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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online -at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 375, March 5, 1887</p> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Various</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Editor: Charles Peters</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: November 27, 2021 [eBook #66830]</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER, VOL. VIII, NO. 375, MARCH 5, 1887 ***</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_353">{353}</span></p> - -<h1 class="faux">THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER</h1> - -<div class="figcenter" id="header" style="max-width: 37.5em;"> -<img class="w100" src="images/header.jpg" alt="The Girl's Own Paper." /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<div class="header"> -<p class="floatl"><span class="smcap">Vol. VIII.—No. 375.]</span></p> -<p class="floatr"><span class="smcap">[Price One Penny.</span></p> -<p class="floatc">MARCH 5, 1887.</p> -</div></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p class="center">[Transcriber’s Note: This Table of Contents was not present in the original.]</p> - -<p class="center"> - - - -<!-- Autogenerated TOC. Modify or delete as required. --> - -<a href="#THE_STORM">THE STORM.</a><br /> -<a href="#SOME_OF_THE_POETRY_WE_READ">SOME OF THE POETRY WE READ.</a><br /> -<a href="#VARIETIES">VARIETIES.</a><br /> -<a href="#Illustration_HEALTH_IN_THE_KITCHEN-GARDEN">HEALTH IN THE KITCHEN-GARDEN.</a><br /> -<a href="#MERLES_CRUSADE">MERLE’S CRUSADE.</a><br /> -<a href="#THE_SHEPHERDS_FAIRY">THE SHEPHERD’S FAIRY.</a><br /> -<a href="#EVERY_GIRL_A_BUSINESS_WOMAN">EVERY GIRL A BUSINESS WOMAN.</a><br /> -<a href="#UNCLE_JASPER">UNCLE JASPER.</a><br /> -<a href="#ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS">ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.</a><br /> - -<!-- End Autogenerated TOC. --> - -</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_STORM">THE STORM</h2> -</div> -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> ESTHER WIGLESWORTH.</p> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">Hark!</span> hark! hark!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Hark to the thunder’s roar,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hark how the maddened waves</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Burst on the rock-girt shore!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lashed by the furious winds,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Their foaming crests they rear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rush on with mighty bound,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Start back in shuddering fear.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Hark to the rattling hail!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Hark to the driving rain!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The heavens, a blaze of light,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Throb as in quiv’ring pain;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All Nature seems to work,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Unchecked, its own wild will,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">While man looks on in awe,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And bird and beast are still.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">God on the whirlwind rides,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The storm is ’neath His feet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He holds in His right hand</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The winds, His coursers fleet;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">They bear creation’s Lord</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In triumph on His way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in their maddest race</div> - <div class="verse indent2">His slightest check obey.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The lightning is His glance,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">His breath upheaves the sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The thunder His dread voice</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Of awful majesty;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Nature’s seeming war</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Its Maker walks abroad,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And all its mighty powers</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Are servants of our God.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i353" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i353.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">THE COMING STORM.</p></div> -</div> - -<p class="smalltext"><i>All rights reserved.</i>]</p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_354">{354}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SOME_OF_THE_POETRY_WE_READ">SOME OF THE POETRY WE READ.</h2> -</div> -<p class="ph3">A FEW NOTES ON THE MODERN USE OF THE OLD FRENCH METRICAL FORMS.</p> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> J. W. GLEESON WHITE.</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">INTRODUCTION.—THE TRIOLET.</p> - - -<div class="ddropcapbox illowe12_5" id="i354"> - <img class="w100 idropcap" src="images/i354.jpg" alt="E" /> -</div><p><span class="uppercase">lsewhere</span> -in the pages -of <span class="smcap">The -Girl’s Own -Paper</span> a writer has -explained the laws of -form governing and -underlying what we -call “classical” music. To those who love -art, in whatever guise it comes to us—as -symphony, picture, or poem—a very slight -amount of careful study of its accepted laws -will repay a thousandfold the trouble taken. -Having grasped even the faintest idea of -the reason for the special shape of a sonata -or a sonnet, the interest in the work itself -becomes more keen. Then, too, it will be -seen why literary men and artists choose the -higher forms of their art to clothe their -ideas. There is too often a feeling that -the chief difference between popular and -classical art is that the one is “dry,” while -the other is pleasing. This is in part true, -but only when scholastic rules are obtruded -too prominently. For while it may be at -once conceded that too great an attention -to form produces dry bones, yet genius can -make these live, for subject as they are to laws, -and having clear sequence of form, they have -inherent vitality and strength, relying on more -than mere fashion to keep their hold on the -people, in spite of the varying taste of each -passing year.</p> - -<p>Nature, to whom we all come alike for our -simplest as our highest thoughts, works in -many ways, but all subject to inviolable laws. -These may often be not evident at a cursory -glance, and still more often beyond our -keenest search; we can only infer the law from -the result. In mere human work, what one -man produces is more or less easily understood -by his fellow-man, and a knowledge of the -rules to which he conformed, adds interest to -our pleasure in his work, and makes us able to -be real critics, to some extent, while mere taste -or feeling can lay claim to no more than a -personal and often valueless opinion.</p> - -<p>The laws which govern music are probably -better known than those which rule verse, as -our English poets choose generally a freer and -more flexible mode of expression than the old -writers allowed. Again, in music the form is -more easily seen, for two reasons: one, that -constant habit of hearing pieces in strict form -has given us knowledge, without our being -able to formulate it; the other, that the subjects -of music, being at most vague and abstract, -are left out of the title of works by the -great masters, save in a very few instances. -Even the “Eroica Symphony” or the “Wedding -March” merely suggests abstract feelings. -To describe a rose or an umbrella, for -example, is impossible in music. We can only -suggest praise, or grief, and similar emotional -feelings. Therefore the shape only is usually -given in the title, such as a march, minuet, or -sonata. But in poetry the shape is rarely described. -Even in the most widely used of -these fixed forms, the sonnet, the shape is -not by any means invariably expressed in the -title. In the verses written in imitation of the -Old French Troubadours it is more often -used. In the <i>rondeau</i>, the most widely chosen, -it is not always given, but the <i>triolet</i>, <i>villanelle</i>, -or <i>ballade</i> is almost always so described -in the title, the shape, as in music, ranking -worthy of interest in itself. These old shapes -are more akin to the fugue and canon in -music, as the whole work has inner laws -governing each detail, and making the choice -of words or notes decided beforehand to a -great extent by the form.</p> - -<p>It is intended in this paper to describe a few -of the forms which have of late found favour -with the younger school of living poets, for a -twofold reason: first, that their readers may -better appreciate their works; secondly, that -the amateur verse-writer may gain a knowledge -of these verse shapes, and thereby be -able to produce trifles which are worthy of -attention. Although it is not given to many -to produce great thoughts, yet to acquire a -polished mode of displaying lesser ones to -advantage, is in itself worth the trying. The -tendency to diffusiveness which weakens so -much verse, until the pretty trifling becomes -wearisome, would be lessened if a strict form -were first chosen, and the subject necessarily -compressed within its limits.</p> - -<p>The greater number of these forms originated -with the Troubadours, and here, for mere -brevity’s sake, only a very few words must be -said. The subject of their loves and their -lives has been so fully discussed that a mere -<i>résumé</i> of all that is known would fill many -parts of this magazine. Hallam says “the -earliest records cannot trace them beyond -<span class="allsmcap">A.D.</span> 1100, and they became extinct at the end -of the next century. While they flourished -they numbered many hundreds of versifiers -in the language of Provence, though not -always natives of France.” It would be -interesting, if space allowed, to quote from -some of the many histories. I had intended to -do so, but the growing material forbade the -idea of using it here, and so I must refer -would-be inquirers to some of the more easily -accessible works. Foremost is Dr. Francis -Hueffer’s “The Troubadours,” published in -1878; it gives a scholarly and full account of -the most salient members of the school and -their works. “The Troubadours: their Loves -and Lives,” by Mr. John Rutherford, is also -interesting; while a work by M. Theodore de -Banville, the “Petit Traité de Poésie -Française,” affords an exhaustive analysis of -the rules of their verse and its modern imitations.</p> - -<p>Their verse was distinguished by its being -subject to very strict and subtle laws, often -involved and carried to an artificial complexity, -perilously near the triumph of sound over -sense; yet it has a charm peculiarly its own. -The forms of this school being still exotic, and -not (except the sonnet) incorporated into -English literature, gives them a special fitness -when employed for fanciful trifles on subjects -of an older time.</p> - -<p>The qualities termed “conceits” by the -old English writers, are admirably expressed -through the medium of these old shapes; a -certain amount of extravagance of compliment -and affectation is not out of place here. The -flavour of the verse smacks of the -“Moyen Age,” or “Powder and Fan” -period beloved by artists. In these forms the -shape of the verse itself takes the place somewhat -of the costume and accessories of a -painting, and gives local colour to the subject. -When used in this way, as Mr. Austin -Dobson has so often shown, they can be made -(like a picture by Abbey) to reproduce the past -in a living way, with its own domestic -sentiment, far removed from a mere -archæological or academic study of olden days, -which often appeals to the intellect rather -than the feeling, and moves us to criticise the -method employed, instead of falling under the -charm of the subject described.</p> - -<p>But they are by no means limited to this -class of subject, as Mr. Swinburne’s Roundels -show. Nature and her moods may be sung -as fitly in these, as in the most free forms of -poetry.</p> - -<p>Many estimable but badly-informed people -think that poetry or verse (unluckily these -terms are synonymous to them) is either a -divine outburst of feeling, expressing itself -almost spontaneously in rhyme, or, sad to say, -a mere vehicle to hide the poverty of ideas, -and eke out a repetition of fancies intolerable -in prose. The multitude are slow to -realise law in any shape, and in art no less -than nature look upon most results as the -effect of what a critic has termed “the -glorious gospel of haphazard.” To these -poetry suggests no art in itself, only a more or -less musical jingle of pretty sounds, gay or -plaintive feelings, while the whole is unreal -and fantastic.</p> - -<p>But to avoid further preface, let us take a -specimen of the aforementioned forms, choosing -a dainty little epigrammatic verse known -as the <i>Triolet</i>, to start with. This form, complete -always in eight short lines, is peculiarly -a product of the old French school of verse, -and is in itself, to some extent, an epitome of -all the rest. Almost new in English poetry, -the first examples dating from a volume of -poems published in 1873 by Mr. Bridges, it -has yet won many friends, although, so far as -diligent search by the present writer has been -able to trace them, a selection of the best would -fill but a few pages of this paper.</p> - -<p>Flexible only in the rhythm and length of -its lines, which are generally about six feet -(syllabic feet, of course) in length, it is stern, -and forbids tampering in all other respects, -allowing but two rhyme-sounds for the whole -of the lines. The lines themselves are repeated -in a certain unalterable order; the -first two serve again for the seventh and -eighth, while the fourth is also a repetition of -the first; no syllable even, in the best examples, -is changed in these lines. But on -each fresh appearance the words should, if -possible, convey a fresh phase of the idea, the -emphasis alone serving to mark the distinction. -On studying the examples given, it will -be found that the crux lies in the treatment of -the fifth and sixth lines, while the way the -third is connected with the fourth, and the -neatness with which the final couplet is repeated -to form a necessary part of the whole,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_355">{355}</span> -and not a mere repeat to fill up the prescribed -form, is almost as difficult. The following -example is a very perfect one; it comes in a -sequence of triolets by Mr. Austin Dobson, -entitled “Rose Leaves.” The first version -ran:—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“I intended an ode,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And it turned into triolets.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">It began <i>à la mode</i>:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I intended an ode;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But Rose crossed the road</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With a bunch of fresh violets;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I intended an ode,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And it turned into triolets.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>This has a literary interest apart from its own -merits, as the critics, on its first introduction, -blamed Mr. Dobson severely for attempting -to english the word triolet. “Suppose an -audacious person were to extend the license, -and introduce cabriolet as a thirdsman?” said -<i>The Academy</i>, on June 23, 1877. In spite -of Mr. W. S. Gilbert, in <i>Princess Ida</i>, trying -also to rhyme it to violet—</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Oh, dainty triolet! oh, fragrant violet! oh, gentle heigho-let! (or little sigh)”—</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>the word remains French; and in a later -version Mr. Dobson has re-cast the poem.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“I intended an ode,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And it turned to a sonnet.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I began <i>à la mode</i>.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I intended an ode;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But Rose crossed the road</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In her latest new bonnet.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I intended an ode,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And it turned to a sonnet.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>This may be better rhyme, but the <i>raison -d’être</i> is gone; it has not turned to a sonnet, -but is still a triolet.</p> - -<p>To understand the form more clearly, it is -best to take one and dissect it, thereby showing -its structure. To avoid mutilating a master’s -work, and possibly misinterpreting it, I -will take one in my possession, not yet published, -printing it, not as it would be, but -displayed (to use a technical term), thereby -exaggerating the emphasis with which the -writer intended it should be read.