Hello all. These answers to Correspondents G.O.P. are from The Girl's wn - January 1887. Forwarded from the Surrey List. Donna > > DIE JUNGE MAUS - Although you have attained to the patriarchal age > of twenty-one, and your bones have only just become hard, we see no > objection to your learning to pain. There are works on the subject you name > in French as well as English. Write to the publisher, Mr. Tarn. Ours is the > editorial department. > > EMILY KAIGHIN - A milking-stool is round in the seat, about ten inches in > diameter, and has three wooden legs sloping outwards. People use it more as > a means for the practice of their artistic ideas than as a restful appliance > > > A.M.B. - to Acquire the art of painting on glass or china, you might be > taken as an apprentice at various firms, such as that of Mr. Cameron, 69, > Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square W.; or the Messrs. Powell of the > Whitefriars Glass Company, Whitefriars Street, E.C. This company receives > ladies, who work in a separate room for six hours daily and four on > Saturdays. The Messrs. Simpson and Messrs. Mortlock likewise employ ladies. > The average earnings are from £60 to £70 per annum for the lower branches of > art, and as much as £100 for the higher. > > WOULD-BE PROFESSIONAL - Certainly, a livelihood could be made out of wood > engraving, but then you should have more than one qualification for to. > Practical Skill, persevering industry, good sight, a firm, steady, yet > delicate touch, and natural artistic taste. The work has the advantage of > being home work, and needs little outlay - a good set of tools, and the > boxwood blocks purchased as required. A skilled engraver can earn from £3 > upwards a week. If you study at the South London Technical Art School, 122 > and 124 Kennington Park Road, you will have £3 to pay per annum for fees, > half-yearly and in advance. When you have acquired the art, illustrate some > popular work or picture initial letters for articles, and little end > sketches for the same, and take then to a publisher as specimens. You might > obtain advice at the central office of the City and Guilds of London > Institute, Gresham College London E.C. the director and secretary is Philip > Magnus, Esq. > > YOUNG INQURIER - Yes, there is such a thing as a "singing flame," and it is > not like a singing kettle nor a windy gaspipe, and it is as great a wonder > as the fabulous "singing tree," had that been real. A very delicate jet of > flame, introduced through a small pipe into a narrow glass tube of a foot > long, will respond to the singing of any note, if set in tune to it. > Professor Tyndall says, "With a little practice, one is able to command a > flame to sing and to stop singing, while it strictly obeys the injunction. > When the proper pitch has been ascertained the experiment is sure to succeed > and from a distance of twenty or thirty feet, the flame when sung to is > caused to sing responsively. If it do not respond, it is because it has not > been spoken to in the proper tone; but a note of somewhat higher pitch > causes it to stretch its tongue and sing vigorously. > > ZEARN - A butler has care of the wine cellar, decants the wine, and serves > it at table. He places the chief dish on the table, or carves it at the side > table, and his place is behind his master's chair, while the footman (if > one) stands behind his mistress. The butler also stands behind the footman > when the latter opens the hall door to visitors. The servant, improperly > called a butler, who holds a single-handed place combines the duties of both > butler and footman, with the exception of the care of the wine cellar, > unless in exceptional cases of special trust. > > > > > >