The Indianapolis journal., 1890-08-17
TwENTY-FIvE-CENT KISSES.
How the Sewing Society OF Long Island
Church Raised Money-A 'Baby" Tent.

How the Sewing Society OF Long Island
Church Raised Money-A "Baby" Tent.
New York Special
Some of the prettiest girls on Long ISL
and were ready to be kissed at % cents a
head on Monday, but the officials of the
Long Island Railroad Company were not
aware of the fact. otherwise special trains
might have been run for the occasion.
When it was too late the members of the
Presbyterian Church at Mattituck said
that instead of adding paltry sum of $500
to their fund they might have raised
enough money to build them a new church.
When the Women's Sewing Society of this
church resolved last last winter winter that hat
age of sixteen years should be eligible for
membership, conservative people predicted
that something was going to happen. Viii
lage Gossips declared that no sewing society
which did not fix the age limit at least
to conduct itself in a thoroughly decorous
manner. In spite of these doleful predic-
tions, the sewing society remained about
as dull as usual, until the project of a
memSers WAS decded bV an OF oysr
whelming majority that q fair ought to
be held, and that the proceeds thereof
should be devoted to the purchase
of material to be worked up
INDECENT and the benighted heather. The
committee on arrangements chosen To plan
the details of the undertaking proved most
progressive. Early in their deliberations
they concluded that the methods of extor-
tions hitherto in vogue at religious fairs
were played out. Raffles where the un-
wary masculine patron, yielding to femi-
nine Establishments. pay Is cents for
chance to draw three paper collars seemed
hardly the right thing. Rebeccas at the
we'll, ladling out fluid called lemonade by
courtesy at 10 cents a thin bleful, were pro-
nounced obsolete. African dodgers, who al
low the public to throw three base balls at
their heads for cents, would undoubtedly
prove a drawing card, but did not seem
quite suited to church entertainment.
After hours of constant debate the COM
mittee on arrangements was still in guam
Diary. The obvious features of the sale,
such as confectionery booths, flower
stands pin-cushiOn counters, fancy y-wOrk
tables and wearing apparel emporiums.
would arrange themselves. but it was abso-
lutely necessary to provide something nov
el, which would attract customers and
be- talked about. The youngest member of
solved the problem. She argued that if all
the incest young ladies in the parish would
stand ready to accept the OSculatory sa-
lutes of the gentlemen. for consideration,
the latter would simply tumble over each
other in their efforts to get rid of their
money, and the cause of charity would get
a tremendous boom.
Prudish object!O !Ons put forward by elder
ly ladies who were not likely to be called
upon to do any of the kissing were ulti-
mately overruled, and it was decided to
run the new feature in separate tent as
sort of annex. The only thing left to be
done was to give the young men hint as
to what sort of affair the society proposed
to give. The girls did not give the secret
right out, but dropped hints which put all
the young bachelors and most of the mar
ried men in state of anxious antici ipation.
The latter never passed out of the antici-
o,
tion taken by their respective better halves
When Monday evening came the lawn
where the fair was held contained, among
other things o tent which bore the sign: