Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-08-06

A clever New York woman, realizing the
Importance Of novelty I'm advertising
started some ten years ago TO put her ideas
to practical use and has made thousands
Of dollars since She was working in a
department store for Sc a week when an
idea came TO her. She made a calendar,
at the top Of which she placed a large
painted pansy BY a little sliding arrange
ment the pansy pulled down, revealing
packet Of court plaster. Under the court
plaster was the legend, IN stick to you
when others cut you" Below was space
for an advertisement. She took this model
to a brewing company. They bought it
and paid SlOO for the idea. Since then she
has not worked any more for Sc a week.
Her next idea was a parrot. The par
rot stood on a horizontal bar which in
the original design was made of a bit Of
broomstick He was a gay and beauti-
fully painted parrot, and in one claw he
held a little card, advertising a cigar.
Her parrot stood on cigar store counters
from Boston TO San Francisco. She was
not paid a lump sum for this idea. In
stead, she was employed at SIS week,
with twenty girls under her. steadily
making advertising parrots until that idea
grew old and newer one took its place.
A good part of her pay comes in this
accepted the manufacturer gives her an
order for so many of the articles at q
specified price. Much of this work she
does alone at home. Her butterfly order
has kept her busy all summer, and the
last of the 1000 are just being turned
out. She will get $500 for the lot. The
butterflies will be used in window decor
alton by a big firm.
A recent order was for 1000 burnt leather
postal cards for a grocery firm. There
was picture Of a grocery window on the
card. On the window pane was inscribed:
Families Supplied Cheap" In front a
gentleman of the hayseed type gazes and
, remarks wonder whatll they take to
supply me with a wife and five chldren?''
She supplied the cards for 6 cents apiece
She works in all sorts Of materials and
with all sorts of tools-paper, burnt leather
burnt wood, plaster, paint, wallpaper glass
Autographs. She has mods for plaster
; casts and tiny pyrograph needles that cost
3 her $3.50 apiece. But some of her work is
: accomplished with absurdly feminine tools
| A round plaque hangs on the wall, will
9 a ferocious bull terriers head springinl
g from it in high relief. The dogs face sht
! modelled in the plaster with a hairpin.
e Many of the most profitable ideas hay,
= been made up of the simplest material.
A certain newspaper in Chicago got on
= three handsome autographed posters o.
Z feminine figures. These posters were useC
s in the windows of newstands for tim
and, finally getting old, were retired. Sh
i took one of each variety of the posters
y cut out the figures of the three girls
= mounted them on a large sheet of card
IS board in such a way that they were com
: ing down stairs. one after the other, eac
IS reading copy of the paper. The pcture
s stairs were cut from another poster an
= properly mounted. She covered the back
g ground with plain pale green wa
# paper and painted masses of roses aroun
Is the edge Then she framed and glaze
l. the whole in the style of work called pass
s. partout She took it to the office of tn
IS publication, and as a result the pape
turned over some thousands of its oil
e. posters to her and gave her several months
r. work in preparing them for window di:
10 play.
ID She did the same sort of work with Ii