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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. 986, November 19, 1898 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: December 22, 2015 [EBook #50745] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER, NOV 19, 1898 *** - - - - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER - -VOL. XX.--NO. 986.] NOVEMBER 19, 1898. [PRICE ONE PENNY.] - - - - -ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE. - -BY JESSIE MANSERGH (Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey), Author of "Sisters -Three," etc. - -[Illustration: SWEET SYMPATHY.] - -_All rights reserved._] - - -CHAPTER VII. - -Peggy looked very sad and wan after her mother's departure, but her -companions soon discovered that anything like out-spoken sympathy was -unwelcome. The redder her eyes, the more erect and dignified was her -demeanour; if her lips trembled when she spoke, the more grandiose and -formidable became her conversation, for Peggy's love of long words and -high-sounding expressions was fully recognised by this time, and caused -much amusement in the family. - -A few days after Mrs. Saville sailed, a welcome diversion arrived in -the shape of the promised camera. The Parcels Delivery van drove up to -the door, and two large cases were delivered, one of which was found -to contain the camera itself, the tripod and a portable dark room, -while the other held such a collection of plates, printing-frames and -chemicals as delighted the eyes of the beholders. It was the gift of -one who possessed not only a deep purse, but a most true and thoughtful -kindness, for when young people are concerned, two-thirds of the -enjoyment of any present is derived from the possibility of being able -to put it to immediate use. As it was a holiday afternoon, it was -unanimously agreed to take two groups and develop them straightway. - -"Professional photographers are so dilatory," said Peggy severely; "and -indeed, I have noticed that amateurs are even worse. I have twice been -photographed by friends, and they have solemnly promised to send me -a copy within a few days. I have waited, consumed by curiosity, and, -my dears, it has been months before it has arrived. Now we will make -a rule to finish off our groups at once, and not keep people waiting -until all the interest has died away. There's no excuse for such -dilatory behaviour!" - -"There is some work to do, remember, Peggy. You can't get a photograph -by simply taking off and putting on the cap; you must have a certain -amount of time and fine weather. I haven't had much experience, but I -remember thinking that photographs were jolly cheap considering all the -trouble they cost, and wondered how the fellows could do them at the -price. There's the developing, and washing, and printing, and toning, -half-a-dozen processes before you are finished." - -Peggy smiled in a patient, forbearing manner. - -"They don't get any less, do they, by putting them off? Procrastination -will never lighten labour. Come, put the camera up for us, like a good -boy, and we'll show you how to do it." She waved her hand towards -the brown canvas bag, and the six young people immediately seized -different portions of the tripod and camera, and set to work to put -them together. The girls tugged and pulled at the sliding legs, which -were too new and stiff to work with ease; Maxwell turned the screws -which moved the bellows, and tried in vain to understand their working; -Robert peered through the lenses, and Oswald alternately raved, chided, -and jeered at their efforts. With so many cooks at work, it took an -unconscionable time to get ready, and even when the camera was perched -securely on its spidery legs, it still remained to choose the site of -the picture, and to pose the victims. After much wandering about the -garden, it was finally decided that the schoolroom window would be -an appropriate background for a first effort, but a long and heated -argument followed before the second question could be decided. - -"I vote that we stand in couples, arm-on-arm, like this," said -Mellicent, sidling up to her beloved brother, and gazing into his face -in a sentimental manner, which had the effect of making him stride away -as fast as he could walk, muttering indignant protests beneath his -breath. - -Then Esther came forward with her suggestion. - -"I'll hold a book as if I were reading aloud, and you can all sit round -in easy, natural positions, and look as if you were listening. I think -that would make a charming picture." - -"Idiotic, I call it! 'Scene from the Goodchild family; mamma reading -aloud to the little ones.' Couldn't possibly look easy and natural -under the circumstances; should feel too miserable. Try again, my dear. -You must think of something better than that." - -It was impossible to please those three fastidious boys. One suggestion -after another was made, only to be waved aside with lordly contempt, -until at last the girls gave up any say in the matter, and left Oswald -to arrange the group in a manner highly satisfactory to himself and his -two friends, however displeasing to the more artistic members of the -party. Three girls in front, two boys behind, all standing stiff and -straight as pokers; with solemn faces and hair much tangled by constant -peepings beneath the black cloth. Peggy in the middle, with her -eyebrows more peaked than ever, and an expression of resigned martyrdom -on her small, pale face; Mellicent, large and placid, on the left; -Esther on the right, scowling at nothing, and, over their shoulders, -the two boys' heads, handsome Max, and frowning Robert. - -"There," cried Oswald, "that's what I call a sensible arrangement! -If you take a photograph, _take_ a photograph, and don't try to do a -pastoral play at the same time. Keep still a moment now, and I will -see if it is focused all right. I can see you pulling faces, Peggy; -it's not at all becoming. Now then, I'll put in the plate--that's the -way!--one--two--three--and I shall take you. Stea--dy!" - -Instantly Mellicent burst into giggles of laughter, and threw up her -hands to her face, to be roughly seized from behind and shaken into -order. - -"Be quiet, you silly thing! Didn't you hear him say steady? What are -you trying to do?" - -"She has spoiled this plate, anyhow," said Oswald icily. "I'll try the -other, and if she can't keep still this time, she had better run away -and laugh by herself at the other end of the garden. Baby!" - -"Not a ba----" began Mellicent indignantly; but she was immediately -punched into order, and stood with her mouth wide open, waiting to -finish her protest so soon as the ordeal was over. - -Peggy forestalled her, however, with an eager plea to be allowed to -take the third picture herself. - -"I want to have one of Oswald to send to mother, for we are not -complete without him, and I know it would please her to think I had -taken it myself," she urged; and permission was readily granted, as -everyone felt that she had a special claim in the matter. Oswald -therefore put in new plates, gave instructions as to how the shutters -were to be worked, and retired to take up an elegant position in the -centre of the group. - -"Are you read--ee?" cried Peggy, in professional sing-song; then she -put her head on one side and stared at them with twinkling eyes. -"Hee, hee! How silly you look! Everyone has a new expression for the -occasion! Your own mothers would not recognise you! That's better. Keep -that smile going for another moment, and--how long must I keep off the -cap, did you say?" - -Oswald hesitated. - -"Well, it varies. You have to use your own judgment. It depends -upon--lots of things! You might try one second for the first, and two -for the next, then one of them is bound to be right." - -"And one a failure! If I were going to depend on my judgment, I'd have -a better one than that!" cried Peggy scornfully. "Ready. A little -more cheerful, if you please--Christmas is coming! That's one. Be so -good as to remain in your positions, ladies and gentlemen, and I'll -try another." The second shutter was pulled out, the cap removed, and -the group broke up with sighs of relief, exhausted with the strain of -cultivating company smiles for a whole two minutes on end. Max stayed -to help the girls to fold up the camera, while Oswald darted into the -house to prepare the dark room for the development of the plates. - -When he came out, ten minutes later on, it was a pleasant surprise to -discover Miss Mellicent holding a plate in her hand and taking sly -peeps inside the shutter, just "to see how it looked." He stormed and -raved; Mellicent looked like a martyr, wished to know how a teeny -little light like that could possibly hurt anything, and seemed -incapable of understanding that if one flash of sunlight could make -a picture, it could also destroy it with equal swiftness. Oswald was -forced to comfort himself with the reflection that there were still -three plates left; and, when all was ready, the six operators squeezed -themselves in the dark room, to watch the process of development, -indulging the while in the most flowery expectations. - -"If it is very good, let me send it to an illustrated paper. Oh, do!" -said Mellicent, with a gush. "I have often seen groups of people in -them. 'The thing-a-me-bob touring company,' and stupid old cricketers, -and things like that. We should be far more interesting." - -"It will make a nice present for mother, enlarged and mounted," said -Peggy thoughtfully. "I shall keep an album of my own, and mount every -single picture we take. If there are any failures, I shall put them in -too, for they will make it all the more amusing. Photograph albums are -horribly uninteresting as a rule, but mine will be quite different. -There shall be nothing stiff and prim about it; the photographs will be -dotted about in all sorts of positions, and underneath each I shall put -in--ah--conversational annotations." Her tongue lingered over the words -with triumphant enjoyment. "Conversational annotations, describing the -circumstances under which it was taken, and anything about it which is -worth remembering.... What are you going to do with those bottles?" - -Oswald ruffled his hair in embarrassment. To pose as an instructor in -an art, when one is in doubt about its very rudiments, is a position -which has its drawbacks. - -"I don't--quite--know. The stupid fellow has written instructions on -all the other labels, and none on these except simply 'Developer No. -1' and 'Developer No. 2;' I think the only difference is that one is -rather stronger than the other. I'll put some of the No. 2 in a dish -and see what happens; I believe that's the right way--in fact, I'm sure -it is. You pour it over the plate and jog it about, and in two or three -minutes the picture ought to begin to appear. Like this." - -Five eager faces peered over his shoulders, rosy red in the light of -the lamp; five pairs of lips uttered a simultaneous "oh!" of surprise; -five cries of dismay followed in instant echo. It was the tragedy of -a second. Even as Oswald poured the fluid over the plate, a picture -flashed before their eyes, each one saw and recognised some fleeting -feature; and, in the very moment of triumph, lo, darkness, as of night, -a sheet of useless, blackened glass! - -"What about the conversational annotations?" asked Robert slyly; but he -was interrupted by a storm of indignant queries, levied at the head of -the poor operator, who tried in vain to carry off his mistake with a -jaunty air. Now that he came to think of it, he believed you _did_ mix -the two developers together! Just at the moment he had forgotten the -proportions, but he would go outside and look it up in the book; and -he beat a hasty retreat, glad to escape from the scene of his failure. -It was rather a disconcerting beginning, but hope revived once more -when Oswald returned, primed with information from the _Photographic -Manual_, and Peggy's plates were taken from their case and put into the -bath. This time the result was slow in coming. Five minutes went by, -and no signs of a picture, ten minutes, a quarter of an hour. - -"It's a good thing to develop slowly; you get the details better," said -Oswald, in so professional a matter that he was instantly reinstated -in public confidence; but when twenty minutes had passed, he looked -perturbed, and thought he would use a little more of the hastener. -The bath was strengthened and strengthened, but still no signs of a -picture. The plate was put away in disgust, and the second one tried -with a like result. So far as it was possible to judge, there was -nothing to be developed on the plate. - -"A nice photographer you are, I must say! What are you playing at now?" -asked Max, in scornful impatience, and Oswald turned severely to Peggy-- - -"Which shutter did you draw out? The one nearest to yourself?" - -"Yes, I did--of course I did!" - -"You drew out the nearest to you, and the farthest away from the lens?" - -"Precisely--I told you so!" and Peggy bridled with an air of virtue. - -"Then no wonder nothing has come out! You have drawn out the wrong -shutter each time, and the plates have never been exposed. They are -wasted! That's fivepence simply _thrown_ away, to say nothing of the -chemicals!" - -His air of aggrieved virtue; Peggy's little face staring at him, aghast -with horror; the thought of four plates being used and leaving not a -vestige of a result were all too funny to be resisted. Mellicent went -off into irrepressible giggles; Max gave a loud "Ha, ha!" and once -again a mischievous whisper sounded in Peggy's ear-- - -"Good for you, Mariquita! What about the conversational annotations?" - -(_To be continued._) - - - - -SOME PRACTICAL HINTS ON COSMETIC MEDICINE. - -BY "THE NEW DOCTOR." - - -PART IV. - -THE HANDS. - -The appearance of the hands is secondary only to that of the face, and -many women pride themselves upon their beautiful white hands. But it -is not everybody who can have white hands. Manual labour will always -make the hands red and rough, and no amount of applications will whiten -them. General servants and laundry women cannot expect their hands to -remain white. It is interesting to see why house labour should injure -the appearance of the hands in this way. In the first place the hands -must get a good deal knocked about by the rough work necessary in a -household. Laying fires, cleaning grates, blacking boots, etc., make -the hands rough from inflicting numerous small injuries upon them. You -all know that if you cut your finger the place remains hard and horny -for some time afterwards, and so hands that are exposed to rough usage -will also get horny and coarse. Then, again, rough red hands, being -less delicate, are better fitted to do hard work, and so Nature, who -cares more for usefulness than for idle beauty, will tend to make the -hands of those who do manual labour hard and coarse. Another reason why -servants so often have red hands is the constant use of soda and water, -which is necessary for cleaning the house. Soda is very bad for the -hands, and this, together with the impossibility of keeping the hands -dry, is another cause of red hands. - -With a little care, nearly everybody can have white hands. Even in -those who have to work hard a little care will often do wonders to -keep the hands from becoming very red--not from becoming red slightly, -for nothing will prevent this. When you wash your hands, always dry -them afterwards on a fairly rough towel. In winter you should be very -careful about thoroughly drying your hands, as it takes very little to -produce chaps. - -If you are desirous of having white hands, always wear gloves when you -go out. This, indeed, will do more than anything else to keep the hands -white. - -In the winter most persons suffer from chaps. These are a more -pronounced and more acute form of "red hands." But they are often very -painful, and if not properly treated are apt to be very persistent and -unsightly. - -Prevention is better than cure, and we can do a considerable amount -to prevent our hands from becoming chapped. It is the cold wind -that produces chaps, and so, if you would be freed from this evil, -you should always wear thick gloves when you go out in a strong -north-easter. I have already mentioned that you should dry your hands -very carefully after washing. If you are very liable to chaps, you -should not wash your hands in cold water, but only use warm water, not -hot (for this is worse than cold water for producing chaps), but just -slightly warm. You must also be careful about the soap you use, as -coarse alkaline soaps are very bad, and make chapped hands smart. - -If the chaps are not very bad, a little glycerine and rose-water may be -applied after washing. This is very efficacious in a mild case, but it -is insufficient in more severe grades of the affection. The following -preparation I have found invaluable for severe chaps--sulphate of zinc, -two grains; compound tincture of lavender, one dram; glycerine, three -drams; rose-water to the ounce. - -A very much worse affair than chaps is a chilblain. Indeed, a bad -broken chilblain is a very serious and unpleasant matter. Chilblains -may occur in anyone, but they are most common in persons in whom the -circulation is feeble. I have seen a terribly bad chilblain in an -anæmic girl. Moreover, when the circulation is below par, chilblains do -not heal properly, and give great trouble often for months together. - -Warm gloves, warm stockings, loose-fitting boots, and flannel next the -skin all over the body, are the best safeguards against this complaint. -As chilblains are a kind of minor frostbite, keeping warm will -necessarily prevent them, but it is very difficult for a person with -feeble circulation to keep warm. - -If you have a chilblain coming do not scratch it, for this makes it far -worse. Bathe the part gently in warm spirit and water, and wrap the -finger or toe, whichever it is, in a thick layer of cotton wool. If you -do this you will probably prevent the chilblains from bursting. - -There are a large number of messy preparations made of lard, dripping, -tallow, cream, and other "pantry drugs," which are advised for -chilblains. They are none of them any good. A broken chilblain is a -septic wound, that is, it is a wound that contains germs. It should -therefore be treated as a septic wound. Wash the place gently in -diluted carbolic acid lotion (1 in 80), or warm solution of boracic -acid. Then cover the broken surface thickly with powdered boracic acid, -and put on a bandage. If you do this, and attend to your general health -at the same time, you get rid of your chilblains more rapidly than by -any other method. - -Warts are more common on the hands than anywhere else. Of their cause -we know but little. Irritation sometimes causes them, and they are to -a certain extent infectious from place to place. We used to be taught -that lady-birds produced or cured them, according to which version of -the story we heard. There is about an equal amount of truth in each -doctrine. - -The best way to treat warts is to first soak the hand in hot water, -and clean it thoroughly with soap. Then paint the skin surrounding the -wart with vaseline, and drop on to the wart itself one drop of glacial -acetic acid. Wait one minute, and then well rub the wart over with a -stick of lunar caustic (silver nitrate). This treatment may require to -be repeated, but I have never known it to fail. - -(_To be continued._) - - - - -GIRLS AS I HAVE KNOWN THEM. - -BY ELSA D'ESTERRE-KEELING, Author of "Old Maids and Young." - - -PART II. - -THE WITTY GIRL. - - "She is pretty to walk with, - And witty to talk with, - And pleasant, too, to think on." - -First let us understand each other. - -By the witty girl is not here meant the girl--if such a girl -exists--whose conversation has the high brilliancy which characterises -the conversation of certain men and women. - -No. The thing here meant is nothing more than the common domestic -wit-snapper, generally, say her enemies, more of a snapper than a wit, -concerning which statement it is perhaps not unpermissible to say that -he who makes it shows himself to be less a wit than a snapper. - -While all but invariably of a character that loses much by the process -of retailing, the wit of the girl here in view will sometimes bear -being brought to book. The samples of it given in this paper are all -authentic and heretofore unpublished. They do not, perhaps, reach a -high standard of excellence, but they who know girls will concede that -they are good girl-wit of the middle order. - -Take a case like this: "My name is May. I feel I am reaching the age -when I should be called Hawthorn." - -Or take this: "Your mother will miss you when you marry." - -"No--then she'll 'Mrs.' me." - -Such jests are the _bric-à-brac_ of home conversation, and make it -pretty. - -He who listens to the talk between girls and their brothers will -sometimes hear a thing worth noting, in compensation for the many -things not worth noting which--if the truth is to be told--he will also -hear. - -The following does not show young Ethel at her best, but it also does -not show her at her worst. - -"D'you know, Jim," she said, "that two-year-old babies can marry on -Jupiter?" - -"Don't talk bosh, Ethel!" - -"But they can. It's this way. A year on Jupiter is eleven years and ten -months of our time, so the two-year-old babies are grown up. Ee--you -didn't know that!" - -[Illustration: A runaway match on Jupiter the bride being under age] - -Jim said nothing. But when young Ethel exploited her astronomy with -Bob, she found her overmatch. This is precisely what was said by them-- - -_Bob:_ "One can hear your voice ten miles off, Ethel." - -_Y. E.:_ "Make it nine, Bob?" - -_Bob:_ "Why?" - -_Y. E.:_ "Nine miles is the greatest distance at which thunder can be -heard." - -_Bob:_ "TIT-BITS." - -The fact is that young Ethel is less an astronomer than a student of -current periodical literature. What matters it, after all, however, -whence she gleans her general information, if her reading enables her -to say--as I once heard her say--with veritable wit, to a girl who was -wearing a primrose brooch-- - -"Blossom and leaves of the primrose are ---- Radical." - -There are funny men in Parliament who have never said anything much -more funny than that. - -In her captious mood the witty girl is very terrible. A North Briton -has been thus described by her: "A big, lumpy, pale-faced, red-haired, -freckled Scotchman," and it was a witty, but captious, girl who said of -a certain pianist, a concert given by whom she had attended, "His feet -obscured the platform." - -[Illustration: A pianist's great feet] - -The literary appreciations of the witty girl are few. She is apt, in -appraising poets, to take them at their weakest rather than at their -strongest. She judges Wordsworth by his "Idiot Boy," and she would be -capable of passing sentence on Cowper as having cut in his door three -holes of different sizes for his tom-cat, his tabby cat and his kitten. - -[Illustration: She thinks him a victim of heredity - -WORDSWORTH'S IDIOT BOY] - -Yet another tendency of the witty girl which must be strongly -deprecated, is to harp on phrases which may have once had a faintly -comical ring, but which have long lost it; such phrases as, "Where -does this live?" applied to inanimate objects, or, "Hang on to this," -used in reference to objects held in the hand. It would be interesting -to know who first evolved these mild witticisms destined to win such -enduring popularity. - -The singular phraseology of girls not minded to confine themselves to -English of the academies has of late been made the subject of much -comment. There follow here some specimens of it in which the facetious -was aimed at, and in some cases not unsuccessfully. - -Wordsworth was, by a Scotch Annie, described as a "baa-lamby;" a Welsh -Beatrice described "a most wizened farewell concert;" her impressions -of Holland were summed up by an English Madge in the words "flobby -bread and flobby wall-paper," and an Irish Constance, writing to her -home in Ireland from a school in France attended by her with her -sister Ethel, penned this anomalous statement, "We are here six Irish, -counting Ethel, and six English, counting me." - -[Illustration: Wordsworth looking sheepish] - -Both these girls were the daughters of an Irishman and an Englishwoman. -She who was accounted of the six English had been born in her mother's -country, while she who was accounted of the six Irish had been born in -that of her father. In drawing the fine line of distinction which made -her English and her sister Irish, the young maid Constance aimed not at -precision but at wit, and, as behoved her father's daughter, she did -not aim at wit in vain. Her letter was read with laughter. - -In almost all girls' letters there is a marked quality of phrasing -which, even when not witty, is mirth-provoking. Take the following: - -"Papa has just come back from London, and has brought me a very -thin umbrella, with a steel stick running through it, just simply -frightfully elegant; also a pair of shoes, fawn antelope, embroidered -with gold beads. You needn't sniff." - -Sniff, indeed? Perish the thought! - -"Tinpot" used as an adjective does not spoil the following curious bit -of description penned by a London girl during a stay in Ryde: - -"I am enjoying myself very much in a quiet, non-dissipated, tinpot -way--walking on the sea-wall and the pier, reading Carlyle and Marion -Crawford, and making little vests for Kilburn orphans." - -[Illustration: A dissipated tinpot] - -Only a girl could have written that, and of its kind it is admirable. - -An idea largely held by girls, in common with women and men who have a -witty tendency, is that appreciation is a form of ignorance. It was, be -it here called to remembrance, to correct this notion, that Wordsworth -wrote, "True knowledge leads to love," and that Browning wrote, -"Admiration grows as knowledge grows." - -[Illustration: Appreciation a form of ignorance] - -It is doubtless the circumstance that unkindness is so often confounded -with wit that has led to the fact that of all good gifts the good gift -of wit is the one held in least liking by the majority of persons. -The truth would seem to be that, with wit, as with everything else -not intrinsically bad, the thing of main importance is that it be -handled carefully. Like gunpowder, it has its uses to him who knows how -to avail himself of them. He who does not, would do well to do what -certain savages once did. Having come into the possession of a bag -of gunpowder, they carefully preserved it till the spring, when they -planted it as they did their corn. It did not burst forth when the corn -burst forth; so much the better for the sowers. That gunpowder was very -safely deposited, and much wit might with equal advantage be held over -till the next planting season. - -[Illustration: PURE HONEY - -BEST BALM] - -Another thing. The wit-snapper should always carry about with him a -little balm and a little honey. That was a good sword that Cambuscan -had; it could heal the wounds it gave. Only the wit-snapper who carries -a little balm and a little honey will be as well equipped as was the -knight whose story Chaucer "left half-told." - -A further point which calls for passing comment is this. Wit and -merriment do not always go hand in hand; indeed, they are often -sundered wide. Thus, of the world's famous humorists, it is well known -that they were mostly melancholy at the home-fireside. Something -very similar holds good in the case of girls--and there are many -such--who, while witty in society, are deplorably glum in the family -circle, in this unlike a girl of girls whom her father called -"Minnehaha"--laughing water--so merry was she in her home, beyond which -her influence was to be shed so far that she is known to-day from Indus -to the Pole as the friend of Indian women. - -[Illustration: Nell Witty] - -If they be right who consider, in opposition to Juliet, that something -is in a name, then those among us who hold that such a name as -Juliet tends to annihilate wit in the possessor of it are not mere -fancy-mongers, and we are entitled to a courteous hearing when we -submit that on the other hand the name Nelly, and still more the -variant of it by which it becomes Nell, almost announces the owner of -it to be a wit. This circumstance is quite independent of the fact that -Scott has said, in just so many words, in reference to a particular -case, "Mistress Nelly, wit she has," and if any explanation of it may -be hazarded, the one which will probably satisfy most is that persons -named Nelly or Nell--and the number of such is, happily, legion--are -hardly ever found lacking in whimsicality. In the few cases in which -they are deficient in this quality they should be called--and, as a -matter of fact, they are generally called--Nella, the name Nella being -that form of Nelly or Nell by which all the sparkle is taken out of it. - -In conclusion, a word on wits under their physiognomical aspect. That a -certain type of face in general denotes a witty person may be allowed. - -"The slightly tossed nose," says one of Thomas Moore's biographers, -"confirmed the fun of the expression." - -"The slightly tossed nose" for what the French call "nez retroussé" is -happy wording. Girl-readers of this who have "tossed" noses are, by -their faces, wits. Let this console them, if it so hap that they want -consolation. On the other part, girls with short upper lips have a part -of beauty, but lack a part of wit. Wherefore, if they be vain, let -there be a curb put on their vanity, and let girls with long upper lips -hold up their heads, for a long upper lip denotes wit. - - - - -OUR PUZZLE POEM REPORT: "TO A GIRL GOLFER." - - -SOLUTION. - -TO A GIRL GOLFER. - - Take a helpless little ball, - Drive it into space; - If perchance you see it fall, - Try to find the place. - And, as it is very small, - Hit again that hapless ball - With a savage grace. - - If your strength and courage stand - Such unwonted strain, - By-and-by your ball will land - On a little plain, - Near a hole--you understand-- - Into which you putt it and - Then begin again. - - -PRIZE WINNERS. - - -_Seven Shillings and Sixpence Each._ - - Edith Ashworth, The Mount, Knutsford. - Dr. R. Swan Coulthard, Coventry. - Mrs. Deane, Lismoyle, Ballymoney, co. Antrim. - Edith E. Grundy, 105, London Road, Leicester. - Edward St. G. Hodson, Twyford, Athlone, Ireland. - G. Honeyburne, 16, Hawkshead Street, Southport, Lancs. - Louise M. McCready, Howth, co. Dublin. - Annie Manderson, Waterfoot, Crumlin, co. Antrim. - F. M. Morgan, The Library, Armagh. - May Robson, Garry Lodge, Perth, N.B. - W. Shattock, Hillmorton Villa, Sneyd Park, near Bristol. - Mrs. Isabel Snell, 51, Mere Road, Leicester. - Alice Woodhead, Tickhill, Rotheram, Yorkshire. - Elizabeth Yarwood, 59, Beech Road, Cale Green, Stockport. - - -_Very Highly Commended._ - -Florence Ashwin, Rev. S. Bell, Nanette Bewley, M. J. Champneys, Edith -Collins, Nellie R. Hasmer, Helen Lapage, Annie Roberson, A. C. Sharp. - - -_Highly Commended._ - -Eliza Acworth, A. A. Campbell, N. Campbell, Rev. F. T. Chamberlain, -Rev. J. Chambers, Mary I. Chislett, N. Chute, Nina Coote, Mrs. Cumming, -R. D. Davis, Wm. Fraser, Percy H. Horne, J. Hunt, Alice E. Johnson, -Mildred E. Lockyear, Winifred Lockyear, Annie G. Luck, Mrs. T. Maxwell, -F. Miller, E. C. Milne, E. Nerve, Edward Roqulski, Gertrude Saffery, S. -Southall, C. E. Thurgar, Aileen Tyler. - - -_Honourable Mention._ - -Mrs. Acheson, Elizabeth M. Caple, Annie J. Cather, J. A. Center, Mrs. -Crossman, Ellie Crossman, Winifred Eady, A. S. K. Ellson, Phyllis -M. Fulford, Agnes Glen, Alice Goakes, Beatrice E. Hackforth, Sadie -Harbison, M. Hooppell, Rose A. Hooppell, Mima How, A. J. Knight, E. -M. Le Mottée, Carlina V. M. Leggett, May Lethbridge, E. E. Lockyear, -E. Lord, E. Macalister, Margaret A. Macalister, Nellie Meikle, C. -A. Murton, Jas. D. Musgrave, Mrs. Nicholls, Henrietta M. Oldfield, -Hannah E. Powell, Ellen M. Price, F. C. Redgrave, Ada Rickards, James -Scott, Violet Shoberl, Mildred M. Skrine, Marriott T. Smiley, Annie E. -Starritt, Ellen C. Tarrant, S. Taylor, Mrs. Walker, W. Fitzjames White, -Florence Whitlock, Emily Wilkinson, Edith Mary Younge, Helen B. Younger. - - -EXAMINERS' REPORT. - -Hitherto we have been in the habit of associating all that was best -concerning the game of golf with the Scottish Nation. In the future -we shall have to remember that out of fourteen golf puzzle prizes, -five went to Ireland and only one to Scotland, and modify our view -accordingly. Of England's share we find it difficult to speak with -becoming modesty. - -If the north of the Tweed had been honoured by our earliest presence -we should have found no difficulty in explaining away the National -failure--for how else can it be regarded?