VIOLET VERNON.--We have heard that the homoeopathists have a special
cure for such little excrescences.
TOM-TIT writes very well. The 2nd of January, 1865, was a Monday.
NYMPHIA ALLA.--Disease or weakness of the nervous system is often,
unhappily, an inheritance from our parents. Not that they may be nervous
themselves, but that their course of life--late hours, over-taxed brain,
poor living, fast living, drink, or bad constitution, etc., result, one
or more, in bequeathing a wretched inheritance of weak nerves, not
positive disease, to their children. Live generously, go to bed early,
be much in the open air, and take a tonic if required, and by a doctor's
advice.
ALONE.--We sympathise with you, and approve of the sentiments you
express in verse; but the latter is not even correct in composition,
quite apart from its lack of any ideality, which is inseparable from
true poetry. No sentence should be divided (excepting as a joke in a
burlesque piece) between two lines thus--
"But 'what' He was preparing _for
Him_ was not on earth; it was where"
B. W. complains of "taking fits of laughter into her head." Evidently,
she has apartments to let in that repository. In any case, it is well
that she should find so much to entertain her and feel so bright and
happy.
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