The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-26
TOO MUCH OF GOOD THING
Preparers of Altar of Roses Loathe
and Disgust Fine Perfumes.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 25.-No perfume
Is more exquisite than altar of roses TO
the nostrils of the average man o. wo-
man. Yet the dwellers in and about
Smyrna, where it is principally prepared.
are said TO so loathe and detest it that
they will go miles out of their way, when
not actually engaged at the vats, in or
der to avoid the odor that is waited
abroad during the process OF distllation-
Similarly musk is said 10 be the most
abhorred of all scents among the semi
wild musk-deer hunters of the Thibetan
plateaux. Indeed. it appears 10 inspire
iu them much the same instructive dis
gust as does the effluvia of the skunk or
polecat among US, and they are utterly
unable to understand how any one can
find pleasure in inhaling it.
The salmon Gamers of Alaska, after
several months steady diet Of freshly
caught fish, grow to so loathe the succu-
lent meat that many of them become
really and seriously III, and some among
them have been known 10 practically die
of starvation in the midst Of plenty. In
the spring of 1856, for instance, the Col
urnbian Canning companys steamer,
Ariel, calling at Orea, a small station
near the outlet of the Copper River,
found the fishermen there eating their
leathern belts and aceounterments. They
had long before devoured their oil skins
And all the while they had by them some
hundreds of tons Of salmon. both timed
and frozen.
A similar strange loathing, too, mani
tests itself among the cod fishers of the
Newfoundland banks after a protracted
cruise. Sailing ships, driven across the
fishing grounds by stress of weather, find
the fishermen only too eager TO exchange
half dozen fine fresh fish. weighing per-
haps several hundredweight, for n few
ounces of rancid pork.
The novices among the coolie pineap-
pie Gamers of Singapore frequently SUI
fer from a virulent skin eruptive disease
owing to their greediness in devOuring
the luscious fruit After a few weeks
however, they experience a violent nau-
sea at the mere sight Of a pineapple, SO
that in maay instances they are obliged
70 temporarily leave off work; and this
again is succeeded by a species Of chronic
but apathetic abhorrence. which permits
OF their going on canning the pines, but
absolutely preclueds their using them as
food.
In the great cigarette factory at Seville.
the largest in the world. employing some
Il. .0OJ women and girls. there are not more
than 200 habtual users OF the weed And
this I'm a country where practically every
other woman-among the lower orders, at
al events-is an inveterate cigarette
smoker.
Chartreuse. that most delicious of liq-
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manufacture it. Not, however. because
they are forbidden is use. but because
as novitiates. they are purposely encour-
aged to sip and sip. and sip again, until
a state Of safety is superinduced from
which they never properly emerge.
Nor is the curios adherence toward the
products OF their own industry confined
solely 10 people handling or producing
eatables. drinkables or perfumes It IS
fact well known TO medical specialists
that prolonged exertion in any one direc-
ton IS ant to induce = stage Of morbid
nervous irritation which absolutely pre-
cludes the patient from following his av-
ocaton.
A telegraph operator. for instance.
awakes one morning 70 fnd he has sud
denly developed 50 inviueible a repuE-
nance to tapping the keys that any at
tempt 10 do 50 throws him into more or
less violent tremors The musician dis
covers that a similar effect IL produced
when he tries 70 play the piano. violin.
or whatever INSTRUMENT he may choose
Nor are these. and other similar ail-
nents. bv any mems Imaginary OF the
uart of the patients. on the contrary,
they are exceedingly real and recognized.
being known to medical men indiaerently
under the generic titles - 'fatggo dis
cases. ..handlcraft spasm.' OF "co-ordI-
rate busin4s trcmer = typical case
s. related II a woman who bad f1r q
rer59d ri twenty wears. worked at making
knife handles in a large faCto-v near
Rheims Then one day. without the
slightest warning she developed 80 vio-
leut az anunathy toward her particular
work that any attempt 20 perform g
thraw her ir-o violent commissions - a
kirI rot unlike those produced II O hy-
srorho1Ic patient b. The ofer of wsrer-
she was rl.t 10 forr.ng blades and wo-k-
- il thar capacity steaeiiy and ven. blit
vsreaever she attemep-ef 20 return fo
Eer orieinaI canacitgsh hr,iluefaoi shriilu
her orirmal vocation her rnalady reas-
serted itself anl compelled her saosar -
int-r - reiinruish her task
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