Evening star., 1934-11-11
BY OREN ARNOLD.


amount to much
1t matters little, they say. what
your hobby is. Just 50 1t furnishes
mental rest or stimulation. You may
build an extravagant interest in your hobby, or
keep it for an incidental pastime You can just
do" things il you like, although most hobbies
are some form Of collecting
Andrew Mellon, for example, just paid ST.
500 900 for one Raphael painting; he collects
EN-.
Some fellow just paid kings ransom for
stamp. The stamp was ugly and smeary with
ink, but the picture in it had been printed up
side down, so the collector presumably received
great esthetc pleasure in collecting it.
Just for fun, group of newspaper men out
West recently started hobby of their own.
They began collecting hobbies!
That is, they made records and-where pos
sible-perSonal investigations, Of the queerest,
most interesting hobbies that they could find.
And they uncovered some swell onesl
BY unanimous vote, the hobby Of r. w. Palmer
of Phoenix Ariz, declared queerest of all.
He collects the surprising things that animals
swallow!
The photographs they made of him and his
collections show for example, an 8-inch length
of iron chain with staple on it, an oak block
the size of brick, and rock all found in the
stomach of one COW.
A flint Indian arrowhead two pennies. =
steel die and chain link came from the stom-
ach of hog
His prize find" of all was a 5-inch steel
needle imbedded in the heart--not the stomach
of q steer miracu1ously doing no harm! Obvi-
ousy it had been there for years.
PUT you'll be getting skeptical and want to
know how come Mr.. Palmer go hunting
around the nnards of and pigs. That's
all right. Mr. Palmer was meat inspector in a
packing house, so his hobby was a very natural
sideline to his profession. Yes the psychologists
are vindicated; his hobby furnished him with
adequate mental relaxation and such
Pretty close to that one in interest-although
utterly different-is the hobby of Forrest
Warren down in San Diego, Calf. Mr.. War
rem collects golden weddings. He has dozens
of em.
No, not his owni He's too young for even
one. yet. But whenever he hears of a couple
who have kept sacred their marital vows for so
years or more, anywhere within his county, Mr.
Warren hurries out there right away and col
lects" them. He makes them show up at the
next periodic picnic or lawn party which he
Stagel, and receive the honor and adulation
which is their due.
He calls his old folks True Vow Keepers"
He makes EN- so happy that short time ago
they surprised him by making him the honor
guest of party given by themselves. Mr.. War
rem swears his is the best hobby a human could
have, and he may be right.
There's another man in Phoenix. Ariz. who
goes in-or did-for some heavy collecting. He
collects rocks. Pretty rocks, with colors all
through EN- He Is Angelo Mangno a pho
tographer
Now, there is nothing new about being a
geoogist, amateur otherwise, and cluttering
up the living room mantel with specimens from
your weekly hikes. It Is in fact, a very whole
some and healthfu1 hobby, says Mr.. Mangino,
in spite of any objection your wife might have.
Mrs Mangino didn't like the rocks on her man.
tel all the time; they collected dust
But poor Mr.. Mangino almost went crazy
one morning, because Of his hobby.
carpenter doing repair work in Mangino's
living room, accidentally knocked an egg sized
rock of the mantel. It fell to the hearth and
broke.
That's all right" Mr.. Mangino told him.
That's an old rock. Got it two years or so
ego. Don't even remember where I picked
it up
miner.
"say!" he exclaimed. Did you have any of
this assayed?"
mo. Why?" Mr.. Mangino answered.
After considerable scofdng, Mr.. Mangino did
have the ore sample analySed. and it assayed
more than So 900 to the ton! Gold ore at So
to the ton can be profitable, but Mr. Mangino
hadn't the remotest idea where he picked up
that sample
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