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Fragrance Which Vanishes

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
April
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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He has been canvassing the city for a week trying to sell sachet powders. He carries a little two-by-four lunch basket and wears a smile and nose that would put the most skillful perfume scenter in the United States to blush, says the Louisville Commercial. But the way he works people is a caution. Upon his entrance to the store, shop or office, no matter which it may be, the entire room is immediately filled with the sweetest odor imaginable, i His victims then are easy. They think i they are getting a dollar's worth of j the standard violet sachet for 10 cents, and go about guying the other employés who didn't buy and couldn't see the good thing they were missing. In about thirty minutes the fellows who let go their dimes begin to realize that the contents of the little paper packages are not so full of delights to the olfactory nerves. The next five minutes they dweil on the perfldy of man and awaken to the knowledge that their sachet powder is nothing more nor less than white ashes. The perfume is gone. It originally came from an atomizer, containing a rare triple extract, which the fakir used with telling effect upon entering his dupes' place of business. Of course, the dupes did not see the little spray of perfume which came from the packet, but when they read this they'll know how they were bunkoed.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat