The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-28
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There comes squares of prepara-
ton of ammonia which can be made
into very nice bath vinegar. Take
dozen or more of these solid pieces
and add just enough violet perfume
to cover them.
Then add spirits of cologne until
you have a pint bottle nicely filled.
This makes delicious bath vinegar,
which can be used every day for two
weeks, for it takes very little to per-
fume the water.
If you like your hands to smell
sweet, and to some people there is
something positively Intoxicating
about pair Of sweet hands, you can
make hand wash by taking quart
of spirits of cologne, put it in a half
gallon jug, add an ounce of oil of
rose geranium and two grains Of
musk.
Let it stand a week then fill up
with spirits Of cologne. AT the end
of another week you will have as fine
a gallon of perfume as you will
want.
When you are ready to wash your
hands with this sweet mixture take
bowl of warm water and add to it a
pinch of powdered borax. Into this
put half wine glass of perfume.
Use no soap, but keep this water
for rinsing. 1t will impart lasting
fragrance which will remain upon
your hands from morning until
night.
Have you ever tried putting up
your winter furs in perfumery?
Make some sachets and scatter
them through the storage, thus using
sachet powders instead of camphor.
You will find that the moths stay
away Just as we'll and the furs come
out in the fall smelling sweet.
And the same thing with clothes
those which you're putting away until
spring. Many of them are of cash.
mere and light wool and you don't
want the moths to get into them.
Put them away between layers of
sachets and you will find that you
will have never moth.
There is a story told of woman
who spent the summer upon the
Jersey coast where mosquitoes are
thick. Not wanting to be eaten
alive she sprinkled her bedroom with
sachet powder until the whole room
was filled with perfume. All night
long she slept in peace.
Animals do not as a rule like
strong odors, and disease germs are
particularly averse to them. A
strong odor of rose will drive away
many of the contagious diseases, so
some scientists affirm, and you can
actually keep yourself we'll by having
nice smells around you.
Altar of rose is very effective, but
unfortunately it is expensive. Oil of
rose geranium is very effective and
there are other extracts which can be
bought and used to good advantage.
In old fashioned German house
holds the custom prevails of buyinga
certain amount good perfume every
year. This perfume is bought not
to be bottled and preserved, but to
be used, and when it disappears more
is purchased.
The fad for a distinctive odor is
dying away, and women are inclined
to scent themselves like an English
garden. An English garden is one
in which all the common flowers
grow, and when you take sniff of
It you do not know whether you
are smelling violets or mignonette,
geraniums or roses, delicate pansies
or strong heliotrope. Thus it is
fashionable to mingle your perfumes.
The pine tree scent is the odor OF
the moment and wise women are
making little bags of pine heaps up,
so that they and their apartments
may smell like a pine tree.-N y.
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