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-Title: The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 987, November 26, 1898
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-FROM LONDON TO DAMASCUS.
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-JERUSALEM.
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-
-Elizabeth and I mounted a camel and took our last _schimmel hauer_, or
-airing, in Jaffa the beautiful. As our ungainly steed swung up the road
-with us on his back, and a peculiarly contemptuous expression on his
-face, we became objects of much curiosity to the natives, who stopped
-to gaze and point at us. We were amused to see the women in their
-excitement stand with unveiled faces unmindful of the men, who equally
-excited had joined them. Their remarks on our appearance were not
-exactly complimentary. "Look at the Frangi ladies, how they sit! How
-funny they look! The Frangis are all mad! See, they smile!" We did not
-understand Arabic, and our missionary friend was too kind to translate
-freely, otherwise we might not have smiled.
-
-What a glorious morning it was! The remembrance of it now brings a
-delicious dreaminess over my senses. It must have been on such a
-day that Lothair and the radiant Mr. Phœbus journeyed from Jaffa
-to Jerusalem, when the lovely Euphrosyne "rode through lanes of
-date-bearing palm-trees, and sniffed with her almond-shaped nostrils
-the all-pervading fragrance." Sharon, the great maritime plain, once
-a huge forest, from which it takes its name, lay stretched before us.
-In the midst of its magnificent orange groves, its flower bedecked
-meadows, its peaceful cornfields, rose the stately palms, their plumed
-heads nodding in the faint breeze. Beyond, like an _Arabian Nights_
-Geni, the stagnant clouds rested on the peaks of the Judæan hills,
-while in sharp contrast the restless Mediterranean flashed a thousand
-brilliant lights. Even the dreaded black rocks at the entrance of the
-harbour were robbed of their terror by the soft sunshine. We were
-loath, indeed, to leave so lovely a scene, but we comforted ourselves
-with the thought of returning again some day.
-
-An hour after midday we had said good-bye to our kind hostesses, and
-seated in a ramshackle old carriage which threatened to come to pieces
-at any moment, were driving--save the mark!--in all haste to the
-railway station. Our road lay through the market, whose odoriferous
-Asiatic smells are particularly unpleasing to English noses. We thought
-our driver divined this, for he wasted no time, but with terrific
-shouts and pistol-like cracks of an enormous whip, scattered to the
-right and left everything and everybody in the line of route, and
-brought us up to the station in dashing style but exhausted condition.
-
-We had barely got on to the platform with our luggage when the booking
-office, as if by magic, was invaded by a howling screaming pack of
-men trying to force their way through a hastily closed door into the
-station. The voices of the officials demanding order were drowned by
-the noise, but the speedy arrival of a couple of stalwart Turkish
-soldiers armed with formidable-looking whips, which they applied
-impartially to the heads and shoulders of the unruly mob, soon created
-a dispersion, and peaceable passengers were allowed to take their
-tickets. This sudden raid on the railway station was made by a number
-of unauthorised porters, who had become a grave source of annoyance
-to travellers. The officials were determined to rid themselves of the
-nuisance, and the order of "No admittance" was being put into effect
-that day. The Arab seems incapable of learning obedience through any
-medium but that of corporal punishment. Whether he can be taught reason
-by less drastic treatment under a more reasonable form of government
-has yet to be proved. At present, the only law he condescends to
-understand is represented in tangible form by a powerful soldier armed
-with a weapon which he promptly uses, indifferent to life or limb of
-the offender. This measure, if not pleasing, is at any rate effectual.
-
-The railroads from Jaffa to Jerusalem, and from Beirût to Damascus, are
-justly considered to be the most valuable innovation from the West.
-The primary idea of the French Company who work them was, that the
-thousands of pilgrims who visit the Holy Land every year would use the
-line as a shorter and less expensive mode of travelling. The original
-idea has developed, for the demands of commerce require goods trains,
-and merchants are not slow to avail themselves of these advantages.
-Besides this, the railways have proved a powerful means of breaking
-down ancient prejudice and bringing the larger culture and refinement
-of the West within reach of the more ignorant but intelligent East.
-We found the train service moderately good, the officials civil, and
-the route pleasant and full of interest. We travelled for the first
-few stages in the men's compartment which was large and airy, built
-like a modern tramcar, with an extra seat extending the whole length
-of the centre; windows and door were wide open, the former protected
-by blinds, so it was not to be wondered at that we should prefer this
-carriage to the narrow stifling compartment reserved for the women. The
-advent of three ladies excited no comment, for were we not "Frangis"?
-And "Frangis" did extraordinary things! Our fellow-passengers were
-nearly all Orientals. Magnificently turbaned and gorgeously dressed
-Moslem gentlemen sat side by side with dirty, travel-stained pilgrims,
-and dirtier pedlars from distant lands. Jewish and Armenian merchants
-held lively discussions about the price of stuffs, while two German
-colonists discoursed on the approaching visit of Kaiser William. A
-wretched, miserably clad soldier-boy occupied a corner; he was going
-to join his regiment, and looked sullen and downcast. I offered him an
-orange, which he accepted, for the day was hot. I felt sorry for him,
-poor fellow, for well he knew that a Turkish soldier's life "is not a
-happy one."
-
-Occasionally stray brown locusts flew in through the door, "flopped"
-down on the floor and remained stationary, apparently dazed with the
-unusual sight and sound of the "iron horse" and its long tail.
-
-The arrival of more passengers of the masculine gender at a roadside
-station demanded that we should vacate our seats and retire to the
-women's quarter at the other end of the train. We accomplished our exit
-with as good a grace as possible, reflecting that Eastern customs being
-the exact reverse of those practised in England, we would show our good
-breeding by yielding to them--when there was no other alternative. In
-this instance the change was not for the better. The space was limited,
-and the air stifling, but the friendly native ladies made room for us
-and offered us a share of the nuts they were eating, the shells of
-which plentifully bestrewed the floor. Miss B., our missionary friend,
-and the ladies exchanged lengthy compliments, inquired minutely into
-each other's business and commented upon it, as if they were members
-of the same family. We discovered that these untidy, unshapely-looking
-females were the wives of the above mentioned resplendent Moslem
-gentlemen. Like good-tempered children, they seemed absolutely
-contented with their nuts and dolls--for as such they treated their
-brown-faced, dark-eyed babies--desiring nothing more in this world
-than to please their husbands, and to purchase the latest pattern of
-_maudeel_--or veil--imported from Beirût.
-
-We had now passed through the Wady es Sura and were speeding rapidly
-through the Valley of Rephaim, once the way in which the Philistines
-used to come up in the days of the Judges and David. Great rocks lifted
-their heads on either side, whose barren wildness suggested the home of
-the eagle and vulture. The sun was setting, and soon a shrill scream
-from the engine announced that we were nearing the end of our journey.
-We had just time to collect our wraps when the train drew up at the
-little station, and our ears were assailed with loud cries from the
-porters of "Jerusalem!" Before we had time to think, friendly hands
-grasped ours, and the kindly voices of Miss K. and Miss C. were bidding
-us welcome.
-
-How delightful it was to escape the noise and worry of an Oriental
-railway station! To know that all our luggage would be sought for and
-looked after by a well-trained servant! To feel that we had no care but
-to answer the polite inquiries of our friends! A few yards and we were
-crossing the Bethlehem road on our way to Miss K.'s house, which was
-perched on the top of the Mount of Evil Counsel. The impressions that
-short walk left on my mind will never be effaced. Before us, clothed in
-the magical light of the setting sun, rose the mystical blue wall of
-the distant Moab Hills, while at their feet the Dead Sea gleamed like a
-thin line of quicksilver. On our left stood Mount Zion, while beyond,
-Olivet, "the mount before Jerusalem," crowned with a white church,
-looked down on the sun-gilt walls of the Temple Area. The hum of the
-city below, the cry of the shepherd in the Kedron Gorge as he called
-his flock home, and the sharp quick bark of the dog, sounded indistinct
-and far away.
-
-I began to realise that we were in Jerusalem, and felt already the
-magic of its wondrous associations. It seemed almost incredible that
-we should be calmly gazing upon the very place where the world's
-Redeemer had "suffered and bled and died," and our thoughts were busy
-as we passed into Miss K.'s charming home to receive a second welcome.
-After supper Elizabeth and I slipped out into the garden and stood
-spell-bound at the lovely scene which met our eyes. The sparkling
-heavens high above us, the hills round us touched with beauty, while
-below, the City of our God lay shrouded in silver moonlight, like a
-babe asleep in the arms of its mother. Involuntarily the words rose to
-our lips: "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so is the Lord
-round about His people."
-
-The next morning we engaged donkeys, and with Miss B. for guide and
-counsellor rode round the walls of Jerusalem. There was no magical
-moonlight to soften and glorify the ruin and desolation which met
-our eye at every stage. Where was the beautiful city and temple
-which caused the stern Titus to weep because he could not save it?
-Gone! Buried beneath the seventy feet of rubbish which one day will
-be cleared away. And could that offensive pool, overshadowed by the
-public shambles, infested with scavenger-dogs, be "cool Siloam's shady
-rill"? Yes, and the poor little village above is all that remains of
-the town of Siloam. Even the olive-trees added to the dreariness of
-the landscape, for they were stunted and badly nourished. We were now
-riding up the Mount of Olives, the very road trodden by the Man of
-Sorrows. Loving thoughts and holy memories gathered round every step
-of the way till we reached the top and "beheld the city." I cannot
-do better here than quote from Dr. Macduff's _Memories of Olivet_.
-"So far as the Mount itself is concerned, thousands of scenes in our
-own and other lands are alike grander and more beautiful; there is
-nothing conspicuous in height; nothing picturesque in form, nothing
-remarkable in colour. An unconspicuous green swell, with triple top
-sprinkled with trees, and crowned with a Russian church; this, with a
-walled town fronting its western slope, studded with a few domes and
-minarets, at once and for ever took its place in the most sacred shrine
-of memory as the first view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives."
