stranger -things than that have happened before now.” - -(_To be continued._) - -[Illustration] - - - - -ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. - - -MEDICAL. - -NAIAD.—Sea-sickness cannot be considered as a disease of the stomach. -It is caused by the motion acting in some way upon the brain. How -it acts is not quite certain; possibly it is by interfering with -the blood supply of the brain, or it might be due to a succession -of slight “concussions.” An exactly similar form of sickness occurs -in some persons from swinging, or who have been patronising the -“giddy-go-round.” Also any injury to the head may be followed -by sickness. How to prevent sea-sickness is a question which is -confessedly a puzzle to all. The peculiarity of this form of vomiting -is that it bears no relation to food. It is no more common after than -before meals, and the vomiting produces little or no relief. We think -everybody has her own little specific for sea-sickness, and it is as -useless as her neighbour’s. Obviously, from what has been said above, -no remedy which acts upon the stomach can prevent sickness, because it -is a nervous and not a gastric symptom. We may hope one day to discover -how to prevent sea-sickness; at present we cannot do so by any means. - -AN ANXIOUS GIRL.—Read our answer to “A Gaiety Girl.” The question -of infection and epidemics is a most puzzling one for the public to -understand. And yet it is of vast importance that it should understand -it, for with the public, and not with the medical profession, lies -the power of stamping out infectious diseases. As you only desire -information about influenza, we will leave all other fevers out of -court and confine our remarks to influenza alone. Influenza is an -epidemic, possibly infectious, disease, chiefly characterised by -inflammation of the mucous membranes, and by the exceedingly formidable -list of its sequelæ and complications. It is due to the multiplication -within the body of a definite germ. The disease never occurs without -this germ, nor is the germ ever found in the human body except in -those who are suffering from, or who have lately recovered from, -influenza. The great question of its causation is, “How does the germ -gain entrance into the body?” And this unfortunately we cannot answer. -It is not commonly an infectious disease in the usual meaning of the -term—that is, it is not commonly caught directly from person to person; -but we feel certain that one person can inoculate her fellow. The -disease is epidemic, and spreads in waves which have usually swept -from the east westwards. For this reason it has been suggested that -the germs are conveyed from place to place by the east wind—an utterly -untenable theory. Most probably the disease is spread by water, or by -dust infected with the dried spittle of persons suffering from the -disease. It is by no means a modern disease. There were epidemics of it -in 1833, 1847, 1848, and 1888. Nearly all the epidemics have started -in Russia, and hence the disease has been called Russian fever. When a -person has had pneumonia following influenza, it imports that she has -had a large dose, and probably a very virulent dose of the poison. Such -a person would be more likely to directly inoculate another. Up to the -present it has not been customary to isolate influenza patients, but -we think that isolation is unquestionably advisable wherever this is -possible. To disinfect the room afterwards there are no measures to be -compared with fresh air, and a pail of water, and a scrubbing brush. -Thoroughly clean out the room in which an infectious case has been -“warded”—use plenty of water, plenty of soap, and plenty of time. You -may use chloride of lime or carbolic acid if you like. Afterwards, let -the room get as much air and sunshine as possible, for both fresh air -and sunshine are fatal to injurious germs. We do not know what is the -incubation period of the disease, nor can we say for how long after -recovery the patient remains capable of conveying infection. - -LILY.—When you have removed the redness—which is inflammation—of the -eyebrows, the hairs will grow dark again. Apply a little zinc ointment -to the place every morning and evening. - - -STUDY AND STUDIO. - -PEGGY.—We think you would find the comic song you mention by going to -any good music-seller’s and giving the extract. Unless we are mistaken, -it has been sung by some popular entertainer, and is well known. - -WINTON.—1. We have already recommended the “York Road Sketching Club,” -and “Copying Club;” address, Miss H. E. Grace, 54, York Road, Brighton, -W.—2. The three staves in Grieg’s music are used simply because there -is not space in one set of five lines to clearly show the complicated -air and accompaniment which fall to the lot of the treble. - -MISS MUNN, Sandhurst, Hawkhurst, wishes to announce that a new year of -her Sketching Club began in June, but members may join at any time. The -subscription is 2s. 6d. the year. - -BRENDA.—There are plenty of such scholarships as you describe. You had -better write to The Secretary, Technical Education Board, St. Martin’s -Lane, W.C., or consult Mrs. Watson’s article on “What is the London -County Council doing for Girls?” (THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER, March, 1897). - -RITA (New Zealand).—1. Your question from _In Memoriam_ is a very -thoughtful one. The poet is describing a man who, being troubled by -religious doubts, does not try to stifle them by simply resting on -the authority of a Church and telling himself, “I must not doubt, for -it is wicked.” He looks these doubts—“the spectres of the mind”—fully -in the face, searches for the answer, and, as Truth does not fear -investigation, he succeeds in dispersing them; even as a fabled ghost -can usually be disproved by someone who will bravely face the supposed -apparition and find out what it really amounts to. The man who fights -this battle honestly, and conquers, wins in the end a stronger faith -than the man who merely asserts, without thought; and in the temporary -darkness of his perplexity God is with him still—for God is the God -both of the light and of the darkness. This magnificent passage you -must understand as applying only to those who really seek in an earnest -and reverent spirit after Truth, not to the flippant scoffer.—2. We -answered this question in July, 1897, and must refer you to the volume -_Twilight Hours_ (Messrs. Isbister & Co.) containing the poems of Sarah -Williams (Sadie). - -A MERRY SUNBEAM (Belgium).—1. Certainly a young girl of 15½ may wear -long skirts and put up her hair if she is unusually tall “without -looking ridiculous.” She will be taken to be older than she really is, -which may be a disadvantage to her.—2. The expression “teens” is taken -from the termination of the numbers thirteen to nineteen inclusive, and -“hazel” is brown, like the brown of the hazel nut. We go to press long -before you receive your magazine, and we are sorry you have to wait -so long for replies. You write English very well, considering it is -not your native language, but we have no objection at all to receiving -letters in French from any of our subscribers. - -BEATRICE CENCI.—The heroine whose name you adopt lived in Rome during -the sixteenth century, and a very touching and beautiful portrait of -her by Guido exists in the Barberini Palace there. Her father was -a monster of cruelty and wickedness, and she was driven at length -to plot with her step-mother and brother to murder him, in order to -escape from his tyranny. The deed was discovered, and Beatrice with -the other criminals was put to death by order of the Pope. Her father -had constantly bought his pardon from the Pope for the murders _he_ -had committed on his own account, and the infamy of his life, combined -with the natural gentleness of Beatrice, awoke a widespread feeling of -compassion for her doom, in spite of the nature of her act. - -ERICA.—Your quotation is from the first verse of a song by Thomas -Linley (1798-1865), written and composed by him for Mr. Augustus -Braham. The whole verse runs as follows:— - - “Tho’ lost to sight, to memory dear - Thou ever wilt remain; - One only hope my heart can cheer— - The hope to meet again.” - -We go to press long before you receive your magazine, so it would be -quite impossible for you ever to see an answer in “next week.” - -PILGRIM.—1. We should think a good history for your purpose would be -an illustrated abridgment by G. Masson of F. P. G. Guizot’s _History -of France from its Earliest Times_ (Low), published price 5s.; or W. -H. Jervis’s _Student’s History of France_, with maps and illustrations -(Murray), published price 7s. 6d.—2. The only satisfactory general -history of Russia is said to be Alfred Rambaud’s, illustrated and -well translated (Low), but it is expensive—21s. There is a popular -History of Russia in the “Story of the Nations Series” (Unwin) by -W. R. Morfill, published at 5s. We hope these are neither “dry” nor -“childish.” - -FLORENTIA.—We have searched through Charles Kingsley’s poems in vain -for the lines beginning— - - “In music there is no self-will.” - -Are you sure he is the author? Perhaps some reader may observe this -reply and come to your help. - -SNOWDROP.—We think your best way is to write to Messrs. Hachette & Co., -18, King William Street, Charing Cross, London, W.C., for a list of -French magazines, and choose one that seems suitable. We do not know of -one exactly answering to THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER. - - -OUR OPEN LETTER BOX. - -“WINTON” again has answers, from “AN OLD SUBSCRIBER” and an anonymous -writer, referring the hymn, “Come ye yourselves apart and rest awhile,” -to the _Hymnal Companion_ and _Sacred Songs and Solos_. - - -MISCELLANEOUS. - -CLEOPATRA II.—The term or nickname of a British soldier, i.e., “Tommy -Atkins,” had its origin in the little pocket-ledgers, at one time -supplied to them, in which all the necessary memoranda connected with -them—their name, age, date of enlistment, length of service, wounds, -or medals, received, etc., were entered. With this the War Office gave -a form to be filled in; the hypothetical name of “Thomas Atkins” was -entered, just as “John Doe and Richard Roe” are employed by lawyers; -“M. or N.” by the Church, and “Jack Tar” to designate a sailor. The -books at once were called by the name, which was afterwards applied as -a comprehensive name for the men themselves. We thank you for your good -wishes for the continued success of our magazine. - -S. A.—There are five Homes for Aged Poor People in the suburbs of town, -respecting which you must write to the Misses Harrison, 5, Grandacre -Terrace, Anerley, S.E. There is also the “Aged Pilgrims’ Friend -Society,” which grants annual pensions to aged Christians of both -sexes, and of all Protestant denominations. This institution has homes -at Camberwell, Hornsey Rise, Stamford Hill, and Brighton. Pensions are -granted to some not received into the homes. The Secretary is Mr. J. E. -Hazelton, office, 82, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. - -F. W.—We do not undertake to return answers in the next magazine after -hearing from correspondents. Boil sufficient milk for the amount of -wholemeal you wish to knead, adding a piece of butter of the size of an -egg (for a small cake), and melt it in the milk. Mix some bread-soda -with the meal; and then knead the milk with the latter, and roll out -on a paste-board. Make a round flat cake, and cut across, to make four -divisions, and bake on a girdle, putting dry flour on the girdle, or -a sufficient space on a hot oven. Butter-milk is much used for the -purpose in Ireland. Of course yeast may be had, instead of the soda, -from any baker. - -O’HARA.—The Celts were the first Aryan settlers in Europe. This -fact is placed beyond all doubt by their language, which bears a -close resemblance to Sanscrit, alike in grammatical structure and -vocables. Herodotus speaks of them (B.C. 450) under the name _Keltai_, -as mingling with the Iberians, who dwelt round the river Ebro. The -Romans called them _Galli_. It is maintained by many that these -Aryans in Spain, the French Pyrenees, and in Britain, found before -them a Turanian people, the descendants of whom are to be seen in the -Lapps and Finns, and the Basques of Spain and Portugal. The Aryans’ -original home was the plateau of Central Asia, from whence they spread -south-westward; and the Eastern tribes took possession of India and -Persia. - -PUZZLED ONE.—Adults do not need sponsors at their baptism, as in the -case of infants; but witnesses are essential; because the persons -baptised make thereby a public profession of their faith. Special -“witnesses” usually accompany adults; but you will observe (in the -last Rubric), that the baptised “answer for themselves,” and only the -godly counsel of “their chosen witnesses” is required, whose duty it is -to “put them in mind” of the “vow, promise, and profession they have -made.” Should there be no desirably religious and God-fearing friends -to present the adult, she should communicate this difficulty to the -rector or vicar of her parish, and he will, doubtless, provide for this -lack, as well as see to her preparation for the rite himself. - -MARCIA.—We are certainly of opinion that in earlier times the term -“Merry (or Merrie) England” was justly so applied, as distinguished -from its general condition in these days of strikes. It was enough -for the little educated to have their Maypole festivities, their -Christmas and Easter entertainments; and so they enjoyed a greater -light-heartedness, simpler recreations and brighter views of life; and -the people were united more closely together in a boyish _camaraderie_. -But, as the Anglo-Saxon word _mæra_ signifies “famous, great and -mighty,” and _mer_ in the old Teutonic means “illustrious,” the -original signification is probably not “mirthful.” - -DOT.—A nice little cake for home use is made with 1 pint of wholemeal, -1 teacupful of milk, a piece of butter of about the size of a walnut, -and a teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix well and bake for about half an -hour. - -HOPE.—The correct pronunciation of the Italian phrase, _Dolce far -niente_ (Sweet do nothing) is, “Dole-che far ne-ente.” We are glad that -our magazine gives you so much satisfaction. - -DIX-HUIT.—There is no way of improving your hand but the daily -copying of the copper-plate examples, or of some hand you admire. The -pronunciation of surnames is often very arbitrary. The name “Besant” -ought to be pronounced as having a double “s,” and the accent laid -on the first syllable, “Bes.” But its present owner, Sir Walter, -pronounces it “Be_sant_,” and of course he has the right to do so. - -CARNATION.—If you are a daughter of a younger brother, no matter -how old you may be, the eldest daughter of the eldest brother has -precedence of you. Should your father and uncle have a sister living, -neither of you could claim precedence of her. She is Miss —— so long -as she remains single; and she takes precedence, moreover, of all her -younger brothers and their wives. - -MISS H. MASON’S “Holiday Home, and Home of Rest” we always have -pleasure in naming for the benefit of our readers, who are engaged -in either teaching or business, or are clerks. Charge for board and -lodging 15s. a week; for a short visit, from Saturday afternoon till -Monday morning, 5s.; and till Tuesday, 7s. 6d. Oakwood Lodge, Ide Hill, -Sevenoaks. - -MARGUERITE.—There is a society for milliners and dressmakers, the -“Provident and Benevolent Institution,” 32, Sackville Street, for -members within twelve miles of the General Post Office, and which gives -grants in illness, and pensions from £25 to £35. You do not give an -address, therefore we are unable to tell you whether you be eligible. - - - - -DIAPER DESIGNS FOR EMBROIDERY. - - -[Illustration: A.—_Sixteenth century sprig._] - -Most of the patterns here given were suggested by sketches from the -celebrated 15th century painted screen in Ranworth Church, Norfolk, -which I made on the occasion of a visit there some time ago, and are -excellent specimens of diapers suitable for embroidery. It is a class -of design almost peculiar to the period and may be termed “conceits,” -for although nature is suggested in these diapers, the arrangement is -purely arbitrary, and the ornament is not necessarily developed out -of a particular plant, but is imported into it, wilfully. Thus you -get in A a sort of conventionalised leafage with flowers and berries, -and in B an ornamentalised fruit with flowers. This latter pattern I -have developed in C, the growth of the pine-apple having suggested -the design. The thistle, globe artichoke and many other plants could -be treated in this way. Always go to nature for your _motifs_, but -remember that you only take suggestions from nature, as design is not -transcribing nature, but the result of imagination, stimulated by -reference to nature, playing around the subject. Ingenuity is called -into play, and a good design may be likened to an interweaving of -pleasantly contrasted lines nicely balanced. - -[Illustration: B.—_Sixteenth century sprig, suggestive of a fruit._] - -So many amateurs think that a representation of a particular plant or -animal arranged symmetrically is designing, whereas designing is as -much an effort of the imagination as poetry or music. It is a good -exercise to start with some design as I did in B and do something -original on the same lines. Even if you are not very original in your -efforts, it is a good exercise of your skill. If you are content to -merely reproduce what others have originated, your mental faculties -are not brought into play at all, and you can never hope to make any -advance in original work. The growth of stem in C, going as it does -over and under the main stem, was suggested by the growth of the sprig -in D, which is a characteristic example of a “conceit.” - -[Illustration: C.—_Sprig founded upon the pine-apple, in the style of -sixteenth century German work shown in_ B.] - -Such diapers as A, B and C can be used to “powder” over a curtain. -Portions of them might be _appliquéd_, the “fruit” in C for instance, -while the leaves could be in outline. The diapers can be disposed -over the curtain in some sort of order, and you might work diagonal -lines, and put a sprig in each lozenge formed by the diagonal lines -crossing each other at right angles, as in Fig. 1 in a former article -on “Curtain Embroidery,” to which I must refer the reader. The running -border E would be effective worked in two colours, a light and a dark, -and could be used to border a curtain in which the other diapers are -used. - -[Illustration: D.—_Sprig suggested by sixteenth century German work._] - -The patterns on the screen in Ranworth Church were stencilled, and -these given in this article could be cut as stencils. It would be a -good way of transferring the designs to the material to lightly stencil -them on and then work over the impressions. - - FRED MILLER. - -[Illustration: E.—_Continuous border design for two colours._] - - * * * * * - -[Transcriber’s Note—the following changes have been made to this text. - -Page 803: comtemplate to contemplate—“contemplate the surrender”. - -Page 812: Repeated word “the” removed—“_The Shadow of the Sword_”.] - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. -1029, September 16, 1899, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER, SEPT 16, 1899 *** - -***** This file should be named 63772-0.txt or 63772-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/7/7/63772/ - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -https://www.pgdp.net - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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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. 1029, September 16, 1899 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: November 15, 2020 [EBook #63772] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER, SEPT 16, 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_801"></a>{801}</span></p> - -<h1 class="faux">THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER</h1> - -<div class="figcenter w600"> -<img src="images/header.jpg" width="600" height="202" alt="The Girl's Own Paper." /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<div class="header"> -<p class="floatl"><span class="smcap">Vol. XX.—No. 1029.]</span></p> -<p class="floatr"><span class="smcap">[Price One Penny.</span></p> -<p class="floatc">SEPTEMBER 16, 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="#ROSA_NOUCHETTE_CAREY">ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY.</a><br /> -<a href="#VARIETIES">VARIETIES.</a><br /> -<a href="#THE_HOUSE_WITH_THE_VERANDAH">THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH.</a><br /> -<a href="#THE_PLEASURES_OF_BEE-KEEPING">THE PLEASURES OF BEE-KEEPING.</a><br /> -<a href="#THREE_GIRL-CHUMS_AND_THEIR_LIFE_IN_LONDON_ROOMS">THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN LONDON ROOMS.