SCOTCH LASSIE.—Your very gratifying letter deserves our warm acknowledgments. The wishes you express for us we heartily return on your behalf. MAYFLOWER (Halifax).—By some accident your flower has fallen out of your letter, and we regret our inability to enlighten you upon it. GLASGOW LASSIE.—Sponge the leaves of the plant with tobacco-juice. We think that will free it from the vermin. DOLLY R.—1. Your verses have more merit than the majority sent to us. We could not promise their insertion, and in any case they were not certified according to our rule. 2. Read our article on the care of the hair, and consult our indexes for answers given on the same subject. RAGGED ROBIN.—You should procure an old almanack of the year 1857 for the information you require; likewise one for 1860. RALPH ROISTER DOISTER.—The House of Parliament is spoken of as a whole, not as separate individuals. Thus you say “the House is,” “the House was,” not “the House are,” nor “the House were.” See “The Handbook of the English Tongue,” by Dr. Angus. TALL GIRL.—Provided that your intimacy with this man and the fact of his alluding to your eventual marriage be known to your parents and approved of, the next time he makes such an allusion, ask him about the wishes of his own family in respect to it, and say that you could not consent to any clandestine engagement; on your own part all was open and satisfactory, and you required that all should be equally so on his. An introduction to his parents should be arranged for without any further delay, and they and your own parents should have an interview together to settle all business matters on behalf of yourself and any future family. POP.—We could not say that to dye the hair is _wrong_; it is unwise and unbecoming. Some people’s hair turns grey in separate streaks and patches, and has a magpie effect, which forms some excuse for temporary dyeing. But it is a very silly, vain thing for a young girl to dye her eyebrows, especially as the attempt at deception of such a kind is so complete a failure. That no one knows your secret is a mere delusion. Your “no ones” must be remarkably “blind buzzards.” GUMPOT had better send her dress to a dyer’s, as she has made such a failure herself. Home-dyeing is usually so. WEE-WO.—It is perfectly inadmissible to pick any description of bones in the fingers in any polite society. It is a dirty habit, which obtains amongst third or fourth class foreigners. Possibly you might see an old and decrepid person or invalid of the upper circles of society breaking through all acknowledged rules of good breeding when in the privacy of home, and do many little things which they would certainly not have done in former times. They take a special licence, as it were, in view of the infirmities of health or age; but no such liberty could be accorded to younger or stronger persons.