PLAN No. 533. COOK FOR U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
HOW SIX HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS MADE MONEY
Six high-school girl-graduates, who had just finished a course in domestic science, and were wondering what they could do to make a little money, were told by their instructress that she would give each of them a valuable household formula to work with, and that she would give a cash prize of $25 to the girl who made the most profit out of her formula in six months. The girls promptly accepted the offer, and went diligently to work with the following results:
PLAN No. 534. GOOD WHITE POLISHING POMADE
Girl No. 1 selected the following as the basis of her activity:
Tripoli powder, 1 pound; whiting, 1 pound; pumice flour, 1⁄2 pound; crude oleic acid, 1⁄4 pound; kerosene, 3 fluid ounces. Mix together with sufficient petroleum jelly to form a paste, and add perfume, such as oil of lemon, cassia, or nitrobenzol (mirbane) which gives the usual almond odor.
Making up a considerable quantity, in the above proportions, she canvassed a large part of the residence district in the city and took trips to outside towns, demonstrating and selling it, and received valuable aid from one of the drug companies when she put it on sale.
Her profits for the six months were $248.
PLAN No. 535. A FIRST-CLASS FOOT POWDER
The third girl chose a foot powder to work upon, the formula being as follows: