Memory.—The price mentioned in the article upon crystoleum for finished pictures was obtainable when the work was new, at which time the paper was written. Five years have elapsed since that time, and many people have learnt the art, so that the price it could fetch at first is no longer given, unless the work be very superior and the subject of large dimensions.
Mary.—Fan painting is decidedly remunerative, and has the advantage of being home-work; but a certain amount of originality is essential for it, as well as practical skill and experience and very great neatness.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winifred Mary wants “a remedy for taking sunburn off the face and hands.” Shut yourself up in a bandbox, my dear, and when winter clouds and winds return you may open the lid and inspect the condition of your complexion. If a cure have been effected, come out; if not, shut yourself up in the dark a little longer. If you live to rejoice in the return of the summer’s sunshine you had better wear gloves and a veil.
Rose Henshaw.—We regret our inability to avail ourselves of your story. If you send your address in full, it shall be returned to you.
Lizzie Herbert.—We are glad you are happy in your marriage, even in the circumstances you name. But “one swallow does not make a summer.” We only laid down general rules, more especially for girls in the upper ranks of life. In your special case you seem to have acted wisely.
Hezekiah.—We think that the “best thing to make you look as if you had not been crying” is not to cry. We imagine that your royal namesake cared little whether his eyes were red or not, because his was real grief.
Anne S.—No stranger could venture to give advice for deafness without seeing the patients and becoming acquainted with a variety of circumstances connected with them. Deafness may be hereditary or accidental, from a cold, an abscess, a plug of cotton, a secretion of wax, a fall, and thickening of the membrane, or a broken drum from a loud noise. It is an ailment too serious for guess-work.
Violet.—The sons of a commoner could not inherit the rank their own father did not hold merely because their mother’s former husband was a peer. However, there are some few peerages that run in the female line, the mother being a peeress “in her own right,” not by marriage only. See our letters on “Girls’ Allowances,” in vol. v., pages 54, 91, 246 and 764.