For Use as Ornaments.
"Have you seen any of my horseshoes yet ?" said a young lady to the writer. "Horseshoes? What have you to do with horseshoes P " "Why, that's one of tho latest fads. I get eightpence or tenpence each, according to size, for painting a simple but effective design on them, after that they are sold in f*ncy shops at trom two shillings to half a crown each— a good profit for the shopkeeper. " Who buys them ? Ladies principally. With the aid of a little ribbon they are hung up as ornaments, and are quite a rage just now. In fact, I can sometimes earn from twenty to twenty-five shillings a week. "I seldom spend more than an hour— an hour and a-half at the very outside-over one. The designs I do from my head, just as they happen to striko me. " Sometimes, for variety's sake, I paint an ash tray or tobacco jar, which, of course, brings me in a little mor,o. But there's not nearly the demand for them as for tho horseshoes Did you say that you would like to havo a dozen ? "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 49
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188For Use as Ornaments. Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 49
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