Show Woman Taxidermist Married Career CareerS S 5 Mounts Game With Husband Husbands i s a. a l t t d e 1 f 8 t l lf ln f n Y J 6 rb l n t r A ca r e p Y y i In their habitats and In the taxi taxi- taxidermists taxidermist's taxidermists taxidermist's mounting room Mrs Airs James L. L Clark knows TS every enry species of big tame game animals You see sec her above c superintending the mounting of an African antelope and at the right with her husband and a splendid specimen men of grizzly bear her ac accurate ac- ac accurate accurate curate rifle killed In the Canadian By JULIA DLA NEA TA Sen Ice Writer YORK YORE Oct 8 Some Some women NEW Inherit careers Others go so through college to train for them But Mrs James L L. Clark married hers hersl She became one of the nations nation's naU s few woman taxidermists when she wed the assistant director of the American Museum of Natural History His His- History History tory and started to learn the pro pro- profession profusion fusion he found so ro engrossing Now she runs his taxidermist factory where famous big b g game hunters have their trophies mounted With skilled fingers she often applies that finishing touch which preserves a mounted animals animal's particular facial expression KNOWS 8 HER ANIMALS For Tor Mrs Clark knows her animals She has hunted lion and j elephant In to the swelter of African Jungle and veldt She has shot moose and d bears b bin apse le In Alaska when rain sleet and snow tore lore at her with arctic fero fero- city She has h s camp camped In But Dut she has hes emerged from these as u one of the most niost feminine of the modems moderns I think women should be as decor dr cor five a entertaining as possible in addition to tl having their work Mr tU l Ci I rk r stated And she practices wa w 11 a preaches For while she work In a smock at the factory h in hi u rs a 3 Paris frock and her car cor 11 u hair Is 15 waved wa id its a II permanent D r IN JUNGLE I 1 ways tys dress for the evening m Jr rr- rr wen van in the Jungle though jungle though It c o oen en cn n meant only changing Into Ino am mc u 11 r pair of pants ants and shirt and rising my hair she said And Ande e e. e r my only contribution to toc toc tor c r mp life was an hour of enter enter- taming I have no parlor tricks But I love to tell tel stories and when you get t that thit far away from movies and Broadway Broadw I find that men like story telling Just as much as children This amazing dynamo of feminine energy leads far more than a double life She runs rune the factory manages v y her home writes stories of Africa that the magazines are always eager to print and and In In her own words words- I 1 always darn my husbands husband's socks seeks and sew on his buttons I like it I read and otherwise keep leep up with my very Intelligent husband which Is the most Important of al althe all the things I do considering that tha ho he Is 18 the first man I ever er loved and likely to be the last Their romance Is another story Sweethearts at 14 when she was wasa a 0 department store clerk and he was working after school for money to specialize In his present work they were married mamed during the war Both believe firmly that theres there's something potent in this first Just love stuff VERITABLE LE MISS 1 ALGER Mrs Clark herself Is a regular Miss Horatio success story From Item to race to animals e L Mry J Y w is her route to eminence One of ofIne nine Ine children she quit school at 12 2 because her folks lacked funds and got her first Job lob in a Five and Ten en selling pie tins Uns cookie cutters prune and other necessary but ut uninteresting tin tin ware Eight dollars ollars a 3 week weck was her contribution to the family budget At 14 little Miss Ambitious answered an ad for a lace clerk clerkin in one of New Yorks York's Fifth Avenue department stores I told the man I had had plenty lenty of experience In laces knew all 11 about them and selling He asked hie ne where I worked and roared oared in my face when I 1 told him im ADDING YEARS YEAnS He refused to hire me because I was too young So I went home donned a a. long Ion skirt put my pig- pig pigtails pigtails tails alls into a knot and went back he the next day da When he recognized me he laughed again and said Well iss Persistence the Jobs Job's yours In six years ears I 1 was a lace buyer Determination seems an inherent quality in Mrs Clark She learned her taxidermist Job lob with the same zeal zeal from from the inside imide out A thorough knowledge of animals and their habitats is most important Important important tant Mrs Clark explained You must know fur sewing and the delicate artistic phases of mounting and Such things as mouths for Instance are tricky for theres there's nil all the difference In the world in the expression around the mouth of a that is browsing and one that Is ls grazing grating But success in any work I 1 think comes from two things things things-op- op opportunity p- p and application |