The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-28
PINE TREE AND PERFUME CURE.

Each time thy voice is raised.
Helen B. YOUNG.
PINE TREE AND PERFUME CURE.
Pine needles and sweet perfumes
are used to ,soothe the nerves of the
New York women. 1t has been dis
covered that you need not be ont of
sorts unless you want to be, and in
addition that you can cure your
troublesome nerves with nice sweet
odors instead of resorting to unpleas-
ant drugs.
The first and most particular rule
is that the sweet odor must be natu-
raj 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 to
life with the budding of the flowers
and die down when the flowers
fade.
These who are trying the perfume
cure are giving their attention just
now to pine scents mostly. If you
want to get the genuine pine odor,
take a pine pillow, no matter how
old, and lay it near the fire.
In a little while it will begin to
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
sensitive 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.
When she is tired she takes a
pillow and warns it and presently it
begins to give out a sweet smell OF
pines. Then she puts the pillow be-
hind her head and in little while
she feels refreshed.
On days when she is very tired in
deed and needs quick refreshing
she takes a dozen pillows and heats
them very quickly. With these she
furnishes her couch. She heaps 1t
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 stuff
ed with pine needles. She gather
ed the needles last fall, and then
she put them In the comfortable and
quilted it just as though she were
quilting feathers.
Pretty soon she had a thick, sweet,
beautiful covering. It was heavy,
but so delicious 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 it and puts it underneath
her. It 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 sur
prised to find how many you can
turn into perfume. Take apple
peelings and dry them and some day
when the house seems muggy take
handful and throw them on the
stove. Take off the peelings before
they begin to burn, but leave them
on just long enough to get the deli
cious fumes they will give out, the
fumes that are so delightful when
they come out of the oven as baked
apples are cooking.
Some women keep cha6ng dish
always handy for the making Of
sweet scents. Into the chafng dish
they can put a little cologne, which
when heated will send its fragrance
through the room, or they can add
pinch of cinnamon or half a drop of
oil of cloves, or even a 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 overestimated.
If you will go in a pine forest you
are greeted with a smell which is in
vigorating, almost intoxicating, in
its curious buoyancy.
If you go into clover field you
get an odor which is just as pleasant
but altogether different, and this
odor can be brought into the house
in winter by taking clover heads,
drying them and stufipg pillows
with them. On some muggy day
the pillow can be warmed up and
you have perfume which is delight
full.
If you want something particular
ly pleasant take some sea salt put it
in wide mouthed bottle and pour in
a few drops of violet perfume.
Close the bottle tight, let it stand
while, then open, and you get the
curious smell of the salt sea, with a
slight tinge of violet, which is al
ways found in salt air.
If you want to take bath in some
thing that is very sweet smelling pre-
pare some sea salt after this fashion.
Buy the salt at the drug store; take
big handful Of it, lay it in bottle
and add some violet perfume. Let it
stand three days and it 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 teaspoon
full of alcohol. Set the bottle away
for three days, turning it twice a
day.
When you are ready to take your
bath, throw a handful of the sea salt
into the water. 1t will perfume the
water without making it too salty.
Take jug of salt, and into gal.
lon jug pour half an ounce of rose