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Evening star., 1921-04-17
AROUND THE CITY

So poor Jenny Grove turned over
and died, and next day while the cruel
one was crossing a field she heard the
death knell toll and
"She turned her body round about,
And spied the corpse a-comin';"
Lay down, lay down the dead" she
cried,
THAT l may look upon him."
So she looked, and the sight * her
dead love gave her such a remorse
that she went home and walled out to
her poor ma. who must have had a
hard time with Barbara, going and
coming:
"Oh. mother. mother. make my bed"
and Mrs. NJ. G. knows the rest
There was something highly salts
factory in the old songs; they were as
full of plot as dime novel-and. hav-
ing had their dramatic day, both went
out into that night we know as OBJ
livion.
And that would be all. except that
when you start a "once- on timer y
on the old song trail you need help to
make her stop-and. anyhow, as it
will please our lavender and lace
lady, and as Erddah once told the
bird in the Bo tree that small kind
ness is greater than mountains
here goes:
I'm the old days-don't demand
dates-the summer house in the gar
den was romantic institution. and
young ladies (women hadn't arrived)
entertained their callers on twilight
balconies and front porches And as the
stars came out. some one would start
,, to sing, Soft Ger the Fountain and
always there would be some other
one to lead out with Ever of Thee
| am Fondly Dreaming And an even
ing concert could never get along
q ha N hor
the Mohawk Gently GlideS,' and may
be some sentimental young baritone
| would slip into the dark parlor strike
few low, impassioned chords in G
major. and sing:
1--WE met. twas in a crowd,
And I thought he would shun me-
"She knew every word of the fool
ish old thing. and when she had fin
ished she went through Mary of the
Wild Moor and after that. The Cot
tage by the Sea- and that choice lyric
| about the old miller who lived over
the Dee
And, best Of all: I remember Jane,
with her golden skin and her golden
voice. who had been a slave. and how
she would let out that magnificent
contralto of hers in Roll on. silver
moon. guide the traveller on his way
| and I'll hang my harp on the willow
tree and off to the wars again. I've
heard every great contralto from
Anna Louise Carey to date, and there
has never been one Of them that could
hold a candle to Jane"
And that ended the concert. because
the once -on "a timer was weeping over
a slave girl. who had gone. before
most of US had come on earth.
Aren't women the curious things!
Especially old-maidy ones.
MAMIE LANCASTER.
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education and a flock of outspoken
debts; while Godfrey. tender De-
gonia attired in curly hair and gait-
ers, was chairman of all the idle
Women's anti and religious CLUBS IN
London.
The moonstone was to be presented
on Rachaers birthday anniversary.
There was a dinner party. and Just
beforehand Godfrey led Rachael forth
to the garden and she shook her head.
Very awkward" muttered Godfrey,
Handing me the huckleberry at
time like this"
At. dinner, Rachael wore the dia-
mond, and from the first the curse
seemed to be full Of pep All OF the
guests quarreled: Even. the sweet ht-
tie physician. DIR. Candy. lost his
temper when Franklin Blake insisted
that though he didn't sleep well,
laudanum wouldn't help him sleep
The butler quietly removed the
knives from the table.
Suddenly from the terrace came the
strLm of an Indian kettle drum. Tne
guests poured out to see three Hin
doc jugglers performing tricks.
The next morning the diamond was
gonen
Next in the horror-scope came the
police. The locals gummed things up
for fair. so Sergt. Cun. speciaiis.
from LONDON, was sent ioi- = "S 80 -
thing that he glued his eagle eye on
was a splotch of smeared paint on
Rachaels sitting room door.
Who got the diamond?
There was the lily pure Godfrey
kist by the morning dew, anxious 10
show his wardrobe against telitale
paint smears Franklin Blake. right
hand man to Sergt. Cuff. was eager
