Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1910 — Perfumed Beds. [ARTICLE]

Perfumed Beds.

"There is nothing very novel, the uninitiated may think, about perfumed beds, for every one knows how good housewives have for a generation prided, theifiselves on theiu. hapery, and that one of their special little fads was to place lavender bags among the sheets in order to add a little to the luxury of the sleeper. But when perfumed beds are talked of nowadays something is contemplated which was unknown to the old-time housewife. _ Now between the mattress and the sheet, there is laid a scented pad—a thin Quilted affair, which has one layer of cotton freely sprinkled with the favorite sachet powder——which causes the whole bed to smell deliciously of roses, violets, or whatever may be the chosen perfume. Pillows are also opened and sachet powder is sprinkled among the feathers. Orris makes a perfume resembling violets, and there are some people who like that ot pine, which is easily obtained by gathering the needles from the trees in summer and laying them flat in little sacks, which are inserted in both pads and pillows.