Show FAIR FLOWER DISTILLERS A New Industry That Has Sprung Up of Late Among Fashionable New York Women It is all on account of the bubonic plague says one charming girl you know it may travel from India to New York and It is a wellknown fact that during the London plague all workers In perfumery factories escaped the disease Let me tell you a secret just here There is no better wash or lotion for the skin than tho products of the still room pud If you superintend the manufacture yourself are you not sure of their purity Apropos to this the face preparations now most in vogue in Paris are composed of crushed flowers and seeds a combination combina-tion of the pale roses of Lebanon ver vein of CIrcassIa and many other sweet scented flowers that grow beneath the canopy of heaven all natural elements that help us to retain our perennial freshnesb and beauty without the help of paint or cosmetic However whether or not the bubonic plague Is responsible for it or their complexions com-plexions fair maidens are devoting hours to their stills and storing their minds with the literature of the subject AN AMUSEMENT FOR LE TOne T-One of the stills used in connection with this work is curious and Interesting being be-ing an old alembic of the pattern used as far back as the fifteenth century sketches of which are to be seen in rare old black letter books on distillation to which the coterie has recourse for many of Its recipes reci-pes The work really entails much work thought and researchgood Lenten discipline disci-pline thisalso much skill and care in the distillation and compounding Attars of rose lavender and orange flower are obtained by distilling with water afterwards beIng separated from the water by a tap funnel and then filtered fil-tered I IN GLASS TRAYS Besides distillation odors are secured by the process of flowering or maceration square glass trays are used for this and the care which is taken of these same glass trays is only second to the care a woman bestows upon her jewel casket The trays which are framed with wood I about three inches deep are spread over with grease half an Inch thick in which rklrres arc made to facilitate absorption this is sprinkled with the flowers rose petals jasmine lavender tuberose hyacinths hya-cinths violets or whatever you will three pounds of flower petals to one pound of grease yhe trays are piled up one above another to prevent the evaporation evapor-ation of aroma and finally all Is taken from the tray melted and strained For hungary water rosemary is the foundation founda-tion This by the way was the first extract ex-tract ever made and by Elizabeth queen of Hungary who obtained the recipe from a hermit and by its use she is said to have preserved her beauty to old age Such books as A Treatise of Commodious Commodi-ous Conceits and Ye Boke of Dlstyl lacion are much in request by these fair flower distillers and if something new and wonderful in sweet scents 13 evolved none of their friends will be surprised possibly some youthrejuvenating water may be compounded by these enthusiasts which will prove the greatest boon to our complexions DIANA CROSSWAYS JIIIO |