</a><br /> -<a href="#LETTERS_FROM_A_LAWYER">LETTERS FROM A LAWYER.</a><br /> -<a href="#OUR_LILY_GARDEN">OUR LILY GARDEN.</a><br /> -<a href="#UPS_AND_DOWNS">“UPS AND DOWNS.”</a><br /> -<a href="#SELF-CULTURE_FOR_GIRLS">SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS.</a><br /> -<a href="#SHEILAS_COUSIN_EFFIE">SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE.</a><br /> -<a href="#ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS">ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.</a><br /> -<a href="#DIAPER_DESIGNS_FOR_EMBROIDERY">DIAPER DESIGNS FOR EMBROIDERY.</a><br /> - -<!-- End Autogenerated TOC. --> - -</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ROSA_NOUCHETTE_CAREY">ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY.</h2> -</div> - - -<div class="figcenter illowp51" id="i801" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_801.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">WRITING A NEW STORY FOR “THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER.”</p></div> -</div> - -<p class="smalltext"><i>All rights reserved.</i>]</p> - - -<p><span class="smcap">In</span> an age when many books on every sort -of subject and vexed question are being daily -launched into the world, it is a relief to turn to -the pure, wholesome novels of Rosa Nouchette -Carey, the popular authoress, who has steadily -held her ground with her public since the production -of her first book, <i>Nellie’s Memories</i>, -composed and related verbally to her sister, -while yet in her teens, though not actually -written until some few years later.</p> - -<p>The youngest girl but one of a family of -seven, and in her girlhood delicate in health, -which caused her education to be somewhat -desultory, Rosa Carey soon displayed an aptitude -for composing fiction and little plays -which she and her sister acted, one of her -chief amusements being to select favourite -characters from history and from fiction, and -trying to personify them, while her greatest -pleasure was to relate short stories to this -same younger sister over their needlework. It -is a strange fact that, during her simple, happy, -uneventful girlhood, chiefly spent in reading, -in writing poetry, and in other girlish occupations, -Rosa Carey, who was of a somewhat -dreamy and romantic disposition, feeling the -impossibility of combining her favourite pursuits -with a useful domestic life, and discouraged -by her failures in this respect, made -a deliberate and, as it afterwards proved, a -fruitless attempt to quench her longing to -write. This unnatural repression, however, of -a strong instinct could not be conquered, and -after some years she yielded to it.</p> - -<p>She was born in London, near old Bow -Church, but has no very distinct remembrances -of the house and place. Later, the -family moved to Hackney, into what was then -a veritable country residence, and there many -happy years were spent. Her mother was a -strict disciplinarian, and very practical and -clever, while her father was a man universally -beloved and respected, by reason of his singularly -amiable character, his integrity, and his -many virtues.</p> - -<p>The next move was to Hampstead, where -the young girl’s schooldays began, and it was -then that she met and formed a strong friendship -with the late Mathilde Blind, the talented -author of <i>The Descent of Man</i>, and translator of -Marie Bashkirtseff’s Journal and other works. -This attachment, mutually enthusiastic and -full of interest, was only interrupted by a -divergence of religious opinions. Rosa Carey, -adhering to the simple faith of her childhood, -could not follow Mathilde Blind, who was -educated in the extreme school of modern -free-thought, and the friends, with sorrow but -with yet unabated affection on each side, -drifted apart.</p> - -<p>Meanwhile, the large and happy family was -being gradually broken up. First the beloved -father passed away. On the same day that, -three years before, had witnessed his death, -their mother, too, was taken to her rest, and -shortly after, the two sisters went to Croydon, -to superintend their widowed brother’s home. -Miss Carey’s real vocation in life seemed to -spring up, and the literary work was but fitfully -carried on, for, on the marriage of her -sister to the Rev. Canon Simpson, vicar of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_802"></a>{802}</span> -Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, and the subsequent -death of her brother, the sole charge -of the young orphans devolved upon her.</p> - -<p>As the years rolled by, circumstances tended -to break up that home also. The young -people grew up and scattered, and out of Miss -Carey’s four charges three are now married. -Then, her pleasurable duties being accomplished, -the partially disused pen was resumed, -and the author found leisure to return to -literary pursuits. She has for the last twelve -years made her home in the ancient and -historic village of Putney, which, although it -has lost much of its quaint and picturesque -environment since the destruction of the toll-house -and the old bridge of 1729, with its -twenty narrow openings—erstwhile the delight -of artists—has yet a few “bits” left that have -escaped the hands of the Philistines.</p> - -<p>Miss Carey’s pretty red-brick house of the -Queen Anne style of architecture, and into -which she has only more recently moved, is -situated near the bend of the road. A broad -gravelled path, running the whole length of -the house in front, is bordered with shrubs and -flowering plants. The spacious hall opens on -the right and front into the chief living-rooms, -the long French windows of which lead into -the conservatory. One of the great attractions -of the commodious and artistic residence is -the pleasant garden at the back, at once the -pride and delight of the author, where countless -blackbirds, thrushes, and other singing-birds, -are wont to congregate, and where in -summer, under the gigantic chestnut tree -with its widely-spreading branches, she and -her home-mates spend many a happy hour. -The home party consists likewise of her -widowed sister, Mrs. Simpson, and of her -friend, Helen Marion Burnside, the well-known -poet and author of <i>The Deaf Girl -Next Door</i>, and of a lately-published volume -entitled <i>Driftweed</i>.</p> - -<p>The drawing-room is bright and cheerful -with its wide, lofty window, and pretty side -windows, its parquet floor liberally strewn -with Persian rugs, and its cosy corner hung -with Oriental tapestries. Miss Carey’s own -study is upstairs, half-way up the wide staircase, -and overlooks the garden. There is an -oak knee-hole writing-table, with raised blotting-pad. -On one side well-filled bookcases, -here a low spring couch, there lounging-chairs, -big and little, and a cabinet covered -with photographs, together with vases of -flowers, and many little odds and ends of china. -The whole is restful to the eye, thoroughly -comfortable and attractive. Amid these -peaceful surroundings Miss Carey writes her -novels. She recalls to mind a little anecdote -connected with her earliest effort—<i>Nellie’s -Memories</i>. With no introduction, and quite -unacquainted then with any publishers, she -took the MSS., with much trepidation, to -Mr. Tinsley, who refused to read it. This -was a great disappointment, and some months -later, she mentioned the matter to Mrs. -Westerton, of Westerton’s Library. This -kindly woman volunteered to induce him to -change his mind, and did so with such good -effect that, on hearing at a wedding-party the -reader’s opinion was distinctly favourable, she -hastened away from the festive gathering to -impart the good news to the young author, a -kindness that Miss Carey declares she “shall -always remember with gratitude, and the very -dress that the good-natured messenger wore -on the occasion is stamped upon her recollection -for evermore.”</p> - -<p>This pretty domestic story of English home-life -found favour with the public from the -outset. It became widely known, and has -been constantly republished up to the present -date. The girl-author’s name and fame were -made at once, at which no one seemed surprised -but she. Old and young alike “took -to” the charming tale, free from any dramatic -incidents or mystery, owing to the unflagging -interest, and the high tone of the work, -not to speak of the striking individuality -of the characters. <i>Wee Wifie</i> followed, and -the author, who alone pronounced it to be a -failure, actually refused at first to allow it to -be brought out again when demanded lately, -as she feared it might not add to her literary -reputation, but upon being pressed, she re-wrote -and lengthened it, without, however, altering -the plot, and it has passed into a new edition.</p> - -<p>Among her succeeding novels, which are too -well known to need more than a passing comment, -may be noted <i>Barbara Heathcote’s -Trial</i>, <i>Robert Ord’s Atonement</i>, <i>Wooed and -Married</i>, <i>Heriot’s Choice</i>, and <i>Mary St. John</i>. -Ever anxious to do good and not harm, and to -write books that any mother can give her girls -to read, Rosa Carey’s works are characterised -by a tendency to elevate to lofty aspirations, -to noble ideas, and to purity of thought. -During her residence at Putney she has also -written <i>Lover or Friend</i>, <i>Only the Governess</i>, -<i>The Search for Basil Lyndhurst</i>, <i>Sir Godfrey’s -Grand-daughters</i>, <i>The Old, Old Story</i>, -<i>The Mistress of Brae Farm</i>, and <i>Other -People’s Lives</i>—a collection of short stories—while -her latest book is entitled <i>Mollie’s -Prince</i>. In <span class="smcap">The Girl’s Own Paper</span> her -short stories, which run serially for six months, -are well known and eagerly looked for. In these, -alike as in her longer works, the descriptive -power, the fertility of resource and originality, -prove that unceasing interest can be maintained -while dwelling in a thoroughly healthy literary -atmosphere. The first chapters of a new story -will appear in our next monthly part.</p> - -<p>It is clearly noticeable that while some of -Rosa Carey’s earlier books indicate a tone of -sadness running through them—a circumstance -that she is somewhat inclined to regret, but -they were tinged with many years of sorrow—the -healing hand of time has done its merciful -work, and she now writes in a more cheerful -vein. Nor is there wanting a strong sense of -quiet fun and humour which especially permeates -her delightful novel <i>Not Like Other -Girls</i>, a book that should surely stimulate -many young women to follow the example of -the three plucky heroines therein depicted -with so much spirit.</p> - -<p>While never exactly forming plots, when -Miss Carey is about to begin a story, she -thinks of one character, and works around -that, meditating well the while over the others -to be introduced. Then she starts writing, and -soon gets so completely to live in and with her -creations, that she feels a sense of loss and -blank when the book is coming to an end, and -while she has to wait until another grows in -her mind. But, after all, her writing—the -real work of her life—has often to be made a -secondary consideration, for in her strong -sense of family duty and devotion, and being -the pivot round which its many members turn -in sorrow or in sickness, the most important -professional work is apt to be laid aside if she -can do aught to comfort or to relieve them.</p> - -<p>Nor have her sympathies been exclusively -limited to her own people. Ever fond of -girls, and keenly interested in their welfare, -Miss Carey conducted for many years a -weekly class that had been formed in connection -with the Fulham Sunday School for -young girls and servants over fifteen years of -age, many of whom have had good reason to -remember with gratitude the kindly encouragement -and the wise counsel bestowed upon -them by the gentle and sympathetic author, -Rosa Nouchette Carey.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Helen C. Black.</span> -</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="VARIETIES">VARIETIES.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="center p2"><span class="smcap">Mansions.</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“I am glad that His house hath mansions,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For I shall be tired at first,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And I’m glad He hath bread and water of life,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For I shall be hungry and thirst.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I am glad that the house is His, not mine,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For He will be in it, and near,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To take from me the grief I have brought,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And to wipe away every tear.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right"><i>T. O. Paine.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">Death the Gate of Life.</span>—Plato, the -great Athenian philosopher, who was born -427 years before Christ, recognised the doctrine -that death is but the gate of life. “My body,” -he says, “must descend to the place ordained, -but my soul will not descend. Being a thing -immortal it will ascend on high, where it will -enter a heavenly abode. Death does not differ -at all from life.”</p> - - -<p class="center p2"><span class="smcap">Useless Trouble.</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Why lose we life in anxious cares,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To lay in hoards for future years?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Can these, when tortured by disease,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cheer our sick heart, or purchase ease?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Can these prolong one gasp of breath,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or calm the troubled hour of death?”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right"><i>Gay.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Women in Burma.</span>—In Burma women -are probably more free and happy than they -are anywhere else in the world. Though -Burma is bounded on one side by China, where -women are held in contempt, and on the other -by India, where they are kept in the strictest -seclusion, Burmese women have achieved for -themselves, and have been permitted by the -men to attain, a freedom of life and action that -has no parallel amongst Oriental peoples. -Perhaps the secret lies in the fact that the -Burmese woman is active and industrious, -whilst the Burmese man is indolent and often -a recluse.</p> - - -<p class="center p2"><span class="smcap">She knew Nothing of Cycles.</span></p> - -<p>Here is a story for cyclists. At a party on -the Scottish Border last autumn, to which -many guests rode on their cycles, the hostess -made elaborate arrangements for the care of -the machines, and a system of ticketing similar -to that in use at hotel cloak-rooms was adopted, -each cyclist being provided with a check ticket.</p> - -<p>The housekeeper was entrusted with the -care of the machines and the issuing of the -tickets, and as they arrived the machines were -carefully stored and labelled so that there should -be no difficulty when they were required again.</p> - -<p>But the housekeeper was not a cyclist and -did not understand the mysteries of the -pneumatic tyre. She pinned the labels on to -the front tyres of the machines, where they -could best be seen, and took good care that -the pins were stuck well into the tyres.</p> - -<p>The language that was heard when the -guests came to take their machines away, was, -as may well be supposed, more emphatic than -polite.</p> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_803"></a>{803}</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 XXV.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">THE NEWS THAT CAME AT LAST.</p> - -<div class="ddropcapbox w150"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_803.jpg" width="150" height="202" alt='M' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase">rs.</span> Bray’s end -did not prove so -imminent as her -faithful Rachel had -feared. She lingered -on, though -still unable to leave -Bath for return to -her desolated home. -So Florence Brand -came back to London, -but she and Jem -still often took “a week’s -end” to run westward and -visit the old lady. They never offered to -take Lucy with them, and if “Jem” could -not go Florence went alone. As for Lucy, -she often yearned for those associations -with her old easy girlish life which she -would have found in Mrs. Bray’s presence. -Such associations help to uphold -our sense of identity, and often comfort -us by revealing our own growth. -They keep us tender, too, and tolerant, -reviving the consciousness of what we -were ourselves before we learned bitter -lessons which may not yet have come -to others. Also they strengthen us by -revealing that not even to regain our -old careless joys could we willingly -be again our old careless selves. It is -the “look backward” which best spurs -us to go forward.</p> - -<p>But Lucy could not afford any “unnecessaries” -of leisure or railway travel. -She turned at once to her life of steady -labour, knowing that she must be henceforth -a working woman, not for any -temporary exigency, but as part of the -natural and persistent order of things.</p> - -<p>Even thus she had problems to solve. -Her earned income, more or less uncertain, -was not adequate for the reliable -upkeep of the home of her married life. -Nor could the demands upon it grow -less, since Hugh’s education and start -in life had to be taken into account.</p> - -<p>Lucy could not yet give up all hope -of her husband’s return. But her sweet, -sane nature speedily realised that whatever -hopes she might secretly cherish, -she must nevertheless act as though -Charlie had indeed “sailed for that other -shore” whence he “could not come back -to her.”</p> - -<p>Yet these secret hopes made it very -hard to contemplate the surrender of the -home Charlie and she had made together—the -sale of the leasehold, the dispersion -and shrinkage of the household gods. -These seemed almost sacred now when -they might be all that remained of the -old life.</p> - -<p>The Brands warmly advocated giving -up the house and selling off the furniture.</p> - -<p>“It may not bring in much,” Florence -said airily, “but what it does Jem will -get well invested in some paying concern. -Then you and the boy can board -with somebody. You may do that -moderately enough, for people who are -glad to take boarders can often be -screwed down to low terms. Then apart -from that definite outlay, you’ll have -whatever you can earn for yourself, and -you’ll have no more worry with housekeeping. -Many would envy such a lot. -You see there are compensations in all -things.”</p> - -<p>Then it struck Florence that Lucy’s -hesitancy might arise from reluctance to -give up all hope of Charlie’s return, so -she added hastily—</p> - -<p>“And if what we all hope for should -really happen, why, you would still have -your capital, and you could buy another -leasehold and get new furniture; it -would just make a lovely new beginning!”</p> - -<p>Lucy shook her head.</p> - -<p>“I don’t want to do this if I can find -some other way,” she said. “No other -house could be to us what this one is, -nor any new furniture that which Charlie -and I bought bit by bit in our courting -days. Practically speaking, too, breakings-up -and sales, and buyings again, all -mean loss in cash as well as in feelings.”</p> - -<p>“Then, too, if you and the boy were -boarding,” Florence went on hurriedly, -“your wants would be drawn within -narrow and defined limits, so that if -there was any sort of misfortune, it -would not be difficult for us to help you. -We are not really rich, Lucy. We live -as we do and spend as we do only that -we may go on getting more. That is -the way with one-half of the people in -society. It’s trying. It tells upon Jem, -it’s that which makes him take so much -wine,” she whispered. “I should not -like my family to heap any burdens on -Jem.”</p> - -<p>“I shall not do that, Florence,” -replied Lucy, cool and quiet now, where -once she would have been indignant -and stung. “I shall certainly not -allow myself to get into debt. I will -look well ahead. If we have to go to -the workhouse, I will make our own -arrangements for going there!”</p> - -<p>Other people took counsel with Lucy -in a far different spirit. Miss Latimer -said Lucy might rely on her remaining -with her as long as they could possibly -share a common home. That added her -little income to the household funds. -“Little indeed,” she said, but Lucy -answered—</p> - -<p>“Every little helps. And the greatest -help is in the knowledge that one does -not bear one’s burden alone.”</p> - -<p>“Ay, two are better than one,” rejoined -the old governess, “and a threefold -cord is not quickly broken.”