The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-12
BY KATE MASTERSON.

have great success with this form of
powder, the best sorts come in the lars
and boxes stamped with the name Of
the foreign maker. for the domestic
sachets are not so good.
In starting in with the sachets one
must have enough powder. For whne
1t may seem expensive it is really
| economy, for it will cause the bags to
have more lasting qualities Sheet
cotton batting is used for filling and
between thin layers of this, the powder
| is sprinkled. In a day or two il will
impregnate the cotton, coming through
the gay silk bag in which it rests and
| everything within reach of it will gain
its fragrance.
For the drawers of a dressing table
the sachet is usually made to rest as
| a lining beneath the contents of the
drawer. The same idea must be car
| RED out for every drawer where cloth
| ing rests, even where fans, trinkets
| and lingerie are kept.
1t is the best plan to make I'D these
| drawer sachets very plainly. While
bows and lace look very pretty on the
| new scent bag they muss easily and
| become untidy looking through han
ding.
For closets where gowns and coats
may hang the sachet is large enough
| to reach across the entire space from
one end hook to the other, covering
the gowns completely. This has
proved a much better plan than the
old idea of placing sachet bags in the
gowns themselves. In. this way the
| nearness of the body makes the sachet
! too much in evidence.
For shoes the sachets are used when
the boots and slippers are not in wear,
They are club-shaped little bags Joined
by silken tapes which thus, keep the
| two shoes of each pair together
Some Stiffen the shoe Sachets with
curled hair with an idea that thew
| may substitute for the wooden trees
but If they cannot do so it is better
to have one pair of trees upon which
/ the shoes removed from the feet may
be first placed to be removed for the
sachet later on.
For note paper and desk drawers
the shops show sachets covered with
| heavy paper, but the sachet girls who
wish to be thorough will make the
! bags for this purpose covering them
perhaps with embroidered linen or
some material that will stand desk
wear.
For bed linen the sachet bags are
made long enough to cover shelves, but
! all table linen and napkins must be
kept apart from this as the table and
| the dlnlng-room must remain free from
| the sachet-that is the individual
/ sachet. At a luncheon or dinner where
; women are in evidence the combined
| sachet odors produce the "perfumed
! atmosphere" which is in such favor
with old time novelists.
| The sachet girl carries her atmos-
| phere about with her when she travels.
| OF all places the trunk positively de-
| mands the use of the sachet bag for
dainty packing. In shelves and in bod
ices wrapped in tissue paper the sachet
acts as pad to prevent wrinkling and
| crushing.
The large closet sachets are now used
as trunk Innings; one spread on the
! bottom of the box upon which NAV he
placed the rain coat and over this
the shoes, each pair wrapped in A.
drawer sachet and then in tissue. Over
| this layer another large closet sachet
! can be placed, this precaution elimi-
J mating that most unpleasant odor of
rubber which sometimes comes from
a rain coat that has been packed and
also from boots--riding garments, ETC..
Whlch frequently will lend their sta
| DIE atmosphere to the more dainty ar
ticles in trunk especially when it
may be delayed in course of travel.
For hat boxes and furs there are soft
Sachets that will not be injured by
crushing and that will not rest too
heavily against aigrettes, flowers or
feathers
Many women who insist on laundry
ing everything-even the kindling
wood-lnslst on having little linen
crash covers for the sachet bags
which may be slipped over the silk
cover. These may be taken off and
washed when desired and the silk
cover is protected. In this way the
snowy bridal sachet sets and delicate
enprolderies and hand-paintings which
used to be fashionable are preserved.
Sachet bags will last a lifetime. but
must pc renewed about once a year.
small quantity of the powder being
aIloWed to sift through the already
scented cotton through a small OPEN
ing in the silk cover.
! IL the sachet chosen be a flower
| scent which some women prefer it is
a pretty idea to have a spray of the
hover embroidered on the corner of
| each bag.
In a few months every garment
DOCK and jewel of the sachet girl be-
comes stamped with this mark of her
! personality. There is no mistaking il
II 1t is deity chosen
Even the cigarettes of the Russian
women are scented with their individ-
| ual perfume and in this Way one of
the most noted of the Russian women
spies was detected recently in a rail-
way carriage.
one of the oldest identifications that
sachet powder made possible was
that of a baby of fashion who was
| being rolled up Fifth avenue bv it's
I, nurse. A strange lady crossing the
sidewalk from her brougham stopped
suddenly and asked:
isn't thSt Mrs. Blanks baby?" and
upon being told that it was she de-
clared triumphantly: II never could
be mistaken in her sachet powder"