</p> - - -<p class="center">“<span class="smcap">A Waverer.</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">She has a <i>primrose</i> at her breast:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I almost wish I were a Tory.</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>I</i> like the Radicals the best,</div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>SHE</i> has a primrose at <i>HER</i> breast,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now is it chance she so is drest?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or must I tell a story?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She <i>HAS</i> a primrose at her breast:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">I almost <i>wish</i> I <i>WERE</i> a Tory.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Here we see the whole is a soliloquy in the -historic present tense. The first two lines -explain the incident, the third the speaker’s -own comment on it, noting in the fourth how -it differs from his own opinion. In the fifth -he meditates on the reason which has affected -him. In the sixth he wavers between insincerity -and politeness or truth and the chance -of conveying a sense of unfriendliness; while -in the last he concludes that it is a fact they -differ, and, still undecided in action, wishes -the reason had not existed so that he might -sincerely agree with the supposed Primrose -lady, and avoid feigning a political acquiescence -of opinion. So trifling an incident will not -bear analysis on its own merits, and is merely -dwelt on to explain the structure of the verse.</p> - -<p>A triolet should be complete in itself. In a -very able article in the <i>Cornhill Magazine</i> -(July, 1877) Mr. E. W. Gosse points out the -danger of a fascinating tendency to connect a -sequence of triolets. The constant recurrence -of the lines would soon become fatally -monotonous. One or two at the most are -bearable.</p> - -<p>A typical pair appeared in a number of -<i>The Century</i> (January, 1883). Thoroughly -American, they show well, first the half-bantering, -half-real feeling of the poet, artificial in -expression, yet not altogether untrue, while -her answer shows the American girl pure and -simple, the conventional courtesy of the first -being happily balanced by the naïve frankness -of the second.</p> - - -<p class="center">“<span class="smcap">What He Said.</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">This kiss upon your fan I press—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Ah! Sainte Nitouche, you don’t refuse it?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And may it from its soft recess—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This kiss upon your fan I press—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Be blown to you a shy caress,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">By this white down, whene’er you use it,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">This kiss upon your fan I press—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Ah! Sainte Nitouche, you don’t refuse it.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<p class="center">“<span class="smcap">What She Thought.</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To kiss a fan!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">What a poky poet!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The stupid man,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To kiss a fan,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When he knows that—he—can,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or ought to know it—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To kiss a <i>fan</i>!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">What a poky poet!”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right"><i>Harrison Robertson.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>Yet another American one, by H. C. -Bumer, may be quoted to show a subject not -at first sight so suitable to the triolet form.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“A pitcher of mignonette,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In a tenement’s highest casement;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Queer sort of a flowerpot, yet</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That pitcher of mignonette</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is a garden in heaven set,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To the little sick child in the basement,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A pitcher of mignonette,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the tenement’s highest casement.”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p>If space allowed there are other dainty -flowerets to be culled from this bunch of -French exotics, which seem to be cultivated -more in America than at home at present. -None of our greater poets has, I think, -published a triolet. The influence of this form -is seen in Mr. Swinburne’s oft-quoted poem, -“A Match” (If love were what the rose is); -and Longfellow has an evident translation of -one, although he has not followed strictly the -peculiar repetition of the lines.</p> - -<p>But many of our younger poets have published -triolets. Mr. Austin Dobson is <i>facile -princeps</i> in this form (as indeed in nearly all -these Provençal rhythms), while Mr. John Payne -and Mr. Andrew Lang rarely if ever use it, -although rondeaux and ballades are very frequent -in their volumes. Miss Pfeiffer has -used it once. Miss A. Mary F. Robinson has -a very charming triolet sequence “Fiametta,” -which almost reconciles one to the connected -triolet. But two or three variations from the -strict form, while relieving the monotony of the -poem, prove yet more strongly the truth of the -warning given by Mr. Gosse. Miss May -Probyn in her volume a “Ballad of the -Road,” has several good specimens, and here -and there among periodical literature sufficient -are to be found to warrant a hope that the -dainty little epigrammatic verse may yet pass -into accepted currency, and supply for epigram -or pretty trifling fancies the place the sonnet -has acquired for the presentation of stately -images and profound thought. While the -very care with which the accepted form may -be filled up appears at first sight to augur -great popularity, probably that very reason -has made writers more cautious in using it, -since it can be so quickly abused and made -unbearable doggerel, unless the recurring lines -have a reasonable pretext for their repetition. -Finally, a word of advice to those who attempt -a triolet. Choose a slight, fanciful incident; -let the rhymes be exact and easy; and be -content with the “suggestion” (which, like a -clever sketch) it gives of some trivial event or -idea, avoiding complex subjects or too deep -thoughts, for which the form is not well -suited.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be concluded.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="VARIETIES">VARIETIES.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">What is Death?</span></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">There is no death! What seems so is transition;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">This life of mortal breath</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is but the suburb of the life elysian,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Whose portal we call death.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse right">—<i>Longfellow.</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">An Approving Conscience.</span>—The most -exquisite of human satisfactions flows from an -approving conscience.</p> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">Aiming at Perfection.</span>—Aim at perfection -in everything, though in most things it is -unattainable. However, they who aim at it -and persevere will come much nearer to it -than those whose laziness and despondency -make them give it up as unattainable.</p> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">Cultivating the Mind.</span>—The mind is -but a barren soil—a soil which is soon exhausted -and will produce no crop, or only -one, unless it be continually fertilised and enriched -with foreign matter.</p> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">Plain Proofs.</span>—Ungraceful attitudes and -actions and a certain left-handedness (if I may -use that word) loudly proclaim low education -and low company.—<i>Chesterfield.</i></p> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">Too Amiable.</span>—There are many women -who would be very amiable if they could only -lose sight for a little of the fact that they are -so.</p> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">The Importance of Food.</span>—The question -of food lies at the foundation of all other -questions. There is no mind, no work, no -health, without food; and just as we are fed -defectively and improperly, so are our frames -developed in a way unfitted to secure that -greatest of earthly blessings—a sound mind in -a sound body.—<i>Dr. Lankester.</i></p> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">Keeping Secrets.</span>—A man is more faithful -in keeping the secrets of others than his -own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her -own secrets better than those of others.—<i>La -Bruyere.</i></p> - - -<p class="p2 center"><span class="smcap">Not a Bad Match.</span></p> - -<p>An attorney brought in an immense bill to -a lady for some business he had done for her. -The lady, to whom he had once paid his -addresses, murmured at the charges.</p> - -<p>“Madam,” replied the limb of the law, “I -wanted to convince you that my profession is -lucrative, and that I should not have been a -bad match.”</p> - - -<p class="p2"><span class="smcap">Ways of the Wise.</span>—Philosophic-minded -people hanker not after what is unattainable, -are not inclined to grieve after what -is lost, nor are they perplexed even in -calamities.</p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_356">{356}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Illustration_HEALTH_IN_THE_KITCHEN-GARDEN">HEALTH IN THE KITCHEN-GARDEN.</h2> -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> MEDICUS.</p> -<div class="figcenter illowp54" id="i356" style="max-width: 26.5625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i356.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_357">{357}</span></p> - - -<div class="ddropcapbox illowe9_375" id="i357"> - <img class="w100 idropcap" src="images/i357.jpg" alt="O" /> -</div><p><span class="uppercase">f</span> the thousand and -one ills—the word -“one” signifying -“all the rest”—that -afflict humanity, -young and old, by -far the larger proportion -are what -may be called -chronic troubles. -And I do not refer -to any particular -or decided form of illness, but when I say -“chronic,” I mean the term to relate to -people who are seldom overwell, who are -easily tired, subject to fits of low spirits, have -but small inclination for the exercise which -they know they need, who have at times no -pleasure in other folks’ society, and none in -their own, whose stomachs are easily put out -of order, who do not always sleep as well as -they would wish to, whose systems are dry and -irregular generally, who suffer at times from -headache, at times from backache, and at -times from aches all over.</p> - -<p>What a tremendously long sentence I have -just written! It almost frightens me to look -back at it. Well, this class of complainers—for -if they do not complain to others they do -so to themselves quietly, and have fancies -that all the world is heartless and cold, and a -dozen other things that “it didn’t houghter to -be,” as the old charwoman said—this class, I -say, are nearly always work-a-day girls; I do -not refer altogether to manual labour, but to -businesses that necessitate a good deal of -mental thought and calculation. But many -belong also to this class, who have nothing at -all to do, and whose minds might be said to -be preying on their constitutions.</p> - -<p>Well, at all events, there they are, these -chronically poorly people. They will not admit -that there is anything very much the matter -with them, but at the same time no class of -sufferers have a sharper eye for the advertisement -of some infallible nostrum, that is going -to banish sickness from this world entirely, or -a sharper ear to listen to any suggested -remedy, no matter who it is that recommends -it. It may be an old wife’s cure. That does -not signify; they simply console themselves -with the belief that old wives often know a -deal more than doctors, and swallow the compound.</p> - -<p>Now let me tell this class of invalids: I. That -medicines are probably not wanted at all in -such complaints as theirs. II. That medicine -of any kind often does more harm than good. -III. That it is folly to think or believe that a -complaint which has lasted perhaps months, -can be charmed away in a day or two by the -best doctor in life. For the time a cure takes -must bear some proportion to the time the -complaint has lasted. I wish you to pin your -faith on those facts, and bear them in mind.</p> - -<p>If it be true that in nearly all cases of the -chronic debility I refer to—and I sincerely -believe it is true—the blood-making process is -primarily at fault, then, before we can remove -the symptoms, it is evident we must attend to -the cause. And to do so we must go to the -fountain-head from which all the evil flows, -and this will be found to be the stomach. In -other words, these chronic complaints—with -all their aches and rheums and pains, bad -sleep, lowness of spirits, fluttering at the -heart, palpitations, and what are termed “indescribable -feelings”—may be due to a kind -of dyspepsia. The system is wholly too -sluggish; the liver is inactive, and consequently -the heart itself is weak, and being -unable to supply the brain and nervous -system generally with good, honest, life-giving -blood, all kinds of symptoms may occur. -These are often called imaginary, but they are -real enough, for all that.</p> - -<p>I have said that the taking of medicine may -do actual harm. Have we any substitute? -Yes; and we find it in the use of vegetables -and fruit, both of which are very much neglected.</p> - -<p>These supply the blood with certain salts of -a cooling nature, and without which the principal -internal vital organs are unable to secrete -material to keep the system regular.</p> - -<p>Very often these organs act with great irregularity, -or by fits and starts, so that we -may have a patient complaining of two different -states of system in the same week.</p> - -<p>Now, it is possible that the reader of these -lines is not to be ranked among the rich, who -keep one, two, three, or more gardeners, but -that still she lives in the country, and is in -possession of a patch of kitchen-garden. If -so, I seriously advise that it should be turned -to the very best account. I do not wish this -to be thought a gardening article, but, nevertheless, -I ought, for health’s sake, to throw -out a hint or two about the vegetables that -ought to be grown for health’s sake, and I -will leave it for others to say how this green -food is to be cooked.</p> - -<p>Ladies are fond of doing a bit of flower-gardening, -but, as a rule, they abjure the -cultivation of vegetables, or they know nothing -really about it. It is a pity this should be so, -for the kitchen-garden, if not a large one, -certainly does not entail a deal of hard work, -and the work is of a sort most conducive to -health.</p> - -<p>I shall suppose that you have secured the -services of some “male creature,” in, say, the -month of February or March, to do the first -or rough work—the turning over of the -ground with the spade—and that he has -secured sufficient richness of the soil, and -done his work well, and left it level, and that -you yourself are to sow the seeds.</p> - -<p>Under your own superintendence, then, the -beds are mapped out, the width of each being -exactly the same (say six feet), and their -length equal to the breadth of the plot of -ground to be under cultivation. Between each -bed there is formed a hollow division or path -about a foot wide, and the beds are not to -encroach upon the borders round, which -are sacred to gooseberry bushes, rose-trees, -flowers, and currants, black and red.</p> - -<p>Choose a fine, sunny day to sow your seeds. -First rake your beds most levelly and carefully, -not leaving a ball of earth even an inch in -diameter. When well raked they should be -as level as a dining-room table, not all in little -heaps, as if the Cochins had been scraping -them.</p> - -<p>Make the drills—by aid of a garden line -and foot rule—with the back of the rake, and -not more than an inch and a half deep, each -drill to be nine inches apart; put peas in two -rows, only six inches apart, and a foot and a -half between each double row. This foot and a -half may seem a waste of ground, but it need -not be so, as in the centres you can put a -drill of summer spinach.