The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 364, December 18, 1886Various
General
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 364, December 18, 1886
Various
Children's literature -- Periodicals
YOUNG ANTIQUARY.—The word “cromleac” is a compound of two Irish
words—viz, _crom_, “to adore,” or “worship,” and _leac_, “a stone.”
_Crom_ was likewise one of the Irish names of the supreme God. These
ancient remains are therefore very clearly those of altars or places of
worship. You would learn all that is known of them by reading Higgins’
rare work on the round towers, etc., in the British Museum.
WORK.
DUCHESS.—To tan a tennis net, soak it in boiled oil, and let it dry
under cover, hung up in the air. Your writing is too full of flourishes.
YOUNG MOTHER, HELEN C.—Get a shilling manual with knitting and crochet
patterns. Our space cannot be occupied by them.
FLORENCE GOBBLER.—We thank you for your communication about hat
cleaning.
COURTS.—Clothing for Ceylon should consist of what we here call summer
clothing—white and pale-coloured cambrics, tussore and Surah silks,
very thin cashmere, silk gauze webs for undervests, etc. Go to an
Indian outfitter’s, and you will be shown the materials which are the
most suitable.
T. A. and C. M.—The best dress for tricycle-riding is a tailor-made
short habit, or tight short jacket, and a plain narrow cloth skirt,
without any trimmings, festooning, and draping.
C. C.—Table centres are much used for dinner parties, but not of
gathered up plush. They are made of straight pieces of silk, German
canvas, or satin sheeting, ornmented with an appliqué of plaited straw,
or plush edged with fine cord or tinsel.
MISCELLANEOUS.
MAUD.—Go to the police office and inform the inspector of your trouble
and the cruel treatment to which you are subjected, and he will take
you to the proper quarters, where you may obtain a separation and
an allowance. Do nothing rashly and nothing wrong, be your trials
and provocations what they may. What you suggested to us would be
very wrong indeed, and we think and hope you must have done so under
great excitement. If by word or act you thoughtlessly gave cause for
jealousy, you might not obtain the separation and allowance, to which
otherwise you could lay just claim. Pray God to guide you and preserve
you from evil.
BLUSH ROSE.—_Requiescat in pace_ means “Rest in peace.”
LOTTA.—Try to live much in prayer during each day while at your
business, or in little intervals of leisure. The responsibility of
either turning to God and accepting or “neglecting so great salvation”
lies on you. You are not a mere puppet, but a reasonable being, and
have been given to distinguish between good and evil. “Ye _will_ not
come unto Me,” not “Ye _shall_ not come.” “Why will ye die?” etc. Do
not let anyone deceive you with the idea that you have no free will.
God does not unjustly “gather where He does not strew.” He had already
given the one pound to the idle servant, and thus supplied the means
for trading, or would not have expected any return. May He guide you
aright.
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