| Show What's Your HOBBY BOBBY 1 v r 4 t y 4 A A t 4 e j v r 4 c c 4 q I f I g i Doing ong If The ake Mas as a aToy aToy aToy Toy the fihe Dunckel uhe is s a Camera Fan Lat and the nile Bal c Eake Ir Stamps amps By JOSEPH W. W LaBINE How do you spend your spare time Or do you waste it Theres There's a difference you see Its It's easy to stand on a street corner and watch the world go by but youre you're apt to crawl into bed that night feeling like a a fifth wheel on the buggy cuggy that makes this world go round How to utilize spare time is a problem that vexed mankind mankind mankind man man- kind long before bored monarchs snapped their pudgy fingers to make the pipers play Today in a world of shorter working hours and increased social ocial consciousness nes intelligent ent use of our loafing hours is a serious senous matter but don't dont take it seriously instead why not find a hobby In every walk valk of life these days youre you're apt to meet stamp collectors candid camera camera camera cam cam- era fans and miniature railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road builders The garage mechanic who tunes up your motor probably tinkers with wave short radio between the evening meal and bedtime A I United States Supreme cou court t justice may surreptitiously read detective stories when nobody's nobody's nobody's no no- body's looking and your doctor might collect rare old books Cream on Your Porridge Its It's reached a stage where the curious thing to look for is not people people peo pee pie who have hobbies but those who dont Someone has called it a way to put cream on your porridge which means that a too serious hobby will add zest to the most humdrum life lile Nor need your workaday workaday work- work day a-day job be humdrum Henry Ford one of Americas America's busiest industrial magnates devotes his spare time timeto to th building the famous Greenfield village at Dearborn Mich Albert Einstein the scientist relaxes by sawing aWa away at his violin Andre Kostelanetz the orchestra leader is isan isan isan an expert wood carver Pick up the paper almost any day and you'll find an item about your next door hobby In Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago one evening last year M. M J. J a retired gas company superintendent superintendent superintendent super super- was visiting a friends friend's home The friend remarked that he was going to build a model of the Italian liner Rex That set Mr to thinking and a few days later he started building his own steamship a three foot model of the gigantic Normandie Mr who is sixty eight years old ld suddenly discovered a new meaning in life I found Id I'd been missing something he says Its toUs great fun making model steamships and Im I'm going to keep doing it the rest of my life Ace Acc in the Hole Holc A few blocks away ay Arthur Laed- Laed crach an electrical engineer goes down to his whitewashed basement each evening and works at the hobby hobby hobby hob hob- by of years standing standing This is the science of making landscapes landscapes land land- still life pictures and abstract abstract abstract ab ab- ab- ab designs with veneer woods inlaid to give the proper appear appear- ance Its It's a hobby that demands use of the jigsaw and a lot of pa tience Hence In the end he develops a unique skill kill that may serve him in good stead should the electrical engineering profession fail fall him That incidentally is an important feature of hobbles hobbies More than one amateur has turned his avocation avo avo- cation atlon into a money making busi busi- ness In Massachusetts a woman who gre v up with a liking for tinkering tinkering tink tink- ering over old down broken-down bicycles bicycles bicy bicy- cles des has now made that her busi busi- ness And a good many years ago the Wright brothers spent their spare time playing with gliders in ina a deserted spot called Kitty Kilty Hawk N. N C. C Look what happened to them I IMore More than one stamp collector has had similar good fortune turning his hobby into a professional stamp business that netted a living income And in California the newest avo- avo Lk u iti N Nt t 4 y f I i 1 a IL ILA A Chicago woman attorney spent 50 years of her spare time collecting figurines like those shown above c Each figurine represents some outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing fi figure e in history Costumes hair dress Jewelry and other accessories accessorIes ac ac- ac- ac arc are absolutely authentic Outstanding in the thc above group Is Joan dArc d'Arc Arc 40 cation is hobby hobb mining In which amateur prospectors take to the hills each week end In search of gold This has resulted in a rush for claims reminiscent of last century's gold stampede These modern prospectors prospectors prospectors pros pros- arent aren't finding much gold but they have hopes and meanwhile its it's a lot of fun Career Hobbles Then theres there's also the hobby which can be joined with your professional career An example is Mildred Dilling Billing Bil Dil- ling internationally known harpist who began her rise to fame with a second hand harp When she retires retires retires re re- re- re tires from the concert stage many years hence shell she'll have something more tangible than memories because because because be be- cause she spends her spare t time e collect collecting ng old rare curious and historic historic his his- harps Some hobbles hobbies can make you feel like a kid again which isn't a bad Idea Several years ago some youthful youth youth- ful minded father bought his