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cool, dark place, and shake well once each day. At the 
end of three months the perfume will have begun to 
ripen, and you can then remove the cover and regale 
yourself with the delicious fragrance. If it is as nice as 
mine you will be amply repaid for all your trouble. 
I have given the recipe to several of my friends, and 
Every week after [the usual sweeping, dusting and 
airing, open your jar and shake the contents thor¬ 
oughly ; this will give your room a delicate perfume, 
suggesting spice islands and the tropics. 
A suitable place for this jar is on one of those long, 
odd, three-legged tables pn'a corner^ of the front hall, 
although in each case almost the same articles were 
used, each spice-pot had a distinctive odor. The 
method of combining the ingredients, the length of time 
they stand, and the strength of the various articles 
forming the compound, all seem to give each jar an in¬ 
dividual smell. 
and from here the fragrance will penetrate the whole 
house. There must, of course, be a limit to the 
strength of this pot-pourri, but mine is nicer now than 
when first prepared. 
If the moisture is dried from this perfume it can be 
used for filling sachets to place in the handkerchief-box 
