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Show Sample Collecting Is Good Hobby JJERE is an out-of-the-ordinary hobby which is lots of fun. There is very little cost to it, either perhaps not any. And you can start right away. It is sample collecting. Collect samples of what? Ev- I J' I t- 1". ' 1' '') maybe- t CAW VJS ( GET A SAMPLE kJpT- V FOR MY -Cl V '! Tv dATOM BOMB B WORKS- OATa$fB f -cEP c?:' erything from soup to nuts. One sample collector has several hundred hun-dred items. They include a midget mid-get box of salt only an inch and a half tall, a miniature package of cough drops which looks just like a full-size package, which contains con-tains only two lozenges; tiny bottles bot-tles of lotions, tonics, creams, threads, yarns, screens, floor coverings cov-erings many, many different things. Stores of all sorts often give away free samples of merchandise. From a grocer you can get sample cans or packages of new foods. The druggist has wee jars of cosmetics cos-metics and small bars of soap. Read the ads for offers of samples. Most of them can be had for a penny postcard. Some of them cost ! only a few cents. To begin with, a box will serve i to hold your collection. As it grows, you will want a display i case. You can use a shallow box s partitioned off with cardboard shelves. You might arrange the i collection like merchandise in a i store. Any way you do it will be fun. |