CARMEN would like to correspond with a Spanish girl of good family, about her own age (18). Address: Maria Ricciardi, Madonna dell’ Aiuto, 28, Naples, Italy. MISS MARIE DURAZZO, Piazza Meridiana 2, Genoa, Italy, will send an illustrated post-card to any reader of THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER who will send her one. L. K. B. (not proficient in French) desires to correspond with a young French lady, and would correct her English letters. EXCELSIOR is very anxious to study mathematics, Latin, and French by correspondence. She would help in all English subjects in return, and adds also, “perhaps some lonely girl in a land across the sea might be pleased to have letters telling of our great England, sent regularly.” We quote a sentence or two from her letter to the Editor: “THE GIRL’S OWN has been my very own paper since 1890; and however lonely or tired I may feel, it needs but the new number of THE GIRL’S OWN to put new life into me. If we could but gather round you, what a babel there would be! Girls _can_ talk, and what a great deal we should wish to say!” SUNSHINE wishes to correspond in English with an Irish, Scotch, or French girl of 15 or 16. Address: Miss L. Handson, 84, Cartergate, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire. MISS M. THEYNE, Wiedendamm 2, Riga, Russia, a Russian girl aged 22, wishes to correspond with “LAURA” (March). We thank her for her pleasant letter. MEDICAL. E. MESSENT.—We have over and over again said that we know of no really efficient and safe way of permanently removing superfluous hairs from the face. All chemical epilators are either injurious to the skin, or are else useless; indeed, most of them are both. It is obvious that no chemical depilatory can be safe to use, for to prevent the growth of hair it must destroy the hair root, and as the hair root is placed deeply in the skin, the chemical has got to deeply destroy the skin before it can commence its work. We know of many epilators which will destroy the skin of the face, but not one of them can be trusted even to injure the hair roots! Then as regards electrolysis, we know it is frequently used for destroying hairs, but it is not one case in a hundred that this treatment can benefit. It can permanently remove half-a-dozen hairs or so, but as to destroying a beard or moustache, why you would have to have generation after generation of electrolysers at work before all the hair was destroyed. And even where electrolysis is practised, a permanent cure is exceedingly uncommon, and the expense of this treatment is very considerable. But if you cannot permanently remove unwelcome hairs, you can with ease destroy them temporarily either by pulling them out or by cutting them down. The latter is by far the best way of removing superfluous hairs, and is the only way which is absolutely safe.