youngster youngster youngster young young- ster an nn electric toy train for Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas and had so much fun with it himself that he bought another That hobby model railroading has grown overnight until now many a headed hard-headed business man ian spends his evenings playing with a miniature miniature miniature minia minia- ture train It isn't childs child's play however The serious model railroader builds his own rolling sto stock k to exact scale size and has from to 1000 feet of track on which to run it Today you can buy disassembled miniature miniature miniature minia minia- ture railroad parts and build your own system consisting of engines Pullmans coaches and innumerable types of freight cars Train hobbyists hobbyIsts hobbyists hobby hobby- prefer freights because of the variety they offer Or You Might l Try Try Try- Theres There's a humorous side to hob hob- b ing too Out in Halfway Ore Walter W W. Evans collects collects or of all things things official official positions I Evans Is vice president and cashier of the First National bank city treasurer high school clerk secretary treasur er of the telephone company key banker for his county banking association association association asso asso- public education committeeman committee- committee man for the same organization and president of the Northwest Oregon Bankers association Recently he decided to run for justice of the peace Then in Akron Ohio we find Walter Walter Wal Vial ter Thompson a gasoline station at who in the past two years has dissuaded 10 persons from sui sui- sui- sui cide That says Thompson is his hobby His station is located at the end of a bridge At nearby Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land a strange fellow who jumped through the trees at Brookside park clad in a tiger skin clout breech-clout turned out to be nothing more than thana a Tarzan hobbyist But police warned him to practice elsewhere Maybe the suicide stopper and the amateur Tarzan arent aren't true hobbyists hobbyists hobbyists hobby hobby- but to discover how important this business has become you need only look at one of the exhibitions staged by people who have found a happy pastime and are willing to tell the world about it Famous People Quaint Hobbies Famous people sometimes have unique hobbies Jane Pickens the weaves rugs and makes bobbin lace because it gives her time to think think- Chester Morris the movie star is an amateur magician magi magi- clan cian and Dr Frank Black musical director for a broadcasting network plays with chemistry during his spare time Right now he is experimenting experimenting experimenting with liquid rubber to use usein usein usein in making sculpture molds Perhaps you already have a hob hob- by If not take a little sage advice advice advice ad ad- vice from the experts before developing developing developing de de- de- de one The best way they say is to fall into something you OU really enjoy Dont Don't deliberately look for a hobby simply drift into a stimulating avocation avocation avo avo- cation that brings you rou real enjoy enjoy- ment Another thing dont don't be too strict about your hobby because if you ou tiey tie y yourself up with a lot of restrictions the whole thing will vill suddenly become be come very irksome If youre you're not careful your hobby is apt to take too much time at first You may get so enthusiastic that life becomes one continual mental tussle between your hobby and your better self But eventually y you'll ull emerge from this stage with a balanced bal bbl viewpoint having learned to live with this new companion You'll discover that moderation in all aU t things ings is an excellent idea but what's more important you'll not be alone with a pair of twiddling thumbs the next rainy afternoon I 0 Western If Newspaper Union 40 TW I Old Bill Morris l of the Blue Ridge mountain n district In North Carolina teu tends s this ancient frontier fire as his hobb hobby The flame was started b by his ancestors years rears ago and has bas been kept alive ever er since c S ig- ig t ii k 3 L M va 7 ti I I N 7 s Q 4 ri S S rj F S a v MODERN JV 1 women are invading mans man's LJ traditional occupations and andi i If you youdon don dont don't t believe it look at these pictures Above are two Miami Fla misses Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia Crawford who officiates at al a gas S S pump and Mitzie Strothers a who is never short of customers S D s o oW W Mrs Juanita Lewis spurns relict relief to earn her livelihood as a shoeshine shoeshine shoe shoe- shine girl in New York Her husband an unemployed tunnel worker made the shoeshine stand and Mrs Lewis says she likes the work because she's her own boss Women's emancipation from rom the kitchen began about the time feminine suffrage was granted The revolt has grown until untila a few weeks ago a prominent authoress suggested that men have made such a muddle of things that they should be left home to do the dishes 7 r 2 4 5 p S S T Above Marjorie Scales of ot S 4 5 Brinnon Wash makes 2 S male log rollers log rollers shame I S faced Right The unidentified relief demonstrator tor f at Cleveland demonstrates how she rolls her own 1 L 4 2 5 C- C bi 5 5 h hS S c cL L Lt Women even go in for lor striking rioting and picketing This picture was made during a battle outside a New York pencil factory where sev several ral women were injured and others landed in the patrol wagon bound for jail Girls wont won't wont stay home S 5 S. 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