Show THIS THAT and the OTHER I b by Muck Mack Turner Quite often one hears of ot a hobby that pays off ott through the pocketbook When such Is the case It makes one take a II closer look at hi his own hobbles hobbies and andI I wonder where the payoff comet comes from rom From the Mining Record we weI wesee wesee I see the lat latest st hobby to pay or off handsome I rewards ewards is that of a apart apart part time housewife who can now afford to become a full tull time rock hound She casually picked up a arock arock arock rock decided It was pretty cute and suddenly di discovered covered she had hada a diamond We can also remember another lucky break that a friend of ours once had on entering a picture In Ina a national photographic contest Entries were limited limped to two prints This particular shutter bug had hadine fine ine luck with the print he made especially for tor the contest As an afterthought he tossed in a second from rom his collection of ot prints Just Justo to o fill out his limit The carefully planned contest picture rated honorable mention after arter the judges had picked the I 50 0 winning prints Ills His after after- thought bought shot brought second prize and a check for 1000 We can remember back a num number ber of years ago when an amateur picture snapper was strolling along the street of a city in Dixie when a woman jumped to her death from tram a skyscraper hotel The amateur fired with his camera camero and caught the woman about 1 15 feet from rom that sudden stop that proved so fatal Local newspapers Life Ufe magazine maga maga- zinc zine contest and various publications Ions and advertising ventures used the print At one time we read an article in a photographic magazine that stated the photo photo- grapher had made more than 1000 10 00 from this one negative Some fall fail to cash in on their hobby until it Is too late Some of these cases are brought about by y trying to hold on a little longer longero to o get a better collectors price Some Jome others are cases of not knowing mowing the true value of something something some some- thing that has been laying around in n the way for a long time perhaps per per- haps laps longer than one knows Several years ago the National Geographic magazine one of the most widely read and highly regarded regarded regarded re re- re- re of all publications carried an article on old publications Inow now low worth many times their original or or- value The old dime novel that a afew few tew ew of us today can remember slipping lipping out back of the barn to read ead but hate to admit is worth plenty lenty today Dealers a few years ago go were offering per copy for or the Reprints are not valuable There is no telling offhand offhand off- off hand and what the dealer sells them for or We once sold a copy of the 1 National Geographic for which I we paid the sum of 20 cents for J 50 50 It was an issue back in the theOs I Os that was devoted to horses I and nd now classed as a rare edition It t is still valuable Many m magazines of Vol 1 1 No Iare 1 I are re valuable on the collectors market today but the values on these lese will vary Much of this value alue depends on the he magazine and nd its appeal to the collector And there Is no accounting for these lese tastes testes of the collectors We used sed to to get the chance now and then hen to see a copy of Hobby magazine mag mag- azine zine the Bible of the hobby col col- Some of the things that are re collected certainly never Impressed impressed im im- pressed us One of the most popular items Hems ot of f collections Is the gun collection A lot of persons boast of very veryne fine ne collections of firearms and can an quote the history of cf each type ype of gun But the collection to stop all collections was that which was publicIzed a number of years ago agoy by y the noted author H. H Allen Smith mith In his book Low tow Man On Ona a Totem Pole In which he told of a man who collected belly lint int from the belly buttons of famous people A hobby helps a man forget torget a lot Jot of troubles For that reason It is b a worthwhile venture event even It t it never pays off In hn the pocket pocket- ook book For some It takes the form of f collecting and for tor others it Is melting making something To many it Is almost most a profession Most of t them cost money to maintain How much It costs depends de de- ends on the Individual who Inmost Inmost in most ost cases will limit the I cost of ofa a hobby to what he can afford to o spend on it Like all forms of ot spending pending and credit there are some ome who overdo it But to our humble opinion In taking an overall view of ot the subject it Is our belief that the hobby lobby is money well spent It helps to keep a mans man's mind fresh tresh for tor or the bigger task of making a living Iving It Is the stabilizer for those who ho carry the tho load of the business busi- busi ness ess world Ichabod the office boy says that in this modem modern age jewelers are re over overlooking over looking a bet by not sell sell- Ing g a specially designed ring forthe for forthe the le women to wear as a divorce ring ng |