AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 19 lo 



CLOGR 



Made in our own works (es' 'S65) and sold 

 direct from factory to home. Our modern meth- 

 ods of selling direct to you enables us to offer our 

 product at a large saving in cost to the purchaser. 

 SPECIAL INDUCEMENT: We offer this beautiful 

 HALL CLOCK, like illustration, for $32, less lO'V cash with 

 order, or $28.80; and as a special proposition, cash with order, 

 we will put your monogram, tastefully designed, on dial of clock, 

 WITHOUT CHARGE. This clock is a thoroughly reliable timepiece 

 and fully warranted and guaranteed to keep perfect time for ten years. 

 SHIPPED ON APPROVAL, FREIGHT PREPAID. Satisfaction 

 guaranteed — or return at our expense and money cheerfully refunded. The 

 cabinet work is splendid workmanship, a most attractive ornament, adds 

 a charm to the hall or room. The movement is of ourstandard construc- 

 tion, being made by skilled mechanics, of selected material, and techni- 

 cally correct in all respects. Kindly give the name of two business 

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The Largest Manufac 



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Description 



Size. Height, 

 Hi ft., weiglit, 

 1.50 Ills. Orna- 

 ments: Top or- 

 nanu'uts brass 

 poiislied and 

 laciineied. liotli 

 doors Krencli crys- 

 tals. Dial 1 2 >, 

 Indies s <ni a r e , 

 black Arabic fig- 

 ures. Jlovement: 

 Eiglit day. Visible 

 pendulnin. Strikes 

 hours and h a 1 1- 

 li ours (in sott- 

 toned gong. Gnar- 

 anteed to keep 

 perfect time- 

 State if oak or ma- 

 lioganized cherry 

 is wanted. We 

 refer to any coin- 

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MAKING YOUR OWN PERFUMERY 



BY A. S. ATKINSON. 



THE manufacture of perfumery has 

 always seemed a difficult process to 

 many, and without doubt the blend- 

 ing of certain kinds of perfumes is a matter 

 of much scientific and skillful manipulation; 

 but on the other hand, the most commonly 

 used perfumes can be made at home with 

 simple apparatus and without much expense 

 or trouble. In many parts of the country, 

 flowers are so abundant that one can harvest 

 all that are needed for manufacturing at 

 home perfumes enough for a year's use. 



A perfume garden should prove as profit- 

 able as one of fruits or vegetables. We 

 plant gardens for cut flowers and for flower 

 seeds, but few raise flowers for perfume 

 making. Enough perfumery is sold in this 

 country annually to make a yearly tax of 

 nearly ten dollars on every family. This 

 amount is not evenly distributed ; but each 

 woman spends enough to make it worth 

 while, if she has the garden space, to try a 

 hand at making her perfumes at home. 



One must devote time to the cultivation 

 of certain flowers, which thrive luxuriantly 

 in the vicinity. In many parts of the 

 country roses thrive so luxuriantly that 

 fields can be sown with them, and an abun- 

 dant crop raised. In other sections the rose 

 is too slow-growing for this purpose, but 

 the violet takes its place. Again, it must be 

 the jasmine, the tuberose, the orange blos- 

 som, or lavender. Whatever flower it is 

 that thrives and possesses delicate but 

 powerful fragrance, should be chosen for 

 the work. 



Direct distillation is the most satisfactory 

 way of making perfumery. The still is a 

 simple afTair, and it can be made out of 

 articles found in the average home. Take 

 an ordinary tin oil can, scour it, and purify 

 it of all oil odors. Stop the spout com- 

 pletely, and fit a cork in the top, through 

 which the oil is poured. From a hardware 

 store get four feet of copper tubing (tin or 

 galvanized iron pipe may also be used). The 

 tube should be bent downward at the ends. 



The tin can should be filled with a pound 

 of flower petals gathered fresh in the early 

 morning. Pour over these petals eight fluid 

 ounces of alcohol. Then put the can in a 

 saucepan half filled with water, and place 

 on a stove, where the water can be kept at 

 the boiling point. A hole should be cut 

 through the cork of the can just large 

 enough to receive the metal tube. Place a 

 quart jar on a table nearby, and insert in it 

 the other end of the tubing. This jar 

 should not be sealed, or distillation will not 

 go on properly. 



When the water boils, the alcohol in the 

 can is heated, and this process extracts the 

 perfume from the flower petals, and gradu- 

 ally causes distillation through the tube into 

 the cold jar on the table. The alcohol thus 

 distilled will carry with it the true attar of 

 the flowers. Alcohol has a peculiar prop- 

 erty of extracting and holding the scent 

 of flowers. As fast as distillation goes on, 

 the contents of the jar should be emptied 

 into glass bottles, and securely corked and 

 sealed with paraffin. In blending perfumes 

 of several flowers, do the mixing after each 

 one has been distilled separately. Do not 

 mix the flowers in one still. 



Another method of using this still is to 

 employ water instead of alcohol for distil- 

 lation. Instead of attar we get the essen- 

 tial oil of the flowers, and this rises and 

 floats on the surface of the water in small 

 globules, which must be skimmed off care- 

 fully, and immediately bottled and kept 

 cool and air tight. When suflficient oil is 

 obtained, it should be mixed with alcohol 



