The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-02-16

= water and, though oil and water do no
| mix, still there wifi arise a rich swee
fragrance. This is used as a steam TO
, the skin and the hair.
Finally the hair is lightly sprayed
with the oil and 1t is brushed until 4
CLOVIS. Frequently, when there is tt
be q court function, the duchess ha!
her brushes scented with the oil ant
her hair is then brushed so that i
shines.
1t is the custom among the American
duchesses in London to perfume thu
hair brushes, a little oil Of jasmine 4.
poured into the palm of the hand and
the brush is swiftly rubbed over tht
hand In such way as to take up the
perfume. The hair is then brushed will
It. making a sort Of brilliant finish fol
the locks.
This custom was first introduced by
the Duchess Of Marlborough, who tool
ii with her from this country. She. In
turn. taught Il 10 the Duchess Of Man
chester, who instructed her maids tc
prepare all her brushes i'm this way
And. finally, Il reached the Duchess OF
Roxburghe. who obtained from Lady
Curzon some of the rich heavy scents
Of India with which to perfume her
toilet articles.
The glowing hair of the Duchess of
/ the society papers after recent court
! function. An American girl. interview
| ing the duchess. asked her the secret of
/ her bright, beautiful hair. The duchess.
who is most obliging. said this:
/ my hair is made glossy every day
/ by my maid. who rubs an Oriental oil
upon my hair brush. After it has been
oiled Il is marcelled This makes q
beautiful finish for the hair I am
! charmed with it. And it also thickens
ana preserves the hair
The New York girl is never behind
when the fads are given out But her
latest one is the violet fad. She is get
ting ready for spring. and she is put
ting her Lenten days into the getting
up Of something new in the perfume
line. She now scents her hair with
lilac and violet saehet.
She takes a cap. which must be VIC.
let colored. al I'D she lines it with violet
sachet powder. This she ties on with
wide-scented strings under her chin,
after she has moigtened her hair. When
the hair is dry it smells ike sweet vio-
lets.
If she be a faddish Lenten girl she
has three silk caps which are filled with
heliotrope powder. violet powder and
lilac sechet, respectively. And she
wears them. one right after the other,
until her hair smells like a spring gar
den.
The latest note is to scent the hair
with peTfumed lace. for IL is held that
lace has a peculiar scent of its own
which belongs to no other material.
One of the ladies of the Vanderbilt
family is responsible for the following
sentiment upon the subject of perfumed
lace;
az eod =, sa,.s Mr. 1-audzn,,;I. 4..,,o.
lace has an odor all it's own. Even old
lace is TedClent Take a piece of old
lace from your treasure chest and smell
of it, There is a mysterious lovely
scent about it.
For years we have laid our old
laces away in cedar chests and now we
find that they smell of the woods. There
is a strange woody scent about the lace
which. on being combined with violet,
reminds one Of the woods ed the
spring flowers. Particularly does it go
we'll With wintergreen. The lovely
scent of the wintergreen leaves, the
odor of viol9ts. and the strange, mys-
terious scent of cedar, all ningle sweet
ly to make perfume which can be du-
plicated by nothing else in the wide
world.
For drying the hair take scarf of
old lace that has been sprayed with
violet and wintergreen ard lay it back
in the cedar chest. When brought out
ii is rich with sweet odors. And if
spread upon the hair it is heavy and
lovely with the richness of the woods.
zone can--with this odor. which is
an elusive one-perfume the wardrobe
with any scent known, and the results
other perfume Of which this can be
said"
The woman who does not want to
spend much money pertaining the hair
can accomplish it cheaply There was
girl who used to powder mint with
her fingers and scatter 1t through her
locks. Sometimes she added a little
ground cloves or little cinnamon, and
with this she put a little of the ordi
nary cheap variety of toilet water. Her
hair was sweetly fragrant. She venti-
lated il daily, which made 1t attrac-
tive.
The hair can be sprayed after it is
dressed and the odor Of perfume viii
finger with It. or it can be scented with
ones handkerchief perfume, one drop
OF which goes a great way when one
is scenting the hair.
There is q woman in New York-the
wife of steel magnate--who has a
pretty scent fad which she brought all
the wey rom Paris, Wnere IL Orlglnat-
ed. She had the fad all last winter and
she enjoyed the great satisfaction Of
seeing it taken up by many.
1t was for the wearing of q corsage
highly scented with the same
scent as her hair. And in her coiffeur
she also wore an ornament highly
scented.
Her method is something like this:
She purchases the handsomest artificial
rose that can be obtained. In Paris
one can buy a handsome rose for SO or
81 of American money. and in most
cases the rose il a scented one. OF
course a few drops OF perfume can be
added A rose to match is worn in the
corsage.
In her jewel case-for perfumed flow
ers must be treated as jewels-there are
richly scented violets and there are also
black flowers scented with Egyptian
perfumes.
one has no idea. until one goes TO
Paris. of the extent to which the arti-
fetal French flowers are worn. The
dressy French woman would be lost
without them. She regards the real |