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Show TV-' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 he MAKING GOOD IN A SMALL TOWN Rial Storita- About Rial Cirh sestssssjsssssjsesiasesewejseejsaeseseaseajp By MRS. HARLAN D H. ALLEN niiiiii iii tiiiiim mint THfe BUTTON-LADY i - 4 v a. girl can; make ' money yes, even In as small a town as this I" exclaimed the enthusiastic, girl whs was my next-door neighbor In a little village ef only aeven hundred people. "Take me, for Instance I am tutton lady for the whole town, r She has what most people -would call a woman-alsed Job, without bet "buttoning" this girl of tweaty-three. She keeps house for an invalid mother, and a brother and sister , of high school age. She spends most of her time . "mothering" her mother, .and "the children"; yet she manages to make the button business a paying one. "Of course, mother gives me money enough to run the bouse," ahe explained ex-plained eagerly, "but I like to do little extra things, for myself or the children, chil-dren, and for ' her not with money that she glvea me. .That's why I got button machine." ,s She bought It with a small sum of money given ber for s birthday present, pres-ent, she said. It was a foot power machine. But the small-town girl who wants to try "buttoning," and has eren - less than she had to Invest, ran get band power m ichlne which will be eatlsfactory. Either kind will quickly become a money itetter. The girl can get the kind of machine that will oiake all staea and shapes of buttons acorn buttons, lalf acorn buttons, Hat buttona In vsrloua alsea, globe buttons and bone-rtumed buttons. All these buttona are to be made from materials which her customers bring her. She can also nse ber button machine for attaching snaps, glove and fastener buttona, as well ss eyelets eye-lets snd grommets. Hbe could else rechet buttona la dXTerent colors, using wooden molds as centers. The buttoner-to-be may begin by putting an ad la the local paper; ahe tnay also tell ber friends about ber project and may show them eamplea of her work. It la also a good Idea to display samples of the bnttons In front window, with the sign "All kinds of buttons made to order." The village dressmaker may be a ready customer, since she often wants buttona but-tona made specially to match garments. gar-ments. The button ledy may find that ber busiest season la In the summer, when college girls are home to have new clothes made and old ones remodeled, perhaps with fresh buttons ; when vis- ... r iters from thera-e- W. town to rest and sew s little. Buttona never go out of style I They re indispensable both for utility and for decoration. And the "Bnlcky" dresxer knowa that a button-to-match fulfils the two unalterable requisites of good dress simplicity snd distinction. distinc-tion. ;;V : THE SUCCESSFUL SQUAB " - RAISER "'Cr ' (t7 OV don't go Into squab rats- Ing; yon have to grow Into It, someone has said end It's true." declared de-clared the successful girl squab raiser. rais-er. "Raising of squabs, or , young pigeons, Is a 'good way for sraall- town' girl to make money; but she must start with only a few pair, which -the can easily keep track of, and Increase In-crease her business slowly." s This girl started with only one pair vt pigeons, which she bought from a reliable breeder whe waa willing to guarantee them. tmmmf "JJ The secret of successful pigeon : raising, she says, la to keep non work ers out of the flock. She kept a record rec-ord of each pair, by means - of numbered num-bered nests and colored leg-bands. The leg-band had a number that corre- sponded to one In her record book, 1 nd she could easily look up the bird's ge and parentage, determine which pair were doing the best work and decide what young onea to save for breeding. i The novice should remember that pigeons are most valuable as squab-producers squab-producers when they are from two to ' Six years old. The Homer, so called because It usually returns home, even though taken hundred of miles away. Is wprobsbly , the. best, variety. The Homer is not only the most proline type, but Is the moat attentive mother. The Runt Is one of the largest varieties, va-rieties, but It Is not so proline as the flomer, nor so dutiful s nurse. : The squab raiser will not have te worry about providing .food ' for the young pigeons. The parents tend te ithat by disgorging "pigeon milk" from um-- ghelr own crops. ' - . . ' . j The pigeons should get their water, of which they require large quaa titles, before tbey are fed, since, shortly short-ly after getting their own food, they -feed the squabs, and should not be .disturbed ai they do so. , Luck has nothing to do with squab raising. Practically all losses are xaused by poor breeding stock, birds not being mated, rats or mice, Im- t , proper feeding (Including overfeed ing), careleae inbreeding or. unsanitary unsani-tary condition of the lofts. The squab raiser should sell ber birds, when they are from three to Are weeka old, direct to hotels, res-taurants, res-taurants, clubs and housewives. The profits are so good that she will never went to g" ouf of the business once v4be haa thoroughly "grow" into It - (a, li). Wwtm Nivist DtlM.1 ssswisswssJ itjrs m J'.'im .t-v,rf)p"tva |