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THE Mcg&NBY PLi JC5 I Perfume Is Bulgaria, Home of Attar of Roses, Suffering From Shortage of Crop. -'Waahington.--Roses are not doing so wall in Bulgaria this year. This Is not the casual statement that it may appear. It amounts to a great deal more than a statement, for example, that California's popples are suffering, that the blue-bonnet crop Is not up to the standard In Texas, or that the daisies in Maryland are scarcer than usual. A bulletin by thp National Geographic society's headquarters here tells why. "Roses are not merely things of beauty In Bulgaria," says the bulletin. "They constitute a real crop, and mean M much to some parts of the country an cotton means in Georgia, or potatoes in Maine. It Is literally true that the • >se means bread and butter to thousands of Bulgarian country folk. Great fields of roses are grown that the petals may be made to yield each Its infinitesimal share of attar of roses, the last word--and the most expensive. --In perfumery. "It is In the valleys on the southern dopes of the Balkans that roses have been grown for generations for the perfumery industry, for there the climate, soli and drainage are just right lit normal seasons for this most exacting flower. Before the World war there were probably between 25,000 and 50,- DOO acres of rose gardens in the Bulgarian 'rose belt,* and the annual yield of the attar was about 150,000 ounces. But perfume was not greatly in demand In the Germdn and Turkish world to which Bulgaria's exports were confined during war time, and rose* gave way to the tobdcco plant, whose particular fragrance was more appreciated by the millions of men under arms. Since the war rose-growing has recovered, bat In no postwar year has the acreage climbed above id,000. Most Concentrated Product. "Attar of roses Is one of the most concentrated 'agricultural products,' If tt may be so cnlled, produced anywhere In the world. The countless rose petals pown on an acre yield only a few tablespoonfuls of the fragrant olL The attar is in effect the materialised ami captured fragrance of ltie rose, and probably 50,000 or more flowers must contribute their share In making each ounce of the completed product. "The roses are largely gathered before sunrise, or at least before the dew has driedfor the moisture helps to preserve the fragrance. The peasants seem to enjoy their aesthetic Job. Troops of gaily dressed girls and young men go through the gardens stripping the buds from the plants. They are dumped in piles before older women who sort them in readiness for their trip to the nearby factories. The buds are placed In retorts with about twice their weight of water and the liquid Is then distilled. The resulting liquor Is allowed to stand overnight In pans. By morning a thin film of a solid oil has risen to the top. This, the attar. Is carefully dclmmed off, and the remaining rose water Is In most qaseo thrown away. "The genuine attar of rosea Is so strong that its odor Is not very pleasant. When combined with other materials and so properly diluted, however, the fragrance is delightful. One drop Is sufficient to give a pleasing rose odor to a gallon of cologne. Has Reached $10&an Ounce. "In 1919 the United States imported over a thousand pounds of attar of roses from Bulgaria. Its cost there wns only about $150 a pound. The price of the attar Is much greater, of course, by the time it reaches the consumer. The best grades have sold at times for $100 or more an ounce. "Though Bulgaria Is perhaps the best known source of attar of roses. It has no monoply of the production of this most highly prized of perfumes. In the celebrated Vale of Kashmir, It) some parts of China, in some of the oases of Persia, In Egypt, and in Asiatic Turkey the flowers from many acres of roses are concentrated in 'much the same way. The Industry has even invaded the west and Is carried on near Leipzig, Germany, and around the famous 'City of Perfumes.' Grasae, id southern France.'1 Mc ILIu • . - . ; y . T" " President and Mrs. Coolidge and Their Sons Poliee Forbidden to "tfm Angeles.--August Vollmer,' Los Angeles' new chief of police, has Issued an order forbidding officers from smoking while In, uniform and from smoking in the public offices of the various police stations. " ; ' i f ' jt'i'-'i "c.V; .i "ujiiy'i':' I to Read Music f" Blind Printer Invents System by Which Sightless Musicians tjan Read Motes Easily. v ^"7-^ Jacksonville, III.