Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-04-29
WHERE SOME OF OUR I'M
Il PORTS COME FROM =
NJ PERFUMES h

Milady America paid $4,972,541, dur
ing the last year for perfumes, cos
metics and toilet preparations, fact
which has led to confused specula-
ton by mere man as to what she did
with them. .eH 2af IS ~
The real romance and adventure In
the statement lies not so much In the
uses to which these imports were put
as where they came from. The sunny
isles and lands along the Mediterrane-
an probably grew some of the flowers,
others perhaps were plucked by dark
Moorish hands in Algeria, and mayhap
an animal in the brooding hills Of
western China gave its life to furnish
yone constituent Of the perfume.
10 The vegetable Kingdom Is necessarily
the most fertile source of perfumes.
From its flowers such as the rose and
jessamine, and from Its seeds, woods
and barks, such as the spices and san
dalwood, even the most fastidious
connoisseur would be able to select
either some simple odor or complex
bouquet. Nor are they for perfumes
alone, but for seeming soaps, creams,
pomades, and In making fiavorings
and extracts.
Rosemary, thyme, sweet basil, and
marjoram are found In great pro-
| fusion in Mediterranean countries, and
here the chemist can distiil the whole
I plant and not bother. about picking
the flowers Shakespeare. the unfail-
Ing naturalist that he was. made no
error when he chose for Opheiia the
flowers she scattered.
The old-fashioned lavender flowers
In which our grandmothers used 70
pack the household Hnen, and their
rich old lace grew best In France and
England.
~ The rose geranium. which has such
an exquisite odor Is also grown and
distilled In Frances but Spain, Algiers,
and the Island OF Reunion engage in
the industry Unlike sthe lavender,
however, the perfume of the rose ger.
ranlum comes from, its leaves and not
from thes fiowersvlinE ve7TA rol'sNls
b. But thencountry that might wen be
knowingly it's scentiis' Bulgaria. for It's
rose crop is second only to its tobacco
! Over 1880 acres of 4lanti1 In the prov
inces of PhfhppopoIisl and sStafa Ia
CORA are given TO THE growth of roses
i from the, petals ofrwhich5attars of roses
Is distilled. lin the wonderful gardens
at Kazanlik, Karlovo, Kiisoura and
Stara Zagora, the Of thee flowers
are grown ca9 e1lVTs1 sr1oN aFt
j About four thousand pounds of roses
are produced on an acre of land, but
1T takes about two hundred pounds
of petals to produce an ounce of oil,
for an altar which before the war cost
about $3.50 pound.
y 3 Roses are grown in other parts OF
the Balkans, as well as in Asiatic Tur'
Ekey. and in India, Persia, the rFayum
lprovince In Egypt, and in France. The
industry lately has been introduced
into Germany.
Hna The animal perfumes are extremely
dslimited in number. Ambergris is Sc
creted by the sperm whale, civit BY the
u animal Of the same name, and musl
"A by the musk OK, the musk rat, and
/, the musk deer, which is found In the
| high Hfmalayas, Tibet, and eastern
4 siberia. About $4,000, ounces Of musk
usually in the grain form, are annual
" imported to the United States from
China and India, Musk has one pc
cpliar and almost inexplicable charac
[ teristic. One, grain oflits kept freel,
exposed to the air Of well-ven tilatet
! room, will impregnate the atmospher
for ten years without sensibly diDlin
} ishing In weight