The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-24
PINE TREE AND PERFUME CURE.

lHc IlSGuIcS anu sweet pSIluuC
are used to soothe the nerves of the
New York women. It has been dis.
covered that you need not be out OF
sorts unless you want to be, and in
addition to 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,
ssake pine pillow, no matter how
|Sold, and lay it near the FIRE.
II little while it will begin to
warm up and to give out sweet scents.
You will be treated to the original
odor d the pine.
Thee is very nervous and very
sensitive woman in New York who
treats herself every day to the pine
needle clre When she was away
last summer she gathered material
for many pillows of pine needles.
When she is tired she takes pillow
and warns it and presently it begins
to give out sweet smell of pines.
Then she puts the pillow behind her
head and in little while she feels re-
freshed.
On days when she is very tired in
deed and needs a quick refreshing
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 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 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 and 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 a 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 delight
full when they come out of the oven
as baked apples are cooking.
Some women keep chafing 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 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 invig-
Grating, almost intoxicating, in its
curious 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 win
ter by taking clover heads, drying
them and stufing pillows with them.
On some muggy, gloomy day the pill
low 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 mounted 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
big handful of it, lay it in a bottle
and add some violet perfume. Let il
stand three days and it is ready for
the bath.
= Another plan is to add to the sea
salt grain of musk, little essence
of violet and finally about teaspoon
ful of alcohol. Set the bottle away fol
three days, turning it twice a day.
When you are ready to take your
bath, throw handful of the sea sail
into the water. 1t will perfume the
water without making if too salty.
Take jug of salt, and into a gal
Ion jug pour half an ounce OF rose
geranium oil and cup of alcohol
Turn your jug upside down. Let Il
stand day, turn it back for day o.
so, and so on until you have WORKED
with it three weeks. The result viii
be very nice jug of sweet smells.
There come squares of a prepara
tion 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 unit
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