--in connection with this -puzzle. "A poem with such a title," we should have said, "must surely -contain advice about our noble game. As we have played it with -considerable success for at least four hundred and fifty years, we can -need no advice, and therefore we will not trouble to solve your puzzle." - -But our birthplace was many miles south of the Tweed, and such an -explanation would not appeal to us with any force. The simple fact -remains: Ireland receives one pound seventeen shillings and sixpence, -Scotland, only seven shillings and sixpence, and England--well, modesty -forbids us to say how much! - -Not long ago golf was regarded as an occupation for elderly gentlemen -whose time and energies were at the service of any respectable game. -With much impressiveness they used to traverse the links decked in red -coats, the brilliancy of which signified the extremity of the danger to -which the unwary onlooker was exposed. - -But a few years have changed all that. Now for one elderly, impressive, -red-coated gentleman to be found, there are many young men who cannot -afford red coats and maidens in plenty who wouldn't wear them if they -could. To this last class our puzzle poem was addressed, not by way of -advice but as a sympathetic intimation that we know all about the game -in which they so freely indulge. - -Naturally enough the title was frequently rendered "To a golfer," and -after much serious consideration we decided to accept it. This being -so, some who did not receive prizes will possibly wonder why. The -explanation is simple enough: our ruling left us with so many claimants -for the five guineas that we set aside those who did not trouble to -indent the lines properly. - -We wonder how many of the solvers who wrote "helpless" in the first -line really discovered that the p was less than the other letters. -It is also to be observed that the ball in the same line was much -smaller than the others in the puzzle and therefore was intended to be -designated "little." Hence the rhythm required the word "very" in the -fifth line--s--_very small_. So many solvers failed to notice these -points that it is necessary to call attention to them. - -It was not even right to leave out the "little" _and_ the "very," -because then the rhythm of the first verse would not coincide with that -of the second. - -Authorities differ as to the spelling of by-and-bye; apparently the -more modern ones prefer it without the e, and of course we accepted -both ways as correct. - -The statement in line thirteen does not seem to have been universally -understood. When you are playing golf you do not "put" the ball into -the hole--unless no one is looking!--but you putt it in, which is a -very different matter. Curiously enough, not one solver who wrote "put" -pointed out that the reading involved a mistake in the line. - -If any of our readers would like a puzzle on any particular subject or -subjects, let them mention it. Their wishes shall certainly receive -consideration and very possibly fulfilment. - - - - -"OUR HERO." - -A TALE OF THE FRANCO-ENGLISH WAR NINETY YEARS AGO. - -BY AGNES GIBERNE, Author of "Sun, Moon and Stars," "The Girl at the -Dower House," etc. - - -CHAPTER VIII. - -THE THREATENED INVASION. - -Though no true-hearted Englishman believed for a moment in the -possibility of his country becoming a French province, all knew that -the threatened invasion might take place. - -Many indeed regarded the attempt as almost certain, feeling sure that -Napoleon would never be convinced of his own inability to conquer -England, until he had tried and failed. And while the final result of -such an attempt might be looked upon as a foregone conclusion, yet no -doubt much personal loss and distress would be caused by even the most -unsuccessful invasion of our shores. - -On one point all were agreed--that safety lay and could only lie in -getting ready beforehand. - -At that date steamboats and railways were unknown, and telegraphs did -not exist. There was happily time, through the slowness with which -affairs moved, after the note of alarm had been sounded, to make -preparations. - -An extraordinary burst of enthusiasm throughout the whole country -was the response to Napoleon's threat. Large supplies of money were -freely voted and eagerly given. The regular army was increased, and the -militia was called out; while a volunteer force sprang into being, with -such rapidity that it soon numbered about four hundred thousand men. - -These "citizen-soldiers," as it was the fashion to call them, were all -over the country, each place having its own corps. But the regular -troops, drawn from all parts, were stationed chiefly where the danger -seemed to be greatest, between London and the south coast, Sir David -Dundas being in command. - -Along the shore were erected batteries and martello towers--the latter -remaining to this day. And since Boulogne was the headquarters of the -French army of invasion, an advanced corps was placed on the opposite -coast, near Sandgate, under General Moore, in readiness to repel the -first onslaught. There the General occupied his time in such splendid -training of the regiments under his control that throughout the long -years of the Peninsular War, after he himself had passed away, the -stamp of his spirit rested upon them, the impress of his enthusiasm and -of his magnificent discipline made them the foremost soldiers in the -British Army. These were the regiments who, as the "Reserve," bore the -brunt of the fighting in Moore's famous "Retreat," and who were known -in Spain and at Waterloo as Wellington's unequalled and invincible -"Light Brigade." Wellington used those regiments for the saving of -Europe; but Moore made them what they were. - -To the delight of Jack an opportunity offered itself whereby he might -exchange into one of the Shornecliffe regiments, and he grasped at it -eagerly. - -He had for Moore the half-worshipping admiration which is sometimes -seen in a young man towards an older man. Jack would be none the worse -for his hero-worship, since happily he had fixed upon a worthy object. -As yet he had seen little personally of the General, having met him -but two or three times. But long before they came together, he had -cherished an intense interest in the man, an interest awakened first in -more boyish days by Ivor's vivid descriptions of campaigns in the West -Indies and in Egypt, descriptions of which Moore was always the central -figure. Jack had seized with avidity upon all such details. - -When at length the two met he could feel no surprise at Ivor's intense -and reverent love for his chief. The soldierly bearing of Moore, his -grace of manner, the power of his unique personality, together with his -chivalrous devotion to his mother and his courteous kindness towards -all with whom he came in contact--these things from the first made a -profound impression upon Jack; and the more he learnt to know of Moore, -the more that impression was deepened. He counted himself thenceforward -ready to live or to die for the General; and one day in a fit of -confidence he said so to Polly. - -"Nay, Jack; live for him; do not wish to die for him," pleaded Polly. -"That will be the best." - -Jack was not so sure. His imagination had been fired long before by -the story, told to him by Ivor, of a certain heroic Guardsman--a man -who, in the West Indies, had flung himself between Moore and the musket -aimed at him, thus giving his life for that of his officer. But it was -not needful for Jack to explain how much he longed to do the same. He -merely smiled, and remarked, "In all England there is no other his -equal. Of that I am convinced." - -To the great disappointment of Jack, the General had been quickly -summoned away on important duty; and intercourse between them came for -the moment to a close. The young subaltern, however, found it possible -to pursue acquaintance with the General's mother and sister; and gentle -old Mrs. Moore had a great deal to say about this most idolised son -of hers, where she found a sympathetic listener. Few listeners could -have been more sympathetic than Jack Keene, who never grew tired of -the subject. Mrs. Moore had other sons beside the General, but it was -noticed that when she referred to him he was always distinctively, "My -son!" not "My eldest son," or "My son John!" This did not touch the -close friendship between Moore and his brothers, one of whom was a -Naval officer of note. - -Through those summer weeks of 1803 Polly was longing for Captain Ivor -to come home. It was sad to think of him as a prisoner, forced to -stay against his will in a foreign land. She knew, too, that any day -Jack might be ordered off elsewhere; and one day, as she had feared, -he rushed in, to tell them that he would be leaving immediately for -Shornecliffe Camp, there to await Napoleon's first attempt to land on -English soil. - -The news was less a matter of congratulation for them than for Jack -himself. At Sandgate he would be in the very forefront of the peril -which threatened the land. Mrs. Fairbank had to rub her large horn -spectacles more than once; and she was disposed to blame Jack for not -referring the question to herself, before he accepted the offer of an -exchange. Molly looked curiously at Jack, and asked-- - -"Are you glad to say good-bye to us all?" - -"Not glad to say good-bye, but glad to be going. People must say -good-bye sometimes, Molly. And I shall be fighting under one of the -best and bravest men that ever lived. Would not you like that?" - -Molly shook her head. "If Roy was here, I should never want to go -away," she said decisively. "But if you care more for General Moore -than for us----" - -"Pooh! What nonsense!" retorted Jack; and Polly exclaimed-- - -"Molly, how can you say such a thing? Jack wants to be one of the first -to fight in defence of England. Do you not see? It is but right. He -would be no true soldier, otherwise. If Captain Ivor were but free to -do the same! Yes, indeed, I do wish it! It is terrible for him to be -cut off from action--but not for Jack to wish to be foremost. O fie, -Molly dear, you must have more sense." - -"Polly always understands," murmured Jack; and Molly would have given -much at the moment to have had those words spoken of herself. She hung -her head and was mute. Tender-hearted Polly could never endure to see -anyone sad or abashed, and her hand stole into Molly's as she went on-- - -"But Molly will understand now. Jack, she and I have this morning -learnt by heart a verse of Mr. Walter Scott's, which 'tis said he has -but just writ. Molly, you shall say the words to Jack, for they are -brave words. Hold up your head, dear, and speak out, as an Englishwoman -should." - -Molly obeyed, not sorry for the chance to redeem her previous error, -and to re-establish herself in Jack's good graces, for which she cared -more than she quite allowed to herself. She held her head well up, -therefore, and spouted with considerable effect-- - - "'If ever breath of British gale - Shall fan the tricolour, - Or footstep of invader rude, - With rapine foul and red with blood, - Pollute our happy shore, - Then farewell, home! and farewell, friends! - Adieu, each tender tie! - Resolved, we mingle in the tide, - Where charging squadrons furious ride, - To conquer or to die.'" - -"Come, that is good. That was well said. You understand too, I see, -Molly. I e'en thought it must be so--you, a British Colonel's daughter! -And you'll both bid me God-speed. And when Napoleon is beaten, and old -England is again in safety, I'll come back, and be grannie's home-boy -once more. Eh, ma'am?" - -"Yes, yes, Jack; yes, my dear boy." Mrs. Fairbank did her best to -control her voice, and as usual when agitated she knitted at railway -speed. "You will do your duty, Jack. I am sure of it. And General Moore -will be a good friend to you." - -"But now I have somewhat else to show you all, in return for Molly's -poetry," observed Jack in cheerful tones, anxious to prevent a -breakdown on the part of his grandmother. "What do you think it may -be, Molly? Guess, all of you. Must I tell? Well, 'tis nought less than -two letters about our Hero, which his mother let me see. They are writ -some four years since to the General's father, Dr. Moore; the one from -Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and the other from Sir Robert Brownrigg, who was -secretary to the Duke of York, and Adjutant-General. Nay, these are -not the originals, for I can assure you 'twould be no easy task to get -them out of Mrs. Moore's keeping. But she permitted me to take copies -of the same, and they are here. The engagement spoken of was that on -the second of October, in 1799, between the English and the French -in Holland; and General Moore was wounded early in the action, but -nevertheless he fought on until wounded a second time. These, to his -father afterwards, both make mention of his wounds. Shall I read?" - -"Pray do so, my dear Jack," said Mrs. Fairbank; and, "O do, Jack!" -entreated Polly. - -Jack obeyed. - - "'Headquarters. Zuper Sluys, Holland. October 4th, 1799. - - "'MY DEAR SIR--I cannot suffer the accompanying letter from my - dear friend, your son, to go to you, without assuring you that the - wounds he has received are attended with no danger. Mr. Knight, - the Duke's surgeon, attends him, and gives hope of his speedy - recovery. The wound in his thigh he received early in the action, - but it did not prevent him from continuing his exertions for two - hours afterwards, when a wound in his face obliged him to leave the - field. It is through the cheek, and I understand has not wounded - the bone. His conduct in the serious action of the 2nd, which - perhaps may be ranked among the most obstinately contested battles - that have been fought this war, has raised him, if possible, higher - than he before stood in the estimation of this army. Everyone - admires and loves him; and you may boast of having as your son the - most amiable man and the best General in the British service; this - is a universal opinion, and does not proceed from my partiality - alone. - - "'God bless you, my dear Sir. I hope in a few days to have it in - my power to tell you that considerable progress is made in Moore's - cure; and believe me, with great respect and regard, - - "'Very faithfully yours, - "'ROBERT BROWNRIGG.'" - -Jack paused, and repeated thoughtfully, "'Everyone admires and loves -him--the most amiable man and the best General in the British service!' -Yet by nature his is no easy temper, ma'am; of that his mother could -assure me. She said that her son--ever the best of sons to her--gave -her in his boyhood many an anxious hour, by reason of his hot and -impulsive moods, and his readiness to fight. But listen now to the -letter of Sir Ralph himself-- - - "'Egmond-on-the-Sea, Oct. 4th. - - "'MY DEAR SIR--Although your son is wounded in the thigh and in the - cheek, I can assure you he is in no sort of danger; both wounds are - slight. The public and myself are the greatest sufferers by these - accidents. - - "'The General is a hero, with more sense than many others of that - description, in that he is an ornament to his family and to his - profession. I hope Mrs. Moore and his sister will be easy on his - account, and that you are proud of such a son. - - "'Yours, - "'RALPH ABERCROMBIE.'" - -This time it was Mrs. Fairbank who quoted words from the letter. She -said, "'With more sense than many others of that description.' Pray, my -dear Jack, what think you Sir Ralph might have meant to signify?" - -"Why, ma'am, I take it thus. Many a man is brave and fights well, -who in fact is nought else beside. Whereas General Moore is a man of -extraordinary genius and great nobility of character, one who shines in -whatever society he may find himself, and above all, who is ardently -beloved by everybody that knows him. What else might Sir Ralph signify?" - -"To my mind, 'tis a somewhat droll mode of expressing himself, though, -none the less, 'tis clear what he thinks of the General. Were he my -son, I could fain be proud of him. Not that pride is so suitable a -feeling as thankfulness." - -"In truth, ma'am, his mother is proud and thankful too. She thinks that -all the whole world holds no man equal to her brave son. And I--I am -disposed to think the same." - -Then Jack carefully folded his precious letters, stowed them in his -pocket, and stood up. "Come, Polly and Molly," he said. "There is time -yet for a turn before dinner? We will go to the Pump Room." - -Molly looked anxiously for leave, and flew to obey. A walk with Jack -was always delightful. They entered the old Pump Room together, finding -there, as usual, a large assemblage of gaily-dressed ladies and -fashionably-attired gentlemen, some walking about, some lounging on -seats. The ladies wore short-waisted gowns, chiefly of white or figured -muslin, with short cloaks or mantles of bright hues, or short spencers -of silk or coloured crape, and great feathered hats or bonnets, and -plenty of large gilt and silver buttons; and many of the gentlemen were -in tights and long flowered waistcoats and silver-buckled shoes, while -others wore blue coats with brass buttons. Pig-tails too might still be -seen, though soon to be discontinued. - -Jack gazed about for several minutes in vain; and then they came face -to face with Mrs. Bryce, Admiral Peirce being her attendant cavalier. - -Both were immensely interested to hear Jack's news--how, in less than -a week, he would be off to Sandgate, there to be under the command of -General Moore; and there also, as Jack hoped, to be called upon to bear -the first brunt of Napoleon's invasion. - -"Not you, my dear sir," objected the Admiral, with beaming face. -"Before ever Boney reaches English shores, depend on't, he'll render a -good account of himself to our ships of war. Trust gallant Nelson for -that, since he's on the look-out. I doubt me, Boney won't contrive to -give our Navy the slip." - -Jack had no wish to get into a discussion. "Well, sir, well, our Navy -and our Army too will both of them do their best," he said. "But he -would be a foolish fellow who should trust all his eggs in one basket, -as the saying is. And should by any chance the slip be given, and Boney -arrive on our shores, why, then the Army will make him render his -account, fairly! Has anybody seen Mrs. Moore, ma'am?" and he turned to -Mrs. Bryce. - -Mrs. Bryce had not the least intention of parting hastily with her -second cavalier. To walk about the Pump Room, in view of all her Bath -acquaintances, with a gentleman on either side, was highly desirable. -So Polly and Molly were adroitly dropped behind, and she set off. - -"If not Mrs. Moore, Jack, I have seen someone else of passable -interest," she remarked. "Her name is Miss Jane Austen--a well-bred -young woman, I do assure you. And only to think--the good lady has writ -a book, which may by chance be one day printed. 'Twas told my husband -in strictest confidence; and if I had not wormed it out of him----Ah, -ha! Jack--wait till you get you a wife, and then you'll not smile on -that side of your mouth." - -"I have found my bride, ma'am. 'Tis my profession," declared Jack. - -"Nay, nay, nothing of the sort, my dear sir. Wait a while, and you'll -find your affections engaged in another fashion. Can you be so -hard-hearted as to hold out even now, in the face of all this youth and -elegance? See--there goes a bewitching young woman, though 'tis true -she wears a shocking unbecoming gown! But she's a prodigious favourite, -and she can dance as tolerable a minuet as any young female present. -Then there's young Susie, yonder--something of a hoyden, may be, and -calls herself 'a dasher,' but uncommonly pretty, and prodigiously good -spirits. And if you'd sooner have a blue-stocking--why, I've but to -introduce you to Miss Jane Austen herself." - -(_To be continued._) - - - - -METHODS OF MOUNTING FOR GIRL CYCLISTS. - -BY MRS. EGBERT A. NORTON. - - -Nothing else, I think, affords one such a good opportunity of judging -of a girl's general capabilities or style in riding as the way in which -she mounts her machine. - -In this matter as in so many others a "good start is most important." - -Having already mastered the principle of steering, the mystery of the -mount is a matter of balance only. - -There are several points which, if borne in mind, will considerably -help the beginner in first attempts, namely-- - -1. To select a road inclining slightly down-hill. - -2. Stand on rather higher ground than the bicycle. - -3. Incline the front wheel slightly to the right. - -4. Be careful not to check the motion of the machine by too much -pressure on the pedal after it passes its lowest point. - -5. Do not catch the left pedal too quickly, or apply pressure before it -passes the top centre. - -There are five distinct methods of mounting for skirted riders, two -of which are suitable for beginners only, the other three for more -advanced riders. - - -I. - -Imagine an individual who has some knowledge of riding, but who is -unable to mount alone; refusing all offers of assistance she determines -to assert her independence. - -[Illustration: FIG. 1.] - -Standing on the left side of the machine with the right pedal just past -its highest point, she steps across the frame, and places her right -foot securely on the pedal, the saddle being so low that she is able -to take her seat easily, the left foot being still on the ground. Then -putting as much pressure as possible on the right pedal and pushing -off with the left foot, she starts the machine--not perhaps without -a few failures first, but _nil desperandum_. Independence must cost -something, and if she will consider, I have no doubt her failure can -be traced to one or the other of the above mentioned causes. But how -tiring the ride will be, and how awkward the whole position, the knees -moving most ungracefully high with each revolution of the pedal--all -defects caused by the saddle being adjusted much too low. - - -II. - -[Illustration: FIG. 2.] - -Now if she would only listen, I should advise her to raise her saddle -inches higher until it is nearly on a level with the turn of the hip, -and, if still determined to learn alone, wheel the machine to the -kerbstone or other eminence, to enable her to seat herself in the -saddle, and then push off as before. Her appearance once mounted is now -greatly improved, and when I tell her so, after enjoying a nice little -run with none of the previous feeling of tiredness, she is quite ready -to listen to what further I have to say on the subject. Seeing that it -is quite impracticable to always depend on the help of the friendly -kerbstone, we will try and master mount - - -III. - -[Illustration: FIG. 3.] - -Having already learnt the importance of the height of saddle or length -of reach from pedal to saddle, first ascertain that this is adjusted -correctly. When sitting erect in the saddle with the leg straight and -pedal at its lowest point, the heel of the foot should be able to rest -on the centre bar of the pedal with ease. The saddle is now so high -that it is impossible to sit on it with the foot still on the ground, -so for this reason "The Spring Mount" is the term generally given to -this method of mounting. Taking a fold of the skirt in the right hand, -pass the right foot over the frame and place it securely on the right -pedal when it is about half-way between its highest and lowest point, -the left foot resting on the ground close to the machine and well -before the left pedal, stand quite central with the body perfectly free -from the saddle, then by standing on the right pedal the machine moves -forward, the body is raised and drops gently back on to the saddle, -the other pedal rises under the left foot ready for the next thrust -forward, and the deed is done, easily, steadily, gracefully, but from -the first there must be no hurry, no quick jump for the saddle, or -scramble for the left pedal, but first the weight on the right pedal, -then the saddle moves forward under one, and the downward thrust with -the left foot preserves the balance. This is the mount most generally -adopted, with more or less degree of efficiency, and on the whole is -really difficult to improve upon; the only thing that can be said -against it is, that the first position standing with the leg across the -frame and the foot raised is not particularly graceful. Personally I -much prefer mount - - -IV. - -The near-side mount. It is more uncommon and infinitely prettier in -my opinion when well done, than either of the others, but it requires -a little practice to get the skirt to fall well. Stand close to the -machine with the left foot on the left pedal, then firmly holding the -handles throw all the weight on the pedal, at the same time springing -forwards and sideways to the saddle. In first attempts all the fulness -of the skirt invariably falls to the left; this can be remedied as the -machine is in motion by a little forward movement throwing the weight -on pedals and handle-bar, then as the skirt falls straight down, move -centrally backwards to the saddle again. Be in no hurry to reach the -saddle and the skirt will adjust itself. Move well forward with the -downward movement of the pedal, throw the weight on the handles as it -rises, the peak of the saddle will then divide the skirt as you take -your seat and give your first thrust to the right pedal. - -[Illustration: FIG. 4.] - -This is worth a little practice, as correctly done the skirt needs no -arrangement with the hand, and the mount is certainly quicker and more -graceful than any other. - - -V. - -Is somewhat similar, but is done while the machine is in motion, and is -therefore pre-eminently the mount for busy thoroughfares. - -Walking on the left of the machine, give a quick hop with the right -foot, placing the left on the pedal when in any position, then a sudden -pull on the handles, will lift one forward on to the saddle without -checking the motion of the machine. - -[Illustration: FIG. 5.] - -This is a most useful mount for traffic and for all occasions where -a quick mount is necessary. It will probably require considerable -practice to accomplish successfully, but the feeling of complete -mastery it gives one over the machine is worth some little trouble to -acquire, and when the feat is accomplished, I think you will look back -on the learning of a new method of mounting as another pleasure added -to the many enjoyments of cycling. - -[Illustration] - - - - -FILED--FOR REFERENCE! - - -He had let love and life slip past him, and now he lay a-dying, and -love and life lay behind him for evermore. - -Lying in his narrow bed, in the room which in all his days of grinding -work, he had never troubled to make homelike or comfortable, his -thoughts wandered back over the years with wearisome persistency. He -had been a successful man. The name of John Saunders was known far and -wide as the name of the shrewdest solicitor of his day; hard-headed, -keen, practical--feared by friend and enemy alike; loved, men said, by -none. - -They called him "old Dryasdust" in his own office; they declared that -his heart had withered away in the atmosphere of work and in the -squirrel round of business in which he had lived. Some, indeed, went so -far as to say that Nature had never provided him with a heart at all. - -And now he lay dying--a lonely man, in his lonely chambers, looking -wearily back across his life. - -His grey head moved uneasily upon the pillows, arranged by his valet -into clumsy discomfort; his eyes glanced restlessly round the room, -turning almost impatiently from its severe dreariness, towards the -window, through which he could just see a glimpse of a tree-top in the -square garden. - -He was tired, most dreadfully tired. It was a weariness to think, yet -the busy brain, that in all his busy life had never learnt to rest, -refused now to be stilled. Thick and fast there crowded before his mind -memories of long forgotten cases, recollections of clients long since -dead, worrying details of business, that had long ago been settled and -done with. - -His head moved again impatiently. He turned to look for the lemonade -which should have been on the table by his bedside. An angry -exclamation broke from him. The table with the lemonade was placed -exactly where he could not reach it; what was the use of all his years -of labour, of all the wealth he had acquired, if now he could not even -obtain the common necessaries of life? - -The electric bell beside the bed was close to his hand. He rang it -furiously, and his valet arrived, panting and breathless. - -"Why can't you put the things within my reach?" the old man asked -irritably. "Am I to die of thirst, because you are careless?" - -The servant moved the table nearer to his master, handed him the -tumbler, and, in his own mind, considered the pros and cons of giving -warning on the spot. A dim hope of a possible legacy gave the cons the -victory, but the man did not remain in the sick-room a moment longer -than was absolutely necessary. As he confided to the wife of the -porter, in the basement, "Old Saunders was getting that unbearable in -his illness, it was hard to stand him." - -The sick man lay quiet after the servant had left him, his eyes fixed -upon the waving green of the tree-tops in the square. A faint curiosity -as to what tree it was that he could see, ran through his mind. Was it -an elm, he wondered? - -There had been elms in the meadow behind the old Rectory garden where -he had played as a boy--great elms in which the rooks had built year -after year. It was a long, long time since he had heard the soft -cawing of the rooks. He had a faint remembrance of picking daisies -and buttercups in those fields under the elms, whilst the rooks cawed -soothingly overhead. - -A little smile flickered across his hard old face. Perhaps the tree in -the square was not an elm after all. It might be a lime. There had been -limes in another garden, and the bees had hummed amongst their blossoms -on that summer's day when--when---- Why, how many years ago was it? -Forty? Fifty? Could it be forty years? He had been a young fellow then, -at the beginning of his career, and life had been less crammed with -work and business. - -He moved restlessly. - -Yes! He had been able then to notice the sweetness of a girl's eyes, to -heed the music of a girl's voice. - -Pshaw! It was utter folly to let his thoughts wander to so remote a -past. What was the good of remembrance? - -And yet---- If he had not been so wrapped up in his work, to the -exclusion of everything human and loveable, he might now have had other -hands than those of Richard his valet to tend him. A woman would have -made his room look less like a prison cell. A woman would not have put -his things just out of his reach. She would not have been in such a -hurry to leave him to himself! - -Again he stirred irritably. He hated the sight of those rustling leaves -now, even though they held some strange fascination for him; but they -reminded him too strongly of youth, and love, and happiness. And he had -wilfully put them all away from him with his own hands. Ah! fool and -blind that he had been! And now--now, he was old and dying--and alone! - -The door opened softly. Richard stepped quietly in, and seeing that his -master's eyes were shut, laid a note upon the table, and as quietly -departed again. - -"Bother the man!" old John Saunders muttered. "He seems afraid to stay -with me. A letter for me? Strange--very strange." And he stretched out -his hand and took up the envelope. - -A faint sense of something familiar stirred within him as he glanced at -the handwriting--a something which he could not quite recall out of the -past. He opened the envelope and drew out the letter almost rapidly. It -was very short. - - "DEAR JOHN,--I wonder if I may still call you that, after all the - years that have gone by? I would not have troubled you with a - letter now, but that I heard, only to-day, that you are ill and - alone. And I thought I must write to you for auld lang syne, and - ask you whether you would let me come and see you. We are both old - people now, John; but let me come to see you, for old sake's sake. - - "Yours, as ever, - "JOAN BENTLEY. - - "P.S.--Did you never get the letter I wrote you more than thirty - years ago?" - -The letter dropped from his hands. The keen grey eyes grew dim. - -It was strange that this should have come just when the remembrance had -returned to him of the lime-trees in her father's garden, of the bees -that had hummed among them forty years ago. - -His dreary room faded from his sight. It was as if the walls melted -into space, and he could feel the warm air of July blowing round him, -smell the fragrance of the lime-flowers, step upon the softness of the -smooth turf beneath his feet. - -He was young again! A man with his life before him, and love within his -grasp. - -He could see the tall hollyhocks by the gate--the hollyhocks she -loved. There were tall white lilies there as well. The sweetness of -them filled the air, mingling with the scent of roses that clambered -up the old red wall. The wood-pigeons cooed gently in the copse across -the road, and the rooks cawed as they swung upon the boughs of the -lime-trees. - -And Joan's clear eyes looked into his; Joan's voice was in his ear. - -"Oh, John, will it be long?" he heard her say. And his own voice, young -and strong, replied: - -"No, no, my dear--not long. How could I let it be long, when I shall be -working for you? When I have made enough money I shall come and claim -you. Your father is quite right not to allow a formal engagement till -then. But we understand each other, Joan--my Joan!" - -Strange! How the years had rolled away, and the world seemed full -again, as it had seemed then, of Joan--Joan, and only Joan! - -The vision slowly faded; the walls of the dull room returned to their -places, the noise of the irritating clock on the mantelpiece replaced -the soft voices of the wood-pigeons; he was an old man again, an old -man who was alone--and dying! - -But Joan had not forgotten. Joan's letter lay upon his bed. She had -remembered for forty years; whilst he had forgotten everything, except -the work to which he was a slave. - -He picked up the letter once more and read the postscript first-- - -"Did you never get the letter I wrote you more than thirty years ago?" - -Had he received it? What then had happened to it? A puzzled frown -puckered his brow, as he struggled to recall the long past incident. - -"I remember now," he exclaimed suddenly and aloud--"I remember! She -wrote to me when I was in the midst of a press of work! Her letter was -filed for reference--my Joan's letter filed for reference!" - -His bell pealed through the house, and when Richard appeared, he found -his master partially raised in bed, excited and breathless. - -"Send to the office at once," he said; "tell them to send me up the -files of the year ---- immediately! And who brought this letter?" - -"A lady called with it, sir. She said she would return for the answer -in about an hour." - -"Did she leave her name?" - -"Yes, sir--Miss Joan Bentley, she wished me to say." - -"When she comes back, bring her up to me"--and the old man sank -exhausted on his pillows, his eyes closed, but a faint smile upon his -lips. - -It was less than an hour later when a little tap on the door aroused -him. - -"Come in," he said, not opening his eyes, till he heard the soft rustle -of a dress beside his bed. Then he looked up, but it was the woman who -spoke first. - -"Why, John," she said brokenly--"why, John!" And all at once the -shyness that had assailed her as she climbed the stairs slipped from -her; the gulf of years that had seemed impassable became as nothing, -and she dropped on her knees by the bed, looking into the tired old -face upon the pillow, with wistful yearning eyes. - -He put out his hand almost timidly, and laid it upon hers. - -"How sweet the limes smelt, dear," he whispered, "and the bees hummed -all the time among the flowers." - -She thought for a moment that he was wandering, but he went on quietly. - -"It was your letter that brought it all back. You have been -faithful--all these years--and I--was a fool!" - -Her clasp on his hand tightened. - -"Did you forget," she asked--"did you forget? Was there someone else?" - -The smile flickered out again upon his face. - -"No, no, my dear, there was no someone else. There was nothing but my -work--it wrapped me round, it has made me a successful man--and it--has -spoilt my life! They call me Dryasdust, you know," his weak voice went -on. "Somebody told me once that I had no heart." - -"Ah, but it wasn't true," she said. - -"Wasn't it? I don't know; I was a fool, and blind--I--but now it is too -late, my Joan." - -The little caressing words came strangely from the thin lips, but the -hard, old face had softened in some unaccountable fashion. - -"Is it ever too late for love?" she asked, and her hand touched gently -the thin grey hair upon his temples. - -"I have wasted my life, and yours," he answered drearily. "We might -have been together all these years--all the long, long years--with our -children round us--and now--it is nearly over. I am old, and dying, and -you----" - -"I am old too, my dear; perhaps it will not be long before--before----" -her voice faltered and broke. - -"Are you old?" he said; "your eyes are just what I remember, and your -voice--it seems to me you are just the same as when I said good-bye to -you under the lime-trees." - -"Did you never get my other letter, John?" she said, after a moment or -two. "I sent it to you ten years after you left me, because--because -the silence was unbearable. Did you get it?" - -"Yes, I got it; and I was busy--very, very busy. It brought me the -scent of the garden, and the memory of you; and then--then I set it -aside for a more convenient season, and it--ah, Joan!