</p> - -<p>“I’d like to be the third cord, but I’m -only a bit of twine,” said Tom.</p> - -<p>Another and stouter strand was soon -to be woven into the household coil for -that “long pull and strong pull” which -Lucy was determined to make. The -death of his old landlord had broken up -the house where Mr. Somerset had -hitherto lived. Diffidently, as if he -were asking a great favour, he inquired -if Lucy could entertain the idea of allowing -him to rent her first floor, for which -he was willing to pay a rent which at -once made a substantial addition to the -household finance.</p> - -<p>As for poor Tom Black, he was distressed -to think how small his payments -were. “If he went away,” he said, -“somebody more profitable might -occupy his place.” Lucy had to reassure -him by her own words and by -the sight of Hugh’s tears at the bare -thought of “Tom’s going away.”</p> - -<p>Three months later Tom got a rise -in his salary, and then he insisted on -raising his monthly board fee. Lucy -was slightly reluctant and almost aggrieved, -but when she saw the lad’s -face beaming with the power of his new -prosperity, she let him have his own -way in the matter.</p> - -<p>So life settled down. Florence resented -that her sister had chosen “to -turn into a lodging-house keeper.” -Lucy marvelled to note how strangely -it “comes natural” to some women to -belittle and contemn those ways of -honest industry which lie nearest to -woman’s true nature—housekeeping, -house-serving, the care of the aged, -and the young, and the solitary. And, -oh, the pity of it! if such belittlement -and contempt tend to relegate these -high womanly functions only to unworthy -“eye-servants”!</p> - -<p>Months passed, yet the silence of the -seas remained unbroken. Now and -then Lucy and the captain’s wife wrote -and asked how each fared. There -came no day when either drew a line -across life and forbade that hope should -cross it. They did not put on widow’s -mourning, yet when Lucy had to buy -a new dress or ribbon, Miss Latimer -noticed that she bought it of black or -of soberest grey.</p> - -<p>Months of such waiting had gone by -ere Lucy wonderingly observed that there -came to her no more her old nightmare -vision of herself struggling lonely between -a wild heath and a dead wall -against a midnight storm. There was a -sense in which the allegory of that vision -was converted into fact—the silence as -of death on one hand, the great rough -world on the other, the storm of sorrow -beating on herself. Yet now she realised -that God Himself was with her on the -dark wild way—she was not alone—and -that made all the difference. God does -not promise to uphold us in our fears -and forebodings. These ought not to -be. He has promised to be with us and -to comfort us when the dark days shall -really come.</p> - -<p>Lucy never gave voice to many of her -deepest experiences at that time—that -secret speech which the Father keeps -for each of His children. Sometimes it -seemed to her as if shafts of light -penetrated her very being, revealing or<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_804"></a>{804}</span> -illuminating the most solemn mysteries -of life. Sometimes she thought of Paul’s -allusion to being “caught up into the -third heaven” and “hearing unspeakable -words which it is not lawful for a -man to utter.”</p> - -<p>This fleeting glory would fade out of -Lucy’s soul even as sunshine fades off -the earth. Yet Lucy felt that those -“hours of insight” left her seeing “all -things new.”</p> - -<p>Lucy began to understand how martyrs -can smile and speak cheerfully at their -stake, because from that standpoint their -developed spiritual stature lifts them to -wider horizons than others know. What -a message the blue sky must have had -for the white depths of the Colosseum! -Yet these things can never be told or -written. Whoever would know them -must learn them for themselves, though -it be but “in part.” But it is because -of these things that faith and hope and -love have never died out of the world, -since all the forces of unfaith and -despair and cruelty end only in producing -them afresh, because they are of the -eternal life of God.</p> - -<p>Lucy’s picture-dealer felt kindly towards -the quiet client who gave so little -trouble, showed so little self-conceit, -and, while steadily business-like, was -never exacting or suspicious. He -thought “it would do Mrs. Challoner -no harm” if he told her that one or -two purchasers had said, “There is -something in that lady’s sketches which -we miss in many greater artists,” one -old lady adding that “when she looked -at Lucy’s pictures, she felt as if there -was a soft voice beside her whispering -something pleasant.”</p> - -<p>That brought the tears to Lucy’s eyes -and made her feel very humble, possibly -because she could not deny to herself -that there was truth in the gracious -words. Oh, to have Charlie again, and -yet to be all that she had grown into -since he had gone away—since this -awful silence! And an inner voice -bade her take cheer, for was not this -what was sure to happen here or there—sooner -or later?</p> - -<p>“What a pitiful bliss we should make -for ourselves if we were left to do it -without God!” Lucy cried, thinking -even of the sweetest dreams of courting -days, the best aspirations of married -life. For after one taste of “the peace -which passeth understanding,” one -vision of the joy which has absorbed -the strength of sorrow into it, mere -“happiness” looks but a poor thing, -even as a child’s cheap, pretty toy shows -beside a masterpiece of genius.</p> - -<p>Lucy’s slumbers now were deep and -calm. Almost every morning she awoke -with a sense of refreshment, as when -one returns to labour after being among -kind hearts in lovely places. Sometimes -she knew she had dreamed, and such -dream memories as lingered, elusive, -for a few waking moments, were always -bright and cheering. Visions of Charlie -had come during the first nights after -the great blow. He never seemed to -speak, but he was always smiling, -always confident that all was well and -would be well. His dream form always -appeared in positions and in scenes -which Lucy could recall as having -figured in peculiarly happy times. And -yet these scenes had been at the time so -slight and evanescent that Lucy had -quite forgotten them till the dream -revived the remembrance. It was as if, -in her sleep, her soul was drawn so near -the light and warmth of love that even -the invisible records of memory started -into view.</p> - -<p>After those first few occasions Charlie -came no more into any dream which she -could recall even at the instant of -waking. But the soothing spirit of -hope and reassurance remained. If she -dreamed of Florence, Florence wore the -simple frocks of her girlhood and spoke -as she used to do. Jem Brand, too, -appeared only on his kind and helpful -side. Once she had a curious dream -of seeing two Jem Brands exactly alike, -save that one was fresh and smiling and -friendly, and inclined to nudge his -strange dissipated-looking twin, and to -ask why he was so grumpy and heavy. -In her sleep, too, she saw Mrs. Morison, -and Jane Smith, and Clementina, and -each was back in her old place and -doing well. Lucy could never remember -what passed between them and -her in the land of sleep, but somehow -she knew it was something that explained -things, something which made -them feel that the past could not have -ended otherwise than it had, but which -also made her feel that it was quite -natural that they should begin again -and do better.</p> - -<p>She thought to herself once as she -awoke—</p> - -<p>“I feel as if wherever Charlie is I am -in his every thought, and that his every -thought is a prayer always ascending -on every way by which it can bring back -blessing.”</p> - -<p>It was about this time that it struck -Lucy that strangers very often spoke to -her. She scarcely ever entered an -omnibus or a railway carriage without -somebody appealing to her for some -trifling assistance, or confiding to her -some little difficulty which they seemed -to think might grow clearer if it were -talked over. Once or twice she noticed -that old folks or little children let ever -so many people pass them by and then -asked her to ring a stiff bell for them or -to decipher an address.</p> - -<p>Sometimes she caught herself softly -repeating Adelaide Proctor’s lines—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Who is the angel that cometh?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Pain!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let us arise and go forth to greet him.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Not in vain</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is the summons gone for us to meet him;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He will stay and darken our sun;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He will stay</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A desolate night, a weary day.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Since in that shadow our work is done,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in that shadow our crowns are won,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let us say still, while his bitter chalice</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Slowly into our heart is poured—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">‘Blessed is he that cometh</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In the name of the Lord!’”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Of course beneath all this high experience -ran the undercurrent of simple -daily living. Lucy was in no danger of -losing hold of the practical. She had -her regular duties at the Institute, and -many little opportunities for the exercise -of tact and common sense at home. -The little household had a real organic -unity in its common service of true -friendship, but that did not rub off all -the little human angles. Sometimes -Pollie would say that “Mrs. May was -more particular than a real mistress.” -Sometimes Miss Latimer found a trial -in the romps of Hugh and Tom Black. -Mr. Somerset adopted vegetarianism -and puzzled Mrs. May by desiring her -to concoct dishes which seemed to her -unsatisfactory and uncanny. But each -trusted the other. Everybody knew that -everybody meant well. If a sharp word -were spoken unwarily, a kind word -followed hard upon it. Each understood -that all joys and trials were -common property; shares therein might -differ, but everybody had a share.</p> - -<p>So the weeks grew into months, and -the months completed a year. One -evening Lucy was sitting in the dining-room -glancing over her completed -balance sheet with its tiny “surplus,” -when suddenly it seemed to her that -there was a new sound in the very -rumble of the cab which was depositing -Mr. Somerset as usual at the door, after -his day’s study at the British Museum. -She looked up, her pen in her hand -listening.</p> - -<p>Mr. Somerset generally went straight -to his own apartments. Occasionally, -however, when he had any news to -tell or any request to make, he looked -in upon the little party in the dining-room.</p> - -<p>He did so now.</p> - -<p>He sat down on the sofa and said -abruptly—</p> - -<p>“Mrs. Challoner, do you think joy -ever hurts anybody?”</p> - -<p>“Surely not,” she said, looking up -with wide eyes. “The Bible says that -hope deferred maketh the heart sick, -but that when the desire cometh, it is a -tree of life.”</p> - -<p>“Do you feel sure, dear friend, that -you could bear——”</p> - -<p>She had risen from her seat with -clasped hands.</p> - -<p>“Mr. Somerset, Mr. Somerset!” she -gasped.</p> - -<p>He rose too.</p> - -<p>“Trust me,” he said, gently leading -her mind to its new attitude. “I would -not stir expectation ever so lightly for -nothing. To-day I have received a -message from the shipping office to -deliver to you. Listen! The long -looked-for word has come at last. -Charlie lives! Charlie is quite well! -Charlie is coming home! He is on his -way!”</p> - -<p>Lucy did not faint. She did not cry -out. She sat quite quiet for a moment, -and then broke into a peal of low happy -laughter, which died away in a flood of -soft healing tears, from which she looked -up and said—</p> - -<p>“Is it all true? Is it quite true? I -can scarcely believe it!”</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_805"></a>{805}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_PLEASURES_OF_BEE-KEEPING">THE PLEASURES OF BEE-KEEPING.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> F. W. L. SLADEN.</p> - - -<h3>PART V.</h3> - -<div class="ddropcapbox w175"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_805.jpg" width="175" height="274" alt='A' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase">ugust</span> is the month we most -associate with all the active -interests of the height of -summer, but the bees in the -hive are already quieting -down and making preparations -for their long winter -sleep. The duty of the bee-keeper -will be to make sure -that these preparations are properly carried -out by assisting them if necessary. One -reason for their diminished activity is the -disappearance of several honey-producing -flowers on which the bees depend for their -main crop. Breeding is not kept up so -largely—the brood nest growing smaller; and -many cells that contained brood last month -will now be filled up with honey and pollen. -Most of the bees now in the hive are to survive -the coming winter, and they must preserve -their energies as much as possible, because -the colony will stand in great need of their -services in the following spring. The drones, -who gather no honey, and are of no further -use in the hive are now attacked and killed, -or turned out of the hive to perish from -exposure. The ejection of the drones is -rather a gruesome proceeding, but it is one -that should give satisfaction to the bee-keeper, -because it shows that the colony possesses a -healthy and vigorous queen, and this, of course, -is an essential condition for its well-being.</p> - -<p>All through this month robbing will have -to be guarded against, as, now that honey is -scarce, it is easily induced, especially where -there are a number of hives. To prevent -robbing, the hives should not be opened too -often, and then only late in the afternoon, -and the work done as speedily as possible. -No drops of honey or syrup should be left -about, and if feeding is going on, care should -be taken to prevent any bees from outside -getting to the feeder.</p> - -<p>When robbing and fighting are found to be -in progress, the best means of checking the -trouble will be to reduce the entrance of the -hive with perforated zinc, so as to allow only -one bee to pass in or out at a time. A rag -soaked in a weak solution of Calvert’s No. 5 -carbolic acid, wrung out nearly dry, and spread -out on the alighting board will also help to -keep the robbers off.</p> - -<p>These measures need not be taken unless -there is considerable excitement around the -hive entrance. At this time of year there will -often be a few strangers on the alighting -board, which get pulled about rather roughly -by little groups of over-zealous sentinels, but -no notice need be taken of this.</p> - -<p>The middle or end of August will be time -enough to think about getting the bees into -condition for the winter. A careful inspection -of all the hives should now be made, and the -following points carefully noted:</p> - -<p>(1.) Every colony should have a good laying -queen. The appearance of worker brood in -all stages will be sufficient evidence of her -presence without our taking the trouble to -hunt her up.</p> - -<p>(2.) The colony must be strong, the bees -crowding on at least six standard frames.</p> - -<p>(3.) The combs must contain not less than -twenty pounds of good honey for food during -the winter.</p> - -<p>These three conditions being fulfilled, we -may be satisfied that the colony is in good -condition to withstand the rigours of winter -without further attention, and only requires -to be wrapped up warmly later on before the -advent of cold weather.</p> - -<p>If, however, the colony should happen to -be queenless, or weak (that is, covering less -than six standard frames), it will have to be -<i>united</i> to another colony. Thus, two colonies, -neither of which, alone, would be strong -enough to stand the winter, can be united -together to form one strong colony, which, if -properly looked after, will almost certainly -turn out strong in the spring and do well the -following year.</p> - -<p>The colonies which are to be united should -stand near to one another; by this I mean -within a yard or two of one another. If they -are further apart or have several other hives -standing between them, they will have to be -brought together, the moving being done by -degrees, a yard or two at a time, and only on -fine days during which the bees fly freely, -otherwise many bees will be lost.</p> - -<p>For the operation of uniting a flour-dredger -will be required, containing about -half-a-pint of flour. Also a goose-wing for -brushing the bees off the combs. The dome -queen-cage is an appliance that may come in -useful. It is made of tinned wire-cloth, and -shaped like the strainer that is sometimes -hung from the spout of a tea-pot to retain the -leaves. Such tea-strainers make very good -queen-cages. To use the queen-cage it is -pressed into the comb with the queen inside.</p> - -<p>The hive to contain the united colonies -should be placed midway between the two -old stands. The alighting-boards should be -extended by means of the hiving-board which -was used in hiving the swarm.</p> - -<p>A bright calm afternoon will be the best -time to do the uniting. We have already -seen that bees belonging to different colonies -when mixed will not, under ordinary circumstances, -agree. If, however, they are prevented -from recognising one another they will unite -together quite peaceably, and this condition -may be brought about by dusting them over -with flour. Every comb must therefore be -lifted out of both hives and the bees on them -well powdered with flour from the dredger. -In replacing the combs, one from one hive -should be put next to another from the other -hive, thus ensuring the better mixing of the -bees. Combs containing brood should be -placed together in the middle of the hive. The -bees on the lightest of the outside combs may -be shaken off on to the hiving-board, where -they should receive a sprinkling of flour, the -combs being then taken indoors at once.</p> - -<p>During the operation a sharp look out -should be kept for the queens on the brood -combs, and if one of them should be preferred -for heading the new colony she should be caged -by herself on a comb in the manner described -above to prevent any hostile workers from -attacking her. The other queen must then be -found and removed, and the bee-keeper must -remember to liberate the caged queen on the -following day. If left to themselves, however, -the workers soon learn to recognise one of the -queens as their mother, so that the trouble of -finding and caging the queen is not really -necessary in uniting, but it is an additional -safeguard which the practised bee-keeper is -glad to be able to take advantage of.</p> - -<p>It was stated just now that the presence of -<i>worker</i>-brood in the hive was sufficient evidence -of the presence of a good queen. In -some cases where there is a bad queen or no -queen at all, <i>drone</i>-brood may be found in the -hive. Usually the bees build a special comb -with cells of a larger pattern for raising drone-brood -in, but a bad queen will often lay drone -eggs in worker-cells. In either case drone-brood -may be known from worker-brood by -its raised convex cappings, the capping over -the worker-brood being almost flat. The best -thing to do with a drone-raising colony is to -unite it to another good colony without delay -in the manner described above.</p> - -<p>Having settled the question of strength, the -next thing to see about will be the food -supply. If each hive does not possess the -minimum weight of 20 lb. of stored honey, -combs containing food must be given from -another hive that can spare them, or syrup -must be supplied through the feeder.</p> - -<p>Syrup for winter use must be made thicker -than that used for stimulating in the summer, -10 lbs. of cane sugar being dissolved in only -5 pints of water. The syrup must be given -quickly (5 or 6 lb. every day), otherwise much -of it may be used for raising brood. For -this purpose special rapid feeders, made to -hold 6 lb. of syrup, are made.</p> - -<p>If the stock-box contains more than 30 lb. -of honey, we may take and extract the surplus -from the outside combs, or one of these combs -might with advantage be given to a colony -that stands in need of it.