-True, there is nothing really beautiful about Jerusalem, according to
-our Western ideas. Its situation is fine, but the city itself is ugly
-and surrounded by "mountains" of rubbish. The Mosque of Omar occupies
-the Temple area, and Islam has taken up its abode in the place once
-dedicated to the true worship of Jehovah. But in spite of its present
-misfortunes, Jerusalem possesses a charm for Jew, Christian and Moslem
-alike, which no other city in the world can claim. Coming down from the
-Mount, we rode through Bethany, the home of Martha and Mary. It is a
-small village, and like many places in Palestine, disappointing to the
-traveller unless he looks away from the present to the past, and fills
-in the picture with the vivid colours of sacred and profane history.
-
-It is a mistake to suppose that the East never changes. The march of
-progress has reached Jerusalem, Western influence is felt within its
-walls, as the red roofs of the numerous Frangi houses and the glass
-windows of European shops strongly testify. Residents told us that the
-Jerusalem of to-day bears little or no resemblance to the Jerusalem of
-a few years back, except in its natural features.
-
-The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the chief place of interest in
-Jerusalem. A visit to its great porch carried us back to the days of
-chivalry, when the iron shoes of the Crusaders clanged on its stone
-pavement. Christian knights no longer are required to fight the Turk
-for the possession of the Holy Sepulchre; instead a strong guard of
-Turkish soldiers is always on duty to protect the Christians from the
-violence of each other. Fierce fights, and even bloodshed, are not
-uncommon among the various sects, Latins, Greeks, Maronites, Copts,
-Armenians, etc., who have set up their worship in different parts of
-the sacred edifice. The Holy Sepulchre itself is claimed and held by
-the Greeks, and every Easter thousands of pilgrims from all parts of
-the world worship at its shrine. We made our way one day with much
-difficulty into the narrow cave-like apartment, lighted with huge wax
-candles, and filled with adoring men and women rapturously kissing the
-stone slab which covers the supposed tomb, while a Greek priest stood
-by to receive the offerings of the faithful. We were glad to force our
-way out, but found some difficulty in doing so, the pressure of the
-crowd was so great.
-
-This Easter there were five thousand Russians in the city;
-impassioned-looking men and women, tall, blue-eyed and well favoured,
-they poured in day after day. We constantly met large parties covered
-with the dust of travel, each carrying his beloved tea-kettle which he
-filled at a running brook or neighbouring convent and boiled for his
-favourite beverage on the _semavar_, or copper charcoal brazier, which
-a friendly native would lend. Hundreds of weary miles had they tramped
-over the hot sand, under the burning sun, deterred by no difficulty,
-but ever keeping their faces stedfastly set towards Jerusalem. These
-Russian peasants have one great object in life, for which they save and
-work with an enthusiasm which never fails: to go on pilgrimage to the
-Holy Land, to touch the Holy Sepulchre, to visit the holy shrines, to
-be baptised in the Jordan, and to return to their fatherland empty in
-purse but rich in candles, vials of oil, unleavened cakes blessed by
-the Patriarch, and garments dipped in the Jordan, to be worn only once
-again--as shrouds.
-
-[Illustration: JERUSALEM AND THE MOUNT OF OLIVES FROM SCOPUS.]
-
-We once witnessed a touching sight in the Church of the Sepulchre. Four
-hundred of these peasants, all middle-aged and very old men and women,
-were toiling up the steps to the tomb, and with looks of rapt devotion
-kissing the sacred spots. One aged woman was carried on the back of her
-son, who tenderly kept her from being hurt. We joined them at their
-Greek service, and longed to be able to tell them the Gospel story
-in all its sweet simplicity. Their belief seemed to be a series of
-superstitions with very little foundation of truth. We were told that
-each pilgrim left with the Patriarch a gold napoleon (or French pound)
-as a gift. We often came across these poor peasants, sometimes in the
-convents where they were resting, at others in their churches, or again
-in the markets, and at all times found them courteous and gentle.
-
-Space would fail, if I chronicled all our doings, but we were never
-tired of going into the town and watching the people. Outside the Jaffa
-gate, huddled together in one undistinguishable mass, were always
-to be found camels, donkeys, horses, dogs and lepers. The last were
-terrible objects, thrusting their fingerless hands into the faces of
-the passers-by, begging for _backsheesh_, and drawing attention to
-their frightful infirmity. Poor things, outcasts because of their awful
-and mysterious disease! Inside the Jaffa gate, the bazaars attracted
-us. The Armenian and Jewish merchants eagerly drove their bargains
-with their equally keen customers, who unblushingly offered a third or
-fourth of the sum first demanded, and seemed to spend a vast amount of
-time and talk but very little money on their purchases.
-
-Mingling with the leisurely crowd of pedestrians, we noticed several
-dignified Abyssinians clad in spotless white robes, their commanding
-stature and intelligent ebony faces giving them a distinguished air
-which was very remarkable. Before General Gordon freed them they were
-slaves, now they are the "learned men" among the Moslems, and live
-within the precincts of the Mosque of Omar.
-
-The markets were thronged by numbers of countrywomen, whose dress
-excited our admiration, for it was always picturesque and often
-beautiful, differing entirely from that of the townswomen. It consisted
-of one straight garment, cut with much simplicity of style and reaching
-from the neck to the ankles, with wide hanging sleeves, which could
-be tied back when the wearer was engaged in household work; the
-material of which these dresses were made was sometimes cotton, but
-oftener thick native silk, dark blue in colour, striped with red and
-yellow (the front or vest being exquisitely embroidered by the owner's
-clever fingers), and secured round the waist by a handsome silk scarf;
-over this a smart scarlet cloth jacket, with half sleeves and of no
-particular cut, came to the waist; this also was elaborately worked.
-The long embroidered veil of stout cotton, capable of holding somewhat
-heavy purchases, was thrown over the head leaving the face free, while
-heavy silver and gold coins adorned the neck, arms and forehead.
-Stockings were disdained, but the feet were sometimes thrust into red
-Turkish slippers, though more often than not, these impedimenta were
-dispensed with. A camel's-hair _abbaye_ or cloak was sometimes worn for
-protection against both extreme heat and cold. The perfect carriage
-and fine figures of these women, who are guiltless of corsets, might
-well excite the envy of the fashionable Western lady, as with free
-and graceful step they walk barefooted for miles, carrying on their
-well-poised heads heavy water-pots, or baskets filled with market
-produce and livestock in the shape of cocks and hens. To the casual
-observer the dresses seem all alike, but a practised eye can discern at
-once whether this woman comes from Nazareth, or that from Bethlehem, or
-another from the mountains, by the set of the veil or the colour of the
-gown.
-
-The townswomen affect hideous modern French fashions from Beirût, and
-cover their tightly-laced figures with cheap jewellery, never omitting
-to pin the tiny watch (which seldom keeps time) on their bodices.
-Coloured stockings of a fearful pattern are worn, with a charming
-indifference to neatness, and gay little satin slippers with high
-heels, and rather the worse for wear, are added. For the street the
-pink or blue silk dress must be covered with the universal outdoor
-mantle, made on one pattern, but often of rich white or coloured silk,
-embroidered in silver or gold. In shape it is like a very full double
-petticoat divided into two equal parts at the waist by a girdle--one
-half forms a skirt and the other is thrown over the head, making the
-wearer appear at the back like a huge animated cottage loaf. The
-maudeel covers the face. Hats are reserved for the heads of foreigners.
-
-    S. E. B.
-
-(_To be continued._)
-
-
-
-
-ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.
-
-BY JESSIE MANSERGH (Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey), Author of "Sisters
-Three," etc.
-
-
-CHAPTER VIII.
-
-The photographic fever burnt fiercely for the next few weeks. Every
-spare hour was devoted to the camera, and there was not a person in the
-house from the Vicar himself to the boy who came in to clean boots and
-knives who had not been pressed to repeated sittings. There were no
-more blank plates, but there were some double ones which had been twice
-exposed, and showed such a kaleidoscope jumble of heads and legs as was
-as good as any professional puzzle; but, besides these, there were a
-number of groups where the likenesses were quite recognisable, though
-scarcely flattering enough to be pleasant to the originals. There was
-quite a scene in the dining-room on the evening when Oswald came down
-in triumph and handed round the proofs of the first presentable group,
-over which he had been busy all the afternoon.
-
-"Oh, oh, oh! I'm an old woman, and I never knew it!" cried Mrs. Asplin,
-staring in dismay at the haggard-looking female who sat in the middle
-of the group, with heavy, black shadows on cheeks and temple. The Vicar
-cast a surreptitious glance in the glass above the sideboard, and tried
-to straighten his bent shoulders, while Mellicent's cheeks grew scarlet
-with agitation, and the tears were in her voice, as she cried--
-
-"I look like a p--p--pig! It's not a bit like! A nasty, horrid, fat,
-puffy pig!"
-
-"I don't care about appearances; but mine is not in the least like,"
-Esther said severely. "I am sure no one could recognise it; I look
-seventy-eight at the very least."
-
-Robert flicked the paper across the table with a contemptuous "Bah!"
-and Max laughed in his easy, jolly manner, and said--
-
-"Now I know how I shall look when my brain softens! I'm glad I've seen
-it; it will be a lesson to me to take things easily, and not overstudy."
-
-"But look at the leaves of the ivy," protested Oswald, in aggrieved
-self-vindication, "each one quite clear and distinct from the others;
-it's really an uncommonly good plate. The detail is perfect. Look at
-that little bunch of flowers at the corner of the bed!" All in vain,
-however, did he point out the excellences of his work. The victims
-refused to look at the little bunch of flowers. Each one was occupied
-with staring at his own portrait; the Asplin family sighing and
-protesting, and Peggy placidly poking a pin through the eyes of the
-various sitters, and holding the paper to the light to view the effect.
-It was a little trying to the feelings of one who had taken immense
-pains over his work, and had given up a bicycle ride to sit for a whole
-afternoon in a chilly pantry, dabbling in cold water, and watching over
-the various processes. Oswald was ruffled, and showed it more plainly
-than was altogether courteous.
-
-"I'm sorry you're not pleased," he said coldly. "I aim at truthfulness,
-you see, and that is what you don't get in a professional photograph.
-It's no good wasting time, simply to get oneself disliked. I'll go in
-for nature, and leave the portrait business to somebody else. The girls
-can try! They think they can do everything!"
