Show Best Musk Produced by Deer of the Himalayas I I Throughout the long roll of the centuries there have been erable perfumes However the bases the bases the fixatives were a few natural products the most famous of which is musk Several Several Several Sev Sev- eral animals produce musk but the b best st comes from the male musk deer of the Himalayas according to toan toan toan an authority in the Philadelphia Record The musk deer as Js only 20 inches high has ws has no antlers and its teeth project like tusks in the male This tiny deer carries beneath the skin of his stomach a sack about the size of an orange in which is found a dark brown substance somewhat like wet gingerbread found only in inthe inthe inthe the male This This musk is about the strongest strong strong- est smelling substance known rather rather rath rath- er ef er aromatic and pleasant The deer is is killed the musk sack extracted and dried then packed by camel caravan across the immense plains of Asia to the centers where it finds its way into world trade Long before the Christian era men were killing musk deer and dealing in the musk they obtained from them Musk i is mixed with many other I ingredients whose odors it seems to blend into a whole In color it itis itis is ds is dark purplish in texture dry smooth and unctuous to the touch in taste bitter So pervading is it that the scent remains for centuries In 1558 Bloody Mary of England ordered Lady Cecily imprisoned imprisoned imprisoned in the Tower of London The governor of the tower who sympathized sympathized with his fair prisoner had her cell perfumed with musk The characteristic perfume is still discernible discernible dis dis- dis ce ible a after er nearly nealY 40 years years I Chemically musK contains ammonia ammonia ammonia am am- monia fatty matter a bitter resinous substance and other animal principles |