</p> - -<p>Bee-keepers who live in the heather districts -of Scotland and the north of England will -now be reaping the late honey harvest that -this plant affords, getting their supers filled -with the delicious heather-honey, which is so -highly esteemed for its fine flavour. Persons -keeping a few colonies a little distance from -the moors find it worth their while to send -their bees there while the heather is in bloom. -Heather-honey has a deep colour. It is so -thick that it is extremely difficult to remove it -from the comb by means of the honey extractor. -It should therefore be stored in sections, -as these do not require extracting. Sections -of heather-honey should fetch about threepence -more than ordinary sections.</p> - -<p>What to do with the honey obtained from -their bees is a question, I expect, that will -not trouble many of my readers. Still it will -be a good thing to know some of the uses -of honey. In the first place it is delicious -eaten with bread and butter. It contains -grape sugar, which makes it wholesome and -easily digested, and particularly good for -children in moderate quantities. Honey-vinegar -and mead when well made are -acknowledged to be excellent. As an ingredient -in cakes and confectionary, honey greatly -improves them. A delicious flavour is -imparted to tea or coffee if sweetened with -honey instead of sugar. “My son, eat thou -honey, because it is good” (Proverbs xxiv. 13) -is the recommendation the wise King Solomon -gave honey.</p> - -<p>Honey is also valuable as a medicine. -Mixed with the juice of lemons it is universally -acknowledged to be one of the best -remedies for sore throat and cough. It has -been proved to be beneficial in cases of -rheumatism, hoarseness, and affections of the -chest.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be concluded.</i>)</p> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_806"></a>{806}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THREE_GIRL-CHUMS_AND_THEIR_LIFE_IN_LONDON_ROOMS">THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN LONDON ROOMS.</h2> -</div> - - -<h3>CHAPTER X.</h3> - -<div class="ddropcapbox w150"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_806.jpg" width="150" height="141" alt='M' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase">arion’s</span> wedding-day -was near at -hand. Mrs. -Grant, her -cousin, who -lived in -Norfolk -Square, -had very -kindly offered -to -have the -wedding from her house, and this arrangement -was the most convenient for everybody -concerned. It had been at first intended that -she should be married from her own home in -Northamptonshire, but there would have been -such a difficulty in putting up all the wedding -guests, and Dr. Thomas’s house was already -a very full one. So when Mrs. Grant offered -the loan of her house for the occasion it was -thankfully accepted.</p> - -<p>Marion was glad to be in London for a -week or two beforehand as she was so busy -with her <i>trousseau</i>, and it made the shopping -and trying on of dresses so much more easy. -Her mother came up to town to stay in -Norfolk Square for a fortnight before the -wedding to help her with her purchases. The -rest of the family were coming up for the -wedding on the day and were going back to -the country as soon as it was over.</p> - -<p>Marion was disappointed at not being -married from her own home, but she saw -plainly that the present arrangement would -save her mother a great deal of fatigue and -inconvenience, and as Mrs. Thomas was not at -all strong now, that was a great point gained. -Anybody who has experienced the difficulties -of making ready for a party, added to the -planning and contriving necessary to the -disposal of guests in an already over-full house, -will heartily appreciate the benefits of Mrs. -Grant’s plan.</p> - -<p>Jane wrote to Mrs. Grant, whom she knew -very well, and offered help for the wedding -breakfast. As the cook in Norfolk Square -had not been in her place very long and was -rather inexperienced, Mrs. Grant was very -glad to agree to Jane’s suggestion. The -wedding was to be on a Saturday. Fortunately -the day before was a free day for Jane, and so -she would be able to devote it to making -ready for the wedding.</p> - -<p>There was to be a sit-down breakfast in the -old-fashioned style, for the guests were limited -to the relations and very old friends of the -bride and bridegroom, and as several of these -would be coming up from the country for the -day, they would be glad of a substantial repast. -The bride was to be married in a travelling -dress, and was only to have one bridesmaid—her -sister Lily.</p> - -<p>As the weather was already crisp and cold -this was a very sensible plan, for nothing is -more unbecoming than the utterly unseasonable -attire in which brides and bridesmaids are -sometimes seen shivering. Fortunately Marion -was not to go straight to a very hot climate, -as Mr. Scott had work at Ootacamund for the -next year. She received many delightful -presents. A very useful one from one of her -pupils was a cookery-book for Anglo-Indians, -which she treasured very much, as she knew -how very useful it would be to her in her new -home.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Holden gave her several presents, -amongst which was some very beautiful lace -which Marion had made up on a white silk -dinner dress.</p> - -<p>The enterprising Jane made the wedding-cake -with Ada’s help. She had to buy a -special tin to bake it in as she had not one big -enough. It was cooked with the greatest care -in the gas oven in which Marion had prepared -so many meals in the days of their joint housekeeping.</p> - -<p>The preparations took some days, for Jane -had not very much time just then. She -prepared half the fruit one evening and half -the next. On the next afternoon she got -home early, made the cake, and got it into the -oven by six o’clock, and had it baked before -they went to bed. The next evening she put -on the almond icing and the plain royal icing, -and on the next she ornamented it. It was -allowed two or three days to set quite firm, -and then the cake was wrapped in wadding, -packed in a box and taken over to Norfolk -Square in a cab, where it was kept under a -glass case until the wedding. Our readers -must have the recipe of this wonderful cake -in case they may wish to emulate Jane’s industry -for the benefit of their friends. Mrs. -Oldham sent up a special box of eggs for its -concoction.</p> - - -<p class="center p2"><span class="smcap">Marion’s Wedding Cake.</span></p> - -<p><i>Ingredients.</i>—Two pounds of Vienna flour, -one pound of French plums, one pound of -sultanas, one pound of currants, one pound of -citron peel, one and three-quarter pounds of -fresh butter, one and a half pounds of castor -sugar, ten eggs, one pound of sweet almonds, -and vanilla essence.</p> - -<p><i>For the Almond Icing.</i>—Two pounds of -ground almonds, three pounds of castor sugar, -almond flavouring, enough beaten egg to bind.</p> - -<p><i>Royal Icing.</i>—Three pounds of icing sugar, -whites of egg to mix, lemon juice.</p> - -<p><i>Method.</i>—Rub the flour through a hair -sieve, stone the French plums and chop them -finely, wash and dry the currants, and pick -and flour the sultanas; cut up the peel, sift -the sugar, blanch and chop the almonds. Beat -the butter to a cream, and then add the sugar -and work together until very light; add the -eggs one by one, flour the fruit well, and stir -it in gradually, the almonds also: lastly, stir -in the flour, the essence, and the brandy. Line -a tin with paper that has been brushed with -clarified butter; pour in the mixture, and bake -in a moderate oven.</p> - -<p><i>Almond Icing.</i>—Mix the ground almonds -and castor sugar together and then work in -enough beaten white of egg to bind; knead -and roll out, lay over the cake and put near -the fire to dry.</p> - -<p><i>Royal Icing.</i>—Rub the icing sugar through -a sieve and work in with a wooden spoon -enough white of egg to make the icing of the -right consistency to spread over the cake; add -a little lemon juice. Dry the icing in a cool -oven, taking care it does not colour. Ornament -the cake the next day, using royal icing mixed -rather more stiffly than that which was spread -over first. Put it on with a forcer.</p> - - -<p class="p2">Jane declared that she only breathed freely -when she had deposited the cake in Mrs. -Grant’s house, and saw it waiting for the -wedding under a large glass globe!</p> - -<p>Here we have the menu for the wedding -breakfast.</p> - - -<p class="center p2">MENU DU DÉJEUNER.</p> - - -<ul class="center"><li>Ox-tail Soup.</li> -<li>Oyster Patties.</li> -<li>Glazed Pheasants.</li> -<li>Pigeon Pie.</li> -<li>Tongue.</li> -<li>Pistachio Cream.</li> -<li>Claret Jelly.</li> -<li>Fruits.</li> -<li>Coffee.</li> -</ul> - -<p>The cook at Norfolk Square and Jane both -worked hard all the day before and everything -turned out very well. To ensure the pheasants -and the tongue being well glazed and looking -nice, Jane made some good glaze and brought -it with her. This she did by making a pint of -good beef-tea and boiling it rapidly down to a -thick syrup. The pheasants and the tongue -had each two coats brushed on and were -then suitably ornamented, the tongue with a -pretty design in creamed butter put on with -a forcer and slices of notched cucumber laid -round the dish. The tongue was a smoked -one and was soaked for twenty-four hours -before being cooked. Jane made all the puff -pastry for the patties and the pigeon pie; the -cook made the soup, cooked the pheasants -and the tongue and prepared the inside of the -pie under her supervision. She also prepared -the moulds for the creams and jellies. Here -are the recipes for the soup, patties, creams, -and jellies. The quantity made consisted of -two quarts of soup, two dozen patties, two -creams (quart moulds), two jellies (ditto), and -two pies.</p> - - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Ox-Tail Soup.</span></p> - -<p><i>Ingredients.</i>—One ox-tail, one carrot, one -turnip, two onions, two sticks of celery, two -tomatoes, four mushrooms, bay-leaf, blade of -mace, a bunch of herbs, twelve peppercorns, -two teaspoonfuls of salt, two quarts of stock, -two ounces of butter, three ounces of brown -thickening.</p> - -<p><i>Method.</i>—Cut the ox-tail into joints and -blanch it. Fry it well in the butter, add the -vegetables washed and sliced, the mace, herbs, -salt, and the stock, and simmer four hours. -Strain and pick out the pieces of meat; -take off the fat and return to the saucepan. -Thicken with three ounces of brown thickening. -Put in the pieces of ox-tail and the -soup is ready.</p> - - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Puff Pastry.</span></p> - -<p><i>Ingredients.</i>—Two pounds of Vienna flour, -two pounds of butter, lemon juice, water to -mix, two yolks of eggs.</p> - -<p><i>Method.</i>—Rub the flour through a hair -sieve; wash the butter and rub one-third into -the flour. Turn this on to the paste-board -and make a well in the middle. Beat the -yolks of two eggs with a gill of water and a -little lemon juice and mix into the flour, -adding more water if necessary until you have -a flexible dough. Roll out to a strip, shape -the butter to a third the size of the dough and -lay it on; fold the dough over and roll out; -repeat this and put it away to cool. Roll out -again and repeat this four times. Roll out, -cut as required, and use. For patties, cut into -rounds with a cutter about the size of a wine-glass -and mark it at the top with a smaller -cutter. Bake in a very hot oven a pale golden -brown, and when baked lift off the lid and -scoop out the inside; fill with the required -mixture and put on the lid again.</p> - -<p><i>Mixture for Oyster Patties.</i>—Strain the -liquor from two dozen oysters and put it to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_807"></a>{807}</span> -boil for ten minutes with a blade of mace, -three peppercorns, a little lemon rind, and -some salt; strain and mix with a gill of cream. -Work half an ounce of butter with as much -cornflour as it will take up, stir it into the -liquor and boil up over the fire; cut the oysters -in small pieces, put them into the sauce and -heat gently for a few minutes without letting -it boil again.</p> - - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Pistachio Cream.</span></p> - -<p><i>Ingredients.</i>—One pint of double cream, -the whites of two fresh eggs, four ounces -of castor sugar, a quarter of a pound of -pistachios (chopped and blanched), one ounce -of leaf gelatine, two tablespoonfuls of water, -a half-pint packet of lemon jelly.</p> - -<p><i>Method.</i>—Take a plain round cake-mould -that will hold a quart, and line the sides of it -with lemon jelly. Sprinkle the bottom over -with chopped pistachio, using a little melted -jelly to set it. Whip a pint of double cream -to a stiff froth, and mix it lightly with the -stiffly beaten whites of two fresh eggs and the -castor sugar (sifted). Pound the pistachios in -a mortar, and add the sweetened cream to this. -Have ready the gelatine, and when it is lukewarm -stir it quickly into the cream. Pour at -once into the prepared mould.</p> - -<p>Before the wedding-day, Jane, Ada, and -Marion had a little tea-party at “The -Rowans,” at which it must be confessed they -talked a great deal and ate very little.</p> - -<p>“Well, we have had a very happy year at -all events,” said Ada, “and if <i>circumstances</i> -had not upset our previous arrangements, I -should have been quite content to go on in the -same way for a long time.”</p> - -<p>“As <i>circumstances</i>, named Tom Scott and -Jack Redfern, intervened, our housekeeping is -at an end,” said Jane decisively. “I think I -am the one to whom all apologies should be -made. Of course, with you two gone, I could -not bear starting the same sort of thing again -with anyone else, but it has certainly been a -most successful experiment. Has your dress -come home yet, Marion?”</p> - -<p>“Yes; and fits very well.”</p> - -<p>“It is the prettiest dress you can imagine,” -said Jane to Ada. “A grey Sicilienne skirt, -with a grey glacé silk bodice, and cherry-coloured -velvet at the throat and waist. A -dear little cherry-coloured toque to wear with -it, and a smart grey velvet cape with a delicate -design in steel on it. I can’t help talking like -a fashion plate when I think of it! Our -dresses are sent back at last, and there is -nothing that needs alteration.”</p> - -<p>Jane and Ada were to wear their new winter -dresses of green cashmere and brown velvet; -big brown “picture” hats with rowans under -the brim. Marion’s wedding-day dawned -bright and sunny. The wedding was to be at -two o’clock.</p> - -<p>Jane had arranged to go over to Norfolk -Square early to superintend the laying of the -breakfast before the party went to church. -The table was decorated with white flowers -in specimen vases. Azaleas, chrysanthemums, -and orange-blossoms, and sprigs of rowan-berries -were laid on the pretty white satin -table-centre which Ada had worked for her -friend.</p> - -<p>And now they are off to church.</p> - -<p>Marion makes a charmingly pretty but very -nervous bride. Everybody is bright and cheerful -and there are no tears. Soon they come -back and sit down to the breakfast, prepared -with so much care. And now the time has -come for us to bid farewell to our young -housekeepers, whose plans and contrivances -our readers have followed for so long. If -their example will induce any to try the -experiment for themselves, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. -Redfern, and Miss Jane Orlingbury will feel -that they have not worked in vain.</p> - -<p class="center">[THE END.]</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i807" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_807.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="LETTERS_FROM_A_LAWYER">LETTERS FROM A LAWYER.</h2> -</div> - - -<h3>PART XI.</h3> - -<p class="right"> -The Temple. -</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">My dear Dorothy</span>,—As you are one of the -members of the committee for the bazaar in -aid of the Nursing Home for Old People, -I may be able to give you a few useful hints -to avoid certain illegalities which beset the -path of the unwary promoters of such charitable -entertainments.</p> - -<p>The great feature of a big bazaar should -consist in having as many side shows as -possible, so that people may be able, by the -expenditure of a shilling or two, to escape -from the importunities of the stall-holders -into a concert-room, waxwork show, or other -attraction, and not be driven out of the bazaar -altogether.</p> - -<p>If you want to have anything in the nature -of a farce, operetta or comedietta played in the -building, you ought to inquire if the hall -which you are going to hire for the bazaar has -a licence for stage-plays. If it has not such a -licence, the performers and those responsible for -the entertainment will render themselves liable -to a fine, unless the proper licence is secured.</p> - -<p>Fish-ponds, bran-pies, lucky tubs, and similar -contrivances, are doubtless, strictly speaking, -illegal, but are always tolerated at bazaars, -where people do not expect to get the value of -their money; but it is advisable to draw the line -at roulette tables or anything in the nature of -a real gamble or a lottery.</p> - -<p>On the last day of the bazaar, it is often the -custom to sell off the undisposed-of stock of the -stalls by auction. The person who holds -the auction should be a person having an -auctioneer’s licence to sell by auction, otherwise -trouble may ensue, as the auctioneers have -recently made a determined stand against unqualified -persons acting as auctioneers.</p> - -<p>I think that these are the principal errors -into which people who get up bazaars are -liable to fall; but perhaps I ought to enlarge -a little more upon stage-plays and the -necessity for having a licence for their performance.</p> - -<p>It is almost impossible to give any kind of a -variety concert without unwittingly performing -what is the legal equivalent of a stage-play; -any song with dramatic action is a stage-play, -and so are duologues and monologues, as distinguished -from recitations.</p> - -<p>Some people have an idea that so long as -they do not take any money at the doors, they -are quite safe and within the law in giving a -performance in the cause of charity, but such -is not the case. When money or other reward -is taken or charged, directly or indirectly, -or when the purchase of any article is made a -condition for admission, the performers and -the owner or occupier of the building render -themselves liable to a fine.</p> - -<p>This may sound very alarming, and would, -no doubt, considerably startle those good -ladies who lend their houses for performances -for charitable objects in the season; but every -time they do so, and anything in the nature of -a stage-play is performed, they may be prosecuted -and fined, although personally they -take no benefit from such performances. The -fact that they frequently do so with impunity -does not affect the law on the matter, which is -perfectly clear. Why it has not been altered -before now, I am unable to say; hardly a day -passes without its being broken, exemplifying -the old proverb that “one man may steal a -horse from a stable, and another may not look -over the hedge.”</p> - -<p>I know of a case where a gentleman who -had turned part of his house into the Theatre -Royal back drawing-room, and who permitted -a performance of a play to be given on two -occasions, to which admission was by ticket -only, which could be obtained beforehand on -payment of a fixed sum, in aid of the funds -of a charity, was convicted and fined under -the Act. The gentleman appealed against -the conviction, but without success; the conviction -was confirmed by the Court of the -Queen’s Bench. So be warned, my dear -Dorothy, and do not allow your friends to -disregard my advice, and be assured that it is -much better to avoid these risky entertainments -altogether.</p> - -<p> -<span class="ml2">Your affectionate cousin,</span><br /> -<span class="ml4 smcap">Bob Briefless.</span><br /> -</p> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_808"></a>{808}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="OUR_LILY_GARDEN">OUR LILY GARDEN.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="ph3">PRACTICAL AIDS TO THE CULTURE OF LILIES.</p> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> CHARLES PETERS.</p> - - -<div class="figcenter illowp49" id="i808" style="max-width: 15.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_808.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p><i>Lilium Tigrinum</i> (var. <i>Fortunei</i>).</p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="smcap">We</span> will conclude our remarks on the noble -family of lilies by some notes and tables, -which will be found of great value to those -who wish to cultivate these beautiful flowers.