--it was filed for -reference. Forgive me--Joan!" - -Her caressing hand stroked his hair more tenderly, though her eyes -filled with tears. - -"We shall find it here," he said a little later, when Richard had -deposited a great pile of letters beside him. "I was always methodical -in my work--the letter will be here. Will you look for it?" His voice -was so much weaker, that she looked at him with startled eyes, and the -valet, returning, held a glass of cordial to his lips. - -The two were alone again after that. Amongst the pile of old and faded -letters the woman had found her own--the tiny girlish scrap, written -impetuously, in a girl's impatient misery of long ago. - -"Send me just one word," it ran--"only one word, to tell me that you -have not forgotten." - -A little bitterness surged up within her as she read again the scrap of -faded writing, the old agony out of the past stirred once more at her -heart. - -"If I might make a daisy-chain for you, Joan--my Joan! How the rooks -caw to-night! Do you hear them, dear?" The weak voice spoke dreamily; -the bitterness in her heart died away. She laid her face softly against -the tired face on the pillow. - -"My poor boy," she whispered--"my poor boy!" - -"And the limes--are so sweet," he rambled on. "I think--it is--the -bees--that hum so loudly in my ears. Give me a rose, sweetheart. -It--is getting dark--so dark for you--out here in the garden. You -must go in. The wood-pigeons are quiet now, only how white the lilies -shine--against the darkness; and the bees--the bees are humming still, -and the--limes--are--so sweet." - -For a moment the tired voice stopped, then began again: - -"Never a someone else, my Joan, only you. And the years slipped, and I -forgot how fast they went; we will have hollyhocks--in our own garden, -dear." - -The doctor, summoned by Richard, had entered the room, but he shook his -head sadly, and moved towards the door. - -"There is nothing to be done," he whispered to the servant, "we had -better leave them alone. There is nothing we can do." - -The room was very still, save only for the laboured breathing of the -dying man. The woman's hand still softly stroked his hair; he lay so -quietly that she thought he had passed out of consciousness into that -strange borderland which is Death's ante-chamber. - -The setting sunlight streamed into the room and across his face; the -twittering of the birds in the square, the soft rustling of the wind in -the tree-tops, were borne in at the half-open window. - -Suddenly the dying man opened his eyes in full consciousness. - -"I knew you would not leave me," he whispered. "I--said--a woman would -stay--with me, it was--you I meant. I--have wasted my life--God forgive -me! You have forgiven, my dear--a faithful woman--has forgiven--I -think--God--will forgive--too--I--am taking"--his voice almost -failed--"my wasted life--with me--to be--to be"--a little whimsical -smile stole over his face--"to be--filed--for--reference." - - L. G. MOBERLY. - - - - -OUR LILY GARDEN. - -PRACTICAL AIDS TO THE CULTURE OF LILIES. - -BY CHARLES PETERS. - - -[Illustration: _Lilium Speciosum._] - -For the last three months cut blossoms of _Lilium Speciosum_ have -decorated our table in the centre of London, and have afforded our -friends and us real delight, creating subject for discussion at the -dinner-table such as we have never known in connection with any other -cut flowers. - -Perhaps this has arisen from the fact that the floral decorations -consisted of flowers of one botanical group only, making a truly -consistent nosegay, and creating from its very uniqueness fit subject -for special questionings and interest. Of course in the group there -were several colours. The _Speciosum Album_ and the varieties of white, -the _Speciosum Roseum_ with its varieties of lovely rose-colour, and -finally the deep and rich _Speciosum Melpomone_. Nothing in the way -of table decoration could be more æsthetic and cheerful-looking than -an arrangement of such blossoms, in which we find real white mingled -with a lovely purple red, and with nothing but the right gradations of -colour between. - -In the days of old it was the custom to group flowers of every -conceivable colour--reds, blues, pinks, yellow, and others; but now we -know better, two colours or three being the most effective scheme for -table or bouquet effect, and in all our experience we have never found -any general appearance more pleasing than that of our group of _Lilium -Speciosum_. - -One of the greatest testimonies to the value of these flowers is that -the buds will develop and open into blossoms of their natural size -while in water in a close room of a London square, and another reason -for their value is that they last two or three weeks if attended to -about every other day, that is, longer than any other cut flower of our -cultivation. - -A month ago we took up to town a bunch of _Lilium Speciosum_ from our -little country garden to garnish the dinner-table of a well-known -doctor on the day of his golden wedding. There were, we were told, -many other groups of flowers sent by friends for such an interesting -occasion, but although many were from hot-houses, and some were -valuable orchids, the group of _Lilium Speciosum_, so easy and so -inexpensive to rear, had the place of honour, was admired the most, and -lasted the longest number of days. - -But we must not forget to mention an incident which happened to us -while carrying this particular bunch through a City street from the -railway terminus. We became conscious of a footstep close behind us, -and felt that someone was keeping close to the flowers as they dangled -at our side; but walking on unheeding, we presently relaxed our speed, -when the follower made a semi-circle round the bouquet, watching -it greedily until he faced it and us; then he turned and hastily -disappeared, but not before we recognised in the London-dressed man a -young and handsome Japanese! The flowers came from his distant land, -and maybe reminded him of a home, a mother, or a sweetheart, and all so -far away. We have ever since been ashamed of ourselves for not offering -him one of the blossoms for a buttonhole. - -The discouraging news given at the end of our first chapter led us to -think: "Lilies will not grow in pots, but some kinds do fairly well in -the open." "Lilies though suitable for pot plants are unsatisfactory -for the flower-bed." Surely it is impossible to reconcile these two -statements. Either one or both opinions must be incorrect. We must -settle this point, and we can easily do so by growing lilies, both in -pots and in the open ground. - -We have before told you that we have ourselves grown eighty-seven -distinct kinds of lilies. We have grown them in pots and in the open. -We have obtained great satisfaction from both. - -Few flowers are easier to grow in pots than lilies, and as they form -probably the finest of all pot plants the culture of lilies in pots -deserves more attention than it has heretofore received. - -There are two ways of potting lilies, each of which has its advantages -and uses, so we will describe both methods. - -The first method is the simplest. Take a large flower-pot. No lily -should be grown in a pot less than six inches in diameter. Of course -the pot must vary in size with the size of the plant it has to contain. -_Lilium Concolor_ and _Elegans_ grow well in six-inch pots; _L. -Auratum_ or _Speciosum_ should have an eight or ten-inch pot, while _L. -Giganteum_ will require the largest sized pot procurable or a small tub. - -One bulb only should be placed in each pot if absolutely perfect plants -are desired; but very pretty effects can be obtained by growing two or -three bulbs in a large pot or tub. - -See that the pot is perfectly clean. Place about an inch depth of -crocks, stones, etc., at the bottom, then put three inches of the -prepared soil in the pot, and over this place a thin layer of peat, -mixed with sharp sand and pieces of charcoal. Take the bulb, examine -it, remove diseased scales and wash it in lime water, as you did in -the case of the lilies you planted out last month. Dust it over with -powdered charcoal and place it in the pot surrounded with sharp sand -and peat. Then fill up the pot with the prepared soil.[1] - -In potting lilies, deep potting is to be aimed at. No bulb should be -placed at a less depth than four inches below the surface. Large bulbs -require to be six, eight, or even twelve inches below the surface of -the soil. The reason for this deep potting is that the flower stems -send out roots above the bulb, and it is essential that these roots -should be below the surface of the soil. - -The second method of potting bulbs is similar in all respects to the -above, except that the pots are not filled up at once. When you have -placed the bulb in the pot you add a little soil, but leave the top of -the bulb exposed. When growth commences, which will be shown by the -appearance of roots and flower stems, you fill up the pots with the -prepared soil. - -Established bulbs and bulbs of the hardier lilies are best potted by -the former method, but for bulbs received from abroad, especially those -of the more tender species, the second method of potting is to be -preferred. - -Now that you have potted your lilies the question arises, Where shall -you keep the pots? For the majority of lilies the best place is either -a garden or a balcony. Lilies are too tall growing for window plants -and it is totally unnecessary to coddle them up in rooms. - -There are some lilies which will not come to perfection out of doors -in our uncertain climate, except in very favourable seasons. These -kinds, many of them among the finest of the tribe, will, however, grow -admirably in a conservatory or room. - -If lilies are grown in rooms, they should be put out of doors every -fine day, as they require sun to mature their flowers. - -The lilies which are not sufficiently hardy for the open air are, -_Wallichianum_, _Harrisii_, _Philippinense_, _Neilgherrense_, -_Formosanum_, _Nepaulense_, and _Catesbaei_. (With the exception of -_Neilgherrense_, all these lilies will grow well out of doors in our -southern counties in exceptionally fine seasons.) - -November is over; our lilies are planted. How are we to treat them -before the flowering season arrives? - -Lilies out in the ground require but very little attention until the -shoots appear. In severe winters _Lilium Giganteum_, _Cordifolium_, -_Speciosum_, and one or two others, should be protected by bracken or -other litter; but lilies stand the frost remarkably well, and rarely -suffer from this cause before the flower shoots appear. Lilies grow all -through the winter, forming roots. _Lilium Candidum_ puts up an autumn -growth of leaves, and occasionally other lilies do the same. When the -shoots appear more attention is required. Those kinds which send up -shoots in January, February, or March may need slight protection, such -as a hand light, from frosts. As the season advances you must guard -against two great enemies--slugs and drought. A dry April, not at all -an unusual occurrence, will often do great damage in the lily garden. - -During growth lilies require a very large amount of water. In a dry -season it is a good plan to water them every day. An insufficient -supply of water is one of the commonest causes of failure with lilies. - -With lilies in pots only an occasional watering will be required before -the shoots appear. As soon as this stage is reached they should be -watered daily until the flower-buds appear. - -If only we could guard against slugs! These are the greatest of -all pests to the lily grower, and though there are many infallible -preventives against slugs used and sold, not one of them answers its -purpose. Soot is usually regarded as the best agent to use to prevent -slugs from eating the tender spring growth of lilies. The soot is -thickly dusted round the plant, and as slugs very much dislike any -powder which adheres to their slimy bodies, they will not venture -across the sooty track. No, they will not cross the soot--at least -not until the soot gets damp, as it does after the first heavy dew -or shower of rain. As soon as the soot gets wet it is no longer a -deterrent to slugs. Lime is also recommended to be used in the same -way as soot; but it, too, fails to serve its purpose when it has once -become damp. - -Then have we no way to keep down the ravages of slugs? Yes!--we have -one way, a very excellent way, but a most tedious and unpleasant one to -carry out. The only effective way of thwarting the ravages of the slugs -is to pick off by hand the culprits, while they are gorging themselves -in the evening. - -[Illustration: The stem and bulb of _L. Auratum_ showing the relative -quantity of roots given off above and below the bulb. - -(_From a photograph. Reduced to a quarter of original diameter._)] - -Go out as soon as the sun is set with a lanthorn and a gallipot filled -with strong brine, and visit each lily-shoot in succession. You will -see the slugs congregated on your pets by hundreds, from the little -tiny fellow of one-quarter of an inch long, who is eating your best -lilies in order that he may grow into a larger and more capacious -enemy, to the slimy monster of six inches long, who is attempting -to fill his vast maw with lilies of great value. All are there, all -devouring your best specimens, as though you were their most hated -enemy--as indeed you will be if you want your garden to look gay. -These slugs are not, as one would suppose, dirty feeders, but they are -gourmands of the deepest dye. They are not content with the outside -or decaying leaves--not they--they want the very tenderest tops of -the young shoots! When the lilies are about a foot high, they will -not eat the leaves at the base, they must needs crawl up the stem to -feed on the tender growing top of the plants. But now you can have -your revenge. Pick off with your fingers[2] every slug you can see, be -he little or great, and put him into the brine. The brine kills and -dissolves them in a very short time. - -Some gardeners place cabbage-leaves, etc., on the ground as "traps" -for slugs, but alas! the tender lily shoot is far more tickling to the -palate of a slug than any cabbage-leaf! - -The damage which slugs can do to lilies is incredible, and unless -these pests are summarily dealt with, every lily in a garden may be -decapitated ere the summer commences. One reason why lilies in pots do -so well is that it is not so easy for the slug to get at them. - -The lilies are singularly exempt from the ravages of animals other than -slugs. The aphides or green flies are, however, often very troublesome. -We will refer to this pest when talking of the treatment of lilies just -before and during the flowering stage. - -The leaves of some lilies are sometimes eaten by the larvæ of the Lily -Beetle (_Crioceris Merdigera_), but as this insect is a great rarity in -England, we will not describe it. - -There is neither animal nor plant which is exempt from disease, and -the lily has inherited this universal tendency to disease. There are -not many common diseases of lilies, and very few even of these do much -damage to more than one or two kinds. But some of these diseases give -great trouble to the lily grower, and often tax his patience to the -utmost. - -Some lilies are very prone to a form of mildew which, beginning as -a minute spot of discolouration on one leaf, eventually destroys -the whole of the foliage and flower-buds, and turns a beautiful, -well-grown, apparently healthy lily into a brown slimy stick. - -This disease usually begins to show itself about the middle of May. -A small grayish transparent spot appears on one leaf, and in about a -month it has spread and completely destroyed the plant. Not all lilies -suffer from this disease, and of those which are liable to be attacked, -not all suffer to the same extent. Of all lilies, _Lilium Candidum_ -is the most frequently attacked, and in this lily the disease usually -destroys the deciduous portion of the plant altogether. The other -members of the Eulirion group of lilies: _L. Brownii_, _Wallichianum_, -_Washingtonianum_, etc., are also frequently attacked, but are rarely -much injured by it. It also occurs on _L. Speciosum_, _L. Superbum_, -_L. Canadense_, and, indeed, most kinds of lily; but in these it rarely -attacks the flower-head and does not, in our experience, do much harm. -We have never seen the disease in _L. Auratum_, _L. Tigrinum_, or _L. -Longiflorum_. - -Of the cause of this calamity we know but little, but we rather think -that it is often due to growing lilies in soils which are too poor -or are exhausted. This, indeed, seems highly probable in the case of -_Lilium Candidum_, the most frequently attacked of all lilies, for it -is grown by most people without any care being given to it, and made to -shift in a dry sandy garden exposed to the full blaze of the sun and -scarcely ever watered. Where lilies can have a good rich soil, with -plenty of water, the disease is very uncommon. - -Once established, this disease is very difficult to cure. Syringing -with solution of sulphuretted potash, or of sulphur boiled in lime -water, will sometimes stop it, but too frequently the disease runs its -course to the bitter end. If you uproot the plant and examine its bulb -and root, you will find both quite healthy-looking. - -There is another disease which, though not so devastating to the lily -garden as the last, is yet very exasperating and even more fatal in its -results. - -Here is a beautiful strong growing _Lilium Auratum_, eight feet high, -just showing its flower buds, and showing a large series of beautiful -glossy leaves. Next week we notice that the lower two or three leaves -are yellow and withered. Every day more and more leaves die, and -eventually what was once a beautiful plant is now a naked stalk with a -girdle of fallen yellow leaves and buds around it. Dig up the plant and -examine its bulb and roots. The base of the bulb is gone! And its place -is taken by a mass of evil-smelling pulp. Swarms of little thread-like -worms will be seen twisting about all over the diseased portion. It -seems natural to think that these worms are the cause of the evil, but -we do not think that this is so. The worms are the result, not the -cause of the disease. - -[Illustration: _Lilium Hookeri._] - -_Lilium Auratum_ and _L. Speciosum_ are the two lilies which mainly -suffer from this disease, but other kinds are occasionally attacked. -When once manifest, no treatment has any effect. Take up the plant -as soon as you are certain that this disease has started, thoroughly -wash the bulb in water, and let it soak in lime water for three days. -Then thickly cover with powdered charcoal, and replant. If you do this -the bulb may recover, and send up a good spike of blossoms next year. -If you have bought good bulbs, and have planted them as we directed -last month, you need not fear that you will lose many plants from this -disease. Of one hundred and six lilies which we had in pots this year -we have only lost one from this cause. - -Yet another disease to irritate and discourage the lily grower! Look at -this _Lilium Humboldti_. Its leaves are well developed, and it already -shows five flower-buds, but on closer observation you will see that the -stalks which support these buds are black and withered. Or see this _L. -Martagon_, which shows a head of twenty blossoms. Touch these blossoms, -or gently shake the stem, and five or six buds drop off! These buds, -you will observe, have a black rotten base! - -[Illustration: _Lilium Roseum._] - -This disease is caused by three or four causes. If the bulbs have been -planted in a poor or dry soil, or if the spot is unsuitable, you will -lose many of your lilies from this cause. Bulbs which have not been -properly ripened often disappoint you in this way. Again, if you delay -planting your bulbs till February or March, you must expect to be -treated in this way. But the most common cause of all is the presence -of mildew among the scales. You can guard against this by paying -attention to the methods described in our last number. - -There are three other ways by which lilies may disappoint you. They may -either not come up at all, or they may come out but fail to produce -flowers, or they produce flowers which are damaged and are deformed or -discoloured. - -The first of these untoward results is usually due to the bulb having -rotted in the ground. You can do nothing for this but bear the loss -philosophically. You should remember, however, that some lilies, -especially _Lilium Longiflorum_, often lie dormant for a year, but come -up the next year better than ever. - -No lily will flower every year, and some lilies require a year or two -to get accustomed to a new home. These will not flower the first year. -As a rule, when a bulb does not send up a flowering shoot, the bulb -itself grows to a very large size. - -It is most annoying to see a lily which promises well belie itself -and produce either a deformed or a cankered flower. The cause of the -first is almost always green fly. To this we will refer later. The -cause of the latter is either too poor soil, abuse of liquid manure, or -continuous rain just before the flowers open. - -Lilies like the rain. If the weather were arranged to please a lily, -it would rain every day from the time when the shoot appears till the -flowering period has arrived. But lilies object to rain from the time -that the buds begin to change from green to white, or whatever colour -the bud will eventually become, until the flower is fully opened. It -is here that lilies grown in pots have the pull over those grown in -the open ground, for if a spell of rainy weather occurs at the wrong -time, the pots can be taken indoors or placed under shelter, which is -impossible in the case of lilies grown in the open. But something can -be done for the lilies which are exposed to the weather. The buds can -either be wrapped round with oiled paper, or else they can be sheltered -by an old umbrella tied to a stick. By this latter means we have saved -many valuable lilies from disaster. - -Lilies vary much in their powers of enduring excessive rain at the -flowering period. _Lilium Auratum_, _Candidum_, and some others are -nearly always ruined when they happen to flower in a spell of rainy -weather. _Lilium Giganteum_, _Concolor_, _Tigrinum_, and many others -stand rain at their flowering time with ease. - -Do not be frightened at this chapter of possible calamities. Although -it comes so early in our series, do not let it damp your enthusiasm. -These diseases have to be described, and we have described them, but -though they are, unfortunately, far from uncommon, if you grow lilies -carefully you will not lose many from any of these causes. We have -grown many hundred lilies, we have seen all these adverse conditions, -but they have not damped our ardour. We lose a few lilies every season, -but then there are plenty which give us full satisfaction; and lilies -are such gorgeous plants! If you were to lose half of your stock, and -the other half were satisfactory, you would not complain at the result, -for the good half would delight you and your friends as no other -flowers would. - -(_To be continued._) - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] In our last number we will give a tabulated account of the various -prepared soils necessary for each species both when grown in pots and -in the open ground. - -[2] Some persons very naturally object to taking hold of such slimy -customers with their hands, but their enthusiasm for their plants will -soon overcome such scruples. It is very tedious work to remove these -pests with sticks or forceps. - - - - -THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN LONDON ROOMS. - -BY FLORENCE SOPHIE DAVSON. - - -CHAPTER II. - -THE PLAN OF OPERATIONS. - -As we have seen, the incomes of our three friends amounted altogether -to £270 a year. In the winter months the accounts for the rent of the -rooms, coal, gas, candles, and similar expenses came to £1 3s. 6d. each -week, as the following accounts set forth-- - - £ s. d. - Rent of rooms 0 12 0 - Abigail's wages 0 2 6 - Gas-stove 0 1 0 - Oil for lamp 0 0 4 - Candles (½ lb. at 6d. a lb.) 0 0 3 - Coals for sitting-room 0 1 10 - Washing-bills (personal) 0 3 0 - Washing-bills (house linen) 0 2 7 - -------- - £1 3 6 - -------- - -For about a month in the year the three were away, Marion in her own -home in Nottinghamshire, and the Orlingburys staying with different -friends and relations. Ada Orlingbury had only three weeks holiday -in the summer, and not quite a week at Christmas, but was busy with -her type-writing all the rest of the year. Jane had a far longer rest -from her cookery classes than Ada from her work, and Marion had longer -holidays than either. When all were away they paid rent for their -rooms just the same, but, of course, had no other household expenses. -Marion was a very economical housekeeper and understood how to keep -down expenses as low as possible, whilst still having everything -comfortable. We must admit that very acceptable "helps" arrived -sometimes from their friends in the country. It might be a large box -of eggs, or a "hand" of pork, or perhaps a bag of apples, but this did -not happen very often. Once a week they had a dinner without meat, but -this was no hardship to any of the three, for all liked vegetables, -fruit and fish, and this arrangement made things much easier for the -housekeeper. - -Marion had quite grasped the fact that the best way to keep down the -bills was to economise with the butcher's bill, for meat is the most -expensive item of all. They had soup very often, as nice soup can be -made for so little. They indulged largely in savoury dishes of macaroni -and rice, some recipes for which we shall give in the course of this -account of the girl-chums and their doings. - -Once a week, on Wednesday evenings, they went to a choral society -to which they belonged, and, as they had to start at seven o'clock, -instead of sitting down to dinner at that hour, they found it more -convenient to have a sort of "high tea" on that evening and to have hot -milk and cake or porridge when they came back. - -We must not forget to say that on alternate mornings they had porridge -for breakfast, which Marion cooked the day before in a double saucepan, -whilst she was seeing to her other cookery and which was warmed up in -the morning. They generally supplemented this with scones, which Jane, -with her superior knowledge of food-stuffs, pronounced to be very -nourishing. On Sundays they dined at two o'clock. For this meal they -often had meat pie, as that could be made the day before and heated, -or eaten cold, as they preferred, or they chose something that did not -take long to cook, such as cutlets. - -Marion found her path made easy by some of the tradesmen with whom -she dealt, who were very accommodating to her wishes, and never -in the least resented her subtle knowledge of ways and means, as -they undoubtedly did in the case of some other of their customers' -housekeepers of many years' standing and very much Marion's seniors in -years! Mr. Calvesfoot, the butcher, for instance, let her have fat for -rendering down at 2d. a pound, and so she was able to have a constant -supply of excellent dripping for frying and for pastry at the slightest -possible cost. She started her stock with four pounds at the beginning, -and by straining it each time after using it, and by rendering down one -and a half pounds of fresh fat each week and adding it to the stock, -she always had plenty of good dripping. To do this she cut up the fat -and put it in a saucepan with a little water, and then let it cook -until the water had boiled away and the fat had melted, leaving nothing -but crisp little brown bits; the liquid fat was strained off and the -crisp brown bits saved for Abigail, by whom they were esteemed a great -luxury. To others Mr. Calvesfoot was adamant, and declined to part with -the fat under double the sum, but Marion (who was asked the extra price -at first) refused to take "No" for an answer, and asked him calmly why -he could not let her have it cheaply as well as the soap-boilers whose -carts she had seen waiting before his shop early in the morning, and -who she knew only gave him a penny a pound for it. - -At the exhibition of so much knowledge he was dumb, and fell in with -her views with much meekness, as no doubt he would have done for his -other customers if they had not allowed themselves to be beaten so -weakly. - -She always provided a hot dinner as she found that, with proper -management, it cost no more than a cold one, and it was infinitely more -appreciated. She had learnt just how much was required of any given -thing, and so there was no waste. The little that was left over from -their dinner was always worked into the next day's meals, or else was -finished up by Abigail on the alternate days when she had dinner at -"The Rowans." - -Here we have the list of a week's dinners in February. - -On Sunday they had a light supper at half-past eight, consisting of -cocoa, boiled eggs, and bread and butter. - -Saturday and Sunday were the only days on which they were at home to -tea. - -The breakfast for the week, on non-porridge mornings, consisted of -brawn, which Marion had made a fortnight before, when they had had half -a pig's face sent them from the country. The brawn was excellently -flavoured. - - -DINNERS FOR THE WEEK. - -_Sunday._ - - Beef and Kidney Pie. - Baked Potatoes. - Pineapple in Syrup. - Rice Mould. - -_Monday._ - - Cabbage Soup. - Boiled Beef and Kidney Pudding. - Boiled Potatoes. - Cabbage. - Jam Tarts. - -_Tuesday._ - - Irish Stew. - Apple Pie. - -_Wednesday._ (High Tea Night.) - - Stuffed Herrings. - Scones. - Cocoa. - -_Thursday._ - - Potato Soup. - Curried Fish. - Ginger Pudding. - -_Friday._ - - Stewed Rabbit and Forcemeat Balls. - Brussels Sprouts. - Baked Potatoes. - Swiss Roll. - -_Saturday._ - - Brown Soup. - Boiled Potatoes. - Boiled Artichokes. - Tapioca Pudding. - -The beef pie which they had on Sunday and the beef pudding of Monday -were both made out of a pound and a quarter of beef skirt, which, -costing only ninepence a pound, makes just as good gravy as rump steak, -and if cooked long enough is very tender. The half that was used for -the pie was cut into rather thin pieces, and half the kidney was cut -in dice; then all was dipped in pepper, flour, and salt, and put into -a saucepan to stew gently for an hour before it was used for the pie. -Marion always did this now, as she had noticed that if the meat was put -raw into the pie, the pastry got overcooked before the meat was done. -It was not necessary to do this with the pudding, however, as that -could be boiled for a very long while--in fact, was all the better for -long boiling. - -For the pastry for the pie she used half a pound of flour mixed with a -good teaspoonful of baking powder, and three ounces of dripping rubbed -in lightly. Her hands seldom got hot, so she made delicious pastry, -and as she was careful not to pour in too much water, when mixing the -flour and dripping to a dough, it was not tough. She mixed in the water -quickly and lightly, using a knife to begin the mixing and finishing -with her hands, keeping it as cool as possible while it was being -made, and being very careful not to squeeze it, or work it about more -than was absolutely necessary. The pastry was rolled out quickly and -lightly, and the pie was baked in a good hot oven, and it was voted a -great success. The pineapple needed no cooking, being the contents of -a sixpenny tin turned on to a glass dish. The ground rice mould was -made with a pint of milk brought gently to the boil with two ounces of -castor sugar and a bay leaf to flavour, two ounces of ground rice were -mixed smoothly with a little cold milk while this was happening, and -stirred into the milk on the fire; the mixture was stirred and cooked -for a few minutes and the bay leaf taken out, then it was poured into a -wetted mould to be turned out when cold. - -On Monday Marion made the quarter of a large cabbage do for the soup, -and the rest she cooked as a vegetable. The cabbage for the soup was -cut up small and put into boiling water for three minutes to take away -the disagreeable smell; then it was drained and put with a small onion -sliced, a bunch of herbs, a small piece of butter, a teaspoonful of -salt, and simmered for twenty minutes; half a pint of warm milk was -added, and a beaten-up egg strained in. The soup was then stirred over -the fire for a few minutes to cook the egg, but was on no account -allowed to boil for fear of its curdling, as happened, alas! on one -occasion when Marion left her handmaid Abigail to watch it for a minute -or two. - -All stews were done in a brown earthenware stewing jar that was one of -her most cherished possessions. While the stew within it was cooking, -the jar stood in a dripping tin containing water in the oven; by this -means the contents of the jar never boiled, though the water outside it -might do so, and if the stew cooked long enough it was always perfectly -tender. As the heat of the fire did not hurt the look of the jar, -the stews were always served in it, which arrangement had the double -advantage of saving time and keeping the dish hot. The Irish stew of -Tuesday was made with one and a half pounds of scrag of mutton, three -pounds of potatoes, and half a pound of onions, all sliced and cooked -gently for two hours. There was a good deal over, so it was used on -Thursday, with the addition of a few more potatoes, half a pint of -water, a gill of milk, and a piece of celery, to make a delicious -potato soup. The milk was added last after the soup had been rubbed -through a sieve and re-heated. For the apple pie a pound of apples of a -good cooking sort were used, and these turned a beautiful amber colour -in the pie. They had such a good flavour of their own that no cloves -were needed to assist them. - -The herrings on Wednesday were boned, spread with veal stuffing, rolled -up, brushed with milk and rolled in brown crumbs, then packed in a -greased dripping tin and baked for twenty-five minutes. They made a -substantial meal; on the next day there were one and a half one over, -which were sliced up and put into the curried fish. The scones were -mixed with milk that was slightly sour, as they are always lightest -when so made. - -The forcemeat balls that went with the rabbit on Friday were made of -veal stuffing, fried separately, and served on a hot plate instead -of going in the jar with the rabbit. The Swiss roll was made in the -morning before the rabbit was put to cook. The brown soup of Saturday -was made by frying lightly some pieces of carrot, onion, turnip and -celery in a little dripping, and then pouring in the gravy from the -rabbit, and adding any pieces or bones that were left. The lid was -put on, and the soup simmered an hour and a half; then it was rubbed -through a sieve, returned to the fire, brought to the boil, and -thickened with an ounce of flour mixed with a little cold gravy. - -When Marion looked through her accounts (which she kept scrupulously) -on Saturday, she found that her food expenses had been as follows:-- - - £ s. d. - 1¼ lbs. beef skirt 0 1 0 - ½ lb. ox kidney 0 0 5 - ½ lb. mutton suet 0 0 3 - 1½ lbs. scrag of mutton 0 0 10½ - 1 lb. fat for rendering 0 0 2 - 1¼ lbs. buttock steak 0 1 3 - Rabbit 0 1 5 - 6 herrings 0 0 6 - 8 lbs. potatoes 0 0 8 - 1 lb. sprouts 0 0 2 - 1 lb. artichokes 0 0 1 - 1 large cabbage 0 0 2 - Tin cocoa 0 0 6 - 1 lb. cod (tail end) for curry 0 0 5 - 12 eggs 0 1 0 - Milk 0 1 9 - 1½ lbs. fresh butter at 1s. 4d. 0 2 0 - 1 lb. brown sugar 0 0 1¾ - 1 lb. loaf sugar 0 0 2 - ½ lb. bacon (to cook with rabbit) 0 0 4 - Flavouring vegetables 0 0 2 - ½ lb. tin mixed coffee and chicory 0 0 9 - ¼ lb. tea 0 0 6 - 8 loaves at 3¾d. 0 2 6 - 1 quartern household flour 0 0 5½ - Sundries (ground rice for mould, etc.) 0 0 6 - ------------ - £0 18 1¾ - ------------ - -With this account of her expenditure she was perfectly content. Her aim -was to keep the money spent on food below ten shillings a head, and -this week she was well within the margin. - -(_To be continued._) - - - - -ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. - - -MEDICAL. - -ESTHER.