The herald., 1896-01-28
PE RFuM ES

Sweet, fresh odors appeal to all refined
women, and to TIE lover OF frarapce a
Whit of fine perfume is as rejuVenating as
is a strain Of enchanting mraic I, tho ear 5f
a musician" eaid the wor.an who always
looks and smells like a rcse. "Of course
those who cry down the use of per-
fumes are are thinking Of the practice car
ried to excess, but nobody who is anybody
would make the objectionable mistake Of
drenching their garments Or permeatinS
their apartments with the suffocating musk,
patchouli and other utterly vulgar and OBJ
noxious odors. AS long as the goddess
Beauty approves of perfumes and fresh
odors they will be found upon every dainty
toilet table.
"Have you ever felt soft kerchief of
old linen dabbled in lavender to be the
only thing that would soothe the ache of a
weared brain? So many times my head
throbbing from an overstrain, demands just
this attention. Nothing but lavender ap-
peals to me at this crisis. but am tickle
enough at some other time to give any
water rather than lavender the preference.
A rare verbena l cherish as / would dear
friend. 1t has helped me over so many of
the days ruts. Are they not deep at times,
regular pitfalls that entrap the divinest
| temper"
81 have a perfume trick for my frocks
that is, l flatter myself, delightful. Last
! .
I trained up into big bush a rose geranium,
the sweetest leafiet think that grows
when fall came l stripped it Of its
leaves and these used to carpet a bodice
box. Thoroughly dried, had only to squeeze
them into powder to scent my waists with
the rarest and subtlest Of perfumes. Some
Of the leaves I scattered through my rose
| jar.
''This is, by the way, beauty. 1t is
blue and white, as most everything I care
for in china is. 1t stands on my chiffonier,
so sweet and always so ready to scatter
| fragrance throughout the room whenever
its cover is lifted.
| 81 never need perfumes so much as when
I am tired. This is why they are to be
counted along with my other beauty recipes.
A French writer puts it, Perfumes are to
women what dew is to flowers
eyes, perfumes are the very breath of
| flowers, at least the perfumes that are
worth cultivating. I would wait forever
and day rather than buy cheap quality
Of sweetness. A perfumed toilet luxury is
the one thing which you cannot economize
in without becoming thoroughly disgusted.
| "Let us drift back to the days of the
ancients who made the use of perfumes
religious duty, also using them on ac-
count Of their hygienic properties. Cloth
ing apartments and persons were perfumed.
They even introduced them into drink and
| food. Tradition tells us that they were
burnt over the cradle Of the newly-born in
FAINT.
"Charlemagne caused the walls of his
palace to be washed with perfumes. Plants
Of verbena were grown in the courtyard of
| every palace in Rome on account Of their
life-giving qualities, and the victors at the
public games were crowned with verbena
in the temple of Strenna, the goddess of
| strength.
"Iistory speaks of the cloud of sweet
incense that assembled daily from the temple
| Of Aphrodite. 1t was so great that it could
] be seen for miles around. How lovely it
would be to dwell in the midst of a people
| in these days as devoted to delicious odors
I am only consoled by the thought that we
women are daily becoming moro in love
with personal fragrance.
| $50 heartily do I dislike unpleasant
smells that would like to wrap about me,
when obliged to rub against the great un-
washed, cloak of Spanish leather, such as
England's fastidious Queen Elizabeth wore.
1t is said that this garment was worth a
kings ransom, and can we'll believe it, if
this perfume oddity cost as much then ais it
does now, being about 81 the square inch.
SIT is only after thoroughly testing the
efficacy of perfumes as rest cures that one
becomes welded to this fascinating medi-
cine. Nothing. is more refreshing to the
brain worker than the smell of spices.
Nothing calms down a set of ruf1ed
nerves like an aromatic bath.
Nothing will soothe the ache at the
base of the brain like a massage of laven-
der water.
Nothing gives a woman a better taste
of real luxury than a facial bath of diluted
eau de cologne, and as a skin tightener it
cannot be excelled.
! "And these are my commandments:
81 always keep my atomizer filled with
some subtle perfume. 1 have as many
| sachets of Florentine orrfs as l have cubby
holes to tuck them in.
'I never come home from downtown
tramp that l do not utilize my perfume
jugs to drive away the fatigue from my
brain and the dust from my throat, my
neck, my face.
81 have learned how much pleasure can
be extracted from the perfume lamp that
throws out such enhancing odors.
II still declare my Japanese lily the
sweetest of Oriental scents and the Japanese
taper is allowed nook in my den.
"To live in an atmosphere of healthful
fragrance compels me to exercise denial in
other ways but 1 never complain, for I
feel fully compensated by the many delights
that are mine all the year through