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Hibbard figures the cost of frying potato chips at nine cents a pound and by
bagging them in five-, ten- and twenty-cent sized bags, he averages fifty
cents a pound on retail sales. Sales in bulk to taverns bring him thirty cents a
pound. He averages a net daily profit of better than $11, and his business is
steadily growing.

A potato chip machine similar to Hibbard’s can be set up in your own home.
It is operated from gas, and fries potato chips of uniform quality. Ready
outlets are found in taverns, lunchrooms and restaurants, and you may
wholesale them at fifteen cents a pound to grocery and delicatessen stores.
When put up in bags, such as the five-cent bags, an additional charge should
be added.

Doll Hospital Pays for Operation

M

OLLY WINDER , the wife of a textile salesman, had been in an automobile
accident which had injured her right foot. An operation would cost around
$800. How could she get that much money? Of course, there was her
husband’s salary, but payments on a home, insurance premiums and living
expenses, pretty well used all of that. Mrs. Winder had often dressed dolls at
Christmas time for her friends’ children from the textile samples discontinued
by her husband from his line. Perhaps making doll clothes was the answer.

She found her friends quite willing to buy the doll clothes for their children’s
birthdays and as gifts. Her doll clothes sold quickly because she patterned
them after the current styles in women’s and children’s clothes. A doll
dressed in the current fashion always makes a hit with children. She had
started to make the doll clothes in September and in November and
December she concentrated on getting as much business as possible for the
Christmas season. It was at this time that she found herself not only dressing
dolls for Christmas, but also mending them. The dolls brought in by the
mothers would have a broken arm or leg, a scratch on the face, a cracked
head or a badly torn wig. Of course, these damages would have to be repaired
before the doll could be dressed.