--Feed the child on milk diluted with an equal quantity of -barley-water. Do not give her any patent foods, as these are one of the -most fertile causes of rickets. A little meat gravy or a very small -amount of chicken or hashed mutton might be given to her occasionally -with advantage. A teaspoonful of rich cream twice a day is useful as a -preventive from rickets. - -TORQUAY.--Why concern yourself with troubles which may never occur? -How can you tell that you will have such anxieties as you suggest? -The chances are very much against it. Again, the measures you mention -are exceedingly prejudicial to your own health, for many of the most -intractable cases of hysteria can be traced to this cause. - -A LOVER OF BEAUTY.--You should try either brilliantine, cantharidine -pomade, or a hair-wash made of rosemary to make your hair soft and -wavy. You must not, however, be disappointed if you find that no -preparation will produce the kind of hair that you desire. - -NELLIE.--You cannot expect a physician to know what is the matter with -you if you make a point of hiding your symptoms. We can only tell you -that your trouble is probably either due to diabetes or to some local -ailment. For the rest you must go to your doctor and tell him all about -yourself. Your trouble may be one which a very little simple treatment -may readily cure, but you may be suffering from an extremely serious -disease, which you are allowing to run its course unheeded from a silly -conventionalism. If you do not like to tell your own doctor about -yourself, go to a stranger in a distant part. But pray get someone to -treat you! - -A WORKING WOMAN.--It is never easy to be sure as to the cause of -noises in the head. So many unhealthy conditions may produce this -most distressing symptom that it is quite a long work to exclude all -possible causes save one, and so to come to a definite conclusion. -You ask us whether the noises that trouble you proceed from the ears -or head, but there is another possible cause of the trouble that you -have not considered; that cause is anæmia. This is very commonly -indeed associated with noises in the head, usually surging, rushing, -or hissing noises. Moreover, the noises are always more pronounced -after exertion or fatigue. This agrees well with your own account, -and we therefore think that as your general health improves, as it -will do with proper treatment, the noises will gradually decrease -and eventually disappear. The fact that your hearing is not at all -affected, is a strong point against the noises being due to disease -of the auditory nerve. It is not, however, an absolutely certain test -of the condition of the nerve. When noises in the head are due to -brain disease, they are almost invariably accompanied with severe and -frequent, if not constant, headaches. The treatment that we advise is -for you to attend to the general laws of health and diet. As regards -drugs we think that you would derive most benefit from tabloids of -bone marrow. These can be obtained from any chemist. The dose is one -tabloid crushed up in a little milk three times a day after meals. -They must be taken with great caution at first; on the appearance of -trembling, headaches or profuse perspiration, the use of the tabloids -should be discontinued for three days. If taken with care, this remedy -is exceedingly efficacious and is perfectly safe. - -LITTLE VILLAGE DOCTOR.--Your friend is suffering from one of those -nondescript diseases which are so common, so difficult to clearly -understand or explain, and so very refractory to treatment. We are -not all born with the same amount of vital energy, and some of these -indefinite illnesses which last for so long a time may simply mean that -the suffering individual has not been endowed with sufficient life. We -can only, therefore, give you some general information which may or -may not prove of value to your friend. In THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER many -articles have appeared on the subject of healthy living; and during the -present year we hope to publish several more papers on the chief laws -of health. It is obedience to these laws which is of utmost value in -cases such as that of your friend. It is doubtful whether any drugs are -likely to do her good. Those drugs which partake more of the nature of -food may be useful. Cod-liver oil, maltine, thick cream, or possibly -bone marrow, might be worth a trial. - -JESSIE.--Probably you are suffering from flat-foot, and your doctor -wished to take an impression of your foot to decide what form of boot -you should wear. For the treatment of flat-foot is chiefly a question -of well-made boots which bear some resemblance to the human foot. You -will find an account of flat-foot in an article on "clothing" which -appeared in last year's GIRL'S OWN PAPER. Puffiness of the ankle is -very common in kidney disease; but as the ankles may swell from very -many causes, of which kidney trouble is one of the least common, it -would be rather rash to conclude that your kidneys were affected -because your ankles were weak and swelled slightly. - - -STUDY AND STUDIO. - -A ROSE FLOWER.--We are sorry we cannot praise the verses you send. What -is the meaning of - - "If all His love I fully earned, - He'd guard me every hour"? - -No one can be said to "fully earn" all the love of God. "Saw" and "fro" -do not rhyme, and "lightning" is not spelt with an "e." - -ASPHODEL.--"Memory" is the better of your two poems. You have much to -learn as to rhythm and metre. Also you should keep your verbs (in one -statement) in the same tense. "The spring is breaking" and "The earth -looked forth" do not correspond. It is difficult to draw comparisons, -but we are afraid your verses are not quite up to the average of those -sent us, although we have read much worse attempts. - -SMILLOC.--We should advise you to write to the Secretary of the Welsh -Male Choir, enclosing a stamp for reply. We do not know the song sung -at High Wycombe. If you cannot trace the Welsh Choir to any address, -write to the Secretary of the Flower Show, High Wycombe, asking where -you should direct your inquiry. - -MONTROSE.--The most beautiful volume of sacred poetry with which we are -acquainted is _Verses_, by Christina G. Rossetti (Society for Promoting -Christian Knowledge). It contains 225 pages, and the price is (about) -2s. 6d. There are many miscellaneous collections, the price of which -you can learn from any bookseller, e.g., _The Book of Praise_, compiled -by Sir Roundell Palmer; _Lyra Anglicana_, _Apostolica_, _Germanica_, -_Christiana_. - -C. A. M.--There are a great many classes for correspondence. We have -mentioned in this column that R. G. P., Fairview, Four Oaks, Sutton -Coldfield, gives correspondence lessons at 1s. per lesson. Particulars -of instruction by correspondence can be obtained from the Secretary, -Association for the Education of Women, Clarendon Building, Oxford. -There are also the Queen Margaret Correspondence Classes; apply Hon. -Secretary, 31, Lansdowne Crescent, Glasgow; and the St. George's -Correspondence Classes; apply to the Secretary, 5, Melville Street, -Edinburgh. We applaud your wish to improve your arithmetic, and hope -you will try in one of these directions. - -ALEXANDRA CARAGEORGIADES (Cyprus).--Thank you for your pleasant little -letter. The _Girls' Outdoor Book_ is illustrated. If your friend Miss -Mitchell reads this, she will know you send your love to her. - -WYMONDHAMITE.--Many thanks for your suggestions. We have already -received answers concerning "The Doctor's Fee," but are grateful to -you for your kind letter. Your answer and inquiry appear in "Our Open -Letter Box." - - -OUR OPEN LETTER-BOX. - -VIOLET wishes to know the author of two verses beginning, - - "It is in loving, not in being loved," - "The heart is blest." - -We cannot find them among Dr. Bonar's "Hymns of Faith and Hope," though -Violet suggests they are by him. - -BRIAR ROSE asks for a book of recitations containing "The Little Hero" -and "The Sioux Chief's Daughter." - -WE have two answers to "LENNOX." One is from "C. J. HAMILTON," who -complains of her misquotation, and gives George Macdonald's lines as -follows:-- - - "Alas! how easily things go wrong. - A sigh too much, or a kiss too long, - And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, - And life is never the same again. - - Alas! how hardly things go right. - 'Tis hard to watch on a summer's night, - For the sigh will come, and the kiss will stay, - And a summer night is a winter day." - -"BERTHA" sends us "the whole of the poem" as quoted in a book entitled -_The Everyday of Life_, by the Rev. J. R. Miller, D.D. To the verses -already transcribed, which we ourselves recognise as the only ones from -the pen of George Macdonald, she also adds that quoted by "Lennox" and -another. - - "And yet how easily things go right, - If the sigh and the kiss of the winter's night - Come deep from the soul in the stronger ray - That is born in the light of the winter's day. - - And things can never go badly wrong - If the heart be true and the love be strong; - For the mist, if it comes, and the weeping rain - Will be changed by the love into sunshine again." - -It sounds to us as if these two verses had been added by some -over-zealous friend, but we may be mistaken. - -"NINETTE" (Budapesth) asks for an English book containing "The Song of -the Shirt" (Thomas Hood), and also "Somebody's Darling." - -ASSANDUNE asks for a recitation, "The Tired Mother." - -WE have also two answers to "Ethel Rimmer." The poem by Christina -Rossetti beginning - - "When I am dead, my dearest, - Sing no sad songs for me," - -is set to music by Malcolm Lawson, and appeared in the _Strand Musical -Magazine_ for 1895, vol. 1 (June number); suitable for mezzo-soprano; -so says CLARA J. NICHOLSON. "WYMONDHAMITE" says that the lines have -been set by Arthur Somervell, and published by J. and J. Hopkinson, 34, -Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, W., price 2s. nett. "Wymondhamite" -asks, on her own account, for six lines by Helen Marion Burnside, -enshrining the following ideas in a birthday wish: "She commends her -friend to the love of God because her own is too weak and too finite, -and winds up with wishing her as much earthly prosperity as is good for -her." - -IRISH SHAMROCK inquires for a cheap song-book in which she could find -the song, without music, "Kate O'Shane," by Luiley; "Ellen O'Leary," -and "Dermot Astore." "Cast thy bread upon the waters," we may inform -her, is not from a hymn, but is a line from the Bible: Ecclesiastes xi. 1. -The whole passage has been set to music. - -SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER informs "Kate" that there is a poem on Kate Barlass -called "The King's Tragedy," by Christina Rossetti. Guided by this -hint, we have ascertained that "The King's Tragedy" is by Dante Gabriel -(not Christina) Rossetti, and is to be found in the collected edition -of his poems. The Queen called out to Kate, "Bar the door, lass," and -she thus obtained her name. Perhaps this poem may be the one required. - - -MISCELLANEOUS. - -J. L.--If it be merely weakness of the eyes, bathing frequently in a -weak solution of vinegar and cold water will be found strengthening; -a change of employment, writing being less trying than reading, and -knitting and coarse crochet-work than plain sewing. When the eyes -are tired and ache, change your occupation at once; set the house or -drawers or books in order; take a turn in the garden, or a walk out of -doors, and look at distant objects. Read our "New Doctor's" Medical -answers on these subjects. - -CHINESE WHITE.--We regret we have not space to give you the long list -of printers and publishers for which you ask. - -MISS M. CARLEY.--Married or unmarried you may wear a mourning ring -wherever you find it will fit the best. - -A. B. C.--For getting rid of the pest of little red ants that infest -cupboards, we have recommended the use of a solution of alum, but we -have just been advised to employ it hot. The right proportions are -as follows:--Take two pounds of alum, dissolve it in two or three -quarts of boiling water, and let it stand on the fire until the alum -has disappeared; then apply it with a brush, while nearly boiling, -to every joint and crevice in your closets, wooden bedsteads, pantry -shelves, and also to those in the floor, and of the skirting boards and -wainscotes. When you have your ceilings whitewashed, add plenty of alum -to the lime, and when your house paint is washed, use cool alum water, -which is obnoxious to cockroaches. Sugar barrels and boxes may be kept -free from ants by the simple plan of drawing a wide chalk band round -the edge of the receptacle, taking care that the band be unbroken, or -else the vermin will cross over the broken line. - -STAR-GAZER.--The largest telescope, at present existing, is that at the -Lick Observatory, having an object glass of thirty-six inches diameter. -Next follows that at Pulkova, Russia, having a glass of thirty inches. -The next below that is at the University of Virginia, of twenty-six -inches. Harvard possesses the fourth in size, with a twenty-four inch -glass; and the fifth is that of Princeton College. That of Yerkes, the -latest of the celebrated productions at Cambridge, Mass., is rated at -forty inches in diameter. But all the American Telescopes, even the -last-named, are eclipsed by the forthcoming monster of Paris, exceeding -even the Lick by eleven inches. It will be 186 feet in length, and on -view, ready for use, in 1900, at the proposed _Exposition_. The image -is to be received on a level mirror, 75 inches in diameter. - -DAISY.--Do not be misled by the advertisements, offering high wages -to female emigrants, as domestic servants at Johannesburg and the -Transvaal. A government "caution" has been issued. - -ROBERT.--You seem to be getting on very well with your class of boys, -and to manage them satisfactorily. We can only suggest that you should -select a book for them occasionally, out of which you might read, such -as Dr. Smiles' _Self-Help_, and also that you relate to them something -about brave and noble men like General Gordon and many others. A boys' -magazine will sometimes help you to think of topics, such as the _Boy's -Own Paper_. You might get a penny number now and then. - -CURIOSITY.--Why not take _Cottage Gardening_, published weekly by -Cassell & Co., price ½d. There are plenty of small manuals which you -will find advertised in it. - -JOHN DORY.--There will be another eclipse of the moon this year, which -will be total, and visible at Greenwich on December 27th; but of the -sun, the two that are due will be invisible at Greenwich. There have -been three each, of the sun and moon, this year. The first record of -a solar eclipse is to be found in Chinese history, and took place -about 2169 B.C., in the reign of Shingkang, when the unfortunate -astronomers, Ho and Hi, were put to death for not having predicted -the phenomenon. The famous eclipse, predicted by Thales of Miletus, -and which (according to Herodotus) interrupted the battle between the -Medes and Lydians, occurred on May, 28th, 585 B.C.; Sir G. B. Airy is -our authority for the date; as also for those of Xerxes, B.C. 478, and -Agathocles, B.C. 310. These are the earliest of which we have authentic -records. - -A NEW READER.--The mirror glass used in painting is silver-plated -and bevelled. The latter makes the work look richer. The glass need -not be new, but it must be thoroughly cleaned, either with spirits -of turpentine and a chamois leather, or covered with wet whiting and -rubbed away with the leather when dry. Then polish well, and leave -quite clear. The tracing on the mirror is done from a design with red -carbonised paper, and then retraced with a reed pen and lithographic -ink to fix it for painting. The colours used are the ordinary tube -colours employed in oil painting. - -FLUFFIE and BUSY BEE.--Recipes for rock, a cream toffee, will be found -in vol. xvii., page 695, and also in vol. xviii. - -PRISCILLA.--At a double wedding the two brides go up the aisle with -their father, or brother if no father be living, one on each arm. The -bridesmaids follow, the elder sisters going first. The bridegrooms may -wear white or pale grey gloves. - - - - -OUR PUZZLE POEMS. - -FOREIGN AWARDS. - - -PREPOSITIONS. - - -_Prize Winners (Half-a-Guinea Each)._ - - Helen Shilstone, Ellangowan, Fontabelle, Barbados. - Mrs. Talbot Smith, Adelaide, S. Australia. - - -_Very Highly Commended._ - -J. W. W. Hogan (Penang), Laura O'Sullivan (Rangoon). - - -_Highly Commended._ - -Mrs. G. Marrett (Hyderabad). - - -_Honourable Mention._ - -M. Browne (Oudh), Elsie V. Davies (Australia), Clara J. Hardy -(Australia), Lily Harman (Benares), Elizabeth Lang (France), Maud C. -Ogilvie (Deccan), Hilda D'Rozario (Bangalore). - - -A SHORT STORY IN VERSE. - - -_Prize Winner (One Guinea)._ - -Elizabeth MacPherson, Umbango, Tarcutta, N. S. W., Australia. - - -_Very Highly Commended._ - -Lizzie Cameron (S. Africa). - - -_Highly Commended._ - -Nellie M. Daft (Portugal), E. Violet Davies (Australia), E. H. -Glass (Oudh), Mrs. Hardy, Clara J. Hardy (Australia), Caroline Hunt -(Tasmania), M. R. 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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. 986, November 19, 1898 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: December 22, 2015 [EBook #50745] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER, NOV 19, 1898 *** - - - - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - -<h1 class='faux'>THE GIRL'S OWN -PAPER</h1> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">{113}</a></span></p> - -<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"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" width="100%"> -<tbody><tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vol. XX.—No. 986.]</span></td><td align="center">NOVEMBER 19, 1898.</td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">[Price One Penny.</span></td></tr> -</tbody></table></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="#ABOUT_PEGGY_SAVILLE">ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.</a><br /> -<a href="#SOME_PRACTICAL_HINTS_ON_COSMETIC_MEDICINE">SOME PRACTICAL HINTS ON COSMETIC MEDICINE.</a><br /> -<a href="#GIRLS_AS_I_HAVE_KNOWN_THEM">GIRLS AS I HAVE KNOWN THEM.</a><br /> -<a href="#OUR_PUZZLE_POEM_REPORT_TO_A_GIRL_GOLFER">OUR PUZZLE POEM REPORT: "TO A GIRL GOLFER."</a><br /> -<a href="#OUR_HERO">"OUR HERO."</a><br /> -<a href="#METHODS_OF_MOUNTING_FOR_GIRL_CYCLISTS">METHODS OF MOUNTING FOR GIRL CYCLISTS.</a><br /> -<a href="#FILED_FOR_REFERENCE">FILED—FOR REFERENCE!</a><br /> -<a href="#OUR_LILY_GARDEN">OUR LILY GARDEN.</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="#ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS">ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.</a><br /> -<a href="#OUR_PUZZLE_POEMS">OUR PUZZLE POEMS.</a><br /> - -<!-- End Autogenerated TOC. --> - -</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div> - -<h2><a id="ABOUT_PEGGY_SAVILLE"></a>ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.</h2> - -<p class='ph3'><span class="smcap">By JESSIE MANSERGH</span> (Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey), Author of "Sisters Three," etc.</p> - - -<div class="figcenter w550"> -<img src="images/i_113.jpg" width="550" height="374" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>SWEET SYMPATHY.</p></div> -</div> - - -<p class='smalltext'><i>All rights reserved.</i>]</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER VII.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peggy</span> looked very sad and wan after -her mother's departure, but her companions -soon discovered that anything -like out-spoken sympathy was unwelcome. -The redder her eyes, the more -erect and dignified was her demeanour; -if her lips trembled when she spoke, the -more grandiose and formidable became -her conversation, for Peggy's love of long -words and high-sounding expressions -was fully recognised by this time, and -caused much amusement in the family.</p> - -<p>A few days after Mrs. Saville sailed, -a welcome diversion arrived in the shape -of the promised camera. The Parcels -Delivery van drove up to the door, and -two large cases were delivered, one of -which was found to contain the camera -itself, the tripod and a portable dark -room, while the other held such a -collection of plates, printing-frames and -chemicals as delighted the eyes of the -beholders. It was the gift of one who -possessed not only a deep purse, but -a most true and thoughtful kindness, for -when young people are concerned, two-thirds -of the enjoyment of any present -is derived from the possibility of being -able to put it to immediate use. As it -was a holiday afternoon, it was unanimously -agreed to take two groups and -develop them straightway.</p> - -<p>"Professional photographers are so -dilatory," said Peggy severely; "and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">{114}</a></span> -indeed, I have noticed that amateurs -are even worse. I have twice been -photographed by friends, and they have -solemnly promised to send me a copy -within a few days. I have waited, -consumed by curiosity, and, my dears, -it has been months before it has arrived. -Now we will make a rule to finish off -our groups at once, and not keep people -waiting until all the interest has died -away. There's no excuse for such -dilatory behaviour!"</p> - -<p>"There is some work to do, remember, -Peggy. You can't get a photograph -by simply taking off and putting on the -cap; you must have a certain amount -of time and fine weather. I haven't -had much experience, but I remember -thinking that photographs were jolly -cheap considering all the trouble they -cost, and wondered how the fellows -could do them at the price. There's -the developing, and washing, and printing, -and toning, half-a-dozen processes -before you are finished."</p> - -<p>Peggy smiled in a patient, forbearing -manner.</p> - -<p>"They don't get any less, do they, by -putting them off? Procrastination will -never lighten labour. Come, put the -camera up for us, like a good boy, and -we'll show you how to do it." She -waved her hand towards the brown -canvas bag, and the six young people -immediately seized different portions of -the tripod and camera, and set to work -to put them together. The girls tugged -and pulled at the sliding legs, which -were too new and stiff to work with -ease; Maxwell turned the screws which -moved the bellows, and tried in vain -to understand their working; Robert -peered through the lenses, and Oswald -alternately raved, chided, and jeered at -their efforts. With so many cooks at -work, it took an unconscionable time to -get ready, and even when the camera -was perched securely on its spidery -legs, it still remained to choose the site -of the picture, and to pose the victims. -After much wandering about the garden, -it was finally decided that the schoolroom -window would be an appropriate -background for a first effort, but a long -and heated argument followed before -the second question could be decided.</p> - -<p>"I vote that we stand in couples, -arm-on-arm, like this," said Mellicent, -sidling up to her beloved brother, and -gazing into his face in a sentimental -manner, which had the effect of making -him stride away as fast as he could -walk, muttering indignant protests beneath -his breath.</p> - -<p>Then Esther came forward with her -suggestion.</p> - -<p>"I'll hold a book as if I were reading -aloud, and you can all sit round in easy, -natural positions, and look as if you -were listening. I think that would -make a charming picture."</p> - -<p>"Idiotic, I call it! 'Scene from the -Goodchild family; mamma reading -aloud to the little ones.' Couldn't possibly -look easy and natural under the -circumstances; should feel too miserable. -Try again, my dear. You must think of -something better than that."</p> - -<p>It was impossible to please those three -fastidious boys. One suggestion after -another was made, only to be waved -aside with lordly contempt, until at -last the girls gave up any say in the -matter, and left Oswald to arrange the -group in a manner highly satisfactory -to himself and his two friends, however -displeasing to the more artistic members -of the party. Three girls in front, two -boys behind, all standing stiff and -straight as pokers; with solemn faces -and hair much tangled by constant -peepings beneath the black cloth. -Peggy in the middle, with her eyebrows -more peaked than ever, and an expression -of resigned martyrdom on her -small, pale face; Mellicent, large and -placid, on the left; Esther on the right, -scowling at nothing, and, over their -shoulders, the two boys' heads, handsome -Max, and frowning Robert.</p> - -<p>"There," cried Oswald, "that's what -I call a sensible arrangement! If you -take a photograph, <i>take</i> a photograph, -and don't try to do a pastoral play at -the same time. Keep still a moment -now, and I will see if it is focused all -right. I can see you pulling faces, -Peggy; it's not at all becoming. Now -then, I'll put in the plate—that's the -way!—one—two—three—and I shall -take you. Stea—dy!"</p> - -<p>Instantly Mellicent burst into giggles -of laughter, and threw up her hands to -her face, to be roughly seized from -behind and shaken into order.</p> - -<p>"Be quiet, you silly thing! Didn't -you hear him say steady? What are you -trying to do?"</p> - -<p>"She has spoiled this plate, anyhow," -said Oswald icily. "I'll try the other, -and if she can't keep still this time, she -had better run away and laugh by -herself at the other end of the garden. -Baby!"</p> - -<p>"Not a ba——" began Mellicent -indignantly; but she was immediately -punched into order, and stood with her -mouth wide open, waiting to finish her -protest so soon as the ordeal was -over.</p> - -<p>Peggy forestalled her, however, with -an eager plea to be allowed to take the -third picture herself.</p> - -<p>"I want to have one of Oswald to -send to mother, for we are not complete -without him, and I know it would please -her to think I had taken it myself," -she urged; and permission was readily -granted, as everyone felt that she had a -special claim in the matter. Oswald -therefore put in new plates, gave -instructions as to how the shutters were -to be worked, and retired to take up an -elegant position in the centre of the -group.</p> - -<p>"Are you read—ee?" cried Peggy, -in professional sing-song; then she put -her head on one side and stared at them -with twinkling eyes. "Hee, hee! How -silly you look! Everyone has a new -expression for the occasion! Your own -mothers would not recognise you! -That's better. Keep that smile going -for another moment, and—how long must -I keep off the cap, did you say?"</p> - -<p>Oswald hesitated.</p> - -<p>"Well, it varies. You have to use -your own judgment. It depends upon—lots -of things! You might try one -second for the first, and two for the -next, then one of them is bound to be -right."</p> - -<p>"And one a failure! If I were going -to depend on my judgment, I'd have a -better one than that!" cried Peggy -scornfully. "Ready. A little more -cheerful, if you please—Christmas is -coming! That's one. Be so good as -to remain in your positions, ladies and -gentlemen, and I'll try another." The -second shutter was pulled out, the cap -removed, and the group broke up with -sighs of relief, exhausted with the strain -of cultivating company smiles for a -whole two minutes on end. Max stayed -to help the girls to fold up the camera, -while Oswald darted into the house to -prepare the dark room for the development -of the plates.</p> - -<p>When he came out, ten minutes later -on, it was a pleasant surprise to discover -Miss Mellicent holding a plate in -her hand and taking sly peeps inside -the shutter, just "to see how it looked." -He stormed and raved; Mellicent looked -like a martyr, wished to know how a -teeny little light like that could possibly -hurt anything, and seemed incapable of -understanding that if one flash of sunlight -could make a picture, it could also -destroy it with equal swiftness. Oswald -was forced to comfort himself with the -reflection that there were still three -plates left; and, when all was ready, -the six operators squeezed themselves -in the dark room, to watch the process -of development, indulging the while in -the most flowery expectations.</p> - -<p>"If it is very good, let me send it to -an illustrated paper. Oh, do!" said -Mellicent, with a gush. "I have often -seen groups of people in them. 'The -thing-a-me-bob touring company,' and -stupid old cricketers, and things like that. -We should be far more interesting."