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TUB H ANNEB-HERAI.T), ATHENS. GEORGIA
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From left to right at top—Armenian children at Camp Wilson;
Reading and Game Room at Y. M. C. A«, Brno, /Czechoslovakia; a
pyramid of Latvian boys at Riga; at bottom—Townspeople enjoying
a dance and social time at the Y. M. C. A., Riga, Latvia; The Boy
Stouts of Esthonia had a tent of their own at their national agricul
tural fair; Armenian orphans under the care of the “Y” and Near
East Relief; Cageball at the “Y” Playground, Bucarest, Roumania.
a session of the League of Na- that the welfare work pi the Amer-
ns.” In religious ideals they ican people during the war has Acd.
und the solvent for age-old divi- Welfare work for fighting mentis-
ms. closed a whole new range of interna-
This Czechoslovak convention is tional service. It became, as it were,,
lieved to have been the first non- a conveyor of social ideals from
litical meeting ever held in that one nation to another,
untry of the chief opposing racial There is a higher motive, it is
So it is that this welfare work has
opened up new channels through
which the good will of the American
people can flow to other nations.
There is nothing that holds mom
promise for the future than the fact
that there exists throughout the
world today activities of a humaniz
ing character inspire*) and guided
by American agencies.
The future of the new-born na
tions, or of t’ e older ones for that
matter, is not primarily a questions
of statesmen, of balance of power
and ideal boundaries; it is a future
of men and women whose ways are
human and whose- problems are
human problems; and in the final
issue these men and women will be
set on the path toward a better so
ciety not by laws and regulations,'
not by books or sermons, but by the
irresistible force of lives devoted
without limit to personal service for
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APRON STYLE
with band/ng of black b!ai
here shown. This Is a so*
/or ainsham. rubberised clot!
crepe or sateen.
The pattern Is cut In foi
Small, medium, large ant
lualnt French City “Says It
With Flowers” and Turns
Scents Into Dollars.
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Street and No.
City
SOMETIMES the American me-
^ chanlc who only makes one
motor -car a day, or the American
farmer who grows only forty
bushels of wheat tooths acre, or
the builder who turns out only one
bungalow a week, may feel that life
rue vea pretty slowly.
Occasionally the Impulse prob
ably comes to him really to get
down to work and produce some
thing.
How would It strike him to grow,
pick, and prepare 200 pounds of
rose petals just to make One ounce
of perfume? If he Is interested be
can probably find a place In Grasse,
the vanity case of the world. In the
Maritime Alps of France.
For 400 years the buslnass'of the
people of Grasse has been turning
scents into dollars, by dlstlUlnf
the souls of flowers.
That is the story just brought to
America by M. .Fernand Java!,
master perfumer. Javal Is presi
dent of Houblgsnt, Inc. Hts visit
to America haa the asms pur
pose as that recently paid by
Clemenceau—the establishment of
sweeter relations b*?wee2 this
country and France.'
| An Industry 400 Years Old.
. This city of Grasse—pronounced
* grass, as in lawn—has been making
perfume since 1500. It contributed
to the charms of the hoity-toity
ladies wbo at various times mes-
, merited Louis XIV into spending
' more money than even a King
should spend—and thereby assisted
in bringing on the French Revo-
J lotion. X
| Revolutions come and kings go.
■ bat ladies go right on mesmerising.
message of youth,Jove and happi-
This Is the story brought to
America by M. Javal, master per-
fumer. There are not more than
flve master perfumers in the world.
There are more than flve kings,
and more than flve presidents, but
master perfumers!—no.
To them all the millions of
gratified noses are Indebted for
their rarest experienoee. For to a
nose the meeting with an exquisite
odor is equivslent to the sight of
an artist's masterpiece to the eye,
or the sound of a great symphony
to the sar.. Artists and composers
get more credit for their concep
tions Jhan perfumers, Java! ad
mits, but he doesn’t feel quite right
about it
He objects strenuously to being
termed a chemist Re says ha is
not a chemist, nof are other per
fumers.
gardeners to leirn, and jkrhlch the
peasants share only with the earth
which they tllL
Ancient Distilling Method.
