Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-05-15
Odd Ways To Make Money

olives Tire. years later sh. could
not begin to fill the orders which cam"
! to her and now she Is annually mar
! ke,ing over 10000 gallons Of rip"
olive oil and picked olives.
A novel way Of making living Is
10 do other peoples reading for them
In the old days when learned man
desired to write u scientific book 1t
was labor of years. Not SO nova
DAYS In the United States. suppose
physician who has attained great
prominence as specialist In the
treatment Of peculiar disease desires
to perpetuate his fame by writing 4
book on that subject What does he
do? Merely makes contract with q
professional reader to provide tn" his,
tory of cases of the pcc,ilia: disease"
recorded in the medical journals of
all lands. The busy man then goes
hastily over this collection, selecting
the instances At for his own use. and
thus completes the work of ten years
in one year. Not long ago one Of our
great physicians paid pio;"Ssiohai
reader 81, 900 for compiling certain In
formation for him.
The business Of looking mp family
records to qualify man or woman for
admission to the Sons or Daughters of
the American Revolution or other his
torical societies is as We! recognized
in Washington "a that OF "a" attorney
who looks up the war record OF al
claimant for pension.
And there are other informatio ion bu'
reaus willing and qualified to write a
good speech for a budding statesman
or make a splendid argument on any
side Of any question. Or. il the bud
ding statesman desires to write the
bypaths Of history. the bureau will
look up the history of any bit of leg
islation. seek out the preced"nts. cite
decisions of the courts and Otherwise
assist and instruct.
Then. If some one out in the "deS-
trick" desires to oppose the rc-tlec
ton of the same statesman, the YER
satila bureau people will be willing TO-
provide his enemies with an exact &c
count Of everything the gentleman has
done, and everything he has failed
to do, while serving his country as a
member Of Congress.
A woman in Emporia, Kan.-that re-
markable small town which no more
REQUIRES Kansas after II than New
York needs the name Of its state af
fixed-has made a lot OF money by
breeding cats. A St Louis man. 50
years old and married. yet who Is al
most a midget. gets big salary from
shoe company for going about with
its travelling men in a Buster Brown
costume. haid bobbed and all and &C
companied by a big dog who looks
like Tige.
For IA years a Kansas City woman
made her living and laid by a com
petence by designing the costumes
worn in the annual Priests Of Pailas
parade Another woman in Columbia.
S. G.. is known As Official painter of
heraldry to the Daughters OF the
American Revolution" She makes
snug living by designing and painting
coats-of-arms and heraldic designs for
those who are vain of their ancestry.
A young woman in Louisville. Ky,
began baking cakes for ladies who
were giving parties and was SO sue
cessful that. she now owns the largest
restaurant in Louisville. and conducts
catering business with customers in
five states. Every city now has doZ
ems of shopping brokers who adver-
tise to buy things and match samples
for people living in the county,
Kansas City Journal.