THE PLAN OF OPERATIONS.
As we have seen, the incomes of our three friends amounted altogether
to £270 a year. In the winter months the accounts for the rent of the
rooms, coal, gas, candles, and similar expenses came to £1 3s. 6d. each
week, as the following accounts set forth--
£ s. d.
Rent of rooms 0 12 0
Abigail's wages 0 2 6
Gas-stove 0 1 0
Oil for lamp 0 0 4
Candles (½ lb. at 6d. a lb.) 0 0 3
Coals for sitting-room 0 1 10
Washing-bills (personal) 0 3 0
Washing-bills (house linen) 0 2 7
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£1 3 6
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For about a month in the year the three were away, Marion in her own
home in Nottinghamshire, and the Orlingburys staying with different
friends and relations. Ada Orlingbury had only three weeks holiday
in the summer, and not quite a week at Christmas, but was busy with
her type-writing all the rest of the year. Jane had a far longer rest
from her cookery classes than Ada from her work, and Marion had longer
holidays than either. When all were away they paid rent for their
rooms just the same, but, of course, had no other household expenses.
Marion was a very economical housekeeper and understood how to keep
down expenses as low as possible, whilst still having everything
comfortable. We must admit that very acceptable "helps" arrived
sometimes from their friends in the country. It might be a large box
of eggs, or a "hand" of pork, or perhaps a bag of apples, but this did
not happen very often. Once a week they had a dinner without meat, but
this was no hardship to any of the three, for all liked vegetables,
fruit and fish, and this arrangement made things much easier for the
housekeeper.
Marion had quite grasped the fact that the best way to keep down the
bills was to economise with the butcher's bill, for meat is the most
expensive item of all. They had soup very often, as nice soup can be
made for so little. They indulged largely in savoury dishes of macaroni
and rice, some recipes for which we shall give in the course of this
account of the girl-chums and their doings.
Once a week, on Wednesday evenings, they went to a choral society
to which they belonged, and, as they had to start at seven o'clock,
instead of sitting down to dinner at that hour, they found it more
convenient to have a sort of "high tea" on that evening and to have hot
milk and cake or porridge when they came back.
We must not forget to say that on alternate mornings they had porridge
for breakfast, which Marion cooked the day before in a double saucepan,
whilst she was seeing to her other cookery and which was warmed up in
the morning. They generally supplemented this with scones, which Jane,
with her superior knowledge of food-stuffs, pronounced to be very
nourishing. On Sundays they dined at two o'clock. For this meal they
often had meat pie, as that could be made the day before and heated,
or eaten cold, as they preferred, or they chose something that did not
take long to cook, such as cutlets.
Marion found her path made easy by some of the tradesmen with whom
she dealt, who were very accommodating to her wishes, and never
in the least resented her subtle knowledge of ways and means, as
they undoubtedly did in the case of some other of their customers'
housekeepers of many years' standing and very much Marion's seniors in
years! Mr. Calvesfoot, the butcher, for instance, let her have fat for
rendering down at 2d. a pound, and so she was able to have a constant
supply of excellent dripping for frying and for pastry at the slightest
possible cost. She started her stock with four pounds at the beginning,
and by straining it each time after using it, and by rendering down one
and a half pounds of fresh fat each week and adding it to the stock,
she always had plenty of good dripping. To do this she cut up the fat
and put it in a saucepan with a little water, and then let it cook
until the water had boiled away and the fat had melted, leaving nothing
but crisp little brown bits; the liquid fat was strained off and the
crisp brown bits saved for Abigail, by whom they were esteemed a great
luxury. To others Mr. Calvesfoot was adamant, and declined to part with
the fat under double the sum, but Marion (who was asked the extra price
at first) refused to take "No" for an answer, and asked him calmly why
he could not let her have it cheaply as well as the soap-boilers whose
carts she had seen waiting before his shop early in the morning, and
who she knew only gave him a penny a pound for it.
