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Show Don't Hobble Your Hobby nN & A c & FIVE MILLIOW BOYS AUD GIRLS $J y WHO ARE AAAKIUG USIC- ilfrSv" stamp coULEcTiua is owe POWtt TOOLS. OF THE MOST POPULAR OF HAVlr ?LAOE S) HOBBIES-O rWff company. More than 12 million people on this continent are at it. This is big game hunting by Little bits. There are over 150,000 different varieties of stamps listed which makes the hunt one of the most fascinating of hobbies. Like photography stamps ;also have commercial possibilities. A good stamp collection is worth money, and it increases in value with age. Several collections of stamps are known to be worth a million dollars or more. The owner own-er of a . more modest collection recently advertised that he would trade his large summer resort estate for a good stamp collection. 'J'HIRD on the list of popular hobbies is music. At least one ut of every 15 persons hoots, toots, claws, or hammers out his fun. There are about 5,000,000 school children yearly learning to play some kind of musical instrument. in-strument. Times are changing. So are instruments. in-struments. The violin and saxophones saxo-phones had their day. The banjo was popular in hard times. Now the accordion is at bat. It is a rather expensive gadget but it is a one-man portable band once you can play it. Mechanical models and home workshop creations plod along in fourth place. These require considerable con-siderable expenditures with not so big an opportunity for cashing in on the efforts involved. The chief fun here is in finding a creative cre-ative outlet for an inner urge to produce something. Of models, miniature airplanes top the list. About a quarter of ' these are engine driven, the balance bal-ance depend on rubber bands or the simple toss-in-the-air method. Model railroad building still has an appeal for a good many thousand thou-sand hobbyists. It's a bit expensive expen-sive though. The average model railroader spends about $3 a week but his money certainly goes around the track, that is. Perhaps one of the oldest of hobbies is whittling. Nowadays we have modernized the idea and power tools have replaced the ancient jackknife. Home workshops work-shops are growing up like mushrooms mush-rooms in both farm and city dwellings. BY WALTER KING JF you are not on the hobby horse already, it can't be long now before you join the happy band of funsters. More than one-third of the people on the North American Ameri-can continent are interested in some sort of hobby. There must be something to it. Photography is the No. 1 choice. The simple box camera of the "ready-aim-fire" variety is still a top seller. Add the movie camera 1 fans to the vast army of "snap-shooters" "snap-shooters" and you account for at least 20 million hobbyists. Photography is popular because no great skill is required to start and the cost of following up this hobby is quite reasonable. With 1 even a modest snap album you have something of sentimental i value. Amateur photography can also : be the stepping stone to a good i commercial enterprise. After photography, stamp col- : lecting has the greatest number of followers. Exciting world i events have given this hobby a ; great lift in the past few years. If you collect stamps, vou are in high |