</p> - -<p>We told you in the first part of this book -that we kept a note-book—a kind of diary—in -which we kept a record of our work among -the lilies. We advise everyone who intends -to grow these plants to follow our example, -and get a large manuscript book to put down -the “proceedings” of her lilies. The following -points should be noted. (1.) The name -of the species and variety. (2.) The name -of the person from whom you obtained the -bulb. (3.) The day on which the bulb was -planted, with a note as to the condition of the -weather at the time. (4.) The circumference -of the bulb, and a brief description of it, -stating whether the flower-spike had begun to -grow, or the new roots had appeared, or if -any scales were mouldy or diseased. (5.) The -soil in which the lily was planted. (6.) The -date of the appearance of the shoot. (7.) The -date of flowering. (8.) A brief description of -the full-grown plant and its individual members. -(9.) The condition of the bulb when -exhumed.</p> - -<p>Here is an example of the record of a bulb -of <i>L. Auratum</i>.</p> - -<p>“<i>Lilium Auratum</i>, var. <i>Platyphyllum</i>, -bought from Mr. ——. Potted on the 3rd of -November, 1897; a warm, dry day. Bulb -seven inches in circumference; new roots -just appearing. A sound, heavy bulb. One -mouldy scale removed. Washed in lime-water; -sprinkled with charcoal and potted in -an eight-inch pot in a mixture of fine peat -(one part), rich leaf-mould (two parts), a large -handful of sand and a few small lumps of clay. -Shoot appeared March 17th, 1898; grew -rapidly. No disease. Flowered September -4th, 1898; five blossoms, all perfect, largest -eleven and a half inches across. No rain -when in flower. Lasted in blossom till September -20th, 1898. Bulb when exhumed -quite healthy, showing two crowns nine and -a quarter inches in diameter. Exhumed and -replanted October 21st, 1898.”</p> - -<p>If you have a record like this of every lily, -you possess a most valuable book on the -culture of lilies; and, as we said at first, the -cultivation of these plants is little understood.</p> - -<p>A thoroughly authentic, practical record -will help you more to become proficient -in the art of lily-growing than any amount -of impracticable theory.</p> - -<p>Now some words to those who are -growing lilies in pots. As we have seen, -most species grow well in pots. All do -well except the following, which are unsuitable -for pot culture. The reason why they are -suitable is also given.</p> - -<p><i>L. Cordifolium</i> (too straggling).</p> - -<p>All the <i>Isolirions</i>, because they are not sufficiently -ornamental for pot culture.</p> - -<p><i>L. Humboldti.</i> This lily does not do well -in pots; why we do not know.</p> - -<p><i>L. Martagon</i>, <i>L. Pomponium</i>, <i>L. Pyrenaicum</i>, -<i>L. Chalcedonicum</i>, <i>L. Monodelphum</i>, -<i>L. Testaceum</i>.</p> - -<p>The last six lilies are unsuitable for pot -culture because they require to become established -before they will condescend to flower.</p> - -<p>Most lilies grown in pots can be kept in the -open air or in a room, or anywhere you please, -but the following require protection of some -sort:—</p> - -<p>Half-hardy species. These should not be -put out in frosty weather; otherwise they may -be grown out of doors. If you have planted -them in the ground at a sufficient depth, they -will stand all but a very severe winter. <i>L. -Giganteum</i>, <i>L. Cordifolium</i>, <i>L. Formosanum</i>, -<i>L. Wallichianum</i>, <i>L. Washingtonianum</i>, <i>L. -Catesbæi</i>, <i>L. Polyphyllum</i>, <i>L. Roseum</i>, <i>L. -Hookeri</i>, <i>L. Oxypetalum</i>, <i>L. Alexandræ</i>.</p> - -<p>The following usually need a greenhouse to -grow them well:—<i>L. Philippinense</i>, <i>L. Neilgherrense</i>, -<i>L. Nepaulense</i>, <i>L. Lowi</i>.</p> - -<p>Would you like to have lilies in pots in -your room? You can have them even if you -do not possess a greenhouse. You can grow -the lilies in the ground and transfer them to -pots just before they begin to flower. For -this purpose plant the bulbs in the open -ground in rather lighter soil than you would -if the lilies were to flower in the open. Place -the bulbs about four inches deep. You need -not remove the plant until the flower-buds are -nearly fully developed. Then take up the lily -with the surrounding earth, place it in a big -pot, drench it with water, and leave it in a -cool, shady place for three days. Then give -it a good dose of liquid manure. You may -then take it into your room, and it will flower -as though nothing had troubled the tranquillity -of its existence.</p> - -<p>Not all lilies are suitable for this treatment; -only those species which will grow in light -soils should be used for this purpose. <i>L. -Longiflorum</i>, <i>L. Auratum</i>, <i>L. Speciosum</i>, and -<i>L. Rubellum</i> are most suitable for this form -of culture.</p> - -<p>About the beginning of November all your -lilies in pots will have flowered and died down. -What are you to do with them now?</p> - -<p>Shake the bulbs out of the pots; examine -them; remove any off-shoots; do <i>not</i> cut off -the roots; wash them in lime-water and re-pot -without delay.</p> - -<p>Lilies do not rest during the winter. The -pots should be kept in a place which is not too -wet. The pots must not be kept too dry, but -an occasional watering should be administered.</p> - -<p>We append a list of the lilies, giving the -exact composition of the soil in which we have -grown them best, both in the open air and -in pots. An asterisk is affixed to the most -desirable species.</p> - -<p>Grown in a mixture of one part peat, two -parts leaf-mould, and a good sprinkling of -sand:</p> - - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*1.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Longiflorum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">2.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Formosanum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*3.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Auratum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*4.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Speciosum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*5.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Krameri.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">6.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Rubellum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">7.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Henryi.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">8.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Medeoloides.</i></td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<p>Grown in a mixture of equal parts of peat -and leaf-mould, with plenty of sand:</p> - - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*9.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Leichtlini.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">10.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Maximowiczi.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">11.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Catesbæi.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">12.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Wallacei.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*13.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Canadense.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*14.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Parvum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*15.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Maritimum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*16.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Superbum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*17.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Roezlii.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*18.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Pardalinum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">19.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Californicum.</i></td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<p>Grown in equal parts of rich loam and leaf-mould, -enriched with the contents of an old -hot-bed, but with no peat and very little sand:</p> - - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*20.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Candidum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">21.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Washingtonianum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*22.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Humboldti.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*23.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Pomponium.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*24.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Martagon.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*25.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Pyrenaicum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">26.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Callosum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">27.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Carniolicum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*28.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Chalcedonicum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*29.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Monodelphum.</i></td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<p>Grown in soil like the last, but with a fair -admixture of peat:</p> - - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*30.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Giganteum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">31.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Cordifolium.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*32.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Wallichianum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*33.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Parryi.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*34.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Japonicum Odorum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*35.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Brownii.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*36.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Tigrinum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">37.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Bulbiferum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*38.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Batmanniæ.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">39.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Elegans.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*40.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Croceum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">41.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Davuricum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*42.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Columbianum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">43.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Tenuifolium.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">44.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Concolor.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">45.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Hansoni.</i></td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<p>The following species have never been grown -by us:—</p> - - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*46.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Philippinense.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*47.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Neilgherrense.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*48.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Nepaulense.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*49.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Lowi.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">*50.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Polyphyllum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">51.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Davidii.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">52.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Oxypetalum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">53.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Roseum.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">54.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Hookeri.</i></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr">55.</td> -<td class="tdl"><i>L. Avenaceum.</i></td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<p>During the greater part of the year you can -have lilies in flower in your garden. If you -possess a greenhouse you can have lilies in -flower throughout the year.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_809"></a>{809}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp57" id="i809" style="max-width: 28.125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_809.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">ASPIRATION.</p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_810"></a>{810}</span></p> - -<p>Naturally the lilies flower in the open -ground from April till October. If you wish -to have lilies in your garden in November you -can do so, but mind you, if the weather is -unfavourable the blossoms will not be worth -much.</p> - -<p>The lilies which will flower in the open -ground in November are <i>L. Speciosum</i> and -<i>L. Auratum</i>. For very late flowering the -bulbs should be planted in May. Last Lord -Mayor’s day we gathered a small bunch of -<i>L. Speciosum</i>, and one very fair example of -<i>L. Auratum</i>. The tiger lilies were also in -blossom at that date.</p> - -<p>But this late crop of lilies is worth very -little; and, unless you have a greenhouse, we -advise you to be contented with six months of -lily flowers.</p> - -<p>In a greenhouse it is easy to have lilies -throughout the year. <i>L. Longiflorum</i> will -flower from April to January, and <i>L. Speciosum</i> -will flower from August to February if -the bulbs are potted at intervals, and <i>very</i> -gently forced when necessary. In the month -of March you can have <i>L. Rubellum</i> in flower.</p> - -<p>Doubtless some of our readers will wish to -grow lilies for show purposes. Indeed, for -this purpose few flowers are more satisfactory, -for lilies are extremely showy, they last very -well in flower, and are by no means impatient -of removal.</p> - -<p>As a matter of fact, growing lilies for show -purposes can be conducted on two separate -systems; either you can grow show plants or -show flowers.</p> - -<p>For the former purpose the stem, the leaves, -the shape of the inflorescence, and the number, -shape, size and colour of the blossoms -must be above the average. For “show -flowers” all your attention must be concentrated -upon one single blossom.</p> - -<p>For growing show plants choose a very big -bulb. In our former articles we warned you -against these mammoth bulbs, because they -are so often unsatisfactory. But for show -plants you must choose these big bulbs; but -do not imagine that from every “mammoth -bulb” you will get a fine spike. You will -rarely get more than one really excellent plant -out of six bulbs.</p> - -<p>For prize plants pot the bulbs in large pots -and keep them in a cold, dark place for a -fortnight. When the shoots appear, grow -them on as quickly as you can, but give no -artificial heat. Keep the plants in a place -where they are not likely to be injured by the -wind, and where there is plenty of shade. As -the flowering time arrives give plenty of liquid -manure.</p> - -<p>Of all manures, “Ichthumic guano” is the -most satisfactory for show lilies.</p> - -<p>You must turn your pots round every day, -so as to keep the stems straight. Lilies always -bend towards the sun, and unless the pots are -carefully turned round every day the stems -become twisted or bowed.</p> - -<p>For growing prize blossoms choose a small -bulb. Grow it as you did for a prize plant, -but when the buds begin to turn colour, remove -every one except one—the finest. Cut -the flower with as long a stem as possible, and -send it to the exhibition while it is opening, -and before the pollen has become free.</p> - -<p>Grow your show plants as carefully as you -will, you will often find that many uncared-for -plants in the garden beat the pampered one -in the form and delicacy of their blossoms!</p> - -<p>Like all other flowers, the lilies possess -many more names than they desire, and in -many cases even the slightest variation from -the type has been labelled with a new name. -You must therefore beware of paying high -prices for cheap lilies with a new name—a fate -which will damp the ardour of most amateurs.</p> - -<p>Our work among the lilies is done. If our -admiration for them has been great, it has -never been excessive. The lilies are the loveliest -of all flowers, and the study of them is -wrought with delight.</p> - -<p>“Consider the lilies of the field, how they -grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: -and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in -all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="UPS_AND_DOWNS">“UPS AND DOWNS.”</h2> -</div> - -<p class="ph3">A TRUE STORY OF NEW YORK LIFE.</p> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> N. O. LORIMER.</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER III.</h3> - -<div class="ddropcapbox w125"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_810.jpg" width="125" height="275" alt='I' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase">f</span> you had peeped into the -big attic bedroom -the three girls occupied -at the top -of the high New -York boarding-house, -you would -have seen Ada -Nicoli in her -pretty white dressing-gown—such -a -pitiful reminder of -her former luxury—putting -little -Sadie’s hair into -curl-papers. In -her lonely life she -had grown passionately attached -to her two little sisters who were -so dependent on her, and the -thing that hurt her most about -her poverty was seeing little -Sadie look careless and neglected. -Often at night she was -so tired and weary that it took -all her courage to brush and dress -their two heads of hair, and see that their -clothes were in proper order for going to -school the next day. A hat-box full of -Southern bank-notes, which had been Marjorie’s -and Sadie’s amusement for many a day -in their old home for playing at store-keeping, -came in handy for curling Sadie’s hair, and -the child always wanted Ada to tell her the -same story, how her mother’s mother had -saved up the bank-notes during the great war, -believing that the South would be victorious, -and how she had made some of the notes -during the war by making slippers out of the -felt carpets and selling them.</p> - -<p>“If they were all real good dollars now, -Ada,” the child said, “we needn’t live in -this hen-roost any longer, need we?”</p> - -<p>Ada took the child in her arms. “Poor -little Sadie,” she said. “While we three are -together, it doesn’t so much matter, does it? -We can have a little fun sometimes, can’t we?”</p> - -<p>“It isn’t so bad, siss,” the child answered, -“but I do want to go to Barnum’s, and I wish -the girls at school wouldn’t say, ‘When’s -your father coming back? He’s been visiting -for a long time.’”</p> - -<p>Then Marjorie chimed in with—“I passed -two of the girls I used to go to school with -to-day, Ada, and they both looked in at a -shop window when I passed.”</p> - -<p>“Never mind,” Ada said, with her heart -growing sadder every minute. “It’s a good -thing not to be at school with girls who -are so vulgar.” Ada’s own rich friends had -also disappeared in a marvellous fashion. It -is true she had left her old home so suddenly, -and had to avoid seeing people whom -it would be painful to meet in her altered -circumstances, so much that, perhaps, they -were not altogether to blame. She had -been working for some months at Madame -Maude’s now, and she had found that she had -very little time in her busy life for musing over -the faithlessness of her rich friends. Her -mother’s mental condition had not improved, -and she had not had a single line from her -father. He had left the country to avoid disgrace -as well as ruin. The cold weather had -come, and Ada was feeling the hardship of -walking every morning and evening to her -business. It was a long way, and the girl’s -constitution was not suited to the strain made -upon it. The people in the boarding-house -had watched her growing slighter and paler as -the weeks passed, and her eyes had grown -feverishly bright. Marjory was a selfish, -peevish child, who did not do what she could -to help her sister.