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Show WOMAN SAFE LOCK EXPERI Miss Stella Darling Only One of Her Sex in World in the Business. Busi-ness. Portland, Ore. The unique distinction distinc-tion of being the only woman safe-lock safe-lock expert in the world and the most expert at that business of any man or woman living, is that claimed by Miss Stella Darling, a young Portland woman. wom-an. Solving combinations is a second nature with Miss Darling, and so capable ca-pable is she that a well-known manufacturer's manu-facturer's agent here pays her a handsome hand-some salary. Whenever the locks on the various vaults and safes of the banks, express ex-press companies and business houses Miss Stella Darling. in the city refuse to respond to the usual number of twists and turns of the combination the owners, instead of tearing their hair and saying naughty things step to the telephone and call for Miss Darling. She takes a few tools and goes to the street and number num-ber given. With an inborn knowledge of the mechanism and its whims, Miss Darling Dar-ling examines it critically and listens to an explanation of the difficulty. With a smile that is contagious she puts her alligator handbag on a nearby near-by desk, removes her gloves and approaches ap-proaches the box of steel. After a few deft turns of the combination and she knows most of thepi; it is more than likely that she set this one the bolt may refuse to move. She smiles at her failure and 'as if by some mutual understanding between safe and woman, it opens at her second sec-ond attempt. To show the high esteem in which she is held by the manufacturers through the United States it is only necessary to state that she is the recipient re-cipient of a number of costly and beautiful beau-tiful jewels which have been given to her from time to time. It is only her love for Portland that has prevented her from accepting lucrative offers in distant -cities. |