The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-09-26
Fashions in Perfumes.

everyone enjoys the sweet odors that
primarily we associate with flowers,
though many people prefer the smell of
spices, new mown hay. the breath of
pines and balsams, or that indescribable
Whit of summer essence that comes on
breezes that blow over fields of bay
berry, sweet fern and the innumerable
growing things which help to make up
the bouquet of delicious fragrance which
one breathes ecstatically, say in August
on the coast of Maine, and in many
other delightful places.
MEMORY AND PERFUMES
1t is curious that familiar odors stimu-
late memory more than taste or touch.
This has been ascribed to the fact that
the olfactory nerve connects directly
with the center of the brain, where
Galen, first and afterward Des Carries,
located the soul. However this may be,
history is filled with proofs of the in
fluence that perfumes exercise on man.
The incense burner and bearer are i'm
portant and oft recurring figures on the
mural remains that picture the life of
Egypt, Greece and Rome, in the heyday
of their civilization.
The sails, of Cleopatra's barge were
scented, we are told, so that 1.-The winds
were love sick with them,' and the
medicinal value of sweet odors was at
tested when, in Athens, Hippocrates rid
the city OF the plague by using perfumes
after every ether means had failed.
K THE VERDICT TODAY.
Today the proper use of good perfumes
is recognized as not only great pleas
ure, but a legitimate part of civilized
life. and my lady's toilet is not complete
without touch of the dainty odor she
affects in perfume, sachets, powder and
toilet water. Nor is the enjoyment of
this luxury confined to the women of
society, for men are often accused of
using the handy bottle on the wife's
dresser, and latest news from London
states that English handles are using
scents as their grandfathers did, as we'll
as cultivating side whiskers and strap
ping their trousers under their boots in
styles dating back to the same period.
Modern physicians recognize the
therapeutic value of perfumes, as
safeguard against contagion, but most
people use perfume because they like
it, though people of refinement never
overdo this use, but confine it to a deli
cate perceptible fragrance that never
offends as do gross common scents.
THE DAINTY WOMAN OF FASHION.
The dainty woman selects special
perfume and uses this only in all her
toilet articles, and it is becoming a fad
with young girls to select the odor of
some flower that corresponds with their
favorite color. Say girl chooses the
essence Of violet, Clover or Heiotrope,
and has her sachets, perfume, toilet
water, powder and soap to correspond.
Her room is done up in chintz with the
flower pattern, and all her pretty frocks
and belongings in some of the flower
colors, including the dull greens of leaf
and stem. Few, perhaps, harmonic to
this extent, and many woman prefer
synthetic scents as more assertive and
distinctive, but no crude mixing of per-
fumes is tolerated. If any change is
made it includes everything on the dres-
sing table, for Madam La Mode DEGREES
that only one favored scent is permits
sibe for each individual.
American manufacturers now turn out
these fine matching lines of toilet goods
in forms that appeal to fastidious society
women, at prices far less than one pays
for as satisfactory imported products,
because these latter have to pay an enor-
nous duty of something like sixty cents
on the dollar.
Cheap. coarse, amateur perfumes, in
discriminatory mixed, and used in pro-
fusion, are relegated to the sort of peo-
pie who do not understand that while a
little of really fine essence is delightful,
thimbleful of coarse alcoholic mixtures
is disgusting to any sensitive nostril.
MoDIsH SACHETs.
Saehets OF all sorts are very much
used, from large padded Innings for
shelf, drawer or wardrobe, to smaller and
more personal sachets that are tucked
into the bodice, or hidden in the leaf of
the satin corsage flower so generally
worn.
In the light of present usuage any of
the dressing table make pretty and most
accepta BILE presents, if only care is
taken to secure the perfume used by the
REGIMENT JEANETTE VAN REYPEN