Tho growing and picking of the
flowers represent only a step in
stills. This is the most ancient
method. Their fathers, and their
father’s fathers, did It all before
them.
A more remarkable transition Is
followed in the factories of Grasse,
in this-method the delicate, wist
ful breath of the flowers Is pre
pared for the kerchief of the
American lady through the medium
of fat The petals are packed 'n
this fat, which extracts the frag
rance. When the flowers have
given all that is best in them to
live, anil the fat is "charged” to
the limit of absorbtion, it Is bathed
in alcohol. Three separate baths
separate, the fht from Its precious
burden. Then another separation
Is'accomplished, and the perfume
oil, wopth hundreds of dollars a
pound, is obtained free of forefgn
substance.
It Is the concentrated essence
of millions of 1 petals. In dilution
It becomes the charge of the
stoppered phials on the boudoir
table—the charm of women and
tho charmer of men—the invisible
They know ‘ nothing of
chemlstryr They know the art of
perfume. *
Perfumer* Unlike Musician*.
"The most dlfflcult of arts,” he
said. “It is not like music. The
musician has notes, definite and
scientific rules of harmony. The
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blossoms, narcissi, jonquils, fuch
sias, hyacinths, tuberoses, carna
tions, May lilies— they are all there,
in profusion equalled nowhere else.
Now, as always, good perfumes
t re the breath of flowers. They are
tie distillations which make the
souls of flowers immortal. By a
marvelous secret alchemy, the
'mygterioys processes of nature!
they are taken from earth and air
and sunlight. They are the price
less tribute of the flowers in valley
and on mountainside to the wo
men of the cities. t
The flowers of Grasse do not
prow wild—at least most of them
do not. They are cultivated for
their fragrance, just as flowers.
ripple ot low laughter, a breath
of perfume—they are aa potent as
ever. 8o Grasse, steeped in scents
and sentiment, still pursues its
ancient occupation. »
The city command* a fan-shaped
valley between the mountains and
the Mediterranean. It la a valley
without winter. it flowers are
always blooming. End to end, it
la a garden.
Old mea and old wwmen, young
men nnd boy* and glrla go into
the flelde and climb tb« mountain
aides before the tun la np, to find
the flowers before the dew la gone.
By hand they pick the myriad
petals. The dew holds the fresh-
mw of the flowers, and their
There baa never been a union
of the flower-pickers, or a strike
among them. As well imagine a
strike among the harpists of the
angelic orchestra! They are paid
from twenty-five to fifty francs a
kilo—two pounds—tor picking the
blossoms. Their tastes are simple.
Their culture is the culture of
flowers, their success, assured in
contentment, is profound and satis
fying. Twenty-flVe to fifty Trencs a
kilo buys all that they need >> buy.
Flowers in Profusio .
Variation of the rate of payment
depends on the rarity or popularity
if the blossoms being gathered.
Grasse grows more than roses.
Jasmine, violets, mimosa, orange
sweetness, for the perfume bottles.
Ever weigh s rone petal on pour
finger? It is almost as faint and
fleeting as the delicate odor It ex
hales. Yet its .weight is crushing as
compared with that of the oil tp It,
from which the perfume comes.
Two hundred pounds of petals to
make an ounce of oil! How utany
petals in a pound? It is a problem
which probably even the flower-
pickers of Grasse cannot ansWer.
They are not mathematicians, 'rttey
are children, with child's play as
their life work. They do not count
tho petals, or the hours, and Wren
the years pass gently at Grasse,
season flowing almost imperceptl-
bljjgto season.
perfumer has.nothing tangible.
“He sets out to create something. i
He senses what result may develop J
from putting this odor with that •
odor iu such and such proportions.
He-brings Into existence sohtething
new, that has never before greeted/ /
signed-pair ef ron
or girl » mads t»
shrw, or lo two P«
i it Us roost convew
r washing and trot
ImiVirtant lt**m in
BitiyVof families '
rs keep clean
■ Any chance wind, stirring among
| the dancers on a ballroom floor, or
> rustling among tho flappers on an
{American city street, boars testl-
, many that methods haY* not
. changed.
j JL smile, a aldalong glance, the
