The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-17
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such Jewels" and she walked home in
a brown study.
a few weeks later she suddely can
ceiled all her engagements; a distant
cousin in China had died, she said, and
as he had, most Unexpectedly. left her
a liberal legacy to buy herself a hand
some present, she felt the least she
could do would be TO wear black for
few weeks. This she did; and when she
returned to the world a beautiful dog
collar" consisting of four strings of
pearls, showed that she had lost no
time in spending the legacy in the way
stipulated.
How perfectly lovely Mrs. Stryver's
pearls are." said one of her acquaint-
ances to the aforementioned friend at
the opera shortly afterward. And how
fortunate she was to have that legacy
left to her!"
"Ye-es!" answered the latter. Il
wonderland then she stopped.
A pretty French actress has an
rounced that she spends fully $500
year on perfumery alone. She laughs
at the idea that woman can have
any individuality or charm without
her distinctive fragrance, heralding
her presence, lingering in her hair, in
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her notepaper. Her own favorite odor
is made for her by a French chemist
from a secret formula and permeats
her personality. 1t is repeated in every
essence, and sachet and soap and
powder; for the bath, the skin and
even in her nail polish it asserts itself
delicately, but Enthusiastically.
But the French women, says the
New York Sun, were always true to
their perfumes, even during the period
of revolution against their use which
followed the vulgar vogue of musk and
patchouli, twenty-five years ago. All
the great French women of history had
their perfumes made by secret methods
that persisted with them. Great beau
ties of other nations were Identified
with individual scents some of them
having the natural roses from their
gardens crushed daily and made into
waters for the toilet.
Anne of Austria had an odd. fancy
for vanilla as scent. La Pompadour
liked jasmine, Recamiers secret
spice died with her. The favorites of
the court Of Henry III perfected a
perfume called neroli. The Romans,
the Greeks and Egyptians reveled in
perfumes. The East is still redolent of
the old perfumes of balsams and woods
of various sorts.
America began delicately with laven-
ders and Rosemary. but grew gradual
ly to more cheaply manufactured
scents. About twenty-five years ago
cheap bottled extracts and cheaper
and more hideous pomatums and soaps
flooded the markets. The stronger the
odor the more valuable seemed to be
the idea at this time, and people who
should have had better instructive
tastes fell into the fashion and car
ried the fumes of musk and later on
of patchouli with them.
But their strength failed to keep the
fashion in vogue. There was a vio-
lent reaction against perfume and
scented soaps. To this day many of
the older fashioned have retained this
assumption of horror at the use of per-
fume- The odor of a cheap scented
soap is undoubtedly most objection
able. But soap suggesting the deli
cate fragrance of violets or of old
leather has nothing unpleasant in it,
but on the contrary it is delightful in
these days when our hardwood floors
must receive their daily oiling and
smell thereof, in spite of all precau-
tons, and when, in our apartment
house life, the orders of cooking are
well-nigh unavoidable.
The prejudice against perfumes has
died a natural death and nowadays
fair woman aims to have the dstinc-
lively French fragrance to her be-
lcngings. Many modern women con-
coct their own perfumes at home
While others have them put up by the
chemists. These are usually the con-
verts from the anti-perfume fad who
are consoling themselves with the idea
that the homemade varieties have
more true refinement than those of the
shops. But the manufacturers are CIV
ing US to-day the most wonderful con-
coctions of exquisite delicacy, refresh
ing and stimulating in their use.
Musk and patchouli and frangipanni
have been replaced by violet in rarest
combinations, by orchid suggestions,
by Peau d'Espagne, sandalwood ard
cedar. Egyptian powders have been
experimental with until they have
taken on a modern delicacy and the
making of perfumery from flowers is
not now confined to great queens, for
many of the modern manufacturers
scorn to produce any but the natural
doors. 1t is the truth that turks in
the modern perfume like that which
is the core of all real art that makes
it perfect.
Moderation. of course, marks the use
of these rare and expensive odors, the
faint perfume which. in our crowded
cars and stages, our heated shops,
and streets filled with gaseous malarial
doors, is as genuinely refreshing as
the breath of a flower. Extracts are
used most sparingly and never on the
pocket handkerchief. which must take
its delicate fragrance not from the tub
of our wretched American laundresses
as the anti-perfume cranks would in
sist. but from the sachet bag in which
it is placed with it's companions on
coming from the laundry maid.
Sachets in fact, are the acceSted
fashion for modern and up-to-date per-
tuning methods. They are made in
all forms and shapes and sizes for use
in everything worn by woman. Gloves,
hats, furs, laces, lingerie, shoes are all
placed in their sachet bags, and for
the gowns there are delicate little pads
sewn in the skirt and bodice. These
pads are made with cotton batting,
very thin, plentifully spread with
sachet powder.
The effect of the sachet is entirely
different from that of the old sprinkled
extracts. Toilet waters are more in
favor than the latter and the face and
hands are bathed in them in prefer
ence to alcohol. They are added to
the bath and give it tonic properties
as we'll as making II delightfully."- re-
freshing.
In fact, there are no more OF the
cheap and injurious preparations on
the market that used 10 be so danger
aus for the skin and the eyes. Those
who make up their lavender and rose
water al home may. perhaps, save a
mite OF expense, but Il hardly repays
the time that must be given 10 this
sort OF work. which requires the dell