-
-Peggy looked at Esther, and Esther looked at Peggy. They did not say a
-word, but a flash of understanding passed from the brown eyes to the
-grey, which meant that they were on their mettle. They were not going
-to defend themselves, but henceforth it was a case of die, or produce
-a good photograph, and so oblige Oswald to alter his tone of scornful
-incredulity.
-
-For the next week the camera was the one engrossing thought. Every
-minute that could be spared was devoted to experiments, so that
-Fräulein complained that lessons were suffering in consequence. The
-hearts of her pupils were not in their work, she declared; it would
-be a good thing if a rule could be made that no more photographs were
-to be taken until the Christmas holidays. She looked very fierce and
-formidable as she spoke, but soft-hearted Mrs. Asplin put in a plea for
-forgiveness.
-
-"Ah, well, then, have patience for a few days longer," she begged.
-"They are just children with a new toy; let them have as much of it as
-they will at first, and they will tire of their own accord, and settle
-down to work as well as ever. We can control their actions, but not
-their thoughts; and I'm afraid if I forbade photography at present,
-you would find them no more interested in lessons. I fancy there is
-something especially engrossing on hand this week, and we might as well
-let them have it out."
-
-Even Mrs. Asplin, however, hardly realised the thoroughness with
-which the girls were setting to work to achieve their end. They held
-a committee meeting on Esther's bed, sitting perched together in
-attitudes of inelegant comfort, with arms encircling their knees,
-and chins resting on the clasped hands, wherein it was proposed and
-seconded that Peggy, the artistic, should pose and take the sitters,
-while Esther, the accurate, should undertake the after processes.
-
-"And what am I to do?" cried Mellicent plaintively, and her elders
-smiled upon her with patronising encouragement.
-
-"You shall wash up all the trays and glasses, and put them neatly away."
-
-"You shall carry the heavy things, dear, and stand to me for your
-back hair. I think I could make a really good effect with your back
-hair." Peggy put her head on one side and stared at the flaxen mane
-in speculative fashion. "A long muslin gown--a wreath of flowers--a
-bunch of lilies in your hands! If you weren't so fat, you would do
-splendiforously for Ophelia. I might manage it perhaps if I took you
-from the back, with your head turned over your shoulder, so as to
-show only the profile. Like that! Don't move now, but let me see how
-you look." She took Mellicent's head between her hands as she spoke,
-wagged it to and fro, as if it belonged to a marionette, and then gave
-a frog-like leap to a further corner of the bed to study the effect. "A
-little more to the right. Chin higher! Look at the ceiling. Yes--es--I
-can do it. I see how it can be done."
-
-It turned out, indeed, that Peggy had a genius for designing and
-posing pretty, graceful pictures. With a few yards of muslin and a
-basket or such odds and ends of rubbish as horrified Esther's tidy
-soul to behold, she achieved marvels in the way of fancy costumes, and
-transformed the placid Mellicent into a dozen different characters:
-Ophelia, crowned with flowers; Marguerite, pulling the petals of a
-daisy; Hebe, bearing a basket of fruit on her head, and many other
-fanciful impersonations were improvised and taken before the week
-was over. She went about the work in her usual eager, engrossed,
-happy-go-lucky fashion, sticking pins by the dozen into Mellicent's
-flesh in the ardour of arrangement, and often making a really charming
-picture, only to spoil it at the last moment by a careless movement,
-which altered the position of the camera, and so omitted such important
-details as the head of the sitter, or left her squeezed into one corner
-of the picture, like a sparrow on the house-top.
-
-Out of a dozen photographs, three, however, were really remarkable
-successes; as pretty pictures as one could wish to see, and moreover
-exceedingly good likenesses of the bonnie little subject. Esther's part
-of the work was performed with her usual conscientious care; and when
-the last prints were mounted, the partners gazed at them with rapture
-and pride. They were exhibited at the dinner-table the same evening
-amid a scene of riotous excitement. The Vicar glowed with pleasure;
-Mrs. Asplin called out, "Oh, my baby! Bless her heart!" and whisked
-away two tears of motherly pride. Oswald was silent and subdued; and
-even Robert said, "Humph--it's not so bad," a concession which turned
-the girls' heads by its wonderful magnanimity.
-
-Their triumph was almost sweeter than they had expected; but, truth to
-tell, they had had too much of photography during the last week, and
-Mrs. Asplin's prophecy came true, inasmuch as it now ceased to become
-an occupation of absorbing interest, and assumed its rightful place as
-an amusement to be enjoyed now and then, as opportunity afforded.
-
-By the beginning of October Peggy had quite settled down in her new
-home, and had established her right to be Arthur Saville's sister
-by convulsing the quiet household with her tricks and capers. She
-was affectionate, obedient, and strictly truthful; her prim little
-face, grandiose expressions, and merry ways, made her a favourite
-with everyone in the house, from the Vicar, who loved to converse
-with her in language even more high-flown than her own, to the old,
-north-country cook, who confided in the housemaid that she "fair-ly
-did love that little thing," and manœuvred to have apple charlotte for
-dinner as often as possible, because the "little thing" had praised
-her prowess in that direction, and commended the charlotte as a
-"delicious confection." Mrs. Asplin was specially tender over the girl
-who had been left in her charge, and in return, Peggy was all that was
-sweet and affectionate; vowed that she could never do enough to repay
-such kindness, and immediately fell into a fresh pickle, and half
-frightened the life out of her companions by her hairbreadth escapes.
-Her careless, happy-go-lucky ways seemed all the more curious because
-of the almost Quaker-like neatness of her appearance. Mellicent was
-often untidy, and even Esther had moments of dishevelment, but Peggy
-was a dainty little person, whose hair was always smooth, whose dress
-well brushed and natty. Her artistic sense was too keen to allow of any
-shortcoming in this respect, but she seemed blessed with a capacity
-of acting before she thought, which had many disastrous consequences.
-She was by no means a robust girl, and Mrs. Asplin fussed over her
-little ailments like an old mother hen with a delicate nursling. One
-prescription after another was unearthed for her benefit, until the
-washstand in her room looked like a small chemist's shop. An array of
-doctor's tinctures, gargles and tonics stood on one side, while on the
-other were a number of home-made concoctions in disused wine bottles,
-such as a paregoric cough-mixture, a hair wash, and a cooling draught
-to be taken the first thing in the morning, which last pretended to be
-lemonade, but in reality contained a number of medicinal powders. "Take
-it up tenderly, treat it with care!" was Peggy's motto with respect to
-this last medicine, for she had discovered that by judicious handling,
-it was possible to enjoy a really tasty beverage, and to leave the
-sediment untouched at the bottom of the bottle!
-
-Esther and Mellicent were almost equally well supplied by their anxious
-mother, but their bottles behaved in a sober, well-regulated fashion,
-and never took upon themselves to play tricks, while those in Peggy's
-room seemed infected by the spirit of the owner, and amused themselves
-with seeing how much mischief they could accomplish. A bottle of
-ammonia had been provided as a cure for bites of gnats and flies;
-Peggy flicked a towel more hastily than usual, and down it went, the
-contents streaming over the wood, and splashing on to the wardrobe
-near at hand, with the consequence that every sign of polish was
-removed, and replaced by white unsightly stains. The glass stopper of
-a smelling-salts bottle became fixed in its socket, and being anointed
-with oil and placed before the fire to melt, popped out suddenly with
-a noise as of a cannon shot, aimed accurately for the centre of the
-mirror, and smashed it into a dozen pieces. The "safety ink-pot," out
-of which she indited her letters to her mother, came unfastened of its
-own accord and rolled up and down the clean white toilet cover. This,
-at least, was the impression left by Peggy's innocent protestations,
-while the gas and soap seemed equally obstinate, the one refusing to be
-lowered when she left the room, and the other insisting upon melting
-itself to pieces in her morning bath.
-
-(_To be continued._)
-
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-
-
-
-
-THE RESULT OF OUR HOLIDAYS NEEDLEWORK COMPETITION.
-
-
-In some respects the result of this competition has been satisfactory.
-The competitors carefully observed the rules, the sewing was in many
-cases most excellent, the neatness and finish conspicuous. Many of the
-articles were made so well that we felt quite proud to think our girls
-could turn out such good work.
-
-The care as to details pleased us very much, for that was given in
-all but a few exceptions. It was so nice to see how firmly buttons
-were sewn on, button-holes made so well, and seams carefully overcast
-or pinked, raw edges protected by tidy button-hole stitches. Then,
-too, we were glad to note, that although intended for the very poor,
-the workers had not fallen into the common error of selecting ugly
-materials for their articles. Very few of the stuffs used were anything
-but suitable, serviceable, and pretty rather than not, the way in which
-the blouses especially were made being quite satisfactory.
-
-There were a few carelessly made articles where bad sewing, most
-inappropriate trimming--eminently one overall with extremely common
-imitation fur, the cotton back of which was visible and very
-untidy--disqualified for prizes or even honourable mention.
-
-We were much disappointed to find that there were only two flannel
-petticoats sent in, and no serge underskirts at all! Certainly the
-younger members of our readers have not shown much interest in the
-competition. The two petticoats sent were so good that the first prize
-was divided between them.
-
-There were not nearly as many competitors altogether as we hoped for,
-and that was the unsatisfactory part, for really our belief in our
-girls' desire to help the poor was very deeply rooted. We also hoped
-that more would have been spurred on by the chance of a prize to send
-in some article.
-
-
-FOR GIRLS UNDER FOURTEEN.
-
-_Flannel Petticoat._
-
-First prize, one guinea, divided between--
-
- Marion Wilson Rankin, Shirgarton, North Mount Vernon, Glasgow, and
- Eleanor Dorothy Pimm, Linholme, 40, George Road, Edgbaston.
-
-
-FOR GIRLS OVER FOURTEEN.
-
-_Child's Overall._
-
-First prize of one guinea--
-
- Anna Mörner, Tonstorp, Sweden.
-
-The second prize of half-a-guinea is divided between--
-
- Mabel Weller, North Shields, and
- Leila Mary Bowen, Ludlow.
-
-
-FOR GIRLS OVER EIGHTEEN.
-
-_Girl's Blouse._
-
-First prize of one guinea--
-
- Miss Clara L. Wiles, Cambridge.