--Five years' L. W. Rodenberg, blind printer of the state school for the blind, began experiments to perfect a system of muflcal scores for the blind. In 1923 his device has been accepted by all the leading Institutions for the blind In the United States, and the school at Jacksonville now publishes more music than any other Institution In America. Formerly when a blind musician would run his fingers over the embossed dots of his score, lie could read only notes designed for the left hand without the slightest knowledge of Uncle Jack Is lively at 105 I what the composition as a whole would sound like. Then he had to go Back to find out what the right hand'| part was like, since each score was printed separately. The English devised a different sy»- tem by which they placed the treble and bass alternately. That Is, there would be a few lines for the left hand and then a few for the right hand, but even this Innovation did not please the blind .musicians who wanted to study the full score of - the composition as they proceeded. Mr. Rodenberg devised eighteen different systems while he conducted his experiments and submitted them to teachers of the blind throughout the country, asking them to select the one which seeined most practicable^ The system chosen has been received with acclamation by thi blind mdslclans everywhere, and the presses at Jacksonville are kept busy meeting the demand for music written according to the new system. Uses "Bar Over Bar" Method. It sounds simple enough, according to Mr. Rodenberg. He calls It the "bar over bar" method. Instead of printing the whole composition for the left hand and then following the music for the right, after the man er of a puzzle In which the two parts must be pieced together, Mr. Rodenberg follows the conventional method of printing music. On the top line of the page Is printed the score for -left hand. Just underneath he places the right hand score. Thus a blind musician can read with both hands at once and get a perfect idea of what the composition aa a whole will sound like.' President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge, with their two sons, Calvin, Jr„ seated oil the arm of his father's chair and John standing beside his mother. •iiuiimiiuitisiiiisiniitMmiiiiuimiiiuiiuuuwsniimttinmiiBaMMH Wabash, Ind., turned out en masse "when "Uncle" Jack Higglns was 105 years old! The sturdy specimen of longevity regaled the gathering with a Jig W his own accompaniment, later shaking a leg with his kid daughter of 85 summers. Uncle Jack declared: "A man hasn't much chance *• live long these days with so many changes in the Constitution. Chase Thieves From Store by Pie Shower k First a juicy pickle, then a barrage of pies and ripe fruit-- 'twas a warm reception for two thleveV who demanded that Gaspero Lucchesl of Washington, D. C„ give them the money In the cash drawer In his store. Gaspero threw thick and fast; pies filled the air. Then the robbers flew. Tf; UN CANS TURNED INTO ; i COPPER AT ARIZONA MINES Process Consists of Recovering Metal From Water. Plioenix. Ariz.--The business of ••turning tin cans Into copper," as the process is popularly described, is reaching large proportions in Arizona. The process, which actually consists la recovering copper from water through the use of scrap Iron, which displaces the copper In solution. Is by no means new, hut has been extended .and Improved In recent years so that several hundred carloads of tin cans, as well as large quantities of scrap Iron, are now shipped to Arisona mining centers each year. At most of the mining centers In the state the process Is subordinate to main mining operations, being used merely to extract the copper from water seepage {tumped from the mines. This water contains a small quantity of copper, less than two-tenttis of 1 per cent, in solution. The water Is run through sluices, where scrap iron has £>een placed. Part dt the Iron goes Into solution and the copper is deposited 16 the bottom of the sluices and Is collected at Intervals. The process Is valuable principally on account of the low expense Involved. At A jo, a mining camp In the southwestern part of the state, the principle has been extended to the scrap iron electrolytic process of extracting copper from ore. The process, according to mining men. If not conflqed at Arizona mines,1 but Is also .used In Montana and Utah. Since the object Is to get scrap Iron with as much surface as possible In proportion to its weight, tin cans, which are actually made of iron aud not tin, answer the purpose admirably. Most of the tin cans are shipped In from Arisona and southern California cities, although some shipments are also made from Eastern states. Leaves an Estate of $240,000,000. Palis.--The Estate of the late Joseph Glllet, manufacturer of silks and dyes, according to the Lyons correspondent of the Matin, Is estimated at 1,200,000,000 francs (roughly ?24U,* 000,000 at the normal rate of exchange). It Is distributed in Investments in the United States, Italy. Prussia, Austria, Poland and Russia. Orphans Go to Farms. Athens.