MARY E. M.—1. Your fawn-coloured gown will look well for winter wear if dyed a rich dark red. Before ordering the dyeing, go to the dyer and ascertain from him whether your material will take the colour you desire satisfactorily, because some pale colours will not do so, and should be seen by an experienced workman. 2. With reference to the training of your voice, the first thing to be done is to effect the cure of your deafness; then take a few lessons from a good teacher—an Italian, if possible. Bad tricks are formed by untaught singers, such as singing through closed teeth, taking notes in a wrong voice, or commencing with the letter “n.” A gentleman we once knew used to distract us by saying, “‘N,’ as it fell upon a day,” etc. AN ELDEST DAUGHTER.—One of the best methods of making use of scraps of cloth is to cut them into pieces the size of a penny, taking a penny as a model, and sew them on, overlapping each other, on a piece of thick canvas for a foundation, for the hearthrug. If you mark out a pattern on this, such as a large diamond in the centre and a small diamond on either side, you can carry them out in colours, making the foundation black. Rub the ivory with whiting, slightly moistened. NINA KASELTI may clean the zephyr woollen shawl with tinsel mixed in it in hot bran. She should rub very gently, just as if washing it in the bran. Flour would answer equally well. A YOUNG MOTHER.—Shilling knitting books are to be obtained at nearly every fancy shop. You can also get the little combinations in Germany ready made without trouble. We have seen them. A POOR COUNTRY LASSIE.—We should think you would be very wise to learn millinery, as it is a very nice, pleasant business, and you would not suffer from fatigue. MISCELLANEOUS. UNHAPPY CIS.—The subject of drunkenness seems a very hopeless one. Of course, people can cure themselves with God’s help and their own determination. We should advise your mother to seek legal advice and get protection for herself and her children. Such a step might bring him to reason. In America we hear that drunkards who wish to cure themselves are put on a vegetable diet. You have our warmest sympathy. KITTEN should use a drying wash for her hair. The best is composed of a quart of hot water, in which a piece of carbonate of soda is dissolved and a piece of lump ammonia, each the size of a large walnut. Use the water warm, and dry the hair well. IOLANTHE.—The possession of a Queen Anne farthing is, alas! not equivalent to that of Miss Miggs’s annual gold mine, nor will Iolanthe be “found in tea and sugar” by securing a purchaser for it! Perhaps some friend might be induced to give a halfpenny for it in exchange.