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“I taught a carpenter how to dance in exchange for a neat job of installing
partitions, and because a Polish cook wanted her daughter to be a dancer, I
arranged to give lessons which were paid by supplying the faculty with
meals,” declared Miss Verande. “There wasn’t a great deal of money in the
first few months, but trading around as I did, enabled me to get by. About a
hundred pupils were enrolled, most of them working out their tuition in one
way or other, but a few paid real money. I started this school because I was
tired of the stage, and though I had no money, I was determined to start
anyway.”

This determined little lady at fifteen was giving imitations of Spinelli,
Mistingette, and Yvonne Printempts in Paris night clubs. At sixteen she was
premiere danseuse of the Lyon Opera. She danced in Ziegfeld’s “Three
Musketeers,” appeared in movies as a double for Vilma Banky, and studied
dancing with Tarasoff, Kobeleff and Fokine. With this background, Eleanor
was a competent instructress in art, and felt at the time, she needed nothing
but a chance to start.

Young and ambitious people who are determined to do things, may find a
way of getting started by applying the barter principle as Miss Verande
applied it. If you have no money, start in a business for which you are
qualified, using the barter-and-trade idea for capital.

Catering to School Children

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HEN Mrs. Frank Hartman, who lived in a Chicago suburb, found it difficult
to keep the family going comfortably on its diminished income she hit upon
the idea of serving luncheons and dinners to school children. Once she had
decided upon the plan it didn’t take long for the news to get around the
neighborhood. Her little girl of nine told the school children and Mrs.
Hartman told her neighbors, friends, members of her church and club. She
found getting luncheon for a group of youngsters was a lot of fun. The
children said that the luncheons were like parties and they eagerly looked
forward to a day that mother would be going to a bridge luncheon or into