| Show WHERE SOME OF OUR IM PORTS COME FROM PERFUMES milady america paid during tile the last year for perfumes cosmetics and toilet preparations a fact chich has led to confused speculation by mere man as to what she did with them the real romance and adventure in the statement lies not so macli mach in the uses to which these imports were put as where they came from the sunny isles and lands along the mediterranean probably grew some of the flowers others perhaps were plucked by dark moorish lands hands in algeria and mayhap an animal in the broo brooding dlug lillis hills of western china gave its life I 1 to furnish one constituent of the perfume I 1 the vegetable kingdom Is necessarily the most fertile source of perfumes from its lowers flowers such as the rose and jessamine end and from its seeds woods and barks such as the spices and sandalwood da even eren the most fastidious would be able to select either some simple odor or a complex bouquet nor are they for perfumes alone but for scenting soaps creams pomades po mades and in making flavorings and extracts rosemary Ko thyme sweet basil and marjoram are found in great profusion in mediterranean countries and here the chemist can estill the whole plant and not bother about picking the lowers flowers Shakes shakespeare pedre the unfailing naturalist that he be WAS was made no error when he chose for ophella ophelia the flowers she scattered the old fashioned lavender flowers in which our grandmothers used to pack the household linen and th their air rich old lace grew best in france and england the rose geranium which has such an exquisite odor is also grown and distilled in france but spain algiers and the island of reunion engage in the industry unlike the lavender however the perfume of the rose geranium comes from its leaves and not from the flowers hut but the country that might well be known by its scent ie bulgaria for its rose crop is 13 second only to its tobacco over acres of land inthe provinces of and stara are given to the growth of roses from the petals of which attar of roses Is distilled in the wonderful gardens gard ens at Kazan Naza Hk karlovs Kar lovo Kil soura and stara tile the best of tile the flowers flover are grown about four thousand pounds of roses rosea are produced on an acre of land but it takes about two hundred pounds ot of petals to produce an ounce of oil fo for r an attar which before the war cost about 20 a pound inoes are grown in other parts of 0 the balkans as w well ell as in asiatic turkey und and in india persia the fadum province in egypt E agypt and in franco france the industry lately has been introduced into germany the animal perfumes are extremely lin limited in number ambergris la is secreted by the sperm whale civit by the an animal final of the same name and musk by the musk ox the musk rat and the musk deer which Is found in the high himalayas tibet and eastern siberia about ounces of m musk ask usk usually in the grain form are annually imported to tile the united states slates from china ch ina and india musk has one peculiar cu liar and almont inexplicable characteristic ter te t one lie grain ot of it kept freely e exposed to the lie air of a well ventilated ro room om will impregnate tile the atmosphere tor for ton ten years without sensibly di diminishing alwa in III acl allt |