to do anything to help locate the un-
lucky stone. Rachael alone refused
to have her lingerie handled by a
policeman. Then, too. there was a
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! second housemaid, Rosanna Spear
man, who hailed from a reformatory,
who kept lodging around like cat
shot with tacks. The sergeant gave
up the job.
Rachael slipped Franklin a few
harsh words, and he left for the con-
tinent Godfrey returned to lecture
to his Ladies' Club in London. Ra-
chael being i'll, DR.. Candy was sent
for. but the doctor himself was very
ill with brain fever and couldn't come.
Kosanna Spearman took a dive in a
bed of quicksand, and refused to leave
a forwarding address. Rachaefs
mother took Rachael to London.
One day few weeks after Mr..
Septimus Luker, a three-ball baron,
with a non-inquiring nature. made a
deposit of valuable package at the
bank. Almost simultaneously, both
Mr.. Luke and Godfrey Ablewhite were
jiu- -jitsued and raffled by three dusky
gentlemen from India.
Godfrey slipped Rachael another
chance to call him her own. and to his
surprise she took it. -
ERANKLIN BLAKES father died.
and he returned to England. He
went to call on Rachael. but she
wouldn't see him. He went back to
the country house. to try his luck
once again at locating the moonstone.
thinking maybe that had something
to do with kachaers nasty disposi-
ton. He was handed a note written
to Rosanna' Spearman just before she
kicked the bucket, telling him to dig
UP certain spot and he would find
the shimmy shirt with the paint spot
| on it that Sergt. Cuff had been sleuth-
| ing for. He dug. he found. he beheld
~ ieyHt Chi irtf - !,
paint. (Moral, he should have worn
| pajamas).
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they may not use them. some Brit
ishers having decreed it bad taste
to smell of anything but castillo soap
and water. Perfumes are for Wom-
en-. Also, the fine perfumes of mark
are expensive. They are stingy, In
full and fanciful that they cost almost
as much as their contents. And here
we are at Grasse, the fountainhead
of fragrance! Here Well lay up
stocks. The real thing-wholesale.
HERE, then. there is disappoint-
4 ment know of no honester
or more skillful firms in the world
than that of Rousse-Bertrand or Jean
Giraud Fills or Bruno Court. Yet. do
you see their names on bottles in
the department stores? NO. never.
What is their business? What is
the trade OF Grasse? These firms
are vastly important. They slaugh-
ter ton of roses to make a quart
of concentrated essence Of rose,
which they sell for. say, $500
francs-one quart! They san cultivate,
of grange flowers to make a quart of
neroli. worth up to 1900 francs. Who
buy these terrific essences by the
dozens of gallons? Why, the big
blending perfumers of Paris, London
and New York-they only.
know men who walk lonely
streets. guiltily shifting a handker-
chief soaked in "L'Heure Bleu" or
Fleurs." But III tell you
this-he will not go shifting tube
rose, pink. minosa or any other sim
ply flower SOUL" for any length of
time.
Here is the disillusion. Simple
flower perfumes pail. Let him try
it. and he will soon discover that
A primrose by the rivers brim,
yellow primrose is to him.
And 1t Is nothing more.
"Quelques Fleurs'' ie more than
"a few flowers" and Guerlain has
been seeking for years a second
'Jicky" combination-whic is made
enormously of aromatics.
Even jasmine tires! Ambergris.
called the perfumer's talisman." is
the product of a whale. Musk Is the
of the Himalaya he-deer
Civet is from the wildcat of North
Africa. Chemical perfumes furnish
not only fraudulent mutations. but
precious "colors" for the perfume
artists pallet. For example, lilac
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out as soon as they was lit because
you got to be careful of your candles
when you live in a place where the
electric light goes out every time
But the big party come off at night
in n. Y. city. This was give in my
honor at some friends Of mine and
when we entered the apt. all the
