The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-02-24


covered 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 resorting to unpleas-
ant drugs.
The first and most particular rule
is that the sweet odors 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.
Those 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 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 very nervous and very
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 pill
low and warns it and presently it be-
gins to give out sweet smell Of
pines. Then she puts the pillow be-
hind her head and in a little while
she feels refreshed.
On days when she is very tired in
deed and needs quick refreshing she
takes dozen pillows and heats them
very quickly. With these she fur
nishes 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 comfortable stuffed
with pine needles. She gathered 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. 1t 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 COM
Portable over her. Again she heats
it and puts it underneath 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 aud ends about
the house. You will be surprised to
find how many you can turn into per-
fume.
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
delicious 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 a chafng dish
always handy for the making of sweet
scents. Into the chafing dish they
can put 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 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 pine forest you are
greeted with smell which is invigor-
ating, almost intoxicating, in its Curl
Gus buoyancy.
If you go into a 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 stufing pillows with them. On
some muggy, gloomy day the pillow
can be warmed up and you have a
perfume which is delightful.
If you want something particularly
pleasant take some sea salt and put
it in a wide mouthed bottle and pour
in a few drops of violet perfume.
Close the bottle tight, let it 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 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
a big handful of it, lay it in bottle
and add some violet perfume. Let il
stand three days and it is ready fol
the bath.
Another plan is to add to the sea
salt grain of musk, little essence
of violet and finally about teaspoon
full of alcohol. Set the bottle away
for three days, turning it twice day
When you are ready to take youl
bath, throw handful of the sea sal
into the water. 1t will perfume the
water without making it too salty.
Take a jug of salt, and into a gal
lon jug pour half an ounce of ros'
geranium oil and a cup of alcohol
Turn your jug upside down. Let j
stand a day, turn it back for day O.
so, and so on until you have worked
with it three weeks. The result vii
be a very nice jug of sweet smells.
There come squares of a prepara
ton of ammonia which can be mad
into very nice bath vinegar. Take
dozen or more of these solid piece
and add just enough violet perfum
to cover them.
Then add spirits of cologne unit
you have pint bottle nicely filled
This makes a delicious bath vinegar