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Show MAKING GOOD IN A SMALL TOWN Real Stories About Real Girlt By MRS. HAP-LAND H. ALLEN l). ly.. Western owspupcr Lulon.j THE CANDY KITCHEN A MERICA'S notorious sweet tooth must be satislied. And for the girl who knows what candies are America's "best sellers" and how to make those candies, there Is money In helping to satisfy it. That's the declaration of financial Independence In-dependence made by a small town girl who has proved her statement. "But ordinary candies, like fudfje and taffy, that everybody makes," she asserted, "don't pay well. And with practically the same materials, you can make the expensive chocolates and bon-hons." This girl has found the "best sellers" sel-lers" to be fancy chocolates and fudges, cream caramels, nut brittle and butterscotch. She maintains that It is better to specialize In only one kind of candy or, at most, only a few choice varieties, rather than to attempt at-tempt too many kinds and have them Imperfect. I The girl who proposes to run a "candy kitchen" in her home needs to consider three factors: instruction, equipment and supplies, and marketing. market-ing. If she doesn't know how to make the kind of candy she wants to sell, she must, obviously, get some preliminary instruction, and she should procure a book that gives explicit ex-plicit directions for the making of the most intricate candies. Her equipment will be: a range, (preferably gas), a thermometer, scales, measuring cup, quart measure, meas-ure, spatula, case knife, long sharp knife, wooden spoons, tablespoons, teaspoons, caramel pans, saucepans or candy kettles, double boiler, mint dropper, bonbon dipper, marble slab or table, or porcelain table, or large white tray. She may simplify or elaborate upon this equipment according accord-ing to the extent of her business. As for her market, the novice had best begin on a small scale, selling to personal friends and acquaintances. She will probably have plenty of orders or-ders for the holiday times, and she may avoid the anti-holiday slump and stimulate all-the-year-round trade, by advertising the "Saturday Special," the box to take home for the Sunday treat. She may rfdvertise her "strictly "strict-ly home-made wares", in the local papers pa-pers ; and she may further announce them by a card, accompanied by an attractive-looking plate of candy, In her window. The candy-maker should box her wares neatly and attractively, and should adopt a trade name for use on the boxes and In advertising. She snould never include broken bits of candy, crumbly fudges or trimmed-off trimmed-off edges in the boxes, but should save them in a "stock kettle" for later use. If she wastes nothing material, paper, pa-per, string, boxes or time she. is sure to attain financial success through hei "candy kitchen." BAGGING BUTTERFLIES IN BOTTLES Hp HAT dream of "picking dollars out of the air" may come true yet for the girl who becomes a butterfly but-terfly collector. Moreover, romance, as well as finance fi-nance may be her consideration. "The thrill of the artist at the discovery of a rare and beautiful thing" that's how a California girl, an initiate to the advantages of butterfly collecting, sums up the wonders of her work. And the more "rare and beautiful" the butterflies she captures, the greater great-er her material returns, she might have added. The butterfly chase takes place at night. But the butterfly collector must make daylight preparations; she must have smeared the bark of the trees on the butterfly "farm" with a sweet and sticky substance, such as sugar water or diluted honey; and she must equip herself for the nocturnal noc-turnal chase with a wide-mouthed bottle containing cyanide, and a bull's-eye bull's-eye lamp. After the captured "fly," as the technical trade dubs the beautiful beauti-ful creature. Is dazzled by the lamp, it is dropped into the bottle to be asphyxiated. After the night's catch, damaged male butterflies are again turned loose, while all perfect specimens are pinned in cork-linpd boxes and shipped to the purchaser. Larvae and eggs may be kept in cold storage until spring, when their particular food plant will be available, or fed on forage for-age crops which ;ire grown indoors. The eggs of some butterflies will hatch within a few days, while others will not come out until spring. The collector col-lector should keep the eggs in ordinary ordi-nary glass test tubes, where she can examine them every day to see whether wheth-er they have hatched. When they do hatch, the work-brood should be transferred trans-ferred to a jelly-glass tightly covered, and left until they attain a quarter of an inch in length. Later, they should be placed in larger fruit jars, or, if there are very many, into barrels Several inches of dirt and leaf mould should be placed in the bottom of eah receptacle; and fresh plant food should be put in every day and the obi leaves taken out. Butterfly markets are many. Colleges Col-leges and schools, big museums, taxidermists, taxi-dermists, jewelry manufacturers, society so-ciety people, hotels department stores, and private collectors buy them either for scientific or display purposes |