The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1010, May 6, 1899Various
General
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 1010, May 6, 1899
Various
Children's literature -- Periodicals
TOMEL.—We have made inquiries, and can hear of nowhere in London where
the Norwegian ornaments can be obtained. We can only suggest that you
should write to the Norwegian Club, 11, Charing Cross—the Rev. T. B.
Willson, Hon. Sec.—and ask for the address of a reliable jeweller in
Norway, to whom you could write. Mr. Willson knows Norway well, and is
the author of a guide-book which is well known and approved.
SUBSCRIBER.—Suites are not in fashion just now, as everyone seems to
prefer to select their own shapes for chairs, and every chair, large or
small, is different one from another. Small tables and a Chesterfield
sofa seem to complete the furniture of a modern drawing-room, to which
you must add pictures, growing palms and other plants, and pretty
ornaments.
A LONELY LOVER.—You might try to learn a concertina or an accordion.
The latter would be the easiest to play. The name Mildred is from the
Anglo-Saxon, _mild_ and _red_, or mild in counsel.
INQUIRER.—We should think you had better get one of the new
Encyclopædias, which will answer all the questions on the very varied
subjects in which you are interested. There are several published at
moderate prices.
E. WAHALL.—Swinton is in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 10½ miles
from Sheffield. Here the Rockingham porcelain manufactory was
established, so called after the Marquis of Rockingham, on whose
estate it was established—not in the village of that name, which is in
Northamptonshire, on the river Welland.
IGNORAMUS.—The Mormons owe their origin to one Joseph Smith, who, in
1830, established himself at Utah. He pretended that in his boyhood
he had visions, in which he was told that all existing religions were
false; and later on, that at a place indicated he would find gold
tablets, and inscribed with the inspired instructions of the ancient
prophets, buried in the ground. Also a pair of spectacles, a sword,
and a breastplate. The inscriptions were in the reformed Egyptian
language. Eleven persons were said to have seen these things besides
Smith, which were all, he said, returned to the Angel, and were seen no
more. Afterwards, he and his coadjutor, Cowdery (a schoolmaster), had
a vision of St. John the Baptist, who consecrated them priests of the
Order of Aaron, and commanded them to baptise each other, after which
the “Holy Ghost fell on them, together with the spirit of prophecy.”
Smith was succeeded by Brigham Young, Smith having been murdered by
Indians who broke into the prison where he was confined.
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