Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-30

credited at the polls still has control
OF an entire session of Congress, and
1t Is thirteen months after the election
, before the ley congress convenes un-
less called In special session, as VIII
to be done In April by the president.
elect.
Uncle Sans horiiculturists OF the
bureau Of plant industry are hard NJ
work on experiments with the view OF
growing a rose which thrives on Am.
erican soil and from which altar 81
roses can be successfully distilled. Tho
worlds supply Of this much prizei
perfume oil now largely from
southeastern Europe. Last years I'm.
| p~Ortation, about 10000 ounces, Dc a.
an average price of SIS an ounce. The
product from Bulgaria and southern
France Is often ad~ulterated, or Is OF
low grade. The purest altar of roses
produced is in Germany, but l, Is yer!
costly and very little is exported.
The plant industry bureau has beer
experimenting with the roses for well
nigh a year. One thousand varieties
we're imported from Europe and plant
| ed in q beautiful rose garden at histor'
ic Arlington. The first harvest was
gathered recently. Early in the morn
ing the roses were culled with the dew
still OH them. The petals were placed
a special still and distillation made by
applying a low pressure of steam. The
| product was found to be of much high.
er quality than that sold by the IN
dustrious peasants of southern Europe,
but the quantity was small, averag.
ing less than an ounce to the 4JO
pounds Of rose petals. The European
altar averages an ounce to 200 pounds.
Still, Uncle Sans horticulturists are
encouraged by the quality of the per-
fume they have produced, n they
fully believe that a somewhat higher
average quantity would justify Amer
lean manufactures placing an altar o.
domestic make in competition wltn
that OF Europe. They assure me that
some new methods Of distillation Will
be tried on the harvest" in next June.
Thomas A. Edison says that the
housewife OF the future will be neither
a slave to servants, nor herself a
drudge. She will give less attention to
the home, because the home Will need
less; she will be rather a domstlc
engineer than a domestic laborer, with
the greatest of all handmaidens, cleo
tricity, at her service.
This and other mechanical forces,
he says, will sc revOlutionize the W0-
man S world that a large part OF the
aggregate Of womans energy Will De
conserved for use in broader, more
constructive fields. 1t may be a per
fectly natural detail Of the develop
ment of the race that the modern wo.
mar not only does not wish to be, but
will not be-a servant.
This has had it's really unfortunate
effect in that it has led, of late years,
to general neglect of woman's work,
and has resulted in the refusal, or at
least the failure of many mothers to
rightly teach their daughters. Blu;
good will ultimately come of it, for the
necessities arising out Of w~omankind's
unWillingness have turned the minds
of inventors toward the creation of
mechanical devices to perform that
work which womaH used to do"
Foreign military and naval attaches
in Washington are warm in their con.
gratulations and the U. s. Army med.
ical officers are highly delighted over
the continued, success of the anti-ty.
phoid vaccination, the records concern
ing which recently received by the
Surgeon-general Of the army, surpass-
ed the expectations of even the adj
vocates of this measure OF prevention.
Among the57 900 troops in the United
States, for example, there have beer
during the past ten months only twelve
cases of typhoid fever and only two
deaths. Most OF those twelve cases
were among raw recruits who had not
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