LIKE NEW MOWN HAY?

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17526, 1 May 1925, Page 9

LIKE NEW MOWN HAY?

Have you ever, I wonder, been nearly knocked down after passing some woman in the street? She’s left a trail* 1 of perfume behind her like a banner, you get one whiff and start to gasp for breath. Weil, there is an example of how not to put on scent! To drench oneself with perfume is every bit as bad as to go out with one’s face plastered with rouge. It simply isn’t done. It was, though, in the old day's—the good old days when no one had a bath! They drowned themselves in scent then, but that was for a reason. And the reason was that washing wasn’t fashionable. But today the over-scented have no excuse ! Scent is a luxury', and, like all real luxuries, only the best is good enough. Too many girls imagine that “ any scent is a scent,” whereas very many scents are unspeakable. Very many scents are smells! So no scent at all is better than the wrong scent, and a strong scent is a wrong scent every time. But that lovely' scenty perfume which we all want to possess, it’s perfectly adorable—like a bunch of flowers, lx’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 then. If one is poor one makes them oneself. To start with, it costs some 12s. But for that sum you make sixteen pounds of salts! Carbonate soda crystals, oils of lavendar and oils of geranium. To each pound of crystals a halfteaspoonful of each oil. Buy a big glass sweets bottle, and don’t quite fill it up; leave enough room to shake your mixture well.