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ambitious boy such as that and especially one with so much initiative?”

Wooden Dogs Pay Student’s Expenses

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YOUNG college student living in Webster Groves, Missouri, was, unlike
most girls, interested in woodworking, and much of her spare time was spent
at her Dad’s work bench in the basement of her home. One day while
experimenting with some thin pieces of wood and a scroll saw, she turned out
the figure of a little Scottie. By attaching a pin to it she had a dress ornament.
When the girls at school saw it, they too, wanted one. So she made several
for her friends and gave them away. However, the first thing she knew,
almost everybody in her sorority wanted one of the cunning little wooden
dogs for a hat or scarf pin. She began to make all sorts of dogs, but the
Scotties were the favorites. And she began to charge a small price for the
pins. As the fad grew, she found that the shops wanted quantities of the pins,
so dad and brother and sister got together and began turning out dozens of the
ornaments. Before long, the basement workshop was a regular little factory
and all hands were busily engaged.

The fad grew and spread, and it wasn’t long before every girl on the campus
was wearing a little wooden dog pin. And, incidentally, where before there
was hardly enough money to pay for four years’ college expenses, now there
was plenty and to spare. The fad for wooden ornaments, buttons, belt
buckles, clip pins and even earrings, as well as for match holders, trays,
candle holders and similar items, is still going strong and looks like it will
last at least another season or two.

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s ports and games—Besides teaching swimming, tennis, golf, skiing, and other
sports, there is an opportunity for the student proficient in athletics to secure
work coaching high school teams, to act as referee or umpire, to give
gymnastic instruction in clubs in the community, to manage a summer golf