Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1928, Page 46

10 BUILDING HOMES OF EARTH PRAED Experiments Show .Strength Is Equal to Concrete, Say Engineers. ANN ARBOR. Mich. (#).—Homes built of earth have been constructed and found practical by technicians at the Unitversity of Michigan—but they €ost more than frame homes. F. E. Menéfee and R. E. Franklin of the engineering mechanics staff of the university built the homes from earth turned up when excavation was made for the basements. The dirt was ram- med by pneumatic tampers in forms set up for sidewalls. similar to those used in pouring concrete, and the walls were found to have the strength of concrete when the dirt was compressed | to_half its normal volume. The pair thought it would be much cheaper to erect such houses than to build them of conventional materials, but they found that the cost of putting up an earthen dwelling exceeded slight- Iy the cost of an ordinary dwelling. They planned to make the lot pro- vide everything but roofing materials for the exterior construction, and to build a home as sturdy and as hand- some as those built of weod, brick or stone. Built along modern architec- tural lines, with the earth walls coated | with glazed paint, the houses resem- bled stucco dwellings and a casual ex- amination would never have revealed them to be glorified “sod shanties.” The first house had only the walls and the gable end of ‘an ornamental doorway built of earth. In the second the earth walls were carried to the roof, which was erected with only the walls as supports. One of the walls built early in the tests has weathered two seasons of Michigan rain and snow with the loss of little, if any, dust from its forms. Irishman Dies at 104. Neil O'Donnell recently died at Cor- veen, Ireland, at the age of 104. For & time he was in America, and before returning to Ireland he entered a Chi- cago bank for the purpose of depositing # sum of money. He left the money in the bank without informing any of the officials. On his return to Corveen he told the late Canon McFadden, who was #ble to trace and secure for O'Donnell the “deposit.” P Storks are of great economic value to the peasants in their European homes, for their diet consists almost entirely ©of snakes, rodents, frogs and insect: 1 eme smmn g note. striking chic times. But LTRSS -~e+ THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. SEPTEMBER. 9. 1928_PART 3 garian Fields for BY STOYAN CHRISTOWE. | (Correspondent of The Star and Chicago | Daily News in Bulsaria.) ! You have heard of the famous valley of roses. This town is in the center of it. There are roses in every direc- |tion and one need not be poetical to |say that there is perfume in the air. It is not even necessary to go outside |the house to smell it. Just open the window and the rose odor pours in. There is so much of it that it seems a | pity it cannot be drdwn from the air, the way the essence is distilled from the roses and imprisoned in bottles to be | released in places where there is no | perfumed breeze Karlovo i5 an old Turkish town. situ- aied at the foot of the Balkan Moun- tains, down whose sloping sides numer- |ous streams trickle through the court- |vards of the houses. making a natural |drainage system. From the window | where T write I see the minaret of a mosque. There are thousands _of mosques through the Balkans. The | Turks departed decades ago. but they left. their impress upon places and peo- ple and it is curious that many of their customs and traditions are being pre- served by Christian countries. | Valley 80 Miles Long. | It was a Turk that introduced the cultivation of the rose in Bulgaria That was 230 years ago: now there are approximately 200.000 people engaged |in the industry. The rose valley proper |1s, about 80 miles long and approxi- | mately 10 miles wide. The width varies |as the Balkan Mountains and the | Sredna-Gora Range come together, nar- row in or spread wider apart. Through this narrow valley and up the gently rising hills are dozens of villages sur- rounded by rose gardens and topped | with trees which rise above the houses like gigantic green umbrellas. | Many people have the idea that the valley “of roses is one long uninter- rupted bed of roses. stretching infinitely like an unbroken rug of red and white |colors. It is not so. The rose planta- tions are not very large. They are small patches, like vineyards, scattered through the valley amidst fields of wheat, barley, oats and other plants. If all the territory encompassed by the so-called valley of roses were planted with flowers it would take millions of |kands to gather them during the fif- |teen or twenty days that the harvest- ing lasts. The season for the gather- ing of the rose and for its distillation starts about May 25 and lasts until The art of gracious entertaining is leav- ing tradition far behind, and in these days of changing modes and manners the suc. cessful Hostess must strike the modern Today the Hostess elects to do some- thing different in the way of entertaining —to serve some new and more delicious delicacy—to give the unusual in prizes at bridge—to grace her soiree with a gown of and charm. Her first problem, then, is to keep her- self informed of the present trend toward beauty and newness. Everything she reads —magazines and newspapers patticularly —assists her in keeping in tune with the it remains for her local news- paper advertising to inform her just where in town she can procure the new things to serve, to give and to wear. And in that ;VALLEY OF ROSES SENDS FORTH . RICH ODORS OF RARE BLOOMS ‘Huge Crop Now Being Harvested in Bul- Use in Distilling Perfumes. |the 10th or 15th of June. Right now’ thousands of women zre clipping the | soft flowers and peasants