"POKER," Cholwell House, Temple Cloud, Bristol, wishes to correspond with a French girl aged about eighteen, of good family. She suggests that "they should correct each other's letters."
MISS LILIAN A. J. SLADE, Lawn Villa, Crewkerne, Somerset, would like both a French and German correspondent aged about eighteen.
"ONE WHO IS PUZZLED" wishes to correspond with Miss Florence A. Jeffery (New York). She should write to the address we gave.
MISS VIOLET GOODHART GODFREY, M.L.S., wishes for an American correspondent; she is eighteen next January. Will an American girl (either the one whose request we published on August 6th, or another) write to her at Ivy Hatch, Horsham?
GERTRUDE wishes for a French correspondent.
CLEM wishes to exchange letters with a French, German, or Italian lady.
MISS E. WATKINSON, Wanaka, The Vale, Chelsea, wishes to correspond with a young lady of her own age (twenty-four) in Canada.
IGNORAMUS wishes for a French girl correspondent of seventeen to twenty.
DOROTHY CROSS, Minterne, Cerne, Dorset, and MISS MADELINA PULLIN, The Parsonage Farm, Warminster, Wilts, wish to correspond with French girls aged about fourteen.
"CISSIE," Southend, should send her full name and address.
"A READER OF THE 'G. O. P.,' J. B. ASHFORD," a girl aged seventeen, wishes for either a French or German correspondent, or both. Address, 55, Marlow Road, Anerley, London, S.E.
DOMBEY.--We have not made the experiment ourselves, but we have heard that you may restore a faded photograph by placing it in a saturated solution of bichloride of mercury, leaving it in the bath for a few minutes, and then washing and drying it; of course it must be unmounted. There is another method; but whatever experiment you make should be first tried on one which is of no value to you. For our part, we should prefer to leave the photo in the experienced hands of a professional artist, and we cannot take any responsibility in giving the foregoing recipe.
MARTA.--There is no cruelty attached to the trade in ostrich feathers. The birds are not killed, excepting only at Buenos Ayres, to provide the market with them; nor are they made to suffer from plucking like the poor geese, to supply quill pens. Each plume is cut with a sharp knife close to the skin, and this gives no pain any more than the cutting of our hair. The stumps wither and fall out; or after ten days may be removed. The greatest supply comes from the Cape; but they are also produced in Tripoli, Egypt, and Morocco. But the trade prices for birds has much gone down.