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No. 1012, May 20, 1899 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: July 31, 2019 [EBook #60023] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER *** - - - - -Produced by Susan Skinner, Chris Curnow, Pamela Patten and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER - -VOL. XX.—NO. 1012.] MAY 20, 1899. [PRICE ONE PENNY.] - - - - -THE SEA AND THE ROCKS. - -BY WILLIAM LUFF. - -[Illustration: THE OTHER SHORE.] - -_All rights reserved._] - - - I watched the waves as they kissed the rocks, - And linked their hands behind them, - As if to draw to the deep blue sea, - Where no searching eye could find them. - But rocks were firm, and the waves though strong - Were foiled in their kind endeavour; - Then what they could not change they bathed, - And rising higher ever, - They came and came, till they covered o’er - The black old rocks of that stubborn shore. - They were there the same as of old, I knew, - But hidden now with a robe of blue. - - We all find rocks on the shores of life, - Dark rocks and stubborn often. - We pray, but never a rock will move— - Hard rocks that no sea will soften; - But lo, the ocean of love and grace - Is linking its arms behind them; - The waters rise in their vast embrace, - Till troubles—we cannot find them. - I know they are there as they were before; - But we see them not, they are covered o’er. - And all that rises before our view, - Is God’s deep ocean of boundless blue. - - - - -SHEILA. - -A STORY FOR GIRLS. - -BY EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN, Author of “Greyfriars,” “Half-a-dozen -Sisters,” etc. - - -CHAPTER VII. - -IN RIVER STREET. - -“Well, Oscar, I’ve just this one bit of advice to give you,” said -North, as the pair walked homewards from the works. “Don’t you be too -easy-going.” - -“Am I too easy-going?” asked Oscar with a smile. “How?” - -“Well, I think you are a bit. It’s easier to see that sort of thing -than to define it. You don’t stick sufficiently tight to your own work. -No, no, don’t think I mean you idle; you don’t, but you’ll do the other -fellows’ work for them when they are larking, and let them take a turn -at yours when you want to be off to the electrical works. The office -was always a bit too free and easy, and we wanted to stiffen it up by -putting you in. But if anything it’s got worse.” - -Oscar laughed a little. North’s friendly manner relieved him of the -fear that he had given dissatisfaction with his own share in what was -required of him. He had been really doing his best, and had learned a -great deal during the past months. - -“It seems friendlier, somehow,” he said. “They are all nice fellows, -and we work amicably together. I didn’t know it mattered sharing the -work. They seemed used to it.” - -“It doesn’t matter in moderation,” answered North. “We’re not fussy, -my father and I. But don’t be too easy-going, Oscar. As you are one of -the family, they will look up to you, and take their cue from you more -or less. Business is business all the world over, and you’d do well to -keep that fact sternly in mind.” - -“I’ll try,” answered Oscar readily, “and I hope you’ll always tell me, -North, if you see anything in which I fail. I want to justify your -father’s opinion that I should do for the business, and I’m quite -sensible of his kindness in taking me on.” - -“Well, he’s glad enough to give you the sort of berth Cyril would have -had if he’d not turned out too much the fine gentleman,” said North -with one of his grim smiles. “My father never seriously thought of -putting Cyril into the business, he was always thought to be a cut -above it. But he often said he wished he had another son. You have come -to fill that place, Oscar.” - -The youth’s face flushed with pleasure. It was not often that North -spoke with so much friendly unreserve. In the main he was a silent, -self-contained man, though friendly enough to his younger cousin. But -to-day his reserve seemed to have evaporated, and the next minute he -spoke again. - -“Don’t let Cyril get you too much into his set, Oscar. I know, of -course, that you must have a good deal in common, being University men -and all that. But I’m not always best pleased with the sort of fellows -Cyril takes up with. I think they make him extravagant, and teach him -expensive habits. It’s all very well for him. He manages to get a large -allowance from the governor. But it wouldn’t suit your pocket or mine.” - -“I don’t think I care much for Cyril’s friends,” said Oscar slowly. -“Only when he asks me to go with him it seems churlish to refuse, when -I’ve nothing else I want to do.” - -“Well, I’d not mind seeming a bit churlish sometimes,” said North. -“Indeed I’ve put up with the accusation myself, though I was never a -fine enough gentleman for Cyril to care much for my company. But I -wouldn’t let him take you up and drag you about too much if I were you. -It won’t pay in the long run.” - -They were by this time approaching the house in River Street, so there -was no time for more discussion. It was Oscar’s temperament, as it was -Sheila’s, to float with the stream of life, and take things easily. -Perhaps it was this temperament in their father which had led to such -disastrous results at last, but it was not quite easy for Oscar to -realise this, though he was not ungrateful to North for his hint. - -“What a hullabaloo!” exclaimed North, as he put his key into the latch -and opened the door; and indeed there were sounds of very animated -discussion going on in the drawing-room, the door of which stood open. -The Cossart voices were rather loud when their owners were excited, and -it seemed as though something of an exciting nature must be going on. - -“What’s up?” asked the elder brother, pushing his way into the room, -and both sisters began talking at once, so that it was not altogether -easy to make out what either was saying. - -“Oh, such a delightful plan! It’s the Bensons who are really getting it -up—no, I should call it Mr. Ransom’s doing. But we are all to help. It -will be no end of fun. I hope there’ll be acting! Anyway we shall have -tableaux or something. And a bazaar, oh, yes, and some music. It’s to -last for three days—perhaps a week even. And everybody will come. Oh, -it will be the greatest fun! And we are to help in everything! We are -to be on the Committee. I was never on a Committee before. I do feel -so grand!” and Ray danced round her brother and made him a low curtsy, -saying: - -“We shall expect a great deal of patronage from Mr. Cossart, junior, of -the Cossart works!” - -“What’s it all about?” asked North, taking her by the shoulders and -giving her a brotherly shake. “I can’t make head or tail of all that -gabble. Now, mater, give us a cup of tea, and tell us quietly what all -this means. Ray’s off her head, and Raby looks almost as demented. Some -tomfoolery in the town, I suppose.” - -“Well, that is rather a hard name to give it,” said Mrs. Tom with -a smile. “It is like this. The new clergyman, Mr. Ransom, has, it -seems, very proper and sound ideas about debt upon a church. I am -sure your father would approve his views there. He thinks that debt -is a wrong thing, and ought never to be contracted, especially over a -house dedicated to the worship of God. He is quite shocked that in a -prosperous town like this, there should be a heavy debt on the church, -and that the mission chapel started two years ago should be almost -entirely unpaid for. He spoke very seriously to his churchwardens and -some of the leading men in the town, and he has so stirred them up to -his view of the case that they are going to make a great effort to wipe -out the whole debt immediately.” - -“Good!” said North nodding his head. “I think that’s a very right way -of looking at things. A man who lives in debt is considered to be doing -a wrong to his creditors, and why not a church too?—or at least the -people who build and use it.” - -“That is what Mr. Ransom feels. He says he does not think that we can -expect the same blessing upon the work of a church if the apostolic -precept, ‘Owe no man anything,’ is deliberately broken. Well, a -subscription list has been opened, and some really handsome sums have -been already promised. But you know what people are. They want a little -excitement and fun. And the Bensons have taken the matter up, and are -canvassing all the town for a big bazaar and some entertainments in -connection with it. The Corporation will give the Town Hall _gratis_ -for the purpose, and they are full of plans for making things go off -with great _éclat_. They have been here talking things over with the -girls this past hour. Mr. Benson is against having anything but local -talent for whatever is got up. He says, ‘Why pay professionals from a -distance when people would be much more interested in hearing their -own young people sing, or seeing them act a little play, or perform in -tableaux?’ And really I think he is right. I know I am dreadfully bored -by hearing second-rate professionals. But if one knows the performers, -why that’s quite a different matter.” - -“And it will be such a nice chance for the glee club!” cried Raby. “And -for some of us who have been having lessons. We did talk about getting -up a concert at Christmas; but somehow it did not come off. Now, this -seems the very thing, and everybody will come and hear us!” - -At that moment there was a clatter of horsehoofs outside the door, and -Ray exclaimed— - -“Why, here is Cyril, with Sheila and Effie in the new phaeton! Don’t -they cut a fine figure! What a pretty girl Sheila is! But she puts -Effie altogether in the shade, don’t you think? If Aunt Cossart finds -that out, she won’t be best pleased!” - -The Stanhope phaeton was Effie’s last new fancy. It was discovered that -Shamrock and the new cob would run together nicely in double harness; -and Sheila, who had driven all her life, managed the pair with much -skill. - -Effie really preferred these drives in a carriage, recognised as her -own, to the rides, where she was conscious of timidity and a lack of -the ease and grace which distinguished Sheila’s horsemanship. - -Cyril liked well enough to accompany his pretty cousins, as he called -them; and Mrs. Cossart was better pleased when he was there, as well as -the youthful tiger who always went with the carriage. - -Raby and Ray had heard of this new turn-out, but had not seen it -before. They ran to the window to look and admire; but in a few moments -Effie and Sheila were in the room, Cyril bringing up the rear. - -Sheila made a rush at Oscar first, but was quite ready to be -affectionate to all. She was in gay, happy spirits, and brought with -her an atmosphere of sunshine. Her sombre black was just lightened by -ruffles of white at the throat and wrists; and the soft bloom upon her -cheeks seemed set off by the darkness of her attire. - -Somehow Effie seemed a quite secondary and insignificant figure when -Sheila was present, though the best seat was given her, and her aunt -asked with interest after her well-being. But the girls could not wait -to hear Effie discourse upon herself and her symptoms, improved though -they might be. - -“Oh, Sheila, have you heard? Cyril, have you heard anything about -the bazaar and fête? We are to have such a time of it! Sheila, you -will have to help us! We shall all be as busy as bees!” and the girls -plunged into a recital of the coming excitements, to which Sheila -listened with all her ears. - -“Oof! Won’t it be fun!” she cried, with her favourite little -interjection which always made her cousins laugh. “I’m not a bit -clever. I can’t sing or play or do anything like that; but I’ll help -all I know. I shall be awfully pleased to!” - -“But if we get up some tableaux you can perform,” said Cyril. “You -could manage to stand still for two minutes at a stretch, could you -not, Sheila?” - -“Oof, yes! I could do that, only I’m afraid I should laugh in the -middle! Effie, do you hear? There are to be such goings on. You’ll -have to sing, I expect. Perhaps I’ll play for you, if I don’t get too -frightened.” - -“Are you taking up your music again, my dear?” asked Mrs. Tom. “That is -right. It will be a pleasure to you, I am sure.” - -“Yes, perhaps it will. I used to be fond of it, only I’ve not been able -to do anything for so long; and if you can’t practise, I