Show ill Jn ill HE jig saw puzzle craze has THE taken hold of the entire country country coun coun- country try to a marvelous degree and the shops where these things are turned out have been operated to their fullest extent for many months In addition to the thousands of puzzles puzzles puzzles which have been turned out in inthis inthis inthis this manner there arc almost as man many which have been made at home by bythe bythe bythe the handy man with the use of the theold theold theold old jig g saw which he used to kick when he was a boy In some of the larger cities there are exchanges where these puzzles are arc dealt in on a business basis and in smaller communities communities com coin there are arc individuals who e engage i ge in the exchange of puzzles forthe forthe for forthe the mere fun o of getting new ones with which to work ork at odd hours At the present time there is the greatest possible possible possible pos pos- sible activity in in the jig saw puzzle market In the manufacture of these puzzles the picture is first mounted on os the board or veneer If you could clamp a dozen of these sheets of wood together and saw saty them out all at once h why why of course that would materially material material- ly reduce the cost of production But you you cant can't do them that way or at least you non dont don't except in the case of the ver very y cheapest puzzles containing r comparatively few pieces A puzzle maker said recently In making these cheap puzzles you youcan youcan youcan can stain the backs of the blocks of different tints and then clamp two or four tour or half a dozen together and saw them all at once and then after thc they are arc sawed the pieces should get mixed why why with the help of the colors on their backs and the limited number of blocks you could sort them out read read- ily But you couldn't do that so well with puzzles of great numbers of pieces Here for instance is a jig saw puzzle containing GOO pieces The picture is intricate and has many figures figures fig fig- ures tires making the puzzle all the more difficult to match up Suppose we should try to cut out a dozen puzzles like this at once and that in removing removing removing ing a then from the sawing table we wea should get th these se veneers mixed Talk about your difficult jig saw puzzles Why if you should get a bunch of a dozen piece puzzles mixed up like that it would be a labor of months to sort them out and to get them com com- So the puzzles of the better grades arc are sawed out each one by itself Another Another Another An- An other advantage in this is that each puzzle has an individuality of its own You take a dozen or twenty or forty puzzles with Hh the same picture and with the same number of blocks and you would find no two with the blocks just alike because no sawyer could saw them just dust alike Then after after after af af- af- af ter the the- puzzles have been sawed they have to be gone over that is the better better better bet bet- ter ones block by block and the rough edges smoothed down if there are arc any and this takes tim time The 2 puzzle that you thought was rather expensive may have cost hours of labor la labor labor la- la bor before it was ready to be packed Nobody knows how long the lie jig jigsaw jigsaw jigsaw saw puzzle craze is going to last l lany If any one did then the manufacturers could invent and put into operation mechanical appliances that would materially materially materially ma ma- reduce the cost of their production pro pro- II As As it is these puzzles arc are now being being being be be- ing turned out by all the toy manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers manu- manu working g in wood and wholesale wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale dealers in toys have set up little jig saw puzzle factories of their own or have rc contracted contracted- with skillful jig savers to supply their demand the sawyer then setting up tip a little factory factory factory fac fac- tory of his own in which he lie might employ perhaps a dozen or twenty I people When hen the Teddy bear craze came I there were started t up tp numerous small factories in iii which first and last a considerable considerable considerable con con- number of people found steady work in an entirely new occupation occupation occupation pation the manufacture of Teddy bears there are arc just such little factories factories factories fac fac- fac- fac tories now in which people work allday all allday allday day long and day clay after day in the manufacture of the popular jig saw puzzles I l I J I I |