THE USE OF PERFUMES.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 10, Issue 754, 9 March 1888, Page 2

THE USE OF PERFUMES.

It is a pleasure to note that the indiscriminate use of perfumes among members of the fair aex is rapidly decreasing, and that the woman who employs triple extracts with which to sprinkle herself has become the exception rather than the rule. Like everything else, perfumes may be legitimate or not according to circumstances. Delicate odours, such as violet, heliotrope, or orris root, are always permissible, justaspatchouly and musk are alw »ys to be shunned. This subtle, delightful scent was first used by the Princess of Wales aud later by Mrs Langtry, until it finally became the rage. The chemist, meanwhile, has made a fortune. A peculiar custom with fashionable women is to pour one or two drops of perfume into their ears. Nobody now-a days ever thinks of putting it on a hanikerchiefor rubbing it on one's hands. Laces, underwear, ribbons, notepaper, gloves, and all small articles of dress are made fragrant by large sachet bags, that are of a siz3 correnpouding to the bureau or dressing table drawers. These bags are composed of silk and lined with raw cotton, upon which the powder is spread. This, in addition to a very moderate use of a faint, suggestive odour, such as the wood violet, for inaia ice, is all in the way of a, pe.fume that is allowable by a really rtfiuad woman, Parisian dressmakers have a way of s nding perfumed gowns to tuoir customers. A strange feature connected with this fashion is the fact that the odour remains fur ever. A lady of the city having purchased a

costume whose every fold breathed the moat delicious perfume, sent an order to Paris for a aaoaple of the scent employed. The dressmaker forwarded to her by express a small bottle of ordin-ary-lookinsf sachet powder. Accompanvinej it waa a bill to the amount of 40 dollars. The lady paid the money, but since then has generally inquired the price of things before ordering. — Boston Herald.