don’t think -you ought to sing. I’ve been trying again these last few weeks. I think -I shall get my voice back in time. But my throat is so weak still; I -can’t do much at a time. I suppose it comes from being weak. If I were -to get stronger, I should have more voice. I don’t care to make an -exhibition of myself; but, of course, I’ll do anything I can to help -the girls. I think people used to like to hear me sing.” - -“And they’ll like to hear you sing again. It would be a good -opportunity for you to appear in public after being shut up so long,” -said Mrs. Tom; “and you could work for the bazaar at any rate. We must -all try to help as much as we can for a good cause such as this.” - -“Oh, I’ll try to do a little; but I never can settle long to anything. -I suppose it’s the state of my nerves. I must always be jumping up and -going off after something else. I have such a funny restless feeling. -If I were to sit long over anything I should get quite wild; and then -I should have an attack directly. That’s the worst of it. I can’t make -myself do things like other people. I get ill directly. Not that I care -so much myself; I’ve made up my mind not to care about anything; but -just to take what comes. But it worries mother, and I must think of -her; so I’ve got to take care of myself, though I do get very sick of -it!” - -Cyril had got Sheila into a quiet corner where Oscar had joined them in -response to the summons of her eyes. - -“All this will be rather a bore,” he began; but Sheila interrupted -gaily— - -“I don’t think it will at all! I think it will be great fun! I like -things to be lively! Sometimes I wish I lived in River Street. It’s -rather dull some days up there!” - -“Poor child! I expect it is,” said Cyril; “but what I was going to say -was that it would probably bring some of the better people into touch -with us, and they’ll be sure to take to you, Sheila. The Bensons are -nobodies—he’s the Mayor this year, and they have plenty of money, -and give themselves airs over it. But if the thing is taken up by the -county—as I expect it will be, for Mr. Ransom is a well-born man, and -has come with introductions to a good many of the best families—we -shall get other volunteers of a different sort, and that will be a good -thing for you and Oscar.” - -“Why for us more than other people?” asked Sheila, whilst Oscar’s face -seemed to cloud over a little. - -“Oh, don’t you see! They will see the difference at once; and I shall -see you are introduced. I know these people—most of them—though they -don’t visit much in the town, except in quite a perfunctory way. But -they are very good to me; and they will be sure to take you up; and -then things will be different.” - -“I’m not sure that Sheila and I wish any distinction made between -ourselves and our cousins,” said Oscar a little stiffly; but Cyril -laughed in his good-humoured way. - -“Oh, you needn’t be as straight-laced as all that, Oscar. People can’t -help knowing the difference between—what shall we call it?—the real -thing and the imitation! There are some really nice people I should -like Sheila to know. Their name is Lawrence, and they do call here. -They bought or took a place about five miles away some little time ago, -and the mater was induced to call. They don’t come often; but most -likely the girl would be glad to help in these goings on. Mr. Ransom -knows the Lawrences. You would quite like them if you once knew them.” - -Sheila was interested at once, and asked a good many questions. Her -life, though pleasant and easy, was rather monotonous, and, so far, she -had made no friends except her cousins, who, though very good-natured -and kind, were not particularly congenial to her. So the prospect -of a possible girl friend of a different stamp was not without its -attractions. - -“I shall try to bring that off,” said Cyril to himself as the carriage -drove off at last. “I often think that May Lawrence would be a very -good second string to my bow; for though Effie is an heiress, I -sometimes think I should soon be sick to death of her ‘I,’ ‘I,’ ‘I,’ -and should chuck up the whole thing in three months, if it ever got as -far as an engagement!” - -And perhaps Cyril never paused to ask himself how large a place in his -own vocabulary the “I” took, nor the _ego_ in his scheme of life! - -(_To be continued._) - -[Illustration] - - - - -OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES; - -OR, - -VILLAGE ARCHITECTURE OF BYGONE TIMES. - - -PART VIII. - -In the first number of these papers we pointed out the fact that the -cottages and small houses in fortified villages exhibited a totally -different character from those in open and unwalled villages. Owing -to the space being confined within the walls, any increase in the -number of inhabitants had either to be provided with accommodation -by adding to the height of the existing habitations or by setting -up dwelling-houses in out-of-the-way places. Our sketch of Lyme -Regis shows the outlet of a river which here flows into the sea; the -fortified walls are continued along the banks; the principal street of -the village is carried over the river by a bridge consisting of a lofty -and elegantly proportioned Gothic arch, evidently of thirteenth century -date. Cottages or small habitations cling to the walls supported upon -wooden corbels, and are bracketed out from the parapets of the bridge, -giving the latter more the effect of a gateway than of a bridge. The -whole scene is strange though very picturesque, and those who are -accustomed to the ordinary English village, with its detached cottages, -surrounded by gardens, are naturally surprised at the singular effect -brought about by such changed conditions. Those, however, who know -the fortified villages of Germany, France, and the Low Countries, are -quite familiar with such scenes, and regard them as usual in villages -prepared for war, as contrasted with the ordinary villages of our -country where peace was the normal condition. - -[Illustration: GEORGIAN COTTAGE, AMERSHAM.] - -It is indeed a matter of congratulation that our English ancestors were -able to live in abodes unsurrounded by fortifications, and to pursue -their humble avocations without the dread of invasion by some foreign -foe; but as it does not seem to be the design of Divine Providence -that man should pass this life without troubles and anxiety, civil -wars were not unfrequent, even in this happy isle. And even when this -affliction was absent, our towns were visited by pestilence, for our -historians tell us that in the neighbourhood of Warwick alone thirty -villages were depopulated and allowed to fall to ruin during that -fearful visitation called the “Black Death.” Their very sites cannot -now be traced, and their names are mere tradition. Even where they were -partially spared, the population of many villages was so reduced as to -cause a very singular arrangement. We refer to the distance between -the church and the village. Now there can be no doubt that parish -churches in the country were nearly always in former times erected in -the villages or towns they were intended to serve, and the only way of -accounting for their now being at a distance from one another is by -supposing that some great pestilence has at some period swept away the -population of that part of the village which adjoined the church. That -the pestilence should attack that particular portion of the village -more than another is highly probable, because its proximity to the -church and churchyard would render it more liable to infection. This, -however, is a very gloomy subject to contemplate, and we refer to it -only to account for certain peculiarities which it has introduced into -old villages. - -Our other sketch represents a cottage or village house of much later -times, probably the Hanoverian period, built of various coloured -bricks, in some places arranged in patterns. The great peculiarity of -the design, however, is its diminutive scale. Were it not for the fact -that the presence of any human being near to it immediately dwarfs it, -the front might be that of an important house. This is a well-known -fact in architecture. There is nothing for bringing down the scale of a -building like a very tall girl. An architect we know built a beautiful -little church on a small scale, but he was shocked to find that a very -tall, and it must be confessed graceful, girl sat close to the first -column of the nave. Our friend said, “Really that girl completely -dwarfs my columns. I shall have to speak to the clergyman and see -whether she can be prevailed upon to take a seat in a less conspicuous -place.” He suggested this idea to the reverend gentleman, who seemed a -little confused. - -“Well,” said he, “I fear that can scarcely be done, as that young lady -will in all probability become more closely connected with the church. -The fact is, we are going to be married next month.” - -It is rather a strange thing that a tall man does not “bring down” the -scale of a building to the same extent as a tall woman. Probably the -dress of the latter is accountable for this. - -The diminutive scale of the house at Amersham has its counterpart -in many Georgian buildings—Hamper Mill and the old school-house at -Watford, for instance. Yet we can scarcely charge the architects of -that time with an attempt to give a false scale to their buildings, as -they seem so well suited to their surroundings. - -[Illustration: COTTAGES AT LYME REGIS—A FORTIFIED VILLAGE.] - - - - -LETTERS FROM A LAWYER. - - -PART VII. - - The Temple. - -MY DEAR DOROTHY,—It is perfectly astounding to me that people not -absolutely devoid of common sense should be taken in by the so-called -confidence trick, a device so transparent that it seems incredible that -any sane man could be deceived by it. I am bound to say in justice to -your sex that I have never heard of a case when a woman was a victim to -the confidence trick. I suppose it does not appeal to them in the same -way that it seems to do to some men. - -Perhaps the true explanation of the gullibility of mankind was that -given by a rogue who was had up and convicted at the Old Bailey. When -asked what he wished to say, why he should not receive punishment for -this offence, he replied that he ought to be treated as a great moral -teacher, because the confidence trick could only succeed with people -who were covetous and desirous of acquiring other people’s money -without giving an equivalent for it, and that when they found that -they had lost their money, it taught them to be more cautious and less -grasping. - -There was some truth in what this “great moral teacher” said, but -unfortunately for him he had also a lesson to learn, and the Recorder -gave him several months in which he might give it his careful -consideration. - -The “Free Portrait” scheme is a bait which allures a good many people. -They cannot resist the temptation of getting something for nothing. -A man calling himself A. Tanquerey or F. Schneider, and giving an -address in Paris, is, I believe, the author of this ingenious system -of extracting money from the unwilling pockets of the public. He -professes in his circulars and advertisements to send you a crayon -enlargement of any photograph you send him “absolutely free of charge.” - -After you have sent him the photograph, which is generally one of -special value to yourself, being, we will suppose, the only portrait -you possess, of a deceased parent, friend or relation, you receive a -letter stating that the portrait is ready and will be forwarded to you -on the receipt of two or three guineas for the frame. - -If you decline to purchase a frame, and write telling him to return -your photograph, you receive no reply to your letter, and finally, to -recover the photograph which you value, you send the money for the -frame, and receive a fairly good crayon enlargement of your photograph -in a frame which has cost you as many guineas as it is worth shillings. - -There is a class of advertisement which may be seen in almost any -weekly paper which just borders on the fraudulent. Even if they are -genuine in themselves—and some undoubtedly are not—they open the door -to fraud. I refer to those advertisements offering articles for sale -in connection with monetary prizes to every purchaser and winner in a -competition which