ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1942, 7 February 1889, Page 32

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Buttercup.—(l) Yes; the cucumber and glycerine is good. (2. For ounburn wash your face in buttermilk or milki (3) Boil brau for an hour in a sauce* pan of water, then strain, and in the water boil a handful of rosemary. This is said to take away freckles. (4) Of course it is absurd for a girl of that age to be engaged. (5) Bathe the eyes in rosewafcen (6) Send it back. (7) It is In very bad taste. A Correspondent.-I did reply to you once, and gave you my qpinion, and you only repeat the case. If you cannot forget him, and do not try to, what useis there in. saying any more about ifc ? Lulu.—(l) What do you want thin hands for,? lam sure they are not pretty. (2; I should oonolude that naither of your five lovers know about the other four. You say you don't know how to get rid of them " bothering" you. Arrange the time of the visit from the one at W. with that for the one from T. and the oue from G., and show your replie3 to tho letters ot the one in Melbourne to the other four, and you will find none of them will be much more bother to you. It is the easiest thing in the world for a girl to get rid of unwelcome attentions —only she ha 3to sacrifice her own vanity first. MA.RIH.—Soak them and boil them in' ammonia and aoap and water. Rosa..—Moisten the pattern well with chemical alcohol (spirits of Wine), then lay on the cloth and pass a cold iron over it with pressure. You should have sent a larger piece of the pattern, as some difficulty was experienced in experimenting with the small'piece scut. Beatrice.—To every pound of carrot pulp allow lib sugar, the gra(ed rind of one lemon and the strainod juice of two, six chopped bitter almoiuls, and two tablespoonfiils of brandy. Select young carrots, wash and scrape them, and cut iufco rouni pieces. Put them into a saucepan with sufficient water to covor them; allow ifc to simmer uutil perfectly soft, Mien beat tbe carrots through a sieve. Weigh the pulp and put it with the sugar into a preserving pan, and let them boil for five minutes, stiring and skimming all the time. When cold add the lemon rind aud juice, the almonds and the brand)'. Mix thess well with tile jam, then put it into pots, which must be well covered and kept in a dry place. With the brandy it will remain good for months.