--One hundred refugee orphan boys, comprising the drat of five such groups, departed for farms In France, where the, French government has agreed to place them an.l train tliera with the object of eventually French citizens of them. Makes Speed Record. Philadelphia.--A speed of 173 miles an hour. » half mile short of the world's record foi* seaplanes, was attained by Lieut. A. W. Gorton at tha navy yard here. Pirates Take Murder Toll in Arctic Trading' j Husband Hides Und Alaska.--Mystery ships1 n 1 * n f t , Anchorage, plying the Siberian Arctic laden with whiskey, which Is bartered to the natives for fur, still take their toll of murder in ttfe piratical traffic, according to Cupt. Andrew Predersen here, who says be was recently an lujwceut member of such an expedition. The limit was actual murder, lie says, when the Siberian government attempted to stop the traffic. CapL Prederseu's story follows: **We sailed out of Nome for what t was told would be a trading voyage to Siberia. 1 will not tell the aatues of the owner or skipper of the trader, for reasons best known to myself. . "At one port the boat took on a large quantity of furs, after getting the natives drunk on moonshine whiskey. An official of the Siberian government came aboard to collect a tax and -for<*e payment for the furs. He was Hfrown overboard and shot. > "The last 1 saw of him he was cllng- Xm- rn § ^ iwopf Bed to Kill Boarder After hiding for seven hours under a bed In his home, John P. McGuire of St. Louis, lie, shot and killed Henry Ctammet a boarder. McGuire, In jail, accuses his wife of misconduct with the boarder just before the shooting. She admitted tltat hie charge was t-oe. police said Is whether he died or was rescued. On the cruise back I heard talk of murdering me because I knew too much. For nights I didn't sleep, and while I rested In the hunk. I kept a revolver in my hand ready for action." Cuts Army Strength. San Antonio, Tex.--On June 30 next the United States army will have decreased to 38,000 enlisted men and officers, acording te officials sta- 3 Round-the-World Trip in 31 Days Possibility Paris.--The dreams of a round-theworld trip In thirty-one days are nearing realization. Not only is a British company planning a »»venfy-four hour airplane service between London und Bombay, but the French government has given permission to a French air mail company to organize twenty-four hour,Jllghts between Paris and Bucharest. thereby cutting three days from the normal travel schedule. The planes will carry slxteeen passengers, a cook and a i>orter to make up the beds before sundown. Each machine will have a wireless telephone to keep in touch with European broadcasting stations. Extension of the line from Bucharest to Bombay te being considered and may be established Before the end of the year. In this event, allowing two days to catch a sjeamer on the Pacific, two days to fly 'across the United States and six days to cross the Atlantic. It will be possible to make the trip around* the world In less than half Down 36 Minutes in tast Years--Domestic Serv* ants Have Long Hours. New York. -- The length of the working week of the average American employe has declined 80 minutes in the last two years, accosding to a statement by the National Bureau of Economic Research, summarizing the results of a natlou-wlde investigation which was undertaken for the business cycle committee of President Harding's conference on unemployment. Outllniug the results of the investigation, Dr. Wlllford 1. King, of the staff of* the national bureau of economic research, under whose supervision the facts were gathered, said: "According to some historians, our great-grandfathers thought twelve hours a reasonable day's work. For more than a hundred years, however, the length of the, working day has been declining steadily until the average American In the first quarter of 1922 was expected by his employer to work only hours a week, just a trifle more than tho eight hours for six days set forth as an IdealTjy reformers of a generation or two ago. The detailed figures covering all Industries In the United States show that the length of the working week declined 30 minutes during the two years covered by the study." Of ail classes of employers reporting, those engageil lu rendering domestic and personal service record the longest full-time hours for those working under their direction, the average being slightly more than eight hours dally for a seven-day week. Farmers and retail merchants each require over fifty-three hours of work per week from their employees. Employers In a considerable group of Industries usually call for less than fortyeight hours