can be guessed at a glance. - -Every purchaser is told in the advertisement that he will be entitled -to receive a prize of £10 if he guesses rightly; but when he has made -his purchase and sent in his solution, he will find that either only -the first letter opened gets the prize, or that every competitor having -guessed correctly, he is only entitled to receive a halfpenny for -his share of the money. In this last case, of course, the thing is a -swindle because no one would have purchased the article and answered -the competition if they thought the money was going to be divided -amongst the winners. - -I tried one of these competitions myself, not because I thought it was -genuine, but because I wanted to see how it was worked. The task I had -to accomplish was something like the following: - -“Give the names of the fruits and flowers mentioned below—Soer, Reap, -Liput, Cepah, Socruc, Ragone.” - -Well, you can see at a glance they are rose, pear, tulip, peach, -crocus, orange. I sent in my answer and a shilling and a penny stamp, -and in due course received a puzzle worth about twopence. - -Later on I received a letter stating that my solution of all the words -was correct, and enclosing my share of the prize—a halfpenny stamp. - -In a similar competition I saw it stated in the papers that 6,000 -answers had been received, which shows that the game must be a very -paying one for those who issue the advertisements. - -What a number of young women there must be waiting to get married! -In answer to an advertisement which appeared the other day in the -_Exchange and Mart_, in which a lady, “disappointed in love, offered -her _trousseau_ at an enormous sacrifice,” over 1,400 replies were -received. - -But the lady “disappointed in love” disappointed also the 1,400 ladies -who wanted a _trousseau_, for her advertisement was a bogus one, and -was merely another trap to catch the unwary. - -One has to be very sharp, but the sharpest of us are sometimes taken -in, including even - - Your affectionate cousin, - BOB BRIEFLESS. - - - - -GIRLS AS I HAVE KNOWN THEM. - -BY ELSA D’ESTERRE-KEELING, Author of “Old Maids and Young.” - - -PART VI. - -THE ATHLETIC GIRL. - - WANTED: A groom, tall, good-looking, steady. - - WANTED: A housemaid, neat, respectable, no fringe. - - WANTED: A cook, good, plain. - -So run certain familiar advertisements. They are cited here as -containing the descriptive words which have a particular applicability -to the athletic girl, who, to state the general case in regard to her, -is tall, good-looking, steady; neat, respectable, with no fringe; good, -plain. - -[Illustration: The athletic girl] - -This fact notwithstanding, the average athletic girl would not make -a successful groom; still less would she give satisfaction as a -housemaid; and least of all has she in her the makings of a good cook. -Some hold that she has in her the makings of a good pianist, but that -is a mistake, for she has no _adagio_. “I call a girl like that a -fortist, not a pianist,” was said of her the other day. - -Not always, but very often, the athletic girl’s is the prosaic type of -mind, concerning which Lowell writes— - -“The danger of the prosaic type of mind lies in the stolid sense -of superiority which blinds it to everything ideal, to the use of -everything that does not serve the practical purposes of life. Do -we not remember how the all-observing and all-fathoming Shakespeare -has typified this in Bottom the Weaver? Surrounded by all the fairy -creations of fancy, he sends one to fetch him the bag of a humble-bee, -and can find no better employment for Mustard-seed than to help -Cavalero Cobweb scratch his ass’s head between the ears. When Titania, -queen of that fair, ideal world, offers him a feast of beauty, he says -he has a good stomach to a pottle of hay!” - -The athletic girl easily thus runs to prose. Sometimes her prose is -very funny. She looked up lately from a novel with the speech— - -“There’s one thing I do want to know most awfully, Daddy—how people -‘gnash’ their teeth. Is it anything like this—or this—or this?” - -Each question was accompanied by a facial illustration. Daddy is a -serious man, but he laughed heartily. - -Sometimes, however, Daddy shakes his head. The following is a case in -point. - -“Do you know, my dear,” he asked, “the difference between a soprano and -a contralto?” - -“Why, of course, Dad,” was the answer. “The one’s a squeak and the -other’s a squawk.” - -[Illustration] - -Such a girl has some knowledge, but she lacks some grace. Very often -the athletic girl lacks both knowledge and grace. Sometimes, too, she -lacks brains. The outward marks by which you shall know her in that -case are that she has large ears and a little forehead. There are -exceptions to this rule, but they are not many. - -Of accomplishments the average athletic girl has few. All the French -she knows she puts into a smile, and that smile is the one with which -she meets any references to customs of the good old time. It says— - -_Nous avons changé tout cela._ - -[Illustration: Her ancestress] - -Twenty years ago this girl was the girl who wished she was a boy. It -is one of the changes which time has wrought in her case that she no -longer wishes that. She is happy and proud to be a girl of to-day, -believing, as she does, that girls and women never had a chance to -distinguish themselves in feats of strength till to-day. Remind her of -Joan of Arc, and she will reply that that was an isolated case; draw -her attention to the passage in Motley’s _Rise and Fall of the Dutch -Republic_, referring to the garrison of Haarlem in 1572, and she will -stare. The passage in question runs— - -“The garrison at least numbered one thousand pioneers or delvers, -three thousand fighting men, and about three hundred fighting women. -This last was a most efficient corps, all females of respectable -character, armed with sword, musket, and dagger. Their chief, Frau -Kenau Hasselaer, was a widow of distinguished family and unblemished -character, about forty-seven years of age, who, at the head of her -Amazons, participated in many of the most fiercely contested actions of -the siege, both within and without the walls.” - -Elegance of speech is not, as a rule, a primary characteristic of the -athletic girl, and it has been noticed that, while she prefers the use -of any name to that of the baptismal or family one, she usually goes to -the brute creation for a substitute, selecting—in so far merciful—the -names of the pleasantly associated animals commonly called domestic. -Thus ass, goose, duck, pig, cart-horse, cow, and—lately at the zenith -of its popularity with her—_hound_, are all of her word-treasure. It -is to be expected that she will add to this list in the course of time -“barn-fowl,” and some other, and that, when she has exhausted the names -belonging to the domestic animals, she will have recourse to those -placarded at the Zoo. It does not seem probable that she will ever be -guilty of the banality attaching to the use of Christian names alone. - -As a letter-writer the average athletic girl does not shine. First, as -for her handwriting, it is perhaps best described in some words which -Goldsmith gives to Tony Lumpkin— - -“Here are such handles and shanks and dashes that one can scarcely know -the head from the tail.” - -The speed at which she writes, too, is productive of direful blunders -of the kind of _Dear Madman_ for “Dear Madam”; and the “burst of -speaking,” to use a phrase from Shakespeare, which characterises her -_vivâ voce_ manner, has its effect upon her epistolary style. It lacks -repose. Another detracting feature of it is connected with the fact -that this type of girl affects insensibility just as her ancestresses -of a hundred years ago affected sensibility. There is scarce a whit to -choose between them in their affectations. - -It is not that the athletic girl has no heart. There follows here her -description of a parting scene in which she was one of two. - -“I made an owl of myself, got the gulps, and could not even say -good-bye.” - -In other words, the athletic girl broke down. - -Books enter little into the life of this girl, yet she—may—belong -to a reading society. The following (writer, an athletic girl) bears -witness to that fact— - -“Our next Shakespeare reading is next Tuesday. Last year I never took -part in them, but am going to this year, though I rather hate them. -_Twelfth Night_ is the play chosen, and I have been given two rotten -parts where I have to say every now and then, ‘Good my lord,’ and -‘Prithee, tell me.’” - -The same girl writes— - -“I have just read a most frightfully good book, _The Prisoner of -Zenda_. It is simply the thrillingest thing that ever was written.” - -In another letter she writes— - -“Do you know the poetry of Gordon? An Australian man. All about horses. -First-class.” - -The margin-note style is in peculiar favour with the athletic girl. - -The personal note is one seldom struck by this girl, and the elegiac -note is one scarcely ever struck by her. Even when she has a grievance -she keeps a high heart. Who but she could write— - -“For some extraordinary and unknown reason my head is aching. It is -such a novel sensation that I rather like it.” - -[Illustration: A Novel Sensation] - -Her letter-endings take their colour from her character, real or -assumed. “In haste” is much in favour with her, and I have letters from -her ending “Bye, bye!” and “Ta, ta! Yours affec.” - -I will close this paper with a true story. In it will be shown how a -lady, late an athletic girl, was wooed and—not won. - -Her admirer was a widower, with one child. His home overlooked -the school of which this lady, young as she was—for she was only -six-and-twenty—was head-mistress. The widower, on re-marrying bent, -sent in his card on what was called “office day.” - -The name on the card was _Colonel Hewson_. The young head-mistress, -whose name was Alice Joyce, read it, and gave the conventional order, -“Show him in.” - -Alice Joyce had some slight acquaintance with Colonel Hewson, and had -also some slight inkling that he admired her. She did not admire him, -and would have liked to deny herself to him, but she was not authorised -to do this on “office day.” Perhaps he had come to place a pupil. His -only child was a boy, but, perhaps, he had girl-relations. “Show him -in,” said conscientious Alice Joyce, and Colonel Hewson was shown in. - -“I thought you’d be surprised to see me,” he said crisply, on entering. - -Alice smiled, and requested him to be seated. Then she left it to him -to open the talk, occupying herself with a revolving bookcase, which -she gently agitated. - -Colonel Hewson was a bronzed man of travel, who, according to rumour, -had penetrated into Asiatic jungles, and seen tigers and other -undomestic animals eye to eye without blenching. He had, however, never -before entered a lady’s school, and a terror the like unto which he had -never experienced now held him tongue-tied. - -Alice Joyce, good-naturedly racked her brains to think of something -that would set him at his ease, and ultimately put the young -head-mistress’s stock question— - -“Would you like to see our gymnasium?” - -Colonel Hewson expressed himself as not unwilling. - -The gymnasium was empty, save of apparatuses, of which, movable and -immovable, it had a great number. Alice Joyce had considerable skill in -showing these off, and handled weights and bars with a facility which -impressed her visitor. Up and down the gymnasium they went, swinging -dumb-bells. Suddenly Alice Joyce pulled up short— - -“As you are so much interested in all this, Colonel Hewson,” she said, -“do come and see the girls at it.” - -[Illustration: Entertaining a dumb beau with dumb-bells] - -“Can anyone come?” was asked. - -“No, no; only parents and anyone whom I may happen to invite. I shall -be pleased to see you, though you’re not a parent.” - -Colonel Hewson expressed his deep sense of obligation with a rather -blank face, adding, in mild protest, that he regarded himself as -a parent. Here was one result of Alice Joyce’s having become a -head-mistress. She had come to narrow the meaning of some words. She -was startled herself to find that things had come to this pass, and -said apologetically— - -“When I say ‘parent,’ I mean the person in that relationship to -girls—my girls. It is stupid of me, because, of course, there _are_” -(her voice paused on a higher note) “other parents.” - -Colonel Hewson’s face remained rather blank, and he put his hand on an -iron ring suspended from the roof. Alice Joyce the while had stationed -herself beside a trapeze bar. Colonel Hewson in a lady’s gymnasium was -not the most valiant man in the world, but he now took heart of grace -and proposed marriage to Alice Joyce. - -The end of the story is perhaps best told in the words of the heroine— - -“Of course I said ‘No’ to him. Really men are very tiresome. _Fancy a -man’s proposing when you’re showing him the gymnasium!