Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1890 — The Use of Perfumes. [ARTICLE]

The Use of Perfumes.

How fashions change. - A couple of years ago it was the proper thing foe a girl to rinse her lace handkerchief in her scent bottle. Such a proceeding now would be considered a vulgarism, for if there is any one article in a fashionable toilet which is not perfumed it is a handkerchief. Hosiery and gloves slumber in beds of sweet grass and leaves; laces, .wxaps. and underwear have their separate sachet pillows: dresses are hung among the bag's of sweet clover which perfume every closet, even bonnet boxes emit fragrant odors when uncovered, and in the linings of many overcoats the wadding is dusted with orris, but not a trace of sceat hangs about the sheer little square of lace-edgeit mull. The deficiency, however, is more than counterbalanced by faint, sweet odors which linger «hput the. folds and hems ol dress-skirts. Even card-cases and pocket-books are perfumed, and so is the small blotter bought with fashionable stationery. But these items are insignificant compared with the cost of perfuming a summer outfit, which requires the service of a maid and an outlay equivalent to that expended for gloves or shoes.