At the exhibition of so much knowledge he was dumb, and fell in with
her views with much meekness, as no doubt he would have done for his
other customers if they had not allowed themselves to be beaten so
weakly.
She always provided a hot dinner as she found that, with proper
management, it cost no more than a cold one, and it was infinitely more
appreciated. She had learnt just how much was required of any given
thing, and so there was no waste. The little that was left over from
their dinner was always worked into the next day's meals, or else was
finished up by Abigail on the alternate days when she had dinner at
"The Rowans."
Here we have the list of a week's dinners in February.
On Sunday they had a light supper at half-past eight, consisting of
cocoa, boiled eggs, and bread and butter.
Saturday and Sunday were the only days on which they were at home to
tea.
The breakfast for the week, on non-porridge mornings, consisted of
brawn, which Marion had made a fortnight before, when they had had half
a pig's face sent them from the country. The brawn was excellently
flavoured.
DINNERS FOR THE WEEK.
_Sunday._
Beef and Kidney Pie.
Baked Potatoes.
Pineapple in Syrup.
Rice Mould.
_Monday._
Cabbage Soup.
Boiled Beef and Kidney Pudding.
Boiled Potatoes.
Cabbage.
Jam Tarts.
_Tuesday._
Irish Stew.
Apple Pie.
_Wednesday._ (High Tea Night.)
Stuffed Herrings.
Scones.
Cocoa.
_Thursday._
Potato Soup.
Curried Fish.
Ginger Pudding.
_Friday._
Stewed Rabbit and Forcemeat Balls.
Brussels Sprouts.
Baked Potatoes.
Swiss Roll.
_Saturday._
Brown Soup.
Boiled Potatoes.
Boiled Artichokes.
Tapioca Pudding.
The beef pie which they had on Sunday and the beef pudding of Monday
were both made out of a pound and a quarter of beef skirt, which,
costing only ninepence a pound, makes just as good gravy as rump steak,
and if cooked long enough is very tender. The half that was used for
the pie was cut into rather thin pieces, and half the kidney was cut
in dice; then all was dipped in pepper, flour, and salt, and put into
a saucepan to stew gently for an hour before it was used for the pie.
Marion always did this now, as she had noticed that if the meat was put
raw into the pie, the pastry got overcooked before the meat was done.
It was not necessary to do this with the pudding, however, as that
could be boiled for a very long while--in fact, was all the better for
long boiling.
For the pastry for the pie she used half a pound of flour mixed with a
good teaspoonful of baking powder, and three ounces of dripping rubbed
in lightly. Her hands seldom got hot, so she made delicious pastry,
and as she was careful not to pour in too much water, when mixing the
flour and dripping to a dough, it was not tough. She mixed in the water
quickly and lightly, using a knife to begin the mixing and finishing
with her hands, keeping it as cool as possible while it was being
made, and being very careful not to squeeze it, or work it about more
than was absolutely necessary. The pastry was rolled out quickly and
lightly, and the pie was baked in a good hot oven, and it was voted a
great success. The pineapple needed no cooking, being the contents of
a sixpenny tin turned on to a glass dish. The ground rice mould was
made with a pint of milk brought gently to the boil with two ounces of
castor sugar and a bay leaf to flavour, two ounces of ground rice were
mixed smoothly with a little cold milk while this was happening, and
stirred into the milk on the fire; the mixture was stirred and cooked
for a few minutes and the bay leaf taken out, then it was poured into a
wetted mould to be turned out when cold.
On Monday Marion made the quarter of a large cabbage do for the soup,
and the rest she cooked as a vegetable. The cabbage for the soup was
cut up small and put into boiling water for three minutes to take away
the disagreeable smell; then it was drained and put with a small onion
sliced, a bunch of herbs, a small piece of butter, a teaspoonful of
salt, and simmered for twenty minutes; half a pint of warm milk was
added, and a beaten-up egg strained in. The soup was then stirred over
the fire for a few minutes to cook the egg, but was on no account
allowed to boil for fear of its curdling, as happened, alas! on one
occasion when Marion left her handmaid Abigail to watch it for a minute
or two.
