The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-06
UNIQUE WAYS OF
MAKING MONEY
There are Many Openings for the
Man or Woman Out Of Job-Few
Examples.
(By Frederic ]. Haskin.)

because there are a thousand and one
new avenues OF endeavor to be open
ed up. All around us are instances
where people have seized upon the OPP
portunity and achieved success, often
IN unheardof and unexpected ways
One OF the most curious signs in
Washington hangs in front OF a de-
lapldated house in an alley It's 1e-
gend is, Lamp Hospital, DR. Thomp-
SON" A man who had invested in an
oil stove had trouble with the wick.
He had noticed the lamp hospital sign
and dropped in to see the doctor"
asking him to go out and fix his lamp
DR.. Thompson mildly replied: II do
not make calls Mine is a strictly
office practice and you must bring
your lamp here" This would seem
to indicate that the doctor" is max
ing a success of his queer business,
because in the professional world on
iy those physicians who have become
thoroughly established can command
an office practice
The man and woman who travel ov-
er the United States and exhibit them
selves in drug store windows as i'm
Itation autOmatons are pioneers in a
new field They earn $50 a week
The passcrby is invited by a glaring
sign to guess whether the figure is
a human being or a creation of wax
and machinery. The makeup is clev-
er enough 10 start an argument be-
tween the first two men who stop be-
fore the window. These human auto
nations have SO trained their mus
cles that it is only by the very infre-
quent winking of an eye-lash that
they are betrayed to even the closest
observer.
The following notice in the want
ad. department of Sunday newspa-
per disclosed a new American indus
try: "Space to let in a cat and dog
cemetery" I supposeetaoinshrdlu
cemetery" 1 applied for terms and
found that if | was mourning over the
loss of Fido or Tommy and wished to
pay proper respect u luC Vi
a deceased pet, that | could buy or
rent lot in this unique cemetery for |
any period Moreover, a headstone |
properly inscribed with fitting tri- |
butte to the virtues of the said de- |
parted Fido or Tommy might also |
be commensurate with the service rem |
dered. Let all those who look for |
ward with fear and trembling to the |
possible demise of their much be- |
loved dogs and cats, take cheer and |
comfort at this opportunity to do re-
verence to their bones in a way that |
will be fit and seeming.
There is an increase in the mar
ket demand for girls with long hair, |
due to the success of several young |
ladies who travel the country, earning |
their living as advertisements of this |
or that hair tonic. They go from city |
to city and sit in the windows of pro-
aninent drug stores, their long hair
hanging over the back OF chair in
full view of the passer-by on the |
street A demonstrators" sits in the |
store in some convent place and lee
lures on the good of the tonic and
the general care of the hair to all who |
wish to hear. Meanwhile the fortu-
nate young woman with elongated
tresses calmly takes her ease and
reads the latest novel
America has no censor of the drama
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part of the duty OF certain employees
of girls seminaries in several eastern
cities to go to the theatres on open
ing nights and see if the performance
is such that the girl students can at
tend. This is done, of course, only
when the play is new or there is some
doubt about 1t.
On account of the so-called finish
irg schools" for girls, the chaperone
has become professional institution.
Sometimes she has the added duty OF
providing a certain number of correct
addressed. properly accredited young
mes and boys for social functions at
the schools Several women Of wide
social reputation make Il their bust
ness TO furnish snch lists Of young
men
\ Maine farmer is making a profit
from selling grasshoppers. He got
the idea from fisherman who was de
plofing the fact that he could not get
grasshoppers for bait for trout fishing
until August It seems that while
trout will rise to worms and flies the
grasshopper Is really the best bait.
and anglers would be willing to pay
good sum for them. Upon finding
this out the farmer imme diately set
to work gathering grasshoppers. He I
pressed the neighboring children into
service, paying them s cents for every
so choppers they could catch. He
-chinked up the barn with paper and |
put in 755,ooo grasshoppers with I
uuanititv of hay and leaves. He ex- .