-
-Second prize of half-a-guinea--
-
- Miss Urqhuhart, Glasgow.
-
-So many of the blouses merited special commendation that we give a list
-of--
-
-
-HONOURABLE MENTION.
-
-Rose Baiden, Daisy Clarke, E. Morris, Eleanor Groves, Winifred Hopton,
-Eva Davenport, Janet Lamb, A. M. Deacon, Ida A. Browne, Nellie Cannon,
-Emily White, Mabel Barr, Carrie M. Anthony, Margaret Beckett, Alice M.
-Hewitt, E. M. Corke, Alethea Bate.
-
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-
-
-
-
-LESSONS FROM NATURE.
-
-BY JEAN A. OWEN, Author of "Forest, Field and Fell," etc.
-
-
-CHAPTER II.
-
-THE INDUSTRIOUS BEAVER.
-
-The part played by some of the different species in the animal world
-(_sic_), in the development of our earth and its resources, cannot be
-over-estimated. In some parts of America, for instance, the persistent
-industry of beavers in the construction of dams has rendered fertile
-whole tracts of prairie land that were once arid and barren.
-
-In the _Castoridae_, together with the squirrels, the beaver family
-constitute the group termed _Sciuromorpha_, a group distinguished by
-its members having a special type of lower jaw structure, and also the
-same type of skull structure. The powerful incisor teeth of the beaver
-are admirably suited to the cutting through of small tree stems, of
-branches and twigs, whilst its flat and scaly tail serves as a rudder
-to a creature that always makes its home beside or in the midst of
-water.
-
-The beaver is as much noted for its sagacity, and for what nowadays we
-call "faculty," as it is prized for its fur. One of the largest of the
-rodents, its body measures nearly three and a half feet in length, not
-taking the tail into consideration, which is eleven to twelve inches in
-length.
-
-An attempt has been made to acclimatise the beaver in England again.
-That it once bred in our country is proved by the fact that some fossil
-remains of the animal have been obtained from the crag deposits in
-Norfolk and Suffolk. These were, however, declared by Professor Owen to
-have belonged to a much larger species of beaver than is now known. Sir
-Edmund Loder has a number of the common species established in a little
-valley stream in his estate, Leonard's Lea, near Horsham, carefully
-protected, which are said to be thriving, and Lord Bute had a still
-larger number established in Scotland; but it is not likely that they
-will ever be at home in our country again. Whilst badgers and others
-have had so much difficulty in holding their own, it is not likely
-that the beaver could breed and thrive unmolested. Whilst writing the
-present article, I have heard from Lord Bute that the last of his
-beavers died some time ago.
-
-In other parts of Europe it is found now only in small numbers, on
-the banks of the Danube, the Rhone, and the Weser. In the northern
-districts of Canada it is very numerous. Its range in America is from
-the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi to the banks of the
-Mackenzie River. At one time the demand for the fur--greatly in vogue
-in those days for men's hats--was so large that it was feared this
-clever little creature might become extinct, and the noted furriers of
-the Hudson Bay Company took measures, in concert with certain Indian
-tribes, for its protection, whilst still procuring large quantities of
-its fur.
-
-The most interesting feature in the natural history of the beaver is
-their amazing skill in the construction of their dams and the dwellings
-they make for themselves--"lodges," these are called. They are often
-constructed in small rivers and creeks where the water is apt to be
-drained off, when the supplies are dried up by winter frost. I spent
-some time in Colorado near to a part of the Rockies where beavers
-abounded, and where they were a never-failing source of interest to the
-young folks in my friend's family. In Montana also they abound in vast
-numbers. One of its counties is named Beaver Head.
-
-What we--in our ignorance of the inner life of those creatures who have
-always shared the rich heritage of this world with ourselves--term
-instinct, has taught the beavers to provide against drought, and to
-keep up a certain necessary depth of water, by making a dam right
-across these smaller rivers just at what they know to be a convenient
-distance from their houses. The manner in which they construct this
-depends on the locality where they live. If the current is not
-strong--if there is only a slight motion of the water--the dam is
-made almost straight; but in proportion as the stream is a rapid one,
-the dam must be more curved, presenting its convex side towards the
-current. Where beavers have been allowed to build for a long period
-undisturbed, their dams become in time, through the persistent industry
-with which they repair them, a bank so solid that it resists quite
-a strong on-rush of water or even of ice. Vegetation plants itself
-on this--willows, birches, and poplar-trees take root. Sometimes so
-large a thicket is formed that birds build there, and the whole makes
-a charming colony of happy and busy life. The dams are built in some
-rivers of trees which are often five or six inches in diameter. These
-the beaver cuts down with his wonderful sharp incisor teeth.
-
-In lakes and ponds also the beavers have their habitat. They like much
-the narrow creeks which so often connect the lakes of North America.
-The currents help them to convey the wood and other materials to their
-dwellings. A certain depth of water is, of course, necessary for their
-purpose. Driftwood is utilised by them in building, as well as the
-green boughs of willows, birches, and poplars. But mud and stones are
-used also, welded all firmly together, and the different parts of the
-dam must, of course, be of equal strength. In the same manner, that is,
-of the same materials, they construct their dwellings, but they are
-not built with equal care; their construction is rougher than that of
-the dams. The only thing essential in the work is that they should be
-made watertight, so that they may have dry sleeping-quarters. Sometimes
-a house is just big enough for one family, but larger dwellings are
-also made, such as will house a great number of animals. When this
-is the case, each family has its own apartment, with a separate door
-communicating only with the water, never with the home of any other
-family. The wood is laid crosswise, nearly horizontal, leaving a cavity
-in the centre. The smaller branches, that project uselessly, are cut
-off with the teeth, and they are thrown in with the rest to form a good
-safeguard against any falling in of the mud through the roof.
-
-Once it was believed that the woodwork was first finished, and that
-then it was plastered, the tail being used as a trowel for this
-purpose. But this was a popular error. The tail is used as a rudder,
-and like that of a dog, is a vehicle for emotion. It is flapped even
-when a beaver has been tamed and domesticated, especially when the
-creature is startled. They have a very pretty way of carrying mud and
-stones in their little fore-paws, holding them close up under the
-throat. The wood naturally is dragged along, held in the teeth. All
-their work is done in the night-time, a charming sight for a lover of
-animals, if he can quietly remain concealed near enough for observation
-on a clear calm night.
-
-A wonderful instinct, so-called, again prompts the beavers to cover
-their houses each autumn with fresh mud--as late in the season as they
-can manage it--so that it may freeze hard and keep them secure against
-their foe, the wolverine, a creature about the size of our common
-badger, which is much about during the winter. Wolverines are said to
-do more damage to the fur trade in smaller animals than all the other
-creatures of prey put together.
-
-Their lodges are kept clean, their inhabitants always plunging into the
-water instead of polluting their sleeping quarters.
-
-Sir John Richardson states that their main food consists of a large
-root, something like a cabbage stalk, which grows at the bottom of
-lakes and rivers, a yellow water-lily in fact--_Nuphar luteum_. But
-they eat also the bark of trees--that of the poplar, birch and willow.
-The latter, however, they cannot procure in winter, when the ice
-prevents their getting to land, so that roots are then their staple
-food. In summer the diet is varied by the different kinds of herbage
-and the berries growing near their haunts. In the part of Colorado I
-have already referred to, above what is called Hardscrabble Creek,
-in Fremont County, wild fruits, gooseberries, currants, raspberries,
-and other berries are in profusion. When the ice breaks up in the
-spring, the beavers always leave their homes to roam about until the
-approaching fall of the leaf makes them return; and after laying in
-their winter stock of wood, they then set to work to repair their homes.
-
-The Indians consider beaver flesh a delicacy, and they prefer to bake
-it with the skin on, as our gipsies roast the hedgehog. It is a heavy
-meat, much like pork, hard to digest.
-
-The author already mentioned tamed several of them, and he got them to
-answer to their names and to follow him about like dogs. They were, he
-said, very fond of being petted and fondled, creeping into the laps of
-the Indian women and standing on their hind legs to be caressed. They
-lived indoors with the women and children during the winter, and if
-these were absent for any length of time, the beavers quite fretted
-after them. So domesticated did they become that they particularly
-enjoyed rice and plum pudding, and, indeed, shared generally the food
-of the women. The cry of a beaver cub is very like that of an infant.
-
-The American poet, Whittier, says--
-
-    "The musk-rat plied its mason's trade,
-    And tier by tier its mud walls laid."
-
-The musk-rat is a small kind of beaver, and great numbers of the skins
-are imported into England. It constructs huts like its larger relative
-but of a simpler style, the openings to them being under the water.
-There is also an animal nearly as large as a common beaver which was
-included in the same family, and called a coypu, inhabiting the rivers
-and streams of South America. Furs of coypu are sold as otter skins.
-
-"Ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee," and from the beaver and
-its works we can indeed learn what persistent, cheerful industry can
-accomplish. Our poet, Coleridge, said, "If the idle are described as
-_killing_ time, the methodical man may be justly said to call it into
-life and moral being, while he makes it the distinct object not only
-of the consciousness, but of the conscience." Perhaps the latter part
-of this sentence may seem obscure to some of you, my readers. To kill
-time means evidently to lose all count of it, to be "unmindful of the
-fleeting hours." But if the conscience is roused, and we are imbued
-with a sense of our responsibility with regard to every day, every
-hour we live, each hour becomes instinct with possibilities, with the
-opportunity and power of developing the gifts that we have, the talents
-entrusted to us, not only with a view to self-improvement and personal
-enrichment, but with an eye on the Master and His work. "Fellow-workers
-with Christ" in the redemption of this world,--how great a calling!
-
-The beaver's little paws seem so small; yet by pawful after pawful
-of earth brought by these small animals, who are working in friendly
-co-operation with their fellows, great dams that can stem an advancing
-flood are constructed.
-
-I once heard a story of a poor and not over-wise--as the world counts
-wisdom--Highlander. I think he was a shepherd, he lived where there
-were only a few huts widely scattered over the bleak hillsides, and no
-church was within the reach of the inhabitants of these. God's Spirit
-moved strongly in the lonely heart, and he determined that a place of
-worship should be built. Every time he came home to his cot, he brought
-as many stones as he could collect whilst out, and he placed them in a
-heap not far from his own door. Those who knew him and who passed that
-way jeered and laughed at what the simple, loving fellow called his
-church building.
