ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2111, 9 August 1894, Page 46

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Tn Nahwai. — I do not know if you want tableaux with a song. If so, "Three old maids of Lee," "Tit for tat," and "No, sir," make good ones, some one singing the song- and a different tablei v representing each verse. Then any fairy tale like " Cinderella and the little glass slipper" makes a good one, Cinderella sitting in tatters surrounded by her three sisters, and a tiny fairy fitting on the shoe. " Where are you going to, my pretty maid'" also makes a good one, and "The i-leeping princess" an effective one, the princess just rousing from her 100 years' sleep with a look of astonishment and wonder pictured on her countenance, and several maidens grouped round the couch. Then, anything to do with gipsies makes a pretty scene— a group of gipsies w ith some touches of bright red about their costumes sitting round a camp fire composed of a. tripod and some flame-coloured paper, giving the appearance of a fire ; or a group of gipsies playing

cards and smoking pipes are pretty pictures. I hope you may be able to make something of this. Ido not know very many myself, and it is too late to try to find out from anyone else. A. B. C — (1) The price of Saundor's Oriental Depilatory is 2s (id. It is obtainable at any chemist's. (2) I doubt very much whether it will effectually remove hair, but have had no experience myself. (3) Try a solution of perchloride of iron painted on the moles once daily. If that fails put two drops of creosote with a tablespoonful of water, mix in a bottle, and apply night and morning. D. A. B. C— (1) A description of a few pretty costumes for gentlemen at a fancy dress ball would run into more space than I can spare. There are however many to select from which any good tailor would be able to fix up for you. A courtier of Elizabeth's time or of either of the Charles's or of any of the French kings, of a century back would be pleasing. Then there is David Garrick, or a Spanish courtier, or a matador, or a British admiral, or a king or jack of cards, or a chess character ; but the list is so long that it is needless to enumerate more. (2) I do not know that an Irish gentleman would lie

dressed differently to any other gentleman. Night School.— The technical classes would have been the very thing, but I am afraid it is rather late in the session now. You might make inquiries from the conductors. The building is in Great King street, near St. Andrew street. Failing this, your only plan is to arrange with, one of the teachers in a district school to give them a lesson t\\ o or three nights a week, as there are at present no private night schools in Dunedin. A "Wanted" in the Daily Times would be sure to procure for you the address of

some one willing to give the desired instruction. Despondent.— Because you are dissatisfied with your surroundings, it by no means follows that you are justified in secluding yourself from all society in the manner you describe. Such a course will tend only to make you more morbid and misanthropic than you'already are. Try to lind some more congenial companions.