“He charges a guinea, and if he comes again it’ll be another guinea. Now, what do you say? If I were ye I’d say no, like a Britoner; and I’d die first.”
Pleasant Surprises.—Human nature is pliable, and perhaps the pleasantest surprises of life are found in discovering the things we can do when forced.
An Obstacle to Happiness.—There is in all of us an impediment to perfect happiness—namely, weariness of the things which we possess and a desire for the things which we have not.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
EDUCATIONAL.
Miss Beale, Ada Crossley, Delectus, Admirer of the G. O. P., Constance Sutherland, Gertrude and Ronvad, Mardi, Tadman and Crossley.—We thank Miss Beale for sending us the prospectus of the Guild of the Cheltenham Ladies’ College, the object of which is to give information to its old pupils and others, of essay, reading, and other societies, so as to help in their own self-improvement and in work for others; general secretary, Mrs. Ashley Smith, Ivy House, Bilston, Staffordshire. Miss Tadman is thanked for her prospectus of the Kingston Reading Club, of which she is hon. secretary; her address is 100, Coltman-street, Hull, Yorkshire. Mardi is also thanked for that of the Glamorgan Reading Society, of which Miss C. Lewis is the hon. secretary; address, 49, Richmond-road, Cardiff, Wales. She wishes it to be understood that it is not confined to Glamorganshire. Our other correspondents above-named we may refer to the shilling “Directory of Girls’ Clubs” (Griffith and Farran, St. Paul’s-churchyard, E.C.), where they will find what they require. Machiavelli’s works are translated into French by Periés, 1823-6, in twelve volumes, and Macaulay wrote an essay upon them. March 24th, 1869, was a Wednesday. Eleven early-rising societies are named in the directory, including Miss Kempe’s.
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Die junge Maus.—Although you have attained to the patriarchal age of twenty-one, and your bones have only just become hard, we see no objection to your learning to paint. There are works on the subject you name in French as well as English. Write to the publisher, Mr. Tarn. Ours is the editorial department.
Emily Kaighin.—A milking-stool is round in the seat, about ten inches in diameter, and has three wooden legs sloping outwards. People use it more as a means for the practice of their artistic ideas than as a restful appliance.
May.—To remove a photo from a dirty mount, cut away all the margin of the latter and put it to float in a plate of clean tepid water. Should it fail to become detached, hold it with the back near the fire, and you will then peel it off. Sometimes a solution of indiarubber is used in mounting (improperly so, we think), and this is the best plan to adopt in such a case.