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shots an opportunity to prove it by pitching ten balls into the cup with a
niblick. Each ball dropped into the cup counted one; balls that missed the cup
but dropped into the second ring, counted five, and those which landed in the
next ring counted ten, and so on. Par for the hole was twenty and when a
player scored par, he was entitled to shoot ten balls free. The charge for
shooting ten balls was ten cents. The names of those who “shot the course”
under par were posted on a blackboard where they remained all day, and a
daily prize was offered to the player getting the low score. Such a shooting
green can be built at a very small cost, the only equipment needed being a
dozen iron clubs, both mashies and niblicks, and about fifty repainted golf
balls. While the idea is somewhat similar to the miniature golf fad of a few
years back, it has one decided advantage: It gives the player an opportunity to
perfect his “approach” shots, since he is playing with regulation clubs and
under conditions identical to those he will experience in an actual game of
golf on any club course. The owner of such a target green can figure on the
average person shooting about fifty balls at a time.

Selling Bait at a Roadside Stand

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ROKE, lacking any income, and in poor health, Ella Gaston, a widow of
seventy-seven, living in Joplin, Missouri, wondered what she could do to
make some money. It occurred to her that a great number of fishermen passed
her home along the highway leading into the Ozark fishing country. Where
did all these men get their bait? There were plenty of worms in the mud flat
of a creek near by—perhaps she could sell them. It was worth a try anyhow.
A friend built a roadside stand for her and hung a sign above it which told all
passers-by that fishing bait could be purchased.

Mrs. Gaston filled kettles, pails, boxes and buckets with soil and worms. The
passers-by did stop and buy and before long she had to hire boys to dig
worms for her to supply the demand. The boys are paid 10 cents a hundred
for the wrigglers and she sells them for 10 cents a dozen. Some days she has
sold as high as 1,000 dozen. In two years, Mrs. Gaston figures she has sold