_” - -[Illustration: CRUSHED] - -(_To be continued._) - -[Illustration] - - - - -EMBROIDERY WITH CHENILLE. - - -Chenille was, in days past, a popular material for fancy needlework. It -has recently, after a period of disuse, been restored to favour under -somewhat different conditions. Modern chenilles are obtainable in many -more soft and carefully shaded tints, and though coarse makes are still -used, some of the finer qualities are no thicker than a strand of rope -silk. - -[Illustration: FIG. 1.—PENWIPER.] - -Chenille can be used as a working thread if passed through the eye of -a chenille needle, or it can be caught down in the desired curves by -couching it in place with finer silk. - -In the little penwiper shown at Fig. 1 both these methods are -employed. The small branching pattern within the scrolls is executed -in actual stitchery with chenilles, while for the curves and along -the top some of the same materials are sewn down with stitches of -silk. As to colouring, the background is green and the chenilles are -brown, blue, pink and green in tint; the brown and green details are -secured with stitches of bright yellow crewel silk, which give little -touches of brightness at intervals. Two hints may be gleaned from this -penwiper. Firstly, that for workers with whom felt-work, on account -of its easiness of execution, is still popular, chenille has a better -appearance than flat silk embroidery; and, secondly, that on such small -articles as the one before us scraps of various colours remaining over -from larger undertakings can be profitably utilised. - -[Illustration: FIG. 2.—HANDKERCHIEF SACHET.] - -[Illustration: FIG. 3.—HINGE.] - -Work upon single thread canvas is almost as inexpensive as that upon -felt. Many shops show a large stock of sachets, such as that figured -here, and of other trifles; mats, chair-backs, cushion-covers, and so -on, similarly made, stamped with a design and bordered with satin. -To embroider these in any but a commonplace manner might be thought -impossible. Yet they can be improved and made more important-looking -by working with chenille. - -[Illustration: FIG. 4.—RETICULE.] - -[Illustration: FIG. 5.—SASH-END.] - -The handkerchief sachet at Fig. 2 is worked in brown, green, pink -and light and dark blue. There is no couching here, but the chenille -is used to make actual outline and satin stitches according to the -necessities of the pattern. The velvet-like surface of the chenille -is quite satisfactory, and the colour and substance of the canvas are -repeated, or at least suggested, in the lace edging of the sachet. This -is in reality crochet, worked with cream-coloured cotton of a rather -coarse size. - -Setting aside now such materials as felt and canvas, we come next to -consider the suitability of chenille on richer backgrounds; silk, -velvet, and so on. Here the finer qualities especially are to be -seen to full advantage. One of the newest forms of the work has -been introduced by Mrs. Brackett of 95, New Bond Street, W., and is -remarkable as including imitations of ancient Roman coins. These -are of various sizes and designs and found in two colours; gold and -“vert-de-gris,” the latter suggesting the effect of centuries of ill -usage. These “coins” are of course thin and light, and pierced with -holes at the edges so as to be easily sewn to the background. - -The designs of which they form a part are more or less in character -with them and often suggest antique metal-work. For instance, Fig. 3 -shows a specimen of such Roman embroidery where the pattern bears a -certain resemblance to a heavy hinge, the effect being lightened with a -coiled spray of highly conventional foliage. - -Attention is always paid to the colouring of this work. The foundation -material is heavy cream-coloured, or rather dark ivory moire, shot with -gold, and on this all the outlines of the pattern are followed with -gilt tinsel varying from a fine cord to the most delicate passing. -The main portions of the pattern are further emphasised within this -boundary, with fine silk chenille of several shades of dull olive green -sewn down with invisible stitches of filoselle or horse-tail. French -knots in tinsel (passing) and in shades of green embroidery silk are -employed as fillings, the silks being carefully chosen to assort with -the tints of the chenilles. All the scroll-work is worked with the -passing, the leaves being outlined with the green silks. - -The subject chosen for illustration here is a cover for a blotter, -which being raised displays the pad, while at the back of the -embroidery, which is stiffened with stout cardboard, are pockets of -pink and grey-green silk to hold letters, or paper and envelopes. The -work is finally finished off with a border of dull gold cord. - -Similar designs appear on various other articles. Blotters and -book-covers form an appropriate background, and so also do small -caskets with slightly domed tops. - -The reticule at Fig. 4 is made on quite a different principle -throughout. The front and back are formed of shield-shaped panels of -wood or strong card, covered with chenille embroidery and with brocade -respectively. The front section only concerns us here. The fabric -chosen is dark blue velvet, and on this is worked in tones of brighter -blue a very conventional flower. Long and short stitch is used for the -shading, the stitches being made, of course, with a large-eyed needle -threaded with chenille. The colouring is darkest in the centre, round a -pink circle, from which start three “stamens” of brown chenille edged -with fine tinsel. Some of the same Japanese tinsel is used for veining -the flower, and a few gilt sequins are introduced to give a little -additional brightness. The stem is of green chenille. - -To make up the reticule, the panel covered with embroidery as well as -the opposite one of pale terra cotta, blue and gold brocade were lined -with thin silk of a dull, brownish terra-cotta colour. A two-inch wide -band of some of the same silk was sewn round the curves (but not along -the tops) of both sections, thus forming the frame-work of the bag by -hinging the two parts of it together. A similar band of some of the -same silk was laid over the first one and gathered along both edges -that it might set rather fully. Above the shields a strip nearly as -high as they (four to five inches) of some of the same silk, was sewn -on. This was made of double material, that it might not be too limp, -and two lines of stitches two inches from the top formed a running -for the blue suspension cords. These were finished off with a cluster -of shaded-blue baby ribbons. Lastly an edging of gilt gimp edged the -shields and concealed their junction to the silk beyond. - -The three principal colours used, terra cotta, blue and gilt, proved -more successful than a medley of many carelessly chosen tints such as -an amateur embroideress is but too apt to display. - -It cannot be too often repeated that materials to be used together -should be first arranged and selected together, not merely worked up -because each in itself is bright or pleasing. - -As a general rule the more shades and the fewer colours, the better -will be the final effect. - -Tones of willowy green and of pink are the only colours admitted in -the sash-end seen in the illustration (Fig. 5). Here, again, is yet -another way of using chenilles, quite different from those previously -mentioned. In working the first thing to be done is to trace upon the -material, pink watered silk ribbon in this instance, the outlines -of the design. The bow and loops are formed of real ribbon folded, -gathered, and coaxed into the desired form, and secured lightly and -firmly with tacking threads. Along both edges of the ribbon, just -within the selvedge, is couched a line of chenille of a slightly darker -shade of green. This couching secures the green ribbon to the moire, -and the tacking threads can be cut and drawn out at once, before they -have had time to mark the material. The nine oval pendants issuing from -the lowest loop of ribbon are worked over with chenille of graduating -shades of green, the material being simply laid across and across the -space to be covered, and caught down with stitches of silk at the -sides. These stitches sink into the chenille and are covered, and are -further effectually concealed with a line of Japanese tinsel, carried -round each pendant and serving to keep it in a good shape. The chenille -when taken from side to side in the manner described does not in -itself define the form sufficiently clearly. The showers of sequins, -pinkish and green in colouring, must on no account be overlooked. They -are graduated in size and may vary in form, according to the worker’s -convenience, but should not be omitted altogether. - - LEIRION CLIFFORD. - - - - -“OUR HERO.” - -BY AGNES GIBERNE, Author of “Sun, Moon and Stars,” “The Girl at the -Dower House,” etc. - - -CHAPTER XXXIII. - -A WARRIOR TAKING HIS REST. - -The rapid fall of darkness made it difficult to pursue the enemy, who -at every point had been worsted. General Hope, knowing that large -reinforcements might be expected to arrive soon in the French camp, -decided to carry out Sir John Moore’s plan of immediate embarkation. - -At ten o’clock that night the march began, brigade after brigade -leaving the field of battle and silently going on board one transport -after another. So complete had been all previous arrangements that, by -morning light, almost the whole British Army was on board. - -Meanwhile, anxious consultation had taken place as to what should -be done with the beloved remains of the Commander. Colonel Anderson -settled the question by stating that Moore had often told him his -wish—“if he ever fell in battle, to be buried where he had fallen.” -It was decided that a grave should be dug on the rampart of the Coruña -citadel. - -At midnight the body was reverently borne into the citadel by Colonel -Graham, Major Colbourne and the Aides-de-camp. For a few hours it lay -in Colonel Graham’s room. - -In the early morning firing was heard. It was then determined not to -put off the funeral any longer, lest a fresh attack should be impending -and the officers be compelled to hasten away before paying the last -honours to their Chief. - -Somewhat strangely, it fell to Roy Baron to be present at this mournful -ceremony. - -It so happened that, in the early morning, Roy was sent by the Colonel -of his Regiment with a message to one of the Aides-de-camp; and as he -arrived on the spot just when the funeral was about to begin, he was -allowed to be one of the party in attendance. - -Not at dead of night, but at eight o’clock in the chill morning of a -January day, and in the grave prepared by his own men, Sir John Moore -was laid. No coffin could be procured. The body had not been undressed. -He wore still the General’s uniform in which he had fought his last -battle, and— - - “He lay like a warrior taking his rest, - With his martial cloak around him.” - -That same cloak, in which but a few days earlier he had visited Roy in -the little hut,—had laid his kind hand upon the boy’s arm,—had spoken -never-to-be-forgotten words of praise,—had smiled upon him—— - -Roy dared not let himself think of all this. Burning blinding tears -forced their way to his eyes—and not to his only—as he gazed his last -upon that perfect face in its pale sublime repose. - -Moore was carried by the “Officers of the Family,” who would allow no -other hands to do for him these last sad services. The Burial Service -was read by the Chaplain. And what was in the hearts of them all has -been told, in words that cannot be improved upon, by that noble elegy, -which is Moore’s best monument. - - “Few and short were the prayers we said, - And we spoke not a word of sorrow, - But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, - And we bitterly thought of the morrow. - - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, - And smoothed down his lonely pillow, - That the foe and the stranger would tread o’er his head, - And we far away on the billow. - - Lightly they’ll talk of the spirit that’s gone, - And o’er his cold ashes upbraid him; - But little he’ll reck, if they’ll let him sleep on, - In the grave where a Briton has laid him. - - But half of our heavy task was done, - When the clock struck the hour for retiring, - And we heard the distant and random gun - That the foe was sullenly firing. - - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, - From the field of his fame fresh and gory, - We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, - But we left him alone with his glory.”