The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1911-02-04
THE WILD YEhNG- YLANG
ESSENCE HAS NO EQUAL FOB
PURE AGGRESSlVENESS.
All Right in the Philippine Jun9'es
but Take 1t Away From There
and it Is Found I'M
possible.

did you ever come across the es'
sence of ylang-ylang?" asked the man
from the Philippines The real, uh'
adulterated essence. not the perfume,
I mean Well. If you haven't, you We
certainly got an experience ahead o.
YOU
I've never met anything to equal II
'or pure aggressiveness; a dinosaurus
On the warpath would be mild beside
it. It's astonishing, too, what it can
10 as an essence. when Use even pleas
ant in its. other forms!
Il can't think of anything lovelier
han to get the breath Of it straight
rom the groves. There are plenty OF
hem in MalahSn, a little way out
from Manila; in fact, almost every
.oative house in the place has little
private forest of them. and to slide
down the river there, with the water
'ull of stars and the palms and BAN
loo on the banks shivering In the
moonlight and the soft air in your
face family fragrant with ylang-ylans
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 1t. and
hats tanned down, Of course; but as
an essence it's monstrous.
There's a factory in Manila where
hey distill it from the little green
punches of flowers the natives bring
n by the basketful. and before | came
away Il pulled together enough cour-
,ge to go out to it to buy some of the
ESSENCE as a curiosity OF course, |
lad to be carried away on stretcher,
and my health is still somewhat i'm
paired; but l got away with a small
bottle OF the stuff
THE other day I let a friend OF
mine, a woman with taste for strong /
perfumes. smell It, To my surprise.
she said she was delighted with it. |
apd asked if she could have drop for |
her handkerchief As she was just |
leaving 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.
tal attack made against her by the
It had been all right, she
said. until she had, got home, and
hen 1t began to make itself obnox
GUS.
1T was worse than a brass band on
Ter nerves. She had begun by putting
t under her pillow. then under the
mattress. then she tried burying 1t in
he floor under the carpet; but it was
90 strong for her There wasn't any
place she could put It that it couldn't
yet out of.
"She hid it in her various cupboards
md locked the doors, but it wasn't
my 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
uarantine.
Finally, when her strength was all
sed up, she crawled fo the window
nj threw out the handkerchief with
he drop on it; but the policeman hap
ened to be on his beat about that
Ime, and he made her take it in He
aid they couldn't have that sort of
hing on the streets
so the family got together and /
lade big fire, and they tried to burn {
out. Did they get rid of it? Not !
ct; it went up in smoke. and now all
he neighbors are threatening to stone ]
lem" E