The H. A. Manufacturing Company came into existence in San Francisco in 1915, It was founded with Chinese capital. In 1918 it was organized in Shanghai, with agencies all over China. In Shanghai it is called a perfume factory but all the appurtenances to beauty, Chinese and foreign, are made beneath its roof. In recent months it has not confined its attentions to cosmetics and washes for the exterior, but has under the direction of an "expert" chemist manufactured interior medicines for all the ills that man and woman are heir to.
Smells of all sorts are very obtrusive in China. There is no way of ignoring them. They rise up and greet one everywhere. A Chinese perfume factory has its own strange medley of smells. Some might pre-for its odours to those of the streets. It is all a matter of taste. Needless to say our ideas of scent do not coincide with those of the Celestial Empire. Jasmine, for example, met in a garden is de. lightful, but in a Chinese perfume factory its cloying fragrance is deadly.
The H. A. Ca. employs twenty odd persons, mostly girls, to fill bottles with the precious liquid, poke cold cream (Snow White) into jars with wooden sticks, weigh out hair oil, label, ete.
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