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Show AROUND i Z the JTKTOWN Salt Lake Sidelights JIG-SAW OWN JIG-SAWS ' ' Solving Jig-saw puzzle may be something new for millions of Americans, Ameri-cans, but making them for their own amusement has been the hobby of three Salt Lake business men for nearly twenty years. Starting out at th beginning of the t -World war In 2814, when tha busi-' busi-' ness of their assay office began to slack up a little, tha owners of the concern started to make a few of th puzzle for themselves and friends. For several yeara they worked made new onea and then forgot about this type of amusement ,4 .However, a year ago on of th j puzzles was found hidden away in ' th offlc and Interest was again aroused. When tha jig-aaw eras began spreading over the country seversl months ago th three were besieged with requests from their friends to make puzzle for them. Enjoying r this type of work In their spare time, the men hav cut out nearly 200 of the puzzles from wood. Instead of making them of cardboard, card-board, a are msny of th puzzles now on th market tha local jig-saws are mad of three-ply panel board. Making tha puzzles is no easy Job, as it takes considerable time and pa- tience. The picture first has to be carefully glued on tha board and allowed al-lowed to dry lor some time under a heavy weight Then cornea th work of cutting it up with a tiny aaw. This takes hours of tun and much energy, as some of th puzzle contain as many as 1092 pieces. However, putting them together ' takes much more time and thought as some of tha larger puzzles are known to hav kept the puzzle worker busy for eight to ten hours. Evidence that the craze has spread throughout tha entire country and is growing is shown by the report that between 2,000.000 and 2,500.000 I are being sold in the United States ' weekly and another 100,000 in Canada. Can-ada. Besides furnishing cheap amusement amuse-ment for millions and taking their minds off their worries, th Jig-aaw craze is furnishing employment to hundreds of workers. On eastern . firm started last fall by making 12.000 ' puzzles in September. In November th company was producing 100.000 weekly and at the present Urn is turning out mor than 400,000 a week. News stands are doing a big business busi-ness in "jigs." Not only do drug -stores sell them, but msny stores also have a "circulating library" of , puzzles, renting them out by the week. Book stores also go in for rentals. In some of the large department store "Jigs" are found all over the place In th toy department among the books, with stationery and on other counters. Detectives winced and gasped when Chief of Police William L. Payne plunged a penknife into a atlck of dynamite Saturday. Chief Payne But it was a the Ttravolv chif htd suspected uraveiy, x the handiwork of a i Proves Jest practical Joker. ' The "dynamite," equipped with a regulation fuse, was found lying in a gutter in front of 305 East Second South street by Detective De-tective Earl Bertelson. Alarmed, the officer turned the "explosive" over to Chief Payne, who slashed it with his knife and found, instead of dynamite, a piece of broom f handle wrapped in an explosives' covering. SWINGS INDIAN CLUBS Lawyers, doctors, merchants, bankers bank-ers and other business and professional profes-sional men may have their various types of dally exercise, but Salt Lake's '4 I weather man. J. Cecil Alter, still stick to his Indian club swinging. Mr. Alter believee this to be the best form of all around exercise, although al-though he admits it is used to best advantege for "lifting the stomach and chest to their rightful positions in the human anatomy. I "I've been swinging Indian clubs , for 15 minutes every morning for the ' ' past several years," Mr. Alter said, "and that doesn't exclude Sundays, holidays or even Christmas." "Whst's more, I recommend this form of exercise to all men who sit st an office desk most of the day,", he said. |