St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-22
DIMPlED DARLINGS.
How One Must Be Perfumed
If One Would Be Ad-
nired.
doors Vary in Fashion With
the Changing Sea-
son.
Why Should Mrs. Stanley Be
So Very Much Dis
gruntled?
Sunday the Day for the Lit
erati OF New York
City.

II you are true woman and are ike
all other true women. you adore mems
alteration. You can't help it. 1t is as
much part of you as is the love of
color, the liking for sweet sounds OF the
taste for sweets. You have no special
rhyme nor reason for thus wanting to be
liked, but it is as much a part of you as
any other instinct that you own.
Let me tell you little trick that all
the willy nineteenth century maidens
are learning. 1t is this: Men are like
dogs, they wOrship-they positively
worship in and bow down before an in
cense of sweet odOrs. 1t has a fascina-
ton for them. subtle, unnamable, half
unconscious, yet alluring, powerful
and mighty. There are a few
people whose skins seem TO exclude ma
turaily this sweet SAVIOR, who are of
themselves absolutely fragrant with a
scented loneliness that fairly intOXi-
Gates. And for these gifted beings it
remains only to complete the WORK that
nature has begun by choosing dainty
perfume with which to impregnate the
clothing.
Tie common run of everyday mortals
can hope at best only TO be fresh and
clean smelling. unless they resort TO
artificial means 10 produce the eXnala-
tons that are SO delicious and bewitch-
ing. The first step in the progress is
marked when one learns to mix quaint
ity Of some sweet scented water with
the bath. Then comes the art of ming
ling the same perfume with the cloth
ing and, finally, there is the knack of
carrying lingering associations of it
upon the person in such q manner that
no one can detect the real from the
artificial, nor satchet from natural
freshness.
Just now sandal wood toilet water is
the rage among those whose purse
strings are not drawn too closely. The
beautiful Duchess of Marlborough is
said to have introduced the perfume to
fashionable society early last fall; aud
now perfume makers have laid in a
plenteOus supply of the same. 1t is
quite expensive. however, for a single
bath in its scented depths, even though
1t be greatly diluted, costs the bather
nlgn unto s..
OdOrs change with the seasons. 1t is
no longer the chic thing to have one
particular perfume and stick to it. or,
it. But it is rather the caper to allow
ones perfume to change with the sea
sons. As the spring advances lilac will
be the color most sought. Violet has
been the rage. Soon lilac will be upon
US. 1t IS already waited upon the air
by carly spring toilets.
Then will come the roses and later
the new mown hay. Then back we
come to roses again. then violets and so
on throughout the whole flower chain.
The toilet waters may remain I'M
changed while all the flower extracts
are having their day, for it has been
discovered that the fayorite waters. such
as sandal wood. violet and lilac. mingle
we'll with the heavier perfumes, acting
as tiXatiVe for them.
A few fortunate society people are re-
jOicing in perfume which cannot be
duplicated unless one can capture a
Stanley. This famous scent is called
LllY-Ot-tHeNile and it was brought to
this country by Mrs. Stanley, who had
the perfume extracted from the natural
lilies as plucked upon the borders of
the Nile. As a mark of special favor
Mrs. Stanley has bestowed a bottle
upon a favored mortal here and there.
An enterprising fancy goods dealer has
duplicated the perfume as nearly as
may be, and has dipped sea weed into
its depths until a grass was produced
that was fragrant ana very like the real
Lily-of-the-NiIe. The grass was then
woven into mats and put on sale at q
big price for laying into the bottoms of
bureau drawers and trunks.
Anent Mrs. Stanley, one cannot help
feeling sorry that she should have been
misunderstood by the American people
and the American press. In an unfort-
innate newspaper interview she is said
te have expressed herself as disap-
pointed at her reception into American
society, and TO disapprOve of its ways.
No sooner did the article appear in a
New York paper, than Mrs. Stanley in
dignantly wrote to anothar paper a card
denying all such allegations. And so
the matter hangs. Does or does not
Mrs. Stanley approve OF US? Is it yes
or no?