Electrolysis is tedious, demands patience on the part of the operator and patient, and a good light. From thirty to sixty hairs may be removed at a sitting, every few days. But not every hair removed is destroyed; sometimes the hair follicle or root is not reached by the needle, and the hair will eventually grow again, though most of the hairs removed are destroyed for keeps. It takes a 11 hour to remove forty hairs; so it is obviously tedious. There is not any pain worth mentioning, but only slight smarting from the die and the very light galvanic current employed.

The cause or causes or superfluous hair are unknown, and it is idle to indulge in speculation about it. Leave the hair alone, shave it off, dissolve it off with a depilatory chemical, or have it removed by electrolysis.

Mean Thing I have doctored with several doctors, but failed to get any relief. My tongue is coated. I have gas and a general run-down condition. What shall I do? A. C. S.

Answer. I dissolve the partnership with the several doctors and consult one of them as a patient. My dear friend, I should gladly help you if I could, but a coated tongue, gas, and a H. D. might mean a hundred different troubles, so how can I advise you by mail? Your physician must examine you. 