Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-02
THE PERFUME CURE
SWEET SCENTS A RESToRER OF
TIRED NERVES.
Women Rely on odor of Pines TO
Drive Away the
Blues.

from the New York Sun.
Pine needles and sweet perfumes are used
to soothe the nerves OF the New York
woman. 1t has been discovered that you
need not be out OF sorts unless you want TO
be, and in addition that you can cure
your troublesome nerves with nice sweet
odors instead of resortiug to unpleasant
drugs
The first and most particular rule is that
the sweet doors must be natural ones
There must be no made-up perfumes The
scents must be those that grow in the parks
and spring up in the woods, that come 10
life with the budding of the flowers and die
down when the flowers fade.
Those who are trying the perfume cure
are giving their attention just now to pine
scents mostly. II you want 10 get the gem
uine pine odor. take a pine pillow. no mat
ter how old, and lay 1t near the fire.
In little while II will begin 10 warm up
and to give out sweet scents. You will be
treated to the original odor of the pine.
There Is a very nervous and very sensi-
tive woman in New York who treats herself
every day TO the pine needle cure. When
she was away last summer she gathered
material for many pillows OF pine needles.
Smell of Pines
When she is tired she takes a pillow ana
warns 1t and presently It begins to give out
a sweet smell of pines. Then she puts the
pillow behind her head and in a little while
she feels refreshed.
On days when she is very tired indeed and
needs quick freshing she takes dozen
pillows and heats them very quickly. With
these she furnishes her couch She heaps
it high with pillows and then she lies down
and breathes the sweet scent. In fifteen
minutes she feels all right again.
There is an extra nervous woman in town
who has a comfortable stuffed with pine
needles. She gathered the needles this fall.
and then she put them in the comfortable
and quilted 1t just as though she were quilt
Ing feathers.
Pretty soon she had a thick sweet beauti-
full covering. 1t was heavy, but so de-
licfous that she did not mind the weight.
Some nights when she is very weary she
sleeps with this heavy pine comfortable over
her. Again she heats 1t and puts 1t under
meath her. 1t Is refreshing, no matter how
she uses it.
If you like sweet scents and want to try
the perfume cure you can get them by
utilizing odds and ends about the house.
You will be surprised to find how many you
can turn into perfume.
Take apple Feelings and dry them and
some day when the house seems muggy
take handful and throw them on the
stove Take off the Feelings before they
begin to burn, but leave them on just long
enough to get the delicious fumes they will
give out. the fumes that are SO delightful
when they come out OF the oven as baked
apples are cooking.
Channg D1sh scents.
Some women keep a chafing dish always
handy for the making of sweet scents. Into
the chafing dish they can put a little
cologne. which when heated will send it's
fragrance through the room, or they can
add pinch of cinnamon or half a drop OF
oil of cloves. or even tiny bit Of apple
peeling 1t takes very little to make a
pleasant smell in the room.
The influence of odors upon the spirits
can hardly be oyereStfmated. If you will
so in a pine forest you are greeted with "A
smell which is invigorating. almost intoxi-
eating. in it's curious buoyancy.
II you go into a clover field you get an
odor which is just pleasant but alto
gether different and this odor can be
brought into the house in winter by taking
clover heads, drying them and stuffng Pill
lows with them. On some muggy, gloomy
day the pillow be warmed up and you
have a perfume which is delightful.
If you want something particularly pleas
ant take some sea salt and put IL In a wide
violet perfume. Close the bottle tight, let
IL stand a while, then open, and you get
the curious smell of the salt sea, with a
slight tinge of violet which Is always found
in salt air.
If you want to take a bath in something
that Is very sweet smelling prepare some
sea salt after this fashion: Buy the salt at
the drug store; take big handful OF IL, lay
it in a bottle and add some violet perfume
Let 1t stand three days and 1t is ready for
the bath.
Another plan Is to add to the sea salt a
grain of musk, little essence Of violet and
finally about a teaspoonful of alcohol. Set
the bottle away for three days. turning IL
twice day.
When you are ready to take your bath.
throw handful of the sea salt into the
water. 1t will perfume the water without
making 1t too salty.