The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-28
ODD WAYS OF MAKING MONEY

Washington hangs in front Of dllap- dated house in an alley. Its legend is:
 Lamp Hospital, pr. Thompson" A man who had invested in an oil stove had trouble with the wick. He had no- ticed the lamp hospital sign and drop ped in to see the doctor" asking him to go out and fix his lamp. Dr. Thomp- son replied:
 T do not make calls Mine Is strict ly an office practice, and you must
 bring your lamp here.
 The man and woman who travel over the United States and exhibit them selves in drug store windows as inl- tation automata are pioneers. They each earn $SO week. The passerby is invited by a glaring sign to guess whether the figure is human being or creation of wax and machinery The makeup is clever enough to start an argument between tine fist two men who stop before the window. These human automata have so trained their muscles that it is only by the very in- frequent winking of an eyelash that they are betrayed to even the closest observer,
 There is an increase in the market
 demand for girls with long hair, due
 to the success of several young women who travel about 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 drug stores, their long hair hanging over Ve
 back of chair A demonstrator sits in the store in some convenient place and lecturts on the good of the tonic and the general care of the hair to all ilwilo wish to hear. Meanwhile, the young woman with long tresses calmly
 takes her ease and reads the latesa novel
 America has no censor of the drama who is known to political life, but it is part of the duty of certain employees of girls seminaries in several eastern cities to go to the theaters and see if the performance is such that the girl students may be permitted to attend. This is done, of course, only when the play is new or there is some doubt about it. On account of the increase Of the number of so-called finishing schools" for girls the chaperon has be- come a professional institution. Some times she has the added duty of pro- vidinga a certain number of correctly dressed, properly accredited young men and boys for social functions at the schools. Several women of wide social reputation make 1t their business to furnish such lists of young men. A Maine farmer is making profit from selling grasshoppers. He got the idea from a fisherman who was deplor ing the fact that ne could not get grasshoppers for bait for trout fishing until August. The farmer immediately set to work gathering grasshoppers
 He pressed the neighborhood children into service, paying them eight cents for every fifty "hoppers' they could catch. He chinked up his barn vita paper and put in 75,OO0 grasshoppers with hay and leaves He expects to re-
 tail them this spring and summer at two cents apiece.
 The department store adjuster is product of American progress. The adjuster is usually woman of tactful address and pleasing personality, who is employed by the big stores to in quire into complaints made by rich customers and set to rights quarres with heavy buyers The first one was in New York, but the idea proved so successful and profitable that it has
 been introduced in other cities, Up to ( !, ,te,4 4t ba RO
 been confined altogether to women.
 Just now the tarantula Is a source of profit to enterprising men and boys in the southwest. The collectors look for the holes in the ground where the big spiders live and pour cold water in their haunts. Tarantulas hate cold water so they make an immediate rusi1 for the upper air, As soon as they appear they are seized with pair of pinchers and killed with gasoline or turpentine. Then they are ignominious- ly thrust through with pins, mounted on cards and sold as souvenirs to tour ists at dollar apiece.
 The young woman in public library in the west who devotes her time to IuIlIluS d iOSptldl TUT SllBully ulSOl- dered books that are not torn or soiled enough to go to bindery has a match in the enterprising southern girl who has turned her library into a circulat- ing one. She had to make money; there was nothing to do In her small town, and as there was no library she decided that her own collection of books might make small income for her She rents the books out, and as she is continually adding to her collec- tion she is making it both popular and remunerative.
 Virginia has a man who has earned his living for fifty years making the astronomical observations for use in almanacs. He has almost a monopoly of the business in the United States. Astronomy is his sole diversion, and out of his diversion comes his liveli- hood t.-t-..E
 Cook county, Illinois, has an attrac- tive woman who is making her living as public guardian having under her care the children who have come under the jurisdiction of the court.
 A Kentucky colonel has forever upset all traditions regarding Kentuckian's dislike for water. He has set up trade in Jordan River water. The sa- cred fluid is sealed in casks in faraway
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