DEED OF GIFT.—Upon my eldest son's marriage I wish to make him a really handsome money present. My idea is to hand over to him £100, on condition that he repays me ten per cent, as long as I live, my age now being forty-five. Then as to security. Had I better get a Bill of Sale on the furniture, which he has just had given him by his wife's father for their new house, or how can I most effectually bind him?—GENEROUS PARENT.
HOLIDAY TRIP.—Would one of your readers inform me of a locality where I can take my next summer's holiday of a month, for £3 10s., fare included? It must be near the sea and high mountains, with a genial though bracing climate. Good boating and bathing. Strictly honest lodging-house keepers and romantic surroundings indispensable.—EASY TO PLEASE.
COMING DRESS.
(Sweet Seventeen to the would-be Sumptuary Reformers at the Kensington Town Hall.)
Vainly on Fashion you make war,
With querulous Book, and quaint Bazaar,
Good Ladies of the Higher Light!
A Turkish Tea-gown, loose or tight,
Won't win us to the Rational Cult;