stuff them \:mn sacks and haul them to the dis- ers. Must Be Quickly Harvested. The harvesting of the roses is & pe- i culiar thing. A ficld of rosebushes may | be green in the evening, but. weather permitting, about 4 o'clock the follow- ing morning what had been a tract of green hudding rosebushes will be a soft blanket woven out of living flowers, | with millions of silky petals exuding odor. All these roses must be gathered | between 4 and 9 o'clock in the morn- [ing. If they are left on the bushes they lose their perfume and a year's care | to produce them is wasted in a few | hours. ~This curious condition makes it unprofitable for the distiller to cul- tivate roses. They must depend upon | peasants for the supply. The rose requires only a few hours attention even during the intensive pe- | riod of harvest, but it makes necessary the employment of a large number of hands, since hundreds of tons of roses | must be gathered within the space of a few hours. The peasants can do this because they make it a family festival. They go out to the field early in the morning and by the time the sun has a chance to kiss the flowers they have gathered them, with the dew of the | night still upon them. Then they dis making rose culture a sort of side line. | . The rose distillers could not afford to | hire thousands of people for a period of 20 days and only give them actual em- ployment of a few hours a day. Fur- thermore, if the roses should happen to suffer from some devastating sick- | ness and if the crops were bad, they | would never be able to recover from the loss; whereas, with the distillers buying from the peasants. they are not likely to suffer from any losses age to the roses is spread ove number of growers and the loss keenly felt by individuals. « Growers Try for High Prices. ‘There is a great deal of enmity be- tween rose growers and rose distillers. | The former think that the distillers, | who come to the valley for only a month during harvesting_and distilla- tion and then depart for Paris, London and New York, are exploiting them. ‘They sometimes gather the roses and | hold them in sacks for days, trying to | exact bigger prices, but this results in losses for both the peasant and the dis- Hostesses — > capacity The STAR has no counterpart in Washington! Every evening STAR Advertising is alive with Newness, Style and Beauty. It presents al] manner of products in their newest forms. It reveals the modern note in everything from Furs to offers numerous sugge: as a Hostess. Furthermore, the occas finds STAR Advertising highly interesting and helpful in her every end it is buying a Fall wardrobe, refurnishing her home for Winter or planning her next social affair. It is always at fresh with new ideas—always authentic and reliable in the information it gives, The modern Hostess is a regular reader of STAR Advertising! Of particular interest to Hostesses | perse to other work in the fields, thus | ns for smartly serving one’s guests—which, if followed, will make for one an enviable reputation I T tiller, since the rose must be distilled | within a day after it is clipped. When | kept longer it begins to ferment. and the essence contains a large percentage | of alcohol. The rose petals. like the | essence itsclf, are sold by weight. The | average price this year for a pound of | roses is 5 cents. It takes 2.000 pounds of roses to produce one pound of rose oil. The roses did not suffer from the | earthquakes or the subsequent floods, | but considerable damage has.been done by the cold weather. France is the largest consumer of the famous Bulgarian essence: with the | United States second. But in view of the fact that the attar is never used in its natural state but as a base for per- fumes, America is virtually the biggest market for it. since much of the French | perfume is marketed in the United | States. Persia Started Industry. | The rose always has been a favorite | flower. ~ Cleopatra once covered the ! floor of her dining hall to the depth |of a cubit with roses: while the fiddler Nero squandered a fortune for roses on a single feast so that he might decorate the heads of his guests. Tbu Khaldun tells that in the reign of Kaliph Mamoun, in_the ninth cen- tury, the province of Faristan in Persia had to pay an annual tribute of 30,000 | botti>s of rose water to the treasury | | of Bagdad. Before Bulgaria began cultivating the | queen of flowers for its essence, the gardens of Persia, situated in the neigh- | borhood of Shiraz, were famous for the | fragrance of their roses. But the rose | found its most favorable climate and | soil in this valley of roses, where, pro- | tected from winds by the mountains, | it grows in profusion and gives the best perfume obtainable. As we speak of | the rose as the queen of flowers, so in Persia it is called “Gul,” that is, the | flower, and in Bulgaria they cali_the | | rose oil “Gulovo Maslo,” or oil of Gul. | | GIRL DRIVER SENTENCED. | | Penalties Suspended for Miss Pace After Guilty Plea, | | Miss Hilda Pace, 19, 518 Third street, withdrew her former demands for jury | trials and pleas of not guilty and sub- | | stituted a plea of guilty to leaving after | colliding and operating without a per- i mit yesterday and given suspended sen- | tences and placed on probation for six months in Police Court. | ‘The suspended sentences, imposed by Judge Isaac R. Hitt, consisted of $100 or 30 days on the “hit-and-run” charge | and $25 or 25 days for no permit. Her | | probationary period was also extended to cover these terms. | Miss Pace was fined $100 or 25 days | for reckless driving last week by Judge | John P. McMahon and committed to jail for a few hours until relatives paid | her fine. 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