</p> - -<p>“She’s not worth Ada’s little finger!” the -fat boarder would exclaim, when the child -deceived her sister by making friends with -girls that Ada had asked her not to know, -and had spent Ada’s hardly-earned money on -candies, and iced-cream sodas. “She’s her -father’s own child, that’s what she is, and -Ada Nicoli’s too fine a girl to kill herself for -that saucy brat.”</p> - -<p>But Ada could see no fault in Marjory, for -Marjory was clever enough to deceive her. -And so while Ada was toiling night and day -to bring her up as a refined and cultivated -child, Marjory was hankering after the society -of vulgar companions, and paying little attention -to her lessons. But little Sadie was a -sweet and loving child, and her devotion to -Ada was touching. At the boarding-house -dinner-table it was a pretty sight to see Ada -Nicoli with a little sister on each side of her. -She was the prettiest, daintiest creature herself, -and it was her greatest joy to see people -look with admiration at her two children, as -she called them. They were always wonderfully -clean and freshly dressed.</p> - -<p>“How long can she keep it up?” the fat -boarder said. “She fairly amazes me, that -girl. She had never even brushed her own -hair a year and a half ago, and now she’s -keeping these two children so sweet and -fresh, and bringing them up so well, too. -They are a deal nicer children than when they -first came, but it’s wearing her out—that light -burning up in her room till past twelve at -night, and she’s up by seven o’clock in the -morning.”</p> - -<p>Beside the people in the boarding-house -there was someone else who had been watching -Ada working the soft curves of her face -into sharper lines, and seeing the deeper -shadows come below her bright eyes. It was -an old man who drove to business every day -on the Fifth Avenue stage-coach. He always<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_811"></a>{811}</span> -knew that, if it was a wet day, Ada would be -waiting at 20, East 32nd Street for the coach -to pass, but if it was fine, she would save her -twenty-five cents and walk. He was an observant -old man, and somewhat of a character. -He was supposed to be a miser, and very -wealthy, though he lived in a small tenement -house, and kept no servant. While he sat -huddled up in the corner of the coach, which -rattled and shook over the stones of Fifth -Avenue like a relic from the last century, he -had noticed every detail of the girl’s dress, he -had seen the once pretty frocks become almost -threadbare, and the dainty shoes lose their -freshness. He had made inquiries, and found -out her story. One day she had given the -conductor a five-dollar bill to pay for her fare. -The man gave her back a quarter too much -change. The old man watched her count the -money, and look at the extra quarter. It was -bitterly cold weather, and he knew that that -quarter would pay for her journey there and -back for another two days. The girl’s expression -said it as plainly as words could have -done. “You’ve given me a quarter too -much,” she said, with a little tremble in her -voice. The man did not even say “Thank -you,” but snatched the money out of her hand -roughly. The old man smiled; he had long -ago lost his belief in human nature, and this -little act of honesty on the girl’s part did him -good. If was like going near a fire on a cold -winter day. The meeting of Ada coming and -going from her work grew to be the one -interest in the old hermit’s life. He had -watched her so carefully that he had gained -a knowledge of her life of which she was -wholly unconscious. He had seen her tenderness -to her little sisters when he met them out -together on a Saturday afternoon. Often he -had wandered over Central Park with his keen -eyes looking out eagerly for the graceful figure -of Ada Nicoli laced arm-in-arm with the two -young children, and when they stopped to -feed the swans on the lake, or rest in some -summer-house, the old man seated himself -where he could feast his eyes on his adopted -family unseen.</p> - -<p>Two or three times he had seen something -very like tears in Ada’s eyes when a carriage -with some beautifully-dressed women in it -would pass the girl, and they would give her -a stiff little bow of recognition.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It was one of the coldest winters New York -had experienced for many years, but the old -man’s shrivelled-up heart was, day by day, -stretching and expanding towards the girl, -who was always gentle. She had many times -helped him as he got in and out of the Fifth -Avenue stage-coach, and she had often offered -to give up her seat in the snug top corner in -exchange for his draughty one near the door, -but beyond these natural, kindly little attentions, -Ada Nicoli had thought little about the -old man, whom so many people laughed and -poked fun at. He had even taken the trouble -to follow her to the private asylum where her -mother lived, and would wait there until she -came out with her sweet blue eyes filled with -sadness. He had heard of her father’s cruel -desertion, and many a time the old man could -feel his fingers close upon the villain’s neck in -his longing to thrash him.</p> - -<p>On this particular day, when everything was -a world of snow, and the temperature was -twenty degrees below zero, the old man had -been slowly following Ada to her mother’s -home. He had long since learnt that Wednesdays -were the visiting days in this house of -sorrow, and that Ada Nicoli never failed to be -there in her lunch hour. The house was in a -quiet street, where there was little traffic or -noise, and Ada hurried along as fast as her -numbed feet would carry her. In the old -man’s eyes she had never looked so beautiful, -for the cold, crisp air had brought a lovely -colour to her cheeks, and her hair was bright -gold in the winter sunlight. Suddenly he saw -her stop, and bend over something that had -fallen in the snow on the side-walk. It was -the figure of a man, and from his position it -looked as if he was intoxicated, rather than -overcome with the cold. There was no one -in sight but the old man who was following -her. Ada touched the man, and spoke to -him, but he could give no coherent answer. -He was too drunk to tell her even what his -name was. When the old man came up to -her she was searching the road with a troubled -look.</p> - -<p>“There is no sleigh in sight,” she said, -“and he must not lie here, he will freeze to -death.”</p> - -<p>“Perhaps he ain’t of much account living,” -the old man said; “folks like that are better -dead.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, don’t say that,” Ada cried, in a reproachful -voice; “he may have a wife and -family dependent upon him.”</p> - -<p>“A mighty poor thing to depend on, lying -drunk on the side-walk at midday. Don’t -you waste your pity on the likes of him.” -The old man knew that he would have been -grievously disappointed if his pretty young -lady with the sweet blue eyes had gone on her -way and left a fellow creature to freeze to -death.</p> - -<p>“It may be hours before a policeman passes -this way,” Ada said. “It’s sheer murder to -leave him. I will run down this side street -and see if I can find a cab.” The old man -waited for the girl’s return, walking up and -down the side-walk where the drunken man -lay in an unconscious sleep. Soon he heard -the sound of sleigh-bells, and in another instant -one appeared round the corner with -Ada seated in it. She jumped out when she -reached the spot where the man lay, and told -the hackman to get down and lift him into -the cab. “Take him to the nearest police-station,” -she said, “and keep him there until -he is himself again.”</p> - -<p>“And who’s going to pay me?” the man -asked sullenly.</p> - -<p>“I will,” Ada replied proudly, “if you do -not care to do it for charity.”</p> - -<p>“If I was plying round the city looking out -for driving acts of charity, I guess my wife -and young ’uns would be as badly off as these -drunken brutes are.”</p> - -<p>Ada took her thin little purse from her -pocket. “Will you do it for a dollar?” she -said; “it is all I have to give you. Will you -help the hackman to lift him in,” she said, -turning to the old man. But as she looked at -his shrivelled old figure, in his badly-fitting -clothes, she seemed to regret what she had -said, and stooped down to take the man by -the shoulders, while the hackman took his -feet; but the old man quickly put her aside, -with almost a cry in his cracked old voice, as -he said, “Don’t touch him, don’t touch him. -To think of you defiling your pretty fingers on -a drunken brute.”</p> - -<p>Ada looked at him in mild surprise, and -gave up her place. When the hackman -drove off she turned and thanked the old -man.</p> - -<p>“If the friendless and poor aren’t kind to -each other,” she said sadly, “where can we -look for help?” She thought that he did -not understand that she was placing herself -amongst the list of the poor and friendless. -She, his daintily-reared lady, standing there, -a slight, proud figure, with her queenly little -head thrown back, and her cheeks as delicate -as the pink apple-blossom in his old garden at -home. In all the big city of New York where -he had worked and toiled for forty years, this -girl was the one glad and beautiful thing for -him; he felt his time-worn heart beat young -again when he looked at her.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be concluded.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SELF-CULTURE_FOR_GIRLS">SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS.</h2> -</div> - - -<h3>PART VIII.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">FICTION AND ROMANCE.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Self-culture</span> by the reading of stories! -One can imagine some pedant of a generation -or two ago shaking his head over such a -suggestion. As well write of education by -the playing of games! And yet it has come -to be recognised that neither connection of -ideas is, in itself, at all absurd or preposterous. -The influence of fiction is a force to be -reckoned with in the formation of character—a -force, indeed, of no small magnitude; for -there are an enormous number of girls whose -reading begins and ends with the story.</p> - -<p>This is, of course, a mistake. In an earlier -chapter of this series we have sought to -explain why fiction, even of the very best type, -should not form the staple of reading for -anybody. But it will probably always constitute -a very large proportion of the mental food -of young people, and it is better to look the -fact in the face than to bewail it and preach!</p> - -<p>The first form in which literature appeals, -with any charm or interest, to the child is as the -story; and children of larger growth love the -story still. What would those do, whose -lives are dull, sordid, or depressing, without -the power to transport themselves into the -lives of other people? It is an actual necessity -to exchange their own experience, even for a -brief time, for the experience of others. The -novel, the imaginative work, appeals more -perhaps to girls than to any other section of -the community. If they are lonely, ill, unhappy -from any cause, they find their solace, -companion, anodyne, here. If they are happy, -they seek the reflection of their own light-heartedness, -and greater happiness yet to -come, in the story pages.</p> - -<p>The imagination is a factor too little understood -in the training of character. It is of the -utmost importance to give this faculty something -good wherewith to nourish it, or it will -prey upon itself. Silly, vapid, or morbid girls -might perchance have been made different if -they had been provided with books that were -at once strong and artistically beautiful, instead -of the sentimental novelette.</p> - -<p>We hold a high opinion of the value of -fairy-tales of the best kind for children, and -are always stirred to wrath by the superior -infant who says: “There are no such things -as fairies.” Fortunately there are not many -children who cannot, for instance, enjoy the -charm and pathos of such a story as <i>The -Little Sea Maiden</i> or <i>The Snow Queen</i>, -by Hans Christian Andersen, with many -others by that great author too numerous to -mention. There are also the exquisite creations -of the Countess d’Aulnoy and Perrault, not -forgetting two French authors who were the -delight of our own childhood—Madame la -Comtesse de Ségur and Léon de Laujon. -Those delicious volumes, the “Blue,” the -“Green,” and the “Red” fairy-book, by -Andrew Lang, are a real treasure-store of -delight. And it must not be forgotten that -some of the fairy-legends they contain are of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_812"></a>{812}</span> -wonderful antiquity, being found, under different -forms, in the early literature of many lands.</p> - -<p>Girls, who are elder sisters, and possibly -past the fairy-tale stage, be gracious in the -telling of stories to the little ones who cannot -read! It may be a trouble to hunt in your -memory for these stories and put them into -words, but it is really worth while to do it, -and do it well, avoiding what is gruesome and -fearful, but choosing all that is charming and -attractive. Even in the way of “self-culture” -the task will be good for you, and still better -if you can succeed in telling a story “out of -your own head.” The present writer began -her work in this way when a child, writing -fairy-tales, and recounting one by word of -mouth, entitled, <i>The Precipice Passage</i>, -which continued from day to day during many -months, and was of the most thrilling description, -as well as of superhuman length.</p> - -<p>A most beautiful book, though not exactly -a fairy-tale, for children is <i>The Story without -an End</i>, translated by Sarah Austin from the -German of Carové (Sampson Low & Marston). -The child who possesses this book, with the -original coloured illustrations, to pore over, -will have a foundation of graceful and tender -fancies for the “culture” of riper years.</p> - -<p>“But,” you may object, “this paper is for -girls, not for children, and we have outgrown -fairy-tales.”</p> - -<p>There is one fairy-tale which you ought to -read whatever your age, if it is not already -familiar to you—<i>Undine</i>, by De la Motte -Fouqué. If you can understand German, you -should certainly read it in the original. If not, -an English translation is to be obtained. It -is, perhaps, the sweetest and most pathetic -legend of all romance.</p> - -<p>Romance! The charm of that word! One -loves, even in middle age, to linger regretfully -upon it, and dream over the poet’s vision of—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Magic casements opening on the foam</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>We do not envy the youth or maiden whose -pulse is not thrilled by those immortal lines; -yet who can give a reason for their charm and -spell?</p> - -<p>The present generation, it is to be feared, do -not read the prose works of Longfellow as -they should. <i>Hyperion</i> and <i>Kavanagh</i> are -tender mystical romances, full of charm.</p> - -<p>It is, however, an impossible task to stand -at the door of this vast library of the world’s -fiction, and point you to the volumes you may -take down from the shelves. One general -observation may be made, seeing that our -title is “Self-Culture.”</p> - -<p>The best novels will aid you indirectly in -“self-culture.” The worst will not leave you -where they found you, but will do you actual -harm. You will be just one little bit farther -removed from “self-culture”—will be nearer -that which is vulgar and paltry, and poor and -mean, to go no farther—for the reading of a -“trashy” novel.</p> - -<p>It is, therefore, not the indifferent matter -you may think it, to take up the silly sentimental -story for the sake of an hour’s amusement. -Find your amusement where there is -no need of repentance.</p> - -<p>How ashamed one feels, even if quite alone, -while reading a really foolish book! and the -feeling of shame is a right and healthy one.</p> - -<p>Perhaps the type of story which does most -harm to girls of the middle and lower classes, -is that in which a titled lover of fabulous wealth -appears suddenly like a “god out of a machine” -to wed the heroine, who is remarkable only -for her beauty. He has a great deal to answer -for, that young aristocrat, whom we have not -met outside the pages of such literature.</p> - -<p>No girl would deliberately reflect: “I am -going to read such and such a novel to improve -my mind.” If she did, she would show she -had not much mind to improve. But she may -bear in mind one or two general principles and -suggestions.</p> - -<p>It is very desirable to read the best historical -novels. For example, <i>The Last Days of -Pompeii</i>, by Bulwer Lytton, and <i>Hypatia</i>, by -Charles Kingsley, will help you to realise the -early centuries of the Christian era. <i>Hereward -the Wake</i>, by Kingsley, and <i>The Last of the -Barons</i>, by Bulwer Lytton, may be read in -connection with Freeman’s <i>History of the -Norman Conquest</i>. <i>The Cloister and the -Hearth</i>, a magnificent historical novel by -Charles Reade, throws light upon the fifteenth -century, and <i>Romola</i>, by George Eliot, does -the same so far as Italy is concerned. -<i>Westward Ho!</i> by Charles Kingsley, is a -stirring tale of the sixteenth century. <i>John -Inglesant</i>, by Shorthouse, will do more to -explain the Stuart period than any number -of dry “Outlines,” while Thackeray’s <i>Esmond -and The Virginians</i> may follow on. The -<i>Tale of Two Cities</i>, by Charles Dickens, will -help you to realise the terror of the French -Revolution, and <i>The Shadow of the -Sword</i>, by Robert Buchanan, gives a forcible -picture of the days of Napoleon.</p> - -<p>There are many other good historical novels; -but, as Scott is always regarded as <i>facile -princeps</i> in such work, it may be useful to -arrange his novels in chronological order.</p> - -<p>Before the end of the fourteenth century -come <i>Ivanhoe</i>, <i>Count Robert of Paris</i>, <i>The -Betrothed</i>, <i>The Talisman</i>, and <i>The Fair Maid -of Perth</i>. After 1400—<i>Quentin Durward</i>, -and <i>Anne of Geierstein</i>: 1500, <i>Kenilworth</i>, -<i>The Abbot</i>, <i>The Monastery</i>, <i>Marmion</i> (poem): -1600, <i>Fortunes of Nigel</i>, <i>Legend of Montrose</i>, -<i>Woodstock</i>, <i>Old Mortality</i>, <i>The Bride of -Lammermoor</i>, <i>Peveril of the Peak</i>: 1700, -<i>The Antiquary</i>, <i>Guy Mannering</i>, <i>Waverley</i>, -<i>Rob Roy</i>, and <i>Heart of Midlothian</i>.</p> - -<p>That history should be made real is a matter -of no small importance. After all, it is the -story of men and women like ourselves, and -Professor Seeley’s remark in <i>The Expansion -of England</i> (a valuable book) is worth -remembering—</p> - -<p>“When I meet a person who does not find -history interesting, it does not occur to me to -alter history—I try to alter <i>him</i>!”</p> - -<p>There has, during the last few years, been a -decided increase in the writing of romances and -tales of adventure, pure and simple, removed -from everyday experience, and one need only -suggest the names of Robert Louis Stevenson, -Anthony Hope, Max Pemberton, to illustrate -the class of story which much delights the -author, and probably also her young friends.</p> - -<p>For the general run of fiction, here are a few -names: Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, Charles -Kingsley and his brother, George Eliot, Mrs. -Gaskell, R. D. Blackmore (be sure you read -<i>Lorna Doone</i>), George Macdonald, Sir -Walter Besant, Mrs. Oliphant, Charlotte -Brontë—that wonderful, fiery, lonely genius—you -will read her <i>Shirley</i> and <i>Villette</i>, whether -we advise you to do so or not. And, indeed, the -list of writers of good fiction is so enormous -that it is absurd to attempt to give it. As -soon as a few names are written down, others -press for mention. Therefore, we will renounce -the task; first, perhaps, reminding you not to -omit Mrs. Oliphant’s <i>Little Pilgrim in the -Unseen</i>. All the stories of this writer which -have a tinge of the atmosphere of the spiritual -borderland, are deeply suggestive.</p> - -<p>Do not read a novel only because it has a -startling title and “everybody” is talking about -it. In these days that is no proof of excellence. -A story shoots up like a rocket, and its swift -trail of brilliance dies down as suddenly.</p> - -<p>Do not read books which leave the impression -that life is after all rather a hopeless -struggle, not worth the trouble. There are a -great many such stories in the present day, -whose motto is Despair. Let them alone. -They may be works of art, beautiful and -pathetic in their tragedy; but you have to live, -and make the best of your life; therefore it -is unwise to let yourself be paralysed by discouragement -near the outset. Some books -have a way of arranging a perfectly impossible -combination of circumstances, and then calling -upon the universe at large to bewail the result. -This is hardly fair. Choose rather what makes -you better able to live and to act, and inspires -you with a feeling that to do and to be your -best, even in a world of sorrow, is very much -worth while indeed.