All stews were done in a brown earthenware stewing jar that was one of
her most cherished possessions. While the stew within it was cooking,
the jar stood in a dripping tin containing water in the oven; by this
means the contents of the jar never boiled, though the water outside it
might do so, and if the stew cooked long enough it was always perfectly
tender. As the heat of the fire did not hurt the look of the jar,
the stews were always served in it, which arrangement had the double
advantage of saving time and keeping the dish hot. The Irish stew of
Tuesday was made with one and a half pounds of scrag of mutton, three
pounds of potatoes, and half a pound of onions, all sliced and cooked
gently for two hours. There was a good deal over, so it was used on
Thursday, with the addition of a few more potatoes, half a pint of
water, a gill of milk, and a piece of celery, to make a delicious
potato soup. The milk was added last after the soup had been rubbed
through a sieve and re-heated. For the apple pie a pound of apples of a
good cooking sort were used, and these turned a beautiful amber colour
in the pie. They had such a good flavour of their own that no cloves
were needed to assist them.
The herrings on Wednesday were boned, spread with veal stuffing, rolled
up, brushed with milk and rolled in brown crumbs, then packed in a
greased dripping tin and baked for twenty-five minutes. They made a
substantial meal; on the next day there were one and a half one over,
which were sliced up and put into the curried fish. The scones were
mixed with milk that was slightly sour, as they are always lightest
when so made.
The forcemeat balls that went with the rabbit on Friday were made of
veal stuffing, fried separately, and served on a hot plate instead
of going in the jar with the rabbit. The Swiss roll was made in the
morning before the rabbit was put to cook. The brown soup of Saturday
was made by frying lightly some pieces of carrot, onion, turnip and
celery in a little dripping, and then pouring in the gravy from the
rabbit, and adding any pieces or bones that were left. The lid was
put on, and the soup simmered an hour and a half; then it was rubbed
through a sieve, returned to the fire, brought to the boil, and
thickened with an ounce of flour mixed with a little cold gravy.
When Marion looked through her accounts (which she kept scrupulously)
on Saturday, she found that her food expenses had been as follows:--
£ s. d.
1¼ lbs. beef skirt 0 1 0
½ lb. ox kidney 0 0 5
½ lb. mutton suet 0 0 3
1½ lbs. scrag of mutton 0 0 10½
1 lb. fat for rendering 0 0 2
1¼ lbs. buttock steak 0 1 3
Rabbit 0 1 5
6 herrings 0 0 6
8 lbs. potatoes 0 0 8
1 lb. sprouts 0 0 2
1 lb. artichokes 0 0 1
1 large cabbage 0 0 2
Tin cocoa 0 0 6
1 lb. cod (tail end) for curry 0 0 5
12 eggs 0 1 0
Milk 0 1 9
1½ lbs. fresh butter at 1s. 4d. 0 2 0
1 lb. brown sugar 0 0 1¾
1 lb. loaf sugar 0 0 2
½ lb. bacon (to cook with rabbit) 0 0 4
Flavouring vegetables 0 0 2
½ lb. tin mixed coffee and chicory 0 0 9
¼ lb. tea 0 0 6
8 loaves at 3¾d. 0 2 6
1 quartern household flour 0 0 5½
Sundries (ground rice for mould, etc.) 0 0 6
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£0 18 1¾
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With this account of her expenditure she was perfectly content. Her aim
was to keep the money spent on food below ten shillings a head, and
this week she was well within the margin.
(_To be continued._)
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
MEDICAL.
ESTHER.--Feed the child on milk diluted with an equal quantity of
barley-water. Do not give her any patent foods, as these are one of the
most fertile causes of rickets. A little meat gravy or a very small
amount of chicken or hashed mutton might be given to her occasionally
with advantage. A teaspoonful of rich cream twice a day is useful as a
preventive from rickets.
TORQUAY.--Why concern yourself with troubles which may never occur?
How can you tell that you will have such anxieties as you suggest?
