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Show CHEAP PESFTSME& I Most women who Indulge freely In the use of cheap perfumes do not know of what they are compounded. The prin-1 prin-1 el pa! Ingredient of low priced perfumes is musk, antmsl musk, which Is obtained from several creatures. ( The musk rat is probably the best known of these, and a few decades ago the wives and sweethearts of men w!o set traps around ditches snd ponds In the cmintrvside carried proudly the bags of musk obtained from this source. As an article of commerce tha niusk sup-; plied by several varieties of civet cats is pro he I) ly the best known today. The: odor Is strong and sweet. The strength is the particularly noticeable feature and Is tlie reason why tt Is the foundation of the perfumes. In the small mammal house at the soologlcal gardens are two slis of civets, snd any one with an Investigating Investigat-ing turn of mind may stand near tits cases and catch the muskv odor. The musk is used in .the cheap perfumes, per-fumes, as only a little In needed to give most last in odor to an ounce of per' fumerv. but tlie musk itself Is not cheap snd it Is one of the duties of the attendant at-tendant of the mammal house to collect ! It. It la then sold through regular channels chan-nels and Is one of the sources f reve-r.ue reve-r.ue to the g'Ki. although a small one. Philadelphia Rjcord. |