-
-The heap grew, though very slowly; for many years the shepherd's work
-went on, that work which was called by the neighbours his "folly."
-But one day a rich stranger travelling by that lonely and unused way
-noticed the heap and asked what it meant. On hearing its history, his
-heart was warmed by the flame of love in that of the poor cotter,
-and he caused a good building--where divine service was soon held
-weekly--to be placed on the spot, using up in it, let us hope, those
-stones which were truly its foundation.
-
-I know, myself, a lovely church, not far from Ehrenbreitstein on the
-Rhine, which was built only from stones brought by loving hands to
-ground chosen by the village pastor. The building took very many years,
-but it stands there now complete, a monument of the free-will offerings
-and labour of poor working folks.
-
-We do not all need to think of building churches, but the stories are
-typical. We are all either building, or--awful thought--pulling down
-the good work of others. As the Book says, "Every wise woman buildeth
-her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands."
-
-Our power to work increases by use. Many of the world's greatest books
-have been written by busy men. How often, too, one hears it said that
-if you want anything special done you must ask a busy man or woman to
-do it. That barren fig-tree to which our Lord directed the attention
-of His followers is a by-word and a proverb for all ages. Persistent
-industry it is that meets with the reward. An abiding sense of duty we
-need.
-
-Yet all of us have our times of depression, of weakness, and days
-when aspiration and hope seem dead within us. Then let us try to cast
-ourselves on Him whose joy, "the joy of the Lord," may become our
-strength. One of our poets says--
-
-    "We cannot kindle when we will
-      The fire that in the heart resides;
-    The spirit moveth, and is still,
-      In mystery the soul abides;
-    Yet tasks in hours of insight willed
-    May be in hours of gloom fulfilled."
-
-It is these two last lines I would beg you to take to heart.
-
-Huber, the distinguished naturalist of Geneva, who wrote so much and
-so finely on bees, was blind from the age of seventeen; yet he had a
-passion for the study of animal and especially of insect life, a study
-one would suppose quite out of the reach of the blind. He had a good
-and devoted wife, who never wearied in promoting his well-being and
-their joint happiness. Through her eyes he studied and succeeded in
-mastering a department in natural history which needs the clearest
-and keenest eyesight. And not only did he write a great work, which
-is still referred to as a masterpiece of its kind, and is still
-constantly quoted, but what the wife's eyes saw and transferred to his
-brain became his very own, to dwell upon, to draw deductions from, to
-gather to himself a fund of personal happiness, to give forth again to
-the world enriched by his thoughts--his life made a happiness and a
-blessing to himself and others--all through the unwearying industry and
-persevering efforts of a loving woman who effaced herself, apparently,
-for the sake of her husband and his life's work. "Who would lose his
-life shall find it."
-
-A last word. The sovereign remedy for doubt and perplexity is, "Doe the
-next thynge."
-
-(_To be continued._)
-
-
-
-
-THE GIRL'S OWN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPETITION.
-
-
-_We give here the fifth instalment of questions in this Competition,
-full particulars of which appeared on p. 14._
-
-
-Questions 49-60.
-
-49. What epidemic in Italy in the sixteenth century was cured by means
-of music?
-
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-
-50. What is the mother-tongue of Queen Victoria?
-
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-
-51. What is the best time at which to water indoor and outdoor plants?
-
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-
-52. Is abundant hair an indication of bodily and mental strength?
-
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-
-53. How many ways can be named of profitably using broken bread?
-
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-
-54. Was public money ever raised in England by encouraging the spirit
-of gambling?
-
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-
-55. Who was the religious poet so beloved by the parish of which he was
-rector that many of his parishioners would stop their ploughs when his
-bell rang for prayers that they might offer their devotions to God with
-him?
-
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-
-56. How did the leek come to be the emblem of Wales?
-
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-
-57. What famous outlaw has a conspicuous place in ballad literature?
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-
-58. Where can a married couple, after a twelvemonth of matrimony, lay
-claim to a flitch of bacon after proving that, during the whole time,
-they have never had a quarrel and never regretted the marriage?
-
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-
-59. Has anyone ever tried to count the stars?
-
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-
-60. What English earl once got a box on the ear from a great queen?
-
-The answers to the above questions, Nos. 49-60, together with the
-answers to questions 61-72, which are yet to appear, must be sent in on
-or before February 24, 1899.
-
-Address to THE EDITOR, THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER OFFICE, 56, Paternoster
-Row, London, E.C., and at the left-hand top corner of the envelope or
-wrapper write the words "QUESTIONS COMPETITION."
-
-
-
-
-FROCKS FOR TO-MORROW.
-
-BY "THE LADY DRESSMAKER."
-
-
-[Illustration: PRINCESS DRESS OF BROWN CLOTH.]
-
-The first thing on my list with which I must deal is the recent meeting
-of the Amateur Swimming Association, at which the vexed question of a
-regulation dress for the women members was discussed; and there is a
-good chance that it will be wisely and properly decided, so that there
-will be a regular uniform dress in future, and all misunderstanding
-will be avoided. The material to which the lady delegates appear to
-have given in their adhesion, is stockingette; which they consider
-superior in every way to serge, flannel, silk, or merino. A model
-costume made of it, shown by the Birmingham Ladies Club, was so much
-approved of by the large assembly of ladies present, that it was
-adopted as a guide, the fullest liberty as to trimmings being given,
-while only three colours were allowed, viz., navy blue, red, and black.
-The Birmingham costume had flat facings of Turkey-red twill, but of
-course it is open to any club to select their own colours. It buttoned
-on the shoulders, and by means of gussets under the arms a short sleeve
-was formed. The great recommendation, however, was its cheapness, as it
-was announced that it could be produced in quantities of not less than
-one dozen at a fraction over two shillings each, in the various sizes
-required by the wearers. Of course, where there are so many working
-women's clubs, this question of cost is a grave consideration. The
-costume finally recommended was much on this Birmingham model. With
-the additional advice that "it should reach, at least, to within three
-inches from the knee," should be cut square at the neck, and button on
-the shoulder, where it must be not less than three inches in width,
-and where it must be shaped to the arm beneath, so as to form a short
-sleeve.
-
-Now that swimming as a pastime has become so popular amongst women and
-girls, and when it is taught in so many schools, it is only wise to
-decide on a suitable dress, which can be modified to meet all views,
-and trimmed to please all wearers, and be attainable to limited purses,
-and, above all, should be seemly to wear in a mixed assemblage of all
-ages.
-
-Although we have worn the Eton jacket with more or less decoration
-for many years, it seems still to hold its own, and is very becoming
-indeed to many people. The same may be said of the Bolero fronts;
-both of these are braided and buttoned this autumn, and the braiding
-is generally in panels, while the buttons most used are of the fancy
-order. Basqued bodices, with and without belts, three-quarter-length
-coats, quite tight to the figure, and a coat of the _Directoire_
-style, short at the waist in front, with a rounded basque, and long
-coat-tails; all of these are in fashion, and, so far as I see, though
-all have basques, they may be long or short, according to individual
-fancy. The great desire of all women this winter is to present an
-appearance of height and thinness, and all draperies must be sweeping,
-and the outlines flowing, to meet with our approval. Flounces and
-frills are used with much discretion, so that they may not contradict
-the clinging effect. Skirts are, if possible, tighter than ever, and
-only show fulness at the feet, while as regards our sleeves, the last
-vestige of puffiness has deserted them, and not even a tiny pleat is
-permitted at the shoulder, and the whole appearance is that of the old
-coat-sleeve, which was originally introduced by the Princess of Wales.
-
-Of course, with this clinging effect, we may naturally go on to say
-that the Princess dress that was worn by a few people last season will
-be adopted by many this winter; and the newest ones, if in cloth, have
-very generally strapped seams; the French Princess gowns having very
-generally a _plastron_, which is buttoned up on each side with handsome
-buttons.
-
-In hats, we find the _tre-corne_ much used in Paris; but this is a
-style only suitable to the very young, or very pretty, so that the
-wider-brimmed felts are more generally popular. Many of the felt hats
-are made in two colours, the underpart being of a different colour
-to the upper, and very little trimming is used for them. Low-crowned
-hats of almost a sailor shape have been predicted, and the boat shape
-is one of the favourite winter models. Quills and wings have taken
-the place of the long and graceful ostrich feathers, the former being
-more suitable for winter weather; a large bow and ends, and jewelled
-buckles, form part of the trimming, and the hat-pins are sumptuously
-jewelled, and as every lady tries to select those that are most
-decorative to her hat or bonnet, they have become quite a feature in
-the head-dress of the day.
-
-I spoke in my last chat on clothes, and dress in general, of the change
-that has taken place in the dressing of the hair, and that it is worn
-much lower; in fact, in a coil that lies on the nape of the neck, the
-rest of the hair is waved in large waves, which lie regularly over
-the top of the head, and across it from ear to ear, while the front
-locks are curled over the forehead. The chief difficulty presented
-by this new departure is in finding a hat or bonnet to go with it;
-for all the French bonnets are made to go with the high rolled
-_coiffure_ universally worn on the Continent, but never very becoming
-to Englishwomen, who have good heads of hair and find a difficulty in
-producing the tiny knot of hair, which is the essential part of the
-high hair-dressing. The low knot is shown in our picture of the two
-figures representing the new winter gowns, and called "A Princess dress
-of brown cloth." These two gowns show exactly the prevailing styles of
-the winter.
-
-I daresay you will have already seen, though perhaps not quite
-realised, the change, that dresses are now worn with bodices of the
-same material, and the sketch in question displays this alteration in
-style. The seated figure wears a Princess dress of brown cloth, with
-revers of cream-coloured satin, one of which overlaps the other so far
-as to close the gown on the side of the front, and the band of cream
-satin is continued across the front and terminates in a scroll. The
-satin has a scroll pattern braided on it with brown silk braid, and the
-cuffs are decorated in the same manner. To those who contemplate having
-a Princess gown, I would say, be careful to choose a good tailor or
-dressmaker, and a firm material of which to make your dress, in order
-to avoid dissatisfaction with your gown.