</p> - -<p>There are, broadly speaking, two ways of -viewing art and literature: one from the point -of the “Realist,” and one from the point of -the “Idealist.” In our day the Realists have -come much into prominence, especially in -France; but they are known in England too.</p> - -<p>The Realist school in fiction cries out for -“Life,” by which we understand the visible, -the material, that which can be seen, heard, -touched, handled. A realistic novel, for -instance, may be made a mass of information -upon obscure and out-of-the-way subjects. -Nothing comes amiss—“Life, life above everything” -its exponents cry. “You Idealists -have long enough been teaching men to dream -with their heads in the clouds. We lead -them along a plain path and show them the -world as it really is. In our way lies safety.”</p> - -<p>The Idealist school, on the contrary, has -an absolute standard of excellence to which it -refers; it loves the hero or heroine in fiction, -the beautiful in art, and it sets itself to find -out the “reality” which underlies appearances.</p> - -<p>To give a simple example. A “realistic” -novel of poor life would depict the bareness -and misery of the cottage, the unlovely faces -and clothing of its inmates, the toil for daily -bread; not one depressing item would be -spared, and one would rise from the story -feeling as if one had indeed looked for a -moment into the poor household and shared -in its meagreness.</p> - -<p>A novel written from the idealist standpoint, -while not inventing untrue and therefore -inartistic details, would look below the -surface and bring out, besides the poverty, -the beauty and the pathos that are sure to exist -wherever the human affections are found.</p> - -<p>As an illustration of our meaning we -may quote <i>A Window in Thrums</i>, by J. M. -Barrie, which, while sacrificing no vestige of -truth, is the work of an artist who is an -idealist. Set in the humble interior of a Scotch -cottage, a lame homely mother, a workingman -the father, a daughter of whom we are -not told she is startlingly lovely, or indeed -startlingly anything—this is the simple little -company that, for the main part, act out a drama -of such pathos, and beauty, and charm, that the -heart is full of “thoughts too deep for tears” -after reading some of the inimitable chapters.</p> - -<p>This is Life, and life seen in the true way—the -idealist’s way—by the artist who has -imagination.</p> - -<p>For imagination is the faculty, not of inventing -falsehoods, but of revealing a deeper truth -than that which lies upon the surface of things.</p> - -<p>Are we straying into reflections that are too -obscure? It is better to suggest some means -by which really artistic work shall be detected -than to string together a list of books which -might not appeal to many of our readers at all, -and which might prove unsuitable for others.</p> - -<p>Whatever is lovely, noble, and pure in -fiction—whether it be the telling of heroic -deeds, or the discerning of significance in the -“commonplace,” the homely and trivial—choose -and delight in it. Avoid what makes -you listless and dissatisfied with your daily -life; choose what helps you to live and to -work, and to do and be the very best that is -in you; not forgetting that what is beautiful -and exalted will purify your taste, charm your -mind, and remain with you as an abiding -power for good.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Lily Watson.</span> -</p> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_813"></a>{813}</span></p> - -<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 XXIV.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">AT COSSART PLACE.</p> - -<div class="ddropcapbox w125"> -<img class="idropcap" src="images/i_813.jpg" width="125" height="281" alt='"E' /></div> - -<p><span class="uppercase">ffie</span>, how well -you look! -You are quite -brown. How -glad I am to -see you -again!”</p> - -<p>“I think -you have got -thinner, but -you look well, -Sheila. Oh, -yes, I’m ever -so much -better! I’ve -said good-bye -to doctors. I -mean to go my -own way now -and not take -care anymore. -I don’t believe -in coddling. -I’m going to -be my own -doctor in the -future. I’m not sure that any of them -really understood me. Anyhow, I’ve had -enough of them, and now I shall go my -own way. Mamma can have Oscar to -coddle. I’m sure he looks as though -he wanted it.”</p> - -<p>“He’s getting into the rebellious -stage now,” answered Sheila. “I shall -be glad of your assistance in keeping -him in order. Isn’t everything looking -lovely, Effie? Are you glad to be -home again? And how is dear Madeira -and all the people there? Did you leave -any there whom I knew?”</p> - -<p>“Not many. Mrs. Reid sent you a -lot of messages, and I’ve got a pen-tray -for you from her too. We came back -in the same boat as Ella and Grace -Murchison; but you never knew them -well, did you? All the Dumaresq party -had been gone some time. I suppose -you heard that from May Lawrence.”</p> - -<p>“She told me they had gone on to -Oratava when Sir Guy was so much -better, but Miss Adene did not write -very often.”</p> - -<p>Effie had got her arm linked into -Sheila’s by this time, and had walked -her out upon the terrace, leaving Mrs. -Cossart with Oscar in the drawing-room. -She was all eagerness to learn -the home news from him, but Effie -wanted Sheila’s attention for herself.</p> - -<p>“You know it was all a great mistake -of mother’s packing you off home in one -of her tantrums. I told her so at the -time. I know things were a little -uncomfortable, but I was against it. I -can generally get my way with mother, -but I couldn’t that time. But you -hadn’t been gone three days before she -found out what a mistake it was.”</p> - -<p>“What do you mean?” asked Sheila -with a subdued eagerness in her -voice.</p> - -<p>“Why, you know,” answered Effie, -with her curious mixture of frankness -and self-consciousness, “it didn’t seem -to answer a bit. Mother thought Mr. -Dumaresq was going to make love to -me or something—as though I wanted -him! I liked him all right, but I was -never particularly taken by him. He -has not brains enough for me, and he -never understood me. I always felt -that when we were talking together. I -was always above his head somehow. -Besides, she might have seen that the -Dumaresqs had taken a fancy to you, -and that packing you off would vex -them. They never were a bit the same -afterwards. They sat at a different -table, and we hardly saw them. And -people talked so. I got it out of Mrs. -Reid. They all said you had been sent -away because I was jealous—or mother. -I don’t care what people think. It -makes no difference to me. I never -care a bit about gossip. But mother -was terribly put about, and papa was -very vexed too. It seemed to spoil -things very much. I do believe, if it -hadn’t been for Oscar’s illness, they -would have had you back!”</p> - -<p>Sheila made no immediate reply; she -was thinking how, but for Oscar’s illness, -many things might have been -vastly different, and with what sort of -feelings she would have regarded a -summons back to Madeira.</p> - -<p>“As for the Dumaresqs,” pursued -Effie, “I never made any attempts to -make up to them. That isn’t my way. -I can have plenty of friends of my own -sort; and some really very interesting -people came who had travelled a lot, -and were not just society people like -the Dumaresqs. We thought them a -little rough at first, but we got to like -them very much. One of them admired -me very much. I think he rather hoped—but -I’m not that sort of girl, and he -was going back to the Cape, so it was -quite out of the question. I never was -one for having a man always dangling -after me. It bores me to death! But -they talked so much of things they’d -done and places they had seen or were -going to see that papa got quite a -travelling mania on, and so he sent for -Cyril.”</p> - -<p>“And they have gone off together?”</p> - -<p>“Yes. It was very nice having -Cyril, and we stayed a fortnight longer -than we had meant, and took some -excursions. After all, when I got Cyril -again, I found I liked him a great deal -better than all the rest of them put -together. Don’t you think he has a -very distinguished air?”</p> - -<p>Sheila’s admiration for Cyril was a -thing quite of the past; she had regarded -him of late with aversion and -contempt. But she was learning to -curb her tongue, and to try and rule her -thoughts also, so after a little pause she -said—</p> - -<p>“I think university men always have -an air about them; but, of course, you -know—about Cyril—and that it is not -quite easy for me to admire him very -much just now.”</p> - -<p>Effie flushed up a little.</p> - -<p>“Yes, of course, I know,” she -answered. “Cyril told me himself. If -he hadn’t, I don’t think I should have -heard. Papa knows, but he has not -told even mother. He thought it would -be better put aside and forgotten.”</p> - -<p>“And Cyril told you himself?”</p> - -<p>“Yes. I think Cyril found it a great -comfort to find somebody sympathetic -and understanding. I’ve never set up -for being a saint, and I have plenty of -sympathy for sinners. I’ve always got -on with Cyril. He knows more about -me, I think, than anybody else. I -don’t think him perfect—I’m not so -silly. I’ve too much insight into character -to make mistakes like that. But -I can sympathise with him, and understand -how he feels when other people -don’t seem able to see anything but the -other side of the question. I think -healthy, robust people are often rather -dull and dense. I’ve had lots of time -to think. Cyril said I was so different -from the rest of the world. I believe I -was a great comfort to him.”</p> - -<p>“Well, Aunt Tom will be very glad -of that, for she was very miserable, and -was afraid he would go on being miserable -too. He went away feeling pretty -bad, I think, though I did not see him. -I was at Monckton Manor with Oscar. -I was surprised he didn’t come over to -say good-bye to us. Once I rather -thought that he was falling in love with -May.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, dear, no!” answered Effie -quickly. “That I am sure he was -not!”</p> - -<p>She spoke almost irritably, and Sheila -answered at once—</p> - -<p>“Perhaps not, but he used to go -there very often. May never liked him, -so perhaps she got bored and gave him -a hint. Anyway, he stopped going -rather suddenly, and did not even say -good-bye.”</p> - -<p>“I suspect he found May a very -empty-headed girl. I daresay he was -thinking of her when he told me how -difficult it had been, when I was away, -to find anyone with whom he could -exchange ideas with any sense of satisfaction. -Girls were all so selfish and -empty-headed, he said. I thought he -was rather severe, but that was his -idea. I told him that he mustn’t be -hard on them, for perhaps they had -never had the time to read and think -as I have.”</p> - -<p>“Well, May is not empty-headed!” -answered Sheila warmly; “but Oscar -may have been mistaken in thinking -Cyril admired her and went often.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_814"></a>{814}</span> -Perhaps it was only for the boys he -went. I know May has never cared -for him.”</p> - -<p>“No, I don’t think she would have -the mind to appreciate him. Cyril does -not wear his heart upon his sleeve.”</p> - -<p>“May is engaged to North,” said -Sheila, with a little smile dimpling the -corners of her lips.</p> - -<p>Effie gave a slight toss of her head and -laughed.</p> - -<p>“A very suitable match! I should -think they would just suit one another!”</p> - -<p>“I think they do,” answered Sheila, -laughing. “I have never seen two -people more thoroughly happy together.”</p> - -<p>“I almost wonder Mr. Lawrence approved, -though,” added Effie. “North -is so thoroughly commercial in all his -views.”</p> - -<p>“His views seem to suit May, at any -rate, and he can give her a comfortable -home away from the town. But she is -too much interested in the works to care -about being far away. She wants to -understand everything and help in everything. -I think she will be splendid -when she gets her chance.”</p> - -<p>Effie listened with some wonder to the -sort of thing which commanded May’s -enthusiasm, and then said with a little -shrug—</p> - -<p>“Well, I hope they will be very happy. -All that sort of thing is very estimable, -and people without nerves and keen -senses may be able to do it, but I -don’t think I could.”</p> - -<p>“Nobody would expect it of you, -Effie,” answered Sheila, with a sarcasm -of which neither was conscious.</p> - -<p>Cossart Place was a more comfortable -home for Sheila just now than it had -ever been before. Her aunt met her -like one who wished to efface an unpleasing -impression, and never was -there any slightest allusion to the -stormy scene at Madeira. Poor Mrs. -Cossart had learned a lesson, and was -really humiliated by the failure she had -made. Sheila was gentler, more considerate, -more tractable than ever before, -and Oscar’s presence was a certain -element of tranquillity and accord.</p> - -<p>Effie was so much stronger, and was -so resolved to manage her case in her -own way, that Mrs. Cossart felt rather -like a hen taken from her chicks, and -was delighted to have Oscar to coddle. -And Oscar needed care for a long while. -He had thoroughly run down in health -since his father’s death, and this wasting -fever had left him very delicate and frail. -There was no reason to think that he -would not in time be as strong as ever, -but it would be a long business, and -during this period it was Mrs. Cossart’s -great pleasure to nurse him up, cosset -him and care for him, much as she had -cosseted and cared for Effie whilst the -girl had been so much out of health.</p> - -<p>Sheila could not but love her aunt -for all her goodness to Oscar, and he -began to take almost a son’s place in -that house, advising her, in the absence -of the master, on all points connected -with the property, and showing so much -knowledge and insight that Mrs. Cossart -would often exclaim—</p> - -<p>“I can’t think how you come to know -all these things!”</p> - -<p>“I was brought up to them, you see,” -Oscar would answer with a smile and a -sigh. “I used to help my father, and -I have been used to land from babyhood. -I am much more at home still with a -steward’s books than with the office -accounts!”</p> - -<p>“Well, I wish your uncle would make -you his man of business when he comes -back,” said Mrs. Cossart one day, after -Oscar had helped her through some -accounts which had often been a source of -bewilderment to herself and her husband. -“I believe we get imposed upon right -and left through ignorance. And I don’t -like the thought of your going back to -that nasty stuffy office. You would be -much better for an open-air life, and I -always do say that John is getting too -old to look after all the land he buys, -and that he ought to have a regular -agent.”</p> - -<p>Oscar laughed and stroked his aunt’s -hand caressingly.</p> - -<p>“Quite too halcyon an idea to work,” -he said, “but I like to think that I am -helping you in his absence.”</p> - -<p>“You are more than helping—you are -doing everything, and I’m sure I’m -thankful for it, for I never could understand -the rights of things between landlord -and tenant, and we want to do -what is right and just without being -imposed upon. Well, you will stay on, -at any rate, till your uncle comes back, -and he seems in no hurry to do so. I -wonder he wasn’t as glad to come home -as I was; but perhaps he knew there’d -be a lot of worries waiting for him. He -will be very glad to find them all -straightened out like this.”</p> - -<p>It seemed as though some idea was -fermenting in Mrs. Cossart’s brain, for -once when she was sitting alone with -Sheila in the drawing-room she said -suddenly—</p> - -<p>“Do you ever hear from the Dumaresqs -now?”</p> - -<p>“Lady Dumaresq wrote once, and -Miss Adene once. They are soon -coming back to England.”</p> - -<p>“Do you think you will see any more -of them when they do?”</p> - -<p>“I don’t know,” answered Sheila in -a low voice, with crimsoning cheeks.</p> - -<p>“Well, I was going to say I hope you -won’t,” said her aunt, “for I don’t -know what I should do if I were to lose -you both.”</p> - -<p>“I don’t understand,” said Sheila, -bewildered.</p> - -<p>“Well, I was only thinking that Mr. -Dumaresq seemed very much attracted -by you once. It may be only a passing -fancy, but if it came to anything and I -lost you, and Effie were to go too, why, -where should I be?”</p> - -<p>Sheila looked up suddenly; a number -of hints that Effie had let drop flashed -back into her mind.</p> - -<p>“But do you mean that Effie—that -Effie—is going——”</p> - -<p>“Well, my dear, we don’t talk of it -yet, and being cousins, of course, it is -not exactly what we should have chosen, -and we want to make sure that her -health is really restored. But you -know she and Cyril have never really -cared for any but each other all their -lives, and in Madeira it seemed to come -to a crisis with them. Nothing is -actually settled. Her father would -not have an engagement, but I believe -it will come to that sooner or later, and -then they will certainly live in London, -though they will always have a second -home here. But they are both so intellectual—however, -we need not talk of -that yet. Only if I lose Effie, I do not -want to lose you too.”</p> - -<p>Sheila laughed and blushed a little.</p> - -<p>“You are very kind to want me, for -I have not always behaved well; but I -do not think you will get rid of me if you -want to keep me.”</p> - -<p>“Well, I do. I am used to young -people about, and the house would not -be itself without them. Still, of course, -I shouldn’t wish to stand in the way of -anybody’s happiness. If I do have to -lose you girls, I shall adopt Oscar. He, -at any rate, will not want to marry yet -awhile, and he is a very dear boy. I -should like to keep him altogether, and -not let him go back to River Street at -all. I don’t care how they have improved -the town, I always do say the country is -healthier.”</p> - -<p>“I am sure of it!” cried Sheila -eagerly. “Oh, how delightful it would -be if Oscar could always live here!”</p> - -<p>Mrs. Cossart nodded her head with -some emphasis.</p> - -<p>“We must wait till your uncle comes -back to settle things, but stranger things -than that have happened before now.”</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i814" style="max-width: 15.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_814.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_815"></a>{815}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS">ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.</h2> -</div> - - -<h3>MEDICAL.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Naiad.</span>—Sea-sickness cannot be considered as a -disease of the stomach. It is caused by the motion -acting in some way upon the brain. How it -acts is not quite certain; possibly it is by interfering -with the blood supply of the brain, or -it might be due to a succession of slight “concussions.” -An exactly similar form of sickness -occurs in some persons from swinging, or who have -been patronising the “giddy-go-round.” Also -any injury to the head may be followed by sickness. -How to prevent sea-sickness is a question which -is confessedly a puzzle to all. The peculiarity of -this form of vomiting is that it bears no relation to -food. It is no more common after than before -meals, and the vomiting produces little or no -relief. We think everybody has her own little -specific for sea-sickness, and it is as useless as her -neighbour’s. Obviously, from what has been said -above, no remedy which acts upon the stomach can -prevent sickness, because it is a nervous and not -a gastric symptom. We may hope one day to -discover how to prevent sea-sickness; at present we -cannot do so by any means.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">An Anxious Girl.