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Popcorn, always a fast selling item, retains its freshness for two or three days,
and sells readily wherever people gather to enjoy themselves, such as
beaches, picnics, summer resorts, parks, and tourist camps. Opportunities for
quick sales are sometimes found among the crowds who wait outside of
public buildings, fair grounds, and the theaters.

Once you get the “hang” of making the popcorn, you can hire for a small
commission a few “live wire” boys of high school age to help you do the
selling and the first thing you know you will have a thriving business. It
means a little work to get started, but it is more than worth it.

Ivory Carving Proves Remunerative

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EARS ago when Frank Foster of Atlanta, Georgia, was a boy, he learned to
carve ivory. As he grew older it became his hobby and as the years went on
he became more and more expert. Like many skillful arts, ivory carving can
be learned by almost anyone who can handle simple tools. It only requires
patience and much practice to become expert.

There are degrees of fineness in ivory carving just as in wood carving. Frank
Foster turns out many different kinds of objects, from a plain billiard ball to
the finest, most delicate bit of lacy carving.

Since his retirement from business, Frank Foster has built up another
business with his unusual hobby. Dominoes, billiard balls, beads, fancy boxes
of all types, chessmen, bracelets, earrings, brooches, letter openers, book
ends, small picture frames, quaint replicas of birds and small animals,
figurines, and of course, elephants of various sizes, all are made by his
skillful fingers. His chessmen are particularly beautiful. A fine set of thirty-
two chessmen brings him from $50 to $75; a de luxe set as much as $250.

Ivory is rather easy to work with because of its resiliency. The ivory used by
Mr. Foster is elephant ivory. The tusks cost about $1,000 each, but he
manages to buy scrap ivory around one-tenth the original cost. Piano