ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2087, 22 February 1894, Page 46

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Violet. -(1) AH hair restorers have cantharides as their active principle, the other substances being merely fill ups. Any chemist will make up a recipe for you of which cantharides is the basis, but whether it will do you any good or not is a different thing. Falling hair is not as a rule due to a local cause, but either to an inherited tendency or indifferent health. (2) The following preparation is recommended : Sulpho carbolate of zinc, 2 parts ; distilled glycerine, 25 parts ; rose water, 25 parts ; scented alcohol, 5 parts. To be applied twice daily for from half an hour to an hour, and then washed off with cold water. Another mixture which is said to be very efficacious is composed of 3 grains of borax dissolved in 5 drachms each of rose water and orange flower water. (3) To reduce a high colour in the face, swallow the beaten-up white of an egg occasionally. Daisy.— Your voice being weak is the best possible reason why you should continue to sing; but you must not sing on any wrong method. With a proper method of voice production nothing but good physical results can follow. With a bad teacher of singing your voice and health can both be easily spoiled. One way— not a musical one — of strengthening your voice is to keep your body in a thoroughly healthy and well-nourished condition. Calfsfoot. — The reason your jelly sticks to the mould is because you perhaps do not soak the mould in cold water first. Some people oil their moulds, but I prefer the cold water. Materfamilias.— l quite agree with you that it is not right to give children fantastic names, because it often subjects them to annoyance in after life. It is satisfactory, from the child's point of view, that the idea of christening him Habbakuk Cicero was abandoned. Pleased as you are now with the change, you will probably be far more gratified when the lad grows up.