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Show j Local Women j Create 35 "first Ladies" , Hobbies furnish pleasurable and ) often profitable past time but for Mrs. Marie Whiting and Miss Zina Johnson, their hobby has meant even more. For a long time, each of these ladies wanted to make miniature replicas of the president's presi-dent's wives. For Zina, it meant collecting raw clay for the statuettes, stat-uettes, molding each into the proper pro-per form, baking it and turning it out complete and ready for a gown. Not; satisfied with merely purchasing pur-chasing a form and painting it, Miss Johnson started from the beginning be-ginning and actually created each individual with characteristis hairdo, hair-do, facial expression and posture. Her phase of the hobby is an art , in itself and required several . months to complete. ' Ncxt came the task of dressing 4L'.'flrst Iadies" and here Mrs. Whiting took over For each of we ladies" she found cloth as nearly as possible like that worn at the innaugural. An example of (Continued on page Ten) and creation in working 0j t hobby. A little experience often us a lot of theory. Cadman. Local Women Creat Thirty-five 'First Ladies' (Continued from page One) the time and patience required was seen when Mrs. Whiting said she spent three hours beading- one little panel on one little dress. Some of the ladies carry fans, tiny little things, hand-made and beautiful. beau-tiful. Others have , little beaded bags and others tiny hand-made flowers. So complete were the cos- j tumes that even a tiny lace hand- j kerchief, one eighth on an inch square, peeped from a handbag. Looking over the ladies, one has little difficulty in recognizing those best known and pictured in history books. Asked how they knew how to make the ladies so complete, Mrs. i Whiting said tljey secured a book from the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D. C, and studied ; each figure. The result is an interesting in-teresting and unique collection of ; 35 first ladies in their innaugural '. gowns. The originators of this most un- i usual hobby have had many in- i vitations to exhibit the "ladies" to groups in town and out and nearly j a hundred people have already called to see them. But it is Miss Johnson and Mrs. Whiting who have reaped the benefit of study ' |