WAR FORTUNES

Evening Star, Issue 15778, 15 April 1915, Page 8

WAR FORTUNES

MONEY IN SIMPLE ARTICLES. For the man of business with a ready eye to changing conditions the war has not been entirely withe nt its measure of compensation. Many new fields of enterprise were opened without any warning in the early days o? August, and every week some one is able to seize a chance- and make a comfortable sum. There ie a prominent hardware dealer in Birmingham who has hitherto been successful in the manufacture of gas burners. A man of less initiative might have followed fortune in his accustomed groove. But at the first hint of war plant was hurriedly bought and erected, metal was obtained, and since then buttons for every Ally and sympathetic (smaller buttons for his children’s suits have been produced in amazing quantities and scattered far and wide over the world at a gratifying profit. A fortune is being made by striking the iron while it is hot. Makers of patriotic postcards have reaped a rich harvest, all the more satisfactory because hitherto it has been the practice to buy our patriotic carde in Germany to a laige extentT Anyone who has chanced upon a trifle that looks usefu’ for a soldier has not gone without- reward An instance is the “ hussif,” with its useful sewing articles, winch has been sold by the thousand since the autumn. A simple article, modest in itself, is the thing for an enterprising person of alert intelligence to look for. A boot tag, a pipe lighter, a patriotic brooch for someone left at home —these are the fines that make a small fortune in time of war.