Show what s your tour 1010 HOBBY y 12 j 04 01 g A 0 7 V t doing XI 19 the banker has a toy railroad Bail road the she butcher Bu ficher is a camera pan fan and the fihe baker collects stamps I 1 by JOSEPH W labine how do you spend your spare time or do you waste it i theres a difference you see its easy to stand stand on a street corner and watch the world go by but youre apt to crawl into bed that night feeling like a fifth wheel on the bu buggy 9 gy that makes this world go round how to utilize spare time is a problem that vexed mankind long before bored monarchs snapped their pudgy fingers to make the pipers play today in a world of shorter working hours and increased social consciousness intelligent use of our loafing hours is a serious matter but dont take it seriously instead why not find a hobby in every walk of life these days youre apt to meet stamp collectors candid camera fans and miniature railroad builders the garage mechanic who tunes up your motor probably tinkers with short wave radio between the evening meal and bedtime A united states spates supreme court justice may surreptitiously y read detective stories when no blodys looking and your doctor might collect rare old books i cream on your porridge its reached a stage where the curious thing to look for is not people who have hobbies but those who do dont n it someone has called it a way to put cream on your porridge which means that a not too serious hobby will swill add zest to the most h humdrum u m drum me life nor need your work a aday d day ay job be humdrum henry ford one of americas busiest industrial magnates devotes his spare time to building the famous greenfield village at dearborn mich albert einstein the scientist relaxes by sawing away at his violin andre kostelanetz the orchestra leader is an expert wood carver pick up the paper almost any day and find an item about your next door neighbors neighbor s hobby in chicago one evening last year M J a retired gas company superintendent in was visiting a friends home the friend remarked that he was going to build a model of the italian liner rex that set mr salt to thinking and a few days later he started building budding his own steamship a threefoot three foot model of the gigantic normandie Nor mandle mr who Is sixty eight years old suddenly discovered a new meaning in life 1 I found id been missing something he says it its 3 great fun making model steamships and im going to keep doing it the rest of my life ace in the be hole A few blocks away arthur laederach an electrical engineer goes down to his whitewashed basement each evening and works at the hobby of years standing this is the science of making landscapes still life pictures and abstract designs with veneer woo woods S inlaid to give the proper appearance its a hobby that demands use ot of the jigsaw and a lot of patience in the end he develops a unique skill that may serve him in good stead should the electrical engineering profession fall him that incidentally is an important feature of hobbles more than one amateur has turned his avocation into a moneymaking money making business in massachusetts a woman who grew up with a liking for tinkering over old broken down bicycles has now made that her business and a good many years ab ago the wright brothers spent their spare time playing with gliders in a deserted spot called kitty hawk N C look what happened to them I 1 more than one stamp collector has had similar good fortune turning his hobby into a professional stamp business that netted a living income and in california the newest avo i P 11 I 1 A chicago woman attorney spent 50 years of her spare time collecting figurines like those shown above each figurine represents some outstanding figure in history costumes hair dress jewelry and other accessories cess ces ories are absolutely authentic outstanding in the above group is joan darc I 1 cation is hobby mining in which amateur prospectors take to the hills each we weekend week e kend k end in search of gold this has resulted in a rush tor for claims reminiscent of last cent cen gold stampede these modern modem pra prospectors arent finding much gold but they have hopes and meanwhile its a lot of 0 fun career hobbles bobbles then theres also the hobby which can be joined with your professional career an example Is mildred oil dil ling internationally known harpist who began her rise to fame with a secondhand second hand harp when she retires from the concert stage many years hence shell have something more tangible than memories because she spends her spare time collecting old rare curious and Ms h harps some hobbles can make you feel like a kid again which a bad idea several years ago some youthful minded father bought his youngster an electric toy train for christmas and had so much fun with it himself that he bought another that hobby model railroading has grown overnight until now many a hardheaded hard headed business man spends his evenings playing with a miniature train it childs play however the serious model railroader builds his own rolling stock to exact scale size and has from to 1000 feet of track on which to run it today you can buy disassembled miniature railroad parts and build your own system consisting of engines pullmans coaches and innumerable types of freight cars train hobbyists prefer freights because of the variety they offer or you might try th theres eres a humorous side to hob hying too out in halfway ore walter W evans collects of all things official positions evans is vice president and cashier of the first national bank city treasurer high school clerk secretary treasur er of the telephone company key banker for his county banking association cia tion public education committeeman ma n for the same organization and president of the northwest oregon bankers banker association recently he decided to run for justice of the peace then in akron ohio we find walter thompson a gasoline station attendant who in the past two ye years ars has dissuaded 10 persons from suicide that ia says ys thompson is his hobby his station is located at the end of a bridge at nearby cleveland a strange fellow who jumped through the trees at brookside park clad in a tiger skin breechclout breech clout turned out to be nothing more than a tarzan hobbyist but police warne warned d him to practice elsewhere maybe the suicide stopper and the amateur tarzan arent true hobbyists but to discover how important this bus business ineis has become you need 0 only look at one of the exhibitions staged by people who have found a happy pastime and are willing to teu tell the world about it famous people quaint hobbles hobbies famous people sometimes have unique hobbles hobbies jane pickens the weaves rugs and makes bobbin lace because it gives her time to think chester morris the movie star is an amateur magician and dr frank black musical director for a broadcasting network plays with chemistry during his s spare pare time right now he is experimenting with liquid rubber to use in malting making sculpture molds perhaps you already have a hobby if not take a little sage advice from the experts before developing ve one the best way they say Is to fall into something you really enjoy dont deliberately look for a hobby simply drift into a stimulating avocation that brings you real enjoyment another thing dont be too strict about your hobby because if you tie yourself up with a lot of restrictions the whole thing will suddenly become very irksome if youre not hot careful your hobby Is apt to take too much time at first you may get so enthusiastic that life iffe becomes one continual mental tussle between your hobby and your better self but eventually emerge from this stage with a balanced viewpoint having learned to live with this new companion discover that moderation in ia all things is an excellent idea but more important not be alone with a pair of twiddling thumbs the next rainy afternoon i 0 western newspaper union A old DIU morris of the blue ridge mountain district in north Carol lim tends this ancient frontier fire as his hobby abe flame was started by his ancestors years ava and has been kea alive ever |