[1] - -For every man in the Army had lost a friend that day; and many a one -felt with passionate grief that the world, without John Moore in it, -would be for him a changed world thenceforward. - -Hard things were spoken of him after he was gone, and upbraidings, -indeed, were uttered—_not_ by his brave foe, who honoured Moore, -and wished to raise a stone to his memory—but by an ungrateful -section of his own countrymen, because, forsooth, with an Army of -only twenty-three thousand men he had not met and crushed two hundred -thousand. We know better now! In the cold clear light of history, such -fogs are driven away. - -Yet, even in these later days, have we made enough of the name of -John Moore? Have we thought enough of the man of whom Napoleon in the -zenith of his fame could declare that he was the only General left -fit to contend with himself, and against whose twenty-three thousand -men he counted it needful to bring in a fierce rush over eighty -thousand, failing even then in his purpose? Have we thought enough of -the man under whom the future Wellington wished nothing better than -to serve?—and about whose “towering fame” the sober historian of the -Peninsular War wrote in terms of unstinted praise? Have we thought -enough of the man who, while the bravest of the brave, was also the -most blameless and the most beloved of men, against whom Detraction had -no word to utter, save that he stood up almost too strenuously for his -country’s honour, and that he did not accomplish impossibilities? - -If not, it is surely time that his countrymen should begin to “do him -justice!” - -But for that fatal cannon-ball—who can say?—would Wellington have -become the foremost man in Europe, or would he have been second to -Moore? It might have been Moore, not Wellington, who turned the tide -of Napoleon’s success.[2] It was Moore who stemmed that tide, with his -spirited countermarch and splendid retreat, drawing the Enemy after -him, until he stood at bay upon the coast, and hurled back the onset of -the flower of Buonaparte’s Army. - -Of Moore’s personal valour, of his indomitable courage, of his -desperate enthusiasm, no voice was ever heard in question. To his -consummate generalship, his mingled audacity and calculation, this -marvellous Retreat bore ample witness, but for many years it was not -rightly understood by the mass of his own countrymen. Napoleon, Soult -and Ney gauged him far more truly than did the average Englishman of -his day. Not even against the future Wellington would Napoleon have -poured such an overwhelming force as he launched against Moore. - -(_To be continued._) - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] Written in memory of Moore by the Rev. C. Wolfe, about 1817. - -[2] These sentences were written before Lord Wolseley’s speech at -Dumfries, June 15, 1898, in which he was reported as having said: -“There could be little doubt in the minds of most soldiers who knew -what Moore did, that, had he not been killed at the Battle of Coruña, -_he_ would have been the great Commander who led the Peninsular -War, and it was quite possible that that great man, whom they all -worshipped, the Duke of Wellington, would not have been heard of. He -did not say that to depreciate the services of the Duke of Wellington, -who had been a rock of strength to this country; but possibly, had Sir -John Moore lived, _his_ name would have been blazoned on the scroll -of fame, as the man who won the great battle which crushed Napoleon’s -power at Waterloo.” - - - - -OUR LILY GARDEN. - -PRACTICAL AIDS TO THE CULTURE OF LILIES. - -BY CHARLES PETERS. - - -What garden is complete without the good old tiger-lily? Other lilies -are finer and more graceful, no doubt, but the old-fashioned tiger-lily -will always hold its own in the struggle for popularity. - -Although we call it an old-fashioned flower, it has not been grown in -England for so very long, being unknown before this century. It made a -bit of a stir, too, when it first blossomed in England. And no wonder -that it did, when we see what a grand sight a bed of these lilies -really is. - -_Lilium Tigrinum_ is a native of China, but it has long been cultivated -in Japan, and it is from the latter country that we obtain most of our -foreign bulbs. - -A curious fact, which we have frequently noticed in connection with -this lily, is that the size of the annual portion of the plant seems to -bear no relation to the size of the bulb. In most lilies large bulbs -produce fine plants, though we have seen that this is by no means -always the case. But with _L. Tigrinum_ the shoot apparently bears -no relation whatever to the size of the bulb. If planted in very good -soil, all the bulbs of _L. Tigrinum_ seem to do equally well; whereas -in an unsuitable soil all seem to fare equally poorly. - -The bulbs are heavy and white, with the scales very dense and closely -packed. - -In growth this lily resembles _L. Auratum_ in some respects, and the -members of the _Isolirion_ group in others. The leaves are very green -and glossy, and are present in larger numbers than is commonly the case -with lilies. - -_L. Tigrinum_ is one of the two lilies which constantly bear bulblets -in the axils of their leaves. We have seen that under certain -circumstances several of the other lilies produce these aërial -bulblets, but the tiger-lily invariably does so. The bulblets are deep -glossy purple in colour, and are often produced in great numbers. If -planted as soon as they are ripe, they will grow freely and produce -flowering spikes in their second or third year. - -Everyone knows the blossom of the tiger-lily. The pyramidal shape of -the inflorescence, with its nodding bell-like blossoms, irresistibly -suggests a Chinese pagoda, and when looking at the plant one can almost -feel that it hails from China. - -The segments of the blossoms of the tiger-lily are much re-curved, -their tips touching their points of origin. The colour of this lily, -reddish orange, is very different from that of any that we have already -described, but as we shall see later, it is a very common colour among -the lilies. In the type of the tiger-lily the colour is a very fine -orange, and the spots, which are very numerous, are deep purple. - -The tiger-lily often bears seed in this country if the bulblets -are removed. As, however, seed is the least satisfactory mode of -propagating lilies, it is far better to utilise the bulblets for this -purpose. - -Individually, the tiger-lily is a fine plant, but its full effect -is only to be obtained by growing it in great clumps. A bed of -tiger-lilies is a grand sight, and it blossoms in September and -October, a time when showy plants are not very numerous. - -[Illustration] - -There are several varieties of the tiger-lily. That which is most -commonly grown is called _splendens_, because it is very floriferous, -and the flowers are of large size, fine colour, and are thickly spotted. - -Another variety, called _Fortunei_, is also very fine. It grows to the -height of six feet, and the stem and buds are covered with white silky -down. The flowers are very numerous, often exceeding thirty in number. -They are large, less reflexed than in the type, and only sparingly -spotted with large spots. - -The tiger is the second lily we have met with of which there is a -double-flowered variety. There are only four double lilies, and none -of them possesses the elegance of the single form. The old double -tiger-lily is very full and is interesting, though far inferior in -beauty to the type. - -There is little to be said about the cultivation of the tiger-lily. It -is perfectly hardy and will grow anywhere. It prefers a rich soil, and -in poor or damp spots it often degenerates. - -There is a lily which resembles the tiger-lily so closely that very few -people could distinguish between them unless they were placed side by -side. And yet most writers on the subject have separated this lily from -the tiger-lily and placed it among the _Martagon_ group, a group of -lilies differing extremely from the one which we are now considering. - -The lily which we refer to is called _Lilium Maximowiczii_ or -_Pseudo-Tigrinum_. It resembles the tiger-lily very closely, but is not -so sturdy in growth, and the flowers are smaller and poorer than those -of the tiger-lily. There are several named varieties known. - -Another lily of the same class is _Lilium Leichtlini_, the exact -counterpart of the last species, only differing from it in the colour -of its flowers, which are lemon yellow instead of orange. It is thickly -spotted with small mahogany spots and streaks. It is a very desirable -lily because of its uncommon colour, and it is not by any means -difficult to grow. - -Both _L. Maximowiczii_ and _L. Leichtlini_ require a moist peaty soil. -Plenty of peat, plenty of sand, plenty of water and very little direct -sunshine, are the keystones of the successful cultivation of these -lilies. - -At an auction last year we gave seven and sixpence for two very small -bulbs of _Lilium Henryi_, a lily which has only lately been introduced, -but one which is fast rising into prominence from its curious colour, -its bold growth and its hardiness. - -_Lilium Henryi_ is usually called the “orange _Speciosum_,” but in it -we can see far more resemblance to the tiger-lily than we can to _L. -Speciosum_. It seems to connect the _L. Tigrinum_ and _L. Speciosum_. -Its growth, its leaves, its flower buds and its habits suggest a close -resemblance to the tiger-lily. But the raised tubercles and spines of -the blossom recall _L. Speciosum_. The shape of the blossom is nearer -to that of _L. Tigrinum_ than it is to _L. Speciosum_, and the colour -is totally different from either. - -Dr. Henry’s lily blossoms late in September, or in the beginning of -October. Fine examples grow six to eight feet high and produce sixteen -to forty blossoms. The flowers are bright orange without spots. - -Our two specimens failed to reach the height of eighteen inches, but -both produced blossoms—one a solitary one, the other a pair. This is -all that can be expected from bulbs at three and ninepence a-piece. We -expect to do much better this year. - -The hardiness of this lily is unquestionable, and it needs no special -cultivation. - -This lily is a native of China and is at present extremely scarce. -Unless you are prepared to give ten shillings for a single bulb it is -not worth while to grow it. If the bulbs ever get to be as cheap as -a shilling or eighteenpence each, it will be well worth growing, but -at ten shillings a bulb! It is monstrous to pay such a sum for a lily -which at its best is only of inferior beauty. - -The lilies which we have considered so far are all remarkable for the -elegance of their forms and the striking colours of their flowers. If -the reader has dreamed that all lilies are equally beautiful, or, at -all events, that all are of great beauty and elegance, we are sorry to -have to awaken him to the sad reality that there are many lilies which -are not beautiful in colour and which are extremely inelegant in form. - -The next group of lilies, _Isolirion_, contains many species, in all of -which the flowers are erect and the segments little if at all reflexed. -They are of low growth, and the blossoms are mostly orange in colour. - -This group of lilies contains many old garden favourites which, though -they possess but little individual