The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-15
LADIES EARN MONEY
Will Devote 1t to the Debt
Fund of the Lafayette
Reformed Church.
THE WAY THEY DID IT.
One Lady Made a Plum Pudding and
Sold It-Another Picked Hairs
From Her Husbands Coat.

The Ladies' Friendly League of Church
Workers, an organization whose duty it is to
look out for the interests of the LAFAYETTE
Reformed Church, held a sociable last night,
to receive the report of a new plan for rails
ing money. 1t had been decided that each
member should by her own efforts earn one
dollar for the church debt fund, the expert
ences of each to. be told at this sociable.
There was a good attendance for all the
weather, and during the evening a report
was read, from which the following para
graphs ave been taken:-
when the Friendly League of Church
Workers decided that our church debt must
and should be reduced, it reasoned somewhat
thus:-Money, however We may pretend not
to like it, is a very nice thing to have. The
money that we like best is the money that
we ourselves have earned. Now, we want to
give our best to the church, of course-there
is good Scriptural authority for that-so let
us give the money that we ourselves have
earned.
well, earning money is not so easy as it
looks on paper, especially if one has no tai
ents in particular beyond the housewifely
ones which are SO very valuable and so sell
dom paid for. Still, what must be done gen
orally is done, even if it be earning the sum
of one dollar within a given time, and l leave
it to the audience, if after this statement is
closed, they do not agree that the dollars
have been fairly earned.
7 begin:-A few weeks ago it was
Thanksgiving Day, a day when it is ones
Christian duty to eat as much plum pudding
as one possibly can. Mrs. John Clarke
crowned the Thanksgiving board of a
friend with such a luscious plum pudding
and such crullers that the friend was glad to
pay one dollar for the service. Mrs. John
Van Horne's dollar means pies, the real old
fashioned pumpkin variety, and Mrs. Justus
Slater's means lemon tarts; Mrs. Doremus'
means ch~ow-chow that she sold; Miss Emma
Carman's means home made candy, and Miss
Louisa Doremus's dollar stands for wheat
and graham gems.
HEROIC SELF-DENIAL.
"Lest the catalogue of all these good
things should make you want to begin on the
refreshments before they are ready, turn to
contemplate the dollar of Mrs. Mcbride, who
went without her luncheon; that is, not all
of it, but enough to count up to 100 cents
worth. Or consider the house of our beloved
pastor, who was deprived on one occasion of
a cake, twenty cents, and on another of a
pudding, price thirty cents, and the proceeds
devoted by his wife to the fund. Besides
this, Mrs. Kommers walked up town and
back one day, and saved the car fare; and
at another time, when offered half a pound
of candy, heroically replied:-'Give me in
stead the forty cents that Huyler would tax
you for it This is a height of sacrifice which
the average girl will admire, but never emu
late.
Mrs. Bowker's grandchildren waited in the
rain for their grandmother's accustomed
visit one day last month. The railroad fare
which would have taken her there is now re-
posing safely in the fund. Mr.. Andrew Nc
Knights granddaughter is the richer by one
flannel skirt, price 81, now in the fund. Hus-
bands, how many things they have had done
for them for a consideration Mr.. Slater has
a dog, and the dog is perpetually moulting,
so that Mrs. Slater earned her money by
picking the hairs off her husbands best coat.
Mr.. Ungerer's clothes and Mr.. S~terling's
ave been brushed until I'm sure they found
their wives services as valet cheap at a dol
lar apiece. Mrs. Hill and Mrs. West made
ties for their husbands, Mrs. Anderson Nc
Knight mended her husbands clothes: Mrs.
R. A. Mcknight cleaned her husband coat
and vest, Mrs. r. A. Coykendall kept her
husbands closet in order for two weeks,
which would have been no small matter if,
like most men, he had had a playful habit of
scattering his things every which way.
MORE EARNINGS.
Miss edna Scott and Mrs. w. D. Edwards
climbed perilous step ladders and hung cur
tains; Mrs. Louderbough cleaned curtains,
a dollars worth; Mrs. Blauvelt made q
childs waist to order; Mrs. Crawford did
sewing for a relative; Mrs. Brinkerhoff made
and sold a gorgeous red 1annel petticoat;
Mrs. Mary Williams made a black silk apron;
Miss Simmons worked for her sister; Miss
Coleman taught a class of children: Miss
Doremus gave a ~candy-pull, admission ten
cents, with the privilege of retaining the
candy as a SOuVenlr.
sMrs. Peter Zabriskie's money came from
nursing; Mrs. Butter did all a friends
mending; Mrs. r. w. Moore, who has four
sons, cleaned clothes for them at the rate of
a quarter a piece; Miss Mabel Rossell saved
her money by walking ten times down and
ten times up, from High School. Miss
Minnie Kimball sang for us just one dollars
voice of Mrs. Margaret Lindsay, who, when
asked how she earned her dollar, replied in
the laconic statement Shy talking"
Zone of Mrs. P. J. Koonz's servants OPP
portunely fell i'll, and gave Mrs. Koonz the
chance to do a dollars worth of housework.
Miss Lizzie West made beds for her money.
Mrs. Fl. B.. McKnight-is it not a change
after all these domestic detailszearned hers
by picking carnations. Mrs. W. w. Ed
wards made a downquilt; Miss Roberts en-
broidered, and sold the work of her hands:
Mrs. William Booth painted.
miss Lucy Mcbride made a virtue of ne
cessity, and walked instead of riding on the
trolley cars. Most of us had to make this
sacrifice, whether we wanted to or not, owing
to the fact that the trolleys couldn't be in
duced to come when they were wanted; but
Miss Mcbride walked systematically, with
the avowed purpose of donating those twenty
fares to the cause.'
Fifty-seven dollars has been made so far.
The rest of the entertainment was furnished
by Mr.. Walter Smith in a series of inimita-
BILE dialect recitations. Refreshments were
served at the close of the programme.