Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-11-23
PERFUME PEDDLERS.
LAVENDER FLOWERS AND CHINA
MON BEANS" FOR The FAkIRS.

Something 10 sell Amer the sea.oa az
Roasted chsssauts aud Hot Pap-csrn--
How Clever blossoms Are UTILISED and
Cs~ Beans Made UssfaI.
lavender Bowersf Stgewn between your
linen they preserve it from rust, they gle
10 . sweet scent aud keep tho moths out Of
your eloth-presss and chests Of drawerS
Swestscented lavender"
Summer Is full upon the city, and every
BODY who Ia anybody and has to stay In
town during the saison morts Is on state
street for q couple Of hours each day, des-
pits the heat The enterprising street fakir
knows that and his roasted cs~snuts and
hot pop corn have gons-together sxs DR.
Cursall's celebrated cough drops, oniJ .
nickel q package, six packages TOR quar-.
ter Of dollar, sample free to where tho
woodbins twinsth. They are out summer
ing these standard articles OF the ainbn-
liant vendors stock in trade
Something new had to he introduce |, or
rather, something old enough to be for
gotten posing Is new. That is driel .lay.
endsr. There ism 50 much lavender raised
In LowerY surrey and all the blooming
midland shires oil old England in ono season
as Ia exposed for sals state street or
petdled through the fashionable residence
thoroughfar~s of Chicago la one day. But
there In plenty OF big white clover raised in
Exypt-ths meadowy marshes Of southern
lllinoiA Carefully dried, these clover bios
SONS ioox for tho world lac law.
sndsr, and they can be bought at
cents pound, which rs about as much in
volume as an ordinary market basket wall
hold The eApsrIenced fakir is no mean
-. L.. al. "A ....A.
thoroughly how TO t'eat ten poands OF
clover blossoms In such manner With one
ounce OF OIL OF lavender that the scent will
last for days even In the open AIR Dip
your hands deep into the fragrant pile Is
not the odor 10 thoroughly up TO tine stand
ard mastery depicted by George Eiiot that
you imagine you stand in Adam Eeas's
workshop and inhals Lxture's sweetness ~
II Is waited into the open windows
But 10 come lack TO everyday prosa.
Ten pounds Of clover blossoms cost ~ cents,
an DUNES Of oil OF lavender, Just as murh.
MAKE twenty packages OF dried lavender,
OF each pound, sell each package at 10 cents,
AM you rake In s.0-a profit Of ~, for you
have 10 pay no rent Why, money is sill
lying around loose: one must tut under
stand how 10 pick it up
STORY oy the CINNAMON BEAN
NEXT 20 the dry lavender in venerable age
Ia the cinnamon bean, wnich will doubt
lass he Thought out soon by the indu,trious
fakir Whatever natural philosophers OF
| great depth Of mind and much apple atlor
may say In regard 10 the cinnamon, ever
II they 20 SO lar to say that the seed IL
no beAn but collection OF small kernels IN
q ibrous tissus-every body knows from hi.
chiidhood's days the delightful aromatic
ierfum. OF cinnamon, not only discernible
In the taste Of the big Gaze whioa mother
herself made for Easter sunday, but plainly
percsptible 20 the olfactory nerves IL Is
no vulgar, obtrusive scent, produced in .
chemists shop from distiliing, lriturating,
or blending cutyric ether, which ia turh Is
made from rancid butter and such FATTY
substances as are gained by boiling uowE
the malodorous ontsnts of ssarhase Larreh
| lit u natures own scent, sweet, subtle and
lasting. What do the memories oi
youth care for botanical incongrui
tissi The cinnamon bean has leer
dead 90 long tn &c IL viii most certainly be
resurrected Fortunes have been MIA 10 out
| Of It. and it will again furnish the isstivs
street vender with visible means OF support
Carried la the vest pocket il will again
apermeate your dress with a most wonderful
/ AMI lasting scent, which decsainls you rs a
man OF taste and good habits, and which IA
not a product Of eiisrvescing art hut Of
nature"
The receipt Is easy. Purchase bushel ol
| what is known in kitchen parlancs as COW
beans They cost about FL n busheL Soak
them well until they swell up. then dry
thsn In the open air, ami, II dry, roast
them while adding OIL OF cinnamon, aUoui
four ounces 70 the busheL Then select q
prominent street corner, sprinkle oil OF Gin
namon for half a block in every direction
sprinkle your own cloths with 10 until
about 81 has been expended for the essen
tiai oil Then sell the leans at ~ cent
apfsce Be careful to select another corner
farther OF, the next day, sprinkle again oil
over the remnant and over your clothes
and Shen tho bushel rs sold you will havs
made about l,a0o But do not buy any
cinnamon b sans yourself at street corners =
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