re 



to her patients, with complaints 

 van'ing from fractured slcull to 

 " housemaid's knee," used to 

 be, "I've been through it all 

 myself, me dear ! " 



This I felt especially on 

 reading the letter of a Scotch 

 reader of the Woman's Maga- 

 zine, who wrote asking my 

 advice about a group of roses 

 on which she was engaged ; 

 and she expressed so aptly the 

 troubles and trials of a flower- 

 painter that I am taking the 

 liberty of quoting from her 

 letter. She says, " I ?ieverca.n 

 get the exquisite pink of roses 

 .... if I put on the colour 

 too pure, it has a crimson 



effect, and if it is too watery, it is not like it either, not that 

 lovely shell-pink effect." 



I felt like grasping the hand of that lady, had it not 

 entailed such a long stretch of the arm to her far-away 

 northern home ; for I was then engaged in trying faithfully to 