The chances are very much against it. Again, the measures you mention
are exceedingly prejudicial to your own health, for many of the most
intractable cases of hysteria can be traced to this cause.
A LOVER OF BEAUTY.--You should try either brilliantine, cantharidine
pomade, or a hair-wash made of rosemary to make your hair soft and
wavy. You must not, however, be disappointed if you find that no
preparation will produce the kind of hair that you desire.
NELLIE.--You cannot expect a physician to know what is the matter with
you if you make a point of hiding your symptoms. We can only tell you
that your trouble is probably either due to diabetes or to some local
ailment. For the rest you must go to your doctor and tell him all about
yourself. Your trouble may be one which a very little simple treatment
may readily cure, but you may be suffering from an extremely serious
disease, which you are allowing to run its course unheeded from a silly
conventionalism. If you do not like to tell your own doctor about
yourself, go to a stranger in a distant part. But pray get someone to
treat you!
A WORKING WOMAN.--It is never easy to be sure as to the cause of
noises in the head. So many unhealthy conditions may produce this
most distressing symptom that it is quite a long work to exclude all
possible causes save one, and so to come to a definite conclusion.
You ask us whether the noises that trouble you proceed from the ears
or head, but there is another possible cause of the trouble that you
have not considered; that cause is anæmia. This is very commonly
indeed associated with noises in the head, usually surging, rushing,
or hissing noises. Moreover, the noises are always more pronounced
after exertion or fatigue. This agrees well with your own account,
and we therefore think that as your general health improves, as it
will do with proper treatment, the noises will gradually decrease
and eventually disappear. The fact that your hearing is not at all
affected, is a strong point against the noises being due to disease
of the auditory nerve. It is not, however, an absolutely certain test
of the condition of the nerve. When noises in the head are due to
brain disease, they are almost invariably accompanied with severe and
frequent, if not constant, headaches. The treatment that we advise is
for you to attend to the general laws of health and diet. As regards
drugs we think that you would derive most benefit from tabloids of
bone marrow. These can be obtained from any chemist. The dose is one
tabloid crushed up in a little milk three times a day after meals.
They must be taken with great caution at first; on the appearance of
trembling, headaches or profuse perspiration, the use of the tabloids
should be discontinued for three days. If taken with care, this remedy
is exceedingly efficacious and is perfectly safe.
LITTLE VILLAGE DOCTOR.--Your friend is suffering from one of those
nondescript diseases which are so common, so difficult to clearly
understand or explain, and so very refractory to treatment. We are
not all born with the same amount of vital energy, and some of these
indefinite illnesses which last for so long a time may simply mean that
the suffering individual has not been endowed with sufficient life. We
can only, therefore, give you some general information which may or
may not prove of value to your friend. In THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER many
articles have appeared on the subject of healthy living; and during the
present year we hope to publish several more papers on the chief laws
of health. It is obedience to these laws which is of utmost value in
cases such as that of your friend. It is doubtful whether any drugs are
likely to do her good. Those drugs which partake more of the nature of
food may be useful. Cod-liver oil, maltine, thick cream, or possibly
bone marrow, might be worth a trial.
JESSIE.--Probably you are suffering from flat-foot, and your doctor
wished to take an impression of your foot to decide what form of boot
you should wear. For the treatment of flat-foot is chiefly a question
of well-made boots which bear some resemblance to the human foot. You
will find an account of flat-foot in an article on "clothing" which
appeared in last year's GIRL'S OWN PAPER. Puffiness of the ankle is
very common in kidney disease; but as the ankles may swell from very
many causes, of which kidney trouble is one of the least common, it
would be rather rash to conclude that your kidneys were affected
because your ankles were weak and swelled slightly.
STUDY AND STUDIO.
A ROSE FLOWER.--We are sorry we cannot praise the verses you send. What
is the meaning of
"If all His love I fully earned,
He'd guard me every hour"?
No one can be said to "fully earn" all the love of God. "Saw" and "fro"
do not rhyme, and "lightning" is not spelt with an "e."
