Feminine Interests

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 962, 3 May 1930, Page 24

Feminine Interests

PERFUME CONTAINERS

Handsome and massive, but plain and unadorned, are the perfume flagons which contain the finest perfumes Paris can offer this season. The famous dress house of Chanel has chosen crystal bottles of simple shape. Jean Patou’s crystal flagons are distinguished by great golden stoppers. Worth’s bottle is a rounded column with a stopper suggestive Of Javanese temples. In most of the fascinating perfume shops just now large globular bottles of coloured glass with round stoppers remind the English visitor very much of the brilliantly-tinted jars in chemists’ windows at home. Others are opaque, like enormous pink, blue and green-tinted jiearls. Prominent also are big, round flagons of amber glass, suggesting in form and size heavy scale weights. At the same time, black scent bottles seem to be Madame’s favourites at the moment. Flagons of polished wood, the grain beautifully defined, square and solidlooking, are another novelty, GREASE ON THE CARPET To remove the grease make a paste of fuller’s earth and magnesia, using boiling water. Spread on the stain and leave for a couple of hours. Then brush off with a clean stiff brush. The grease will have been absorbed.