Any remedy is doubtful; many of those commonly used are dangerous. The safest plan is as follows:-The hairs should be perseveringly plucked up by the roots, and the skin, having been washed twice a-day with warm soft water, without soap, should be treated with the following wash, commonly called milk of roses. - Beat four ounces of sweet almonds in a mortar, and add half an ounce of white sugar during the process; reduce the whole to a paste by pounding; then add, in small quantities at a time, eight ounces of rose water. The emulsion thus formed, should be strained through a fine cloth, and the residue again pounded, while the strained fluid should be bottled in a large stopped vial. To the pasty mass in the mortar add half an ounce of sugar, and eight ounces of rose water, and strain again. This process must be repeated three times. To the thirty-two ounces of fluid, add twenty grains of the bichloride of mercury, dissolved in two ounces of alcohol, and shake the mixture for five minutes. The fluid should be applied with a towel, immediately after washing, and the skin gently rubbed with a dry cloth till perfectly dry. Wilson, in his work on Healthy Skin, writes as follows: -" Substances are sold by the perfumers called depilatories, which are represented as having the power of removing hair. But the hair is not destroyed by these means; the root and that part of the shaft implanted within the skin still remain, and are ready to shoot up with increased vigour as soon as the depilatory is withdrawn. The effect of the depilatory is the same, in this respect, as that of a razor, and the latter is, unquestionably, the better remedy. It must not, however, bo imagined that depilatories are negative remedies, and that, if they do no permanent good, they are, at least, harmless; that is not the fact, they are violent irritants, and require to be used with the utmost caution. After all, the safest depilatory is a pair of tweezers and patience."