Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1913 — Perfumer’s Day Will Come [ARTICLE]

Perfumer’s Day Will Come

Then He Will Have Odors That Will Move Mankind Most Profoundly. A perfumer was talking shop. “When will my trade,” he said, "develop as It should? When will perfume sway men's minds as drink and fame do now? “I have a dog. Often in the country my dog will spy a dead, rotting, sundried bird or fish. The odor of that carcass fills my dog with ecstasy. He rolls upon it in a delirium. It is difficult, even with a club, to make him stop. Well, there, just there. Is the perfume that sways dogs, and a dog perfumer, patenting It, would becotfae a billionaire. "The serpent arum Is a plant of strong odor. The arum has, indeed, a stench. Well, this stench attracts to it from miles around all those insects that fed on carrion. If you look Into

the cup of the serpent arum you are sure to see a very inferno of insect drunkards—hundreds of them, intoxt cated by the arum's odor, whirling ana leaping and spinning in a mad dances For the serpent arum's odor is the odor par excellence of insects, as th<* rotten, sun-baked fish odor is the odor par excellence of dogs

"Have I any perfume that sways mankind like that? No. none. - Imag Ine my new-mown hay drawing • lady from her milliner's or her pet pianist’s! Imagine my glrofle drawing » man from his beer or his jackpot! “Yet the day will come. 1 am convinced, when we have perfumes that will move mankind as profoundly as the spoiled fish perfume moves s dog and as the serpent arum perfume moves the Dermestes and Saprfnidae In that day my address will be River side drive. Newport, Jekyl Island Monte Carlo and Loa Angolan.**