beauty, are yet pleasing in the -flower bed from the brightness and size of their blossoms, and for the -early period at which they flower. - -There is a great sameness about the members of the group _Isolirion_, -and as there are many garden varieties of most of the species, some of -which are possibly hybrids, it is a most difficult task to separate the -various species from one another. - -We associate the lily with elegance. What, then, should we imagine -_Lilium Elegans_, _the_ elegant lily to be like? And what is the -reality? A low-growing clumsy stalk bearing two or three top-heavy -enormous blossoms sticking bolt upright, chiefly of crude colours! As -inelegant a plant as it is possible to conceive, having about as much -right to the title of _elegans_ as has the hippopotamus! Where did this -lily get its name from? It has another title, _Lilium Thunbergianum_, -or Thunberg’s lily. Which of these names shall we use? Which is the -less objectionable? The name which records the chief characteristic -which the plant lacks, or that concocted of a Latinised version of -the name of a human being? Formerly this lily was called _Lilium -Lancifolium_, or the lance-leafed lily, a name which, though it might -be equally well applied to nearly every known species of lily, is yet -better than either of its modern names. But we cannot use this name, -for florists will persist in applying the name _Lancifolium_ to _L. -Speciosum_. - -_L. Elegans_ grows about a foot high, and each stem bears from one -to four blossoms. The blossoms are very large, very inelegant, and -short-lived. But they make up to a certain extent in colour what they -lack in form. - -There are innumerable varieties of _L. Elegans_, differing chiefly in -the colour of the flowers. Some of the colours are very fine, others -are harsh and crude. - -We append a table of the colours of the best known varieties. An -asterisk is placed before the most desirable forms. - -_L. Elegans_ produces both a double and a semi-double variety. We -should have thought that a “semi-double” flower was the same as a -single one. But it is not so. A semi-double equals a one-and-a-half -blossom! That is, a double corolla of which the inner part is abortive. - -_Lilium Croceum._ The old orange lily resembles _Lilium Elegans_, but -it grows taller, and produces a far larger number of blossoms. This -is the finest of the upright orange lilies. The blossoms are large and -reddish-orange in colour, spotted with black. The plant grows to about -three feet high, and is very showy. - -In Ireland this lily is the national emblem of the Orangemen; and when -travelling in that country you can tell, so we have been assured, the -political opinion of the owner of a house by observing what lilies he -grows in his garden. The Orangemen are said to grow none but the orange -lily, while the rest of the population cultivate only the Madonna lily -(_L. Candidum_). - -A variety of _L. Croceum_ named _Chauixi_ is of a bright yellow colour, -and is finer than the type. - -This lily is found wild in various parts of Central Europe. It has -been in cultivation for centuries; but lately it has almost lost its -place as a garden lily, having been discarded in favour of some of the -varieties of _L. Davuricum_, which are much cheaper, but nothing like -so fine. - -The term _L. Umbellatum_ is applied to certain varieties and possibly -hybrids of _L. Croceum_ and _L. Davuricum_. - -A very similar species is _Lilium Davuricum_, a native of Siberia. The -wild plant rarely bears more than two blossoms on each stem; but in -cultivation flower-spikes of twenty or more blossoms are not uncommon. - -_L. Davuricum_ is frequently grown in gardens. There is a large number -of named varieties of this lily, but all the forms are very similar, -and in no way deserve separate names. The plant grows to about four -feet high, and produces from four to thirty flowers of a dirty orange -colour. - -_Lilium Bulbiferum_ very much resembles the lilies we have just -mentioned, but it may be at once distinguished from any other -_Isolirion_ by the bulblets which are formed in the axils of the -leaves. These bulblets are large and purple in colour. Not very -uncommonly bulblets form in the axils of the leaves of _L. Davuricum_ -or _L. Elegans_; but when they do, they are small and green. - -The blossoms of _L. Bulbiferum_ are like those of _L. Davuricum_ on a -smaller scale. The same upright position, the same poorness of form, -and the same dirty orange colour, which is so persistent among the -members of the group _Isolirion_, are present in both. But the blossoms -of _L. Bulbiferum_ are distinctly smaller than are those of _L. -Davuricum_. - -If the lilies we have just described are not particularly remarkable -for beauty, they are, nevertheless, very desirable subjects for the -flower garden. They are showy, extremely hardy, flower in early -June, when showy flowers are rare, and readily increase when once -established. _L. Elegans_ looks best planted in rows and borders, its -low growth suiting it admirably for such treatment. - -These lilies will grow anywhere, in any soil. A little peat and sand -should be mixed with the soil in which these lilies are planted. - -Although they will grow well enough in pots, these lilies are quite -worthless for pot culture. - -One of the best of the _Isolirion_ group of lilies is _Lilium -Batemanniae_. This plant resembles _L. Elegans_ in some particulars, -but its blossoms are quite distinct. They are of a rich unspotted -apricot colour. The perianth is more reflexed than is commonly the case -in this group. It flowers in the late summer. It should be grown in a -good peaty soil. - -_Lilium Wallacei_, a very similar species, has the flowers of a rich -apricot, densely spotted with black. The bulbs of this species are very -small. It requires similar treatment to the last. - -_Lilium Philadelphicum_ is an American species, and has a rhizomotose -bulb. The stem produces a single blossom, dirty orange colour spotted -with black and yellow. It requires a wet, very peaty soil. - -Another American species is _Lilium Catesbaei_, a very curious and -interesting plant. The bulb is unlike that of any other lily except _L. -Avenaceum_. It somewhat resembles a fir-cone. This plant grows to the -height of about a foot. It produces a single blossom, about five inches -across. The segments are curiously curved and curled. Its colour is -reddish orange and yellow. It should be grown in a peaty soil, but it -is a somewhat tender species, and is not really suitable for outdoor -culture in this country. - -We have hurried through this group of lilies because the species are -not remarkable either for form or for colour. They are certainly -inferior to any other of the genus _lilium_. - ---------------------+----------------------------------+------------------------------------ - Variety. | Colour of Flower. | Other Peculiarities. ---------------------+----------------------------------+------------------------------------ - | | - Type | Dirty orange, spotted. | .. .. - | | -*_Van Houttei_ | Deep red, spotted black. | The best of the red varieties. -*_Horsmanni_ | Deep red, spotted black. | Very rare and difficult to obtain. - | | - | { Pale terra-cotta, } | -*_Aurantiacum Verum_| { very slightly spotted. } | Best of terra-cotta varieties. - | { } | - | | - _Robustum_ | Dirty orange, spotted. | { Very early. Stem covered - | | { with down. - | | -*_Atro-Sanguineum_ | Very deep red, slightly spotted. | Fine variety. - | | -*_Prince of Orange_ | Terra-cotta, slightly spotted. | Inferior to _Aurantiacum Verum_. - | | - _Wilsoni_ | Lemon-yellow, spotted. | .. .. - | | - | | -*_Alice Wilson_ | Clear lemon-yellow. | { Very curious. The best of the - | | { yellow varieties. - | | - _Bicolor_ | Orange. | A poor form. - | | - _Brevifolium_ | Dirty orange, spotted. | A poor form. - | | - | | { Inferior to the other deep red -*_Incomparabilis_ | Deep red, spotted. | { varieties, but bearing larger - | | { blossoms. - | | ---------------------+----------------------------------+------------------------------------ - -[Illustration] - - - - -THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. - -BY ISABELLA FYVIE MAYO, Author of “Other People’s Stairs,” “Her Object -in Life,” etc. - - -CHAPTER VIII. - -A FALL IN THE KITCHEN. - -Lucy felt wonderfully cheered and strengthened as Christmas approached. -She was working hard and successfully. She had completed her sketches -and had received payment for them, and she meant to give herself a -little holiday from Christmas Eve until after the New Year, so that she -might go fresh and bright to take her class at the Institute, which -would re-open on January 3rd. - -“Giving herself holiday” only signified that Lucy hoped to enjoy a week -of her old life as Hugh’s mother and as general housewife. Like many -who have special gifts, Lucy really enjoyed house-work and needlework. -She intended in this interval to so overhaul book-cases, china cupboard -and linen closet, that she might afterwards apply herself to her -“professional” work with the contented assurance that her household -would run on for awhile without other care than the worthy Mrs. Morison -seemed able and willing to give. - -Lucy felt that she had indeed found a treasure! She had not yet -despatched any letter to Charlie, as the _Slains Castle_ would not -touch at its first port for fully three months, and it was not yet -quite time for the mail which would take a letter there to await his -arrival. But though the letter was not despatched, it was begun. It had -been begun the day after she got Charlie’s farewell telegram, and a few -lines had been added every night. - -Now the letter would soon have to be despatched, and as Lucy sat down -to her desk on Christmas Eve, she felt that she could safely tell the -whole story of Pollie’s departure, and of the blessing which filled her -vacant place. Mrs. Morison had been in the kitchen nearly two months, -and every day she gave greater satisfaction. She had thrown herself -with great zest into the idea of the Christmas party, and Lucy began -to think that under this cook’s skilled fingers her festive dishes -would probably achieve perfections at which she and poor Pollie had -never aimed. As she sat writing to Charlie concerning the domestic -good fortune which had befallen her, she felt her heart grow very -soft towards this middle-aged woman who had once had a home of her -own, but who was now so contentedly and worthily serving others. What -life of her own had she? She had paid no visit since she had entered -Lucy’s service; she had had no visitor. Yes, Lucy remembered she had -had one—a middle-aged woman, who had called on her when she had been -in her situation for a month. She had volunteered to say that this -person was the wife of her cousin, the plumber at Willesden. Lucy -had asked whether she had offered her a cup of tea. No, Mrs. Morison -said; her cousin would not expect that; and Lucy had rejoined that she -hoped she would show this little hospitality on future occasions. Lucy -remembered now that Mrs. Morison had not seemed brightened by this -visit, nay, that for a day or two afterwards she had even seemed a -little depressed. It occurred to Lucy that perhaps this cousin had come -possibly seeking a little loan, or perhaps pressing for the repayment -of some trifling debt. Lucy knew that one or two of Pollie’s relatives -had not been inclined to spare her hard earnings, and that Charlie and -she had intervened to protect the girl from the weak soft-heartedness -which can be so easily wrought upon by the loafing or the greedy. - -What Christmas in any real sense would there be for this woman in the -kitchen, whose presence there yet made a social Christmas possible for -the rest of the household? If she had any old friends they must be -in the North, beyond the reach of anything but the struggling, slow -letters of the uneducated. Lucy wondered whether there was anybody -to whom Mrs. Morison would like to send some “gift from London in -kind remembrance.” She had taken quite a pathetic interest in certain -trifling gifts which Lucy had despatched that afternoon. - -“Eh, it’s bonnie!” she had said, adding with a little sigh, “It’s a -gran’ thing to gie pleasure to folk.” - -Lucy had got a nice cambric handkerchief with