ASPHODEL.--"Memory" is the better of your two poems. You have much to
learn as to rhythm and metre. Also you should keep your verbs (in one
statement) in the same tense. "The spring is breaking" and "The earth
looked forth" do not correspond. It is difficult to draw comparisons,
but we are afraid your verses are not quite up to the average of those
sent us, although we have read much worse attempts.
SMILLOC.--We should advise you to write to the Secretary of the Welsh
Male Choir, enclosing a stamp for reply. We do not know the song sung
at High Wycombe. If you cannot trace the Welsh Choir to any address,
write to the Secretary of the Flower Show, High Wycombe, asking where
you should direct your inquiry.
MONTROSE.--The most beautiful volume of sacred poetry with which we are
acquainted is _Verses_, by Christina G. Rossetti (Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge). It contains 225 pages, and the price is (about)
2s. 6d. There are many miscellaneous collections, the price of which
you can learn from any bookseller, e.g., _The Book of Praise_, compiled
by Sir Roundell Palmer; _Lyra Anglicana_, _Apostolica_, _Germanica_,
_Christiana_.
C. A. M.--There are a great many classes for correspondence. We have
mentioned in this column that R. G. P., Fairview, Four Oaks, Sutton
Coldfield, gives correspondence lessons at 1s. per lesson. Particulars
of instruction by correspondence can be obtained from the Secretary,
Association for the Education of Women, Clarendon Building, Oxford.
There are also the Queen Margaret Correspondence Classes; apply Hon.
Secretary, 31, Lansdowne Crescent, Glasgow; and the St. George's
Correspondence Classes; apply to the Secretary, 5, Melville Street,
Edinburgh. We applaud your wish to improve your arithmetic, and hope
you will try in one of these directions.
ALEXANDRA CARAGEORGIADES (Cyprus).--Thank you for your pleasant little
letter. The _Girls' Outdoor Book_ is illustrated. If your friend Miss
Mitchell reads this, she will know you send your love to her.
WYMONDHAMITE.--Many thanks for your suggestions. We have already
received answers concerning "The Doctor's Fee," but are grateful to
you for your kind letter. Your answer and inquiry appear in "Our Open
Letter Box."
OUR OPEN LETTER-BOX.
VIOLET wishes to know the author of two verses beginning,
"It is in loving, not in being loved,"
"The heart is blest."
We cannot find them among Dr. Bonar's "Hymns of Faith and Hope," though
Violet suggests they are by him.
BRIAR ROSE asks for a book of recitations containing "The Little Hero"
and "The Sioux Chief's Daughter."
WE have two answers to "LENNOX." One is from "C. J. HAMILTON," who
complains of her misquotation, and gives George Macdonald's lines as
follows:--
"Alas! how easily things go wrong.
A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,
And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.
Alas! how hardly things go right.
'Tis hard to watch on a summer's night,
For the sigh will come, and the kiss will stay,
And a summer night is a winter day."
"BERTHA" sends us "the whole of the poem" as quoted in a book entitled
_The Everyday of Life_, by the Rev. J. R. Miller, D.D. To the verses
already transcribed, which we ourselves recognise as the only ones from
the pen of George Macdonald, she also adds that quoted by "Lennox" and
another.
"And yet how easily things go right,
If the sigh and the kiss of the winter's night
Come deep from the soul in the stronger ray
That is born in the light of the winter's day.
And things can never go badly wrong
If the heart be true and the love be strong;
For the mist, if it comes, and the weeping rain
Will be changed by the love into sunshine again."
It sounds to us as if these two verses had been added by some
over-zealous friend, but we may be mistaken.
"NINETTE" (Budapesth) asks for an English book containing "The Song of
the Shirt" (Thomas Hood), and also "Somebody's Darling."
ASSANDUNE asks for a recitation, "The Tired Mother."
