The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-12-16
THE WILD YLANG-Y -YLANG
ESSENCE HAS NO EQUAL FOR
PURE AooREsslVENEss.
All Right In the Philippine Juneies'
but Take II Away From There
and It 10 Found I'M
possible.


~Did you ever come across the es'
sence Of ylangylang?" asked the man
from the Philippines. The real, un'
adulterated essence. not the perfume
mean. Well. n you haven't you've
certainly got an experience ahead OF
you.
I've never met anything 20 equal II
,or pure aggressiveness; a dinosaurus
On the warpath would be mild BESIDE
IT, It's astonishing. too, what II can
40 as an essence. when It's even pleas
ant In IT'S other forms.
Il can't think OF anything lovelier
than 10 get the breath Of II straight
from the groves. There are plenty OF
them in Malabon. a little way out
from Manila; In fact. almost every
native house In the place has a little
private forest OF them. and TO slide
down the river there, with the water
full OF stars and the palms and BAN
boo on the banks shivering In the
moonlight and the soft air in your
face family fragrant with ylang-ylang
there couldn't be anything more per
feet. Il seems to belong with the
songs that float out from the huts
along the shore-weird songs without
any beginning or end in a wailing wo'
mans voice
'But take It away from there, and
IT'S impossible No, don't like even
the perfume they make out Of II, and
that's tanned down, Of course; but as
an essence It's monstrous.
There's a factory in Manila where
they distir It from the little green
punches Of flowers the natives bring
IN by the basketful, and before I came
away I pulled together enough cour'
age to go out 10 II to buy some OF the
essence as a curiosity. OF course. !
had TO be carried away on stretcher,
and my health Is still somewhat I'm
paired; but I got away with a small
bottle of the stun.
THE other day I let a friend OF
mine, woman with taste for strong
perfumes, smell IT, To my surprise
she said she was delighted with 1t.
and asked il she could have a drop for
her handkerchief. AS she was just
leaving I gave It to her, and she went
OF smiling at It with evident pleas.
ure.
The next morning she called me
out of bed to the telephone to inform
me that she was going to bring suit
against me as accomplice to the bru-
tai attack made against her by the
ylang-ylang. 1t had been all right, she
said, until she had. got home, and
then it began to make itself obnox
ious.
'Tt was worse than a brass band on
her nerves. She had begun by putting
It under her pillow, then under the
mattress. then she tried burying It in
the floor under the carpet; but It was
too strong for her. There wasn't any
place she could put It that It couldn't
get out Of
"She hid it in her various cupboards
and locked the doors, but It wasn't
any use. The thing would slide out
and knock her down every time. She
says all the furniture and clothes in
the room will have to be burned, that
It's more expensive than a smallpox
quarantine.
Finally, when her strength was all
used up, she crawled to the window
and threw out the handkerchief with
the drop on It; but the policeman hap
pened to be on his beat about that
time, and he made her take it in. He
said they couldn't have that sort OF
thing on the streets
80 the family got together ano
made a big fire, and they tried to burr
It out Did they get rid of tt? Not
yet; it went up in smoke and now all
the neighbors are threatening to stone
them"