Barbour County index., 1903-08-19
PERFUMES ARE A NECESSITY.
As Essential to the Comfort and
Health of Human Beings as
Food and Drink.


Those who decry the use of perfumes.
| particularly by the fair sex, display
| heir ignorance of one of the require
| ments of nature. To many people a
| pleasing odor is as necessary as q
| tasteful meal and cannot be dispensed
with except at the cost of comfort and
sometimes of health, says an exchange.
No artifce augments woman's witch
| cry more than the subtle, faint fragrance
which she contrives to impart to the
duttering folds OF her gowns and be-
longings.
Another means of obtaining the same
harm is the perfume bath, whose
fragrant aroma clings to the body for
I hours afterward. Not only does the
| delicate scent cling; but the perfumed
oath gives to the skin a soft, velvetlike
appearance. Such bath is an admira
ole substitute for aromatic toilet salves
| and sweet-scented soaps.
Some women have even tried the plan
of injecting perfume under the skin
with syringe in order to make an odor
| of violets or roses cling to them. A few
drops of perfume is all that is required.
From the moment the skin is charged
with the scent a faint, subtle, Elusive
perfume seems to breathe forth about
the woman who has tried this freak of
fashion. This plan, though, is not
without it's suggestion of danger.
Perfumes are health-giving as we'll
as beauty-giving and their use, there
fore, is not wholly matter of taste.
Nearly all perfumes have antiseptic
qualities and are valuable in keeping
away Infection.
The perfumes which are the most
agreeable to the sense are not always
the most helpful to the nerves. Amber
girls, for instance, is positively offensive
20 many, yet it is said to possess won
1erful power of clearing the brain and
Irving away the blues. On the other
nand, altar of roses, with the suggestion
Of glowing suns and gorgeous eastern
colors, predisposes to tears.
A faint odor of musk acts as tonic,
sor which the best antidote is the odor
If sandal wood. The fragrance of citron
s as soothing to nervous folk as the
sound of far-off music.
The scent of orange flowers is so de-
pressing to the action of the heart that
it is not safe for any one with disease of
that organ to inhale it for any length
Of time. Reviving perfumes come from
The herbaceous plants largely, from the
odors of mignonette, rosemary and law
ender, and soothe the nerves. In the
time of Shakespeare some flowers were
especially dedicated to middle age. Per
dita puts lavendar in this list.
The perfume of lilies, jasmine and
acacia are pleasant and soothing to
healthy sense, though delicate nerves
cannot enjoy them, even in their garden
freshness. Brought closer in clusters OF
blossoms, their odor is narcotic and de-
pressing, so that persons grow faint at
the smell of them and may be put into
heavy slumber as if drugged by their
odor.
A vivid perfumeis nearly always brac.
ing, while subtle one is generally ener.
waiting.
A woman should choose the perfume
she uses as carefully as she selects hel
garments. Some one says that woman
who changes her perfume as she does the
style of her bonnet is hopeless. On the
contrary, the woman who always ex.
hales the same delicate fragrance is like
the flower she resembles. Her friends
think of her and know her as the incar-
nation of the violet or the rose with
which she is assimilated.
The character of the woman, or, at
least, its development, may be told by a
perfume
Tell me your perfume" says the per-
son versed in this lore, "and I'll tell you
what you are
Violet is the device of the coquettish
| 1t is faint, fragrant, Elusive, drawing
| you on to seek out it's artful patroness
AS for the scent of orchids, that is for
the grand and stately dame. The scent
Of the marechal rose is the scent of re-
gret and of sentimental memories and OF
the white rose that of young love-
| Senator's Linguistic Ability.
Senator Knute Nelson, of Minnesota,
is one of the most accomplished lin
gusts of the senate. A Norwegian by
birth, he speaks that language perfect
ly. He also speaks Swedish. Danish,
German, and, Of course, English. He
has a very good understanding of
French. Senator Nelson. from the age