OUR OPEN LETTER BOX.
A. Martin wishes to find a poem called “Voices at the Throne,” beginning
“A little child—
A little meek-eyed child,
Sitting at a cottage door.”
“Sweet Marie” is informed that her quotation,
“Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone,”
is from one of Ella Wheeler’s poems of Passion—“Solitude.” We thank our masculine correspondent for his help and his very kind letter.
Ethel Rimmer has more replies from Soldier’s Daughter, Alice Nimon, and C. Perkins, whom we thank. Klondyke, in answering Ethel Rimmer, requests a recipe for “the American Harlequin Cake,” and inquires the name of the English agent, Gold Coast. These queries are scarcely literary; but as they occur in a letter concerning a literary subject, we print them here.
Can anyone direct “Doubtful” to the verses beginning
“The woman was old, and ragged, and gray,
And bent with the chill of a winter’s day”?
Mabel Entwistle sends a reply to La Marguerite’s question concerning painting on panel, which we copy verbatim:—
“Surely she refers to chrystoleum painting. Chrystoleums are photographs taken from Academy pictures and then painted on. It is possible to affix these (whether painted on convex or flat glass) on to a panel. If this is what La Marguerite means, if she will write to me, I shall be pleased to send full particulars and give her any help I can, as I have had considerable experience in chrystoleum painting. But if she refers to the painting on the surface of photographs in water-colours, that is something I have wanted to learn for some time, and shall be equally glad to obtain information upon. This art requires a special medium and treatment of photo, I know, but I cannot get to know exactly. Trusting this may be of some use,
“I remain,
“Sincerely yours,
“Mabel Entwistle.”
1, William Street,
Darwen.