an “M” in the corner, -tied up with a piece of red ribbon, which was to be Mrs. Morison’s own -Christmas-box. It was all that it was reasonable to give to a servant -who had been only two months in the house, to say nothing of the fact -that Lucy was anxious to spend little this year, and had sent no -Christmas gift save what was taken out of her own stores or of her own -manufacture. - -But Lucy wondered whether she could not do something more. - -A bright idea seized her. Mrs. Morison’s next month’s wage would not -fall due till just after the New Year. Why shouldn’t Lucy advance it -to her now? That would not impoverish Lucy, who had the money in her -purse, and yet it might be a real neighbourly kindness. - -She laid down her pen, sprang up and hurried to the kitchen, which was -pervaded by festive smells of spice and stuffing herbs. - -“Mrs. Morison,” she said, “as your month’s wages are due just after the -New Year, I should like to advance them to you now. Most of us spend -a little extra at this season, and as you haven’t been earning money -for some time, you may not have much cash ready at hand. For one does -not care to disturb one’s little investments to buy Christmas cards or -comforters.” - -She laid on the table a sovereign and a little silver. - -“Oh, ma’am,” cried Mrs. Morison, “you’re far ow’re kind! You shouldn’t -ha’ thought o’ sic a thing. ’Deed, there is a thing or two one would -like to do, though there’s no many carin’ for me now. An’ you gave me -my last month’s money down on the vera day, an’ it came in handy when -my cousin’s wife called. I was glad to have a bit to help her with, -poor body, for they’d been kind to me, and they’ve got a cripple child, -and some of their customers are slow in paying bills. There’s a mighty -differ between people, as I’ve often heard my poor husband say.” - -Lucy went back to her letter as light-hearted and elate as we always -feel after doing a trifling kindness. She confided it all to her letter -to Charlie—told him why she had interrupted her writing, and how -very pleased Mrs. Morison had been, and how nicely she always spoke -about “the master.” She added that she should finish her letter on the -evening of Christmas Day after the visitors had gone, when she could -tell him how everything had passed off. “So it will seem almost as if -we had had Christmas together after all.” She had just written this -when Mrs. Morison came into the parlour, saying, - -“Please, ma’am, you won’t mind if I go out for a little? I sha’n’t be -gone more than half-an-hour. It won’t ill-convenience you?” - -“Certainly not,” Lucy answered cordially. “She is off to buy -something,” she thought to herself, and added aloud, “I’m afraid you -are rather late for most of the shops.” - -“Some of them keep open late on Christmas Eve,” said Mrs. Morison; -“not the shops you’ll know, m’m, but quiet little places where working -people go.” - -Mrs. Morison came back in about a quarter of an hour. She had a parcel -under her shawl, and in her hand was a little bright-coloured ball. - -“If you please, m’m,” she said, “I’ll make bold to drop that into the -stocking that I see you’ve hung outside Master Hugh’s door. And I’m -sure I’m sending my good Christmas wishes to the master, if the winds -will carry them. And please, ma’am, if you’ll do me a favour, you won’t -trouble yourself a bit about kitchen things to-morrow, but just trust -to me. All is ready now as far as it can be till it’s fairly put on the -fire.” - -Lucy gratefully promised full confidence. She had fixed her dinner-hour -carefully—two hours earlier than she had ever had Christmas dinner. It -was to come off at four o’clock, because it would not be nice for dear -old Miss Latimer to have to return home late, now there was no Charlie -to escort her. It would not have been kind to fix it sooner than four, -since Wilfrid Somerset so much disliked being abroad before dusk. - -Next morning, after the Christmas cards had been admired and arranged -gaily on the mantelshelf—after the Christmas stocking had been emptied -of all its contents and Hugh had made a right guess as to the giver of -the pretty ball—Lucy and Hugh went to morning service. Of course, the -familiar hymns, even the fresh smell of the “holly, bay and mistletoe” -of which the church was full, all had a pathos for her, as indeed they -do for everybody except such as little Hugh, to whose short experience -it seems that all Christmas Days will be as this one or even more -abundant. Yet Lucy reflected that, looking forward, she could never -have foreseen herself so full of cheer and patience and hope. - -Kneeling in her pew, thinking of all the happy festivals of her married -life, her mind went back to those earlier days when she and Florence -had looked over one book while they warbled— - - “Hark, the herald angels sing, - Glory to the new-born King, - Peace on earth and mercy mild, - God and sinners reconciled.” - -Then—as always happens with all healthy, right-minded people, when -their nerves are emerging, quiet, after a storm, and their hearts are -full of thankfulness for blessings already realised, and for hopes -brightening before them—Lucy began to wonder whether she had not -been a little severe and unjust to Florence—whether she might not -have blamed her for jars due rather to Lucy’s own morbidly irritable -condition. She was glad she was to spend Christmas Day in her own -house—glad that Miss Latimer and Mr. Somerset and the country boy were -to be her guests—but possibly it did seem hard to Florence that she -had been set aside. That last speech of hers about being now free to -invite other guests might perhaps have been wrung from her by a jar -inflicted by Lucy herself. Lucy felt that she would be the happier at -her own little festival, if she could feel quite sure that all was -right between Florence and herself, and that she had made due amends -for aught she had done amiss. - -She and Hugh were to have a slight lunch when they returned from -church. She resolved that they would hurry over this, and then go to -the Brands’ house, just to wish them “A Merry Christmas!” They could be -back in the little house with the verandah before Miss Latimer and Mr. -Somerset could arrive. - -They had to knock twice before Mrs. Morison let them in. - -“She’s so busy with her cooking, ma,” Hugh explained sagaciously. -And indeed when she did come, her face was very red, and she was so -pre-occupied that, as Hugh lingered a moment to knock snow from his -boot, she actually hurried back to her kitchen and left them to close -the door themselves. - -“Don’t roast yourself as well as the chickens, Mrs. Morison!” Lucy -called after her playfully. - -Their nice little cold meal was awaiting them on a side table in the -dining-room, the dining-table itself being already occupied by the best -napery, crystal and cutlery, set out by Lucy before she went to church. - -Hugh was all eagerness to see his little cousins and their Christmas -cards and gifts—they were sure to have so many, and such beauties! - -After all, the call, though satisfactory in one sense, proved less so -in another. It convinced Lucy that her sister had not been hurt or -offended; it also convinced her that the whole matter had been of such -slight interest to Florence that she had forgotten all about it! - -Jem Brand did not seem even to know that Lucy had been invited to be -his guest! Said he— - -“You ought to have been invited, and anyhow, wouldn’t you stay on now? -There are a good many people coming, but there would be room for you, -never fear.” - -Even when he heard she was to have guests of her own, he actually -suggested that he should send round a cab and bring them all over! - -It seemed to Lucy that Florence spoke rather sharply to Jem, saying -significantly, that he had better not go into the dining-room again -till dinner was served. She supposed Florence was tired and cumbered. -Florence had sent out a hundred and fifty Christmas cards—“Private -cards, of course!”—one conventional salutation alike to oldest friend -and newest acquaintance, to the wise and to the simple, the merry and -the sad. And Florence had received already two hundred cards, and -nearly one hundred were from people whom she had overlooked, and whom -she would have to “remember” at New Year. Also, the cutler had not sent -home her new fruit knives with the agate handles, and she would have to -use her old ones. It was enough to provoke a saint! - -The two little Brand girls were whining and fuming. - -“Muriel is out of sorts,” said the lady nurse, “because she has been -allowed to breakfast with her mamma and has eaten too much cake, and -Sybil is out of temper because her papa has given Muriel a mechanical -walking doll, and she does not think her own gift of toy drawing-room -furniture so good.” She would have stamped on it had not the lady nurse -taken it away. - -“I must soothe them up somehow to make a pretty appearance downstairs -after dinner,” she said. “And a nice to-do I shall have up here when -they come back again.” - -Well, at any rate, the comfort was that Florence kissed Lucy almost -effusively. - -“It was so sweet of you to come!” she said. She might be sharp with Jem -and vexed about her children, but it was evidently all right between -her and Lucy. “How well-behaved your Hugh is!” she said, and clung on -to her sister, pouring out the story of all the frictions working in -her own kitchen. - -Lucy hinted gently that she must be at home in time for her visitors; -but she remembered the mission which had brought her, and shrank from -seeming unsympathetic. At last it was so late that she had to say -definitely that she must go at once, or she would not be back in her -own house at four o’clock. - -“Dear me”—Florence looked at her watch—“you really must go! It’s -well you don’t have much dressing for dinner to do, or you’d be late -already. It has been such a comfort to have a reasonable creature to -speak to. And you’ll take a cab, my dear, or I’ll never forgive myself -for having kept you. You are to take a cab, mind!” - -Lucy smiled and hurried away. A cab? No! A woman who knows what it is -to earn shillings cannot willingly afford to spend them because another -woman’s whim delays her. Lucy, too, looked at her watch. There would be -just time for her to reach home ere her guests arrived. - -When they got into the quieter streets she shortened the journey by -running little races with Hugh. Nevertheless, just as they came in -sight of the house with the verandah, they saw Mr. Somerset’s cab drive -up. - -They all went in together. Of course, Mrs. Morison opened the door. She -had on a fresh white apron as if she were ready to serve up dinner. Mr. -Somerset had a big parcel to get out of his cab, and that made a little -delay, during which Mrs. Morison hurried off again downstairs. - -Lucy was comforted to find that Miss Latimer had not arrived yet, nor -the lad Tom Black. Mr. Somerset was such an old and familiar friend -that she could easily leave him to the chattering ministrations of -little Hugh, while she hurried to her own room to take off her walking -garb and add a few touches of lacy brightness to her apparel. - -While she was thus employed, she heard Hugh give a shout of joy and -go leaping downstairs. From the drawing-room window, he had seen Miss -Latimer approach. Lucy heard him and the old governess exchanging -rapturous greetings. She went out and met Miss Latimer, and led her to -her own room, where the old lady had some little titivations to make, -and a few private inquiries to get answered, so that they lingered -there until another knock announced Tom Black, and they went downstairs -to receive him. - -They found the youth standing awkwardly alone on the landing outside -the drawing-room door. He had only just reached that spot, led thereto -by the sound of Hugh’s shrill pipe and Mr. Somerset’s deeper tones. He -was vastly relieved to see Lucy, and to be made welcome by her. Lucy -herself made the inward reflection that Mrs. Morison was either less -trained in receiving guests than in other departments of service, or -that she felt her devotion to the Christmas dinner must justify any -lapse in minor attentions. - -They went into the drawing-room. Tom Black was introduced all round, -and a little conversation was got up about the weather, about Hugh’s -gifts, and about Mr. Challoner, and how he was possibly keeping his -Christmas day. - -By this time it was fully half-past four. Lucy did not feel at all -nervous on that score. If her husband had been at home to remain with -her guests, she would certainly have stepped out of the room and taken -a housewifely survey. But she did not care to leave her visitors quite -to themselves, since she had the just idea that hospitality loses its -sweetest grace if it seems burdensome to the hosts. It was natural, -too, that dinner should be a little deferred. Mrs. Morison had probably -thoughtfully retarded matters when her mistress’s return had been so -late. - -Lucy had not even begun to feel anxious—when there came a sudden heavy -fall and a smash! - -(_To be continued._) - - - - -[Illustration: ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS] - - -MEDICAL. - -UNFORTUNATE ONE.