Miss E. C. Hepper, Clareville, Headingley, Leeds, would be glad to correspond with a well-educated French lady not under 30 years of age. Each should write in the other’s language, and the letters would be corrected and returned.
A Russian Girl whose name and address we find some difficulty in deciphering from her pleasant letter, wishes to correspond with “Miss Inquisitive.” Here is our rendering of the address—Miss Ovana Thyne, Riga, VI., Weidendam Hause 1.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Joan.—When friends or strangers say that it has given them pleasure to meet you, you must respond graciously, and say that you are likewise glad that you have had the opportunity of meeting, or of making their acquaintance, if a first introduction. Try to look pleasant when you say so. It is not a time for looking stiff and solemn.
Nightingale.—If you have read all the books which we have recommended on the subject of nursing, we can help you no further in that line. But some useful manual might be obtained with reference to ambulance work, and “First Aid.” Apply to the St. John Ambulance Association, St. John’s Gate, Clerkenwell, E.C., inaugurated by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Clarice.—If you hear “a ticking in the wall like that of a watch,” it may be occasioned by a particular kind of little beetle which is known to make just such a sound. If you have no ear for music, spare those within hearing the nuisance of listening to inharmonious sounds and incorrect time. Your hand is legible and of moderate size, and is not very much to be condemned. On the contrary. But people differ in taste.
White Rose.—There is a “Factory Helpers Union” which is worked under the auspices of the “Y.W.C.A.” The Hon. Secretary is Miss Skirrow, and the office at 26, George Street, Hanover Square, W. There are branches of this society at most of our large provincial cities. Amongst these we may name Birmingham, Bristol, Eastbourne, Manchester, Ipswich, Derby, and Leicester.
Margaret H.—Put an advertisement in some of the leading papers, and put up notices in the windows of the shops. Many of the owners would so far oblige you, especially the grocer’s, butcher’s, and baker’s where you deal, or propose to do so.
Mary and Katherine.—We are very sorry for you; but your first duty is to obey your parents. Take each some permanent address and in course of time a correspondence may meet with no opposition. You are both minors only.
Nell.—We give a notice of your “Invalid Home” at 10, Terrace Road, Buxton, Derbyshire. The terms for board and lodging, with nursing, etc., from two to five guineas a week. When visitors need only rest and change of air, the terms are two and a half guineas, or three and a half when two persons share the same room.