Bottled fruits occasionally become poisoned by the use of preservatives such as boracic or salicylic acid. M. H. B.--Yours is a history which has been only too common after influenza. You would probably derive benefit from a change of air. We should advise a short stay at the north or east coast of Kent. Margate would perhaps be too severe for you, but we think that you could scarcely do better than go to Folkestone or its neighbourhood. The medicine that you are taking is about as good as any other for your trouble. Eat well. A. E. ROBINSON.--It is of great importance to keep false teeth scrupulously clean, and it is the lack of this precaution which is the cause of most of the troubles due to false teeth. The artificial palate is perhaps more difficult to keep clean when made of vulcanite than when made of metal, but otherwise one substance is as good as the other. You should never sleep with your false teeth in your mouth. We have lately heard of a lady who was suffocated from her false teeth having slipped out of place during sleep. False teeth should be taken out every evening and placed in water, or, better still, solution of boracic acid, through the night. They should be carefully cleaned every night. Some people leave their false teeth in their mouths for weeks at a time. Particles of food get between the false palate and the roof of the mouth, decompose, and cause very many unpleasant, and sometimes serious results. BEATTIE.--1. We cannot tell you the cause of your complaint. It is probably a slight error of development.--2. Certainly there is no reason why you should not marry a man who has got a stiff hip from rheumatism. DAISY.--See the answer to "Maud" in the May Part of THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER. IVY.--1. Yes: scurf on the head is seborrhœa. You should wash your head every week in borax and warm water, and apply the sulphur ointment afterwards to the roots of the hair only. This condition of seborrhœa is most difficult to eradicate. As a rule, the best that can be done by treatment is to keep it in check and prevent it from spreading to the face.--2. Cocaine will remove most of the pain of having a tooth extracted. STUDY AND STUDIO. SUNFLOWER.--We have read your letter and verses with interest. The poem beginning, "There is no Death," suffers from a lack of attention to the laws of metre. It is begun in ten-syllable lines, which occasionally become twelve- and even fourteen-syllable lines. This is quite inadmissible. The other two poems are better. The metre and the rhymes are correct. There is some poetic feeling in "Twilight," and we like your description of the "Friend" you long to have:-- "Gentle, and strong, and wise, Loving, and tender and true, Loyal to serve and to save, Steadfast to dare and to do." We shall be pleased to hear from you again.