WE have also two answers to "Ethel Rimmer." The poem by Christina
Rossetti beginning
"When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me,"
is set to music by Malcolm Lawson, and appeared in the _Strand Musical
Magazine_ for 1895, vol. 1 (June number); suitable for mezzo-soprano;
so says CLARA J. NICHOLSON. "WYMONDHAMITE" says that the lines have
been set by Arthur Somervell, and published by J. and J. Hopkinson, 34,
Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, W., price 2s. nett. "Wymondhamite"
asks, on her own account, for six lines by Helen Marion Burnside,
enshrining the following ideas in a birthday wish: "She commends her
friend to the love of God because her own is too weak and too finite,
and winds up with wishing her as much earthly prosperity as is good for
her."
IRISH SHAMROCK inquires for a cheap song-book in which she could find
the song, without music, "Kate O'Shane," by Luiley; "Ellen O'Leary,"
and "Dermot Astore." "Cast thy bread upon the waters," we may inform
her, is not from a hymn, but is a line from the Bible: Ecclesiastes xi. 1.
The whole passage has been set to music.
SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER informs "Kate" that there is a poem on Kate Barlass
called "The King's Tragedy," by Christina Rossetti. Guided by this
hint, we have ascertained that "The King's Tragedy" is by Dante Gabriel
(not Christina) Rossetti, and is to be found in the collected edition
of his poems. The Queen called out to Kate, "Bar the door, lass," and
she thus obtained her name. Perhaps this poem may be the one required.
MISCELLANEOUS.
J. L.--If it be merely weakness of the eyes, bathing frequently in a
weak solution of vinegar and cold water will be found strengthening;
a change of employment, writing being less trying than reading, and
knitting and coarse crochet-work than plain sewing. When the eyes
are tired and ache, change your occupation at once; set the house or
drawers or books in order; take a turn in the garden, or a walk out of
doors, and look at distant objects. Read our "New Doctor's" Medical
answers on these subjects.
CHINESE WHITE.--We regret we have not space to give you the long list
of printers and publishers for which you ask.
MISS M. CARLEY.--Married or unmarried you may wear a mourning ring
wherever you find it will fit the best.
A. B. C.--For getting rid of the pest of little red ants that infest
cupboards, we have recommended the use of a solution of alum, but we
have just been advised to employ it hot. The right proportions are
as follows:--Take two pounds of alum, dissolve it in two or three
quarts of boiling water, and let it stand on the fire until the alum
has disappeared; then apply it with a brush, while nearly boiling,
to every joint and crevice in your closets, wooden bedsteads, pantry
shelves, and also to those in the floor, and of the skirting boards and
wainscotes. When you have your ceilings whitewashed, add plenty of alum
to the lime, and when your house paint is washed, use cool alum water,
which is obnoxious to cockroaches. Sugar barrels and boxes may be kept
free from ants by the simple plan of drawing a wide chalk band round
the edge of the receptacle, taking care that the band be unbroken, or
else the vermin will cross over the broken line.
STAR-GAZER.--The largest telescope, at present existing, is that at the
Lick Observatory, having an object glass of thirty-six inches diameter.
Next follows that at Pulkova, Russia, having a glass of thirty inches.
The next below that is at the University of Virginia, of twenty-six
inches. Harvard possesses the fourth in size, with a twenty-four inch
glass; and the fifth is that of Princeton College. That of Yerkes, the
latest of the celebrated productions at Cambridge, Mass., is rated at
forty inches in diameter. But all the American Telescopes, even the
last-named, are eclipsed by the forthcoming monster of Paris, exceeding
even the Lick by eleven inches. It will be 186 feet in length, and on
view, ready for use, in 1900, at the proposed _Exposition_. The image
is to be received on a level mirror, 75 inches in diameter.
DAISY.--Do not be misled by the advertisements, offering high wages
to female emigrants, as domestic servants at Johannesburg and the
Transvaal. A government "caution" has been issued.
ROBERT.--You seem to be getting on very well with your class of boys,
and to manage them satisfactorily. We can only suggest that you should
select a book for them occasionally, out of which you might read, such
as Dr. Smiles' _Self-Help_, and also that you relate to them something
about brave and noble men like General Gordon and many others. A boys'
magazine will sometimes help you to think of topics, such as the _Boy's
Own Paper_. You might get a penny number now and then.
