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The girls in the booking class came to the laboratory all excited because their adored teacher, Miss Seldon, was going to take them on an excursion to visit the Allendale cookie factory that afternoon. Their work s had been different since Miss Seldon had taken the class. She made everything so interesting. And now they were to go on a series of excursions to study the scientific methods of cooking used by factories. “Billie,” who in spite of her masculine sounding nick name was a frank imitator of Gloria Swanson in her efforts to subjugate mankind, appeared in a frock that might have been appropriate at a party, an immense glittering comb giving the finishing touch to her formal coiffure and long green pendants hanging from her ears. Billie was in the habit of dressing rather conspicuously, but an added touch was noticeable as she entered the laboratory. Billie was always a “source of amusement to the more sensible girls of the class, and someone at once asked, “Who is to be the victim this time?” “I suspect that he is a good-looking cookie manu facturer,” volunteered another girl who had heard Billie boasting acquaintance with Mr. Allendale. In reality she had merely been introduced to him, but she did not mind magnifying the acquaintance. This started an enthusiastic outburst on the part of Billie in which she compared Mr. Allendale with Rudolph Valentino, and someone else wondered if Miss Seldon was acquainted with him. The conversation was abruptly interrupted by Miss Seldon entering the room and announcing that before they started on the excursion she would talk to them for a few minutes about Lincoln’s place in the manu facturing world. “Do you know how many manufacturers there are in Lincoln,” she asked. Nobody knew, but there were several volunteers of “Not any to speak of,” “Only a few.” “How many do you mean by a few,” she asked, ‘ten twenty, fifty, a hundred?” “QO, not more than a couple of dozen anyway,’ was the reply. “The last directory of Lincoln manufacturers issued by the chamber of commerce lists 144 firms,” said Miss Seldon. The directory was passed around and the girls were much interested in learning of manufacturers they had never heard of before. There was quite a number of food manufacturers, the larger plants having been selected for the series of excursions. They found that some of the factories were operated on a very small scale; indeed it seemed that even if they did not ship out any products Lincoln alone could keep them run ning on a larger scale. When a hasty birdseye view had been taken of the manufacturing field, Jane Seldon and her class set out for Hugh Allendale’s factory. (To Be Continued.)
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Lincoln Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Apr 14, 1923
Page 8
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Napster R.