</p> - -<p>"It will make a nice present for -mother, enlarged and mounted," said -Peggy thoughtfully. "I shall keep an -album of my own, and mount every -single picture we take. If there are -any failures, I shall put them in too, for -they will make it all the more amusing. -Photograph albums are horribly uninteresting -as a rule, but mine will be -quite different. There shall be nothing -stiff and prim about it; the photographs -will be dotted about in all sorts of -positions, and underneath each I shall -put in—ah—conversational annotations." -Her tongue lingered over the -words with triumphant enjoyment. -"Conversational annotations, describing -the circumstances under which it -was taken, and anything about it which -is worth remembering.... What are -you going to do with those bottles?"</p> - -<p>Oswald ruffled his hair in embarrassment. -To pose as an instructor in an -art, when one is in doubt about its very -rudiments, is a position which has -its drawbacks.</p> - -<p>"I don't—quite—know. The stupid -fellow has written instructions on all -the other labels, and none on these except -simply 'Developer No. 1' and 'Developer -No. 2;' I think the only difference is that -one is rather stronger than the other. I'll -put some of the No. 2 in a dish and see -what happens; I believe that's the right -way—in fact, I'm sure it is. You pour it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">{115}</a></span> -over the plate and jog it about, and in -two or three minutes the picture ought -to begin to appear. Like this."</p> - -<p>Five eager faces peered over his -shoulders, rosy red in the light of the -lamp; five pairs of lips uttered a simultaneous -"oh!" of surprise; five cries -of dismay followed in instant echo. It -was the tragedy of a second. Even as -Oswald poured the fluid over the plate, -a picture flashed before their eyes, each -one saw and recognised some fleeting -feature; and, in the very moment of -triumph, lo, darkness, as of night, a -sheet of useless, blackened glass!</p> - -<p>"What about the conversational -annotations?" asked Robert slyly; but -he was interrupted by a storm of indignant -queries, levied at the head of the -poor operator, who tried in vain to carry -off his mistake with a jaunty air. Now -that he came to think of it, he believed -you <i>did</i> mix the two developers together! -Just at the moment he had forgotten -the proportions, but he would go outside -and look it up in the book; and he -beat a hasty retreat, glad to escape -from the scene of his failure. It was -rather a disconcerting beginning, but -hope revived once more when Oswald -returned, primed with information from -the <i>Photographic Manual</i>, and Peggy's -plates were taken from their case and -put into the bath. This time the result -was slow in coming. Five minutes -went by, and no signs of a picture, ten -minutes, a quarter of an hour.</p> - -<p>"It's a good thing to develop slowly; -you get the details better," said Oswald, -in so professional a matter that he was -instantly reinstated in public confidence; -but when twenty minutes had passed, -he looked perturbed, and thought he -would use a little more of the hastener. -The bath was strengthened and -strengthened, but still no signs of a -picture. The plate was put away in -disgust, and the second one tried with -a like result. So far as it was possible to -judge, there was nothing to be developed -on the plate.</p> - -<p>"A nice photographer you are, I -must say! What are you playing at -now?" asked Max, in scornful impatience, -and Oswald turned severely to -Peggy—</p> - -<p>"Which shutter did you draw out? -The one nearest to yourself?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, I did—of course I did!"</p> - -<p>"You drew out the nearest to you, -and the farthest away from the lens?"</p> - -<p>"Precisely—I told you so!" and -Peggy bridled with an air of virtue.</p> - -<p>"Then no wonder nothing has come -out! You have drawn out the wrong -shutter each time, and the plates have -never been exposed. They are wasted! -That's fivepence simply <i>thrown</i> away, to -say nothing of the chemicals!"</p> - -<p>His air of aggrieved virtue; Peggy's -little face staring at him, aghast with -horror; the thought of four plates being -used and leaving not a vestige of a -result were all too funny to be resisted. -Mellicent went off into irrepressible -giggles; Max gave a loud "Ha, ha!" -and once again a mischievous whisper -sounded in Peggy's ear—</p> - -<p>"Good for you, Mariquita! What -about the conversational annotations?"</p> - -<p class='center'>(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div><div> - -<h2><a name="SOME_PRACTICAL_HINTS_ON_COSMETIC_MEDICINE" id="SOME_PRACTICAL_HINTS_ON_COSMETIC_MEDICINE">SOME PRACTICAL HINTS ON COSMETIC MEDICINE.</a></h2> - -<p class='ph3'><span class="smcap">By</span> "THE NEW DOCTOR."</p> - - -<h3>PART IV.</h3> - -<p class='ph3'>THE HANDS.</p> - -<div> -<img class="drop-cap" src="images/i_115.jpg" width="125" height="126" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">The</span> appearance of the -hands is secondary -only to that of the -face, and many -women pride themselves -upon their -beautiful white -hands. But it is not -everybody who can -have white hands. -Manual labour will -always make the hands red and rough, and -no amount of applications will whiten them. -General servants and laundry women cannot -expect their hands to remain white. It is -interesting to see why house labour should -injure the appearance of the hands in this -way. In the first place the hands must get -a good deal knocked about by the rough -work necessary in a household. Laying fires, -cleaning grates, blacking boots, etc., make -the hands rough from inflicting numerous -small injuries upon them. You all know that -if you cut your finger the place remains hard -and horny for some time afterwards, and so -hands that are exposed to rough usage will -also get horny and coarse. Then, again, -rough red hands, being less delicate, are better -fitted to do hard work, and so Nature, who -cares more for usefulness than for idle beauty, -will tend to make the hands of those who do -manual labour hard and coarse. Another -reason why servants so often have red hands -is the constant use of soda and water, which -is necessary for cleaning the house. Soda is -very bad for the hands, and this, together -with the impossibility of keeping the hands -dry, is another cause of red hands.</p> - -<p>With a little care, nearly everybody can -have white hands. Even in those who have -to work hard a little care will often do wonders -to keep the hands from becoming very red—not -from becoming red slightly, for nothing -will prevent this. When you wash your -hands, always dry them afterwards on a fairly -rough towel. In winter you should be very -careful about thoroughly drying your hands, -as it takes very little to produce chaps.</p> - -<p>If you are desirous of having white hands, -always wear gloves when you go out. This, -indeed, will do more than anything else to -keep the hands white.</p> - -<p>In the winter most persons suffer from -chaps. These are a more pronounced and -more acute form of "red hands." But they -are often very painful, and if not properly -treated are apt to be very persistent and -unsightly.</p> - -<p>Prevention is better than cure, and we can -do a considerable amount to prevent our -hands from becoming chapped. It is the -cold wind that produces chaps, and so, if you -would be freed from this evil, you should -always wear thick gloves when you go out in -a strong north-easter. I have already mentioned -that you should dry your hands very -carefully after washing. If you are very liable -to chaps, you should not wash your hands in -cold water, but only use warm water, not hot -(for this is worse than cold water for producing -chaps), but just slightly warm. You must -also be careful about the soap you use, as -coarse alkaline soaps are very bad, and make -chapped hands smart.</p> - -<p>If the chaps are not very bad, a little -glycerine and rose-water may be applied after -washing. This is very efficacious in a mild -case, but it is insufficient in more severe grades -of the affection. The following preparation I -have found invaluable for severe chaps—sulphate -of zinc, two grains; compound -tincture of lavender, one dram; glycerine, -three drams; rose-water to the ounce.</p> - -<p>A very much worse affair than chaps is -a chilblain. Indeed, a bad broken chilblain -is a very serious and unpleasant matter. -Chilblains may occur in anyone, but they -are most common in persons in whom the -circulation is feeble. I have seen a terribly -bad chilblain in an anæmic girl. Moreover, -when the circulation is below par, chilblains -do not heal properly, and give great trouble -often for months together.</p> - -<p>Warm gloves, warm stockings, loose-fitting -boots, and flannel next the skin all over the -body, are the best safeguards against this -complaint. As chilblains are a kind of minor -frostbite, keeping warm will necessarily -prevent them, but it is very difficult for a -person with feeble circulation to keep warm.</p> - -<p>If you have a chilblain coming do not -scratch it, for this makes it far worse. Bathe -the part gently in warm spirit and water, and -wrap the finger or toe, whichever it is, in a -thick layer of cotton wool. If you do this -you will probably prevent the chilblains from -bursting.</p> - -<p>There are a large number of messy preparations -made of lard, dripping, tallow, -cream, and other "pantry drugs," which are -advised for chilblains. They are none of -them any good. A broken chilblain is a -septic wound, that is, it is a wound that -contains germs. It should therefore be -treated as a septic wound. Wash the place -gently in diluted carbolic acid lotion (1 in 80), -or warm solution of boracic acid. Then cover -the broken surface thickly with powdered -boracic acid, and put on a bandage. If you -do this, and attend to your general health at -the same time, you get rid of your chilblains -more rapidly than by any other method.</p> - -<p>Warts are more common on the hands than -anywhere else. Of their cause we know but -little. Irritation sometimes causes them, and -they are to a certain extent infectious from -place to place. We used to be taught that -lady-birds produced or cured them, according -to which version of the story we heard. -There is about an equal amount of truth in -each doctrine.</p> - -<p>The best way to treat warts is to first soak -the hand in hot water, and clean it thoroughly -with soap. Then paint the skin surrounding -the wart with vaseline, and drop on to the -wart itself one drop of glacial acetic acid. -Wait one minute, and then well rub the -wart over with a stick of lunar caustic (silver -nitrate). This treatment may require to be -repeated, but I have never known it to fail.</p> - -<p class='center'>(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div><div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">{116}</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="GIRLS_AS_I_HAVE_KNOWN_THEM" id="GIRLS_AS_I_HAVE_KNOWN_THEM">GIRLS AS I HAVE KNOWN THEM.</a></h2> - -<p class='ph3'><span class="smcap">By</span> ELSA D'ESTERRE-KEELING, Author of "Old Maids and Young."</p> - - -<h3>PART II.</h3> - -<p class='ph4'>THE WITTY GIRL.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"She is pretty to walk with,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And witty to talk with,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And pleasant, too, to think on."<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p><span class="smcap">First</span> let us understand each other.</p> - -<p>By the witty girl is not here meant the girl—if -such a girl exists—whose conversation has -the high brilliancy which characterises the -conversation of certain men and women.</p> - -<p>No. The thing here meant is nothing -more than the common domestic wit-snapper, -generally, say her enemies, more of a snapper -than a wit, concerning which statement it is -perhaps not unpermissible to say that he who -makes it shows himself to be less a wit than a -snapper.</p> - -<p>While all but invariably of a character that -loses much by the process of retailing, the wit -of the girl here in view will sometimes bear -being brought to book. The samples of it -given in this paper are all authentic and -heretofore unpublished. They do not, perhaps, -reach a high standard of excellence, but -they who know girls will concede that they -are good girl-wit of the middle order.</p> - -<p>Take a case like this: "My name is May. -I feel I am reaching the age when I should be -called Hawthorn."</p> - -<p>Or take this: "Your mother will miss you -when you marry."</p> - -<p>"No—then she'll 'Mrs.' me."</p> - -<p>Such jests are the <i>bric-à-brac</i> of home -conversation, and make it pretty.</p> - -<p>He who listens to the talk between girls -and their brothers will sometimes hear a thing -worth noting, in compensation for the many -things not worth noting which—if the truth is -to be told—he will also hear.</p> - -<p>The following does not show young Ethel -at her best, but it also does not show her at -her worst.</p> - -<p>"D'you know, Jim," she said, "that two-year-old -babies can marry on Jupiter?"</p> - -<p>"Don't talk bosh, Ethel!"</p> - -<p>"But they can. It's this way. A year on -Jupiter is eleven years and ten months of our -time, so the two-year-old babies are grown up. -Ee—you didn't know that!"</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> -<img src="images/i_116a.jpg" width="350" height="225" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>A runaway match -on Jupiter -the bride -being -under age</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Jim said nothing. But when young Ethel -exploited her astronomy with Bob, she found -her overmatch. This is precisely what was -said by them—</p> - -<p><i>Bob:</i> "One can hear your voice ten miles -off, Ethel."</p> - -<p><i>Y. E.:</i> "Make it nine, Bob?"</p> - -<p><i>Bob:</i> "Why?"</p> - -<p><i>Y. E.:</i> "Nine miles is the greatest distance -at which thunder can be heard."</p> - -<p><i>Bob:</i> "TIT-BITS."</p> - -<p>The fact is that young Ethel is less an -astronomer than a student of current periodical -literature. What matters it, after all, however, -whence she gleans her general information, -if her reading enables her to say—as I -once heard her say—with veritable wit, to -a girl who was wearing a primrose brooch—</p> - -<p>"Blossom and leaves of the primrose are —— Radical."</p> - -<p>There are funny men in Parliament who have -never said anything much more funny than that.</p> - -<p>In her captious mood the witty girl is very -terrible. A North Briton has been thus -described by her: -"A big, lumpy, -pale-faced, red-haired, -freckled -Scotchman," and -it was a witty, but -captious, girl who -said of a certain -pianist, a concert -given by whom -she had attended, -"His feet obscured the platform."</p> - -<div class="figcenter w300"> -<img src="images/i_116b.jpg" width="300" height="232" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>A -pianist's -great -feet</p></div> -</div> - -<p>The literary appreciations of the witty girl -are few. She is apt, in appraising poets, to -take them at their weakest rather than at their -strongest. She judges -Wordsworth by his -"Idiot Boy," and she -would be capable of -passing sentence on -Cowper as having cut -in his door three holes -of different sizes for -his tom-cat, his tabby -cat and his kitten.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w300"> -<img src="images/i_116c.jpg" width="300" height="530" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>She thinks -him a victim -of -heredity</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wordsworth's Idiot Boy</span></p></div> -</div> - -<p>Yet another tendency -of the witty girl which -must be strongly deprecated, -is to harp on -phrases which may -have once had a faintly -comical ring, but which -have long lost it; such -phrases as, "Where -does this live?" applied to inanimate objects, -or, "Hang on to this," used in reference to objects -held in the hand. It would be interesting -to know who first evolved these mild witticisms -destined to win such enduring popularity.</p> - -<p>The singular phraseology of girls not minded -to confine themselves to English of the -academies has of late been made the subject -of much comment. There follow here some -specimens of it in which the facetious was -aimed at, and in some cases not unsuccessfully.</p> - -<p>Wordsworth was, -by a Scotch Annie, -described as a -"baa-lamby;" a -Welsh Beatrice described -"a most -wizened farewell -concert;" her impressions -of Holland -were summed -up by an English -Madge in the words "flobby bread and flobby -wall-paper," and an Irish Constance, writing -to her home in Ireland from a school in -France attended by her with her sister Ethel, -penned this anomalous statement, "We are -here six Irish, counting Ethel, and six English, -counting me."</p> - -<div class="figcenter w300"> -<img src="images/i_116d.jpg" width="300" height="272" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>Wordsworth -looking -sheepish</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Both these girls were the daughters of an -Irishman and an Englishwoman. She who was -accounted of the six English had been born in -her mother's country, while she who was accounted -of the six Irish had been born in that -of her father. In drawing the fine line of distinction -which made her English and her sister -Irish, the young maid Constance aimed not at -precision but at wit, and, as behoved her -father's daughter, she did not aim at wit in -vain. Her letter was read with laughter.</p> - -<p>In almost all girls' letters there is a marked -quality of phrasing which, even when not witty, -is mirth-provoking. Take the following:</p> - -<p>"Papa has just come back from London, -and has brought me a very thin umbrella, -with a steel stick running through it, just -simply frightfully elegant; also a pair of shoes, -fawn antelope, embroidered with gold beads. -You needn't sniff."</p> - -<p>Sniff, indeed? Perish the thought!</p> - -<p>"Tinpot" used as an adjective does not spoil -the following curious bit of description penned -by a London girl during a stay in Ryde:</p> - -<p>"I am enjoying myself very much in a -quiet, non-dissipated, -tinpot way—walking -on the -sea-wall and the -pier, reading -Carlyle and -Marion Crawford, -and making -little vests for -Kilburn orphans."</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> -<img src="images/i_116e.jpg" width="350" height="317" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>A -dissipated -tinpot</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Only a girl -could have -written that, and of its kind it is admirable.</p> - -<p>An idea largely held by girls, in common -with women and men who have a witty -tendency, is that appreciation is a form of -ignorance. It was, be it here called to -remembrance, to correct this notion, that -Wordsworth wrote, "True knowledge leads -to love," and that Browning wrote, "Admiration -grows as knowledge grows."</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> -<img src="images/i_116f.jpg" width="350" height="253" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>Appreciation -a form -of -ignorance</p></div> -</div> - -<p>It is doubtless the circumstance that unkindness -is so often confounded with wit that -has led to the fact that of all good gifts the -good gift of wit is the one held in least liking -by the majority of persons. The truth would -seem to be that, with wit, as with everything -else not intrinsically bad, the thing of main -importance is that it be handled carefully. -Like gunpowder, it has its uses to him who -knows how to avail himself of them. He -who does not, would do well to do what -certain savages once did. Having come into -the possession of a bag of gunpowder, they -carefully preserved it till the spring, when -they planted it as they did their corn. It did -not burst forth when the corn burst forth; so -much the better for the sowers. That gunpowder -was very safely deposited, and much -wit might with equal advantage be held over -till the next planting -season.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w300"> -<img src="images/i_116g.jpg" width="300" height="333" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>PURE -HONEY</p> - -<p>BEST -BALM</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Another thing. -The wit-snapper -should always carry -about with him a -little balm and a little -honey. That was a -good sword that -Cambuscan had; it -could heal the wounds -it gave. Only the -wit-snapper who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">{117}</a></span> -carries a little balm and a little honey will be -as well equipped as was the knight whose -story Chaucer "left half-told."</p> - -<p>A further point which calls for passing -comment is this. Wit and merriment do not -always go hand in hand; indeed, they are -often sundered wide. Thus, of the world's -famous humorists, it is well known that they -were mostly melancholy at the home-fireside. -Something very similar holds good in the case -of girls—and there are many such—who, -while witty in society, are deplorably glum in -the family circle, in this unlike a girl of girls -whom her father called "Minnehaha"—laughing -water—so merry was she in her home, -beyond which her influence was to be shed -so far that she is known to-day from Indus to -the Pole as the friend of Indian women.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w250"> -<img src="images/i_117.jpg" width="250" height="360" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>Nell Witty</p></div> -</div> - -<p>If they be right who consider, in opposition -to Juliet, that something is in a name, then -those among us who hold that such a name as -Juliet tends to annihilate wit in the possessor -of it are not mere fancy-mongers, and we are -entitled to a courteous hearing when we -submit that on the other hand the name -Nelly, and still more the variant of it by -which it becomes Nell, almost announces the -owner of it to be a wit. -This circumstance is quite -independent of the fact -that Scott has said, in just -so many words, in reference -to a particular case, -"Mistress Nelly, wit she -has," and if any explanation -of it may be hazarded, -the one which will probably -satisfy most is that -persons named Nelly or -Nell—and the number of -such is, happily, legion—are -hardly ever found lacking in whimsicality. -In the few cases in which they are deficient in -this quality they should be called—and, as a -matter of fact, they are generally called—Nella, -the name Nella being that form of Nelly -or Nell by which all the sparkle is taken out -of it.</p> - -<p>In conclusion, a word on wits under their -physiognomical aspect. That a certain type -of face in general denotes a witty person may -be allowed.</p> - -<p>"The slightly tossed nose," says one of -Thomas Moore's biographers, "confirmed the -fun of the expression."</p> - -<p>"The slightly tossed nose" for what the -French call "nez retroussé" is happy wording. -Girl-readers of this who have "tossed" noses -are, by their faces, wits. Let this console -them, if it so hap that they want consolation. -On the other part, girls with short upper lips -have a part of beauty, but lack a part of wit. -Wherefore, if they be vain, let there be a curb -put on their vanity, and let girls with long -upper lips hold up their heads, for a long -upper lip denotes wit.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div><div> - -<h2><a name="OUR_PUZZLE_POEM_REPORT_TO_A_GIRL_GOLFER" id="OUR_PUZZLE_POEM_REPORT_TO_A_GIRL_GOLFER">OUR PUZZLE POEM REPORT: "TO A GIRL GOLFER."</a></h2> - - -<h3>SOLUTION.</h3> - -<p class='ph3'><span class="smcap">To a Girl Golfer.</span></p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Take a helpless little ball,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Drive it into space;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If perchance you see it fall,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Try to find the place.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And, as it is very small,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Hit again that hapless ball<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With a savage grace.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">If your strength and courage stand<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Such unwonted strain,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">By-and-by your ball will land<br /></span> -<span class="i2">On a little plain,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Near a hole—you understand—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Into which you putt it and<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Then begin again.<br /></span> -</div></div> - - -<h4><span class="smcap">Prize Winners.</span></h4> - - -<p class='center'><i>Seven Shillings and Sixpence Each.</i></p> - - -<ul><li>Edith Ashworth, The Mount, Knutsford.</li> -<li>Dr. R. Swan Coulthard, Coventry.</li> -<li>Mrs. Deane, Lismoyle, Ballymoney, co. Antrim.</li> -<li>Edith E. Grundy, 105, London Road, Leicester.</li> -<li>Edward St. G. Hodson, Twyford, Athlone, Ireland.</li> -<li>G. Honeyburne, 16, Hawkshead Street, Southport, Lancs.</li> -<li>Louise M. McCready, Howth, co. Dublin.</li> -<li>Annie Manderson, Waterfoot, Crumlin, co. Antrim.</li> -<li>F. M. Morgan, The Library, Armagh.</li> -<li>May Robson, Garry Lodge, Perth, N.B.</li> -<li>W. Shattock, Hillmorton Villa, Sneyd Park, near Bristol.</li> -<li>Mrs. Isabel Snell, 51, Mere Road, Leicester.</li> -<li>Alice Woodhead, Tickhill, Rotheram, Yorkshire.</li> -<li>Elizabeth Yarwood, 59, Beech Road, Cale Green, Stockport.</li> -</ul> - - -<p class='center'><i>Very Highly Commended.</i></p> - -<p>Florence Ashwin, Rev. S. Bell, Nanette -Bewley, M. J. Champneys, Edith Collins, -Nellie R. Hasmer, Helen Lapage, Annie -Roberson, A. C. Sharp.</p> - - -<p class='center'><i>Highly Commended.</i></p> - -<p>Eliza Acworth, A. A. Campbell, N. Campbell, -Rev. F. T. Chamberlain, Rev. J. Chambers, -Mary I. Chislett, N. Chute, Nina Coote, -Mrs. Cumming, R. D. Davis, Wm. Fraser, -Percy H. Horne, J. Hunt, Alice E. Johnson, -Mildred E. Lockyear, Winifred Lockyear, -Annie G. Luck, Mrs. T. Maxwell, F. Miller, -E. C. Milne, E. Nerve, Edward Roqulski, -Gertrude Saffery, S. Southall, C. E. Thurgar, -Aileen Tyler.</p> - - -<p class='center'><i>Honourable Mention.</i></p> - -<p>Mrs. Acheson, Elizabeth M. Caple, Annie -J. Cather, J. A. Center, Mrs. Crossman, Ellie -Crossman, Winifred Eady, A. S. K. Ellson, -Phyllis M. Fulford, Agnes Glen, Alice Goakes, -Beatrice E. Hackforth, Sadie Harbison, M. -Hooppell, Rose A. Hooppell, Mima How, -A. J. Knight, E. M. Le Mottée, Carlina V. -M. Leggett, May Lethbridge, E. E. Lockyear, -E. Lord, E. Macalister, Margaret A. -Macalister, Nellie Meikle, C. A. Murton, -Jas. D. Musgrave, Mrs. Nicholls, Henrietta -M. Oldfield, Hannah E. Powell, Ellen M. -Price, F. C. Redgrave, Ada Rickards, James -Scott, Violet Shoberl, Mildred M. Skrine, -Marriott T. Smiley, Annie E. Starritt, Ellen -C. Tarrant, S. Taylor, Mrs. Walker, W. -Fitzjames White, Florence Whitlock, Emily -Wilkinson, Edith Mary Younge, Helen B. -Younger.</p> - - -<h4>EXAMINERS' REPORT.</h4> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hitherto</span> we have been in the habit of -associating all that was best concerning the -game of golf with the Scottish Nation. In -the future we shall have to remember that out -of fourteen golf puzzle prizes, five went to -Ireland and only one to Scotland, and modify -our view accordingly. Of England's share -we find it difficult to speak with becoming -modesty.</p> - -<p>If the north of the Tweed had been honoured -by our earliest presence we should have found -no difficulty in explaining away the National -failure—for how else can it be regarded?—in -connection with this puzzle. "A poem with -such a title," we should have said, "must -surely contain advice about our noble game. -As we have played it with considerable success -for at least four hundred and fifty years, we can -need no advice, and therefore we will not -trouble to solve your puzzle."</p> - -<p>But our birthplace was many miles south of -the Tweed, and such an explanation would -not appeal to us with any force. The simple -fact remains: Ireland receives one pound -seventeen shillings and sixpence, Scotland, -only seven shillings and sixpence, and England—well, -modesty forbids us to say how much!</p> - -<p>Not long ago golf was regarded as an -occupation for elderly gentlemen whose time -and energies were at the service of any -respectable game. With much impressiveness -they used to traverse the links decked in red -coats, the brilliancy of which signified the -extremity of the danger to which the unwary -onlooker was exposed.</p> - -<p>But a few years have changed all that. -Now for one elderly, impressive, red-coated -gentleman to be found, there are many young -men who cannot afford red coats and maidens -in plenty who wouldn't wear them if they -could. To this last class our puzzle poem was -addressed, not by way of advice but as a -sympathetic intimation that we know all about -the game in which they so freely indulge.</p> - -<p>Naturally enough the title was frequently -rendered "To a golfer," and after much -serious consideration we decided to accept it. -This being so, some who did not receive prizes -will possibly wonder why. The explanation is -simple enough: our ruling left us with so -many claimants for the five guineas that we -set aside those who did not trouble to indent -the lines properly.</p> - -<p>We wonder how many of the solvers who -wrote "helpless" in the first line really -discovered that the p was less than the other -letters. It is also to be observed that the ball -in the same line was much smaller than the -others in the puzzle and therefore was intended -to be designated "little." Hence the rhythm -required the word "very" in the fifth line—s—<i>very -small</i>. So many solvers failed to -notice these points that it is necessary to call -attention to them.</p> - -<p>It was not even right to leave out the -"little" <i>and</i> the "very," because then the -rhythm of the first verse would not coincide -with that of the second.</p> - -<p>Authorities differ as to the spelling of by-and-bye; -apparently the more modern ones -prefer it without the e, and of course we -accepted both ways as correct.</p> - -<p>The statement in line thirteen does not -seem to have been universally understood. -When you are playing golf you do not "put" -the ball into the hole—unless no one is -looking!—but you putt it in, which is a very -different matter. Curiously enough, not one -solver who wrote "put" pointed out that the -reading involved a mistake in the line.</p> - -<p>If any of our readers would like a puzzle on -any particular subject or subjects, let them -mention it. Their wishes shall certainly -receive consideration and very possibly -fulfilment.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div><div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">{118}</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="OUR_HERO" id="OUR_HERO">"OUR HERO."</a></h2> - -<p class='ph3'>A TALE OF THE FRANCO-ENGLISH WAR NINETY YEARS AGO.</p> - -<p class='ph3'><span class="smcap">By</span> AGNES GIBERNE, Author of "Sun, Moon and Stars," "The Girl at the Dower House," etc.</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER VIII.</h3> - -<p class='ph4'>THE THREATENED INVASION.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Though</span> no true-hearted Englishman -believed for a moment in the possibility -of his country becoming a French province, -all knew that the threatened -invasion might take place.</p> - -<p>Many indeed regarded the attempt as -almost certain, feeling sure that Napoleon -would never be convinced of his -own inability to conquer England, until -he had tried and failed. And while the -final result of such an attempt might be -looked upon as a foregone conclusion, -yet no doubt much personal loss and -distress would be caused by even the -most unsuccessful invasion of our shores.</p> - -<p>On one point all were agreed—that -safety lay and could only lie in getting -ready beforehand.</p> - -<p>At that date steamboats and railways -were unknown, and telegraphs did not -exist. There was happily time, through -the slowness with which affairs moved, -after the note of alarm had been sounded, -to make preparations.</p> - -<p>An extraordinary burst of enthusiasm -throughout the whole country was the -response to Napoleon's threat. Large -supplies of money were freely voted and -eagerly given. The regular army was -increased, and the militia was called -out; while a volunteer force sprang into -being, with such rapidity that it soon numbered -about four hundred thousand men.</p> - -<p>These "citizen-soldiers," as it was -the fashion to call them, were all over -the country, each place having its own -corps. But the regular troops, drawn -from all parts, were stationed chiefly -where the danger seemed to be greatest, -between London and the south coast, -Sir David Dundas being in command.</p> - -<p>Along the shore were erected batteries -and martello towers—the latter remaining -to this day. And since Boulogne -was the headquarters of the French army -of invasion, an advanced corps was -placed on the opposite coast, near Sandgate, -under General Moore, in readiness -to repel the first onslaught. There the -General occupied his time in such -splendid training of the regiments under -his control that throughout the long -years of the Peninsular War, after he -himself had passed away, the stamp of -his spirit rested upon them, the impress -of his enthusiasm and of his magnificent -discipline made them the foremost -soldiers in the British Army. These -were the regiments who, as the "Reserve," -bore the brunt of the fighting in -Moore's famous "Retreat," and who -were known in Spain and at Waterloo as -Wellington's unequalled and invincible -"Light Brigade." Wellington used -those regiments for the saving of Europe; -but Moore made them what they were.</p> - -<p>To the delight of Jack an opportunity -offered itself whereby he might exchange -into one of the Shornecliffe regiments, -and he grasped at it eagerly.