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make up just as good nonpoisonous and noninflammable polish as you can a
combustible and poisonous polish and the cost is less. I would suggest to
anyone starting in the polish manufacturing business that he make
innumerable tests of the product. Find out whether it is simple or difficult to
apply. Make it as simple as possible to apply to secure the best results. If your
metal polish is safe to handle, easy to apply, and polishes all metal surfaces
including brass, copper and chromium perfectly, you will have a wide sale
for it. But it will be in greater demand if it can be used to bring sparkling
luster to mirrors, chinaware and porcelain.”

There are a number of formulas for making a good polish, meeting the above
specifications. The demand by clubs, hotels, taverns, hospitals, restaurants,
office buildings, factories, garages, steamship lines, railroads and for home
use is regular and steady. The polish may be made up at small expense, and
attractively packaged. The cost including packaging is about six cents for an
eight-ounce size, which retails for twenty-five cents. Sold in bulk to large
users, such polish may be priced at from a dollar to three dollars a gallon. For
one who likes to make up formulas, there is no better way to get the “first
thousand” than through making and selling polish.

Mrs.Royeton’sButton-EyedLambs

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HERE lived in Oakland, California, a young widow named Charlotte
Royeton, who, having four children to support, turned to a federal
government agency and was given a job as playground instructor, providing
she could entertain a lot of youngsters sufficiently to keep them coming back.
Just how could she fill these requirements? The children were from poor
families, mixed races. They cared little for reading, they couldn’t play in the
court all the time, and sewing was “out.”

Desperately the widow scoured the five-and-ten, mentally discarding jigsaw
puzzles, dominoes, and dish towels for embroidering. Then she spied the
little pig outlined on cambric to be cut out and stuffed! She pounced on him
and took him to market—that is, she sat up nearly all night putting him