Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-02-24
SWEET. SENTIMENTAL SMELLS.
Real and Bogus Bears Grease-Hair
Dyes Oils and Handkerchief
Scents.

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Scents
a reporter was looking for some spe
cially sentimental perfumes for his
sweetheart the other day, when an ell
derry gentleman, with only rim of
thin gray hair around his bald crown,
came in to buy some bears grease.
When he had gone the reporter asked IL
bears grease is as popular now as it
used to be, and the perfumer replied no.
"People have dropped to it." he said.
''How do you mean?" asked the re-
porter.
when bears grease and oil first
came in. you see," replied the perfu-
mer, lit was recommended chiefly as
an inyigorator and promoter of the
growth of the hair, an idea doubtless,
based on the fact that bears are very
hairy. and that their fat has something
TO do with it. There was a very heavy
run on bear pomatums in consequence,
a much heavier run, indeed. than the
market could legltimately supply. The
consequence was that only a few choice
customers got real BEARS grease, and
even these ran the risk of getting it
adulterated with beef marrow. suet and
mutton fat. The bears grease made
for ordinary sale was simply axouge, t.
use the trade term, or, in plain English,
lard. Lard is the basis of all ordinary
pomatums nowadays, no matter what
the manufacturers may assure you. 1t
has no effect whatever ON the hair as
far as L know, except to keep it plas-
tered down. Consequently the bald
people who expected bears grease to
bring the capillary sprouting out OH
them like grass under a spring shower
were grievously disappointed, and be-
gan looking for Lew remedy. The
supply was of course furnished them.
The old fats, differently perfumed,
were labeled pomade plutocome, OK
marrow. or something of the sort, and
after having their run gave place to
others, The same rule applies with hair
oils, from the once famous macassar
down to the brllliantlnes and tonics of
to-day. They are pretty much all alike
"a basis of castor oil cut with alchohol
and perfumed to suit. Some will retain
their popularity for years, Others be for
gotten after the first lot is sold. Then
new labels are gotten up, and out they
90 for a fresh trial. There Is no waste
in the hair oil and pomatum manufac-
tnre. What doesn't go under one name
does under another.
''Still there are some difference in the
fine and costly hair oils and pomatums.
Thus macaSsar oil of the best sort is
made of olive, rose, and cassia oils. 1t
is scented with cloves and orchanet.
Another vefy expensive oil is Bachelors
oil. 1t is made by boiling whole cloves
and cinnamon bark, chopped fine, in
castor oil. A famous French oil is
made of beeswax and walnuts, stewed
in spirits of wine, bergomot and musk.
Another rival unguent is made of the
melted fat OF birds scented with berga-
mot. These compounds cost their
weight in gold at retail almost. There
are about hundred different kinds of
pomatum in the market now, and more
of oils. Some of these are old and have
made fortunes for their compounders.
Dyes are also profitable. Goose grease
or tallow and nitrate of silver are the
chief factors IN the creation of hair dye.
There are brown as well as black dyes
to be obtained, these being chemical
secrets which their possessoTs jealousy
guard. Some dyes nowadays are made
so that they can be carried around and
applied whenever the dyer feels like it,
Others have to be pat on with the ut
most care All of them ruin the hair in
the end and leave the man who uses
them In condition which the grease of
ali the bears in the world could not help
him cut of.
Dat ha frndn i., oil
lines is in a decline. People are COM
menclng to submit to gray hair now,
and the patent pOmatums and oils have
taken the place of the old fancy COM
pounds. The BARRIERS who used 10 be
such good customers, now manufacture
their own unguentS, purchasing the
essential oils for scenting them from
the wholesalers, and making the mix
lures themselves. In Europe where
gentlemen's Wallets do their barbering
for them, there is still pretty lively
dema 1d for oils and pomades, but here
it is comparatively light. Americans
are nc fgreat hands at shaving or fixing
themselves up at home They go to
the barber to have it done, and few
old timers and young dandieS are about
all the customers l have in the grease
line now. The perfume trade nowadays
is the one the money is in."
There is money in it, eh?"
mo end. Everybody uses scents
row. from the swells of Fifth avenue
to the street children, who buy what
they call cologne from the sidewalk
fakirs for a nickel a bottle. You don t
hear much of the scent manufacturing
business, but l can assure you it is a
vast industry. There is in Philadelphia
one of the biggest factories for fancy
soaps and perfumes in the world, and
in New Y York and Cincinnati an immense
quantity is made annually. The Paris |
and London perfumers send a great |
deal over. too. They make a specially |
of certain fine perfumes, some OF which |
have held their popularity for years,
while our own manufacturers go In for |
new combinations. Next to Cologne, |
the most profitable scent in the world |
has been, probably, Florida water,
which was created in New York and Is
the chief perfume In use throughout
Central and South America, almost to |
tha axclusion of all OtherSD