A MOTHERLESS LASS.—Although all drugs are injurious when taken regularly, if the reason why they are taken is persistent, it is necessary to take them regularly. It is taking drugs without reason which is so dangerous, or taking them to combat a complaint which is cured. Aloes is the best habitual laxative we possess, and in most cases it is the safest to employ, but in your case we do not advise you to continue it, but to take a teaspoonful of liquorice powder instead. For your anæmia we advise bone-marrow tabloids or the peptonate of iron. The tabloids are often exceedingly useful, but they must be taken with care. Begin by taking one tabloid crushed up in milk twice a day, after food. After a week take two tabloids twice a day. Do not exceed this amount. If headache, dizziness, or trembling occurs, drop the tabloids for a week, then take to them again gradually. Most of your troubles are due to anæmia, but this again is connected with what you tell us in the latter part of your letter. Unfortunately we cannot enter at length into the subject. We can only encourage you to persevere and never to give up the struggle, however often you may fail. You cannot expect to have good health unless you improve your way of living. As regards the medical part of the question, you should take plenty of healthy exercise and seek the companionship of others. Above all, be careful of what you read. Frivolous literature is a terrible evil which must be shunned without ceasing. And above all, do not despair; we are all weak and fail sometimes, but if we do our best and strive to do better, we may in time overcome our failings. PRIMROSE.—There are certain soaps which “won’t wash clothes,” and there are others which will not wash faces—or rather, will not wash them without injury. Girls should always be careful not to use coarse or strong soaps for toilet use. A soap made to scrub floors or soiled clothes is not suitable to wash a face. For floors, etc., you want a strong, coarse soap. But the human face is a delicate article, and should be cleaned with soap made with great care, with no coarse or biting principles to spoil the complexion. All soaps sold for the toilet, except patent ones, are made of refined materials carefully selected and blended; and it is these soaps, and these only, which should be used for toilet purposes. Patent soaps should never be used, not because they are impure, but because their preparation is secret, and nobody knows from what they are made. A HOTHOUSE ROSE.—Read the answer to “Poor Humpback.” Tuberculosis of the spine is distinctly a curable disease, though usually some deformity, more or less slight, is left after the disease has ceased. The treatment is chiefly a question of absolute rest. ANXIOUS ONE.—We cannot tell you what causes the pain in your left side without any information about it. It is probably indigestion. ANOTHER ANXIOUS ONE.—You are very wrong to go about untreated.