—Tainted breath may be due to a great host of -conditions, and as it is a common affection, and is often exceedingly -distressing, we will devote a little time to its consideration. The -breath may be tainted from the mouth—bad teeth, deposits of tartar -round the teeth, spongy gums, sores in the mouth, such as the little -white ulcers so commonly due to dyspepsia, sores on the tongue or lips, -etc. Enlarged tonsils are an exceedingly common cause of foul breath. -Some forms of chronic catarrh of the nose and throat are also connected -with bad breath. Then again, the breath may acquire a bad smell from -disease of the lungs. The stomach also may cause the breath to smell -bad; as a symptom of indigestion, bad breath is not uncommon. Lastly, -poisons circulating in the blood will taint the breath. A mild form of -this taint of the breath due to substances circulating in the blood -is the unpleasant smell of persons who have eaten onions or garlic. -The treatment for this symptom varies with the cause. Bad teeth should -be stopped or removed. Tartar should be removed by scaling the teeth. -Spongy gums, etc., should be treated with appropriate measures. Tonsils -which render the breath fetid should be removed, for they are dangerous -centres from which serious diseases may start. For the bad breath -arising from troubles in the mouth or throat, a mouthwash of boracic -acid and lavender water, or dilute carbolic acid, or of permanganate -of potash is very useful. Orris root, eucalyptus lozenges, etc., are -also very valuable. When the smell is derived from the nose, local -measures are alone of any service. For other forms of tainted breath, -musk, benzoin, and orris root are of value. It is often said that these -aromatics should not be used for the purpose, because they only mask -the smell and do nothing to remove the cause of the evil. Quite so! But -when the cause cannot be removed, we must treat the symptom. For the -bad breath due to stomach trouble, attention to the digestion and an -aperient will be required. The other conditions and troubles causing -bad breath cannot here be dealt with. - -CURIOSITY.—1. Apollinaris, Rosbach, and Johannis waters are for -table purposes, and possess no special medicinal action. Hunyadi, -Janos, and Apenta waters are both saline aperients. Both these latter -springs are in Hungary. Apenta is the more serviceable of the two.—2. -Aix-la-Chapelle supplies two mineral waters; that commonly called -Aix-la-Chapelle water is from a sulphurous spring. The other water is -Kaiser Brunnun, an ordinary gaseous table water. - -GLASGOW.—We will give you our opinion; but, mind you, as in all -cases of this kind, we will not take the sole responsibility, and you -must get the opinion of another medical man upon the matter before -deciding for good. The family history of the man you intend to marry -is bad. His mother and his brother died of consumption. Your questions -are these:—Has the man got consumption? will he get consumption? If -he marries, will his wife get consumption, or will his children get -consumption? As regards the first question—you say he expectorates a -good deal, he has a “catching in the throat,” he is very tall and very -pale. He _may_ have the disease. We cannot go further than this without -examining his chest. The answer to the second question must be equally -indefinite. For the third question—his wife will not get consumption -from him unless he himself develops the disease. His children, however, -may develop the disease without their father being personally attacked. -Of course, all may go well, and neither the man, nor his wife, nor his -children may ever develop consumption; but with the history that you -give us, we fear that such a happy result is very doubtful. If the man -has got the disease at present, marriage is out of the question. - -PUZZLED READER.—You should eat well, keep warm, and take plenty -of exercise. How to do these is the question. A mixed diet should -always be taken. If your digestion is good, oatmeal and other coarse -farinaceous food will help to keep you warm. If your digestion is -faulty, bread and milk is better. Fat does help to keep you warm, -and fat foods in moderation are by no means indigestible. Indeed, -fat bacon is one of the most digestible of meats. Dress in warm but -loose clothes. Your boots especially should be loose, but perfectly -watertight and well lined. Wear warm loose woollen underclothing. Avoid -any constrictions anywhere, such as tight garters, corsets, or collars. -Take as much exercise as you can manage. - - -MISCELLANEOUS. - -S. C. A.—There is a shilling manual on common British ferns to be -obtained quite easily. - -LILY.—To make a rice cake, take six eggs, and their weight (in the -shell) in sugar, and the same in butter; half their weight in rice -flour, and half of wheat flour; whisk the eggs, throw in the rice after -the flour, and add the butter in the usual way. Flavour according to -preference, and bake for an hour and ten minutes. The ingredients -should be severally added during the whisking. To prepare “pressed -beef,” procure a piece of the brisket, remove the bones, and put it -in salt (in the usual way), adding a little extra _sal prunella_ to -the brine and some spice, leaving it in pickle for rather more than a -week. Roll and tie up in a cloth, and simmer gently in plenty of water -for about seven hours (if the thin end, four hours); then remove the -string, tie cloth at each end, put the beef between two plates, and -press under a hundredweight, and leave till quite cold; then remove the -cloth, trim and glaze, and garnish with parsley. - -DAFFODIL.—You would have no difficulty in obtaining a good -riding-habit in your own city, where there must be plenty of good -tailors. It would be impossible for us to give an estimate for one, -and we can only say that they may be of any price from £4 4s. to £10 -10s. You had better get a Directory, look out for tailors and ladies’ -tailors, and go and inquire personally. - -M. M.—The “V.R.” on the upper corners made _all_ the difference, and -marked the first issue of the penny stamps in 1840. The stamp you send -us was issued in 1864, and is of no value at all except as a specimen -of the date, if you were collecting stamps of every known issue. - -PALE FACE.—Red would of course suit you, as well as all shades of it. -Yellow sometimes suits pale faces very well, and so does grey relieved -with pink. Violet and blue will make you look paler. - -E. F. BOULTBEE.—We have pleasure in announcing your change of address, -and congratulate you on your success in the oral system of teaching -deaf mutes, and the remedy of defective speech. Address, Miss Boultbee, -Members’ Mansions, Victoria Street, S.W. - -MAHDI.—We thank you sincerely for so kind a letter respecting our -magazine. Your writing is excellent. Peel a banana from the end -downwards to the stem, and then use a knife and fork; or if at home, in -private, you can dispense with them. - -P. F. M.—We do not know whom you mean by “supers,” for one of whom you -want a home. If some person that has been employed on the stage—one -class being known as “supers”—there is a charitable society called the -Church and Stage Guild, of which the Hon. Secretary is the Rev. Stewart -Headlam, Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C., which looks after these people, -and perhaps he might give you some information on the subject. - -LIGHT WANTED.—There is not the slightest reason why the event should -not take place; indeed there is every reason why it should, provided -that both desire it. - -CLARE VERNEY.—You might obtain the information you require by -reference to Agnes Strickland’s _Queens of England_, or other history -of hers. - -MISS MASON requests that our readers should be reminded of her -Holiday Home for teachers, clerks, and young persons in business, at -Sevenoaks—“Bessel’s House,” Bessel’s Green, Kent. Reduced fares are -asked from Charing Cross, London Bridge, Cannon Street, and Victoria. -Return tickets for a month, 2s. 8d.—twenty miles from town by S. E. R. -Charge for board, etc., from 12s. to 15s. a week. A stamped envelope -should be enclosed, and the age and occupation of the applicant stated. - -PERPLEXED.—The law on the question of changing or adding Christian -names is as follows: “A child’s _baptismal name_, if changed, or not -previously given, may be _inserted in the Register_ within twelve -months after the registration of birth.” You appear to be a member of -the Church of England, and as such, how came you to remain unbaptised -and excluded from Holy Communion until you were seventeen? “One year’s -delay is allowed by the law for altering or adding to your name,” as -entered on the Register of Birth, so as to accord with your “baptismal -name.” As it is, your assumed second name is not yours by legal right. - -CUMBERLAND LASSIE.—The high glaze employed by washerwomen for linen is -produced by mixing some wax or fat with the starch. This is a difficult -undertaking, even when hot. But starch-glazes may be purchased ready -for use, which may be employed safely, and are sold at any good -oil-shop. Some people, who wash articles at home, simply stir the -starch while hot with a wax candle. The following is a good recipe for -a glaze: Take 100 parts of wheat starch, 0.75 of stearinic acid, melt -the latter with about ten times its weight of the former. Let it cool, -powder, and mix thoroughly with the rest of the starch. This will be -suitable for shirt-fronts and collars; but for table-linen add a little -unprepared starch. - -LITTLE HOUSEWIFE.—To clean japanned trays you should never use hot -water; tepid water used with a soft cloth will remove any grease spot, -and a little flour sprinkled on a smear will restore the polish. The -varnish on candlesticks is often cracked by placing them before the -fire to melt the grease, or by the use of hot water. - -A. A. and D. C.—We often see clergymen, who are graduates of different -universities, wearing the hoods of their several universities when -doing duty in the same church and at the same time. Wherever they -pursue their vocation, they have a right to wear their academic -distinctions, and none other. - -ANXIOUS INQUIRER.—Your _fiancé_ should leave his own card. It is not -for you to do so for him. Leave your mother’s, should she permit it, -and your own, or her card with your name on it would be more correct. - -SAMOA.—Table-napkin rings are only used in private at home, or at -a boarding house, economy in the matter of washing being an object. -But in the houses of the wealthy, a fresh napkin is provided daily, -and thus a distinguishing ring is needless. With reference to the -discoloured coral, try a weak solution of borax, tepid. Should this -fail, take it to a jeweller. - -C. L.—There are only two ways of sending any parcel to India—by post, -or by private hand. The acorns should be put into a little box. Your -handwriting promises well, but is as yet unformed. - -A CONSTANT READER has only to order a book on the subject from any -librarian, and he will procure it for her. - -GENEVIEVE (Alderney).—You have only to write to the Manager of our -Publishing Department for the cover, with index of the year you -require, and ask him to inclose the bill, including postage, and any -bookbinder will bind your volume for you. - - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. 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