</span>—Read our answer to “A Gaiety -Girl.” The question of infection and epidemics is -a most puzzling one for the public to understand. -And yet it is of vast importance that it should -understand it, for with the public, and not with the -medical profession, lies the power of stamping out -infectious diseases. As you only desire information -about influenza, we will leave all other fevers -out of court and confine our remarks to influenza -alone. Influenza is an epidemic, possibly infectious, -disease, chiefly characterised by inflammation of -the mucous membranes, and by the exceedingly -formidable list of its sequelæ and complications. -It is due to the multiplication within the body of a -definite germ. The disease never occurs without -this germ, nor is the germ ever found in the human -body except in those who are suffering from, or -who have lately recovered from, influenza. The -great question of its causation is, “How does the -germ gain entrance into the body?” And this -unfortunately we cannot answer. It is not commonly -an infectious disease in the usual meaning -of the term—that is, it is not commonly caught -directly from person to person; but we feel -certain that one person can inoculate her -fellow. The disease is epidemic, and spreads in -waves which have usually swept from the east -westwards. For this reason it has been suggested -that the germs are conveyed from place to place by -the east wind—an utterly untenable theory. Most -probably the disease is spread by water, or by dust -infected with the dried spittle of persons suffering -from the disease. It is by no means a modern -disease. There were epidemics of it in 1833, 1847, -1848, and 1888. Nearly all the epidemics have -started in Russia, and hence the disease has been -called Russian fever. When a person has had -pneumonia following influenza, it imports that she -has had a large dose, and probably a very virulent -dose of the poison. Such a person would be more -likely to directly inoculate another. Up to the -present it has not been customary to isolate -influenza patients, but we think that isolation is -unquestionably advisable wherever this is possible. -To disinfect the room afterwards there are no -measures to be compared with fresh air, and a pail -of water, and a scrubbing brush. Thoroughly clean -out the room in which an infectious case has been -“warded”—use plenty of water, plenty of soap, -and plenty of time. You may use chloride of lime -or carbolic acid if you like. Afterwards, let the -room get as much air and sunshine as possible, for -both fresh air and sunshine are fatal to injurious -germs. We do not know what is the incubation -period of the disease, nor can we say for how long -after recovery the patient remains capable of -conveying infection.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lily.</span>—When you have removed the redness—which -is inflammation—of the eyebrows, the hairs will grow -dark again. Apply a little zinc ointment to the -place every morning and evening.</p></div> - - -<h3>STUDY AND STUDIO.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peggy.</span>—We think you would find the comic song -you mention by going to any good music-seller’s -and giving the extract. Unless we are mistaken, -it has been sung by some popular entertainer, and -is well known.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Winton.</span>—1. We have already recommended the -“York Road Sketching Club,” and “Copying -Club;” address, Miss H. E. Grace, 54, York Road, -Brighton, W.—2. The three staves in Grieg’s music -are used simply because there is not space in one -set of five lines to clearly show the complicated air -and accompaniment which fall to the lot of the -treble.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss Munn</span>, Sandhurst, Hawkhurst, wishes to -announce that a new year of her Sketching Club -began in June, but members may join at any time. -The subscription is 2s. 6d. the year.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Brenda.</span>—There are plenty of such scholarships as -you describe. You had better write to The Secretary, -Technical Education Board, St. Martin’s -Lane, W.C., or consult Mrs. Watson’s article on -“What is the London County Council doing for -Girls?” (<span class="smcap">The Girl’s Own Paper</span>, March, 1897).</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rita</span> (New Zealand).—1. Your question from <i>In -Memoriam</i> is a very thoughtful one. The poet is -describing a man who, being troubled by religious -doubts, does not try to stifle them by simply resting -on the authority of a Church and telling himself, -“I must not doubt, for it is wicked.” He looks -these doubts—“the spectres of the mind”—fully in -the face, searches for the answer, and, as Truth -does not fear investigation, he succeeds in dispersing -them; even as a fabled ghost can usually -be disproved by someone who will bravely face -the supposed apparition and find out what it really -amounts to. The man who fights this battle -honestly, and conquers, wins in the end a stronger -faith than the man who merely asserts, without -thought; and in the temporary darkness of his -perplexity God is with him still—for God is the -God both of the light and of the darkness. This -magnificent passage you must understand as applying -only to those who really seek in an earnest -and reverent spirit after Truth, not to the flippant -scoffer.—2. We answered this question in July, -1897, and must refer you to the volume <i>Twilight -Hours</i> (Messrs. Isbister & Co.) containing the -poems of Sarah Williams (Sadie).</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A Merry Sunbeam</span> (Belgium).—1. Certainly a young -girl of 15½ may wear long skirts and put up her -hair if she is unusually tall “without looking -ridiculous.” She will be taken to be older than -she really is, which may be a disadvantage to her.—2. -The expression “teens” is taken from the -termination of the numbers thirteen to nineteen -inclusive, and “hazel” is brown, like the brown of -the hazel nut. We go to press long before you -receive your magazine, and we are sorry you have -to wait so long for replies. You write English -very well, considering it is not your native language, -but we have no objection at all to receiving -letters in French from any of our subscribers.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Beatrice Cenci.</span>—The heroine whose name you -adopt lived in Rome during the sixteenth century, -and a very touching and beautiful portrait of her -by Guido exists in the Barberini Palace there. -Her father was a monster of cruelty and wickedness, -and she was driven at length to plot with her -step-mother and brother to murder him, in order -to escape from his tyranny. The deed was discovered, -and Beatrice with the other criminals -was put to death by order of the Pope. Her -father had constantly bought his pardon from the -Pope for the murders <i>he</i> had committed on his -own account, and the infamy of his life, combined -with the natural gentleness of Beatrice, awoke a -widespread feeling of compassion for her doom, in -spite of the nature of her act.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Erica.</span>—Your quotation is from the first verse of a -song by Thomas Linley (1798-1865), written and -composed by him for Mr. Augustus Braham. The -whole verse runs as follows:—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Tho’ lost to sight, to memory dear</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Thou ever wilt remain;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One only hope my heart can cheer—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The hope to meet again.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">We go to press long before you receive your -magazine, so it would be quite impossible for you -ever to see an answer in “next week.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pilgrim.</span>—1. We should think a good history for -your purpose would be an illustrated abridgment -by G. Masson of F. P. G. Guizot’s <i>History of -France from its Earliest Times</i> (Low), published -price 5s.; or W. H. Jervis’s <i>Student’s History of -France</i>, with maps and illustrations (Murray), -published price 7s. 6d.—2. The only satisfactory -general history of Russia is said to be Alfred -Rambaud’s, illustrated and well translated (Low), -but it is expensive—21s. There is a popular -History of Russia in the “Story of the Nations -Series” (Unwin) by W. R. Morfill, published at 5s. -We hope these are neither “dry” nor “childish.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Florentia.</span>—We have searched through Charles -Kingsley’s poems in vain for the lines beginning—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“In music there is no self-will.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="noindent">Are you sure he is the author? Perhaps some -reader may observe this reply and come to your -help.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Snowdrop.</span>—We think your best way is to write to -Messrs. Hachette & Co., 18, King William Street, -Charing Cross, London, W.C., for a list of French -magazines, and choose one that seems suitable. -We do not know of one exactly answering to <span class="smcap">The -Girl’s Own Paper</span>.</p></div> - - -<h3>OUR OPEN LETTER BOX.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Winton</span>” again has answers, from “<span class="smcap">An Old -Subscriber</span>” and an anonymous writer, referring -the hymn, “Come ye yourselves apart and rest -awhile,” to the <i>Hymnal Companion</i> and <i>Sacred -Songs and Solos</i>.</p></div> - - -<h3>MISCELLANEOUS.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Cleopatra II.</span>—The term or nickname of a British -soldier, i.e., “Tommy Atkins,” had its origin in the -little pocket-ledgers, at one time supplied to them, -in which all the necessary memoranda connected -with them—their name, age, date of enlistment, -length of service, wounds, or medals, received, etc., -were entered. With this the War Office gave a -form to be filled in; the hypothetical name of -“Thomas Atkins” was entered, just as “John Doe -and Richard Roe” are employed by lawyers; “M. -or N.” by the Church, and “Jack Tar” to designate -a sailor. The books at once were called by the -name, which was afterwards applied as a comprehensive -name for the men themselves. We thank -you for your good wishes for the continued success -of our magazine.</p> - -<p>S. A.—There are five Homes for Aged Poor People -in the suburbs of town, respecting which you must -write to the Misses Harrison, 5, Grandacre Terrace, -Anerley, S.E. There is also the “Aged Pilgrims’ -Friend Society,” which grants annual pensions to -aged Christians of both sexes, and of all Protestant -denominations. This institution has homes at -Camberwell, Hornsey Rise, Stamford Hill, and -Brighton. Pensions are granted to some not -received into the homes. The Secretary is Mr. -J. E. Hazelton, office, 82, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.</p> - -<p>F. W.—We do not undertake to return answers in -the next magazine after hearing from correspondents. -Boil sufficient milk for the amount of wholemeal -you wish to knead, adding a piece of butter -of the size of an egg (for a small cake), and melt -it in the milk. Mix some bread-soda with the -meal; and then knead the milk with the latter, -and roll out on a paste-board. Make a round flat -cake, and cut across, to make four divisions, and -bake on a girdle, putting dry flour on the girdle, or -a sufficient space on a hot oven. Butter-milk is -much used for the purpose in Ireland. Of course -yeast may be had, instead of the soda, from any -baker.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">O’Hara.</span>—The Celts were the first Aryan settlers in -Europe. This fact is placed beyond all doubt by -their language, which bears a close resemblance -to Sanscrit, alike in grammatical structure and -vocables. Herodotus speaks of them (<span class="allsmcap">B.C.</span> 450) -under the name <i>Keltai</i>, as mingling with the -Iberians, who dwelt round the river Ebro. The -Romans called them <i>Galli</i>. It is maintained by -many that these Aryans in Spain, the French -Pyrenees, and in Britain, found before them a -Turanian people, the descendants of whom are to -be seen in the Lapps and Finns, and the Basques -of Spain and Portugal. The Aryans’ original home -was the plateau of Central Asia, from whence they -spread south-westward; and the Eastern tribes -took possession of India and Persia.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Puzzled One.</span>—Adults do not need sponsors at their -baptism, as in the case of infants; but witnesses are -essential; because the persons baptised make -thereby a public profession of their faith. Special -“witnesses” usually accompany adults; but you -will observe (in the last Rubric), that the baptised -“answer for themselves,” and only the godly counsel -of “their chosen witnesses” is required, whose -duty it is to “put them in mind” of the “vow, -promise, and profession they have made.” Should -there be no desirably religious and God-fearing -friends to present the adult, she should communicate -this difficulty to the rector or vicar of -her parish, and he will, doubtless, provide for this -lack, as well as see to her preparation for the rite -himself.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marcia.</span>—We are certainly of opinion that in earlier -times the term “Merry (or Merrie) England” was -justly so applied, as distinguished from its general -condition in these days of strikes. It was enough -for the little educated to have their Maypole -festivities, their Christmas and Easter entertainments; -and so they enjoyed a greater light-heartedness, -simpler recreations and brighter views of life; -and the people were united more closely together -in a boyish <i>camaraderie</i>. But, as the Anglo-Saxon -word <i>mæra</i> signifies “famous, great and -mighty,” and <i>mer</i> in the old Teutonic means “illustrious,” -the original signification is probably not -“mirthful.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dot.</span>—A nice little cake for home use is made with -1 pint of wholemeal, 1 teacupful of milk, a piece of -butter of about the size of a walnut, and a teaspoonful -of baking powder. Mix well and bake for -about half an hour.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hope.</span>—The correct pronunciation of the Italian -phrase, <i>Dolce far niente</i> (Sweet do nothing) is, -“Dole-che far ne-ente.” We are glad that our -magazine gives you so much satisfaction.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dix-huit.</span>—There is no way of improving your hand -but the daily copying of the copper-plate examples, -or of some hand you admire. The pronunciation -of surnames is often very arbitrary. The name -“Besant” ought to be pronounced as having a -double “s,” and the accent laid on the first -syllable, “Bes.” But its present owner, Sir Walter, -pronounces it “Be<i>sant</i>,” and of course he has the -right to do so.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_816"></a>{816}</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Carnation.</span>—If you are a daughter of a younger -brother, no matter how old you may be, the eldest -daughter of the eldest brother has precedence of -you. Should your father and uncle have a sister -living, neither of you could claim precedence of her. -She is Miss —— so long as she remains single; and -she takes precedence, moreover, of all her younger -brothers and their wives.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss H. Mason’s</span> “Holiday Home, and Home of -Rest” we always have pleasure in naming for -the benefit of our readers, who are engaged in either -teaching or business, or are clerks. Charge for -board and lodging 15s. a week; for a short visit, -from Saturday afternoon till Monday morning, 5s.; -and till Tuesday, 7s. 6d. Oakwood Lodge, Ide Hill, -Sevenoaks.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marguerite.</span>—There is a society for milliners and -dressmakers, the “Provident and Benevolent Institution,” -32, Sackville Street, for members within -twelve miles of the General Post Office, and -which gives grants in illness, and pensions from -£25 to £35. You do not give an address, therefore -we are unable to tell you whether you be -eligible.</p></div> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="DIAPER_DESIGNS_FOR_EMBROIDERY">DIAPER DESIGNS FOR EMBROIDERY.</h2> -</div> - - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="i816a" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_816a.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">A.—<i>Sixteenth century sprig.</i></p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="smcap">Most</span> of the patterns here given were suggested -by sketches from the celebrated 15th -century painted screen in Ranworth Church, -Norfolk, which I made on the occasion of a -visit there some time ago, and are excellent -specimens of diapers suitable for embroidery. -It is a class of design almost peculiar to the -period and may be termed “conceits,” for -although nature is suggested in these diapers, -the arrangement is purely arbitrary, and the -ornament is not necessarily developed out of -a particular plant, but is imported into it, -wilfully. Thus you get in <a href="#i816a">A</a> a sort of conventionalised -leafage with flowers and berries, -and in <a href="#i816b">B</a> an ornamentalised fruit with flowers. -This latter pattern I have developed in <a href="#i816c">C</a>, -the growth of the pine-apple having suggested -the design. The thistle, globe artichoke -and many other plants could be -treated in this way. Always go to nature for -your <i>motifs</i>, but remember that you only take -suggestions from nature, as design is not -transcribing nature, but the result of imagination, -stimulated by reference to nature, -playing around the subject. Ingenuity is -called into play, and a good design may be -likened to an interweaving of pleasantly contrasted -lines nicely balanced.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp64" id="i816b" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_816b.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">B.—<i>Sixteenth century sprig, suggestive -of a fruit.</i></p></div> -</div> - -<p>So many amateurs think that a representation -of a particular plant or animal arranged -symmetrically is designing, whereas designing -is as much an effort of the imagination as -poetry or music. It is a good exercise to -start with some design as I did in <a href="#i816b">B</a> and do -something original on the same lines. Even -if you are not very original in your efforts, it -is a good exercise of your skill. If you are -content to merely reproduce what others have -originated, your mental faculties are not -brought into play at all, and you can never -hope to make any advance in original work. -The growth of stem in <a href="#i816c">C</a>, going as it does -over and under the main stem, was suggested -by the growth of the sprig in <a href="#i816d">D</a>, which is a -characteristic example of a “conceit.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp60" id="i816c" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_816c.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"> -<p>C.—<i>Sprig founded upon the pine-apple, in -the style of sixteenth century German -work shown in</i> <a href="#i816b">B</a>.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Such diapers as <a href="#i816a">A</a>, <a href="#i816b">B</a> and <a href="#i816c">C</a> can be used -to “powder” over a curtain. Portions of -them might be <i>appliquéd</i>, the “fruit” in <a href="#i816c">C</a> -for instance, while the leaves could be in outline. -The diapers can be disposed over the -curtain in some sort of order, and you might -work diagonal lines, and put a sprig in each -lozenge formed by the diagonal lines crossing -each other at right angles, as in Fig. 1 in a -former article on “Curtain Embroidery,” to -which I must refer the reader. The running -border <a href="#i816e">E</a> would be effective worked in two -colours, a light and a dark, and could be used -to border a curtain in which the other diapers -are used.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp29" id="i816d" style="max-width: 12.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_816d.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p>D.—<i>Sprig suggested by sixteenth century -German work.</i></p></div> -</div> - -<p>The patterns on the screen in Ranworth -Church were stencilled, and these given in this -article could be cut as stencils. It would -be a good way of transferring the designs to -the material to lightly stencil them on and -then work over the impressions.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Fred Miller.</span> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i816e" style="max-width: 29.6875em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_816e.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">E.—<i>Continuous border design for two colours.</i></p></div> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>[Transcriber’s Note—the following changes have been made to this text.</p> - -<p>Page 803: comtemplate to contemplate—“contemplate the surrender”.</p> - -<p>Page 812: Repeated word “the” removed—“<i>The Shadow of the Sword</i>”.]</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. -1029, September 16, 1899, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER, SEPT 16, 1899 *** - -***** This file should be named 63772-h.htm or 63772-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/7/7/63772/ - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -https://www.pgdp.net - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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