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KIDD'S OWN JOURNAL. 



tain necessary events are brought about, to 

 accomplish some grand final purpose. As 

 butterflies they exist, flutter away their use- 

 less existence, and die. Their names are 

 " Legion." 



Let us cite one more instance only, of the 

 power of reading a person's mind and cha- 

 racter, by his expressed ideas, and manner of 

 expressing them. We have now been before 

 the Public many years ; and with a very 

 active pen and as active a mind, we have 

 written on almost every popular topiG con- 

 nected with domestic life. This has caused us 

 to be so well known in all parts of the world 

 — that, when people address us, it is for the 

 most part with all the pleasing familiarity of 

 an old friend. They know us. just as well, 

 by that peculiar sympathetic chord and 

 geniality of feeling, to which we have more 

 than once before alluded, as if they had been 

 personally intimate with us for years. 

 Ex. gr. : — 



Not long since, a gentleman residing in 

 the Midland Counties, who had long corre- 

 sponded Avith us by letter, had occasion to 

 come to town. We made an appointment 

 to meet. We had never seen each other. 

 How did we meet ? Just as two old and 

 excellent friends would have met after fifty 

 years living under one roof. Our letters had 

 been duplicates of ourselves. We could 

 have answered for each other with our lives.** 



It is this subtle gift of character and 

 thought-reading, fair ladies, that has caused 

 us to make the comments on your commu- 

 nications, that have suggested the inquiry 

 which we now bring to a close. We hope 

 we have done your bidding satisfactorily. 



We may add that, since we raised Our 

 Journal to its present level, we have had 

 only one cold-hearted Correspondent — 

 Cocoa. That lady, however, has long since 

 seceded from us ; so that we and our readers 

 are now — and, let us fondly hope, ever shall 

 be, — 



" A United happy Family." 



* Since penning this article, we have re- 

 ceived a most pleasing evidence of the truth of 

 our position. We were called upon, two days 

 since, in the exercise of our vocation, to reply 

 to a letter received from a lady residing some 

 forty miles from London. We did so in our usual 

 manner, the writer not being known to us. The 

 result was, that by return of post we received a 

 very kind invitation to visit the family (who are 

 very fond of birds); and to tell them, when 

 amongst them, how best to treat their pets, in the 

 Aviary. As this ' high mark of consideration 

 is not usual, we cannot help believing that 

 the party to whom our letter was addressed, 

 read somewhat of our disposition in the cha- 

 racter of our expressed thoughts. We wish to 

 believe it to be so. — Ed. K. J. 



It hardly needs be a matter for 

 astonishment, that the remarks we made 

 in our " Code of Health," (see p. 209, et seq.) 

 have roused the public to a consideration of 

 the danger they run, in the free use of Lon- 

 don omnibuses, cabs, etc We cannot too 

 strongly urge upon the public, yet a second 

 time, how many, and what dire diseases are 

 disseminated, daily, by the close contact of 

 the sound and healthy with the ailing and 

 diseased. 



Now that the Cholera has arrived amongst 

 us, it has become a duty for us to dwell upon 

 all that may assist in preventing its ravages 

 from spreading, unnecessarily, wider. All 

 who can walk, at this season, should do so ; 

 and no person ought needlessly to incur a 

 risk, the danger arising from which it is too 

 horrible to contemplate. The " cheap" 

 omnibuses are little better than common 

 locomotive pest-houses. If you enter them 

 and escape " scot free," be thankful to 

 Providence ; but say nothing about your 

 own prudence and sagacity. " Penny wis- 

 dom" costs many "pounds," to set such 

 "folly" right. 



We have received a multitude of Com- 

 munications, having reference to our " Code 

 of Health," — in all which the Public are 

 greatly interested, and of which we shall take 

 notice from time to time. For the present — 

 we will content ourselves by printing a letter 

 received from a gentleman, signing himself 

 " A Guardian of the Poor for ten years, and 

 a Header of Our Journal from the com- 

 mencement." 



"Your remarks upon Cabs," says our 

 correspondent," "must not be suffered to 

 pass by unheeded. The Whitechapel Union, 

 the Strand Union, and others, are fully alive 

 to the frightful danger which all persons 

 incur, who are daily in the habit of using 

 cabs ; seeing that the latter are constantly 

 conveying people in the last state of fever, 

 to the respective metropolitan hospitals. 

 Woe be to the next man or woman that enters 

 such cabs ! If the father or mother of a 

 family — of course they not only suffer them- 

 selves, but carry, locked up in their very 

 garments, the insidious disease into the 

 houses where their children live ! Thus are 

 lives daily sacrificed, and, by contagion, 

 mischief follows mischief. These facts are 

 too palpable for any one to attempt to gain- 

 say them. 



" The ' Fever' and ' Small-pox' hospitals, 

 have expressed themselves most desirous of 

 having proper, easy conveyances, provided on 

 purpose for sufferers from these diseases. 

 But sad to say, the Board of Guardians have 

 no power to apply money to such purposes. 

 Yet could this be easily remedied by the 

 Poor Law Board issuing an order to that 

 effect. 



