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Show amp-Collecting Gimmirkc Austria, (ho horse from Central America and the animal stamps of ny countries. Write what you And out about these animals. You X UnCailh ma"y "'Prising Are you Interested In airplanes? A whole series of air mail stamps can be collected from foreign and domestic sources. Study the planes. Chart the air routes. There could be an education in air mail stamps. Hobbies are made for enjoyment. enjoy-ment. Start your stamp collecting hobby in the original way that appeals to you. Don't ape others find pass up the albums that direct collecting i a manner appearing dull to you. Should you become an advanced collector, you can transfer your stamps to better albums. ' BY I. K. HKOKIj '' -iT-VMP collections are never $ "5 finished," 12-year-old Law- ,.0 limented. "I look at those Ji' and see all the empty ',. ' Lws I've got to nil. I can't get ':! Mj of the st'""11s 1 iuhM lmtil 1 !t give up on the hobby." "Use a ew Sl"mit'ks pt vo"r own" 14-year-old Dick advised. N .g, a blank loose leaf binder ,d start collecting only what u-re interested in, then tlx it up in' the style you want." , Dick has the right idea. Suppose it is travel that appeals - toyou and you have pen pals in i. (t!,er countries. Hinge the stamps you receive to one page and then or clip a map of that section ; (j world in which your pen ; pal lives. Write in other bits of ;:s information about your pen pal, your pen pal's country or the par's? par-'s? ticilar stamp you have saved. You can have a whole gallery - ol famous Americans in stamps and write your own thumbnail biography of each person. You can start a zoo with the koala bear stamp of Australia, the monkey that appeared on a North Borneo stamp, the platypus from |