PLAN No. 507. SOLD PREPARATION TO PREVENT OR REMOVE SUNBURN
An eastern woman, who was particularly susceptible to sunburn, prepared the following, which proved both a preventive and a cure:
Orange flower water, 2 ounces; rosewater, 2 ounces; tincture of benzoin, 1⁄2 ounce; borax, 11⁄4 drams.
By applying this before going out, it prevented the skin from becoming sunburned, while in those cases where the mischief had already been done, she bathed her face with it several times a day, until the sunburn was removed.
This was so easy and inexpensive to make, and met with such a ready sale, that she found it extremely profitable to put it up in large quantities. Every lady who tried it gladly recommended it to her friends, and soon the drug stores were calling for all she could put up. A little advertising greatly increased the sales, and she is today enjoying a good income from it.
PLAN No. 508. CHAUFFEUR—P. O.—U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 509. CHAUFFEUR—MECHANIC—U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 510. CHEESEMAKER FOR U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 511. CHEMIST FOR U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 512. CLERK FOR U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 513. “TELLING THEM HOW”
A middle-aged man who had made a practice for many years of accumulating trade secrets, valuable formulas and various plans for making money out of little specialties not known to the public in general, was impressed with the belief that out of the itemized knowledge thus secured, he could render assistance to many people who were looking for something to do, and at the same time profit by largely himself.
He therefore had 1,000 copies of each of these money-making ideas printed in separate form, and advertised that for 10 cents he would send any one of them that might be selected from his list or any fifteen of them for $1.00. His expenses were confined to the cost of advertising, printing and mailing, and his receipts ran into hundreds of dollars the first year.
PLAN No. 514. ASSAYER FOR U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 515. COLLECTOR FOR U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 516. ROASTING EARS IN WINTER
Green corn in the form of roasting ears is considered a delicacy even in its season, but to have the same thing in the winter time seems almost too good to be true. Yet a young farmer in Illinois did it, this way:
He gathered his sweet corn with the husks on, and putting a layer of salt in the bottom of a clean barrel that would not leak, he proceeded to fill the barrel, first with a layer of salt, then a layer of the corn, and so on until the barrel was completely filled. Then he put on top a large stone for pressure, and added a little pickle of salt and water. He set the barrel in the cellar, where it would be cool and yet not freeze, and found that it would keep perfectly for a year or more, if allowed to stay there.
That gave him an idea, and the next fall he put up nearly forty barrels of those pickled roasting ears, safely put away in his cellar, to be sold at high prices when the snow was flying.