-
-The second gown is of green face-cloth. The bodice and sleeves are
-tucked with small horizontal tucks all over them. The skirt is one of
-the new ones, and is in three tiers, cut away from the front, and each
-is edged with a small band of chinchilla fur.
-
-[Illustration: LONG BASQUED COAT AND EMBROIDERED JACKET.]
-
-The second sketch shows a sac jacket of smooth blue serge, with a skirt
-to match. The jacket is beautifully braided and embroidered in black,
-both in front and on the shoulders. The hat is of blue felt, trimmed
-with blue velvet and feathers. The second figure wears a long basqued
-coat with a fur collar, and wide revers in front which taper down to
-the waist, and end in two tails. The cuffs are turned back in the new
-shape, and the collar is high and closes in front. The skirt worn is
-plain, and is cut in the umbrella style. The hat is a small velvet one,
-with fur trimmings and white or cream lace. The mixture of lace and
-fur indeed with all our winter trimmings this year is very remarkable,
-and contributes to the very light effect of all the millinery worn.
-
-[Illustration: CAPE AND MUFF OF CHINCHILLA AND GREEN SILK.]
-
-The pretty sketch next in order represents a gown made of one of the
-new fancy materials trimmed with chinchilla; cape of chinchilla trimmed
-with green silk and cream lace, and muff to match. The hat is a very
-charming model, which is called by some milliners a Trelawnley. It
-droops in front, and is made of black velvet, round the crown a very
-handsome ostrich plume is laid, and under the brim of the hat is a
-_cache peigne_ of pink roses. The new capes of this season are, many
-of them, pointed in front and back; and are often caught in at the
-waist behind. Violet cloth has been very much used for capes, and this
-is a colour that goes so well with fur of all kinds that it is likely
-to be popular. Where jackets are concerned, whether long or short in
-the basques, the latter must fit very snugly round the hips without
-fulness, or they will not give the effect of the newest style. Many of
-the basques are added with a seam just below the waist, and are marvels
-of careful fitting.
-
-There is rather a strong tendency to use a great quantity of orange
-in the French millinery; the hue of the moment being of the reddest
-and most vivid flame colour. The other colours in vogue for the same
-purpose are green, some shades of red, golden brown, wallflower, and
-much blue in all shades. For capes and coats putty-colour and fawn are
-much used, and there is a large amount of white used for trimming.
-
-I must not finish my chat without mentioning the ribbon trimmings which
-have so largely replaced lace, tulle, and chiffon ruches, especially
-upon bodices and blouses. Skirts as well as bodices are ornamented with
-gathered ribbons. The prettiest effect is given by using two ribbons
-together, a narrow and a wider one. These may be of two different
-colours, or of black and white, the latter being placed on the top.
-Plain bands of ribbon edged with black velvet, or with baby ribbon
-gathered, are also much used; in fact there seems no style of design
-which cannot be turned to account in this decoration.
-
-
-
-
-VARIETIES.
-
-
-WRITING HISTORY.
-
-Some people have very funny ideas about things. "You know I am supposed
-to be an historian," said Kinglake the historian of the Crimean war
-when talking to a friend. "The other day I got a letter which really
-touched me: it was signed by two people, husband and wife, and came
-from one of our colonies.
-
-"They described their grief. Their only child had been killed in the
-Crimea. For some incomprehensible reason, they were most anxious to
-have their beloved son mentioned in my history of the Crimean War.
-
-"Surprised, but flattered, I replied by return of post--a thing I had
-not done for many, many years--that I should be happy to do my best for
-their comfort provided they sent me the necessary particulars.
-
-"Again, a letter signed by both father and mother arrived, but with the
-following cruel addition--
-
-"'We have no particulars whatever. He was killed on the spot like so
-many others, and anything you may kindly invent will be welcome. We
-leave it entirely to your judgment.'"
-
-
-HOW TO WRITE WELL.--The style of a writer is a faithful representation
-of her mind: therefore, if any girl wishes to write a clear style, let
-her first be clear in her thoughts; and if anyone would write in a
-noble style, let her first possess a noble soul.
-
-
-KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE.--Without knowledge love is vain, without love
-knowledge is vain.
-
-
-ATTEND TO SMALL COURTESIES.--No matter how wise, how clever, how
-skilled you may be, if you fail in the small courtesies of life, people
-instinctively feel that there is dust on the balance, and that you do
-not weigh as pure gold.
-
-
-LITTLE HOPE FOR MISERS.--History tells of illustrious villains; but
-there never was an illustrious miser in nature.
-
-
-BRUSH IT OFF, IF YOU CAN.--Stretch your hand out flat, and place in the
-middle of the palm an ordinary coin, a halfpenny, a penny, a sixpence,
-a shilling, or anything else. Then tell someone she can have it,
-provided she can brush it off. She must use a common clothes-brush for
-the experiment. Your hand must not be struck, it must be brushed, just
-as one would brush a garment. But the coin will stick to your hand as
-if it were glued there. It is a very curious experiment.
-
-
-
-
-ECONOMY.
-
-BY ELIZABETH A. S. DAWES, M.A., D.Lit.
-
-    "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
-    In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
-    We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
-    Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
-    Life's but a means unto an end--that end--
-    Beginning, mean and end to all things--God."--_P. J. Bailey._
-
-
-The subject "Economy" may strike my readers as being somewhat dry
-and uninteresting; but I trust that when I have explained to you its
-meaning and shown to what various things economy can be applied and the
-good results attendant on its application, you will henceforth regard
-the word with more liking and comprehension than before.
-
-"Economy" (or "œconomy" as it should be spelt) comes from the Greek
-word οἰκονομἱα, which signifies literally the "administration
-of a house or home," and, secondarily, "right management" or
-"administration" of anything.
-
-When viewed with regard to our life as a complete unity, economy, or
-right administration, should be zealously practised in three special
-ways, namely, economy of money, economy of time, and economy of forces
-or strength, and these last two are touched upon indirectly in the
-lines chosen for the heading of this address.
-
-Let us begin with economy of money. Many persons, both young and old,
-learn the sad necessity for this by hard experience, and by such my
-advice is not required. It is to you, the happy daughters of prosperous
-parents, that I should like more particularly to say a few words on
-this subject.
-
-There are so many reasons why we should all practise economy of money,
-or, in other words, try to administer our money aright. Firstly, it
-trains us in habits of order and reflection if we try to lay out our
-money to the best use instead of squandering it on worthless trifles
-which serve only for the pleasure or amusement of the moment.
-
-Secondly, it sets a good example to those around us and helps to remind
-them of the fact that money like other talents is given to us to use
-and not to waste. Thirdly and chiefly, it is to be commended because if
-anyone, no matter who, nor whether his income be small or large, really
-administers his money aright, that person will find himself able to put
-by something each year against the rainy days that may come.
-
-Again, it is not only for one's own use, but for that of others that
-we should endeavour to keep a reserve-fund. And this applies directly
-to girls with ample pocket-money. Do begin now at once; buy a little
-money-box and every week or month drop a certain sum into it and
-resolve never to open that box except to relieve some urgent and
-piteous case of distress. For years it might remain unopened, and if
-you continued to feed it regularly, it would give you infinite pleasure
-some day to be able to open it and with the contents earn the undying
-gratitude of a fellow-creature.
-
-If you girls who have now, or will shortly have, an ample allowance per
-year to dress on, were to pause to consider seriously how many women
-there are, say in London alone, who have only £40 or £50 a year, and
-not a penny beyond, to live on, that is, to provide them with a home,
-food, clothing, firing, and all the other necessaries of life, there
-is hardly one among you probably who would not resolve to immediately
-commence administering her money with some care.
-
-Economy of time again is essential towards using one's life to the best
-advantage. It does not mean a continual bustle and hurry, but doing
-things at the right time and working and living with some definite end
-in view--the final end of all ends being, as the motto says, the glory
-and honour of God in our lives. Again, true economy of time does not
-imply that each hour in which we have not actually achieved some work
-with brain or hand is consequently wasted, for it may often be truer
-economy to spend an hour in quiet talk with a friend or in taking
-suitable recreation, but it does demand some method in our distribution
-of time, and protests against the best hours of the day being devoted
-solely to amusement or to mutually profitless gossip. Milton prettily
-says--
-
-"Hours have wings, fly up to the author of time and carry news of our
-usage. All our prayers cannot entreat one of them either to return
-or slacken his pace. The misspents of every minute are a new record
-against us in heaven. Sure if we thought thus, we should dismiss them
-with better reports and not suffer them to fly away empty or laden with
-dangerous intelligence. How happy is it when they carry up not only the
-message, but the fruits of good, and stay with the Ancient of Days to
-speak for us before His glorious throne."
-
-Sir James Y. Simpson, the celebrated surgeon, was very fond of speaking
-to the students on the duty of saving the moments and letting the
-minutes look after themselves. But in his estimate, as it should ever
-be in ours, the quality of the work was the all-important element in
-life. And of a hard-working thoughtful doctor who died young, he said,
-"He was older than some of us who are twice his age!"
-
-Kingsley had the same thought in his mind when he wrote those
-well-known lines--
-
-    "Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever;
-      Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long,
-    And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever
-      One grand sweet song."
-
-He did not intend to deprecate cleverness and learning, but to point
-out that our first endeavour should be to be good and live a noble
-life, and if we could accomplish that, not to fret or be grieved if
-outstripped in intellectual attainments by others; because whilst "to
-do lovely things" lies in everybody's power, the higher intellectual
-acquirements are not within the reach of all. With due arrangement
-of time it is marvellous how much can be accomplished. You will be
-surprised to find how many books you can read in a year if you devote
-one hour a day to them. It is often said that it is the busiest people
-who can always find time to undertake yet some more work or do a
-service for others, while idle people never have time for anything,
-and the truth of this paradox is proved by the vast amount of reading
-accomplished and the intense interest taken in extraneous matters by
-our very busiest statesmen, surgeons and clergymen. Try then, all
-of you, to acquire such habits of regularity and punctuality whilst
-at school, that they may remain with you afterwards and make it an
-easy and pleasant task for you to apportion your time to the best
-advantage, when freed from the rules necessary in scholastic life.
