The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-08-14
PERFUMES ARE A NECESSITY.
~ Essential to the Comfort and
Health Of Human Being. a.
Food and Drink.

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Those who decry the use of perfumes.
particularly by the fair sex, display
tnelr Ignorance of one of the reo,lire-
menus OF nature. To many people a
pleasing odor is as necessary as a
tasteful meal and cannot be dispensed
with except at the cost of comfort and
sometimes of health, says an exchange.
NO article augments woman's witch
cry more than the subtle, faint fragrance
winch she contrives to impart to the
nuttering folds Of her gowns and be-
longings.
Another means of obtaining the same
charm Is the perfume bath, whose
fragrant aroma clings to the body for
hours afterward. Not only does the
delicate scent cling; but the perfumed
oatn gives to the skin a soft, velvetlike
appearance. Such a bath is an admira-
Die substitute for aromatic toilet salves
and sweet-scented soaps.
Some women have ever tried the plan
OF injecting perfume under the skin
with a syringe in order to make an odor
OF v1olets 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 its suggestion of danger.
Perfumes are health-giving as we'll
as beauty-giving and their use, there
fore, is not wholly a 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
to many, yet it is said to possess a won
derful power of clearing the brain and
driving away the blues. On the other
hand, altar of roses, with the suggestion
of glowing jul and gorgeous eastern
colors, predisposes to tears.
A faint odor of musk acts as a tonic,
for which the best antidote is the odor
OF sandal wood. The fragrance of citron
is 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 fol, any n 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 nerve 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 a
healthy sense, though delicate erv
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 perfumes nearly always brac-
ing, while a subtle one is generally ener-
waiting.
A woman should choose the perfume
she uses as carefully as she selects her
garments. Some says that a woman
who changes her perfume IS 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.
It is faint, fragrant, Elusive, drawing
o 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,