Reader Asking for Brushoff

Dorothy-Ann Chavez of Montebello has always favored Fay’s white scalp-toner hair brushes , but now she can’t find them anyplace. Can you help Chavez get ahead without giving her the brushoff, or is she in danger of getting a real snow job?

Floreen Lateulere of Cypress would like to find someone to show her how to make a dress form by wrapping tape around a person , making a cut up the back of the form and shellacking the tape. (She’ll even settle for an instruction sheet or booklet.) Can you help a-dress this question, or will Lateulere never be in good enough form to be taped for posterity?

Reader-to-Reader Help Line: Because she has gotten used to its features, Mrs. Mason at (714) 840-2510 would like to find a replacement for her Savory roaster, which has not been on the market for decades. Please see to it that Mason will soon be able to cook up a storm the old-fashioned way. . . . Mary at (213) 378-5903 needs the bowl for a discontinued Model K4B KitchenAid mixer ; how about seeing to it that life is soon a bowl of cherries again for Mary.

Note: The Reader-to-Reader Help Line is only for one-time items or for products no longer available in stores. And you must give us written permission to publish your telephone number, so that others may contact you directly.

We’ve had a number of requests for Baby Tendas and Baby Butlers. These items are made in Kansas City and are sold only through independent distributors. In Southern California, contact Shirley or Bob Wallace, (619) 420-2763.

Zafira Berke, who wanted fitted sheets for bunk beds, should soon rest easy. Betty Maidhof of Cathedral City says she ordered such sheets from a JC Penney catalogue and picked them up two days later. And if this doesn’t work, we have an idea that may not be bunk: Leone Cox of Huntington Beach says you can convert any flat sheet into a fitted sheet by tying knots into the corners. What’s more, says Cox, knotted corners don’t tear as easily as fitted corners.

Attention Betty Ellen of Los Angeles, who was after a sandbag litter container that fits over the center bump of a car: Your problem is literally in the bag. Phyllis King says Virgil’s Hardware in Glendale, (818) 242-1104, can help.

For Bud Breul of Thousand Oaks and Robert Mobius of Camarillo, both of whom wanted old-fashioned bells for their Spanish-style homes, we have a source that might ring a bell. Al Jacobs of Burbank says he saw such a bell at Roscoe Hardware, 8165 San Fernando Road, Sun Valley.