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 person forever smelling strong perfumes rarely can use them judiciously.

Therefore, one should avoid wearing constantly a favorite perfume. Change it rather for one of the same accord. For example, sandal-wood, which in an impalpable powder is now sold at our Japanese stores, accords well with rose-geranium, acacia blossoms, orange flowers, or camphor; musk suits with rose, tuberose, tonka bean, or jonquille; and so forth. Such a discrimination will be as readily made by a naturally keen or well-educated nose, as a tune will be caught by a cultivated ear; and a discord will be as promptly detected by the one sense as by the other.

But the subject is so extensive, and furthermore as it does not actually lie within our present subject, we must leave it. Should our friends wish for a full discussion of the topic, we must some time start our enthusiastic acquaintance on his favorite branch, and retail for their benefit what he tells us. Or we shall urge him to address himself directly to them, and thus make a double escape for ourselves.

So far as relates to the correction of unpleasant odors about the person, we shall not omit to give full directions about those when we come to speak of the skin, breath, etc.