The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-16

der, all the giIlifowers. carnations and
pinks possible. or In want of these ewo
close covered for a week. opening the jar
and giving the contents stir when II -
desired TO scent the room. three -galion
jar is a desirable size for ming. me ivo or
ish little rose jars sold, holding less tran
a pint. are made for rose paste or otner
heavily scented Oriental CONNECTIONS Ia
In August gather sweet clover and balsarn
Ar tips. The whole plant of sweet clover ~
fragrant the dead stalks In winter seeming
in closets last sweet for year, ano cusn-
ions of it in room are very pleasant .,I Inc
fui plant which should be put to use, and
would be in any country but our own IN.
thrifty one In August and september All
the garden herbs are mt TOT cutting, swss,
basil and delicate woodmints. not pepper
mint, but lemonscented and camphory things:
which seem TO like TO lie in ones hand and
have their mild odor coaxed out OF them
its tiny white roses OF sweet, comforting
smell. which the dry blossoms keep for sea-
sons. Like rosemary. its ordor Is one or
suggestion and remembrance. and ii has
all the good qualities which commonly go
with grateful scent, for not content with
beauty of color and perfume cur best now
ers pride themselves on their medical prop
critics. like beauties Of the town, turned
sick nurses.
bayberry and cedar. Juniper and other ever
green berries one likes to keep TO throw
few on the winter fire and fill the room
smell fresh and spicy in the hail, and a
plant in tub is beautiful decoration at
"a time taking gin, s up Sarefrgg efore
and shading and giving it plenty OF water.
II 1t were foreign plant; win rs r,en zen
would make much of it. How stupidity use
dulls US to the nearest beauty!
FIR-FILLED PILLOWS.
Everybody likes the pillows of balsam fir
tips. but it may be remembered that these
are better fresh every year, though they
retain scent longer. Pillows Of rose leaves
are pleasant in idea long after the smell
is out of them, and are sleep producing
when fresh. In Tuns and Egypt they used
to fill slken mattresses with rose leaves
for luxurious, black-beareded. scimetar-
nosed ralers, and in Persia even now the
bath is strewn with rose leaves. insidously
soothing. Homelier. yet grateful lux
STy is the dPo erdss pan is really
of the strongest nervines: whether slipped
in tea or laid under restless head. A hop
pillow is nothing beside balm pilloM,
whose scent puts babies to sleep and wiles
away headaches. Lemon geranium and
verbena leaves may go toward hlling this
pillow, for the lemon scent is always re-
freshing. And let those who cannot find
this Frenchy herb in reach try a lavender
pillow for those who have sleepless nights,
II,
herb a cushion of lemon leaves and fresh
hops is very pleasant and soporific, less mt
for any but the sick room.
So much is to be desired in sachet powders
that delicate gifts may put themselves 10
use in improving them. Every man who
Keeps or nd seenf noWders Whereas II re
quires a sense of smell exceptional as that
of a tea faster. who judges by the odor as
must be gradually. nicely trained. TO dis
cover the composition of perfumeS-a syn
thetic sense it may be called. Most of the
new perfumes are jasmine oil or hydrocyan-
apple scents dealing in the latter while the
fancy named bottles yield cloying breath
tse oid stsndard lose IDENTITY
when they lose their first makers. When a
man dies his perfumes die with him, for the
the instinct which compounded them.
Women of taste should excel in making per-
fumes. the only trouble being difficulty of
persuading druggists to sell really choice
Ingredients. The trash what is offered
in the name of rose water, with the
strength lost by keeping, or manufactured
powdered magnesia and filtering distilled
water through it, or the water from picked
roses of the Levant., The Uttered rose
water may be nice-they use about seven
drops of altar for making pint-and for
bathing face and eyes 1t is better than the
distilled. because less astringent: But 1t
triply stilled from fresh roses, the heavy.
oily water, with a hOney-cOlored tinge, and
a honeyed tincture in its sweetness. often
an aromatic spirit blending in its soft
breath. The choicest gift, 1 ever had. to
my taste, was several bottles of home rose
water, sent by Maryland lady, who dis
titled it from her own fields of roses. after
a recipe used in the family for generations.
I never had the least good of it, as it was
left with a friend for safe keeping. and
the servant girl drank it up! But the per-
fume of that right royal present taught
me what rosewater really is, and left me
skeptical Of most that goes by the name
since. SHIRLEY DARE.