</p> - -<p>Having sown your seeds, rake the ground -gingerly and tenderly, filling up the little -drills, and making each bed a thing of beauty. -About two weeks or less after this, it really -will be a thing of beauty, for I know of few -prettier sights in a garden on a lovely spring -day than rows of green seedlings that have -just burst through the earth. You can watch -them grow day by day, and listen to the birds -singing at the same time. If the weather is -propitious they will soon want thinning, and -for a week or two your work will be cut out -for you. Do not say you can ill spare the -time. It will be time saved and health -gained. Rise in the morning and work an -hour before breakfast, and do a little more in -the evening. In thinning the plants, leave in -the best and biggest, and let there be six to -nine inches between each. Pluck all the -weeds out at the same time, and put weedings -and thinnings all in a small basket; I say -small basket, because there is no room for a -big one between the beds, and no mark must -be left of foot or anything else on the bed -itself.</p> - -<p>I can assure readers that work like this may -be done by the most dainty fingers, and that it -will restore the bloom to lips and cheeks, -however pale these were before. You may -wear what you like and look as charming as -you please when gardening; thus, so long as -you do the work honestly, you may wear the -most dainty hats and gloves, and have a -mahogany handle to your hoe if so minded, -though, between you and me, six-button kid -gloves are not the best suited for weeding -onions in.</p> - -<p>The great advantage in growing one’s own -vegetables is that one can always have them -fresh. Lettuces cool, green, and tender; -potatoes laughing from the mould, and peas -with the drops of morning dew still lingering -inside their pods.</p> - -<p>That is all I mean to say about gardening; -if you wish to learn more, buy a book, and -study it, only I can promise you health if you -adopt gardening as an exercise and a hobby.</p> - -<p>But you must partake of the fruits of your -labour; and this leads me to say a few words -about the benefits to the health of a partly -vegetable diet. Remember, I am not a -vegetarian, but I can tell you as a fact that -you could live far longer on vegetables alone -than you could upon meat alone.</p> - -<p>Potatoes come first. No dinner—or to -my thinking, no luncheon either—is complete -without them.</p> - -<p>Some interesting papers in the early part of -this volume gave hints as to the cooking of -potatoes. Let me add another. To the -delicate no vegetable is more difficult of -complete digestion if not boiled to a nicety, -but they ought to be mashed as well, and I do -not think I ever saw them properly mashed at -an English table. They ought to be as -smooth and white as custard, though not so -thin, otherwise little lumps remain, which, -even if no bigger than a pea, are most -indigestible, and never fail to create unpleasantness -afterwards.</p> - -<p>Done as the French do them, namely, fried -in oil, they are also indigestible.</p> - -<p>Potatoes are not only most nutritious, but -are calmative to the nerves, and to some -extent, narcotic, especially new potatoes.</p> - -<p>A potato salad—lettuces included—is a -most valuable adjunct to a supper dish.</p> - -<p>We have to learn from the Scotch how to -serve potatoes, and we must also cross the -Border to find out the most delicious and -digestible form in which to serve ordinary -green vegetables. These include cabbages, -curly greens, sprouting broccoli, savoys, turnip-tops, -spinach, and kale of all kinds; and all -these should be mashed for the delicate, the -strongest portions of midribs being taken out, -and a little butter and salt well mixed with -them in the mashing. They should be served -hot, and eaten off a hot plate with a little -bread, as a dish, before any meat has been -partaken of.</p> - -<p>In this way we not only get their full -flavour, but the greatest benefit to the blood -from their use.</p> - -<p>Next in point of value to the delicate come -cauliflowers and Brussels sprouts. These need -not be mashed, but ought to be used as a dish, -with a little bread and butter. The same may -be said of seakale.</p> - -<p>No one should omit having half-a-dozen -times at least during the early spring months -a dish of nicely-cooked nettle-tops.</p> - -<p>Nettle-tops should be very young and tender. -Only those of a light spring-green colour -are to be culled. They possess the same properties—of -a blood-purifying order—that asparagus -does.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_358">{358}</span></p> - -<p>Watercresses may usually be had all the -year round, and are far more valuable than -most people would imagine; but I desire to -warn my readers against eating them unless -very well washed indeed, as the eggs of certain -parasites sometimes cling to their leaves.</p> - -<p>Parsley is not over-digestible, but if it -agrees it will do the blood good, and help to -cool and sweeten the system.</p> - -<p>Beetroot is invaluable to all who suffer from -indigestion, with a dry condition of the body.</p> - -<p>As to roots, besides the potato, which -ought to go with everything, we have turnips, -parsnips, and carrots. On these we can ring -the changes. But the same rule as to serving -applies to them as to ordinary green vegetables. -Let them be carefully boiled, then -well mashed, butter and salt being mixed.</p> - -<p>There are many other vegetables that I have -not space here to say a word about; but as, -with the Editor’s kind permission, I may have -an autumn or late summer paper on garden -herbs and their dietary and medicinal values, I -can then mention those I have here omitted.</p> - -<p>I have not said what I wanted to about -fruit either; but the delicate should not let a -day pass without using it in some form. -Especially is it of great value before breakfast.</p> - -<p>As to onions and all vegetables of that sort, -while I admit their great value and efficacy in -chronic complaints, I must bid you beware. -Use them only if they can be easily digested -and leave no dryness in the throat or taste in -the mouth next day.</p> - -<p>Now from this paper I hope many will adopt -valuable hints. If they do, they will be rewarded -with obtaining purer blood in their -veins, stronger nerves, and a happier frame of -body and mind altogether.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="MERLES_CRUSADE">MERLE’S CRUSADE.</h2> -</div> -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY, Author of “Aunt Diana,” “For Lilias,” etc.</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER XX.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">ROLF’S PENITENCE.</p> - -<div class="ddropcapbox illowe7_8125" id="i358"> - <img class="w100 idropcap" src="images/i358.jpg" alt="F" /> -</div><p><span class="uppercase">rom</span> a child, that story -of Casabianca had -fascinated me, and I -could see it fascinated -Rolf.</p> - -<p>“How I do like -that fellow Cassy——what -do you call -him?” he exclaimed, -enthusiastically, -when I had finished. -“I call that plucky, -and no mistake, to -stick to the burning ship. -What a brave man he -would have made if he -had lived!”</p> - -<p>“Yes, indeed; but he -lived long enough to do a man’s work in -the world—faithful until death. ‘Faithful -in little, faithful in much,’ Rolf. Casabianca -would never have disobeyed his -mother, or thought he knew best, would -he?”</p> - -<p>“No, Fenny,” in a contrite voice, -and sidling up to me again.</p> - -<p>“I am afraid you can never be a -soldier, dear!”</p> - -<p>“What do you mean?”—sitting up -erect in bed, with his beautiful eyes -quite glaring at me in the twilight. “I -mean to be a soldier, I tell you, and use -father’s sword! I shall be Colonel -Markham, too, one of these days, unless -I am killed in battle.”</p> - -<p>“You cannot be a soldier unless you -learn to obey, Rolf; you cannot rule -your men until you have submitted to -rule yourself. Officers are gentlemen, -and gentlemen are never cowards; and -I call it cowardly, Rolf—quite a mean -trick—to creep into the nursery in my -absence. Honour should have kept you -from crossing the threshold.”</p> - -<p>Now Rolf could not endure to be -called a coward, so he lost his temper, -and, I am sorry to say, called me a -nasty, spiteful old cat, “which you are -Fenny, you know you are, and a great -deal worse!” And the next moment he -had thrown a rough pair of arms round -my neck, his penitence inflicting on me -excruciating pain.</p> - -<p>“There, there, never mind”—hugging -me—“I don’t mean it. You are a dear -old thing, Fenny, and I mean to marry -you when I grow up. You are such a -plain young woman, as mother says, -that no one else would ask you, so I -will.”</p> - -<p>“Do you think I could marry a -coward, Rolf?”</p> - -<p>“There you go again”—in a vexed -voice—“but I shall never be a coward -any more; I mean to be a brave boy, -like Cassy—what do you call him? I -mean to mind mother, and not forget; -and I will throw my cannon into the sea -to-morrow, though I am so fond of it, -and Mr. Rossiter (Walter I call him, -but he does not mind) gave it to me. It -cost a lot—indeed, it did, Fenny—but, -all the same, it shall be drownded -dead.”</p> - -<p>“If thine eye offend thee, pluck it -out.” I think there was something very -real in that childish sacrifice. It was -his treasured plaything, but it had -tempted him to disobedience; he would -fling it away with both hands. How -few of us repent in that way! <i>Mea -culpa</i>, we say, but we hug our darling -sin close to us; it is not, like Rolf’s -cannon, “drownded dead.” Brave, poor -little faulty Rolf, I begin to have better -hopes of you!</p> - -<p>So I kissed and comforted Rolf, and -he clung to me quite affectionately. I -asked him if he had said his prayers, -and he said no, he had been too unhappy, -because no one would forgive -him; so we said them together, and -afterwards we had a little more talk. I -was just going to leave him when a -light crossed the threshold, and there -stood Mrs. Markham, with a lamp in -her hand. She looked very ill and unhappy, -and I am sure she had been -shedding tears.</p> - -<p>Rolf sprang up in bed. “Oh, mother, -do forgive me!” he cried. “I am sure -I have been miserable long enough. -Fenny has been telling me about Cassy—you -know the fellow; and I mean to -be like him. I will drown my dear little -cannon, and I will never, never, never -disobey you again!”</p> - -<p>I think Mrs. Markham was longing -in her heart to forgive him. She had -suffered as much as the child. She said -nothing, but sat down on the bed and -held out her arms, and Rolf nestled into -them. She kissed him almost passionately, -but a tear rolled down her face.</p> - -<p>“I think you will break my heart one -day, Rolf, as your——” She checked -herself, and did not finish her sentence. -Did she mean Rolf’s father? Colonel -Markham had been a brave officer, I -knew, and had died in battle; but he -had not made his wife happy.</p> - -<p>“Oh no, mother,” returned Rolf, “I -am going to be a brave man, like father, -and fight for everybody. I mean to take -care of you when you are an old, old -woman. Won’t that be nice? You won’t -mind my marrying Fenny when I am -quite grown up, will you, mother? -Because she is such an old dear—not -really old, you know, but so nice.”</p> - -<p>Mrs. Markham smiled faintly at the -boy’s nonsense, but she looked at me -very pleasantly.</p> - -<p>“Thank you for talking to Rolf, Miss -Fenton, and helping him to be good. -He is sorry, I think, and I hope this -painful lesson will teach him to be less -mischievous. But now you look very -unfit to be up. You have done us all -good service to-day, and we are all -extremely grateful. Let me help you -back to your room.”</p> - -<p>I was very much astonished at this -civility, but I declined her assistance -and wished Rolf good-night. I was -still more surprised when she held out -her hand.</p> - -<p>“You must be careful of yourself, -Miss Fenton, for my sister’s sake,” she -said, so kindly that I could hardly -believe it was Mrs. Markham’s voice.</p> - -<p>I marvelled at her manner greatly as -I retraced my steps to the night nursery. -She was really grateful to me, I could -see that. Probably she realised that -my prompt action had saved her and -her boy a lifetime of regret. To extinguish -life accidentally must be a bitter -and sore retrospect to any human mind. -Rolf’s boyhood would have been -shadowed if his little cousin’s death -had laid at his door.</p> - -<p>I tried to cheer myself with these -thoughts as I laid awake through -the greater part of that long summer’s -night. I could only sleep by snatches, -and my dreams were full of pain. I -imagined myself a martyr at Smithfield, -and that the faggots were lighted about<span class="pagenum" id="Page_359">{359}</span> -my feet. I could see the flames curling -up round me, and feel their scorching -breath on my face. Excruciating pain -seemed to tingle in my veins; I cried -out and woke Joyce, and then the misery -of my burns kept me restless. I was -quite ill the next day, and could not stir -from my bed; but Mrs. Markham and -Rolf came to see me more than once, -and Reggie played on my bed, and was -so dear and good, and Joyce kept creeping -up to me to know what she could do -for nurse, and every two or three hours -Gay’s bright face seemed to bring sunshine -into the room.</p> - -<p>She had always some pleasant thing -to tell me: a kind inquiry from Mr. -Hawtry, and some flowers and fruit -that Mrs. Cornish had arranged; a book -from the vicar’s wife, who had been very -shocked to hear of the accident, and -thought I wanted amusement; a message -from Squire Cheriton, with a basket of -fine yellow plums that he had picked -himself; and, later in the evening, a tin -of cream and some new-laid eggs from -Wheeler’s Farm, that Molly had brought -herself.</p> - -<p>I begged to see Molly, and she came -up at once, looking very respectable in -her Sunday gown and straw bonnet -crossed with yellow ribbons. She shook -hands heartily until I winced with pain, -and then begged my pardon for her -carelessness.</p> - -<p>“Thank you so much for your delicious -presents, Molly,” I said, gratefully.</p> - -<p>“Oh, please don’t mention it, Miss -Fenton; it is pleasure to me and father -to send it, and father’s duty; and there -is a chicken fattening that will be all -ready for eating on Thursday; and there -is a pot or two of cherry jam that I shall -take the liberty to send with it. It is -just for the children and yourself, as I -shall tell Mrs. Murdle.”</p> - -<p>“Everyone is far too good to me,” I -stammered, and the tears came into my -eyes, for the old Squire and Gay had -been so kind, and there was all those -beautiful flowers and fruit from the Red -Farm, and now this good creature was -overwhelming me with homely delicacies. -Molly patted me with her rough hand as -though I had been a child, and then -kissed me in her hearty way.</p> - -<p>“There, there, poor dear, who could -help being good to you, seeing you lie -there as helpless as a baby, with your -poor arms all done up in cotton wool, -and the pain hard to bear? Never mind, -the Lord will help you to bear it, and He -knows what pain means.” And with -this homely consolation Molly left me -and went in search of Hannah.</p> - -<p>When Gay came to me to see I was -all comfortable for the night, I asked -her rather anxiously if she expected to -hear from Mrs. Morton in the morning.</p> - -<p>She looked as though she were sorry I -had asked the question. “Well, no—the -fact is, I wrote the letter, Merle, -but father forgot to post it, and it has -not gone yet. I am very sorry,” as I -uttered an exclamation of annoyance, -“but it cannot be helped, and it was all -father’s fault; he is so careless with -letters; but now Adelaide has written -to say how well Reggie seems to-day, -and both of them shall go by the same -post to-morrow morning. Benson shall -take them.”</p> - -<p>It was no use saying any more. Gay -was sorry enough, and it was not her -fault, so I only asked her to add a word -or two to explain the delay, and this she -promised to do. She wanted to write to -Aunt Agatha as well, but I would not -hear of this. Aunt Agatha was very -tender-hearted, and could not bear to -hear of any suffering that she could not -remedy, and I could see no benefit in -harrowing her feelings. I would tell her -myself one day.</p> - -<p>Dr. Staples had given me a sedative, -so I slept more that night, but it was -three days before I could leave my bed, -and all that time we heard nothing of my -mistress. On the fourth day I put on a -dressing-gown Gay lent me, with loose -hanging sleeves, for my arms were still -swathed like mummies, but the pain had -lessened; and though I was weak enough -only to lean back in an easy chair and -watch the children at their play, I liked -to be with them, and it was pleasant to -sit by the nursery window and look -out on the terrace and sundial and the -sunny orchard with the old white pony -grazing as usual.</p> - -<p>Gay had come up that morning with -rather a troubled face. They had had a -letter from Alick, she said, but he had -not received either hers or Adelaide’s. -Violet had seemed so ill that he had -taken her home to Prince’s Gate that -Dr. Myrtle might see her. They had -left Abergeldie before their letters had -arrived, and he could not possibly -receive them until the next morning, but -of course they would be forwarded at -once.</p> - -<p>I was much distressed to hear that -the letters had miscarried, and still -more that my mistress was ill. It was -dreary taking her back to that great -empty house; but then Dr. Myrtle -understood her constitution, and would -do her more good than a stranger. I -begged Gay to tell me what was the -matter, but she did not seem to know. -It was a collapse, Alick had said, a -sudden serious failure of strength; he -had written very hurriedly, and seemed -worried and anxious.