HAVE YOU A TOBACCO NOSE?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 293, 5 December 1908, Page 3

HAVE YOU A TOBACCO NOSE?

A '' WAY '* WITH RATS MAY BRING YOU RICHES. At least seven men out of ten are round pegs in square holes. They have been pitenforked into some calling which j is not that for which they are best luted. They could make more mono,* mure easily at some other kind of woi'K. The writer once met a man who owned eignt aei'is oi land in Georgia, and on it grew peaches, lie had been at work iur cigiil years, and his average prolils up to date were no more than UW ,t year. Quite by chance the man discovered that he Had a perfect nose for tobacco. He obtained a position with a great wholesale tobacco tirm in South Larolina, aud within three years was it buur at a salary of £OOO and expenses. There are, plenty of openings as good as this fur men gifted with this talent. There are some trades and professions at which a man may toil all his life yet never become an expert, however hard he works. A iliamoml-cutter, for instance, is, they say, not made, but born; and a lirstclass diamond-cutter makes an income which many professional men' might envy. I

the same with glove-cutters. So dillicult is the art ol cutting gloves that most of the principal cutters are known to the trade by name; and the peculiar knives which they use in the business are so Jiiglily pri/.ed that they are handed down from one generation to another as heirlooms.

The art of cutting furs seems to be another inborn talent. Furs such as seal and sea otter and silver iox arc so enormously costly that not a square inch must be wasted, and they are only entrusted to the very tip-top men. A first-class fur-cutter will earn a pound a day; and even a woman fur sewer who can safely be entrusted with seal makes better money than nianv a skilled male clerk.

Speaking of women, few hand workers Jo better than corset .makers. The skill is almost hereditary, and wages are very high.

The making of a billiard-hall requires qualities of eye and .hand that are not to be acquired entirely by training. One of the best billiard-ball makers who ever lived began life in a wine merchant's oilice.

.Mention lias been made of the peachgrower who turned, greatly to his prolit, tobacco-buyer. The wine-taster, likewise, owes his more than comfortable position to a very delicate sense of taste and sme:l. A thousand a year is no out-of-the-way remuneration for the wine-taster who is employed by a great firm of importers. 'There are some people whom mosquitoes will never bite. "Why, no one knows, but the fact is undoubted. Such might venture with perrect safety into the fever-stricken regions where the dread iirscct murders the average man or woman with its subtly injected malarial poison. And .salaries are large iu those dangerous parts of the tropical British Empire.

Others are immune from bee stings. There is always a good opening for these as bee-farmers, to start upon which pursuit requires only a small capital. Horse-breaking is a natural gift. Some men seem able to do anything they please with a horse; and seeing the number of badly broken,, half-trained animals which are in use all over the country the really clever horse-breaker should never lack for a good living. Another man has an equally wonderful way with dogs. Here, again, something better than a bare living is in sight. Sporting dogs, .such as setters and retrievers, need very careful breaking, and an ordinary gamekeeper charges from £5 to £lO to break a puppy to field work. A breaker with a reputation will ask and obtain double the money. There is a man in London who can charm rats. He uses nothing but a lamp, a sort of wand, and a cage. His secret seems to lie in the magic »f his voice, for no sooner does he begin to . call than rats scamper towards him ; from every dircctiou. He cleared three , hundred rats out of Madame fatti's Welsh castle and took five hundred n one warehouse in London in three nights.: At Cardiff he earned £2B in ten days during a plague scare. ' Some people who, to save their lives, can't write, can yet tell a story. There is an opening for such nowadays. An English girl makes a good income by telling lairy stories at children's parties. The finest story-teller hi all Japan is an Englishman, who, in T'okio, is more popular than any of the native professionals. , A mail may have no special qualification- beyond'good looks, a cheery man-; ner. and a pleasant voice. The writer knows one .jiicli who got £3l) u month and all f"»»<l >'. v acting as entertainer in a big summer hotel. He simply met newcomers, introduced suitable people, got up dances and picnics and other amusements. A pleasant way of mak- , ing a good income. I But the list is endless. You who read this may possess ull kinds of uususpetted talents. You may have a nalii:al gift for bird-slulling. in eye for gems, or an ability for metal-working. You innv have a' talent for packing, or f.,r choosing goods at bargain sales. AH these can be turned to good account. Much better lind your proper work than stick in a rut and rust.