merry makers was there and the
lounge was a litter OF presents and
from my boss which didn't have no
card to tell who it was from but I
seen him wear it too many times too
not know.
me with some handsome golf acces-
sorys. and one of the ones Rube give
me was what they call a parachute
golf ball. which is a regular golf ball
with parachute tied to it and the
directions says it's "for practicing
limited area. The parachute pre-
vents the ball from travelling very
far" Which 1 suppose the theory is
O. X, but / can get the same results
without no parachute.
Mr.. Rice give me split midiron
and golf bag that you can put
clubs of any length in it because
theys no bottom. and he also give
me a dozen golf balls that 1 washed
them up the next day with soap and
water and of them turned pretty
near white.
\ X r X
NINE hostess give me a kind OF
~'A a patent lighter that you fill it
with kerosene and use it to start a
fire in the fireplace instead of kin
ding wood. Most of these here pat
ents is no good and / amt tried this
one vet but if it don't work IL GER
tainly won't be from lack of. ex-
perience.
Another Of the fair ladies give me
electric flash light to use when
they was tire trouble at night, or
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bought their dining rm. furniture
that they would ever live anywheres
bigger than Nashville.
The piece of most resistance was a
Virginia ham that friends had sent
them, and the hostess said she had
showed it to her butcher and he said
it was worth s22. but he was stocked
up with ham so we had it and it made
4 courses and the 5th course was
individual birthday cakes which / eat
one of them, but the other guests just
tasted theirs and said they would
save the rest till their birthday.
X X X
A FTER supper they was a choice of
L minoru or deuces wild and they
made me play in the deuces wild
because they seen me win once at
minoru and they kept the jazz turned
on and if a person wasn't interested
in their hand they could get up and
dance and the only hand l got all
evening was 4 deuceS and ace and
it come when 1 and my brother was
the only ones not dancing.
Well, the Mrs. finely come up and
says it was time to go home, and l
knew without counting my chip that
/ was SIS loser as she is a stickler
for the conventions one of which is
that when your husbands S15 loser
its time to go home So everybody
says NANNY happy returns and we
started home and was all most there
when a tire blowed out and the Mrs.
says here is chance to use your
new flash light. SO 1 got out and
pointed it at the tire, but it looked
even fiatter than without no flash
light
That is how I spent my birthday
and 1 won't have no more of them
for pretty near yr. But I suppose
it's like makeing a hole in or being
a honorary pall bearer and if it hap
pened oftener a person wouldn't en-
joy 1t 1a as much.
- RING W. LARDNER. -
Greaf Neck April Is
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wholesale. big. Shall Grasse compete
with its great customers? l trow not.
Many Of the firms of Grasse refuse
to sell flower essences retail. Others.
like Bruno Court, are willing to oblige
tourists. simply. Some will put you
of with delicious scented soaps. In
others ladies who have the wit to do
1t procure orris and vetiver to give
fragrance to trunks and linen.
These are the grand old flower dis
tillers
The firm of Rouse Bertrand fils has
just celebrated its hundredth birth
day since reorganization" by giving
a banquet and a months wages to all
employees. Half of them have been
twenty years with the house; one
third thirty years or more and the
remainder are their children, grand
children or connections. A family
affair-with 10000 francs. special
added to the firms annual contribu-
'tion of 10000 francs. to their self
managed pension fund.
Here scented soaps were invented
This town, in the twelfth CEN
tury," says Terrin in his .'Precis de
rHistoire de Provence" supplied the
Evening star., 1921-04-17
BY STERLING HEILIG.
GRASSE. Riviera District of France

