The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08
EASTER MONEY.
Some Ingenious Ways of Earning Dimes
and Dollars.

and Dollars.
Before the merry Christmas bells have
ceased to ring how to fill Easter boxes is
discussed. The money must be earned.
Ones own exertions must pay the price.
One church guild agreed upon dollar
each, another any sum possible, while still
another congregation raised an Easter
fund by their united efforts.
Birthday bags of red calico, six inches
square, and drawn together by a narrow
tape, were sent to each one. As many
pennies as years were put in, and pasted on
one side of each bag was this jingle, writ
ten on paper:
Place in this bag (and shed no tearsl
As many pennies as you've lived years,
And to the ladies, who fear to tell
How many years on earth they dwell,
We guarantee no one shall know
One from another here below!
More than S1OO was the result of the
most delightful evening at private house
where grandparents and babies, from 81
down to year, filled the bags.
Sunday-school children made and sold
caramels and popcorn balls; the young
cooking classes in the public schools fur
nished reception cakes and salads. They
took orders for Saturdays two months be-
fore Easter. One choir-boy began with 5
cents worth of popcorn. 1t grew into
$1O which his father called "John's scent
investment plan." One day he composed
this sad verse and gave it TO his Sunday
school teacher:
AS lugged popcorn from door to door,
was told, Little boy, don't come any more;
Your popcorn makes my children SICK
So OF hustled, double quick.
In the slush and snow of February the
lads of one large society, brooms in hand,
swept the crossings until foreigner pass
| ing up the avenue exclaimed one day: "In
this country there Is so much money the
l street-sweeps dress like gentlemen"
A young matron on Connecticut avenue
| kept books in her husbands Office for a
week. Another merry young mother re-
ceived large wages as nursegirl in friend s
household.
A tall, dark-eyed society girl took ladies
| to drive at so cents an hour on Woodley
Land road or to the Chevy Chase Hunt
Club she herself driving her own ponies
and two-seated cart. She earned $25 and
had DO end of fun.
The young gentlemen of cher set"
offered to pay 81 each for drive OF five
miles.
Agreed" she said. Tomorrow morn.
Ing at ten."
At the given time and place thirty-fi
young men met the taily,ho coach. The
bugIes rang out clear and loud, the driver
cracked his whip and royal ride they
had of twelve miles to Great Fails. The
young lady sat beside her brother, "who
held the ribbons" but on their return the
fares were paid to her.
7 In Fairfax County, Va, society of
bright girls gave straw rides to their
friends. The horses and wagons were do
mated by fathers and brothers. Jolly.
wide-awake married folk in small vii.
lage earned $50 for Easter, giving little
suppers in their own dining-rooms, '.25
cents plate"
Nine. R entertained a glee club and
paid to young fashionable girl the florist s
price for decoration. So great praise was
gwen the artist that she went as decorator
to the finest houses at the capital, all for
her Easter money. SO beautifully earned.
Little Dorothy B, whose father is in the
House of Representatives, brought into
church on Easter day SIS she had earned