A Christian.—We agree with your mother that you are both very young, and had better wait till you be older. Then we should repeat to you the saying of Christ, “Have salt in yourselves,” which means that you must form your opinions and actions on eternal principles, which are the salt which should savour our lives.
Tilda.—We quite agree with you that the manners of lady district visitors should be very courteous, and that they should certainly knock at people’s doors, and not go in until they be asked, nor should they go at the dinner hour. Alas! good breeding and sound common-sense seem both rare qualities everywhere. Either of them would have made your visitors behave differently.
Gipsy.—You should say, “Lady So-and-so,” and write it with a capital “L.”
Ethel.—Show your teeth to a dentist. We regret that we could not give you a recommendation of the kind. Your medical man would do so. The loss of an eye-tooth does not affect the sight. It is believed that eating very fine white bread has tended to injure the teeth. Wholemeal bread is the best for producing good bone.
Sarah Brown.—You cannot re-silver a good looking-glass yourself. You must send it to a manufactory for the purpose. Any furnishing upholsterer or looking-glass seller would undertake to do that for you; but you must make a bargain before you send it, and you might obtain a good secondhand glass at less cost.
Dick.—Dentists usually have a medical man to see and attend to the patient when gas is employed. It is not dangerous to take it.
“In Great Trouble.”—Yours seems a case for a doctor’s advice. You had better consult one. The word “silly” is not spelt “scilly,” like the islands of that name, and “disappointed” should not be written “dissapointed.”
Dorothy Drake.—You will find the answer to your question several times repeated in our correspondence columns.
Evelyn.—We do not place ourselves between our young readers and their parents, by expressing an opinion respecting the punishments they inflict. If severe, we imagine that their statement of the case you describe would be of a different character from yours. Probably there were attendant circumstances which aggravated the misdoing on your part. What business had you to go out without leave, and not fully dressed for so doing? Besides, you may have been disobedient or impertinent.
Ditto.—You will find instructions in riding in the monthly part for October 1st, 1881, page 3, vol. iii., and, as we told you before, at page 131 in the same volume. You cannot read figures, one would suppose. There is a picture of a girl on horseback on the same page. Look again.