Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-27

There are some stories given to the
newspapers which cannot be vouched
for, consequently, under the policy of
safety first" they are printed with the
reservation word, alleged" For ex-
ample, it is alleged that Mr.. Jones
challenged his friend Mr.. Brown with
cosby accusation:
Brown, who was that nice new lady
you had with you on F street last eve
ming? She was a Stunner!"
THAT wasn't new lady-just my
Old Woman-repainted."
But that isn't newS-any more than
when "a dog bites a man." for anybody
can discover women on F street and
elsewhere who are either "repainted"
or in the process Of repainting before
their little hand mirrors, in broad day.
light and the most public places. Re
painting Is so common today that 1t Is
almost pascal least the groundwork
is as passe as wooden Indian before
cigar store.
But now to find news" one must
seek what the glib advertiser labels
"B. O." synthetically produced. The
story comes from France that the
French people annually use four quarts
of perfume per capita, yet not merely
"capita"-it goes all over the body.
That's "B. o." with a vengeance; it is
consul at Paris. His title of vice"
consul may indicate that he Is smell
ing committee.
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Many years ago a famous English
man mentioned certain things that
were "wasteful and ridiculous excess"
Being so thrifty, maybe he had Scotch
blood. Amongst his useless items was
"to throw a perfume on the violet"
Yet Mr.. Shakespeare was as futile as
the folks who were cited by Mark
Twain as always talking about the
weather. but never doing anything
about it.
Shakespeare knew perfectly well that
it remained for "furriners" across the
Channel to do something about that
smell, by extracting it and bottling the
odor, which was as clever as 1t would
be for Chicago packer to find some
use for the one part of the pig which
he has never failed to count as waste
full and ridiculous excess"-itS Squeal.
To characterize the country of fog and
rain as Sunny France" became stale
joke during the war, for the sun shone
so rarely, but to recognize it as the
land of flowers and rich perfume would
be sincerity and verify.
It is alleged that by taking 500
pounds of roses and squeezing them
into one pound of altar of roses, and
violets. hyacinths, narcissi, mignonette
and all the other blooms in the florists
category into a pound of odoriferous
liquor the making of perfumes has be-
come one Of the major manufacturing
enterprises in France. Its total product
amounts annually to not less than $36,
100000 wholesale, and thousands OF
! men and women are thus employed.
In the Province Of Grasse there isn't
I any room for grass, for more than
1000 acres are devoted to roses alone
call them bushes) per acre. And there
are hundreds of other kinds of flowers
in use, though their only value lies In
their scent.
The suggestion that flappers may
turn away from the too common prac-
tice of painting their lips, cheeks, eye
brows and noses, and tanning
alphabetically all the rest of their
architecture, and revert to the more
dainty practice of throwing a perfume
on the yiolet"-each one being a
shrinking violet-recalls the olden fear
Of the men of England, just before our
Declaration of independence gave them
serious things to consider. In ITO
a bill was introduced in Parliament,
more drastic than our Volstead or Jones
laws, for its provisions covered the
following:
"That all women, Of whatever rank,
profession or degree, whether virgins,
maids (sic) or widows, that shall from
and after such act impose upon, Sc
duce and betray into matrimony, any OF
his majesty's subjects by the scents,
paints, cosmetic washes. artificial teeth