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Show FIND FUN IN HOBBIES Aged Kansas Men Enjoy Vacation Vaca-tion Period of Life. Retired Preacher Write a Book, Artist Collect Bug and Farmer Take Up 8culptur. Topekn. The vacation period of life years well nloug toward the horizonhas hori-zonhas brought pleasant occupations to three aged Knnsas men. Having retired from active pursuits, each today to-day Is following the bent of his Inclinations Incli-nations and declares he Is enjoying his pastime Immensely one writing and printing n book, another collecting Insects, In-sects, uud the third ns n sculptor of stone. Or. A. N. See, eighty, retired Methodist Meth-odist preacher, who, with his wife, lives In the Methodist Home for the Aged In Topekn, has Just completed a history of the northwest Kansas conference. con-ference. He not only gathered the historical his-torical data and wrote the mnuu.script for a '-'(Xl-pago book, but also printed the ptiges on u little baud press, and hduntl the volumes. Doctor See was n pioneer circuit rider In the big northwest north-west Knnsas conference, and later for many years was superintendent of the district. Karl Steelier, twenty', of Wichita i artist anil e.ducntor, chose to pursue I wlmt he elnlms always has been hi hobby collecting Insects. An extensive exten-sive collection, gathered rinij mounted by Mr. Steelier, recently wat displayed lu the show window of a Wichita bnnk. It Includes specimens obtained ty him on his trnvels through six countries Switzerland, France, Ilnly, -Turkey, Canada and the United States.. Mr Steelier was born In Oborklrch. (jermuny. and enme to AmerTcu -IS years ago. Having made a eomfnrtuhle fortune fnrming since he cnine to this country with Ids father, f0 years ago from his native Belgium, Charles JeLe,ve ot Kinmet devotes" much of his time to sculpturing and making unique stone decorations for his house and lawn. Some of these works, which Include it large stone gate arch, n decorative wall, a huge basin surmounting a stone1 base ten feet In diameter, ntv 1f mosaic mo-saic design of varicolored stones M't lu concrete and decorated with the scujp-tor's scujp-tor's rhlbel. The decorative wall is 127, feet long ami Inlrtld with more tliuu two hundred kinds of rocks. .' |