GRASSE, Riviera District of France.
March 81. 1921.
" HEY tell here in a quiet way.
without concern or boasting.
that 1000 tons of orange
blossoms and 1900 tons of
roses-to name no others-are swept
into the iron nav of the perfume
distillery each year.
Weight is misleading when you deal
with rose petals and mimosa bios
sons So, for jasmine alone, nine
billion six hundred million jasmine
flowers are plucked by hand each
year around this town of Grasse to
provide the worlds chief supply of
jasmine perfume. We came to see.
Nesting against the southern
slope warm hillside above
Cannes, and protected from all north
winds by the screen of the lower
Alps, Grasse is a famous ancient
town whose business, time out of
mind has been the raising of flow
ers, to kill them for the market. Or,
Grasse saves the soul of flowers
caught kept. in perfumes.
And. ladies. here is the source of
beauty, source of freshness as we'll
as of sweetness, because these scents.
flower essences, essential oils, re-
fined oils, aromatics and the rest of
them are at the bottom of all the
moro famous French cosmetics and
beauty products-and Americans as
well. in great part, because our pro-
ducers still import such raw materials
from France, and France means Grasse.
so skilled in the diStilling of them.
Grasse has been doing this since
the year 1900 A. D., when. according
Evening star., 1921-04-17

something. And a artist name Pres
ton give me a original drawing that
was worth real money, which he
waited till later in the evening be-
fore he took it with a couple of full
houses.
Other gifts was a cigarette holder
pretty near like new and copy of
the golf rules for 1916, which is
just as good as any as far as I'm
concerned. and all and all, when 1
seen what my friends had spent on
me 1 couldn't hardly help from yaw-
ing and felt like / shouldn't ought to
take all these gifts. a specially the
ones from ladies that wasn't my wife,
and I got to feeling so miserable
over it that I throwed some OF them
out the fiiver window on the way
home.
But the costly gifts was just drop
in the bucket along side the 5 course
birthday supper which we eat OFF
our laps on acct. of the host and
hostess never dreaming when they
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to TERMS "Precis." all who washed
in Europe had to get their soap from
Grasse!
THE flower harvest lasts nearly the
whole year round. 1t begins in
February with the violet, which lasts
until April. Overlapping (this is un-
derstood of alD. but chiefly in March
and April, hyacinths. jonquils and
narcissus are plucked. May marks
the great activity of roses and
orange blossoms. whose harvest
terminates. for the most part, in
June. Misnonettes and pinks are cut
IN May and s-:aggle on. The great
Jasmine pluck Hg begins in July and
the harvest lass until near mid-Octo
Der. The tEoercse is picked in Au
gust and September. And throughout
the year quantity of other flowers
and aromatics ere nandled-some of
them famous in scent, like the YER
bena. heliotrope and geranium. others
quite important in the blends of high
perfumers and yet nameleSs in the
department stores.
One such. illustrous yet humble, must
be menti0ned-the lavender of the Alps.
Old maids, one time. were supposed to
love its cool, chaSte, severe fragrance.
Sunburnt children run beside your ca:
to sell you dusty. ragged punches of it,
like stiff weed in the style of heather
and in Alpine villages they club to-
gether. buy a still and. in the style of
homemade 'hooch." produce spirits of
lavender which they sell direct to the
great houses OF Paris and Grasse. 1t
is the one homemade or rule-of-thumb
exception.
In and around Grasse 10000 men.
women ard children are busily engaged
throughout the year in cultivating, kill
ing and catching the soul of flowers.
They till the soil continually. 1t must
be soft, rich, moist The gathered bios
SONS must be neither too young and
tender nor too old and tough, but in
their richest maturity. OF course it is
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Where Flowers Thousands Workers Make Mad Perfume

whole OF France. Italy and Spain
with its famous leather. soap and
oil skillfully purified" In another
place ne goes further and afiirms
that 1.-The whole of Europe obtained
it's soap from Grasse."
In the twelfth century it was
little republic. allied to Pisa for mu-
tual protection. Wars ragged. Grasse
remained unmoved. Grasse looked
on. from her heights. raised hands
of holy horror and went on with its
soap making.
Grasse was making perfumes long
before distilled alcohol had come into
use. They still make and sell "tbso-
lutte perfumes without alcohol"
Never Quarrelsome or ambi lious,
Grasse comes down in history unique
ly concerned with the purity OF
it's oils and the sweetness OF its
scents.
The house still stands whero in
1880. lived Doria de Roberti. who was
both physician to the king and f>~~
fumer to the queen.
How forgetful is the world. II y
called "the house of the oldest knows
perfumer,"
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heavy in dew. temperate in rainfall. in
the lower Alpine air, which is like wine,
privileged land. wonderfully sunny,
and yet (as in Il cup) protected from
inclcmencies by the Alpine screen.
Even human beings flourish with the
flowers.
Queen Victoria. in her old age. learned
it in her little pony cart. Rheumatic
and respiratory complaints are almost
unknown to the native population, and
official health statistics. just collected
give the average human life in France
as thlrty-eight years, and in Grass<,-
what do you think? Yes. forty-!ive
years.
NATURALLY, you suppose Garden
~ of Eden. 1 say that as the country
side. for miles around Grasse is given
to the exclusive cultivation of flowers
YOU would suppose the town to float
in a poem of pink and white and be
laden with Sabean odors from the
spicy shore of Araby the Best.
And so it is for the one tourist in
a hundred who. paying his good
money for the Grasse excursion. has
the luck to see it. 1t is a glory in
mauve and purple. 1t is scene in
gold and almond blossoms.
But most tourists are buying soap.
In the motor-brakes they rush by.
getting glimpses-just brief glimpseS
of the $4,000 acres of roses, jon
and dusty road again. Also. since the
flowers are grown for commerce.
drilled into lines like turnips. they
have not the careless beauty of How
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HILANDA has found another
friend-a real lavender and old
lace lady-if one may. Cuvier-
like. build up personality

