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Show w 1 Shoe Analyst Hobby Lures Married Woman of Leisure By BETTY BLAIR Choose any hobby you like. follow it to the furthermost corner of ita interests and you will find yourself equipped with knowledge ior a lucrative Dusineaa. Dear Miss Blair! For so long I have been a reader of your very Interesting column. Now I hava a problem with which I am aura you can help me. I hava worked for a long time and re- Heart's Haven cently I waa married. I now find myself with a lot of time on my hands. I have always been Interested In shoe designing. I haven't a good education, but wonder if thia would ba absolutely neceasary in following this sort of work. How doea one go about atudying for work of this kind. I shall ba very grateful for any Information on thia subject. Tbank you. "WAITING. a o a In answer to your question I am going to tell you tha story of a girl bom In Salt Lake City who now stands right at the top of American Ameri-can ahoa stylists and analyats. Her name la Ruth Kerr and aha la connected con-nected with one of Salt Lake's and Utah'e firat families. After leaving Salt Lake City to make her home In Seattle, Miss Kerr waa graduated from tha University Uni-versity of Washington and went into the shoe advertising business. She learned everything there waa to learn about shoes, leather, and Its treatment and trends, and wrote advertisements ad-vertisements about shoes. Went to Mrtropolia Later sha went to New York City, equipped with all her knowledge gained about ahoea and other leather accessories. Sha wrote a book about shuea and leather which aha sold to the manufacturers. Now sha foretells fore-tells to manufacturers tha new trenda of atylea and leathers. 8he is an authority and her word la accepted ac-cepted everywhere. Mlsa Kerr ia sought for all over tha country to talk at ahoe conventions. conven-tions. Sha haa a natural ability to talk, and that, coupled with a knowledge knowl-edge of her subject, takea her places. Knew What She Wanted Thia girl knew what ahe wanted and went after It. You can do the same thing. The firat thing la, of courae, to acquire a knowledge of your aubject, and the best way to get thia is at first-hand, by working in a shoe store, by learning to ad-vertiae ad-vertiae ahoes, by acquainting your-aelf your-aelf with the knowledge contained in books and magazinea about ahoes and leather, by watching the atylea and by Improving your ability to write and talk about your favorite subject. What an interesting hobby this would be to follow in your apara time! And what ia a mere matter of time, I mean the amount required re-quired to learn the buainesa from A to Z, ao long aa you are engaged in doing tha thing you like to do. -FEED A COLD' Dfur Mlsa Blair: Where did that old aaying. "Feed a cold and atarve a fever." come from? I think whoever invented it waa nuts, don't you? "BKN " e e e I hope you didn't follow the Injunction In-junction of the aaying, "Ben," for the simple reason that one shouldn't "feed" any kind of aickneaa overly murh, and the original saying didn't intend you should. Aa for ita origin, our ancestors used to aay, "Feed a cold and yuii will have to atarve a fever." but they shortened It to Ita present form In the belief It meant the same thing. The original way was, of course. Intended to warn those who liAd a weakness for overeating against doing do-ing ao when they had a cold. FOOD 81 PLRSTITIONH Dear Miaa Blair: Our clasa in foods la giving a party. We would like to kiow aome superstitions about food to use In a game. Have you aome for ua? Thank you. "MEL." e o e These haven't been eaay to locate, but I have a few for you: The Mirls of Aasam prize tiger'a fleah la food for men; It gives them strength and courage. But it la not suited for women: It would make them strong-minded. strong-minded. The Carina abstained from the flesh of piga last it should cause them to hava amall ayee Uka pigs, and they refuaed to partake of tor-touaa tor-touaa from a fear that if they did so they would become heavy and atupld like the animal. Many ancient people fancied that if they ate the eyeball of an owl they would be able to aee in the dark. LJJiope these few will serve you |