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Show Wages Good '-'Smellers" Earn. There aro several trades which provide pro-vide men nnd women with good living liv-ing simply hecauso thoy enjoy nn exceptionally ex-ceptionally keen Bcnso of smell, says tho London World. Scentmnkcrs, for example, need some ono with a very delicate sense of smell to aid them In mixing the ingredients of perfumes In proper proportions. Queen Alexandra's Alex-andra's favorite perfume violet coats 10 per ounce bottle, and it has to run tho gauntlet of five professional pro-fessional "smellers" before it Is passed as being correctly blended and ready for her majesty's use. Somo ot the Tending firms of perfume per-fume makers pay their "smellers" from 4 to JC7 a weok. Contractors for tho lighting of streets, largo public pub-lic buildings and plensuro grounds very often engage "smellers" to And escapes of gas, ono shilling being generally gen-erally paid for each escape reported. Some of these men frequently make over 3 In a single week, tho result being that In many cases the feo has been reduced to 9d. per escape reported. |