</p> - -<p>“I wish I need not have told you all -this, Merle,” she finished. “It has made -you paler than you were before. Violet -has never been strong since Joyce was -born, but I do not see that there is any -need for special anxiety.” But though -Gay insisted on taking a cheerful view of -things, I could not bring my spirits to -her level. I felt nervous and unaccountably -depressed. I had not sufficiently -recovered from the effects of the accident -to bear the least suspense with equanimity. -In spite of my efforts to be -quiet and self-controlled, I grew restless -and irritable; the least noise jarred on -me; it was a relief when Hannah took -the children out and I had the nursery to -myself. My nervous fancies haunted -my dreams that night, and I woke so -unrefreshed that Gay scolded me for -not getting better more quickly, and -pretended to laugh at my dismal face -when I heard there was no letter from -Mr. Morton.</p> - -<p>“It is nonsense your fretting about -those letters, Merle,” she said, in her -brisk way. “Alick has them by this -time, and we shall hear from him before -evening. Do, pray, pull yourself together, -and I will ask Dr. Staples if a -drive will not do you good; your indoor -life does not suit you.”</p> - -<p>I did not contradict her, but I knew -there would be no drive for me that day; -perfect quiet and rest were all I wanted, -and I knew Dr. Staples would be of my -opinion. The afternoon was showery, -so the children played about the nursery. -I did not admit Rolf, for his noisy ways -would have been too much for me, but -he was very good, and promised to stay -with Judson if he might come to me a -little in the evening.</p> - -<p>I had gone into the night nursery to -lie down for an hour when I heard footsteps -coming down the passage. The -next moment I heard Mr. Morton’s -voice speaking to Gay.</p> - -<p>“You can go in and see the children, -Alick,” she said, “and I will join you -directly, when Adelaide has finished -with me;” and then Joyce called out -“Fardie,” and I could hear Reggie -stumping across the floor.</p> - -<p>I waited a few minutes before I made -my appearance. Much as I longed to -see Mr. Morton, I thought he would -rather meet his children alone. I almost -felt as though I intruded when I -opened the door. Hannah was not -there, and he was sitting in my rocking-chair -with Reggie in his arms, and his -head was bowed down on the little -fellow’s shoulder. He started up when -he heard me, but I never saw him look -so pale and agitated. I knew then that -he was a man of strong feelings, that -his children were more to him than I had -dreamed.</p> - -<p>“Miss Fenton,” he began, and then -he bit his lips and turned away to the -window. I saw he could hardly speak, -and there was Reggie patting his face -and calling “Fada, fada,” to make -him smile.</p> - -<p>“Reggie is quite well,” I said, feeling -the silence awkward.</p> - -<p>“Yes, yes,” quite abruptly, “I see he -is; thank God for that mercy; but, -Miss Fenton, you have suffered in his -stead. You are looking ill, unlike yourself. -What am I to say to you? How am -I to thank you?”</p> - -<p>“Please do not say anything to me,” -I returned, on the verge of crying. -“Dear little Reggie is all right, and -I am only too thankful. Tell me about -my mistress, Mr. Morton; we are all so -anxious about her.”</p> - -<p>I thought he looked a little strangely -at me. He held out his hand without -speaking. That hearty grasp spoke -volumes. Then he cleared his throat and -said, quickly, “She does not know; I -have not told her; she is very weak and -ill. Dr. Myrtle says we must take -great care of her; she has been over-exerting -herself.”</p> - -<p>To my dismay and his I burst into -tears, but I was not quite myself, liable -to be upset by a word.</p> - -<p>“Oh, she is always over-exerting herself; -she does more every day than her -strength will allow,” I cried, almost<span class="pagenum" id="Page_360">{360}</span> -hysterically. “It makes one’s heart -ache to see her so worn out and yet so -patient. Oh, Mr. Morton, do let me -come home and nurse her; she is never -happy without the children; it will do -her good to see them; she frets after -them too, and it makes her ill. Do let -me come home; there is nothing I would -not do for her.”</p> - -<p>I heard him beg me to be calm. I -was ill myself, I heard him say, and no -wonder, and he looked pityingly at my -bandages.</p> - -<p>“I only wish you could come back to -us, Miss Fenton,” he went on, so kindly -that I was ashamed of giving way so. -“The home feels very empty, and I -think it would do my dear wife good to -have the children’s feet pattering overhead. -She is too weak to have them -with her just now, but it would be pleasant -to know they were near.”</p> - -<p>I pleaded again that we might come -home, and he smiled indulgently.</p> - -<p>“You must get well first,” he said, -gently, “and then I will come and fetch -you all back myself. Just now you -require nursing, and are better where -you are; and it is still hot in London, -and the sea breezes will benefit the -children a little longer. Come, you will -be sensible about this, Miss Fenton.”</p> - -<p>And then, as Gay joined us, he turned -to her and reiterated his opinion that I -must stay at Marshlands until I was well.</p> - -<p>Of course, Gay agreed with him; but -I thought she was a little graver than -usual. I knew Mr. Morton was right. -I was no use to anyone just now; but, -all the same, it made me feel very unhappy -to see him go away and leave us -behind. He could not stay any longer, -he said, for fear of arousing his wife’s -suspicions. He should just tell her he -had run down to have a peep at the -children; that would please her, he -knew. He bade me good-bye very -kindly, and told me to keep up my -courage, and not lose heart. I could -see he was not vexed with me for giving -way. No doubt he attributed it all to -weakness.</p> - -<p>I sat down and had a good cry when -he had left us, and there was no denying -that I was homesick that night, and -wanted Aunt Agatha. I felt a poor -creature in my own estimation. Perhaps -I was impatient; Dr. Staples told me I -was, and his eyes twinkled as he said it; -but it seemed to me I recovered very -slowly. The burns were healing nicely; -in a few more days I could put on my -dress and enjoy the country drives; but -I did not resume my usual duties for -some time.</p> - -<p>I could not dress and undress the -children; walking tired me, and my -spirits were sadly variable. The news -from Prince’s Gate did not cheer me: -my mistress continued in the same unsatisfactory -state. Mr. Morton wrote -every day, and both Mrs. Markham and -Gay had gone up to town for a few -hours. I heard more from Mrs. Markham -than from Gay. She thought her -sister looking very ill, and considered -there was grave cause for anxiety. She -had an excellent nurse, and her husband -was most devoted in his attentions; she -had never seen anyone to equal him. -Here Mrs. Markham sighed; but her -sister looked dull and depressed, and -she thought she missed the children.</p> - -<p>The bright September days passed -away very slowly. I was growing weary -of my banishment; and yet Marshlands -and Netherton had become very dear to -me, and I had grown to love the quaint -old nursery. I was thankful when my -strength permitted me to resume our -mornings on the beach and our afternoons -in the orchard. I felt less restless -out of doors, and I liked to have Rolf -with me. I saw very little of Gay; just -then she was busy with parish work. I -heard from her casually one day that -Mr. Hawtry had gone to Italy. I suppose -I looked astonished, for she said, -quickly—</p> - -<p>“He called the other afternoon and -asked to see the children, but Adelaide -had taken you all for a drive. I thought -he seemed a little sorry not to say good-bye -to them, as he expected to be away -some time. He hoped you were better, -Merle, and desired his kind regards.”</p> - -<p>“And he has gone to Italy?”</p> - -<p>“Yes; a young cousin of his is lying -dangerously ill at Venice, and so this -Don Quixote has started off to see after -him. It is just like him, he is always -doing things for other people.” And with -this speech she left me.</p> - -<p>I was sorry not to say good-bye to -Mr. Hawtry; he had been very kind to -us, and it seemed such a pity that we -had missed him that afternoon. I often -thought about our visit to the Red Farm, -and how pleasant and hospitable he had -been. It seemed rather tantalising just -to make friends (and he had always -been so friendly to me) and then not to -see them again, but perhaps next summer -we should come down to Marshlands -again.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_SHEPHERDS_FAIRY">THE SHEPHERD’S FAIRY</h2> -</div> -<p class="ph3">A PASTORALE.</p> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> DARLEY DALE, Author of “Fair Katherine,” etc.</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER XX.</h3> - -<p class="ph3">THE LEWES CARNIVAL.</p> - -<div class="ddropcapbox illowe9_375" id="i360"> - <img class="w100 idropcap" src="images/i360.jpg" alt="M" /> -</div><p><span class="uppercase">rs.</span> Shelley was -quite right in saying -Fairy’s sorrows -were short-lived. -For one -whole day she -had been very -miserable, the day -after Rex had -asked her, and -she had promised, to be his wife, -when Mr. Leslie had called and told -her she was not to see Rex any -more till the carnival. Coming so soon -after her great happiness, Fairy could -not bear this sudden reverse with equanimity, -and so, as Reginald had told the -baroness, she had cried all day, until -John had meekly yielded and allowed -another interview.</p> - -<p>After this Fairy was quite satisfied; -Rex loved her, and that was in itself -happiness. That he would be true to -her she no more doubted than she -doubted the sun would rise the next day, -and so, though of course she would have -preferred him to remain at Oafham and -spend his afternoons with her, she acquiesced -cheerfully in Mr. Leslie’s plan, -and was as bright and happy during the -months of October and November as it -was possible for even such a little sunbeam -to be.</p> - -<p>When November dawned, and it was -arranged that Fairy should go to the -Leslies on the 3rd for a week or two, -her excitement was so great that Mrs. -Shelley told her if she did not take care -she would be ill and unable to go, at -which she only laughed, and said there -was no fear of her being ill, and as for -eating, she was much too happy to be -hungry. One little thing was rather -troubling Fairy; she was half afraid her -dress was not quite all it ought to be for -such a grand gentleman as Rex’s father, -whose acquaintance she was to make on -the 5th. If it had only been summer-time -it would not have mattered, for -nothing could be prettier than one of -her simple white frocks; they would do -for anyone or anything; but she could -not wear a thin white dress in November. -Her best winter dress was a red merino, -new for the occasion, and as she dressed -herself in it when it came home, she -could not help acknowledging inwardly, -as she glanced at her dainty little self in -the glass, her delicate complexion set -off to the best advantage by the dark -red merino, if she only had some lace to -put round the throat, her toilet would -compare favourably with the blue silks -of the Leslie girls.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp57" id="i361" style="max-width: 28.125em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i361.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">THE LEWES CARNIVAL.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Perhaps there was some lace among -the things she had on when John Shelley -found her; she believed there was, so, -unlocking the drawer in which she had -always kept these relics, she pulled them -out and glanced at them. There on the -top lay the blue satin quilt, the large -piece missing which she had cut out -years ago to make a shaving-case for<span class="pagenum" id="Page_362">{362}</span> -Jack. Poor Jack! Where was he -now? What would he say to her engagement? -Would he be pleased at -it? Somehow Fairy feared he would -not. But there was enough of the quilt -left to make a shaving-case for Rex; it -would be just the thing for him, and -nice work to do at the Leslies’, so the -remains of the quilt were packed up to -go with her. Then came the red Indian -shawl, in which the baron had wrapped -his little daughter. How handsome it -was! Why, not one of the Leslie girls -had such a handsome shawl as this, all -embroidered with gold. She would certainly -take this with her; it would do -beautifully to wrap round her in the -balcony from which they were to watch -the carnival. Rex would like this -shawl, she was sure, so that, too, was -packed up. All the other little garments, -yellow with being laid up so -long, were now looked through to see if -there was any lace that would do, but -no, it was all too narrow, and Fairy was -about to shut the drawer when she -caught hold of the lace handkerchief -which had been tucked into her dress -under her chin as a feeder when she -was found. She looked at it with a -critical eye. How fine it was, and what -lovely lace, and how pretty that crest -and coronet worked in the corner were! -This handkerchief was the very thing; -she would fold it so that the corner with -the crest showed, and wear it round her -throat instead of a lace tucker.</p> - -<p>So the handkerchief was packed up -with the other things, and on Monday -afternoon Fairy went to the Leslies to -stay. The carnival was not till Wednesday -evening, but she hoped to see Rex -on Tuesday, as she knew he was expected -to reach Oafham before then. -Nor was she disappointed, for on -Tuesday morning Rex arrived to lunch, -and spent a long afternoon.</p> - -<p>Fairy found he was most anxious she -should make a conquest of his father, -and seemed to think their future happiness -depended in a great measure upon -the effect she produced upon Mr. de -Courcy, so that Rex was looking forward -to the carnival with somewhat mixed -feelings, and, to the disappointment of -the Leslies, could not be persuaded to -appear in fancy dress, which they assured -him was the correct thing for -young men in all ranks of life on this -unique occasion. But Rex refused, declaring -he only intended to be a spectator, -and his time would be fully occupied -in taking care of Fairy, which no -one for one moment doubted. Since -masks were considered indispensable, -he agreed to wear a wire mask to protect -his face from the squibs and -crackers, which are recklessly flung in -all directions, often doing serious injury -to some of the passers-by, but this was -the utmost he would concede, and Fairy -seconded him, declaring that though -she liked him very much as he was, she -was by no means sure how she would -like him if he were dressed up like -another person.</p> - -<p>The Leslies had hired a window in the -High-street, and here Mr. de Courcy -and Rex were to meet them at seven -o’clock to watch the revelry, and then -they were all to return to the rectory to -supper. Fairy, who had of course often -seen the carnival before, was full of -childish delight at the prospect, and -kept assuring Rex it was the most wonderful -sight he had ever seen; there was -nothing like it in England; she was -sure he would be enchanted; the only -drawback was there were sure to be one -or two riots, as some turbulent spirits -always insulted the Roman Catholics -before the evening was over.</p> - -<p>“Well, I hope they won’t insult my -father; he is a Roman Catholic,” said -Rex.</p> - -<p>“Your father a Roman Catholic, Rex! -Are you one, too?” asked Fairy, turning -a little pale.</p> - -<p>“No, I am a Protestant, so is my -mother, but I don’t think it right to -make game of other people’s religion, -and insult them because it differs from -ours, do you?”</p> - -<p>“You are like John. He says it is -very wicked, and that the carnival does -more harm than good. He only goes -to try and help to keep order, but I like -it, it is such a pretty sight,” replied -Fairy, eagerly.</p> - -<p>In Lewes the preparations began -early in the afternoon, when the shops -were closed, and all the lower windows -in the High-street, through which the -procession was to pass, were boarded -up—a very necessary precaution, for the -reckless flinging of lighted torches, -squibs, and crackers would otherwise -have broken the windows, and perhaps -set fire to the houses.</p> - -<p>In the Market-place arrangements -were made for the making of an enormous -bonfire, in which the effigies of -Guy Faux, the Pope, and any public -person, whether of local or of wider fame, -who happened just then to be in bad -odour with the Lewes people, were to be -burnt at midnight—the closing scene in -the drama.</p> - -<p>A little after seven o’clock the Leslies’ -carriage drove up to the house in which -they had hired the drawing-room balcony -to view the proceedings. At present -all that was to be seen were young -men and boys with lighted torches in -their hands, and most of them in fancy -dress, rushing wildly about the streets, -shouting and singing and throwing -squibs and crackers in all directions.</p> - -<p>Mr. Leslie hurried his party into the -house as quickly as possible, and then -sent the carriage home, for later on all -traffic would be stopped, and the girls -had come prepared to walk back.</p> - -<p>On reaching the drawing-room they -found Mr. de Courcy and Rex had just -arrived; a large fire was blazing on the -hearth, but there were no other lights in -the room, interior darkness being the -rule at the Lewes carnival, in order that -the outside festivities may be all the -more brilliant.