Laundress (Superintendentship or Opening for Laundry).—If you have received a thorough training in laundry work, by which we mean not less than a year spent in learning the business, then by all means advertise for a post as superintendent or manageress. The National Laundry Association has lately fully corroborated all that has been said on the subject in the “G. O. P.” by drawing the special attention of educated women to the prospects that this business now offers under the steam laundry system. We hear continually of places where a laundry is required. Harringay, in the north of London, is one of those most recently mentioned to us. Requests have reached us also from Lichfield, Elstree and Richmond-on-Thames to recommend laundresses to establish themselves in those localities.
H. A. T. (Training in a Children’s Hospital).—At nineteen you are too young to be admitted as a probationer to any London children’s hospital. But when you are twenty you would be eligible, so far as age is concerned, for the East London Hospital for Children, Glamis Road, Shadwell, E. The vacancies there, however, are extremely few in proportion to the number of applications. No premium is required, and a salary of £10 is given the first year, £12 the second, and £20 the third, with laundry and uniform.
Teacher.—We infer from your letter that the school in which you taught two years ago was a National School. It ought not then to be difficult for you to obtain employment of the same kind again. The Guardian, The Church Times and The Schoolmistress, are the most likely papers in which to find advertisements of vacancies.
A “G. O. P.” Reader (Hospital Nursing).—You can certainly apply to the matron of any of the chief London hospitals for admission as a probationer. You should enclose a stamp in order that the matron may reply to you.
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E. Saunders.—The receipt you name is legal, and we think you need feel no uneasiness. If properly stamped, dated, and signed, no names of witnesses are required.
Petite.—Your letter does you much credit. The secret of preserving the colour of the flowers is to change the sheets of blotting-paper frequently; between which you lay them for the pressing. Your writing is very legible, but you reverse the rule for making light and heavy strokes. The copperplate copies employed for teaching to write would show you what we mean.
Orthodox.—The mistake of the so-called “Peculiar People” consists in their overlooking the divine injunction to “obey them that have the rule over you.” They are guilty of a breach of the law in not sending for a medical man to give an opinion of the case, and offer his advice and assistance, whether they avail themselves of his skill or not. We are speaking of adults. In the case of infants and children, of course, parents are bound to give them the benefit of medical aid; and in both cases a true and undoubting faith in the promises—in connexion with prayer—may be exercised with the use of means nowhere forbidden in the Bible. The danger of the spread of any disease has to be provided against by the law—an act of mercy, not of cruel persecution, as these well-meaning but misguided people imagine it to be.
Delta.—To preserve peas, fill some wide-necked, dry bottles with good corks, place them in a pan of cold water, with a little hay at the bottom, and set it on the fire, raising the temperature very gradually to 160°. Keep it at this point for twenty or thirty minutes. As the peas will shrink, fill each bottle, as far as the commencement of the neck, with peas from another bottle, taking care not to bruise them. When all the bottles are filled, remove the pan from the fire, take out each bottle separately, fill it to within an inch of the cork with boiling water; cork immediately, avoid shaking, and tie down the cork. Cover well with wax, and replace the bottles in the pan, where they should be left to cool gradually till cold. Then place the bottles in a dry, cool place, lying on their sides, turn them partially round twice a week during the first couple of months, and once or twice a month afterwards.
Mother.—Your question is one often raised. Should you desire to add a name to those already registered for your child (born in England), you must make application to the registrar who entered its name within seven days of its baptism. We mean to say—supposing that, six months after its registration, you wished to add a name at its baptism, go to the same registrar and state your wish within a week after the baptism. Procure the certificate of the latter from the clergyman (for a fee of one shilling), take it to the registrar, and pay a second fee of a shilling for the insertion of the name in the original registration.