NEW MOWN HAY.
Scent is a luxury, and, like all rea' luxuries, 'only the beat is good enough. Too many girls imagine that V any scent is a scent," whereas very many scents are unspeakable. Very many scents are smells! 80 no scent at all is better than the wrong scent, and a strong scent is a wrong scent every time. But that lovely acenty pes fume which we ail want to possess, it's perfectly adorable—like a bunch of flowers. It's sweet and fresh and clean, like new-mown hay. A lavish use of talcum powder after the bath is useful, but it's not enough. It takes, in fact, strong bath salts, if one is rich one buys them. If one is poor one makes them oneself, lo start with, it exists some 12s. But for that sum you make 16 pound? of salts ! Carbonate soda cystals, oils of lavender and oils of geranium. To each pound of crystals a half-tea-spoonful of each oil. Buy a. big glass sweets bottle, and don't quite fill it up; leave enough room to shake your mixture welL
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19142, 7 October 1925, Page 16
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