-
-It remains for me to say a few words on the economy of our powers or
-strength, which must be subdivided into physical and moral. Here the
-idea of law involved in the word economy plays a most important part,
-for nature has certain laws which, in our employment of our forces, she
-will not allow to be transgressed with impunity; if we overtax either
-our bodily or mental strength, we shall find that this disregard of
-nature's laws will, sooner or later, bring its inevitable punishment.
-A word of warning against the folly of taking physical exercise in
-excess will hardly be out of season just now, when bicycling is so very
-popular, that one unfortunately hears of many men, women and girls who
-have made themselves ill by riding too fast or too long distances at a
-stretch, or who, in other words, have not listened to the warning of
-Nature, which says, "Do enough, but not too much." It is such a pity
-ever to convert what is intended to be a beneficent pleasure into an
-evil through our inability to practise a little self-restraint, and
-this may arise not only from doing too much, but also from doing it
-in a reckless and senseless manner. I heard it said recently that,
-according to computations, there had been more deaths from bicycling
-accidents in the last year in England than there had been English
-soldiers killed throughout the present Egyptian campaign, from its
-very beginning to after the Battle of Omdurman; and when one reads the
-accounts of these accidents, one finds that nearly every one was caused
-directly by the rider's recklessness and want of prudence. Too much
-physical exercise also weakens our mental powers, so intimately are
-mind and body connected, that that is an additional reason for taking
-bicycling and all other bodily exercises in moderation, lest we should
-be too tired to fulfil our other duties. The same warning applies to
-mental overwork. How many a girl while at school, and more especially
-at College, ruins her eyesight, if not her constitution, by poring
-over her books at all hours, even when she ought to be taking the
-much-needed rest of sleep, or of open-air exercise; and they cannot, or
-will not, believe that time spent on necessary recreation and change
-of occupation is time saved, not lost, and will enable them to resume
-their work or exercise with far more vigour.
-
-Therefore, dear girls, listen to your common sense, and stop
-immediately when you feel that, either in work or play, you are getting
-overtired.
-
-Finally, let us consider what these three economies united will effect.
-Each is good in itself, but happy is he who practises all three with
-the ever-present thought that God is to be the end of all, for he will
-be gaining wisdom, which "is better than rubies," and "whoso findeth
-wisdom findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord." "Wisdom! how
-inexhaustible a theme! It is the ripest fruit of a well-spent life.
-Wisdom never grows old, for she is the expression of order itself--that
-is, of the eternal. Only the wise man draws from life, and from every
-stage of it, its true savour, because only he feels the beauty, the
-dignity, and the value of life.... To see all things in God, to make of
-one's own life a journey towards the ideal, to live with gratitude and
-devoutness, with gentleness and courage, to add to these the humility
-which kneels and the charity which gives, is the true wisdom of the
-children of God."
-
-
-
-
-OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES;
-
-OR,
-
-VILLAGE ARCHITECTURE OF BYGONE TIMES.
-
-
-PART II.
-
-The village architecture of England, though more ancient than that
-to be found elsewhere in Europe, does not date so far back as the
-ecclesiastical. There are many reasons why this is the case. The
-churches and monasteries were erected with great solidity, because,
-being for religious uses, it was presumed that they would be required
-for all times, but the more humble domestic dwellings were rather
-constructed with a view to the wants of those who had to live in them.
-Then also, the church was subscribed for not only by those who lived
-in the immediate neighbourhood, but often by the powerful and wealthy,
-who, though not being connected directly with the locality, were moved
-by charity and generosity to assist in works of piety.
-
-The cottages in early times were probably of a very humble character,
-built of "wattle," or osier twigs intertwined like an ordinary basket,
-and plastered over with mud or clay. In eastern countries, Egypt for
-instance, the heat of the sun was sufficient to convert this clay or
-mud into what is called "crude brick," which was very durable, but in
-England it required constant renewal, and in the course of time the
-wattle rotted away from damp. In marshy districts the cottages were
-built of turf or peat, as is still the case in parts of Ireland and
-Scotland. Upon the borders of Staffordshire and Worcestershire, curious
-caves are to be found which are in some cases still inhabited, and are
-probably among the earliest human habitations in this country. Some of
-the Derbyshire caves also were converted into habitations, and many of
-the holes burrowed in the cliffs all round our coast were similarly
-utilised. In after times they became very convenient hiding-places for
-smugglers and their illicit wares.
-
-It is a singular fact that English school-boys, and we much fear even
-girls, take a delight in digging caves and crawling into them, and as
-it requires a good deal of "wholesome correction" to put a stop to this
-dangerous practice, it may be a question whether there is not some
-natural or hereditary instinct which prompts children to work so hard
-at this kind of mischief. Of course, the delightful notion of being a
-"bold robber," or a "ferocious bandit," adds some zest to these very
-risky operations.
-
-A friend of ours once discovered his children hard at work at the
-construction of a cave in his back garden. They proposed to be a
-terror to the neighbourhood, and he told them all about the shocking
-things that were done by robbers who lived in caves, how "they rushed
-from their concealed hiding-places and robbed the unwary traveller,"
-etc. He was met by the remark, "That is exactly what we propose to do,
-pa." "How they stocked the cave with provisions which they had raided
-from law-abiding folks." The chorus came as before, "That, papa, is
-what we intend to do." "At last, my children, they were all captured,
-the smaller ones well beaten, and the older ones hanged." The chorus
-was far less jubilant. "Oh, pa, we don't expect that." "Well, my
-children," said he, "you must receive the rewards for your prowess." He
-found a few days afterwards that the cave was completely abandoned.
-
-The earliest cottages or village residences in England, if we except
-such buildings as Winwall and Armenhall in Norfolk, or Combe Pyne in
-Devonshire, which are simply portions of larger buildings converted
-into cottages, do not date earlier than the fifteenth century.
-
-[Illustration: AT EWHURST, SURREY.]
-
-It is somewhat remarkable that the "home counties" should be richer in
-village architecture than any other part of the country, and it is not
-a little singular that many of the best examples are to be found within
-a radius of some thirty miles of the metropolis.
-
-[Illustration: AT EWHURST, SURREY.]
-
-The beautiful little village of Ewhurst, in Surrey, contains charming
-examples, some dating as early as the sixteenth century. Ewhurst is
-now fairly well known to Londoners who take an interest in beautiful
-scenery and picturesque architecture, but thirty years back was as much
-a _terra incognita_ as Dettelbach in Bavaria, where the inn-keeper told
-the writer that he had never seen an Englishman before, and was very
-much astonished to find that he did not after all "differ so very much
-in appearance from a German."
-
-The two cottages which we have sketched at Ewhurst are very
-characteristic examples constructed in what is called "post and pan
-work." That is to say, the walls consist of a framework of timber
-called "post," which is subdivided into panels called "pan." These
-"pans," or panels, are filled in with brick-work. In the first example
-the brick is laid in herring-bone pattern, but in the second example
-the whole of the upper storey is covered with scalloped tiles, a
-treatment almost peculiar to Surrey and Sussex. On the ground floor
-storey the brick-work between the timbers is plastered over.
-
-The first cottage, which is of sixteenth century architecture, has a
-very prettily arranged external staircase, protected by the sloping
-eaves of the roof.
-
-The second cottage, which is seventeenth century work, has an unbroken
-and uninterrupted roof from end to end, which is the usual treatment,
-for it must be pointed out that the genuine old English cottage does
-not "break out all over" in ornamental gables, dormers, spirelets,
-finials, and spikes; even when most picturesque, it is remarkably sober
-and simple in outline and is as far as possible removed from the modern
-"Bijou cottage," or "Cottage Ornée," a class of building which is to
-architecture what "that pride which apes humility" is to virtue. The
-genuine cottage is the residence of the humble hard-working peasant,
-and its picturesque charm springs from its appropriateness, simplicity,
-and absence of fussiness or ostentation.
-
-The first cottage which we illustrate is a superior building to the
-second, but it has a marked sobriety and simplicity about it which
-assimilates so well with its humble surroundings.
-
-    H. W. BREWER.
-
-
-
-
-"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 IX.
-
-SOME ACCOUNT OF ENGLAND'S HERO.
-
-An excuse need hardly be offered for giving here a few details as to
-the past history of General Moore, if only in explanation of Denham
-Ivor's supreme devotion to the man, and of Jack Keene's more outspoken
-admiration. Though Moore's name is inscribed in letters of blood upon
-the deathless roll of our national heroes, not so much is known about
-him by people in general as ought to be known. Ninety years ago a
-common mode of referring to him in the country, and still more in the
-Army, seems to have been simply as "Our Hero." And of this tale John
-Moore is the real centre.
-
-In those times of perpetual warfare, officers often reached high rank
-early. In the year 1803 he was still in the prime of manhood, having
-been born in 1761.
-
-His father, a Scotch physician of eminence, and also a very successful
-author,[1] must have occupied a different position from that of the
-average medical man of those days. He was appointed to be the guardian
-and the travelling companion of the young Duke of Hamilton, and he
-showed himself well fitted for the trust; while his son from the first
-shone as a star in whatever circle he might be placed. The doctor's
-wife was a daughter of Professor Simpson, of Glasgow University. When
-the doctor started on a lengthy Continental tour with his charge,
-he took also his eldest son John, then about ten years old, and the
-absence lasted nearly five years. No small trial this to members of a
-most affectionate family, but heavy money losses made it impossible for
-Dr. Moore to give up his charge, even had he wished to do so.
-
-From boyhood John showed a conscientious devotion to duty, and a
-marked dislike to aught in the shape of fashionable foppery. Although
-he early learnt self-control, he was as a child very impulsive and
-hasty-tempered, and addicted to fighting. At the age of eleven he
-narrowly escaped killing a servant girl through meddling with loaded
-pistols; and soon after he received his accidental injury from the
-sword of the Duke, in careless play. Before this wound was healed,
-he managed to get into a smart quarrel with some French boys in the
-gardens of the Tuileries. They, being formally powdered, frizzled,
-and attired like grown men, were disposed to jeer at Jack Moore's
-boyish simplicity of dress, and Jack proceeded promptly to knock them
-all down, one upon the top of another. Since he could box, and they
-had not learnt that noble art, they had no chance against him, and a
-great outcry was raised. Dr. Moore, hurrying to the spot, picked up
-the fallen, did his best to comfort them, and severely blamed his son
-for lack of politeness, which little incident gives one a clue to the
-perfection of Moore's manners in later life.
