The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-07-27

All Right in The rhurppine jungle

All Right I'm the Philippine Jungle.
bat Too Powerful for CRY Use
Ffom DE New York SUM-
Did you ever come across the essence
OF ylang-ylang?" asked the man from the
Philippines. The real. unadulterated
essence. not the perfume. mean. Wen,
II you haven't, you've certainly got an
experience ahead OF you.
I've never met anything to equal It for
pure aggressiveness; a dinosaurs on the
warpath would be mild about II. It's as
tonishing, too. what II can do as an es-
sence, when it's even pleasant IN It's other
forms
I can't think OF anything loveller than
to get the breath Of It straight from the
groves There are plenty Of them in
Malabon. little way out OF Manila:
In fact, almost every native house in tive
place has little private forest OF thesa.
and to slide down the river there. with
the water full Of stars ant the palms and
bamboo on the banks shivering in the
moonlight and the soft air in your face
family fragrant with lang-ylang-there
couldn't be anything more perfect. It
seems to belong with the songs that float
out from the huts along the shore. weird
songs. without any beginning or end. in
woman's wailing voice
But take It away from there, and it's
impossible. No, don't Ike even the
perfume they make out or It, ana that's
tanned down. OF. course; but as an es-
senee It's monstrous.
There's a factory IN Manila where
they dlstin It from the little green
punches Of flowers the natives bring in by
the oasketful, and before I came away
pulled together enough courage 20 20 out
TO II to buy some Of the essence as a
curiosity. had TO be carried away on a
stretcher. and my health is stIu some
what impaired. but I got away with a
small bottle OF the stuff.
THE other day I let a friend OF mine.
a woman with a taste FOR strong perfumes,
smell it. To my surprise she said she
was delighted with IT, and asked II she
could have a drop for her handkerchief.
AS she was just leaving I gave It 70 her
and she went or sninng at It with evil
dent pleasure.
'The next morning she called me out
or bed 10 the telephone 70 inform me
that she was going 20 bring suit against
me as ar accomplice TO the brutal attack
made against her BY the yiang-ylang
II had been all right, she said, until she
had got home. and then # began 20 make
itself obnoxious.
II was worse than a brass band on her
nerves. She had begun by putting il
under her pillow. then under the mat
tress, then she'd buried it in the floor
under the carpet; but It was too strong
for her There WASN'T any place she
could put Il that Il couldn't get out Of
"She hid II 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 win
have 70 be burned: that its more expen-
sive than {. smallpox quarantine.
Finally when her strength was all
used up. she crawled 10 the window and
threw out the handkerchief with the drop
on IL: but the policeman happened to
be on his beat about that time and he
made her take it In. He said they could
not have that sort OF thing on the streets.
80 the family got together and made
big fire and they tried 10 burn II out
Did they get rid OF So Not yet; Il went
I'D in smoke. and now al the neighbors
ire threatening 70 stone them"