like. build up a personality
from a note that goes partly ike tnls:
IT can't put in written words the
curiiously happy thrill it gave me to
| meet Philander. radiantly risen from
the decades l have heaped on MS
Youthful head Your comradt over
wonder was right as far as she went,
hut am one line ahead of her. AS l
recall the old song. it started IKE
this: Come. Philanders, let's be
marching. Every one for his true
love a sarching.' My generation has
!, left me like that last rose we used to
sing about and 1 am pining alone on
mysstem-which sounds quite senti-
mental, but is sadly true. 1 cannot
| tell you how my heart hungers some
| times for the old-time songs-many
| of them beautiful and all OF them
dear mind me of one that my nurse
used to sing to me. that went like
] this: Mother, mother. make my bed,
I and make 1t long and narrow. My
true love died for me today. I'll die
! for him tomorrow 1 wonder if you
| or one of the dear neighbors could tell
| me what it means-or. if not that. if
| you will kindly print a snatch or two
| of some beloved old ditties. I am sure
| it would please other last roses as
we'll as your very sincere friend.
MRS. NJ. G."
! This plea was submitted to MEM
ber of the Once-on-a Time Club.
| whose memory is as full of melodies
| as a music box: echo melodies from
! the parlor, the nursery, the kitchen
and the fields.
why, she means Barbara Allen. I'll
sing 1T for you:
I'm scarlet town. where I was born.
| There was fair maid dwellin'.
| And all the boys were struck with
| Her name was Barbara Allen"
One of the youngsters was Jenny
Grove, who sent Barbara word that
death was printed on his face and
please wouldn't she come and see him
| die for her, so she went, and here s
what happened:
HE turned his face unto her straight,
| With deadly sorrow sighin'.
| Oh, beauteous maid come pity me.
i I'm on my deathbed lynn"
"If on your deathbed you do lie.
What needs the tale a-tellin'
II cannot keep you from your death
] Farewell" cried Barbara Allen.
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cTERIING GseWh
Used Blenders
The herald., 1921-04-14
TAKE TINE TO HEAL a DEADLY WOUND.
No. 40

a 1t is anyway "ou ''e '
other person you see COMES
This that or the uncomfortable fact caused by the ""
with u.orl
feels that he Is sun
- The workingman because he sticks Ike een ms
is the ban because she
go as loon from the The big newspaper
is not mere yet
ir walls because peace instantly bring back the NORMAN
tons Of 1914 Pretty nearly entirely out Oh pae'e
n;os reds and extreme raucaS every
the average intelligent stop and think rev minute
unnatural conditions winch
r;do today ALL When great
od the next minute you are u'N'
~ ko the old plow through three days later Is 'he
and Won take it as only If fire destroys factory INC
80 thing is rebuild the aco
a of railroad track hooou
r in few hours II '"N "
make repairs
There storm; a erOe ny
,or of a did not make
10000 n after such
aod will he lucky and workngmen ana muusu! anu
or,a meaurably 10 years ae
,on 90 sucb war will lucky ndeeu'
AMI ONLY TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF 1T HAS PASSED!
Re patient and your towards peace and normacy wa o.
dusro ourselves.
The herald., 1921-04-14
TRAFFIC COURT NEWS.

In spite of wholesale arrests and
the vigilance of the traffic officers
throughout the city, there is no de-
crease shown in the number OF ar
rests for violations of the city traf-
fic laws. Sergeant Harry Duvalle,
head of the police motorcycle squad,
reported 349 arrests for the week
ending Tuesday noon. These fig
ures cover arrests made for every
known violation, from the speed
demon to the poor unfortunate who
forgets to- switch on the tail light
of his car. Judge Duffy is a
mighty busy person, Judge who
shows no leniency, but despite his
efforts to make New Orleans a
safer place to travel around in, each
day finds both new and old offenders
The herald., 1921-04-14

agreed to quit both of us. went "
. marty tonite & they was SVEN
girl there frum the city. Jane give
mo a interduckson to her Il oo"eu
nv he'd over & sed l was glau u no
her sopose she was glad to meat
me to but she diddent menchun 1t
in publick.
Tuesday-nuthen DUNG today.
Wednesday-jus got threw look
ing threw pas book case. ne mas
got about a milyun books witch ne
win as prizes & premiams and etc
he has got a fine bible. good DIS
new. witch sum of the leaves isSeh'
cut open yet. l CESS he is saVelns
ii mebby.
bursday-Teacher birthday q
/ no skool to go to. had Co. Tor ulh-
per E. ma got me to help in the
kitchen witch queered a fut pal
game between the u. s. mareens q
the wildcats. ma got peaved pe
cause | pored the Wiped creme OF
the pickles & sprinkled mustard II
the cram berrys. She sed am aoou
as use full as a sore knee. meDD.
my stummick will get better when
90 to sleep & wake up agen.
Yurs truly,
GILKY SWIPES.
The herald., 1921-04-14
WHO ARE YOU?

Are you own name or are you known nH 90 "
faith - or, on,s or
qualities and by your own ac's VI
bear the name OIL oe' p
who conceived uandbro into this world?
his elders straight III Tue On"
Martin already opportunity his feet but the
Robert Martins son, VIII
IN the arkne of the opportunity has vansho
forever n the distance ou. md
sorebng personality Oh your
what are ana not LOT WHAT
vour were
SON. ana you VIII pe
A., no and privileges son. and when deah
Won YOUR home paper hariaby Of you merely as
another mans
A needs no ancestors