The Washington herald., 1910-06-05

natural smell as obtained from roses in
great quantities-will act upon the person
as though he or she had been famed by
a breeze
The rose curist asserts that if the scent
is inhaled directly from the very heart OF
the flower it is more beneficial to the pa
| tiert than though IL were inhaled at long
distance through an essence or an ex-
tract. There are different ways of ad-
ministering the rose medicine. The pa
| tent can make a pillow OF roses; on this
she should lay her head, taking care that
half a dozen OF the blooms are so ar
ranged that they point toward the face
In this altitude her nose and mouth are
buried IN their sweetness. The idea is 10
go to sleep on a bed Of roses; when you
wake up your headache Will be cured
The best rose is the garden rose, as II
retains its red rose scent without having
lost anything by being cultivated One
OF the rose treatments is through the
eyes, for the nervous man or woman
people who cannot endure the sight Of
| blood. who cannot see suffering. whom
an injured animal win unnerve for day.
When undergoing a severe nervous strain
it is a good plan TO take rose and hold
it 30 the nostrils; breathe deeply OF the
scent
or stories and romances Of roses there
is no end. A traveller passing through
Persia CHANGED to take into his hand a
lump of clay. To his surprise, It exhaled
a delicate perfume. Thou art but a poor
lump of clay" said he, yet how sweet
thou art. Whence comes this delicious
| fragrance" The clay replied: Il have
been dwelling with the rose" The Hin
docs have myth concerning Yishnu, one
of the trinity of bright Aryan gods.
that he discovered his wife, Pagoda Siri.
in the heart of a rose. The Persian Che
bers say that when Nimrod commanded
and their infant prophet Abraham was
cast into fire. the glowing bed of Goals
was instantly turned into bed of roses.
wherein the child sweetly slumbered.''
The Greeks give the rose lover in the
person Of Zephyr, the son of the dawn.
who discovered the rose in bud and
| caressed it when 1t Enclosed to his WOO
| ing. The Persians make lovennates OF the
nightingale and rose, the bulbul and the
gull. Originally the rose was white. but
| according to the Persian poet. Jami. the
| nightingale in the ardor OF his love
| pressed his breast against the encircling
thorns and covered her delicate petals
with his flowing blood" Another account
/ is that Venus. fearing for her lover.
Adonis. the vengeance of Mars, hid him
in thicket of roses. Blon. in his famous
idyl on the death of Adonis, says of
Venus, weeping over her dying lover:
Both tears and drops OF blood were
turned to flowers,
From these in crimson beauty sprane the
rose,
Ceruiean bright anemones from those"
Thorns are accounted for in an equally
fanciful way Cupid STOPPING to kiss a
new-blown. dewy rose, was stung by a
bee asleep in its heart. To please the
petulant boy, Venus strung his bow with
captive bees and planted along the stem
of the rose the stings torn from them
Hippocrates. the god of silence, carries
as his symbol the rose given to him bv
Cupid From the idea of secrecy or ra.
serve that associates itself with roses
came the old custom recorded bv the
Greeks. When the people Of the North
they gay. wished 10 preserve the mos,
profound secrecy in regard to what was
said between themselves at their feasts
freshly gathered rose was hung from
the ceiling above the upper end of the