MISCELLANEOUS.
J. W. must accept our best thanks for her kind letter and the assurance that the “girls’ own mothers” take as much delight in our paper as the girls themselves.
Kartoffel.—“What is the best thing to do if anything is seen in a haunted house?” Shut your eyes, and don’t see it.
Swetsche.—To invent “a cure for sleeplessness” would be to become a millionaire. If we were so fortunate we could not promise to take you into partnership, but would advertise our decoction widely.
Cousin.—You have fallen into a careless and injurious mode of walking. You should plant your feet straight on the ground, and might also have a little brass or iron heel put on those of your shoes. If your blue serge dress be so soiled with dust, you had better get it re-dipped by a dyer. They can do so without your unpicking the dress.
Firefly.—You seem to have overtaxed your brain-power during these examinations, and you need rest; change of air, good diet, early retirement to bed at night, and late rising (say at 8 a.m.) might in time restore the powers of memory. At the same time, you should obtain the advice of an experienced physician.
Millicent Thornton.—The quotation commencing—
“Absence of occupation is not rest,”
is taken from Cowper’s poem “Retirement,” line 623. You will probably find the other poem in some popular reciter. You write well for your age.
E. M. Searle.—The Latin words, Nocturna versate manu, versate diurno, mean, “Turn (them) over with nightly hand, turn (them) over by day.” The words are from Horace. The word “them,” which is understood, refers to examples of Grecian style.