neral music.

LIZZIE MATTIE CLOVER.--Coals are called "black diamonds" because coals
and diamonds are both carbon.

SINGLE DAHLIA.--You do not name your age. Try St. Mary's Hospital,
Paddington, W. Write to the matron. We could not say whether it would be
against you. The 12th March, 1864, was a Saturday.

HOPEFUL.--Perhaps you need a tonic. Ask a medical man, and take plenty
of exercise and a tepid bath every morning.

LUCY.--From what you say of your being "saucy" to your stepmother, and
that you are slapped "whenever you tell lies," and that you think you
"ought to do as you choose," we see that you have been a spoilt child,
and deserve some sort of correction. You are evidently well and suitably
fed. We greatly disapprove of tight-lacing. If you were good, obedient,
and respectful, you might then venture to say when the maid laced you
in. It is to be regretted that so young a girl should wear any at all.

A BUNCH OF VIOLETS might undertake bookkeeping, or, if she know any
thing of millinery, she might get a little extra work from that. Her pay
in the shop is very small. Everyone should be paid enough to live upon,
and 8s. a week is not enough to live and dress upon.

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