By this means he not only obtained several thousand subscribers, but enabled many aspiring scenario writers to construct plays that found a ready demand when submitted to the various companies making use of them. To be sure, he sent the same sample scenario to all his subscribers, and the cost of it was only the expense of having it printed in large lots. But this plan built up a good subscription list, which made his advertising space very valuable and brought excellent returns.
PLAN No. 553. CHILDREN’S PHOTOGRAPH SPECIALIST
A young photographer in a northwestern city, who was very fond of children, and was unusually successful in making good photographs of the little ones, opened a studio in an exclusive residence section of the city, and fitted up the lawn in front as an attractive playground. There were many trees all around the place, and these greatly heightened the park-like effect he wished to produce. Rustic seats, swings, etc., were arranged among the trees in front of the house, and the children of the city were invited to make it their common playground, under certain restrictions, of course, requiring them to be quiet and orderly.
Then he began the work of making photographs of children exclusively, arranging them singly or in groups and in various posings, on the lawn when the weather was good, or in the artistically-arranged studio at times unfavorable for outdoor work.
These pictures soon created so great a demand that mothers brought their children from all over the city, as well as from outside points, to have them photographed. Within a year from the time he established his studio for children’s photographs, he was enjoying an income that averaged $500 a month.
PLAN No. 554. CONDENSING GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
A former newspaper man who was incapacitated for active service on the city dailies, concluded that he could still make a comfortable living by turning his talents toward condensing the numerous publications issued by the department of agriculture, compiling their salient features into one volume, and selling the work to farmers, stock-raisers, gardeners and others who had either neglected to send for the government pamphlets, or did not know they could be secured free, or did not read them.
He therefore wrote to Washington, D. C., secured copies of all the various publications obtainable, and made a brief, concise synopsis of their contents, in attractive form.
He bound them in one book with paper covers, and advertised in farm and other papers at 50 cents a volume.