BOREAS.—This year give your chief thoughts to the prevention of chilblains, and save yourself from the trouble and pain of last year’s experiences. Persons subject to chilblains should wear warm woollen stockings. Let the boots be amply large. If you cramp your feet in small boots it is almost impossible to keep them warm. Let the boots have thick soles and be thoroughly watertight. In snowy weather it is a good plan to give your boots a thick coating of dubbing. This spoils their appearance; but it saves the boots, and what is more important, it keeps them dry. Take a warm foot-bath every evening. If these measures fail, and you get chilblains after all, wash them over with spirit and water, or with spirit one part, tincture of benzoin one part, glycerine one part and water ten parts. This will often prevent the chilblains from bursting. If, however, they do burst, wash them in carbolic acid (1 in 60), and then thickly sprinkle powdered boracic acid over them and swathe them in cotton wool. If you have bad broken chilblains, it is a very good plan to remain in bed in a warm room for a day or two, or if you cannot do this, remain with the legs elevated upon a stool. Elevation of the legs prevents the blood from stagnating, thus quickening the circulation and removing the prime cause of chilblains. But, of course, it is not all of us who can afford to give a day or two to this treatment. MISCELLANEOUS. SHUTTLECOCK.—Your writing is unformed; but promises well, as your letters are neatly made, and your note is without blots and erasures. ANXIOUS.—In writing your letter to the Countess of So-and-So, you should begin “Madam ——,” and in your letter should refer to her as “your ladyship.” You would address to her as “The Right Honourable the Countess of So-and-So.” This is the proper form for business letters such as yours. In society you should not say, “your ladyship”; but, once in a way, “my lady,” or speak of her thus to a fellow guest, or one of the family, if an equal. HELENE.—The usual allowance for a girl’s pocket money, out of which she has to supply gloves, stamps and writing-paper, is about eight or ten shillings a month. But the parents’ purse must settle that question. A. B. C.—If accustomed to cooking, dressmaking and housekeeping, why not look for a situation where, in one of these things, you can earn your living. If you have a minister or clergyman whom you know, you might get him to speak to your family; but going to law would be of no service at all to you, and we doubt whether you could recover any wages. A housekeeper’s place would suit you, we think. Be of good cheer, “the darkest cloud has a silver lining,” and we cannot think that _everybody_ means to treat you badly. By your own account, your mother worked for you, when you could not work for yourself.