</p> - -<p>He had for Moore the half-worshipping -admiration which is sometimes seen -in a young man towards an older -man. Jack would be none the worse for -his hero-worship, since happily he had -fixed upon a worthy object. As yet he -had seen little personally of the General, -having met him but two or three times. -But long before they came together, he -had cherished an intense interest in the -man, an interest awakened first in more -boyish days by Ivor's vivid descriptions -of campaigns in the West Indies and in -Egypt, descriptions of which Moore was -always the central figure. Jack had -seized with avidity upon all such details.</p> - -<p>When at length the two met he could -feel no surprise at Ivor's intense and -reverent love for his chief. The soldierly -bearing of Moore, his grace of manner, -the power of his unique personality, -together with his chivalrous devotion to -his mother and his courteous kindness -towards all with whom he came in contact—these -things from the first made -a profound impression upon Jack; and -the more he learnt to know of Moore, -the more that impression was deepened. -He counted himself thenceforward ready -to live or to die for the General; and -one day in a fit of confidence he said so -to Polly.</p> - -<p>"Nay, Jack; live for him; do not -wish to die for him," pleaded Polly. -"That will be the best."</p> - -<p>Jack was not so sure. His imagination -had been fired long before by the -story, told to him by Ivor, of a certain -heroic Guardsman—a man who, in the -West Indies, had flung himself between -Moore and the musket aimed at him, -thus giving his life for that of his officer. -But it was not needful for Jack to explain -how much he longed to do the -same. He merely smiled, and remarked, -"In all England there is no other his -equal. Of that I am convinced."</p> - -<p>To the great disappointment of Jack, -the General had been quickly summoned -away on important duty; and intercourse -between them came for the moment to a -close. The young subaltern, however, -found it possible to pursue acquaintance -with the General's mother and sister; -and gentle old Mrs. Moore had a great -deal to say about this most idolised son -of hers, where she found a sympathetic -listener. Few listeners could have been -more sympathetic than Jack Keene, who -never grew tired of the subject. Mrs. -Moore had other sons beside the General, -but it was noticed that when she referred -to him he was always distinctively, "My -son!" not "My eldest son," or "My -son John!" This did not touch the -close friendship between Moore and his -brothers, one of whom was a Naval -officer of note.</p> - -<p>Through those summer weeks of 1803 -Polly was longing for Captain Ivor to -come home. It was sad to think of him -as a prisoner, forced to stay against his -will in a foreign land. She knew, too, -that any day Jack might be ordered off -elsewhere; and one day, as she had -feared, he rushed in, to tell them that he -would be leaving immediately for Shornecliffe -Camp, there to await Napoleon's -first attempt to land on English soil.</p> - -<p>The news was less a matter of congratulation -for them than for Jack himself. -At Sandgate he would be in the -very forefront of the peril which threatened -the land. Mrs. Fairbank had to -rub her large horn spectacles more than -once; and she was disposed to blame -Jack for not referring the question to -herself, before he accepted the offer of -an exchange. Molly looked curiously -at Jack, and asked—</p> - -<p>"Are you glad to say good-bye to us -all?"</p> - -<p>"Not glad to say good-bye, but glad -to be going. People must say good-bye -sometimes, Molly. And I shall be -fighting under one of the best and -bravest men that ever lived. Would not -you like that?"</p> - -<p>Molly shook her head. "If Roy was -here, I should never want to go away," -she said decisively. "But if you care -more for General Moore than for us——"</p> - -<p>"Pooh! What nonsense!" retorted -Jack; and Polly exclaimed—</p> - -<p>"Molly, how can you say such a -thing? Jack wants to be one of the -first to fight in defence of England. Do -you not see? It is but right. He would -be no true soldier, otherwise. If Captain -Ivor were but free to do the same! Yes, -indeed, I do wish it! It is terrible for -him to be cut off from action—but not for -Jack to wish to be foremost. O fie, Molly -dear, you must have more sense."</p> - -<p>"Polly always understands," murmured -Jack; and Molly would have -given much at the moment to have had -those words spoken of herself. She -hung her head and was mute. Tender-hearted -Polly could never endure to see -anyone sad or abashed, and her hand -stole into Molly's as she went on—</p> - -<p>"But Molly will understand now. -Jack, she and I have this morning learnt -by heart a verse of Mr. Walter Scott's, -which 'tis said he has but just writ. -Molly, you shall say the words to Jack, -for they are brave words. Hold up your -head, dear, and speak out, as an Englishwoman -should."</p> - -<p>Molly obeyed, not sorry for the -chance to redeem her previous error, -and to re-establish herself in Jack's -good graces, for which she cared more -than she quite allowed to herself. She -held her head well up, therefore, and -spouted with considerable effect—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i2">"'If ever breath of British gale<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Shall fan the tricolour,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Or footstep of invader rude,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With rapine foul and red with blood,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Pollute our happy shore,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Then farewell, home! and farewell, friends!<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Adieu, each tender tie!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Resolved, we mingle in the tide,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where charging squadrons furious ride,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">To conquer or to die.'"<br /></span> -</div></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">{119}</a></span></p> -<p>"Come, that is good. That was well -said. You understand too, I see, -Molly. I e'en thought it must be so—you, -a British Colonel's daughter! And -you'll both bid me God-speed. And -when Napoleon is beaten, and old -England is again in safety, I'll come -back, and be grannie's home-boy once -more. Eh, ma'am?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, yes, Jack; yes, my dear boy." -Mrs. Fairbank did her best to control -her voice, and as usual when agitated -she knitted at railway speed. "You -will do your duty, Jack. I am sure of -it. And General Moore will be a good -friend to you."</p> - -<p>"But now I have somewhat else to -show you all, in return for Molly's -poetry," observed Jack in cheerful -tones, anxious to prevent a breakdown -on the part of his grandmother. "What -do you think it may be, Molly? Guess, -all of you. Must I tell? Well, 'tis -nought less than two letters about our -Hero, which his mother let me see. -They are writ some four years since to -the General's father, Dr. Moore; the -one from Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and -the other from Sir Robert Brownrigg, -who was secretary to the Duke of York, -and Adjutant-General. Nay, these are -not the originals, for I can assure you -'twould be no easy task to get them out -of Mrs. Moore's keeping. But she -permitted me to take copies of the -same, and they are here. The engagement -spoken of was that on the second -of October, in 1799, between the English -and the French in Holland; and General -Moore was wounded early in the action, -but nevertheless he fought on until -wounded a second time. These, to his -father afterwards, both make mention -of his wounds. Shall I read?"</p> - -<p>"Pray do so, my dear Jack," said -Mrs. Fairbank; and, "O do, Jack!" -entreated Polly.</p> - -<p>Jack obeyed.</p> - -<p class='p2'>"'Headquarters. Zuper Sluys, Holland. -October 4th, 1799.</p> - -<p>"'<span class="smcap">My dear Sir</span>—I cannot suffer the -accompanying letter from my dear -friend, your son, to go to you, without -assuring you that the wounds he has received -are attended with no danger. -Mr. Knight, the Duke's surgeon, attends -him, and gives hope of his speedy -recovery. The wound in his thigh he -received early in the action, but it did -not prevent him from continuing his -exertions for two hours afterwards, -when a wound in his face obliged him -to leave the field. It is through the -cheek, and I understand has not -wounded the bone. His conduct in the -serious action of the 2nd, which perhaps -may be ranked among the most -obstinately contested battles that have -been fought this war, has raised him, if -possible, higher than he before stood in -the estimation of this army. Everyone -admires and loves him; and you may -boast of having as your son the most -amiable man and the best General in -the British service; this is a universal -opinion, and does not proceed from my -partiality alone.</p> - -<p>"'God bless you, my dear Sir. I hope -in a few days to have it in my power to -tell you that considerable progress is -made in Moore's cure; and believe me, -with great respect and regard,</p> - -<p> -<span class="ml2">"'Very faithfully yours,</span><br /> -<span class="ml4">"'Robert Brownrigg.'"</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>Jack paused, and repeated thoughtfully, -"'Everyone admires and loves -him—the most amiable man and the -best General in the British service!' -Yet by nature his is no easy temper, -ma'am; of that his mother could assure -me. She said that her son—ever the -best of sons to her—gave her in his -boyhood many an anxious hour, by -reason of his hot and impulsive moods, -and his readiness to fight. But listen -now to the letter of Sir Ralph himself—</p> - -<p class='p2'>"'Egmond-on-the-Sea, Oct. 4th.</p> - -<p>"'<span class="smcap">My dear Sir</span>—Although your son -is wounded in the thigh and in the -cheek, I can assure you he is in no sort -of danger; both wounds are slight. The -public and myself are the greatest sufferers -by these accidents.</p> - -<p>"'The General is a hero, with more -sense than many others of that description, -in that he is an ornament to his -family and to his profession. I hope -Mrs. Moore and his sister will be easy -on his account, and that you are proud -of such a son.</p> - -<p> -<span class="ml4">"'Yours,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap ml2">"'Ralph Abercrombie.'"</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>This time it was Mrs. Fairbank who -quoted words from the letter. She said, -"'With more sense than many others -of that description.' Pray, my dear -Jack, what think you Sir Ralph might -have meant to signify?"</p> - -<p>"Why, ma'am, I take it thus. Many -a man is brave and fights well, who in -fact is nought else beside. Whereas -General Moore is a man of extraordinary -genius and great nobility of character, -one who shines in whatever society -he may find himself, and above all, -who is ardently beloved by everybody -that knows him. What else might Sir -Ralph signify?"</p> - -<p>"To my mind, 'tis a somewhat droll -mode of expressing himself, though, -none the less, 'tis clear what he thinks -of the General. Were he my son, I -could fain be proud of him. Not that -pride is so suitable a feeling as thankfulness."</p> - -<p>"In truth, ma'am, his mother is -proud and thankful too. She thinks that -all the whole world holds no man equal -to her brave son. And I—I am disposed -to think the same."</p> - -<p>Then Jack carefully folded his precious -letters, stowed them in his pocket, and -stood up. "Come, Polly and Molly," -he said. "There is time yet for a turn -before dinner? We will go to the Pump -Room."</p> - -<p>Molly looked anxiously for leave, and -flew to obey. A walk with Jack was -always delightful. They entered the -old Pump Room together, finding there, -as usual, a large assemblage of gaily-dressed -ladies and fashionably-attired -gentlemen, some walking about, some -lounging on seats. The ladies wore -short-waisted gowns, chiefly of white or -figured muslin, with short cloaks or -mantles of bright hues, or short spencers -of silk or coloured crape, and great -feathered hats or bonnets, and plenty -of large gilt and silver buttons; and -many of the gentlemen were in tights -and long flowered waistcoats and silver-buckled -shoes, while others wore blue -coats with brass buttons. Pig-tails too -might still be seen, though soon to be -discontinued.</p> - -<p>Jack gazed about for several minutes -in vain; and then they came face to face -with Mrs. Bryce, Admiral Peirce being -her attendant cavalier.</p> - -<p>Both were immensely interested to -hear Jack's news—how, in less than a -week, he would be off to Sandgate, -there to be under the command of -General Moore; and there also, as Jack -hoped, to be called upon to bear the -first brunt of Napoleon's invasion.</p> - -<p>"Not you, my dear sir," objected the -Admiral, with beaming face. "Before -ever Boney reaches English shores, depend -on't, he'll render a good account -of himself to our ships of war. Trust -gallant Nelson for that, since he's on -the look-out. I doubt me, Boney won't -contrive to give our Navy the slip."</p> - -<p>Jack had no wish to get into a discussion. -"Well, sir, well, our Navy and -our Army too will both of them do their -best," he said. "But he would be a -foolish fellow who should trust all his -eggs in one basket, as the saying is. -And should by any chance the slip be -given, and Boney arrive on our shores, -why, then the Army will make him -render his account, fairly! Has anybody -seen Mrs. Moore, ma'am?" and -he turned to Mrs. Bryce.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Bryce had not the least intention -of parting hastily with her second -cavalier. To walk about the Pump -Room, in view of all her Bath acquaintances, -with a gentleman on either side, -was highly desirable. So Polly and -Molly were adroitly dropped behind, and -she set off.</p> - -<p>"If not Mrs. Moore, Jack, I have -seen someone else of passable interest," -she remarked. "Her name is Miss Jane -Austen—a well-bred young woman, I do -assure you. And only to think—the -good lady has writ a book, which -may by chance be one day printed. -'Twas told my husband in strictest confidence; -and if I had not wormed it out -of him——Ah, ha! Jack—wait till you -get you a wife, and then you'll not smile -on that side of your mouth."</p> - -<p>"I have found my bride, ma'am. -'Tis my profession," declared Jack.</p> - -<p>"Nay, nay, nothing of the sort, my -dear sir. Wait a while, and you'll find -your affections engaged in another -fashion. Can you be so hard-hearted -as to hold out even now, in the face of -all this youth and elegance? See—there -goes a bewitching young woman, -though 'tis true she wears a shocking -unbecoming gown! But she's a prodigious -favourite, and she can dance as -tolerable a minuet as any young female -present. Then there's young Susie, -yonder—something of a hoyden, may -be, and calls herself 'a dasher,' but uncommonly -pretty, and prodigiously good -spirits. And if you'd sooner have a -blue-stocking—why, I've but to introduce -you to Miss Jane Austen herself."</p> - -<p class='center'>(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div><div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">{120}</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="METHODS_OF_MOUNTING_FOR_GIRL_CYCLISTS" id="METHODS_OF_MOUNTING_FOR_GIRL_CYCLISTS">METHODS OF MOUNTING FOR GIRL CYCLISTS.</a></h2> - -<p class='ph3'><span class="smcap">By Mrs. EGBERT A. NORTON.</span></p> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Nothing</span> else, I think, affords one such -a good opportunity of judging of a girl's -general capabilities or style in riding as the -way in which she mounts her machine.</p> - -<p>In this matter as in so many others a -"good start is most important."</p> - -<p>Having already mastered the principle -of steering, the mystery of the mount -is a matter of balance only.</p> - -<p>There are several points which, if -borne in mind, will considerably help the -beginner in first attempts, namely—</p> - -<p>1. To select a road inclining slightly -down-hill.</p> - -<p>2. Stand on rather higher ground than -the bicycle.</p> - -<p>3. Incline the front wheel slightly to -the right.</p> - -<p>4. Be careful not to check the motion -of the machine by too much pressure on -the pedal after it passes its lowest point.</p> - -<p>5. Do not catch the left pedal too -quickly, or apply pressure before it passes -the top centre.</p> - -<p>There are five distinct methods of -mounting for skirted riders, two of which -are suitable for beginners only, the other -three for more advanced -riders.</p> - - -<h3>I.</h3> - -<p>Imagine an individual -who has some -knowledge of riding, -but who is unable to -mount alone; refusing -all offers of assistance -she determines -to assert her independence.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w400"> -<img src="images/i_120a.jpg" width="400" height="387" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>FIG. 1.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Standing on the -left side of the machine -with the right -pedal just past its -highest point, she -steps across the -frame, and places her -right foot securely on -the pedal, the saddle -being so low that she -is able to take her -seat easily, the left -foot being still on the -ground. Then putting -as much pressure -as possible on -the right pedal -and pushing off -with the left foot, -she starts the -machine—not -perhaps without -a few failures -first, but <i>nil -desperandum</i>. -Independence -must cost something, -and if she -will consider, I -have no doubt -her failure can -be traced to one -or the other of -the above mentioned -causes. -But how tiring -the ride will be, -and how awkward -the whole -position, the -knees moving -most ungracefully high with each revolution -of the pedal—all defects caused by -the saddle being adjusted much too low.</p> - - -<h3>II.</h3> - -<div class="figcenter w400"> -<img src="images/i_120b.jpg" width="400" height="431" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>FIG. 2.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Now if she would only listen, I should -advise her to raise her saddle inches -higher until it is nearly on a level with -the turn of the hip, and, if still determined -to learn alone, wheel the machine to the -kerbstone or other eminence, to enable -her to seat herself in the saddle, and then -push off as before. Her appearance once -mounted is now greatly improved, and -when I tell her so, after enjoying a nice -little run with none of the previous -feeling of tiredness, she is quite ready to -listen to what further I have to say on -the subject. Seeing that it is quite impracticable -to always depend on the help -of the friendly kerbstone, we will try and -master mount</p> - -<h3>III.</h3> - -<div class="figcenter w400"> -<img src="images/i_120c.jpg" width="400" height="404" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>FIG. 3.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Having already learnt the importance -of the height of saddle or length of reach -from pedal to saddle, first ascertain that -this is adjusted correctly. When sitting<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">{121}</a></span> -erect in the saddle with the leg straight -and pedal at its lowest point, the heel of -the foot should be able to rest on the centre -bar of the pedal with ease. The saddle is -now so high that it is impossible to sit on -it with the foot still on the ground, so for -this reason "The Spring Mount" is the -term generally given to this method of -mounting. Taking a fold of the skirt in the -right hand, pass the right foot over the frame -and place it securely on the right pedal when -it is about half-way between its highest and -lowest point, the left foot resting on the ground -close to the machine and well before the left -pedal, stand quite central with the body perfectly -free from the saddle, then by standing on -the right pedal the machine moves forward, the -body is raised and drops gently back on to the -saddle, the other pedal rises under the left foot -ready for the next thrust forward, and the -deed is done, easily, steadily, gracefully, but -from the first there must be no hurry, no quick -jump for the saddle, or scramble for the left -pedal, but first the weight on the right pedal, -then the saddle moves forward under one, and -the downward thrust with the left foot -preserves the balance. This is the mount most -generally adopted, with more or less degree of -efficiency, and on the whole is really difficult -to improve upon; the only thing that can be -said against it is, that the first position -standing with the leg across the frame and the -foot raised is not particularly graceful. -Personally I much prefer mount</p> - - -<h3>IV.</h3> - -<p>The near-side mount. It is more uncommon -and infinitely prettier in my opinion when well -done, than either of the others, but it requires -a little practice to get the skirt to fall well. -Stand close to the machine with the left foot -on the left pedal, then firmly holding the -handles throw all the weight on the pedal, at -the same time springing forwards and sideways -to the saddle. In first attempts all the fulness -of the skirt invariably falls to the left; this can -be remedied as the machine is in motion by a -little forward movement throwing the weight -on pedals and handle-bar, then as the skirt -falls straight down, move centrally backwards -to the saddle again. Be in no hurry to reach -the saddle and the skirt will adjust itself. -Move well forward with the downward -movement of the pedal, throw the weight on -the handles as it rises, the peak of the saddle -will then divide the skirt as you take your -seat and give your first thrust to the right -pedal.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w400"> -<img src="images/i_120d.jpg" width="400" height="364" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>FIG. 4.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>This is worth a little practice, as correctly -done the skirt needs no arrangement with the -hand, and the mount is certainly quicker and -more graceful than any other.</p> - - -<h3>V.</h3> - -<p>Is somewhat similar, but is done while the -machine is in motion, and is therefore pre-eminently -the mount for busy thoroughfares.</p> - -<p>Walking on the left of the machine, give a -quick hop with the right foot, placing the left -on the pedal when in any position, then a -sudden pull on the handles, will lift one -forward on to the saddle without checking the -motion of the machine.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w400"> -<img src="images/i_120e.jpg" width="400" height="376" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>FIG. 5.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>This is a most useful mount for traffic and -for all occasions where a quick mount is -necessary. It will probably require considerable -practice to accomplish successfully, but -the feeling of complete mastery it gives one -over the machine is worth some little trouble -to acquire, and when the feat is accomplished, -I think you will look back on the learning -of a new method of mounting as another -pleasure added to the many enjoyments of -cycling.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w500"> -<img src="images/i_121.jpg" width="500" height="156" alt="" /> -</div> - -</div><div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="FILED_FOR_REFERENCE" id="FILED_FOR_REFERENCE">FILED—FOR REFERENCE!</a></h2> - - -<p><span class="smcap">He</span> had let love and life slip past him, and -now he lay a-dying, and love and life lay -behind him for evermore.</p> - -<p>Lying in his narrow bed, in the room which -in all his days of grinding work, he had never -troubled to make homelike or comfortable, -his thoughts wandered back over the years -with wearisome persistency. He had been a -successful man. The name of John Saunders -was known far and wide as the name of the -shrewdest solicitor of his day; hard-headed, -keen, practical—feared by friend and enemy -alike; loved, men said, by none.</p> - -<p>They called him "old Dryasdust" in his -own office; they declared that his heart had -withered away in the atmosphere of work and -in the squirrel round of business in which he -had lived. Some, indeed, went so far as to -say that Nature had never provided him with -a heart at all.</p> - -<p>And now he lay dying—a lonely man, in -his lonely chambers, looking wearily back -across his life.</p> - -<p>His grey head moved uneasily upon the -pillows, arranged by his valet into clumsy -discomfort; his eyes glanced restlessly round -the room, turning almost impatiently from its -severe dreariness, towards the window, through -which he could just see a glimpse of a tree-top -in the square garden.</p> - -<p>He was tired, most dreadfully tired. It -was a weariness to think, yet the busy brain, -that in all his busy life had never learnt to -rest, refused now to be stilled. Thick and -fast there crowded before his mind memories -of long forgotten cases, recollections of clients -long since dead, worrying details of business, -that had long ago been settled and done -with.</p> - -<p>His head moved again impatiently. He -turned to look for the lemonade which should -have been on the table by his bedside. An -angry exclamation broke from him. The table -with the lemonade was placed exactly where -he could not reach it; what was the use of all -his years of labour, of all the wealth he had -acquired, if now he could not even obtain the -common necessaries of life?</p> - -<p>The electric bell beside the bed was close to -his hand. He rang it furiously, and his valet -arrived, panting and breathless.</p> - -<p>"Why can't you put the things within my -reach?" the old man asked irritably. "Am -I to die of thirst, because you are careless?"</p> - -<p>The servant moved the table nearer to his -master, handed him the tumbler, and, in his -own mind, considered the pros and cons of -giving warning on the spot. A dim hope of -a possible legacy gave the cons the victory, -but the man did not remain in the sick-room -a moment longer than was absolutely necessary. -As he confided to the wife of the -porter, in the basement, "Old Saunders was -getting that unbearable in his illness, it was -hard to stand him."</p> - -<p>The sick man lay quiet after the servant had -left him, his eyes fixed upon the waving green -of the tree-tops in the square. A faint -curiosity as to what tree it was that he could -see, ran through his mind. Was it an elm, -he wondered?</p> - -<p>There had been elms in the meadow behind -the old Rectory garden where he had played -as a boy—great elms in which the rooks had -built year after year. It was a long, long -time since he had heard the soft cawing of -the rooks. He had a faint remembrance of -picking daisies and buttercups in those fields -under the elms, whilst the rooks cawed -soothingly overhead.</p> - -<p>A little smile flickered across his hard old -face. Perhaps the tree in the square was not -an elm after all. It might be a lime. There -had been limes in another garden, and the -bees had hummed amongst their blossoms on -that summer's day when—when—— Why, -how many years ago was it? Forty? Fifty? -Could it be forty years? He had been a -young fellow then, at the beginning of his -career, and life had been less crammed with -work and business.</p> - -<p>He moved restlessly.</p> - -<p>Yes! He had been able then to notice the -sweetness of a girl's eyes, to heed the music of -a girl's voice.</p> - -<p>Pshaw! It was utter folly to let his -thoughts wander to so remote a past. What -was the good of remembrance?</p> - -<p>And yet—— If he had not been so -wrapped up in his work, to the exclusion of -everything human and loveable, he might -now have had other hands than those of -Richard his valet to tend him. A woman -would have made his room look less like a -prison cell. A woman would not have put -his things just out of his reach. She would -not have been in such a hurry to leave him to -himself!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">{122}</a></span></p> - -<p>Again he stirred irritably. He hated the -sight of those rustling leaves now, even though -they held some strange fascination for him; -but they reminded him too strongly of youth, -and love, and happiness. And he had -wilfully put them all away from him with his -own hands. Ah! fool and blind that he had -been! And now—now, he was old and -dying—and alone!</p> - -<p>The door opened softly. Richard stepped -quietly in, and seeing that his master's eyes -were shut, laid a note upon the table, and as -quietly departed again.</p> - -<p>"Bother the man!" old John Saunders -muttered. "He seems afraid to stay with me. -A letter for me? Strange—very strange." -And he stretched out his hand and took up -the envelope.</p> - -<p>A faint sense of something familiar stirred -within him as he glanced at the handwriting—a -something which he could not quite recall -out of the past. He opened the envelope and -drew out the letter almost rapidly. It was -very short.</p> - -<p class='p2'>"<span class="smcap">Dear John</span>,—I wonder if I may still call -you that, after all the years that have gone -by? I would not have troubled you with a -letter now, but that I heard, only to-day, that -you are ill and alone. And I thought I must -write to you for auld lang syne, and ask you -whether you would let me come and see you. -We are both old people now, John; but let -me come to see you, for old sake's sake.</p> - -<p> -<span class="ml2">"Yours, as ever,</span><br /> -<span class="smcap ml4">"Joan Bentley.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>"P.S.—Did you never get the letter I wrote -you more than thirty years ago?"</p> - -<p>The letter dropped from his hands. The -keen grey eyes grew dim.</p> - -<p>It was strange that this should have come -just when the remembrance had returned to -him of the lime-trees in her father's garden, -of the bees that had hummed among them -forty years ago.</p> - -<p>His dreary room faded from his sight. It -was as if the walls melted into space, and he -could feel the warm air of July blowing round -him, smell the fragrance of the lime-flowers, -step upon the softness of the smooth turf -beneath his feet.</p> - -<p>He was young again! A man with his life -before him, and love within his grasp.</p> - -<p>He could see the tall hollyhocks by the -gate—the hollyhocks she loved. There were -tall white lilies there as well. The sweetness -of them filled the air, mingling with the scent -of roses that clambered up the old red wall. -The wood-pigeons cooed gently in the copse -across the road, and the rooks cawed as they -swung upon the boughs of the lime-trees.</p> - -<p>And Joan's clear eyes looked into his; -Joan's voice was in his ear.</p> - -<p>"Oh, John, will it be long?" he heard her -say. And his own voice, young and strong, -replied:</p> - -<p>"No, no, my dear—not long. How could -I let it be long, when I shall be working for -you? When I have made enough money I -shall come and claim you. Your father is -quite right not to allow a formal engagement -till then. But we understand each other, -Joan—my Joan!"</p> - -<p>Strange! How the years had rolled away, -and the world seemed full again, as it had -seemed then, of Joan—Joan, and only Joan!</p> - -<p>The vision slowly faded; the walls of the -dull room returned to their places, the noise -of the irritating clock on the mantelpiece -replaced the soft voices of the wood-pigeons; -he was an old man again, an old man who -was alone—and dying!</p> - -<p>But Joan had not forgotten. Joan's letter -lay upon his bed. She had remembered for -forty years; whilst he had forgotten everything, -except the work to which he was a slave.</p> - -<p>He picked up the letter once more and read -the postscript first—</p> - -<p>"Did you never get the letter I wrote you -more than thirty years ago?"</p> - -<p>Had he received it? What then had -happened to it? A puzzled frown puckered -his brow, as he struggled to recall the long -past incident.</p> - -<p>"I remember now," he exclaimed suddenly -and aloud—"I remember! She wrote to me -when I was in the midst of a press of work! -Her letter was filed for reference—my Joan's -letter filed for reference!"</p> - -<p>His bell pealed through the house, and -when Richard appeared, he found his master -partially raised in bed, excited and breathless.</p> - -<p>"Send to the office at once," he said; -"tell them to send me up the files of the year -—— immediately! And who brought this -letter?"</p> - -<p>"A lady called with it, sir. She said she -would return for the answer in about an hour."</p> - -<p>"Did she leave her name?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, sir—Miss Joan Bentley, she wished -me to say."</p> - -<p>"When she comes back, bring her up to -me"—and the old man sank exhausted on his -pillows, his eyes closed, but a faint smile -upon his lips.</p> - -<p>It was less than an hour later when a little -tap on the door aroused him.</p> - -<p>"Come in," he said, not opening his eyes, -till he heard the soft rustle of a dress beside -his bed. Then he looked up, but it was the -woman who spoke first.</p> - -<p>"Why, John," she said brokenly—"why, -John!" And all at once the shyness that -had assailed her as she climbed the stairs -slipped from her; the gulf of years that had -seemed impassable became as nothing, and -she dropped on her knees by the bed, looking -into the tired old face upon the pillow, with -wistful yearning eyes.</p> - -<p>He put out his hand almost timidly, and -laid it upon hers.</p> - -<p>"How sweet the limes smelt, dear," he -whispered, "and the bees hummed all the -time among the flowers."