CURIOSITY.--Why not take _Cottage Gardening_, published weekly by
Cassell & Co., price ½d. There are plenty of small manuals which you
will find advertised in it.
JOHN DORY.--There will be another eclipse of the moon this year, which
will be total, and visible at Greenwich on December 27th; but of the
sun, the two that are due will be invisible at Greenwich. There have
been three each, of the sun and moon, this year. The first record of
a solar eclipse is to be found in Chinese history, and took place
about 2169 B.C., in the reign of Shingkang, when the unfortunate
astronomers, Ho and Hi, were put to death for not having predicted
the phenomenon. The famous eclipse, predicted by Thales of Miletus,
and which (according to Herodotus) interrupted the battle between the
Medes and Lydians, occurred on May, 28th, 585 B.C.; Sir G. B. Airy is
our authority for the date; as also for those of Xerxes, B.C. 478, and
Agathocles, B.C. 310. These are the earliest of which we have authentic
records.
A NEW READER.--The mirror glass used in painting is silver-plated
and bevelled. The latter makes the work look richer. The glass need
not be new, but it must be thoroughly cleaned, either with spirits
of turpentine and a chamois leather, or covered with wet whiting and
rubbed away with the leather when dry. Then polish well, and leave
quite clear. The tracing on the mirror is done from a design with red
carbonised paper, and then retraced with a reed pen and lithographic
ink to fix it for painting. The colours used are the ordinary tube
colours employed in oil painting.
FLUFFIE and BUSY BEE.--Recipes for rock, a cream toffee, will be found
in vol. xvii., page 695, and also in vol. xviii.
PRISCILLA.--At a double wedding the two brides go up the aisle with
their father, or brother if no father be living, one on each arm. The
bridesmaids follow, the elder sisters going first. The bridegrooms may
wear white or pale grey gloves.
OUR PUZZLE POEMS.
FOREIGN AWARDS.
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_Prize Winners (Half-a-Guinea Each)._
Helen Shilstone, Ellangowan, Fontabelle, Barbados.
Mrs. Talbot Smith, Adelaide, S. Australia.
_Very Highly Commended._
J. W. W. Hogan (Penang), Laura O'Sullivan (Rangoon).
_Highly Commended._
Mrs. G. Marrett (Hyderabad).
_Honourable Mention._
M. Browne (Oudh), Elsie V. Davies (Australia), Clara J. Hardy
(Australia), Lily Harman (Benares), Elizabeth Lang (France), Maud C.
Ogilvie (Deccan), Hilda D'Rozario (Bangalore).
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_Very Highly Commended._
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Nellie M. Daft (Portugal), E. Violet Davies (Australia), E. H.
Glass (Oudh), Mrs. Hardy, Clara J. Hardy (Australia), Caroline Hunt
(Tasmania), M. R. Laurie (Barbados), Maud C. Ogilvie, K. Prout
(Deccan), E. Nina Reid (New Zealand), Mrs. Sprigg (Cape Colony).
_Honourable Mention._
Ethel Beven (Ceylon), Winifred Bizzey (Canada), Gertrude Burden (S.
Australia), Milicent Clark (S. Australia), Lillian Dobson (Australia),
Maggie Douglas (N. Zealand), John A. FitzMaurice (Australia),
"Gertrude" (Transvaal), Lily Harman (Benares), L. Hill (Argentine
Republic), Miss Horne (N. Zealand), Margie C. Lewis (Johannesburg),
J. McDougal (Jamaica), Mrs. Daisy McFedries (N. Zealand), Mrs. S. F.
Moore (W. Australia), Mrs. E. E. Murray (Australia), Violet Sellers
(Portugal), J. S. Summers (Bombay), Mrs. H. L. Thompson (St. Vincent,
W. I.), Herbert Traill (Bombay), Fred. Walker (W. Australia).
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