</p> - -<p>Mr. Leslie introduced Mr. de Courcy -to his wife and daughters, and then to -Fairy, who was looking so bewitchingly -pretty with her red Indian shawl twisted -round her head in some wonderful way -which exactly suited her, that it was -evident Mr. de Courcy was struck by her -beauty, the flickering light of the fire -and the shawl which hid her lovely -golden hair, and partly veiled her slight -figure, only piquing his curiosity. He -began to talk to her at once in his broken -English, and her charming manners -fascinated him almost as much as they -did his son, and when he found she -spoke French fluently, and with the -prettiest accent possible, Fairy’s triumph -was complete. Mr. de Courcy, -always a great admirer of girls, was -quite captivated, and Rex whispered to -Fairy she had succeeded already. The -procession was to leave the Market-place -at eight, and go round the town, -but even now it was a weird scene, the -masqueraders passing up and down the -streets in their costumes, some of them -excellently got up, others so grotesquely -as to be quite as amusing as the elaborate -fancy dresses prepared by costumiers, -the torches carried by them throwing -a weird, uncertain light on their wild, -uncertain antics. From time to time a -passage of arms occurred between some -passing Cavaliers and Roundheads, but -at present all was harmless fun, everyone -being in a good temper at this early -stage of the proceedings.</p> - -<p>Fairy and Rex managed to get a -corner of the balcony to themselves, -from which she tried to explain the -various costumes, oftener, as Rex told -her, discovering the original people than -the characters they were intended to represent. -These two alone were not -impatient for the procession to pass, -being so much occupied with themselves -as to pay but little attention to what -was going on in the street. Occasionally -a grand excitement was caused by -the rolling past of a lighted tar-barrel, -which illuminated the whole street, its -attendant youths, many of whom were -dressed like demons, looking in their -black masks and asses’ ears more like -fiends than men as they lashed their -blazing barrels with their torches, sending -the sparks far and wide.</p> - -<p>“This is the Bournemer barrel, and -that is Charlie with an axe, dressed as -an executioner. I made his black mask -for him. Look, Rex,” cried Fairy, as -another and the last of the barrels rolled -into the Market-place, to return presently -with the procession.</p> - -<p>A few minutes later there passed a -riotous group of violent anti-papists, -bearing a banner with “No popery” -on it, carried reluctantly by a scarlet -woman, or rather a man dressed in -woman’s clothes of bright red, supposed -to represent the Church of Rome. On -one side of her was a man in Geneva -gown and bands, on the other another -in a long surplice, hood, and stole, carrying -a large book, and these two, with a -great deal of rough horseplay, kept the -scarlet woman up to the mark. This -centre group was surrounded by men -and boys carrying torches and screaming, -“Down with popery!” at the top -of their voices.</p> - -<p>“That group will have a row before -they are satisfied,” said Rex, turning -away, and looking in the opposite -direction, as the group passed on to the -Market-place. “But look, Fairy, who -is this good-looking man masquerading -without a mask as a shepherd? See, he -is looking up here,” said Rex.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_363">{363}</span></p> - -<p>Fairy looked, and saw by the light of -the torches cast behind by the anti-papist -group, a tall, handsome man, -dressed in a smock-frock and carrying -a crook, a face which, in spite of a beard -and moustache, she knew very well.</p> - -<p>“Why, Rex, it is Jack; it is, it is! I -must speak to him. Jack, Jack, where do -you come from? Come up and speak -to me directly. Fancy Jack being here! -I must go, Rex, and let him in. Oh, Mr. -Leslie, here is Jack!” and Fairy ran into -the drawing-room, the red shawl falling -off her head, and her beautiful hair, -which was disarranged by the shawl, -streaming down her shoulders in wild -confusion. Her cheeks were flushed with -excitement, her great brown eyes sparkling -with delight, as she went forward -with both hands outstretched, to meet -Jack at the top of the stairs.</p> - -<p>Rex was at first quite put out of countenance -by this unfortunate <i>contretemps</i>, -as he could not help thinking it; it -would undo all the good impression -Fairy had made upon his father; for not -knowing Jack, Rex supposed he was -like the rest of his family, and trembled -for the consequences if his father now -discovered Fairy was the foster-daughter -of a shepherd. How he wished he had -not called Fairy’s attention to the young -man, and how pleased they were to see -each other again. There really was no -occasion for that very long handshaking. -But here Mr. Leslie, seeing Rex looked -very crestfallen, went up to him and whispered -it was all right; Mr. de Courcy would -only suppose the truth, that Jack was -masquerading. Moreover, he added, -he is an excellent young fellow—very -superior, too, to his family; he might -pass very well in a crowd.</p> - -<p>Rex was somewhat reassured; and -when Fairy drew him to Jack, whispering -that this was her <i>fiancé</i>, he tried -to be as pleased as Fairy could wish to -make his acquaintance, but somehow -both young men felt instinctively they -were rivals, and their intercourse was -constrained on both sides. Indeed, -Jack was anxious to get away as quickly -as possible, although he had come all -the way from America to see Fairy, and -judge for himself if the stories he had -heard in his mother’s last letter were -true. It did not require long to see -that they were, and his errand accomplished, -he felt his only safety was in -flight. That demon of jealousy which, -two years ago, had changed the whole -course of his life, and so nearly caused -him to be guilty of a terrible crime, was -again rising in his bosom, as he watched -the tender protecting air which Rex -assumed over Fairy. Though he had -learnt a severe lesson in self-control, -and had so far profited by it that he was -able to subdue the feeling of envy towards -his rival, and to mask from Fairy -the bitter sense of disappointment he -felt on seeing her the betrothed bride of -another, he felt the strain he was putting -upon himself would not last long, -and so he hastened to find an excuse in -order to be gone, inwardly resolving that -when he left the room he would never of -his own free will set eyes on Fairy -again.</p> - -<p>She had drawn him out on to the -balcony, where he had a few minutes’ -conversation with Mr. Leslie, to whom -he confided in an undertone that he was -going to Liverpool the next day with his -mother, on a visit to an uncle, where he -would remain until the next mail sailed -for America, where he had now decided -to remain for the rest of his life. He -had excellent prospects out there, and -was already getting on far better than -he had ever hoped to do in so short a -time. Already he had been made -cashier, and he had no doubt in a few -years he would be appointed manager -of the bank, as Mr. Leslie’s friend had -taken a great fancy to him. He was -now able to carry on his natural history -studies, and was making great progress, -and had hopes of one day becoming a -naturalist, for he now had the means of -procuring books which were before far -out of his reach, and the new country -opened out to him a new field of research.</p> - -<p>All this he managed to tell Mr. Leslie -while the procession was still preparing -to start. He did not tell him what had -brought him to England, but Mr. Leslie -knew without being told that Fairy was -the motive power which had induced -him to cross the Atlantic, in the vain -hope of persuading her to return with -him as his wife. One glance at Rex -and Fairy had told Jack this hope was -futile, but still it was a satisfaction to -see for himself; and he would now go -back to his mother, and persuade her to -accompany him to Liverpool the next -day if possible.</p> - -<p>He had only arrived at Lewes that -morning, and on finding that Fairy was -staying at the Leslies to go to the carnival -with them and Mr. de Courcy, he had -settled to go too in the hope of seeing her -without being seen. He had chosen to -wear his smock-frock for the first and -only time in his life, partly to please his -father, for whom Jack felt he could not -do enough to repay his kindness, when -he was under that black cloud which -had cast a shadow over all his life; -partly he wore it because Fairy made -it, and partly because he would attract -less attention among the masqueraders, -who would imagine he was a shepherd -come from some of the neighbouring -sheep farms to see the carnival, and -would not interfere with him; whereas if -he had walked about in plain clothes—and -he had no others with him—he -would probably have been mobbed.</p> - -<p>He could not have settled in America -until he saw for himself that there was -no chance for him of winning Fairy. -Now he saw his fate was sealed, his -boyish dream shattered; there was -nothing left for him but to live it down; -and in a distant country, where there -was nothing to remind him of the love -of his youth, and where he had plenty -to interest and occupy him, he would -in time learn, not to forget her—that -was impossible, she was his first love, -and could never be altogether driven out -of his heart; one little secret chamber, -never peeped into even by himself, -would always remain sacred to her -memory—but he would learn to live -without her; and since the sooner he -began this lesson the better, he looked -about for an excuse to say good-bye.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="EVERY_GIRL_A_BUSINESS_WOMAN">EVERY GIRL A BUSINESS WOMAN.</h2> -</div> -<p class="ph3">A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY AND THRIFT.</p> - -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> JAMES MASON.</p> - - -<h3>PART V.</h3> - -<div class="ddropcapbox illowe9_375" id="i363"> - <img class="w100 idropcap" src="images/i363.jpg" alt="W" /> -</div><p><span class="uppercase">e</span> quoted a wise rule -in our third article -to the effect that -money should never -be allowed to lie -idle. Put to work -on its own account -money will make -money, and go on -growing and growing -even whilst the -person owning it is asleep or taking holidays.</p> - -<p>Of course the wisest thing is to employ it -in one’s own business, turning it over and -over at a profit, under one’s own management. -But such advice is thrown away on those who -have no business.</p> - -<p>What, then, are those who have money but -no business to do? They must entrust it to -people who want money for use in some way -or other, and are willing to pay interest for -the loan. It may be lent, for example, to the -British nation or to a foreign government, or -to some great railway, or to a bank, or a gas -company, or some municipal corporation. -Besides these opportunities for investing -money profitably, we have shares in joint -stock companies of all kinds, some of them -safe enough, but not a few of them to be -avoided by prudent people.</p> - -<p>There are two things essential to a -satisfactory investment: First, the principal -must be quite safe; and, secondly, there must -be a reasonable certainty about the payment -of the interest. There is a third point -necessary to complete the happiness of the -investor: the interest must be the highest -possible under the circumstances. We say -“under the circumstances,” because in these -days really high interest and first-class security -never meet.</p> - -<p>The safest investment for all who are -nervous about losing their money is in the -Government Stock—as it is called—of our own -country. They thus become creditors of the -British nation, than whom no people can be -imagined more secure.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_364">{364}</span></p> - -<p>What is known as the <i>funded or permanent -debt</i> of Great Britain represents debt which -the Government is under no obligation to pay -off at any fixed time. It includes at present -loans distinguished as Consols, Reduced -Three per Cents., New Three per Cents., -Two and a Half and Two and Three-quarters -per Cents., and some other stocks of less -consequence. “Consols,” we may add, is -an affectionate abbreviation of “Consolidated -Three per Cent. Annuities.” This permanent -debt at the present time amounts to nearly six -hundred and forty millions; the unfunded -debt and terminable annuities—the latter -being sums paid for a certain number of years -and then terminating altogether—amount to -over a hundred millions more. It is -melancholy to reflect that almost the whole of -the large sum represented by those different -items has been raised for the prosecution of -war, and spent in supplying food for powder, -spreading misery and destruction, and making -widows and orphans.</p> - -<p>The possessors of Government Stock—that -is to say, the creditors who hold this debt -between them—are changing every day and -hour. People can sell their stock with the -greatest readiness, and there are always plenty -of buyers.</p> - -<p>The price which national stock fetches is -not always the same. It improves when the -prospects of the country improve, and declines -in times of difficulty and danger. In the year -1800 war and dear corn, not to speak of other -things, made the national bond for £100 sell -for only £61, but since then peace, improved -prospects, and no lack of money seeking -investment, have forced the price up. The -average market value of £100 Consols in 1881 -was just £100; in 1882 it was £100 10s.; in -1883, £101 3s. 9d.; in 1884, £101; and in -1885 it fell back to £99 2s. 6d.</p> - -<p>There are two ways of purchasing Government -Stock—to any amount through a stockbroker, -and to a limited amount through the -Post Office. In the former case you may -either write to your banker, who will employ -his broker, or you can give the order to your -own broker. The commission charged by -brokers either for buying or selling is very -moderate. For transactions in either British -or foreign funds the rate is usually 2s. 6d. for -every £100 of stock.</p> - -<p>To get payment of dividends on Government -Stock you may either go yourself to the -Bank of England or sign what is called a -<i>power of attorney</i> for your banker or broker -or someone you can trust to receive the -dividends for you. “In order to protect you -from fraud,” says the author of a “Guide to -the Unprotected,” “the power of attorney -should be made out for <i>dividends only</i>. That -is to say, it should authorise the person who -is to act on your behalf only to receive -dividends and not to sell the stock.” After a -power of attorney has been obtained no new -power for dividends is requisite by reason of -your increasing or lessening the amount of -your holding in the same description of -stock. Besides payment personally at the -Bank of England, stockholders can have their -dividends transmitted by post at their own -risk, and under certain regulations.</p> - -<p>In selling stock you can manage the -transaction, just as you effected the purchase, -either through your banker or your own -broker.</p> - -<p>We mentioned that Government Stock to -a limited amount could be bought through -the Post Office. When this is done the Post -Office relieves you of all trouble in purchasing -and in collecting dividends. The amount -invested must not be less than £10, and not -more than £100 of stock can be credited to an -account in any one year ending the 31st of -December, and when you have bought -through the Post Office £300 of stock in all -you can invest no more in this way, but must -go to a regular broker.</p> - -<p>Suppose you wish through the Post Office -to buy £50 worth of “Consols,” you fill up a -form of application to be had at any post -office, and hand over the necessary amount to -the postmaster. Of course the latter part of -the performance will be unnecessary if you -have the sum already lying at your credit in -the Savings Bank. You then forward the -form of application, together with your -deposit book, to the head office.</p> - -<p>In a few days your book will be returned -and you will find yourself debited with the -cost of the stock at the market price. -Suppose “Consols” are selling at £102, -then your fifty pounds worth will cost you a -half of that, and there will be an entry in -your book as a “withdrawal” of “Investment -£50 Consols, £51,” and besides that -will be entered “Commission, 1s. 3d.”</p> - -<p>The book will be accompanied by a -“Certificate of investment in Government -Stock,” as follows:—</p> - -<p>“This is to certify that £50 Consolidated £3 -per Cent. Bank Annuities has been placed on -the Savings Banks Investment Account of the -National Debt Commissioners, that the same -has been credited in the Government Stock -Register of the Post Office Savings Bank to -______ of ______, and that her -deposit account has been charged with the -sum of £51 and 1s. 3d., being the price of the -said stock at £102 per cent., and commission -respectively.”</p> - -<p>This certificate, which is signed by the -Controller, must be forwarded with the -deposit book and application whenever the -depositor wishes to sell the whole or a -portion of her stock. When stock is sold the -sale is effected at the <i>current price</i>—the price -in the open market on the day of sale—and a -warrant is sent to the depositor for the -amount realised, less the commission.