</p> - -<p>She thought for a moment that he was -wandering, but he went on quietly.</p> - -<p>"It was your letter that brought it all -back. You have been faithful—all these years—and -I—was a fool!"</p> - -<p>Her clasp on his hand tightened.</p> - -<p>"Did you forget," she asked—"did you -forget? Was there someone else?"</p> - -<p>The smile flickered out again upon his face.</p> - -<p>"No, no, my dear, there was no someone -else. There was nothing but my work—it -wrapped me round, it has made me a successful -man—and it—has spoilt my life! They call -me Dryasdust, you know," his weak voice -went on. "Somebody told me once that I -had no heart."</p> - -<p>"Ah, but it wasn't true," she said.</p> - -<p>"Wasn't it? I don't know; I was a fool, -and blind—I—but now it is too late, my -Joan."</p> - -<p>The little caressing words came strangely -from the thin lips, but the hard, old face had -softened in some unaccountable fashion.</p> - -<p>"Is it ever too late for love?" she asked, -and her hand touched gently the thin grey hair -upon his temples.</p> - -<p>"I have wasted my life, and yours," he -answered drearily. "We might have been -together all these years—all the long, long -years—with our children round us—and now—it -is nearly over. I am old, and dying, and -you——"</p> - -<p>"I am old too, my dear; perhaps it will -not be long before—before——" her voice -faltered and broke.</p> - -<p>"Are you old?" he said; "your eyes are -just what I remember, and your voice—it -seems to me you are just the same as when -I said good-bye to you under the lime-trees."</p> - -<p>"Did you never get my other letter, John?" -she said, after a moment or two. "I sent it -to you ten years after you left me, because—because -the silence was unbearable. Did you -get it?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, I got it; and I was busy—very, very -busy. It brought me the scent of the garden, -and the memory of you; and then—then I set -it aside for a more convenient season, and it—ah, -Joan!—it was filed for reference. Forgive -me—Joan!"</p> - -<p>Her caressing hand stroked his hair more -tenderly, though her eyes filled with tears.</p> - -<p>"We shall find it here," he said a little -later, when Richard had deposited a great -pile of letters beside him. "I was always -methodical in my work—the letter will be -here. Will you look for it?" His voice was -so much weaker, that she looked at him with -startled eyes, and the valet, returning, held a -glass of cordial to his lips.</p> - -<p>The two were alone again after that. -Amongst the pile of old and faded letters the -woman had found her own—the tiny girlish -scrap, written impetuously, in a girl's impatient -misery of long ago.</p> - -<p>"Send me just one word," it ran—"only -one word, to tell me that you have not -forgotten."</p> - -<p>A little bitterness surged up within her as -she read again the scrap of faded writing, the -old agony out of the past stirred once more at -her heart.</p> - -<p>"If I might make a daisy-chain for you, -Joan—my Joan! How the rooks caw to-night! -Do you hear them, dear?" The -weak voice spoke dreamily; the bitterness -in her heart died away. She laid her -face softly against the tired face on the -pillow.</p> - -<p>"My poor boy," she whispered—"my poor -boy!"</p> - -<p>"And the limes—are so sweet," he rambled -on. "I think—it is—the bees—that hum so -loudly in my ears. Give me a rose, sweetheart. -It—is getting dark—so dark for you—out -here in the garden. You must go in. -The wood-pigeons are quiet now, only how -white the lilies shine—against the darkness; -and the bees—the bees are humming still, -and the—limes—are—so sweet."</p> - -<p>For a moment the tired voice stopped, then -began again:</p> - -<p>"Never a someone else, my Joan, only you. -And the years slipped, and I forgot how fast -they went; we will have hollyhocks—in our -own garden, dear."</p> - -<p>The doctor, summoned by Richard, had -entered the room, but he shook his head sadly, -and moved towards the door.</p> - -<p>"There is nothing to be done," he whispered -to the servant, "we had better leave them -alone. There is nothing we can do."</p> - -<p>The room was very still, save only for the -laboured breathing of the dying man. The -woman's hand still softly stroked his hair; he -lay so quietly that she thought he had passed -out of consciousness into that strange borderland -which is Death's ante-chamber.</p> - -<p>The setting sunlight streamed into the -room and across his face; the twittering of the -birds in the square, the soft rustling of the -wind in the tree-tops, were borne in at the half-open -window.</p> - -<p>Suddenly the dying man opened his eyes in -full consciousness.</p> - -<p>"I knew you would not leave me," he -whispered. "I—said—a woman would stay—with -me, it was—you I meant. I—have -wasted my life—God forgive me! You have -forgiven, my dear—a faithful woman—has -forgiven—I think—God—will forgive—too—I—am -taking"—his voice almost failed—"my -wasted life—with me—to be—to be"—a -little whimsical smile stole over his face—"to -be—filed—for—reference."</p> - -<p class='right'> -<span class="smcap">L. G. Moberly.</span> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div><div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">{123}</a></span></p> - - - - -<h2><a name="OUR_LILY_GARDEN" id="OUR_LILY_GARDEN">OUR LILY GARDEN.</a></h2> - -<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 w300"> -<img src="images/i_123.jpg" width="300" height="467" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><i>Lilium -Speciosum.</i></p></div> -</div> - -<p>For the last three months cut blossoms of -<i>Lilium Speciosum</i> have decorated our table in -the centre of London, and have afforded our -friends and us real delight, creating subject -for discussion at the dinner-table such as we -have never known in connection with any other -cut flowers.</p> - -<p>Perhaps this has arisen from the fact that -the floral decorations consisted of flowers of -one botanical group only, making a truly -consistent nosegay, and creating from its very -uniqueness fit subject for special questionings -and interest. Of course in the group there -were several colours. The <i>Speciosum Album</i> -and the varieties of white, the <i>Speciosum -Roseum</i> with its varieties of lovely rose-colour, -and finally the deep and rich <i>Speciosum -Melpomone</i>. Nothing in the way of table -decoration could be more æsthetic and -cheerful-looking than an arrangement of such -blossoms, in which we find real white -mingled with a lovely purple red, and with -nothing but the right gradations of colour -between.</p> - -<p>In the days of old it was the custom to -group flowers of every conceivable colour—reds, -blues, pinks, yellow, and others; but -now we know better, two colours or three -being the most effective scheme for table or -bouquet effect, and in all our experience we -have never found any general appearance more -pleasing than that of our group of <i>Lilium -Speciosum</i>.</p> - -<p>One of the greatest testimonies to the value -of these flowers is that the buds will develop -and open into blossoms of their natural size -while in water in a close room of a London -square, and another reason for their value is -that they last two or three weeks if attended -to about every other day, that is, longer than -any other cut flower of our cultivation.</p> - -<p>A month ago we took up to town a bunch -of <i>Lilium Speciosum</i> from our little country -garden to garnish the dinner-table of a well-known -doctor on the day of his golden wedding. -There were, we were told, many other -groups of flowers sent by friends for such an -interesting occasion, but although many were -from hot-houses, and some were valuable -orchids, the group of <i>Lilium Speciosum</i>, so -easy and so inexpensive to rear, had the place -of honour, was admired the most, and lasted -the longest number of days.</p> - -<p>But we must not forget to mention an incident -which happened to us while carrying -this particular bunch through a City street -from the railway terminus. We became -conscious of a footstep close behind us, -and felt that someone was keeping close -to the flowers as they dangled at our side; -but walking on unheeding, we presently relaxed -our speed, when the follower made a semi-circle -round the bouquet, watching it greedily until -he faced it and us; then he turned and hastily -disappeared, but not before we recognised in -the London-dressed man a young and handsome -Japanese! The flowers came from his -distant land, and maybe reminded him of a -home, a mother, or a sweetheart, and all so -far away. We have ever since been ashamed -of ourselves for not offering him one of the -blossoms for a buttonhole.</p> - -<p>The discouraging news given at the end of -our first chapter led us to think: "Lilies -will not grow in pots, but some kinds do fairly -well in the open." "Lilies though suitable for -pot plants are unsatisfactory for the flower-bed." -Surely it is impossible to reconcile -these two statements. Either one or both -opinions must be incorrect. We must settle -this point, and we can easily do so by growing -lilies, both in pots and in the open ground.</p> - -<p>We have before told you that we have -ourselves grown eighty-seven distinct kinds of -lilies. We have grown them in pots and in -the open. We have obtained great satisfaction -from both.</p> - -<p>Few flowers are easier to grow in pots than -lilies, and as they form probably the finest of -all pot plants the culture of lilies in pots deserves -more attention than it has heretofore received.</p> - -<p>There are two ways of potting lilies, each -of which has its advantages and uses, so we -will describe both methods.</p> - -<p>The first method is the simplest. Take a -large flower-pot. No lily should be grown in -a pot less than six inches in diameter. Of -course the pot must vary in size with the size -of the plant it has to contain. <i>Lilium Concolor</i> -and <i>Elegans</i> grow well in six-inch pots; <i>L. -Auratum</i> or <i>Speciosum</i> should have an eight or -ten-inch pot, while <i>L. Giganteum</i> will require -the largest sized pot procurable or a small tub.</p> - -<p>One bulb only should be placed in each pot -if absolutely perfect plants are desired; but -very pretty effects can be obtained by growing -two or three bulbs in a large pot or tub.</p> - -<p>See that the pot is perfectly clean. Place -about an inch depth of crocks, stones, etc., -at the bottom, then put three inches of the -prepared soil in the pot, and over this place a -thin layer of peat, mixed with sharp sand and -pieces of charcoal. Take the bulb, examine -it, remove diseased scales and wash it in lime -water, as you did in the case of the lilies you -planted out last month. Dust it over with -powdered charcoal and place it in the pot -surrounded with sharp sand and peat. Then -fill up the pot with the prepared soil.<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></p> - -<p>In potting lilies, deep potting is to be aimed -at. No bulb should be placed at a less depth -than four inches below the surface. Large -bulbs require to be six, eight, or even twelve -inches below the surface of the soil. The -reason for this deep potting is that the flower -stems send out roots above the bulb, and it is -essential that these roots should be below the -surface of the soil.</p> - -<p>The second method of potting bulbs is -similar in all respects to the above, except that -the pots are not filled up at once. When you -have placed the bulb in the pot you add a -little soil, but leave the top of the bulb -exposed. When growth commences, which -will be shown by the appearance of roots and -flower stems, you fill up the pots with the -prepared soil.</p> - -<p>Established bulbs and bulbs of the hardier -lilies are best potted by the former method, -but for bulbs received from abroad, -especially those of the more tender species, -the second method of potting is to be -preferred.</p> - -<p>Now that you have potted your lilies the -question arises, Where shall you keep the -pots? For the majority of lilies the best -place is either a garden or a balcony. Lilies -are too tall growing for window plants and it -is totally unnecessary to coddle them up -in rooms.</p> - -<p>There are some lilies which will not come -to perfection out of doors in our uncertain -climate, except in very favourable seasons. -These kinds, many of them among the finest -of the tribe, will, however, grow admirably in a -conservatory or room.</p> - -<p>If lilies are grown in rooms, they should be -put out of doors every fine day, as they require -sun to mature their flowers.</p> - -<p>The lilies which are not sufficiently hardy -for the open air are, <i>Wallichianum</i>, <i>Harrisii</i>, -<i>Philippinense</i>, <i>Neilgherrense</i>, <i>Formosanum</i>, -<i>Nepaulense</i>, and <i>Catesbaei</i>. (With the exception -of <i>Neilgherrense</i>, all these lilies will -grow well out of doors in our southern counties -in exceptionally fine seasons.)</p> - -<p>November is over; our lilies are planted. -How are we to treat them before the flowering -season arrives?</p> - -<p>Lilies out in the ground require but very -little attention until the shoots appear. In -severe winters <i>Lilium Giganteum</i>, <i>Cordifolium</i>, -<i>Speciosum</i>, and one or two others, -should be protected by bracken or other -litter; but lilies stand the frost remarkably -well, and rarely suffer from this cause before -the flower shoots appear. Lilies grow all -through the winter, forming roots. <i>Lilium -Candidum</i> puts up an autumn growth of -leaves, and occasionally other lilies do the -same. When the shoots appear more attention -is required. Those kinds which send up -shoots in January, February, or March may -need slight protection, such as a hand light, -from frosts. As the season advances you -must guard against two great enemies—slugs -and drought. A dry April, not at all an -unusual occurrence, will often do great -damage in the lily garden.</p> - -<p>During growth lilies require a very large -amount of water. In a dry season it is a good -plan to water them every day. An insufficient -supply of water is one of the commonest -causes of failure with lilies.</p> - -<p>With lilies in pots only an occasional -watering will be required before the shoots -appear. As soon as this stage is reached -they should be watered daily until the flower-buds -appear.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">{124}</a></span></p> - -<p>If only we could guard against slugs! -These are the greatest of all pests to the lily -grower, and though there are many infallible -preventives against slugs used and sold, not -one of them answers its purpose. Soot is -usually regarded as the best agent to use to -prevent slugs from eating the tender spring -growth of lilies. The soot is thickly dusted -round the plant, and as slugs very much -dislike any powder which adheres to their -slimy bodies, they will not venture across the -sooty track. No, they will not cross the soot—at -least not until the soot gets damp, as it -does after the first heavy dew or shower of -rain. As soon as the soot gets wet it is no -longer a deterrent to slugs. Lime is also -recommended to be used in the same way as -soot; but it, too, fails to serve its purpose -when it has once become damp.</p> - -<p>Then have we no way to keep down the -ravages of slugs? Yes!—we have one way, -a very excellent way, but a most tedious and -unpleasant one to carry out. The only -effective way of thwarting the ravages of the -slugs is to pick off by hand the culprits, while -they are gorging themselves in the evening.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w450"> -<img src="images/i_124.jpg" width="450" height="640" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p>The stem and bulb of <i>L. Auratum</i> showing the relative quantity of roots given off -above and below the bulb.</p> - -<p>(<i>From a photograph. Reduced to a quarter of original diameter.</i>)</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Go out as soon as the sun is set with a -lanthorn and a gallipot filled with strong -brine, and visit each lily-shoot in succession. -You will see the slugs congregated on your -pets by hundreds, from the little tiny fellow -of one-quarter of an inch long, who is eating -your best lilies in order that he may grow into -a larger and more capacious enemy, to the -slimy monster of six inches long, who is -attempting to fill his vast maw with lilies of -great value. All are there, all devouring -your best specimens, as though you were -their most hated enemy—as indeed you will -be if you want your garden to look gay. -These slugs are not, as one would suppose, -dirty feeders, but they are gourmands of the -deepest dye. They are not content with the -outside or decaying leaves—not they—they -want the very tenderest tops of the young -shoots! When the lilies are about a foot -high, they will not eat the leaves at the base, -they must needs crawl up the stem to feed on -the tender growing top of the plants. But -now you can have your revenge. Pick off -with your fingers<a name="FNanchor_A_2" id="FNanchor_A_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> every slug you can see, be -he little or great, and put him into the brine. -The brine kills and dissolves them in a very -short time.</p> - -<p>Some gardeners place cabbage-leaves, etc., -on the ground as "traps" for slugs, but -alas! the tender lily shoot is far more tickling -to the palate of a slug than any cabbage-leaf!</p> - -<p>The damage which slugs can do to lilies is -incredible, and unless these pests are summarily -dealt with, every lily in a garden may -be decapitated ere the summer commences. -One reason why lilies in pots do so well is that -it is not so easy for the slug to get at them.</p> - -<p>The lilies are singularly exempt from the -ravages of animals other than slugs. The -aphides or green flies are, however, often very -troublesome. We will refer to this pest when -talking of the treatment of lilies just before -and during the flowering stage.</p> - -<p>The leaves of some lilies are sometimes -eaten by the larvæ of the Lily Beetle (<i>Crioceris -Merdigera</i>), but as this insect is a great -rarity in England, we will not describe it.</p> - -<p>There is neither animal nor plant which is -exempt from disease, and the lily has inherited -this universal tendency to disease. -There are not many common diseases of -lilies, and very few even of these do much -damage to more than one or two kinds. -But some of these diseases give great trouble -to the lily grower, and often tax his patience -to the utmost.</p> - -<p>Some lilies are very prone to a form of -mildew which, beginning as a minute spot of -discolouration on one leaf, eventually destroys -the whole of the foliage and flower-buds, and -turns a beautiful, well-grown, apparently -healthy lily into a brown slimy stick.</p> - -<p>This disease usually begins to show itself -about the middle of May. A small grayish -transparent spot appears on one leaf, and in -about a month it has spread and completely -destroyed the plant. Not all lilies suffer -from this disease, and of those which are -liable to be attacked, not all suffer to the -same extent. Of all lilies, <i>Lilium Candidum</i> -is the most frequently attacked, and in this -lily the disease usually destroys the deciduous -portion of the plant altogether. The other -members of the Eulirion group of lilies: <i>L. -Brownii</i>, <i>Wallichianum</i>, <i>Washingtonianum</i>, -etc., are also frequently attacked, but are -rarely much injured by it. It also occurs on -<i>L. Speciosum</i>, <i>L. Superbum</i>, <i>L. Canadense</i>, -and, indeed, most kinds of lily; but in these -it rarely attacks the flower-head and does -not, in our experience, do much harm. We -have never seen the disease in <i>L. Auratum</i>, -<i>L. Tigrinum</i>, or <i>L. Longiflorum</i>.</p> - -<p>Of the cause of this calamity we know but -little, but we rather think that it is often due -to growing lilies in soils which are too poor -or are exhausted. This, indeed, seems highly -probable in the case of <i>Lilium Candidum</i>, -the most frequently attacked of all lilies, for -it is grown by most people without any care -being given to it, and made to shift in a dry -sandy garden exposed to the full blaze of the -sun and scarcely ever watered. Where lilies -can have a good rich soil, with plenty of -water, the disease is very uncommon.</p> - -<p>Once established, this disease is very difficult -to cure. Syringing with solution of sulphuretted -potash, or of sulphur boiled in lime<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">{125}</a></span> -water, will sometimes stop it, but too frequently the disease runs its -course to the bitter end. If you uproot the plant and examine its -bulb and root, you will find both quite healthy-looking.</p> - -<p>There is another disease which, though not so devastating to the lily -garden as the last, is yet very exasperating and even more fatal in its -results.</p> - -<p>Here is a beautiful strong growing <i>Lilium Auratum</i>, eight feet high, -just showing its flower buds, and showing a large series of beautiful -glossy leaves. Next week we notice that the lower two or three leaves -are yellow and withered. Every day more and more leaves die, and -eventually what was once a beautiful plant is now a naked stalk with -a girdle of fallen yellow leaves and buds around it. Dig up the plant -and examine its bulb and roots. The base of the bulb is gone! And -its place is taken by a mass of evil-smelling pulp. Swarms of little -thread-like worms will be seen twisting about all over the diseased -portion. It seems natural to think that these worms are the cause of -the evil, but we do not think that this is so. The worms are the -result, not the cause of the disease.</p> - -<div class="figcenter w350"> -<img src="images/i_125a.jpg" width="350" height="621" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><i>Lilium Hookeri.</i></p></div> -</div> - -<p><i>Lilium Auratum</i> and <i>L. Speciosum</i> are the two lilies which mainly -suffer from this disease, but other kinds are occasionally attacked. -When once manifest, no treatment has any effect. Take up the plant -as soon as you are certain that this disease has started, thoroughly -wash the bulb in water, and let it soak in lime water for three days. -Then thickly cover with powdered charcoal, and replant. If you do -this the bulb may recover, and send up a good spike of blossoms next -year. If you have bought good bulbs, and have planted them as we -directed last month, you need not fear that you will lose many plants -from this disease. Of one hundred and six lilies which we had in pots -this year we have only lost one from this cause.</p> - -<p>Yet another disease to irritate and discourage the lily grower! -Look at this <i>Lilium Humboldti</i>. Its leaves are well developed, and it -already shows five flower-buds, but on closer observation you will see -that the stalks which support these buds are black and withered. Or -see this <i>L. Martagon</i>, which shows a head of twenty blossoms. Touch -these blossoms, or gently shake the stem, and five or six buds drop -off! These buds, you will observe, have a black rotten base!</p> - -<div class="figcenter w300"> -<img src="images/i_125b.jpg" width="300" height="618" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"><p><i>Lilium Roseum.</i></p></div> -</div> - -<p>This disease is caused by three or four causes. If the bulbs have -been planted in a poor or dry soil, or if the spot is unsuitable, you -will lose many of your lilies from this cause. Bulbs which have not -been properly ripened often disappoint you in this way. Again, if -you delay planting your bulbs till February or March, you must -expect to be treated in this way. But the most common cause of all -is the presence of mildew among the scales. You can guard against -this by paying attention to the methods described in our last number.</p> - -<p>There are three other ways by which lilies may disappoint you. -They may either not come up at all, or they may come out but fail to -produce flowers, or they produce flowers which are damaged and are -deformed or discoloured.</p> - -<p>The first of these untoward results is usually due to the bulb having -rotted in the ground. You can do nothing for this but bear the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">{126}</a></span> -loss philosophically. You should remember, -however, that some lilies, especially <i>Lilium -Longiflorum</i>, often lie dormant for a year, but -come up the next year better than ever.</p> - -<p>No lily will flower every year, and some -lilies require a year or two to get accustomed -to a new home. These will not flower the -first year. As a rule, when a bulb does -not send up a flowering shoot, the bulb itself -grows to a very large size.</p> - -<p>It is most annoying to see a lily which -promises well belie itself and produce either a -deformed or a cankered flower. The cause of -the first is almost always green fly. To this -we will refer later. The cause of the latter is -either too poor soil, abuse of liquid manure, or -continuous rain just before the flowers open.</p> - -<p>Lilies like the rain. If the weather were -arranged to please a lily, it would rain every -day from the time when the shoot appears till -the flowering period has arrived. But lilies -object to rain from the time that the buds -begin to change from green to white, or whatever -colour the bud will eventually become, -until the flower is fully opened. It is here -that lilies grown in pots have the pull over -those grown in the open ground, for if a spell -of rainy weather occurs at the wrong time, -the pots can be taken indoors or placed under -shelter, which is impossible in the case of -lilies grown in the open. But something can -be done for the lilies which are exposed to the -weather. The buds can either be wrapped -round with oiled paper, or else they can be -sheltered by an old umbrella tied to a stick. -By this latter means we have saved many -valuable lilies from disaster.</p> - -<p>Lilies vary much in their powers of enduring -excessive rain at the flowering period. <i>Lilium -Auratum</i>, <i>Candidum</i>, and some others are -nearly always ruined when they happen to flower -in a spell of rainy weather. <i>Lilium Giganteum</i>, -<i>Concolor</i>, <i>Tigrinum</i>, and many others stand -rain at their flowering time with ease.</p> - -<p>Do not be frightened at this chapter of -possible calamities. Although it comes so -early in our series, do not let it damp your -enthusiasm. These diseases have to be described, -and we have described them, but -though they are, unfortunately, far from uncommon, -if you grow lilies carefully you will -not lose many from any of these causes. We -have grown many hundred lilies, we have seen -all these adverse conditions, but they have -not damped our ardour. We lose a few lilies -every season, but then there are plenty which -give us full satisfaction; and lilies are such -gorgeous plants! If you were to lose half of -your stock, and the other half were satisfactory, -you would not complain at the result, -for the good half would delight you and your -friends as no other flowers would.</p> - -<p class='center'>(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div><div> - -<h2><a name="THREE_GIRL-CHUMS_AND_THEIR_LIFE_IN_LONDON_ROOMS" id="THREE_GIRL-CHUMS_AND_THEIR_LIFE_IN_LONDON_ROOMS">THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN LONDON ROOMS.</a></h2> - -<p class='ph3'><span class="smcap">By FLORENCE SOPHIE DAVSON.</span></p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER II.</h3> - -<p class='ph4'>THE PLAN OF OPERATIONS.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">As</span> we have seen, the incomes of our three -friends amounted altogether to £270 a year. -In the winter months the accounts for the -rent of the rooms, coal, gas, candles, and -similar expenses came to £1 3s. 6d. each -week, as the following accounts set forth—</p> - - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right">£</td><td align="right">s.</td><td align="right">d.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Rent of rooms</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Abigail's wages</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">6</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Gas-stove</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Oil for lamp</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Candles (½ lb. at 6d. a lb.)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Coals for sitting-room</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Washing-bills (personal)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Washing-bills (house linen)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right" class="bb bt">£1</td><td align="right" class="bb bt">3</td><td align="right" class="bb bt">6</td></tr> -</table></div> - - -<p>For about a month in the year the three -were away, Marion in her own home in -Nottinghamshire, and the Orlingburys staying -with different friends and relations. Ada -Orlingbury had only three weeks holiday in -the summer, and not quite a week at Christmas, -but was busy with her type-writing all -the rest of the year. Jane had a far longer -rest from her cookery classes than Ada from -her work, and Marion had longer holidays -than either. When all were away they paid -rent for their rooms just the same, but, of -course, had no other household expenses. -Marion was a very economical housekeeper -and understood how to keep down expenses -as low as possible, whilst still having everything -comfortable. We must admit that very -acceptable "helps" arrived sometimes from -their friends in the country. It might be a -large box of eggs, or a "hand" of pork, or -perhaps a bag of apples, but this did not -happen very often. Once a week they had a -dinner without meat, but this was no hardship -to any of the three, for all liked vegetables, -fruit and fish, and this arrangement made -things much easier for the housekeeper.</p> - -<p>Marion had quite grasped the fact that the -best way to keep down the bills was to -economise with the butcher's bill, for meat is -the most expensive item of all. They had -soup very often, as nice soup can be made for -so little. They indulged largely in savoury -dishes of macaroni and rice, some recipes for -which we shall give in the course of this -account of the girl-chums and their doings.</p> - -<p>Once a week, on Wednesday evenings, they -went to a choral society to which they -belonged, and, as they had to start at seven -o'clock, instead of sitting down to dinner at -that hour, they found it more convenient to -have a sort of "high tea" on that evening -and to have hot milk and cake or porridge -when they came back.</p> - -<p>We must not forget to say that on alternate -mornings they had porridge for breakfast, -which Marion cooked the day before in a -double saucepan, whilst she was seeing to her -other cookery and which was warmed up in -the morning. They generally supplemented -this with scones, which Jane, with her superior -knowledge of food-stuffs, pronounced to be -very nourishing. On Sundays they dined at -two o'clock. For this meal they often had -meat pie, as that could be made the day before -and heated, or eaten cold, as they preferred, -or they chose something that did not take -long to cook, such as cutlets.</p> - -<p>Marion found her path made easy by some -of the tradesmen with whom she dealt, who -were very accommodating to her wishes, and -never in the least resented her subtle knowledge -of ways and means, as they undoubtedly -did in the case of some other of their customers' -housekeepers of many years' standing and very -much Marion's seniors in years! Mr. Calvesfoot, -the butcher, for instance, let her have fat -for rendering down at 2d. a pound, and so she -was able to have a constant supply of excellent -dripping for frying and for pastry at the -slightest possible cost. She started her stock -with four pounds at the beginning, and by -straining it each time after using it, and by -rendering down one and a half pounds of fresh -fat each week and adding it to the stock, she -always had plenty of good dripping. To do -this she cut up the fat and put it in a saucepan -with a little water, and then let it cook until -the water had boiled away and the fat had -melted, leaving nothing but crisp little brown -bits; the liquid fat was strained off and the -crisp brown bits saved for Abigail, by whom -they were esteemed a great luxury. To others -Mr. Calvesfoot was adamant, and declined to -part with the fat under double the sum, but -Marion (who was asked the extra price at -first) refused to take "No" for an answer, -and asked him calmly why he could not let -her have it cheaply as well as the soap-boilers -whose carts she had seen waiting before his -shop early in the morning, and who she knew -only gave him a penny a pound for it.</p> - -<p>At the exhibition of so much knowledge -he was dumb, and fell in with her views with -much meekness, as no doubt he would have -done for his other customers if they had not -allowed themselves to be beaten so weakly.</p> - -<p>She always provided a hot dinner as she -found that, with proper management, it cost -no more than a cold one, and it was infinitely -more appreciated. She had learnt just how -much was required of any given thing, and so -there was no waste. The little that was left -over from their dinner was always worked -into the next day's meals, or else was finished -up by Abigail on the alternate days when she -had dinner at "The Rowans."</p> - -<p>Here we have the list of a week's dinners in -February.</p> - -<p>On Sunday they had a light supper at half-past -eight, consisting of cocoa, boiled eggs, -and bread and butter.</p> - -<p>Saturday and Sunday were the only days -on which they were at home to tea.</p> - -<p>The breakfast for the week, on non-porridge -mornings, consisted of brawn, which Marion -had made a fortnight before, when they had -had half a pig's face sent them from the -country. The brawn was excellently -flavoured.