The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-08
FHMININB FINANCE.
Kings Daughters of St.
Paul's Church Show
How They Can Make
Money.
A FIVE CENT BASIS
Seven Thousand Per Cent. Profit
Transactions That Would
Astonish Wall Street.

No one. not even the most pronounced
woman Halter, has denie1 u woman's abll-
ity to spend money. but people don't seem
to consider her equally gifteI in making
1t. in fact there seems TO be au idea
afloat that n woman as a duancIer is not
success. This baseless Prejudice may
now be decently buried aud the Kings
Daughters of St. Paul's NJ. E. Chulc1
viii assist at the obseqaies. On June 81
last, nine of their number consecrated
i've cents each to the Lord. Tnen they
Invested it in various ways. and reiu-
vested the proceeds, so that the humbls
nickel grew and grew uutll it blossomed
into silver and greenbacks, and in several
Case. Il bill with V on 1t. From the orig.
lnal Is cents these amateu: fidauciers
2a.neied in S33. g.. from which it is In
order tor Jay Goul to step do,vu from
his financial eminence unth he can pro-
,uce some investment thai pays over
g,U0O per ceat dividends.
there WAS an experience meeting last
night in Che pariOrs of the parsonage, No.
BIB Third street, When all the la0orers
told now they earned their money, aud
some ninety people assembled to listen.
NJ S. Belle Burnett opened the exercises
wit Il piano solo, Mr.. jeremiah Merritt
Offered prayer. ana Miss Ella Smith read
Il humorous dialect story, Peter Sor-
ghum in Love-" Mrs. Jos ephine Smith,
Vice President, gave the first report. She
had invested III aprons aud brought her
nickel to 81 10. Mrs. George B pwman
sold her five cents to her husband for
twenty-an Interesting commercial tians-
action frequently practised by the worlds
people. With this sne bought an apron
winch sold for 5 35, then borrowed an
other nickel, bought enough material for
tWJ aprons, and SO proceeded until she
had cleared IS. Mrs. William Allen evil
IDENTIFY has latent financial ability. She
succeeded in selling her nickel for one
dollar to begin with. Theu she bought
tray and clrving cloths. which, wnen
worked, she soll for thirty-hve cents. in
vestiug the proceeds in aprons. The
amount cleared WAS S. 3
RIGHTEOUS RAFFLES.
Miss Austin sold her five cents for a
dime, ana that for twenty cents, bought
dish towels and sold them tor fifteen
ceuts each. investing the proceeds III pic
ture frames. Results, $50 4 Miss Austin
also produced a cushion of which she will
dispose by a species Of miniature Louis
lana lottery.
Mrs. William Eakins then sang "Tit
for Tat" after which Mrs. Norman re-
sumed the reports. She did not sell her
five cents, but bought with it Que yard of
cloth, out OF which she made four wash
cloths. which sold at five cents each. This
she reinVested in the satne way, until she
had amassed S.. Mrs. Ed. Bowman be-
gan with chenille balls, made aprons and
worked tray cloths. with a result of $2.0S
Mrs. Opie when called on for a report eX-
planned that she had kept her talent in a
napkin too long to increase 1t beyond
thirty cents. AS she would not read her
report the presiding officer collected
double the money, u master-stroke OF
finance which showed the summers
training had not been in vain.
Mrs Thompson had made enough
on aprons to turn in 50. so
Mr.. Johnson sang Laughing Solo, and,
IN response to an encore, gave our old ia
miliar friend "Curfew Shall" etc., aud
MIR. William Allen sang "a Warrior
Bold" and Rocked in the Cradle of the
Deep" Mr.. Jere Merritt acted as Mrs
Merritt's substitute in reading her report,
with the result that when he announced
II made three RIngham aprons which |
sold for thirty-ive cents EACH" the audi
ence asked him where he learned to sew
Resulting amount, ST..
DANGEROUS WORK.
Mrs. William Eakins began by saying
that CHE ran the risk of being killed or be-
ing divorced in earning her money. A
friend in Keene, N. H., offered to teach
her to do shell work for five cents. So she
gathered d heap of scallop shells, which
hsd been brouaht from New Bedford and
evidently pinned for home. soaked them,
painted them with muria6fc acid, and
bored holes in them with a 2enknife.
"TheFe were twenty-four of them, and
that was where the danger of death
OF divorce came in" said She. "When-
ever Mr.. Eakins came in, he would fiud
NE scratching shells. or stepped In muir
attic acid, SO he said, 'P1l kill you,' or
'Tll get a divorce every time. But |
went on until l had made two large pin
cushions and one handkerchief case, for
which / received So"
Miss Burnett gave another solo, and
Mr.. Harvey Hart sang 81 Heard a Grand,
Sweet Sorg," after which Refreshments
were served. The entire proceeds, count
ing door receipts, were in the neig hbor-
hood of fifty dollars, which will be turned
over to the church treasury.