Evening star., 1922-12-03

body knows. need the essential oils
of real flowers and cannot be made
just by chemical concoctions Now.
the Bulgarians grow the wealth OF
rose flowers from which real altar %
! roses is made. That is not ALL s"
superfine perfume needs wise mix
ture of certain green essence OF
| roses which are grown only by the
Turks in Anatolia or Asia Minor
and their stocks have all been burn
up in Smyrna If the Turks did the
| burning, they will thus have to pay
| for it. And meanwhile the rose essenc.-
Of Grasse in the French Riviera goes
up in price.
The Bulgarians are asking. ''Wher.
do We come in?'
The answer will probably be:
Bring on your own altar of roses
and only the keenest noses can tell
the difference" The Buigarians think
so, too. and they have put up th.
price of their product accordingly,
Bat il. too. has to be made up in
! French perfumeries.
THE situation is about as bad for
l. geranium perfumes. all becaus.
of Paraguay in South America, where
| there have been no wicked Turks OF
burnfngs Or massacres. No. Bur
they have had bloodless revolution
there and managed to wipe ou; the
production of seed which is needed
TO liberate the gersnium essence. ="
there we are again-and geranium
perfumes rise also.
Lemon perfumes. on the contrary
have been going down just becaus.
lemons in Portugal are cheaper than
was ever known before. But the wis
ones say: Wait till lemonade makers
Chose who make the real thing and
not the chemical substitute) begir
buying, and all the distillers who use
the finest lemons for Iiqueurs OF
essences. Then you will see high
prices
Labor mixes in the internationa
! mess. In July workmen of Belfasi
j were in a dangerous way from trou-
bles in Ireland. The one thing they
knew was how 10 make fine linen,
And that is an industry which has
! been terribly struck by war devasta
| tion and the killing off of such work
north Irish workmen made it known
to the French government that the,
would be glad To work in their OWL
| line in France and the government
notified the linen manufacturers O.
Lille.
These were delighted at first. but
after they had looked high and low
| they had to answer that they could
find no way of lodging the new work
| men. Houses have not yet been re-
built and the inhabitants are living
| in old army barracks.
NEXT comes Nine. Augusta Moll-
Weiss, who has the French School
OF Mothers and Housekeepers, and sh.
says the mess will be cleared up when
husbands help their wives in house
| work.
These are new times in which We
are living. and the husband whu
/ wants to do nothing after his profess
! sional hours are over must learn TO
, help his wife. whose hours never end
! and they should teach their boys I"
| do the same.
| Bismarck always said Frenchmer
were best az cooking and dancing
until he saw them fighting.
! Two French government men hav.
! lately had to think of American things.
! Minister of Agriculture Cheron tried
to stimulate farmers to watch out
against the ''doryphora" that is com
ing into France from the United
States. He got it mixed up with the
nh
his boyhood So he began: How i'm
! portant it is that our country should
+! sell its wines. And here comes this
| little insect 4 member of par
Lament pulled his coat,ail and whis-
pered: Your eNcellency. the dory-
phora is the potato bug"
| NJ. Parnentier of the French treas
| ury has been in Washington abou,
the debts TO the United States. On
his return they asked him how he
liked American living. Well, they
gave me melon to eat at breakfast
and they gave me melon to eat at
luncheon, and they gave me melon to
eat at dinner. and between meals they
! made me talk with Secretary Mellon
! An American exporter tried to make
/, his sales cheap and handy as he
| could for a new French customer. He
/! received an answer by return mail.
! with expressions of thanks and
! photograph of the Frenchman's five
year-old daughte. clasping a tedd,
bear. That was the ratification Of a
| permanent Franco American alliance.
STERLING HEILIG.