</p> - -<p>All dividends on the stock standing in a -depositor’s name are credited to her deposit -account when they become due. Dividends -on Consols are due half-yearly, on the 5th of -January and the 5th of July; those on what -are known as Reduced and New Three per -Cents. on the 5th of April and the 5th of -October. There are other Government -Stocks—Two and Three-quarters and Two -and a Half per Cent.—on which the dividends -are paid quarterly.</p> - -<p>The commission charged by the Post Office -on investment is as follows:—</p> - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">s.</td> -<td class="tdr">d.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">On stock not exceeding £25</td> -<td class="tdr">0</td> -<td class="tdr">9</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">On stock exceeding £25 and not exceeding £50</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">3</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">On stock exceeding £50 and not exceeding £75</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">9</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">On stock exceeding £75 and not exceeding £100</td> -<td class="tdr">2</td> -<td class="tdr">3</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>Not satisfied with working at these low rates, -the Post Office takes all the trouble of receiving -the dividends, and charges nothing for it.</p> - -<p>The commission on the sale of stock up to -£100 is the same as for the purchase. For -the sale of stock exceeding £100 and not -exceeding £200, the charge is 2s. 9d.; exceeding -£200 and not exceeding £300, 3s. 3d.</p> - -<p>But those who have money to lend have -wider scope for its employment than the -Public Funds. And here we may insert the -following handy table showing the better -class of investments, and the dividends to be -expected from them. We are indebted for it -to the ever-useful Almanack of Mr. Whitaker.</p> - -<p>The following are <i>Trust Investments</i>, permitted -by the Court of Chancery:—</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Three per Cent. “Consols” and “New -Annuities,” which at the present market price -yield barely 5 per cent.</p> - -<p>Bank of England, Metropolitan Board of -Works 3½ per cent., and Indian Government -4 per cent. stocks, which gives £3 2s. 6d. to -£3 10s. per cent.</p> - -<p>Canadian 4 per Cent. “Guaranteed” Loan, -giving £3 15s. per cent.</p> - -<p>Turkish 4 per Cent. “Guaranteed” Loan, -giving £3 17s. 6d. per cent.</p> - -<p>Bank of Ireland Stock, giving £3 10s. per -cent.</p> -</div> - -<p>Then you have 4 to 5 per cent. investments, -quite secure:—</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Governments.</span>—Colonial Government -Securities: Dutch, Belgian, French, and -United States.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Railways.</span>—British Railway Debenture -Stocks, Indian Railway Debenture Stocks, -British Railway Preference Stocks, Indian -Railway Ordinary Stocks—these are -guaranteed by the Indian Government—British -Railway “Preferred” Ordinary -Stocks, British Railway Ordinary Stocks.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Docks.</span></p> - -<p>Last come 5 to 6 per cent. investments, -which may be classed as moderately good:—</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Governments.</span>—Austrian, Brazilian, -Chilian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and -Russian.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Railways.</span>—United States Railway -Bonds (on lines paying dividends on the -ordinary capital); Canadian Railway Bonds.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gas Companies.</span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Banks.</span>—Joint Stock Banks, <i>limited</i>.</p> -</div> - -<p>Above 6 per cent. there are no investments -that can safely be recommended.</p> - -<p>Some foreign governments pay very -irregularly, and we may lay it down as a -wholesome rule that investments made without -the bounds of our own country should be -made with double caution. It is not so long -since we met a lady who had invested a considerable -sum with a republic which shall be -nameless, and which has since declined to pay -any portion back, or even to remember that -some fraction of interest might be acceptable -to its creditors.</p> - -<p>In taking shares in a joint-stock company, -there is a caution to be observed that cannot -be too strongly insisted upon. A joint-stock -company is an association of a number of -people for the purpose of carrying on a trade -or some useful enterprise capable of yielding a -profit. Now, if ever you take shares in one, -whether it be a bank, or an insurance office, or -a mine or anything else, make sure that it -is established under the “Limited Liability -Act.” If the company be not a Limited -Liability concern, should it happen to fail, you -and every other shareholder are liable to lose -every penny you possess. In a Limited -Liability Company, however, you can only -lose the amount of the shares which you hold. -This is a great advantage: you know just -what you are liable for. It is worth remarking -that all Joint Stock Companies with limited -liability formed for the purpose of gain, are -obliged by law to use the word “Limited” -as the last word of their title.</p> - -<p>When people have a good deal of money to -invest, and have a taste for limited companies, -in preference to the more solid security of the -public funds, it is wise not to put it all into -one concern. “Put it,” says one writer, -“into several. Then if one falls in value, -another probably rises, and so your income -will keep more equal. If one of your investments -turns out a failure, you lose only a part -and not the whole of your fortune.” And -“when you think,” adds the same authority, -“you have placed your money in the safest -way you can, do not alter its investment without -some good reason. Every change costs -money, and is attended with trouble and -anxiety.”</p> - -<p>Those who know little about business are -often tempted by the prospect of a high dividend, -never thinking anything about the risk<span class="pagenum" id="Page_365">{365}</span> -they run. The great thing is security, however, -and a small return will never be grumbled -at by sensible people if it is accounted for by -the investment being a really safe one. It is -anything but a pleasant sensation when, instead -of an expected brilliant percentage, one receives -a letter to the effect that “the directors have -thought it right to suspend the business of the -—— Company, and close the share register,” -and that “after most carefully and anxiously -weighing all the circumstances of the case, -they are convinced that the only course is to -have the company wound up.”</p> - -<p>In almost every newspaper we meet with -advertisements addressed to the unwary offering -shares in companies of which the worthless -character is at once recognised by the -experienced. It requires some knowledge of -the world not to be led away by emphatic -representations of “extraordinary success,” -“magnificent results,” “handsome profits,” -and “unprecedented opportunities.”</p> - -<p>By way of warning, we may quote an anecdote -told by the author of “A Guide to the -Inexperienced.” “I heard it,” she says, -“from a person who had been almost persuaded -by a friend who knew nothing of business -to take some shares in a company which -<i>promised</i> extremely good interest.</p> - -<p>“He went to the office, which was in the -City, to make inquiries. The manager tried -hard to persuade him to invest, assuring him -of the safety of the concern. While C—— -was hesitating, a man rushed in and said, in -an eager tone—</p> - -<p>“‘Pray, sir, have you any more shares on -sale? I have an order for fifty more. They -are in such great request that I am afraid of -their being all sold before I can get enough.’</p> - -<p>“His manner and words opened C——’s -eyes, who suspected that this was a plan to -entrap him to invest, and he quietly walked -off. The company failed in a very short time -afterwards.”</p> - -<p>We have spoken of investments in shares, -but shares are often bought, not as a matter -of investment, but as a speculation, the buyer -purchasing them with the expectation that -they will rise higher, and that he will then be -able to dispose of them at a profit. This is, -as a general rule, little better than gambling, -and a wise woman will keep out of it.</p> - -<p>Every transaction in the stock market, whether -it be in Government stock, or in railway -shares, or in any other securities, must be effected -through the medium of a broker, who is thus not -only an adviser but an indispensable agent in -the transaction. Be sure to employ a broker -of good standing, and, having found a trustworthy -man, be rather guided by his advice -than by your own notions as to what purchases -are safe and what imprudent.</p> - -<p>All documents connected with investments -should be carefully preserved, and dividends, -when they fall due, should be looked after. -It seems unnecessary to say so, but it is a -curious fact that, to speak of the public funds -alone, a large sum is added every year to the -revenue from unclaimed dividends. No stock -is reckoned unclaimed till ten years have -elapsed without the holder in any way giving -token of his or her existence; and yet in 1879 -the amount credited to the item of “unclaimed -dividends” for the year ending 3rd January, -1880, was no less than £3,411,228!</p> - -<p>The principal reason for this, no doubt, is -carelessness; but Mr. Walter M. Playford, in -his “Hints for Investors,” gives several other -reasons which are likely enough. Dividends -are often unclaimed through the misconception -of people who have sold stock. They -think they have sold with it a dividend, or a -portion of a dividend, to which they were -themselves entitled. Then, executors and administrators -are often unable to claim stock, -because those they represent have kept their -investments secret from their nearest friends. -And a good deal of money is not unfrequently -lost through the objectionable practice of investing -under a false name.</p> - -<p>The current prices of all the more important -stocks for sale are chronicled day by day in -the newspapers. It is a department never -omitted in any well-regulated journal, even -though it forms the driest-looking column in -the paper. It is full of figures and tables of -figures, preceded by a few paragraphs, of a -very stereotyped aspect, and written in -language peculiar to itself.</p> - -<p>We read therein that “the market is -easier,” or that “it assumed a more lively -appearance,” or that “it showed a falling -tendency,” or “great depression,” or that -“its tone remained very steady all day.” We -also read of “prices hardening a little,” of -“heavy stocks being inactive,” of “foreign -securities being quiet,” and grow familiar -with “Wabash Preferred,” “Nickel Plate -Common Stock,” “Spanish Externals,” -“Egyptian Unifieds,” and many other things -hard to be understood by the uninitiated.</p> - -<p>It is a much-studied column, and it is -surprising what interest and entertainment -can be extracted from these daily reports of -the health and spirits of the money market if -it only takes the trouble to master the peculiar -vocabulary. The principal terms connected -with the investment of money we shall set -down here, with a few words of explanation for -each. A business woman—no matter whether -she has money to invest or not—should at -least know what they mean.</p> - -<p><i>The Money Market</i> is a more or less -figurative expression, covering the whole field -for the investment or employment of money, -the leading dealers in the market being -bankers, bill discounters, and capitalists of all -sorts. Money is <i>cheap</i> or <i>dear</i> in the market -according as the rates for discount are low or -the reverse; and business is <i>brisk</i> or <i>flat</i>, -according as the amount of such discounts is -large or small.</p> - -<p>A <i>stockbroker</i> is a broker who deals in the -purchase and sale of stocks or shares for -others. What is known as a <i>stockjobber</i> is -one who buys and sells stock on his own -account on speculation: he is a useful medium -between the public and the broker.</p> - -<p>There are some dealers on the <i>Stock -Exchange</i>—the mart where stocks and shares -are bought and sold—who, by a poetic figure, -are known as <i>Bulls</i> and <i>Bears</i>. Bulls are -dealers who buying stock low have an interest -in trying all sorts of devices to raise prices. -Bears, on the other hand, try to bring prices -down, they being commonly persons who -have sold and undertaken to deliver more -stock than they are in possession of, and who -are therefore under the necessity of buying in -at a loss in order to settle their accounts. -How they came to be called bulls and bears is -doubtful. “They have been connected,” -says one writer, “with the animals to which -allusion is made by a reference to their -respective modes of attack. The bear -crushes, or bears <i>down</i> his antagonist, -whereas the bull’s method is to toss him <i>up</i>.”</p> - -<p><i>Transfer</i> is the legal operation by which -the rights and responsibilities of the people -disposing of stock or shares are conveyed to -those who buy. When the purchaser, or his -or her attorney, signs the transfer in the bank -books, that is known as <i>Acceptance of Stock</i>.</p> - -<p>The periodical payments of interest made -by the Government to the holders of the -National Debt and other public funds are -known as <i>Dividends</i>. The term dividend is -also applied to the sums paid to the shareholders -of a company at each periodical -division of profits.</p> - -<p><i>Cum-Dividend</i> means that the purchaser -of the shares is to receive the dividend then -payable or about to be paid. That is to say, -the sale is <i>with</i> the dividend.</p> - -<p><i>Ex-Dividend</i> just means the reverse; a sale -<i>ex-dividend</i> is <i>without</i> the dividend.</p> - -<p><i>Paid-up shares</i> are shares on which the full -subscribed or nominal amount has been paid -up. In the case of a limited liability -company, for example, the shares may be -nominally of £100, with £50 paid-up. Here -the purchaser has to consider that she is -liable at any time to be called on to subscribe -the remaining £50 per share. Should the -company come to grief she will not only lose -what she paid for the shares, but be liable for -£50 as well upon each share.</p> - -<p>When the price of securities of any kind is -equal to their nominal value, they are said to -be at <i>par</i>. Suppose £100 shares in a gas -company are selling at £94, they are 6 per -cent. <i>below par</i>; if £103 they are 3 per cent. -<i>above par</i>.</p> - -<p>When you see shares quoted as <i>at a -premium</i>—say £1 shares at 5s. <i>premium</i>—that -means that for every share you would -have to pay 25s., or 5s. more than its nominal -value.</p> - -<p><i>Debentures</i>, as commonly understood, are -mortgage deeds given by railway companies -in acknowledgment of borrowed money. -Debenture bonds give the holders the first -claim for dividends on the company’s receipts.</p> - -<p><i>Preference Shares</i> are shares on which a -dividend is bound to be paid so long as the -net income is sufficient, even though there -should not be a farthing left for the ordinary -shareholders.</p> - -<p>A <i>Dividend Warrant</i> is the document -which entitles the holder of stock to receive -payment of her dividend. Dividend warrants -may be lodged with one’s banker in the same -way as cheques.</p> - -<p><i>Coupons</i> is a term used for dividend or interest -warrants attached to bonds running for -a fixed number of years. They are usually -printed at the bottom of the bond, there being -one for every period at which interest becomes -due. They must be cut off and presented at -the right time to the appointed banker or -agent. Many coupons require a stamp, which -must be placed at the back, and have the -name of the person to whom the money is due -written across it.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i365" style="max-width: 25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i365.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_366">{366}</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="UNCLE_JASPER">UNCLE JASPER.</h2> -</div> -<p class="ph3"><span class="smcap">By</span> ALICE KING.</p> - - -<h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> - -<div class="ddropcapbox illowe10_9375" id="i366"> - <img class="w100 idropcap" src="images/i366.jpg" alt="“I" /> -</div><p> <span class="uppercase">shan’t</span>, won’t, and -can’t like Uncle -Jasper; it’s quite -impossible, I know, -for me to do it; if -he had any other -name I might -perhaps try; but -Jasper, Jasper, just -fancy liking anyone -with such a name! -He’s quite certain, -with a name like that, to -keep the windows tight shut -in July, and insist on my -wearing a fur cape in April, and eating oatmeal -porridge for breakfast, and no butter and -marmalade; and he’ll be always dressed in a -hideous, flaring red dressing-gown, and he’s -sure to have a wig, and he’ll never take a walk -with me after sunset, because of some horrid -old whim about catching cold. No, it’s not to -be supposed that I can even tolerate Uncle -Jasper; and as for going and living with him, -and leaving our bright, jolly life here, it’s -quite out of the question.”