A SHY GIRL – The only cure for shyness is to be
found in the attainment of self-forgetfulness; and this latter is to be found
in devoting your thoughts and practical attention to others. To wait on them, to please them, to listen to
and learn some good thing from them – their words, manners and appearance – if
engrossing your attention as it should,
would involve that charming self-forgetfulness which, strange as it may appear,
is consistent with a due amount of self-possession. Self-consciousness is an
outcome of personal vanity and desire for admiration; self-possession has to do
with seemly conduct, not vanity.
ELGIN – We should think that all house dogs living
in the rooms should be washed. But it should be done carefully, so that they do
not take cold, and the dog should be well rubbed, and kept warm, or given a
good run afterwards.
AN ANXIOUS ONE – We have quite recently given an
answer on the subject of squinting. If in an infant or very young child, some
benefit may be derived from lightly bandaging the eye that is not affected, so
as to force the other to work, and so bring the contracted muscles into play.
Your second question we fail to understand. Do you mean “snoring”? If so, tie
up your chin at night, and perhaps that may lessen the noise.
MAUDE FERRER’s – verses have some merit, but lack
original thought, and are transcribed in very bad handwriting. The latter she
should try to improve without delay, and if she derive enjoyment herself from writing
the verses, there is no harm done.
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