The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-08
PERFUME PEDDLERS.
LAVENDER FLOWERS AND "c,NNA-
MON BEANS" FOR THE FAkIRs

something to Sell After the Season Of
Roasted Chestnuts and Hot Pop-Corn-
now Glover Blossoms Are Utilized and
Cow Beans Made Useful.
Lavender flowers, fresh, genuine. English
iaVender howersl Strewn between YOUR
unen they preserve it from rust, they gi ye
F" sweet scent and keep the moths out of
your oth-pressas and chests OF drawers
Sweet-scented lavender
summer is full upon the city, and every
oooy who is anybody and has to STAY in
Town during the saison morte is on State
street for a couple of hours each day. des.
pite the heat The enterprising street fakir
Knows tnat, and his roasted ckeStnuts and
noS pop corn have gone-together wS3 DIR.
Cureaiis celebrated cough drops, onl, o
nicKei Iackage, six packages for a our
ter OF a dollar, sample free-to where the
woodolne twineth. They are out summer
tlese standard articles of the ambu
Int venders stock in trade
something new hai TO be intro luce !, or
ra1ner, something old enough to be for
so.leA posing as new. That is dried Law
ehder. 1here Ism so much lavender raised
III towery Surrey and all the bloomin,
midland shires Oh old England in one season
as Is exposed for sale ON State street O,
p-ouieo through the fashionable residence
teor-ughfares OF Chicago in one day. But
tnere Is plenty of big wEite clover raised in
ESypt-the meadowy marshes of southern
Illinois Carefully dried, these clover bios
SONS LOOK for the world ike Inv
ender, and they can Le bought at :
cents pound, which is about as much in
q m nYfliv
hold. The EXPERIENCED fakir is no mean
adept in chemistry, and he understands
thoroughly how to treat ten pounds of
clover blossoms in such a manner with one
ounce OF Oil or lavender that the scent will
last for days even in the open air. Din
your hands deep into the fragrant pile. Is
not the odor SO thoroughly up to the stand
ard mastery depicted by George Eliot that
you imagine you stand in Adam EeIe'.
workshop and inhale Lqture's sweetness as
it Is waited into the open windows.
But to come back to everyday prose
Ten pounds Of clover blossoms cost 50 cents:
an ounce of oil of lavender, Just as much
Mae twenty packages of dried lavender. =
of each pound, sell each package at 10 cents,
ami you ra1e in S2Q-a profit of $40 for vos
have to pay no rent Why, money is still
lying around loose; one must but under.
stand how to pick it up
STORY OF THE CINNAMON BEAN
Next to the dry lavender in venerable age
Is the cinnamon beam" which will doubt
less be Thought out soon by the industriou.
. fakir Whatever natural philosophers O
great depth of mind and much application
may say in regard to the cinnamon, even
II they 20 so far as to say that the seed is
no bean but collection OF small kernels in
hbrouS tissue-everybody knows from hi:
childhood's days the delightful aromatic
lerfume OF cinnamon, not only discernible
in the taste of the big CAKE which mother
herself made for Easter Sunday, but plainly
perceptible to the olfactory nerves 1t il
no vulgar, obtrusivs scent, produced in g
chemists shop from distilling, triturating
or blending Iutyric ether, which in turn j.
made from rancid butter and such fatty
substances as are gained by boiling down
the malodorous ontents of .>arbage barrei
it is natures own scent sweet, subtle and
lasting. What do the memories OF
youth care for botanical incongru,
ties! The cinnamon bean has Leen
dead so long thit it will most certainly be
resurrected. Fortunes have been ma lie out
of it, and it will again furnish the festive
street vender with visible means of support
Carried III the vest pocket it will again
"permeate your dress with most wonderful
AMI lasting scent, which declaims you as q
man OF taste and good habits, and which is
not a product of effervescing art but ci
nature"
The receipt is easy. Purchase bushel o.!
what is known in kitchen parlancs as COW
beans. They cost about 81 bushel. Soak
them well until they swell I'D, then dry
them in the open air, and, il dry, roast
them while adding oil of cinnamon, aboui
four ounces to the bushel Then select q
prominent street corner, sprinkle oil OF Gin
namon for half block in every direction
sprinkle your own cloths with it unit
about s. has been expended for the essen
tial oil Then sell the beans at III cents
a. iece Be careful to select another corner:
.arther off, the next day, sprinkle again oil
over the remnant and over your clothes
and "nen the bushel is sold you will have
made about $l,.0l But do not buy any
cinnamon b ans yourself at street corners -
Chica NawS