</p> - -<p>The speaker was myself. At that time I was -a girl of fourteen, with brown eyes, and little feet -that danced in unison; with a slight figure -which, in its restless activity, brings to my -mind now, as I look back, the ceaseless -motion of the pampas grass when the breeze -touches it ever so softly; with thick, frizzy, -rebellious, dark hair, that utterly refused to -accommodate itself to any known fashion of -hairdressing whatsoever; with a broad, -intelligent brow, which sometimes wrote the -word “wilfulness” much too legibly upon -itself in certain wrinkles and lines, if contradiction -or any kind of supposed indignity -stirred up my spirit within me, as was much -too often the case; with a little red mouth, -which was occasionally much too resolute a -mouth for a young lady who had not travelled -on very far in her teens.</p> - -<p>Both my parents had died when I was quite -a little child; they had lived in India, and I -had known very little of their love or care. I -had no near relations in England to take me -under their protection; I had spent my whole -life at school, going for my holidays to the -houses of different schoolfellows. I was the -heiress to a small fortune of my own, which -was managed by an old gentleman in the city -who had been left my guardian, and who -never came to visit me more than twice a year, -when he paid a state call at my school, and -sat with me and the head schoolmistress in -the grand, chill drawing-room—into which no -one ever entered save on the most solemn -occasions—for two terrible hours, inquiring -into my health, my studies, and my expenses, -at the end of which periods I always felt as if -I had been for a voyage at sea on the top of -an iceberg.</p> - -<p>Now the one thing wanting in my young -life was love. I was a clever girl, and took -generally a lion’s share of the prizes in the -school for every kind of learning and accomplishment. -I was endowed with a fair proportion -of good looks, and I had quite as much -money allowed me by my guardian as any girl -of my age could reasonably desire. I could not -say that I wished especially for anything which -was not within the reach of my attainment -in the circumstances in which I was placed; -still, I had a vague consciousness that I did -want something, and this something was love. -As has been said, I had no near relations, and -I was not one of those girls who seem to -carry about with them a fairy machine for -manufacturing affection wherever they go. My -religion was at that time more of a dead form -than a living spirit, warming and colouring my -whole life; and thus I was wanting in the -highest power of all for waking and creating -love in those around us.</p> - -<p>The two ladies who kept our school and the -under-governesses were all, in a certain way, -proud of me for my cleverness and good looks. -But none of them tried to make their way -into my heart. They were all somewhat indolent -women, and as I did them credit in -their school, they gave me my way far more -than was good for me, and so fostered the -wilfulness which was one of the worst features -of my character. My schoolfellows, -most of them, liked me to a certain extent; -my lively chatter—for I had always a nimble -tongue—made me a pleasant companion and -an agreeable visitor. At the same time, however, -they were all a little afraid of me, on -account of the reputation I had for superior -mental gifts, and not one among them ever -endeavoured to be intimate with me. They -went so far in their acquaintance with me—that -is, as far as a thick rind of proud reserve -which surrounded the inner recesses of -my thoughts and feelings would allow; and -when they reached this point they were content -to remain without the barrier.</p> - -<p>Things went on in this way with me till a -new girl, called Lily Greenwood, came to our -school. Lily was not either as clever or as -pretty as I was; but there was a charm about -her which I had not—the charm of a sweet, -sympathetic nature, which the high, pure atmosphere -of a Christian home had developed -early into blossoms of rare beauty. In a -month everyone in the school loved Lily. -Even the girls with the prickliest tempers, -who were always saying “won’t” and -“shan’t,” said “will” and “shall” to Lily; -and the girls with the dullest brains, who -could never be either pulled or driven through -the German declensions, brightened up at her -magic spells, and grew quite starlike in their -gleams and twinkles of intelligence; and the -greedy girls got to share their most cherished -dainties with her, because she set them such -an example of entire, smiling, gracious unselfishness; -and the very cat, who used to spit -and grumble if but the skirts of our dresses -touched her, came to sit on Lily’s knee, and -rejoiced in being stroked by her hand.</p> - -<p>Among the rest, I fell gradually under the -witchery practised by Lily. She seemed to -know by instinct that love was what I wanted, -and she came and wove a web of sunbeams -around me, till at length I was caught in -it. I began to open my heart to her, -and to let her come in, as I had never done -to anyone before; and I began, too, to feel -real warm affection for her. Still, I did not -let Lily’s influence work upon me for good as -much as it ought to have done; my pride forbade -it, and I continued in most things my old -wilful self.</p> - -<p>Some few months before my story begins -it had been discovered by the doctors that my -chest was delicate, and that it would be beneficial -for my health to spend the winter in a -warmer climate. My guardian, who was always -very eager to atone for his want of -affection for me by most scrupulous care for -my temporal well-being, at once decided that -I should go to the South of France in November, -and remain there till April, and came to -my schoolmistress to arrange with her as to -how the plan could be carried out. It was -settled that Miss Dolly, the younger of our -schoolmistress’s sisters, who kept the school -jointly with her, should occupy, with me, -a villa near Cannes, and that I should -have one companion of my own age to keep -me from being dull. Great was my joy when -I heard that this companion was to be Lily. -She was not very strong, and her father, who -had lately lost his wife (on which account Lily -had been sent to school), thought it a good -opportunity of getting needful change for her -without having to go with her himself, and -leave his business as a merchant for a while.</p> - -<p>The plan had proved a great success, as far -as Lily and I were concerned. Our bodily -strength increased in the warm, sweet, southern -air; we learned to talk French like natives; -we rejoiced in long rambles through the vineyards -and among the bands of flowers which -soon began to appear in the land as the fair -vanguard of spring; but it cannot be said -that it was exactly a season of joy and repose -for Miss Dolly.</p> - -<p>Miss Dolly was one of the mildest, most -characterless single ladies that ever put on a -cap. When she went into office at the Villa -Chantilly, it was, of course, intended that she -should rule her pupils; but the fable could -not long be kept standing on its feet; it -quickly appeared that her pupils, or at least -one of her pupils, and that one myself, ruled -her entirely. I insisted on all the furniture in -the house making the strangest migrations -from room to room about twenty times in succession, -to suit my fancy; I vexed poor Miss -Dolly’s soul by causing the cooks to give -warning, one after another, because I would -not be satisfied without going down daily into -the kitchen to enter into an exhaustive study -of the way to make omelettes; I made raids -into the garden to gather flowers when I ought -to have been practising my scales; I put on a -bland air of submission when Miss Dolly made -a supreme decree that we were never to be out -after the dew began to fall; and then, while -she slumbered in her armchair (with Rollin’s -History, which she had been reading out loud, -in her lap), coolly stepped out through the -window on to the turf in the moonlight. Lily -endeavoured, it is true, to strengthen Miss -Dolly’s hands as far as she could, but at the -same time I saw, plainly enough that smiles -would now and then, in spite of herself, come -creeping round her mouth as she watched my -proceedings. The result of all this was, as -might be naturally expected, that I grew more -wilful than ever, and fonder of my own way in -everything.</p> - -<p>Such was the state of things in the Villa -Chantilly when, one morning early in March, -there arrived from Miss Dolly’s elder sister in -England a letter which seemed likely to change -the whole course of my future. It told how -there had come to the school a gentleman -making anxious inquiries about me, Beatrice -Warmington, and how this gentleman was my -uncle, Mr. Jasper Rosebury. I had never -heard of such a relation, and at first I simply -refused to believe in his existence. A few -more sentences of the letter, however, proved -most indisputably that Mr. Rosebury had -married my mother’s elder sister, that she had -died young, before my mother was married -herself, and that he had then gone to Australia, -where he had remained ever since. I -had, of course, never even heard his name; -for when my parents were alive I was too -young to understand anything about our<span class="pagenum" id="Page_367">{367}</span> -family history, and my guardian had probably -never thought it worth while to trouble himself -to make known to me the facts concerning -my aunt’s early marriage and death. Besides, -Jasper Rosebury had not been heard of for -some years, even by his own relations.</p> - -<p>The letter, moreover, informed us that my -Uncle Jasper was about to come to the villa, -and take me away from school and all school -authority for good, to live with him. It was -against this plan that I was raising up such -energetic objections. I did not wish to leave -my bright, enjoyable life at the villa; I did -not wish to have an old gentleman, such as -my imagination represented my uncle, for a -constant companion; and, most of all, I did -not wish to be separated from Lily. Besides -all this, I had taken a whimsical but most -resolute dislike to my uncle, simply because -I had a prejudice against his Christian name, -Jasper.</p> - -<p>The scene grew more and more disturbed -round the breakfast-table that morning in the -Villa Chantilly. Miss Dolly remonstrated, -coaxed, cried, made a faint attempt at scolding, -and then cried again. As for myself, I -did nothing but repeat over and over a most -flat and unequivocal refusal ever to live with -Uncle Jasper. He would be here to-morrow, -Miss Dolly sobbed. Then let him be here; -that made no difference to me. I would not -go with him.</p> - -<p>“Oh, Beatrice!” here put in Lily’s sweet, -low voice—she had been making attempts -from time to time to still the storm—“if it -was only my dear mother’s brother, whom she -used to tell me so much about, come back, -how happy—”</p> - -<p>But here I broke in upon her with, “I wish, -Lily, that you and Miss Dolly were tied up in -a bag with all the old rusty, musty uncles and -aunts going, then, I should think, you’d -both have a jolly time of it.”</p> - -<p>After that I flounced out of the room, banging -the door after me.</p> - -<p>It was all very well to flounce and bang, -but I knew well enough in my inmost soul -that no flouncing and banging could change -the fact that Uncle Jasper would be here to-morrow. -I meditated and meditated upon -this certainty, until out of it, and out of my -resolute, headstrong wilfulness, there grew up -a firm determination—I would run away.</p> - -<p class="center">(<i>To be continued.</i>)</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ANSWERS_TO_CORRESPONDENTS">ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.</h2> -</div> - - -<h3>EDUCATIONAL.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Weed of the Family.</span>—1. Vinegar should never be -taken alone. In salad there should be an equal part -of olive oil, or a cream and egg mixture added to it. -2. The worldly rich man, who pampered himself and -showed no mercy to the poor creature who crawled -to his gate for his charity in vain, was popularly -called Dives for lack of a name, which signifies in one -word what he was, <i>i.e.</i>, rich man, the word used in -the Vulgate (Latin).</p> -</div> - - -<h3>ART.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nineteen</span> will find the china sold at Doulton’s, -Mortlock’s, and other well-known firms, the most -satisfactory for painting upon. The faults she -names arise more from the firing and the application -of the colour than the foundation.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Adah.</span>—Bronze painting materials are sold at most -artist colourmen’s, and are always procurable if not -in stock when required. Each bottle of colour costs -from sixpence to a shilling, and the price of a bracket -depends on the number of colours used.</p> - -<p>S. K. C.—The best apparatus for setting crayon -drawings is called Rouget’s fixative. A thin spray of -the fixative is dispersed over the surface of the completed -work in the same way that scent is thrown -about a room.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alice.</span>—1. A crayon copy is not eligible for exhibition at -the Royal Academy. 2. A little ammonia will clean -gilt picture frames and restore their brightness.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Perseverance.</span>—With regard to the circular you have -enclosed to us, it appears to be the same as many -others which we have seen, and we should recommend -caution regarding it. Many ladies have spent -money and time over similar advertisements, and have -got nothing by so doing.</p> - -<p>P. Z.—Pencil drawings are set by milk and water being -poured over their surfaces. The milk used is skim -milk largely diluted by water. A dinner dish or -large tray is used in which to immerse the drawing -by some people; others pour the water over them, -and hang the drawings over the back of a wooden -chair to drip dry.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lady Olive.</span>—To cover table-tops with Christmas -cards, the wood should be first sized with strong -size, and when dry the cards affixed to the surface -with strong gum. Then re-size and varnish with -white hard varnish. The cards should be arranged -on the table first with pins.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kinder Gartner.</span>—We think that you might extract -the grease stains from the paper by covering it with -blotting-paper and holding a hot flat-iron near it. -But you must do it gradually and watchfully, or you -may curl up the tinted paper. You had better lay -the blotting-paper at the back of the embossing.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mrs. Wainwright.</span>—In former times surnames were -variously spelt by members of the same families -owning them. That of the famous Flemish painter, -Sir Anthony Vandyck, or Vandyke, is an exemplification -of this fact. In Benjamin Vincent’s “Dictionary -of Biography,” in Gorton’s “Biographical -Dictionary,” the “Student’s Encyclopædia,” and in -Phillip’s “Dictionary of Biographical Reference,” -Sir Anthony’s name is spelt with a “c”. So also is -that of Daniel Vandyck, a French painter of the -seventeenth century, and Philippus Vandyck, a -Dutch painter, 1680-1752. A good connoisseur would -be able to tell you to which of these masters your -picture may be attributed.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ashe Ingen Court.</span>—Rosenburg’s “Guide to Flower -Painting,” published by Rowney, is a good shilling -manual. Noble’s “Guide to Water-colours,” also -published by the same, and Green’s “Sketching -from Nature,” three volumes, one shilling each, are -all satisfactory, and would fulfil your requirements.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mittie Smith.</span>—To transfer prints to glass you must -lay a thin coating of Venice turpentine over the face -of the print, and then proceed as if you were doing -decalcomanie.</p> -</div> - - -<h3>HOUSEKEEPING.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p>A. W.—Cocoa is made from the nibs in a tin-pot like a -coffee-pot. Put in half a teacupful each morning, -fill the pot with cold water, and keep it on the stove -all day, so that the goodness may stew out of the -nibs. Use it at breakfast, or when required, each -day, and when empty fill as directed, leaving each -day’s cocoa nibs in the pot till the end of the week.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rale Cearney.</span>—The cheese course comes before the -dessert.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Yarmouth Bloater.</span>—1. Steaming is considered the -best way of cleaning feathers, but in the country, -where they must be done at home, they should be -put into warm water, to which should be added a -little soda or chloride of lime. After this wash they -are rinsed in cold water and put to dry on a clean -cloth. If dried in a stove, they must be put into -bags of clean muslin, and placed in the oven with the -door open till the drying is complete and they are -fit for use. We are sorry to hear you do not lend the -volumes of the G.O.P. even to your sisters; it -seems like an old story many times read and told, -but not often taken to heart—the talents laid carefully -by in a napkin. Read the verse at 1 Tim. vi. 18, -and be willing to communicate even your most -cherished articles.</p> -</div> - - -<h3>MUSIC.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Five Years Subscriber.</span>—Rubbing the hands and -fingers well with oil will render them supple, and -also scale practice.