The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-29

ABSOLUTELY PURE

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companionship with one of the op
pcsite sex? A girls purity and per
feet Inconsistencies are her greatest
charms, and can we expect her 10
retain these graces in such an atmos-
| phere?
You may say bare legs are no more
demoralizing than bare shoulders, OF
wa 81 vslsfs st.,i l. ysty
ballroom. Granted; but because we
condone one indelicacy are we to
smile quitely on all? Round dances
have been the subject of pulpit ora
tory; let the moralist and preacher
nowstheir attention to this rapidly
increasing evil-L0dies'H Home Journal.
What Next?
Soon there will be n 10 profession or
trade left as a proud mans very own,
says the Pittsbusg Bulletin. Women
have successfully mastered farming,
doctoring, the law, telegraphy, and
many other pursuits, and now an Ohio
woman has begun work on a railroad
building contract. A female captain
cruises along the Atlantic coast in a
neat schooner of her own, and a
steamboat on the Mississippi possesses
a woman engineer.
For this Higher Education of m
A noteworthy event in the move
ment for the higher education of
women was the laying of the founda-
ton stone of the Janet buildings at
Trinity college, Melbourne, Australia.
In 1883 Trinity college authorities de-
cided, with some m~isgivings, to admit
women students to their lectures, and
a house in the neighborhood of the
college was rented as a residence for
lady students. To put this home on
a permanent basis Lady Clarke prom
ised a donation of e5, 900, which will
go far toward defraying the cost of the
g building. Sir NJ. H. Davies has
given So, 900 as the nucleus of an en-
downient fund. Miss Hensley, a for
NOR student of Newman college, has
been engaged by the council as lady
principal of what will be the first
Australian women's college.
Dainty Perfumes.
Those dainty, delicate perfumes
which the superfine and the vulgar
alike enjoy are obtained in a very
prosaic way. They are produced in q
land where the flowers are perennial,
but the processes of manufacture in
clude not only distillation and fer
mentation, but even boiling in fat.
A gentleman writing from Nice, where
the manufacture is carried on extern
sively, describes the process. In dis
tillation the flowers are boiled in an
Theoretically sealed copper vessel.
The steam as it condenses in it's pas
sage through a spiral coil exudes the
volatile essence drop by drop. and it
is collected in a small glass vessel.
The water IN the copper retains g
small portion Of the scent and becomes
the rose water or orange flower water
of trade. All flowers are not suscepti-
BILE of this treatment, and those that
are produce but a minute quantity,
the orange flowers, for instance, giving
but n gramme of essence for one
kilo or flowers, orbut one-thousandth
part.
The perfume from flowers which do
not contain the volatile essence is ex-
tracted by two processes. In the first
or cold process, cassie, jasmine, jon
quils, tuberoses, violets and some
other flowers freshly gathered, are
placed upon a layer of pure lard, a
quarter Of an inch in thickness, spread
over glass trays. The flowers are
changed every twelve, eighteen or
tw~entY-four hours, according to cir
cumstances, until the lard is sufIi-
GENTLY charged with perfume. Jas
mine and tuberoses are changed as
often as. fifty times, and the other
flowers from twenty to thirty times.
When the hot process is resorted to,
grease is placed in a copper vessel to-
gether with the flowers and the COM
pound is boiled. Additional flowers
are added from time to time until the
fat has absorbed the requisite amount
of perfume. BY another process the
perfumes are extracted from the fats,
and by blending these with the differ
emf essences the numerous scents are
obtained. Certain perfumes which
are of great use in the manufacture of
scents can only be obtained by the
fermentation of fruits, flowers and
roots.
The Emperor of China.
When the Emperor Of China made
his pilgrimage two or three months
ago to the tombs of his ancestors he
allowed himself to be seen by the
people, and even conversed with and
received petitions from them. This is