The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-22
PERFUMES AND WASHES.
Some Delightful Compounds Within tn
Reach of Every Housewife.

Some Delightful Compounds Within the
Reach of Every Housewife.
| ALI the sweet odors distilled by dainty
woman in the olden days, the fragrance
OF lavender and rue, the aromatic infu-
sions of Glove pinks and verbena leaves,
! do service on my lady's toilet table of
to-day.
Provence roses and jasmine, lavender
flowers and rose petals, with sprigs of
rosemary, form delightful adjunct to
the summer bath, and here is the
formula for preparing them copied from
the faded script in recipe books that
were old before the girl who studies
them now was born. To pint OF pure
vinegar add half an ounce of lavender
flowers or jasmine, the same quantity
of common red rose petals, the juice of
a lemon, and few sprigs of rosemary.
Infuse for two days in an earthen jar;
then stand the jar in kettle of warm
water for day and filter the contents
through chemists paper. Add sprigs
of thyme or rue, a handful of clover
blossoms if you like their odor, and
sprinkle few drops in the hand basin
or tablespoonful in the bath.
An ounce of Glove pink petals infused
in three-quarters of pint of pure alco-
hol with few verbena leaves is re-
freshing odor for the bath
Then there are the cosmetics of the
kitchen garden to which our grand
mothers pinned their faith before the
evil days Of the complexion specialist
and the dermatologist Sweet cream
from pure milk, infinitely more soothing
than any of the compounds so widely
advertised, is the basis for most of these
emollients The juice of ripe strawber-
ries dropped into thick sweet cream is
gentle cooling remedy for sunburn.
Cucumber juice or melon juice
squeezed into cream and always pre-
pared in an earthen dish with a wooden
spoon or earthen pestle is fatal
enemy to sunburn and all its wicked
works. A handful of parsley thrown
into boiling water is also good anti
dote for sunburn, and some famous
beauties of old used to swear by the
good effects of a raw potato cut in
halves and rubbed on the face at night.
Then there is the rose jar. Every
woman intends to fill her own rose jar,
but somehow never finds a recipe un-
til the season is over.
Remember that rose petals gathered
in the early morning, before the sun
has absorbed their dew and with it half
their sweetness, are more fragrant than
those gathered in the heat of the day.
Toss the leaves lightly in layers, with
salt between, in a large covered glass
dish, adding fresh petals every morn
ing until you have a sufficient quantity.
After they have stood ten days, shaking
them well each morning, they will be
ready for the spices. Two ounces of
whole allspice, slightly crushed; two
ounces of stick cinnamon, broken
coarsely, should be placed in the bot
tom of an ai1-tight fruit jar, the rose
leaves on top, and the whole left with
out opening for six weeks. Then mix
together one ounce each of ground
cloves, allspice, cinnamon, mace and
orris root, two ounces of lavender
flowers, and place in alternate layers
with the roses, over which you pour
one-quarter of pint of good cologne,
and you will have a breath of June
fragrance in your room for years.
When the clover blossoms dry, put
the sweet pompons in paper bags and
hang them in your closets and ward
robes if you would do as the neat old
Prues and Patiences of the old days
would teach you. Scatter sprigs of
thyme and rosemary and lavender in
the drawers of linen, and put real roses
in the lingerie and stationery. The
lavender water so highly esteemed, is
made by putting a little lavender es-
sence in good cognac. There is GER
tain charm and individuality about the
sweet odors thus prepared by the wom-
an who uses them that the perfumers
art does not supply.-N. Y. Sun.