</p> - - -<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Dinners for the Week.</span></p> - -<p><i>Sunday.</i></p> - - -<ul class='center'><li>Beef and Kidney Pie.</li> -<li>Baked Potatoes.</li> -<li>Pineapple in Syrup.</li> -<li>Rice Mould.</li> -</ul> - -<p><i>Monday.</i></p> - - -<ul class='center'><li>Cabbage Soup.</li> -<li>Boiled Beef and Kidney Pudding.</li> -<li>Boiled Potatoes.</li> -<li>Cabbage.</li> -<li>Jam Tarts.</li> -</ul> - -<p><i>Tuesday.</i></p> - - -<ul class='center'><li>Irish Stew.</li> -<li>Apple Pie.</li> -</ul> - -<p><i>Wednesday.</i> (High Tea Night.)</p> - - -<ul class='center'><li>Stuffed Herrings.</li> -<li>Scones.</li> -<li>Cocoa.</li> -</ul> - -<p><i>Thursday.</i></p> - - -<ul class='center'><li>Potato Soup.</li> -<li>Curried Fish.</li> -<li>Ginger Pudding.</li> -</ul> - -<p><i>Friday.</i></p> - - -<ul class='center'><li>Stewed Rabbit and Forcemeat Balls.</li> -<li>Brussels Sprouts.</li> -<li>Baked Potatoes.</li> -<li>Swiss Roll.</li> -</ul> - -<p><i>Saturday.</i></p> - - -<ul class='center'><li>Brown Soup.</li> -<li>Boiled Potatoes.</li> -<li>Boiled Artichokes.</li> -<li>Tapioca Pudding.</li></ul> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">{127}</a></span></p> - -<p>The beef pie which they had on Sunday -and the beef pudding of Monday were both -made out of a pound and a quarter of beef -skirt, which, costing only ninepence a pound, -makes just as good gravy as rump steak, and -if cooked long enough is very tender. The -half that was used for the pie was cut into -rather thin pieces, and half the kidney was -cut in dice; then all was dipped in pepper, -flour, and salt, and put into a saucepan to -stew gently for an hour before it was used for -the pie. Marion always did this now, as she -had noticed that if the meat was put raw into -the pie, the pastry got overcooked before the -meat was done. It was not necessary to do this -with the pudding, however, as that could be -boiled for a very long while—in fact, was all -the better for long boiling.</p> - -<p>For the pastry for the pie she used half a -pound of flour mixed with a good teaspoonful -of baking powder, and three ounces of -dripping rubbed in lightly. Her hands seldom -got hot, so she made delicious pastry, and as -she was careful not to pour in too much -water, when mixing the flour and dripping to -a dough, it was not tough. She mixed in the -water quickly and lightly, using a knife to -begin the mixing and finishing with her hands, -keeping it as cool as possible while it was -being made, and being very careful not to -squeeze it, or work it about more than was -absolutely necessary. The pastry was rolled -out quickly and lightly, and the pie was baked -in a good hot oven, and it was voted a great -success. The pineapple needed no cooking, -being the contents of a sixpenny tin turned on -to a glass dish. The ground rice mould was -made with a pint of milk brought gently to -the boil with two ounces of castor sugar and -a bay leaf to flavour, two ounces of ground -rice were mixed smoothly with a little cold -milk while this was happening, and stirred into -the milk on the fire; the mixture was stirred -and cooked for a few minutes and the bay -leaf taken out, then it was poured into a -wetted mould to be turned out when cold.</p> - -<p>On Monday Marion made the quarter of a -large cabbage do for the soup, and the rest -she cooked as a vegetable. The cabbage for -the soup was cut up small and put into boiling -water for three minutes to take away the -disagreeable smell; then it was drained and -put with a small onion sliced, a bunch of -herbs, a small piece of butter, a teaspoonful of -salt, and simmered for twenty minutes; half a -pint of warm milk was added, and a beaten-up -egg strained in. The soup was then stirred -over the fire for a few minutes to cook the egg, -but was on no account allowed to boil for fear -of its curdling, as happened, alas! on one -occasion when Marion left her handmaid -Abigail to watch it for a minute or two.</p> - -<p>All stews were done in a brown earthenware -stewing jar that was one of her most cherished -possessions. While the stew within it was -cooking, the jar stood in a dripping tin containing -water in the oven; by this means the -contents of the jar never boiled, though the -water outside it might do so, and if the stew -cooked long enough it was always perfectly -tender. As the heat of the fire did not hurt -the look of the jar, the stews were always -served in it, which arrangement had the -double advantage of saving time and keeping -the dish hot. The Irish stew of Tuesday was -made with one and a half pounds of scrag of -mutton, three pounds of potatoes, and half a -pound of onions, all sliced and cooked gently -for two hours. There was a good deal over, -so it was used on Thursday, with the addition -of a few more potatoes, half a pint of water, a -gill of milk, and a piece of celery, to make a -delicious potato soup. The milk was added -last after the soup had been rubbed through -a sieve and re-heated. For the apple pie a -pound of apples of a good cooking sort were -used, and these turned a beautiful amber -colour in the pie. They had such a good -flavour of their own that no cloves were -needed to assist them.</p> - -<p>The herrings on Wednesday were boned, -spread with veal stuffing, rolled up, brushed -with milk and rolled in brown crumbs, then -packed in a greased dripping tin and baked -for twenty-five minutes. They made a -substantial meal; on the next day there were -one and a half one over, which were sliced up -and put into the curried fish. The scones -were mixed with milk that was slightly sour, -as they are always lightest when so made.</p> - -<p>The forcemeat balls that went with the rabbit -on Friday were made of veal stuffing, fried -separately, and served on a hot plate instead of -going in the jar with the rabbit. The Swiss -roll was made in the morning before the rabbit -was put to cook. The brown soup of Saturday -was made by frying lightly some pieces of carrot, -onion, turnip and celery in a little dripping, -and then pouring in the gravy from the rabbit, -and adding any pieces or bones that were left. -The lid was put on, and the soup simmered -an hour and a half; then it was rubbed -through a sieve, returned to the fire, brought -to the boil, and thickened with an ounce of -flour mixed with a little cold gravy.</p> - -<p>When Marion looked through her accounts -(which she kept scrupulously) on Saturday, she -found that her food expenses had been as -follows:—</p> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="right"></td><td align="right">£</td><td align="right">s.</td><td align="left"> d.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1¼ lbs. beef skirt</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="left"> 0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">½ lb. ox kidney</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 5</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">½ lb. mutton suet</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 3</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1½ lbs. scrag of mutton</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">10½</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1 lb. fat for rendering</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 2</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1¼ lbs. buttock steak</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="left"> 3</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Rabbit</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="left"> 5</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">6 herrings</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 6</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">8 lbs. potatoes</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 8</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1 lb. sprouts</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 2</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1 lb. artichokes</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 1</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1 large cabbage</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 2</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Tin cocoa</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 6</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1 lb. cod (tail end) for curry</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 5</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">12 eggs</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="left"> 0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Milk</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="left"> 9</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1½ lbs. fresh butter at 1s. 4d.</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="left"> 0</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1 lb. brown sugar</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1¾</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1 lb. loaf sugar</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 2</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">½ lb. bacon (to cook with rabbit)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 4</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Flavouring vegetables</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 2</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">½ lb. tin mixed coffee and chicory</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 9</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">¼ lb. tea</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 6</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">8 loaves at 3¾d.</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="left"> 6</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">1 quartern household flour</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">5½</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Sundries (ground rice for mould, etc.)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="left"> 6</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right" class='bb bt'>£0</td><td align="right" class='bb bt'>18</td><td align="left" class='bb bt'> 1¾</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p>With this account of her expenditure she -was perfectly content. Her aim was to keep -the money spent on food below ten shillings -a head, and this week she was well within the -margin.</p> - -<p class='center'>(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div><div> -<h2><a name="ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS" id="ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS">ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.</a></h2> - - -<h3>MEDICAL.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Esther.</span>—Feed the child on milk diluted with an -equal quantity of barley-water. Do not give her -any patent foods, as these are one of the most -fertile causes of rickets. A little meat gravy or a -very small amount of chicken or hashed mutton -might be given to her occasionally with advantage. -A teaspoonful of rich cream twice a day is useful -as a preventive from rickets.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Torquay.</span>—Why concern yourself with troubles which -may never occur? How can you tell that you will -have such anxieties as you suggest? The chances -are very much against it. Again, the measures -you mention are exceedingly prejudicial to your own -health, for many of the most intractable cases of -hysteria can be traced to this cause.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A Lover of Beauty.</span>—You should try either brilliantine, -cantharidine pomade, or a hair-wash made of -rosemary to make your hair soft and wavy. You -must not, however, be disappointed if you find that -no preparation will produce the kind of hair that you -desire.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nellie.</span>—You cannot expect a physician to know -what is the matter with you if you make a point of -hiding your symptoms. We can only tell you that -your trouble is probably either due to diabetes or -to some local ailment. For the rest you must go -to your doctor and tell him all about yourself. -Your trouble may be one which a very little simple -treatment may readily cure, but you may be suffering -from an extremely serious disease, which you -are allowing to run its course unheeded from a silly -conventionalism. If you do not like to tell your -own doctor about yourself, go to a stranger in a -distant part. But pray get someone to treat you!</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A Working Woman.</span>—It is never easy to be sure as -to the cause of noises in the head. So many unhealthy -conditions may produce this most distressing -symptom that it is quite a long work to -exclude all possible causes save one, and so to -come to a definite conclusion. You ask us whether -the noises that trouble you proceed from the ears -or head, but there is another possible cause of the -trouble that you have not considered; that cause is -anæmia. This is very commonly indeed associated -with noises in the head, usually surging, rushing, -or hissing noises. Moreover, the noises are always -more pronounced after exertion or fatigue. This -agrees well with your own account, and we therefore -think that as your general health improves, as -it will do with proper treatment, the noises will -gradually decrease and eventually disappear. The -fact that your hearing is not at all affected, is a -strong point against the noises being due to disease -of the auditory nerve. It is not, however, an -absolutely certain test of the condition of the nerve. -When noises in the head are due to brain disease, -they are almost invariably accompanied with severe -and frequent, if not constant, headaches. The -treatment that we advise is for you to attend to the -general laws of health and diet. As regards drugs -we think that you would derive most benefit from -tabloids of bone marrow. These can be obtained -from any chemist. The dose is one tabloid crushed -up in a little milk three times a day after meals. -They must be taken with great caution at first; on -the appearance of trembling, headaches or profuse -perspiration, the use of the tabloids should be discontinued -for three days. If taken with care, this -remedy is exceedingly efficacious and is perfectly -safe.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Little Village Doctor.</span>—Your friend is suffering -from one of those nondescript diseases which are -so common, so difficult to clearly understand or -explain, and so very refractory to treatment. We -are not all born with the same amount of vital -energy, and some of these indefinite illnesses which -last for so long a time may simply mean that the -suffering individual has not been endowed with -sufficient life. We can only, therefore, give you -some general information which may or may not -prove of value to your friend. In <span class="smcap">The Girl's -Own Paper</span> many articles have appeared on the -subject of healthy living; and during the present -year we hope to publish several more papers on -the chief laws of health. It is obedience to these -laws which is of utmost value in cases such as -that of your friend. It is doubtful whether any -drugs are likely to do her good. Those drugs -which partake more of the nature of food may -be useful. Cod-liver oil, maltine, thick cream, -or possibly bone marrow, might be worth a -trial.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jessie.</span>—Probably you are suffering from flat-foot, -and your doctor wished to take an impression of -your foot to decide what form of boot you should -wear. For the treatment of flat-foot is chiefly a -question of well-made boots which bear some resemblance -to the human foot. You will find an -account of flat-foot in an article on "clothing" -which appeared in last year's <span class="smcap">Girl's Own Paper</span>. -Puffiness of the ankle is very common in kidney -disease; but as the ankles may swell from very -many causes, of which kidney trouble is one of the -least common, it would be rather rash to conclude -that your kidneys were affected because your ankles -were weak and swelled slightly.</p></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">{128}</a></span></p> - - -<h3>STUDY AND STUDIO.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="smcap">A Rose Flower.</span>—We are sorry we cannot praise -the verses you send. What is the meaning of</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"If all His love I fully earned,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">He'd guard me every hour"?<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p class='noindent'>No one can be said to "fully earn" all the love of -God. "Saw" and "fro" do not rhyme, and -"lightning" is not spelt with an "e."</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Asphodel.</span>—"Memory" is the better of your two -poems. You have much to learn as to rhythm and -metre. Also you should keep your verbs (in one -statement) in the same tense. "The spring is -breaking" and "The earth looked forth" do not -correspond. It is difficult to draw comparisons, -but we are afraid your verses are not quite up to -the average of those sent us, although we have read -much worse attempts.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Smilloc.</span>—We should advise you to write to the -Secretary of the Welsh Male Choir, enclosing a -stamp for reply. We do not know the song sung -at High Wycombe. If you cannot trace the Welsh -Choir to any address, write to the Secretary of the -Flower Show, High Wycombe, asking where you -should direct your inquiry.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Montrose.</span>—The most beautiful volume of sacred -poetry with which we are acquainted is <i>Verses</i>, -by Christina G. Rossetti (Society for Promoting -Christian Knowledge). It contains 225 pages, and -the price is (about) 2s. 6d. There are many miscellaneous -collections, the price of which you can -learn from any bookseller, e.g., <i>The Book of -Praise</i>, compiled by Sir Roundell Palmer; <i>Lyra -Anglicana</i>, <i>Apostolica</i>, <i>Germanica</i>, <i>Christiana</i>.</p> - -<p>C. A. M.—There are a great many classes for correspondence. -We have mentioned in this column that -R. G. P., Fairview, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, -gives correspondence lessons at 1s. per lesson. -Particulars of instruction by correspondence can -be obtained from the Secretary, Association for -the Education of Women, Clarendon Building, -Oxford. There are also the Queen Margaret -Correspondence Classes; apply Hon. Secretary, -31, Lansdowne Crescent, Glasgow; and the St. -George's Correspondence Classes; apply to the -Secretary, 5, Melville Street, Edinburgh. We -applaud your wish to improve your arithmetic, and -hope you will try in one of these directions.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alexandra Carageorgiades</span> (Cyprus).—Thank you -for your pleasant little letter. The <i>Girls' Outdoor -Book</i> is illustrated. If your friend Miss -Mitchell reads this, she will know you send your -love to her.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wymondhamite.</span>—Many thanks for your suggestions. -We have already received answers concerning -"The Doctor's Fee," but are grateful to you for -your kind letter. Your answer and inquiry appear -in "Our Open Letter Box."</p></div> - - -<h3>OUR OPEN LETTER-BOX.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Violet</span> wishes to know the author of two verses -beginning,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"It is in loving, not in being loved,"<br /></span> -<span class="i8">"The heart is blest."<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p class='noindent'>We cannot find them among Dr. Bonar's "Hymns -of Faith and Hope," though Violet suggests they -are by him.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Briar Rose</span> asks for a book of recitations containing -"The Little Hero" and "The Sioux Chief's -Daughter."</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">We</span> have two answers to "<span class="smcap">Lennox</span>." One is from -"<span class="smcap">C. J. Hamilton</span>," who complains of her misquotation, -and gives George Macdonald's lines as -follows:—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Alas! how easily things go wrong.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And life is never the same again.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Alas! how hardly things go right.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'Tis hard to watch on a summer's night,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For the sigh will come, and the kiss will stay,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And a summer night is a winter day."<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>"<span class="smcap">Bertha</span>" sends us "the whole of the poem" as -quoted in a book entitled <i>The Everyday of Life</i>, -by the Rev. J. R. Miller, D.D. To the verses -already transcribed, which we ourselves recognise -as the only ones from the pen of George Macdonald, -she also adds that quoted by "Lennox" -and another.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"And yet how easily things go right,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If the sigh and the kiss of the winter's night<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Come deep from the soul in the stronger ray<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That is born in the light of the winter's day.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And things can never go badly wrong<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If the heart be true and the love be strong;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For the mist, if it comes, and the weeping rain<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Will be changed by the love into sunshine again."<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p class='noindent'>It sounds to us as if these two verses had been -added by some over-zealous friend, but we may be -mistaken.</p> - -<p>"<span class="smcap">Ninette</span>" (Budapesth) asks for an English book -containing "The Song of the Shirt" (Thomas -Hood), and also "Somebody's Darling."</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Assandune</span> asks for a recitation, "The Tired -Mother."</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">We</span> have also two answers to "Ethel Rimmer." -The poem by Christina Rossetti beginning</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"When I am dead, my dearest,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Sing no sad songs for me,"<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p class='noindent'>is set to music by Malcolm Lawson, and appeared -in the <i>Strand Musical Magazine</i> for 1895, vol. 1 -(June number); suitable for mezzo-soprano; so -says <span class="smcap">Clara J. Nicholson</span>. "<span class="smcap">Wymondhamite</span>" -says that the lines have been set by Arthur Somervell, -and published by J. and J. Hopkinson, 34, -Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, W., price 2s. -nett. "Wymondhamite" asks, on her own account, -for six lines by Helen Marion Burnside, enshrining -the following ideas in a birthday wish: "She commends -her friend to the love of God because her -own is too weak and too finite, and winds up with -wishing her as much earthly prosperity as is good -for her."</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Irish Shamrock</span> inquires for a cheap song-book in -which she could find the song, without music, -"Kate O'Shane," by Luiley; "Ellen O'Leary," -and "Dermot Astore." "Cast thy bread upon -the waters," we may inform her, is not from a hymn, -but is a line from the Bible: Ecclesiastes xi. 1. -The whole passage has been set to music.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Soldier's Daughter</span> informs "Kate" that there is -a poem on Kate Barlass called "The King's -Tragedy," by Christina Rossetti. Guided by this -hint, we have ascertained that "The King's -Tragedy" is by Dante Gabriel (not Christina) -Rossetti, and is to be found in the collected edition -of his poems. The Queen called out to Kate, -"Bar the door, lass," and she thus obtained her -name. Perhaps this poem may be the one required.</p></div> - - -<h3>MISCELLANEOUS.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>J. L.—If it be merely weakness of the eyes, bathing -frequently in a weak solution of vinegar and cold water -will be found strengthening; a change of employment, -writing being less trying than reading, and -knitting and coarse crochet-work than plain sewing. -When the eyes are tired and ache, change your -occupation at once; set the house or drawers or -books in order; take a turn in the garden, or a -walk out of doors, and look at distant objects. -Read our "New Doctor's" Medical answers on -these subjects.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chinese White.</span>—We regret we have not space to -give you the long list of printers and publishers for -which you ask.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss M. Carley.</span>—Married or unmarried you may -wear a mourning ring wherever you find it will fit -the best.</p> - -<p>A. B. C.—For getting rid of the pest of little red ants -that infest cupboards, we have recommended the -use of a solution of alum, but we have just been -advised to employ it hot. The right proportions -are as follows:—Take two pounds of alum, dissolve -it in two or three quarts of boiling water, and let it -stand on the fire until the alum has disappeared; -then apply it with a brush, while nearly boiling, to -every joint and crevice in your closets, wooden -bedsteads, pantry shelves, and also to those in the -floor, and of the skirting boards and wainscotes. -When you have your ceilings whitewashed, add -plenty of alum to the lime, and when your house -paint is washed, use cool alum water, which is -obnoxious to cockroaches. Sugar barrels and boxes -may be kept free from ants by the simple plan of -drawing a wide chalk band round the edge of the -receptacle, taking care that the band be unbroken, -or else the vermin will cross over the broken line.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Star-gazer.</span>—The largest telescope, at present existing, -is that at the Lick Observatory, having an -object glass of thirty-six inches diameter. Next -follows that at Pulkova, Russia, having a glass of -thirty inches. The next below that is at the University -of Virginia, of twenty-six inches. Harvard -possesses the fourth in size, with a twenty-four inch -glass; and the fifth is that of Princeton College. -That of Yerkes, the latest of the celebrated productions -at Cambridge, Mass., is rated at forty -inches in diameter. But all the American Telescopes, -even the last-named, are eclipsed by the -forthcoming monster of Paris, exceeding even the -Lick by eleven inches. It will be 186 feet in length, -and on view, ready for use, in 1900, at the proposed -<i>Exposition</i>. The image is to be received on a level -mirror, 75 inches in diameter.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Daisy.</span>—Do not be misled by the advertisements, -offering high wages to female emigrants, as domestic -servants at Johannesburg and the Transvaal. A -government "caution" has been issued.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Robert.</span>—You seem to be getting on very well with -your class of boys, and to manage them satisfactorily. -We can only suggest that you should -select a book for them occasionally, out of which -you might read, such as Dr. Smiles' <i>Self-Help</i>, -and also that you relate to them something about -brave and noble men like General Gordon and -many others. A boys' magazine will sometimes -help you to think of topics, such as the <i>Boy's Own -Paper</i>. You might get a penny number now and -then.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Curiosity.</span>—Why not take <i>Cottage Gardening</i>, published -weekly by Cassell & Co., price ½d. There -are plenty of small manuals which you will find -advertised in it.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John Dory.</span>—There will be another eclipse of the -moon this year, which will be total, and visible at -Greenwich on December 27th; but of the sun, the -two that are due will be invisible at Greenwich. -There have been three each, of the sun and moon, -this year. The first record of a solar eclipse is to -be found in Chinese history, and took place about -2169 <span class="smcap lowercase">B.C.</span>, in the reign of Shingkang, when the -unfortunate astronomers, Ho and Hi, were put to -death for not having predicted the phenomenon. -The famous eclipse, predicted by Thales of Miletus, -and which (according to Herodotus) interrupted -the battle between the Medes and Lydians, occurred -on May, 28th, 585 <span class="smcap lowercase">B.C.</span>; Sir G. B. Airy is our authority -for the date; as also for those of Xerxes, -<span class="smcap lowercase">B.C.</span> 478, and Agathocles, <span class="smcap lowercase">B.C.</span> 310. These are the -earliest of which we have authentic records.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A New Reader.</span>—The mirror glass used in painting -is silver-plated and bevelled. The latter makes the -work look richer. The glass need not be new, but -it must be thoroughly cleaned, either with spirits -of turpentine and a chamois leather, or covered -with wet whiting and rubbed away with the leather -when dry. Then polish well, and leave quite clear. -The tracing on the mirror is done from a design -with red carbonised paper, and then retraced with -a reed pen and lithographic ink to fix it for -painting. The colours used are the ordinary tube -colours employed in oil painting.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Fluffie</span> and <span class="smcap">Busy Bee</span>.—Recipes for rock, a cream -toffee, will be found in vol. xvii., page 695, and also -in vol. xviii.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Priscilla.</span>—At a double wedding the two brides go -up the aisle with their father, or brother if no -father be living, one on each arm. The bridesmaids -follow, the elder sisters going first. The -bridegrooms may wear white or pale grey gloves.</p></div> - - - -<hr class="chap" /></div><div> -<h2><a name="OUR_PUZZLE_POEMS" id="OUR_PUZZLE_POEMS">OUR PUZZLE POEMS.</a></h2> - -<h3>FOREIGN AWARDS.</h3> - - -<h4><span class="smcap">Prepositions.</span></h4> - - -<p class='center'><i>Prize Winners (Half-a-Guinea Each).</i></p> - - -<ul><li>Helen Shilstone, Ellangowan, Fontabelle, Barbados.</li> -<li>Mrs. Talbot Smith, Adelaide, S. Australia.</li> -</ul> - - -<p class='center'><i>Very Highly Commended.</i></p> - -<p>J. W. W. Hogan (Penang), Laura O'Sullivan -(Rangoon).</p> - - -<p class='center'><i>Highly Commended.</i></p> - -<p>Mrs. G. Marrett (Hyderabad).</p> - - -<p class='center'><i>Honourable Mention.</i></p> - -<p>M. Browne (Oudh), Elsie V. Davies (Australia), -Clara J. Hardy (Australia), Lily Harman -(Benares), Elizabeth Lang (France), -Maud C. Ogilvie (Deccan), Hilda D'Rozario -(Bangalore).</p> - - -<h4><span class="smcap">A Short Story in Verse.</span></h4> - - -<p class='center'><i>Prize Winner (One Guinea).</i></p> - -<p>Elizabeth MacPherson, Umbango, Tarcutta, -N. S. W., Australia.</p> - - -<p class='center'><i>Very Highly Commended.</i></p> - -<p>Lizzie Cameron (S. Africa).</p> - - -<p class='center'><i>Highly Commended.</i></p> - -<p>Nellie M. Daft (Portugal), E. Violet Davies -(Australia), E. H. Glass (Oudh), Mrs. Hardy, -Clara J. Hardy (Australia), Caroline Hunt -(Tasmania), M. R. Laurie (Barbados), Maud -C. Ogilvie, K. Prout (Deccan), E. Nina Reid -(New Zealand), Mrs. Sprigg (Cape Colony).</p> - - -<p class='center'><i>Honourable Mention.</i></p> - -<p>Ethel Beven (Ceylon), Winifred Bizzey -(Canada), Gertrude Burden (S. Australia), -Milicent Clark (S. Australia), Lillian Dobson -(Australia), Maggie Douglas (N. Zealand), -John A. FitzMaurice (Australia), "Gertrude" -(Transvaal), Lily Harman (Benares), L. Hill -(Argentine Republic), Miss Horne (N. Zealand), -Margie C. Lewis (Johannesburg), J. -McDougal (Jamaica), Mrs. Daisy McFedries -(N. Zealand), Mrs. S. F. Moore (W. Australia), -Mrs. E. E. Murray (Australia), Violet Sellers -(Portugal), J. S. Summers (Bombay), Mrs. -H. L. Thompson (St. Vincent, W. I.), -Herbert Traill (Bombay), Fred. Walker (W. -Australia).</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="footnotes"> - -<p class='ph3'>FOOTNOTES:</p> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> In our last number we will give a tabulated -account of the various prepared soils necessary for -each species both when grown in pots and in the -open ground.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_A_2" id="Footnote_A_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Some persons very naturally object to taking -hold of such slimy customers with their hands, but -their enthusiasm for their plants will soon overcome -such scruples. It is very tedious work to remove -these pests with sticks or forceps.</p></div> - -</div> - -<hr class='full' /> - -<p>Transcriber's note—the following changes have been made to this text:</p> - -<ul> -<li>Page 115: Worm changed to Warm.</li> -</ul> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. -986, November 19, 1898, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GIRL'S OWN PAPER, NOV 19, 1898 *** - -***** This file should be named 50745-h.htm or 50745-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/7/4/50745/ - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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