The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-16
THE WILD YLANG- YLAHe
All Right In the Philippine Junsiso,
but Take II Away From There
and II Is Found i'm
possible.

Did you ever come across the es-
sence of ylang-ylang?" asked the man
from the Philippines. THE real. un-
adulterated essence. not the perfume,
l mean. Well. If you haven't. you've
certainly got an experience ahead of
you
I've never met anything to equal II
for pure aggressiveness; a dinosaurs
on the warpath would be mild beside
1t. It's astonishing. too. what It can
do as an essence, when it's even pleas
ant in its other forms.
Il can't think of anything lovelier
than to get the breath of 1t straight
from the groves. There are plenty OF
them in Malabon, little way out
from Manila; in fact, almost every
native house In the place has little
private forest Of them, and TO slide
down the river there, with the water
full OF stars and the palms and bam-
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. 1t 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 It, and
that's tanned down, of course; but as
an essence it's monstrous.
There's a factory in Manila where
they distill 1t from the little green
punches of flowers the natives bring
in by the basketful and before came
away l pulled together enough cour-
age to go out to 1t to buy some of the
essence as a curiosity OF course, !
had to be carried away on a stretcher.
and my health is still somewhat i'm
paired; but ! got away with small |
bottle of the stuff.
"The other day let a friend of
mine, woman with a taste for strong |
perfumes. smell it. To my surprise,
she said she was delighted with It,
and asked if she could have a drop for
her handkerchief AS she was just
leaving / gave 1t to her, and she went
off smiling at it with evident pleas
1re.
THE next morning she called me
put of bed to the telephone to inform
me that she was going to bring suit
against me as accomplice to the bru-
al attack made against her by the
1t had been all right, she
said, until she had, got home, and
hen II began to make itself obnox-
Gus.
1T was worse than a brass band on
Ter nerves. She had begun by putting
I under her pillow. then under the
mattress. then she tried burying It in
he floor under the carpet; but It was
90 strong for her. There wasn't any
lace she could put 1t that 1t couldn't
,et out Of
"She hid 1t in her various cupboards
nd locked the doors, but 1t wasn't
ny use. The thing would slide out
nd knock her down every time. She
avs all the furniture and clothes In
he room will have to be burned, that
Is more expensive than a smallpox
Finally, when her strength was all
sed up, she crawled to the window
nd threw out the handkerchief with
ne drop on It; but the policeman hap
ened to be on his beat about that
me. and he made her take It in. He
aid they couldn't have that sort OF |
ling on the streets. ;
so the family got together and
Iade big fire, and they tried to burn ,
out. did they get rid of It? Not I
ct; 1t went up in smoke, and now all I
lie neighbors are threatening to stone I
lem" ,
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