-
-By the age of fourteen he was a singularly fascinating young fellow,
-with a face of manly beauty, a daring temper, and a growing passion for
-the Army. Already he had become a good linguist, and was an adept at
-both riding and fencing. About this time when, in the course of their
-travels, the three went to Vienna, the Emperor of Austria definitely
-offered to take the brilliant boy into his service, promising rapid
-promotion. But Moore was even then far too ardent a patriot to serve in
-any other Army than that of his own country. The idea was never for a
-moment entertained.
-
-It is curious to find him at this date, a mere lad of fourteen, writing
-home to his next brother, Graham, in the style of a grown man to one
-far his junior.
-
-"I am pleased, my dear boy, that you wish to be a sailor, for I am sure
-you will be a brave one. I hope that in some years after this you and
-I will thresh the Monsieurs, both by sea and land; but I hope that we
-won't make war with the Spaniards, for the Spanish ambassador is the
-best and kindest man I ever saw."
-
-In 1774 Dr. Moore wrote home to his wife:--
-
-"I was happy to find that you do not disapprove of Jack's going into
-the army. I hope this may turn out well, because he chooses it, has
-a turn for it, and I believe is of a character to make a good figure
-as a soldier. He is attentive, active, and brave; he has great good
-sense, will have many accomplishments, and is the most beautiful and
-graceful boy imaginable. It is a very disputable case whether the Duke
-of Hamilton or Jack is the handsomest. Jack does not stoop as the Duke,
-but will have a good carriage, and though he is so very pretty, he has
-not the least tendency to be a coxcomb."
-
-And in another letter, two years later, occurs a characteristic
-description of the boy.
-
-"Jack was as fond as the Duke of returning to Geneva, and he is much
-too strong for me when the Duke is his second. We were received by our
-friends with infinite kindness, and have been wonderfully feasted.
-Jack quitted Geneva a boy, and has returned a man. Though he has been
-caressed by all the high and mighty of the Republic, and is always
-invited with the Duke and me, yet if, at the same time, he has an
-invitation from any of his old acquaintances of a much humbler class,
-he always prefers the latter. I pressed him one day to go with us,
-because the people had insisted particularly on his coming. It was
-to a fine villa, and a most brilliant party. I could not prevail; he
-silenced me with this sentence: 'They who have invited me are poor;
-they were kind to me when the others did not think me worth their
-notice.' Never was a creature less spoiled than your son by all the
-great people who have caressed him, nor by all the uncommon fine
-situations[2] he has been in. Though his manner is manly and noble, yet
-it is simple, and he assumes no airs. He is a charming youth. I wish
-you had him in your arms."
-
-At the age of fifteen he was made Ensign in the 51st Regiment, though
-he did not actually join till some months later. Among the many dangers
-in his career was one in those few months, when paying a visit to
-Mount Vesuvius. "Jack" ventured perilously near to the crater, and in
-hurrying away he fell and damaged his knee. A shower of lava and hot
-stones poured directly afterwards upon the spot he had just quitted.
-Had Jack Moore's retreat that day been less prompt, another most famous
-and masterly retreat, followed by a never-to-be-forgotten battle, would
-not have been inscribed upon the pages of English history.
-
-His great friend, Douglas, Duke of Hamilton, was seized by a passing
-fit of military enthusiasm, a few months after John Moore had joined
-the 51st, which in a letter at that date he described as "one of the
-best regiments in the service; as to officers, I never knew such a
-number of fine gentlemanly lads. General Murray told me he did not
-believe there was such a corps of officers in the army; there is no
-such thing as either drinking or gambling going on." However, in 1777
-a fresh regiment was raised for the express purpose that the Duke of
-Hamilton might have the pleasure of commanding it; and though he soon
-grew tired of his new vocation, and resigned his commission, he sent
-first for his friend and made him lieutenant and paymaster. Moore went
-with the "Hamilton Regiment" to Nova Scotia, and had some hard fighting
-out there, gaining great credit for personal prowess.
-
-Peace was proclaimed before the close of 1783 between Great Britain
-and her then four enemies: France and Spain, Holland and the United
-States. Though Britain in those days had much less than half her
-present population, she was wont most cheerfully to engage in war with
-three or four nations at one and the same time, apparently without any
-serious misgivings as to results.
-
-The "Hamilton Regiment" being disbanded, Captain Moore, then aged only
-twenty-three, went home to live with his parents in London. He studied
-hard, and was much in society, being a universal favourite. Through the
-influence of the Duke of Hamilton, with whom when possible he always
-spent two autumn months, he was chosen to represent in Parliament four
-Scottish boroughs, but it was with the express stipulation on his part
-that he should be in all cases free to follow his own judgment. He
-never had been, and he never became in the true sense a party-man, but
-had friends on all sides, friends who held every variety of political
-opinion. Moore fought for country, not for party.
-
-In 1787 he was appointed Major of a new battalion at Chatham, and he
-gladly forsook civil for military duties. During the following year
-he rejoined his first regiment, the 51st, at Cork, and soon became
-Lieutenant-General. While he was there young Anderson, an Ensign in his
-regiment, became one of his most devotedly-attached friends, and was
-ever after his inseparable companion.
-
-By this time he was known as a disciplinarian of unusual power,
-indulgent when he might safely be so, but inflexible in enforcing
-strict obedience. In an age when hard drinking was the fashion, he set
-his face like a flint against habits of intemperance, alike in the
-ranks and among officers, from most of whom he had steady support.
-One young lieutenant, who ventured to appear on parade in a state of
-intoxication, was forced by him to resign the service, and from that
-time Moore had no further trouble. His regiment became widely known for
-its exceptional sobriety and dependableness.
-
-In 1792 he was ordered to Malta, and two years later he was fighting
-with the French in Corsica, the peace having already come to an end.
-On the 10th of July ended successfully the siege of Calvi, that being
-the last spot in the island which the French had managed so far to
-keep. As Moore was gallantly storming the breach he had a severe wound,
-a fragment of shell striking him on the head. For an instant he was
-stunned; but regaining sense, he once more sprang up the breach. Sir
-Charles Stuart, chief-in-command, looking anxiously on, was alarmed
-at the bursting of shells among the assailants. He rushed forward
-and dashed over intervening obstacles, to find Moore in the midst of
-shouting grenadiers, his face streaming with blood. Apparently the
-great dread of Sir Charles had been that he was killed, for in the
-excitement of the moment he caught him in his arms, hardly able to
-utter his thankfulness, not only that the breach was won, but that John
-Moore still lived.
-
-Two years later a collision between the English viceroy of Corsica,
-Sir Gilbert Elliot, and Sir Charles Stuart, made the latter resign his
-command and return to England; and later Moore was sharply ordered home
-by Elliot, who seems to have been annoyed with the friendship between
-him and the leading Corsican patriots. Moore, on reaching England,
-protested with much heat against the way in which he had been treated.
-He had, however, no need to disquiet himself. The King and the Duke of
-York took the matter up, promoted him to the rank of Brigadier-General,
-and sent him out to the West Indies, there to serve under Abercrombie.
-Both the Duke of York and Pitt had been, from the time of his seat in
-Parliament, his personal friends. Wherever he went he made friends for
-life.
-
-While he was in the West Indies, Denham Ivor, then a young subaltern of
-eighteen, was first thrown under the fascinating influence of Moore,
-having been for years one of his warmest admirers. As usual, numberless
-opportunities occurred for the display of personal bravery, in which
-Moore always shone. On one occasion he had a most narrow escape. At the
-storming of the all but impregnable fortification of Morne Fortuné in
-St. Lucia, as he led a desperate charge against the French, shouting
-till nearly voiceless, "Forward, forward! We have almost gained the
-heights!" a musket was aimed point-blank at him. One half second more,
-and Moore's career would have been ended; but a private grenadier,
-seeing his peril, flung himself between, received the bullet meant for
-him, and was caught in Moore's arms as he fell dead.
-
-Ivor too had won laurels and promotion in those days of hard fighting.
-Moore's influence over the younger officers was unrivalled; and many a
-one besides Ivor could look back, long years after, with the knowledge
-that John Moore had been the making of him, not only as a soldier, but
-as a man. Moore shaped the characters of those with whom he had to do.
-
-Somewhat later, when St. Lucia had been wrested from the French, he was
-appointed Commandant and Governor of the island; no easy post, for the
-negroes had revolted, in imitation of the recent French Revolution, and
-they were fearfully cruel and barbarous in their methods of warfare.
-Abercrombie kept Moore there, long after the latter had, on account of
-illness, begged to be released from the charge, because he knew of no
-other man capable of taking his place.
-
-While striving to put down the rebels, or "brigands," as they were
-called, Moore had a dangerous attack of fever. On his recovery from it
-and from a severe relapse, he was again hard at work, rising at six in
-the morning and often undertaking a thirty-miles march in the day, till
-again laid low with a desperate attack of yellow fever, which all but
-carried him off. But for the devotion of Anderson and of his own French
-servant François,[3] he could not possibly have struggled through.
-Then, with broken health, he was ordered home; and he reached London a
-mere wreck of his old self.
-
-(_To be continued._)
-
-FOOTNOTES:
-
-[1] His novel, _Zeluco_, was an inspiration to Byron.
-
-[2] He had been received freely at the Courts of Vienna, Berlin,
-Hanover, Brunswick, etc.
-
-[3] François was with him to the close of his life.
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-CONTENTS.
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-_Frontispiece: "The Carpenter's Shop at Nazareth."_
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-From the Painting by P. A. J. DAGNAN-BOUVERET.
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-=The Old Maids' Christmas.= A Story. By DARLEY DALE.
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-=My Grand-Dame's Old Sedan.= A Poem. By HELEN MARION BURNSIDE.
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