per week from their workers. This group Includes building and construction, finance, public and professional service, paper an-J printing establishments, and factories making textiles, clothing, leather and leather goods. "Tlie figures presented In the report," continued Dr. ^Klng, "Indicate the man who Is anxious to have a steady job In dull times ns well as In good times should seen a position with a small employer. However, If he followed this course during the last few years, he may have discovered that be gained less than he expected by the choice, for the tables show that In the last quarter for which reports are available, he was asked to work fifty-three hours each week In the small enterprise instead of the 47.8 that the large establishment on the average, required him to serve. This difference Is partly accounted for by the fact that farmers form so large a portion of small employers. Big Firms, Shorter Hours, "However, the fanners n,~e not the only ones of this .class that call for longer hours than (lie average. In nine out of seventeen industries, employers hiring fewer than twenty-one workers required their employees te CUBA'S PRIZE BEAUTY * Made $890 in Prison Shoe Shining Parlor "Sam the Bootblack," otherwise Samuel Williams, who left Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison after serving five years, was 1890 richer than when he entered. He earned the money by shining the shoes of attendants and prisoners prosperous enough to pay for the luxury. ; TTT7 Every Meal a neket i I tar ever itaiy JUIs Mays AM. aL. an wren. For QialHy, Flavsr sad tm liiilil PMMP, * I i\ work over fifty-four hours per week In the first quarter of 1022. In the group employing twenty-one to 100 workers, long hours for employees proved to be even more common than in the smaller enterprises at the same date, for twelve out of seventeen Industrial groups had full time houra of more than fifty per week. Only In concerns employing over 100 men were shorter hours the rule. In that group only seven of the seventeen industries expected their men to work as much as fifty hours per we|fl£* Senorlta Camilla Fernandez Ramos, long distance operator in the Cuban Telephone company, who has won ths contest for the most beautiful woman in Cuba bjr an overwhelming majority. Seek to Ease Rules on Night Life in London London.--England needs a new law regulating public houses and places of entertainment, say the owners of London's hotels and dance halls, who have banded together to obtain less stringent laws In the matter of closing their places. The present law, which Is adhered to vigorously by the authorities, was passed in the reign of George II In 1751, and requires that the dance places of all classes close at the stroke of midnight., The hotel and cafe proprietors will ask the London county council to draw up a new law to be presented to parlla ment, and they have obtained the backing of the "Brighter London' movement committee which Is seeking to make London a rival of gay Paris. Escaped Python Becomes Hungry; Returns to Cage Long Beach, Cal.--Alice, Indian python, 22 feet long, which escaped from her cage on the Pike, an amusement thoroughfare, with her little playmate. Archibald, 12 feet. In length, returned to her home after an absence of twenty-four hours when that course was suggested by hunger. For a day she remained under a platform, Ignoring coaxing overtures from her keeper. Archibald was caught soon alter he escaped. 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This young Ktiglishwnman has Just been appointed curator of the reptile house at tne London Zoological Gardens, where she will have entire charge of the cobras, the pythons, the alligators and all the other reptiles. Miss Proctor's grandfather was a famous entomologist, so possib^ her interest and aptitude in the subject are inherited. It certainly looks as though she Is going to become as well known as he was. for ulready she Is looked on by zoologists as on* Of the greatest of snake experts. When^ln her very early teens she happened to visit the chief of the reptile department ut the South Kensington Natural History museum twid so astonished him by her knowledge of ophlology--she had kept snakes and lizards as pets since her tenth birth* day--that he offered to train her in the subject. Accordingly, as soon as she left school she became Doctor Boylenger's assistant, at the age of eighteen, and when he resigned she was appointed to his post. The young expert came Into real contact with the zoological society at the age of nineteen when she read her first paper, on pit snakes, before them. A year later they made her F. Z. S. At the beginning of July she gained another distinction by being elected P. L. S., Fellow of the Linnean society, one of the foremost scientific organizations In the world. Being surrounded by snakes during her attendance at the zoo apparently la not enough for Miss Proctor, and she keeps six Brazilian snakes In a glass cage in her drawing room. These were sint her as a gift. Noted scientists in South America and South Africa have frequently sent rare and deadly reptiles to England, knowing her Interest, and most of tbtwo «he keeps .at her own home. 70 Tons of 8oot Cover London. London.