South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-26
HOU To Make
A Scent Basket
Dainty Remembrance May
Be Made of Small Odds
and Ends.

During the gift season there are
many people TO whom we desire 10
give only dainty remembrance, some
thing pretty and yet of necessity mex
pensive. The delightful little scent
basket answers the purpose admirably.
Nearly any sort OF tinv basket can
be used If you have about the house
any OF those very small Easter baskets
that the children sometimes receive or
buy costing from one TO FIVE pennies,
you may gild the attgactively for the
purpose. Then there are the mimi
tesimal sweet-grass baskets that one
can buy, besides the odd little rama
triles that a woman or child can
weave at home. These may or may
not be gilded. as one pleases. The
sweet-grass baskets are prettier IN
their natural state.
One way of making the scent bas-
ket is TO make a little silk cushlon
or biscuit padded with cotton and
plentifully sprinkled through the cot
ton with sachet powder. A more eX-
pensive way is to fill the entire cush-
ion with sachet The cushions may be
filled with lavender If you prefer. 1t
is pretty cOnceit-to make a number
Of flat inch square pillows Of different
color silks, filing them with sachet
of the same kind or different kinds, as
you prefer. and to pile the little bas-
ket with them. If a coarser scent is
used, such as pOtpOurri, little bags OF
coarse net may be used instead of the
silk pillows For pOtpOurri tiny gath
cred top of net may be fastened TO the
sides Of the basket, the basket hlled
with the potpourri and the net drawn
up bag fashion and tied with pretty
ribbon NV
The basket may be ornamented in
any way Your fancy may suggest. One
pretty way is to train about their
edges a vine or little silk or chiffon
roses and their foliage, twining them
over the handle and finishing the
handle off with a bow. The potpourrl
may be purchased ready made, or you
may make it after the following
recipe:
If YOU have an indoor garden or
receive many gifts of roses. you may
use fresh rose petals when making
potpourri in the winter months. Other
wise, you must buy the dried rose
petals by the pound at the druggists
To dry fresh rose leaves pack them in
layers in a jar until they are two
inches deep, sprinkling two teaspoon
fuls Of fine dry salt upon each layer
Continue this until the jar is full, add
ing fresh rose petals and salt daily
Keep in a dark, dry, cool place. A
week after the first relay of petals has
been gathered, turn out the salted
petals upon bread platter, mix
them and toss together until the mass
is loosened. Then incorporate thor
oughly with the formula given below,
pack in a clean jar, cover lightly and
set away to "ripen". In a fortnight
it will be ready for the scent basket.
If kept covered in a rose jar it will
be good and fragrant for 20 years
To the leaves add violet powder.
one-half ounce heliotrope powder.
One-half ounce; mace, one-half tea
spoonful; cinnamon, One-quarter tea
spoonful; cloves, One-half teaspoon
full; oil Of roses, four drops; oil chris,
10 drops: oil melissne, 20 drops; oil
eucalyptus, 90 drops; bergamot 10
drops; alcohol, two drains.
While it is more trouble to make
the pOtpourri than to buy it, it is a
delightful bit of work for spare time.