</p> -</div> - - -<h3>MISCELLANEOUS.</h3> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p>M. S. K.—You must make your own choice; we could -not lay down any dogmatic rule as to the merits of -one Christian community over another. God had an -elect people in the Israelites, and to those who did -not live up to the Divine privileges they enjoyed, our -Lord said it would be more tolerable for Sodom and -Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for them. -God has, in His wisdom and goodness, elected you -into some division of the Christian Church—His fold -on earth—which is composed of many communities -(united on the main though differing respectively on -the minor doctrines of the Christian faith). You -might have been born a Jew, heathen, Mahommedan, -Red Indian, or of any other parentage outside the -pale of His fold, but you were elected to enjoy special -privileges, a knowledge of Divine truth, and all the -precious means of grace. Under such circumstances, -if you be not devout, your judgment will be the -more severe; for, like Esau, you will have thrown -away your birthright, and thus your blessing, for you -are a responsible being.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Maggie Mary.</span>—We sympathise much with you in -the sentiments you express, and the experiences you -have had, and we quite agree with you that prayer, -offered in faith in the special divine promises to which -you refer, will do more for the sick than any human -means. Have recourse to the former, and have -nothing to do with mesmerism. If you write again, -give your address.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mary L. Saunders</span> is thanked for informing us of -the institution of a school at Haldon View, Topsham, -Devon, for children of weak intellect. We are -gratified to hear that a suggestion of ours caused -the carrying out of this charitable plan. The premises -are excellent, and there is accommodation for -eight pupils. The promoters of the scheme are -sisters of the writer, and have a licence.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gwendolin Marzipan.</span>—The Odd Minutes Society -might suit you; sec., Miss Powell, Luctons, Buckhurst-hill, -Essex. The particulars will be sent you -in print.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shirley.</span>—See <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/65406/65406-h/65406-h.htm#Page_192">page 192</a>, Part for January. A -man’s money does not go to any brother or sister -should he die intestate and leave a widow or -children. In the latter case the widow has a third of -his property, and the rest is divided equally between -his children. Should he die leaving only one child, -the widow still has her third and the one child -(whether son or daughter) inherits all the rest—that -is, two-thirds. His brothers and sisters cannot claim -a farthing when he leaves a widow and child, excepting -by will.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ivy Leaf.</span>—James Mason has given a series of articles -on the subject of your letter—“Every Girl a Business -Woman,” beginning in <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/65752/65752-h/65752-h.htm#EVERY_GIRL_A_BUSINESS_WOMAN">vol. viii., p. 118</a>. No stamp -was necessary on the I.O.U. given you as a receipt -for your £30 loan to some man. How disgraceful on -the part of one of his sex to borrow such a sum of a -girl, and require to be sued for its recovery!</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Careless One.</span>—Refer to our indexes for our instructions -entitled “How to Remove Inkstains from -Ivory,” etc.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Black Tom.</span>—1. The girl you name as being hopelessly -attached to a man she has never met but only seen at -concerts, should be sent away from the foreign town -where you both are staying, either to a friend’s house -and care or to a good school. The story is of a most -humiliating character; she disgraces the sex, the -members of which should be sought, not themselves -the seekers. Certainly you should not make any -such revelations and overtures to a stranger. If she -have no self-respect herself, her friends should not -betray such a deplorable state of things. It would -be like dragging her through the gutter. 2. We could -not hazard an opinion on what was your disease. -Your writing slopes the wrong way.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Perplexed.</span>—Go to receive the Holy Communion in -charity with all, in humility and repentance, with a -steadfast resolution, by the help of the Holy Spirit, -to amend your life and cherish no wilful sin, nor any -omission of duty. Confess your utter unworthiness -and accept Christ as your only hope. Thus you will -not present yourself unworthily.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Yum-yum</span> wishes to obtain the publication of a story -which she has written. We cannot altogether comply, -but give an extract. A young man was given over -in decline, induced by the refusal of his suit to a girl -called Gwendolyne. But the latter being hungry -one day, “Alexander took her to an eating house, and -treated her to a sausage, and then, indeed, gratitude -won the day, for Gwendolyne leaned her head on -Alexander’s shoulder, and she was his.” We cannot -undertake to insert Yum-yum’s nor Gwendolyne’s -photographs in the G.O.P. in return for her story, as -desired.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">One Perplexed</span> has jilted her intended husband after -some years’ engagement, and this without giving him -the full explanation he had a right to demand. She -has left him, moreover, for a whole year without one -word of such explanation. There is so great a -diversity in opinion amongst religious, God-fearing -people as to a sincere Christian’s liberty (in such -matters as that which has led her to cast off her -intended) that we consider her conduct the more -reprehensible.</p> - -<p>M. E. B. (Charnwood).—Apply to our publisher. The -Editor has nothing to do with his department.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Maritzburg.</span>—Write to Miss E. Faithfull, who conducts -the Institution for female emigration in Manchester, -10, Albert-square (Scottish Insurance -Buildings). State your case, and we think the -matter might be arranged for you, if you said any -opening was ready for you.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_368">{368}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i368" style="max-width: 37.5em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i368.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="center">SPRING.</p></div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot_ans"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Abitur of the Hills.</span>—The name cayenne is French, -and should be pronounced kay-en.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Violet.</span>—We do not enter into nor discuss subjects of -the kind about which you inquire. If your parents -really object to your receiving the Holy Communion -oftener than once a month, why should you cross -their wishes? You would show good feeling in consulting -them on all occasions short of an infringement -of a positive duty, and no divine command prescribes -the frequency of your availing yourself of this -spiritual privilege.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ivy.</span>—Were you of full age, it would still be your duty -to please and requite your parents, and to stretch -a great point so to do; but as a mere minor of -eighteen, it is an act of rebellion on your part to -keep company and flirt with any man. The next -time he presumes to address you, say he can do so -no more, as your parents object to it, and then walk -resolutely away. As he is above you in position, -your parents are wise in their view of the case.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Investor</span> is reading, we hope, Mr. James Mason’s -articles on business for women, in the present numbers -of the G.O.P. We do not know anything of -the company you mention, and should advise you to -write and make inquiries from them; and we also -recommend you to divide what money you have, to -avoid having “all your eggs in the same basket.” -Put £50 each into two things, for instance. Is there -not some old and respectable building society where -you live that you could inquire about?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Emma Hay.</span>—1. The 23rd April, 1865, was a Saturday. -2. Your writing might be improved.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ethild Mya B.</span>—We do not know what to suggest, -save to teach knitting to all your little class, and -then get them some clothing for poor children to -make. Boys are taught both plain sewing and -knitting in Board schools now.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kathleen.</span>—The quotation, “They also serve who -only stand and wait,” is from Milton’s poem on his -blindness.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wild Rose L.</span>—1. The numbers are sixpence each. Six -would be 3s., and the parcels post about 6d. 2. The -23rd of January, 1863, was a Friday. The word -“truly” does not need an “e” in it.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Synge.</span>—We are much obliged for your letter and its -quotation, which we know well. We do not suppose -that the writer intended more than half a truth in -what he said, probably in allusion to the single -watch-notes of the robin. In the limits of a short -article it is not possible to go into many particulars. -We know many people who never heard a robin sing, -as his tones in the spring and summer are always -drowned in the general chorus.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lilian</span> has our sincere sympathy on the three accounts -named. May she find rest in the knowledge of that -“Friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” We -regret that she gave no address. Has Lilian a movable -desk to accommodate to her convenience as she -reclines? If so, she might sometimes prepare scrap-books -for hospitals, with every sort of picture and -card. Such books are made very entertaining both -to the maker and the receiver by decapitating figures -and making an exchange of heads, especially in the -case of old photographs; also in introducing figures -into landscapes and interiors. Such books are a real -boon to sufferers in hospitals.</p> - -<p>S. E. P.—You seem to need a tonic. As your general -health must be weak, perhaps some cod-liver oil -would answer. Keep your feet dry and warm, and -wear flannels next the skin.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Gingerbottle.</span>—1. Handel, the composer, was buried -in Westminster Abbey. 2. The best thing to do about -colds, we think, is not to catch them.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hopeful Yum-Yum.</span>—You should say, “None of us -have,” and “Neither of us is.” We regret that your -letter was not answered before.</p> - -<p>E. O.—1. The 17th February, 1862, was a Monday. -2. The tale of “Only a Girl-Wife” was begun in the -G.O.P. for October 3rd, 1885.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Isabel.</span>—The Editor regrets to decline Isabel’s poem, -but is much obliged for her good opinion of the -G.O.P.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Eileen.</span>—Is the poem meant for blank verse? If so, -it is incorrect in its construction, and many of the -expressions used are very unpoetical.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miss Greenwood.</span>—The lines you send us are fairly -correct, and show cleverness and a certain facility in -writing. With practice you ought to do much -better.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Annie Maggs.</span>—Water for drinking should always be -filtered; but the impurities in it would vary in -different localities. In some they would arise from -decayed vegetation. Boiled water is the safest to -drink.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Maud Morley.</span>—A vamper means one who vamps, or -pieces an old thing with something new. It is not -always applied to shoes and boots, for in some parts -of England “to vamp” means to bully or bluster, -and in others it means to travel, while in Swift’s -writings we find the sentence, “I never had much -hopes of your <i>vamped-up</i> play.”</p> - -<p>R. M. A. and Others.—1. None of the handwritings are -pretty, but all distinct and easy to read. 2. Sir John -Lubbock’s “Best Hundred Books” would serve as -a guide; also two very good articles in the <i>Leisure -Hour</i> of last year, on the same subject, would contain -all the information needful.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lady Irene Dale</span> had better send for our paper-pattern -of “a bodice to take the place of stays,” -which she will see advertised in the monthly list -given at the end of every article on “Dress: in -Season and in Reason,” by the “Lady Dressmaker.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">N. Wales.</span>—We recommend you to have nothing to do -with the description of experiments to which you -refer. As our magazine is not a medium for any -kind of controversy, we do not name the subject to -which you refer; but we may tell you that we highly -disapprove of them. We are glad that your father -and brothers like our magazine.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Goody Two-Shoes.</span>—1. We think you must have made -a mistake, and that your bad dreams were the results -of your suppers, not of your abstinence from them. -As a rule, they are by no means wholesome. The -digestive powers are weary after their due work of -the day, just as your legs and your brain. They -should not be taxed when they need repose. If set -to work when tired, the work is only half done, and -headaches and blotches in the face, as well as unpleasant -dreams, may be expected. A biscuit and a cup of -milk might be excepted from this charge, and, possibly, -be even desirable. 2. The 16th of August, 1865, -was a Wednesday.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mary Wright</span> (New South Wales).—Your kind letter -was very gratifying to us, and we heartily wish you -the same blessings that you desire for us.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">An Iris.</span>—1. We thank you for the recipe for preserving -flowers in a vase—<i>i.e.</i>, to put a good pinch of salt in -the water, and more if the vase be large. It counteracts -the bad effect produced by a hot room. If your -mother-in-law be kindly disposed towards you, as -evidenced by subscribing herself “affectionately,” -and even “very affectionately yours,” you may sign -yourself “your affectionate daughter.” 2. The operation, -as performed in the sad case you describe, is -indeed most horrible. Happily, all cases and all -modes of treatment are not alike.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Beryl.</span>—You need complete change of air. If living -inland, go to the seaside; if on a plain, exchange -to an elevated situation. If this change be accompanied -by a complete rest from intellectual work, -and from use of the eyes in reading, writing, or fine -needlework; and, added to this, you go out twice a -day, abstaining from walks that will fatigue you, and -you take cod-liver oil or plenty of cream, we think -you will recover in a few months.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Vizer.</span>—Friction is good for the liver, not “blows.” -The use of a skipping-rope is desirable, and brown -wholemeal bread should be taken for breakfast and -tea—not mere ordinary bread with an admixture of -bran.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Flake.</span>—Hot potatoes and hot carrots are very wholesome; -not so when cold. Your digestion appears out of -order. Consult a doctor.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tring.</span>—Perhaps tannin lozenges and alum and water -gargle might be serviceable to you; but we cannot -prescribe for perfect strangers.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">A Little Lamb.</span>—We sympathise much with you in -the religious sentiments you express, and we wish -you God-speed.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Puzzled One.</span>—The word “glebe” has more than -one meaning. Webster gives four. It is derived -from the Latin—<i>Gleba</i>, clod, land, soil. In mining -it means a piece of earth containing mineral ore; in -ecclesiastical law it means the land belonging to as -parish church or benefice. It was used to mean a -meadow or field in your quotation.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Two Fern Leaves</span> have no business to correspond -with any young men without their parents’ express -sanction, and unless engaged to them.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Juno.</span>—Certainly, women can sign as witnesses to a -will or any legal document, provided they be of -age.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mary Brooks.</span>—We could not possibly tell you what -salary you might obtain at a fancy-work shop, as so -much depends on the style of place, situation, facility -in obtaining hands, state of trade, and amount of -competition in that line of business, added to which -must be your own efficiency and experience. Inquire -at several shops, and so discover the average salary -given.</p> -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER, VOL. 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