--London's atmosphere Is said by experts to be the smokiest and most p o l l u t e d in the world. At ten o'clock one day recently 70 tons of soot were floating about the capital. Twenty tons Is an average amount for any day In June. Tries Suicide; Saved by Her Leg. Toronto.--Florence Smith attempted suicide by throwing herself from a bridge In Rostdale. But her leg caught In the girders and she hung, head down, 50 feet above the road, until passersby dragged her to safety. Certain species of hawks fly at a speed of 200 feet a second, or about 136 miles an hour. 300»Q00 Greek Peasants feo Get Seized Farms New< York.--It is estimated that in all some 8,000,000 acres will be taken from owners and given to peasants by Greece under the new laws. The value of this land Is said to be between $22,000,000 and $33,000,000. The number of peasant to hft benefited Is estimated at 300.000, a large number In a country with a population of 5,000,000. T';e number of estates rn he expropriated Is about 1,200. ofthes* ambrace whole Villages. Owners who are thus seeing their land taken from them are for the most part wealthy persons, though a few are monasteries and municipalities, and some of the land Is owned by the national government. Many monasteries In Greece have clung tenaciously to large estates from the middle ages. Among the owners are many wealthy and Influential Greeks. They have done all they could to prevent the HEAVY BATTERING RAMS ON BRITISH AIRCRAFT o Be Hurled From Great ' lieights at Hostile Planes. London.--Heavily armored, steelpowered battering rams, for use In the 'leviathan airships now being designed,\ are being constructed secretly by British aircraft experts, says the Dally Chronicle's aeronautical coi> respondent. These new terrors of the air will be launched at an Immense height from the mother-airships and will rush down, guided by a solitary man sitting protected within their hulls, ready to strike hostile airship or bombing planea. "Without guns or any weapon save a knifelike cutting bow," says the writer, "the pilot of the *ram' will seek as his'quarry the big. slow-flying troop planes or transports, or he will in deadiv attack toward a hostile battleship of the air. Before he strikes his blow be will have the power, by operating Interior mechanism, of drawing in his telescopic, metal wings. "Then, with a fearful final plunge, like a great projectile, he will steer, not at the hull of the craft he seeks to cripple, but at vulnerable wings or control surfaces* "Through these he will cut and rip his way, and the great craft he has rammed, stricken and put out of control. will reel earthward to destruction. • The writer then says the "air ram" will extend Its wings again and check Its pell-mell descent. The pilot will be able, after starting a powerful Interior engine, to bring Into action previously shielded air-screws, and by aid of these he will steal upward, regaining Ids yiother airship and then repare for another devastating dive. 8tate of California io Honor e Memory of Her Ions Who , Died in France. - . A noteworthy and impresahre melts-, ment Is to commemorate those 3.3G9 California boys who made the supreme sacrifice In France. It is to take the form of the so-called California palace of the Legion of Honor now building at the cost of $1,000,000 at the crest of Lincoln park, overlooking the Golden gate, which Is to be dedicated during the national convention of the American Legion, held In San Francisco October 15 to 19. The donor of this fine memorial Is Adolph Spreckels. Works of art for the memorial are donated l»y several foreign governments. The California palace Is a duplicate of a Paris building. Distinguished works of art will go to help enrich this shrine. These will be In the form of sculpture, medals, tapeo* tries, etc. One Interesting object will be the sword and uniform worn by General JofTre during the crucial dajra of the first battle of the Marne. I The one redeeming feature aboot sea-stckne** I* that It makes yon for> get nil your other trouble, • cMade only of wheat and. bailey scientifically baked 20 hours -- Supplies Vitamin-B and mineral elements. How can GrapeNut* be other than a wonderfully appetizing, healthful food 7 • VI ' i:; .