ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 33

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

B.— lf you feel yourself strong enough to meet him without a renewal of the old feeling. If you can show him how perfectly indifferent you are, go ; but unless you are sure of this do not put yourself into the way of temptation. Hessy asks how to make essence of coffee. Can any of my readers tell her P-She says : Have you any idea how they make essence ,of coffee. I do not mean the adulterated essence you can buy from any grocer, hut the pure essence. We hud a litMe given to us by a confectioner, and we lik»d it very much, but have been able to get no idea how to make it. Mamma thought you might be able t >

tell us the secret. Audko — " The Art of Landscape Painting in Water Colours," by' Thomas Rowbothem, Is, and "A Guide to Orystolfum Painting," Is. by Mrs Gfggs, will, I believe, furnish you with all the information you require. They are to be obtained at Wilkie and O-i.'s, Princes street. Isabel.— l forgot your address till I heard from you again. You are most welcome. Littlb DoRRtT.— If you wish to dress as " Snow," you must, of cdurse, be all in white. Let your dress be of net. made as light and airy as possible in the skirt. Therefore do not have any draperies about it, but have all the skirt material gathered into the waist, something after the style of a columbine in a pantomime. If you can obtain a net with a sort of snow shower of swansdown flakes upon it, all the better ; if not, a white frostlike tinselled net would look lovely, and gleam like hoar-frost. Be sure you do not spoil the effect by having anything in the costume by way of trimmings except swansdown (for snow) and white' tinsel (for hoar-frost), and if you can get snowdrops for your hair and your breast;, wear them. There is, I know, a gold-dust powder to be obtained for sprinkling in the hair, to give it a golden flitter ; if you could get silver-mist to sprinkle well among your hair, it would gleam like hoar-frost, and give a very pretty effect. Your' fan must also be white. Have the neck and sleeves of your dress trimmed with swansdown, to give the appearance of snow having drifted

there. Maky.— Your description of yourself is nob a very flattering one. You cannot do better than follow the directions given to others. I can tell you of nothing better, or" I should do so with pleasure. "Is 30 inches large for a waist ? " No natural size . ia too large for a waist. Nature has modelled each one on a plan of her own, and It is wicked and foolish for any girl to tamper with that plan. One-half the ills that girls suffer come about through plnohing in a Bmall waist. Irene.— The gentleman should be presented to the lady. "If it were here." "If he were coming," is correct. Do not apologise ; it is a pleasure to oblige my readers. No; tell your friends I am not a man. " I am sure you are not very old. I • hope you are pretty ; I think you are." That is very nice of you. Irene. Most ladies are anxious for other ladies to be old and ugly. Thank you very much for all your kind remarks, DoiLT.— Put on your gloves, and rub them well with a piece »f stale bread. Cheese is bad for the digestion if eaten in large quantities. There is a saying that cheese digests everything but itself. A little cheese eaten after a meal ts not bad. A. B. o.— Yes ; I like replying to correspondents. You ask me how to win a girl's affection. You yourself are a girl, and you will love me if I tell you. You say you always try to make yourself agreeable, but fail. I like your question, for I like women who prize the affection of their own sex. To begin with, always be true to your women friends. This is where my sex display much weakness. They receive the confidences of one another, and then betray them. Be self-sacrific-ing, put on one side your own Hkea and opinions, and try— in so far as they are good— to espouse those of the woman whose friendship you wish to g*in Be gentle and patient, and identity yourself with her in her joys and sorrows. Once more I repeat, be true. Never speak behind her back what you would not wish her to hear. Chocolate Cream Drops.— For the cream, boil two cups of white sugar in one-half cup of milk for five minutes. Add one teaspoonful of vanilla, then beat till stiff enough to make into drops. For the chocolate, take three-fourths of a cake of chocolate ; grate and moisten with a spoonful of milk. Steam it over the tea-kettle. Drop the cream when hard, one at a time, into the melted chocolate, using a fork or wire to handle them with. If this be done quickly they will be coated with the chocolate. Pat them on a buttered dish. Ij, Lay the rabbitskin on a smooth board, the fur side undermost, and fasten it down with tacks. Wash it over with a solution of salt ; th°n dissolve 2toz alum in a pint of warm \yater, and moisten the surface with a sponge. Repeat thiß every now and then for three days. When the skin is quite dry roll it loosely the long way, the fur inside, and draw it quickly backwards and forwards through a large smooth ring until it is quite soft.