MISCELLANEOUS.
Ivy.—“Yours sincerely” is the ordinary phrase, and would be quite suitable. You should begin your note, of course, with “Dear Dr. So-and-so,” and tell him then, in a few words, what you wished.
I. G. L. (South Africa), Elephanta and Rhinocerina.—We gave a series of articles in vol. x., “G. O. P.,” beginning October, 1888, to which you might refer, if you have the volume. Cochins, Brahmas, Plymouth Rocks, and Langshaus all do well in confinement. They are placed in order of hardiness. L. U. Gill, 170, Strand, publishes several excellent manuals—Popular Poultry Keeping, Poultry for Prizes and Profit, and How to Keep Laying Hens; also there are constant discussions going on in the pages of The Exchange and Mart, published at the same address, three times weekly. There is a small manual on Incubators and their Management, by J. H. Sutcliffe, illustrated, and published at 170, Strand, which you would find useful. Of course you could make an incubator at a cheap rate.
“One who wants to know.”—Messrs. Cassell have published a good Dictionary of Cookery. The term “receipt” means an acquitment in writing, duly signed, and in some cases stamped, for money or other valuables received; an acknowledgment of having taken into possession or charge. The word is pronounced as if written “re-ceet.” The term “recipe” should be pronounced as a three-syllable word, i.e., as “res-cip-pee,” meaning a medical, cookery, or other prescription, or statement of ingredients, and the method of making up the same to produce desired results of any description. It is generally, though incorrectly, pronounced as “re-ceet.”
Tomel.—We have made inquiries, and can hear of nowhere in London where the Norwegian ornaments can be obtained. We can only suggest that you should write to the Norwegian Club, 11, Charing Cross—the Rev. T. B. Willson, Hon. Sec.—and ask for the address of a reliable jeweller in Norway, to whom you could write. Mr. Willson knows Norway well, and is the author of a guide-book which is well known and approved.
Subscriber.—Suites are not in fashion just now, as everyone seems to prefer to select their own shapes for chairs, and every chair, large or small, is different one from another. Small tables and a Chesterfield sofa seem to complete the furniture of a modern drawing-room, to which you must add pictures, growing palms and other plants, and pretty ornaments.
A Lonely Lover.—You might try to learn a concertina or an accordion. The latter would be the easiest to play. The name Mildred is from the Anglo-Saxon, mild and red, or mild in counsel.
Inquirer.—We should think you had better get one of the new Encyclopædias, which will answer all the questions on the very varied subjects in which you are interested. There are several published at moderate prices.
E. Wahall.—Swinton is in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 10½ miles from Sheffield. Here the Rockingham porcelain manufactory was established, so called after the Marquis of Rockingham, on whose estate it was established—not in the village of that name, which is in Northamptonshire, on the river Welland.
Ignoramus.—The Mormons owe their origin to one Joseph Smith, who, in 1830, established himself at Utah. He pretended that in his boyhood he had visions, in which he was told that all existing religions were false; and later on, that at a place indicated he would find gold tablets, and inscribed with the inspired instructions of the ancient prophets, buried in the ground. Also a pair of spectacles, a sword, and a breastplate. The inscriptions were in the reformed Egyptian language. Eleven persons were said to have seen these things besides Smith, which were all, he said, returned to the Angel, and were seen no more. Afterwards, he and his coadjutor, Cowdery (a schoolmaster), had a vision of St. John the Baptist, who consecrated them priests of the Order of Aaron, and commanded them to baptise each other, after which the “Holy Ghost fell on them, together with the spirit of prophecy.” Smith was succeeded by Brigham Young, Smith having been murdered by Indians who broke into the prison where he was confined.
Lucy Waygood.—We do not quite see on what point you need advice. From your own account you seem to have behaved badly enough, as you (being engaged to one man) appear to have encouraged another lover to pay you attention, and to visit you. No wonder the first became angry and jealous. Now you seem not to know your own mind, and “don’t want to pass your life with either of them.” You are very young, which is your best excuse, and our only advice is that you should wait for a year or two before accepting any lover, as you evidently do not know your own mind.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] An expression used to denote the quantity of bees in the hive. The bees are said to be “so many frames strong,” that is, so many frames are covered by bees.
[2] Afterwards Lord Hardinge, Governor-General of India, and Commander-in-Chief of the British Army.
[Transcriber’s Note.—The following changes have been made to this text:
Page 499: missing word “was” added—“she was bid”.
Page 506: favourities to favourites—“old favourites which”.
Page 507: cotten to cotton—“cotton stockings”.
Page 512: Doubteul to Doubtful—‘“Doubtful” may receive’.]