Evening journal., 1900-12-31
RUMMAGE SALES
IN GREAT FAVOR
One of Most Effective Ways
Of Raising Money Yet
Devised

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church debt or TO raise money for any
worthy charity, those interested, ifl
they are up to date. scorn the sugges-
ton OF an old-fashioned church fair
and instead hold a rummage sale, says
the New York sun. That is, each
woman goes through all the nOoks and
corners Of her nome and rakes cut all
the old clothes, duplicate wedding
presents unwelcome holiday gifts and
| long forgotten odds and ends of every
description. These are piled together
on the floor for a thorough overhaul
ing. Those things that she can mol
lunger possibly use, and sometimes
several articles that her absent hus-
band probably could use IL he had the
chance, are picked out and donated tOI
the rummage sale.
1t Is undoubtedly one Of the most ef-
fectiye ways of raising money yet de-
vised IL gives woman an outlet for
things that she is only too glad to get
rid Of and at the same time hsr COM
i triDutiOns often prove more valuable
20 the charity sought TO be aided than
o handsome money donation. AS the
stock OF one OF these sales costs the
/ managers absolutely nothing, it is pos
sible to sell things at ridicuously low
prices. A customer is certain to get
more than her moneys worth whether
her purchase be a clock pair OF shoes
! jewelry n bonnet, aprons, q lamp OF
the brand-new smoking jacket OF some
unlucky husband who was absent at
the time OF the overhaulimg. Perhaps
the strangest article ever offered at a
rummage sale Was a hearse The pres
= pectus OF a sale held at Claversack ~
1, Y, recently announced that the local
b undertaken finding business poor. had
t, decided to donate his hearse to charity
3 lt was to be offered at one-sixteenth
OF it actual value. If this bargain was
not snapped up In its original form,
/ IL was TO be taken apart and sold
5 riecemeal at equally enticing rates
/ These sales were originally intended
I as a sort of double charity. The OBJ
iect was not only to raise the required
/ amount of money, but also to mark the
81 goods so low that the poor could buy
y at prices which would make their pur-
/ chases almost gifts. AS might be ex-
D pected, however, the practlced bargain
[ hunter could not keep from those sales
for long. The customers ran to ex-
q tremes as much as the stock The
p crowds in front OF the gerat heaps Of
h all sorts and conditions OF things are
b made up of all sorts and conditions Of
y people-men and women, black and
/. white, yong and old. rich and poor
I keen shoppers that make no mistakes
q and the unsOphistlcated kind that come
2 as near making mistakes as anyDody
:, can at a rummage sale.
The greatest blunder made at q rum
2 mage sale so far as recorded was not
r. made by q purchaser. AT one Of the
. sales held in Brooklyn recently a
D bright-eyed old colored woman, evil
e IDENTIFY one OF the keen shopper class,
. caught sight of handsome cloth
I Jacket lying on the table of a booth.
e "Fo de LO'ds sake, Missy" she said
TO the young woman in charge. "nCw
S thar's sumthln ud look right swell on
/ dis chicken. What am de expensive
e ness OBJ dat dar jacket?" The young
e woman searched in vain for a price
I tag.
{ "why. really" she said, there
doesn't seem TO be any mark: but, we'll
/ should say abOut-er-three dollars.
+ "Umphl Dat suhtinly am costly
e but j reckon / must hab it" The old
y culored woman stripped her three very
e dirty one-dollar bills from a goOd-sizod
e proudly out.
If Now, SO is a very good price for any.
e thing at a rummage sale, and the
e young woman was justly elated ovel
the good sale she had made AS sooI
It as she had a moments leisure she pro
7 ceeded TO tell the woman at the mex
y booth all about it,
'?l What" the latter exclaimed whel
n she she heard what had happened
D. BLACK cloth? Braided? Three dollars
Of My brand-new eighty-dollar Winte
ne jacket that / just left on your horril
W old table for a minutel Oh, you mean
rs horrid-"
NJ AS for the rest It wasn't just tn
ID right thing to have said at a charit.
ID affair The strange part of it was tina
to the woman didn't lament the loss o
m her jacket at ALL The thing that Gu
her to the quick seemed to be that an.
+ one should have considered her JACKIE
lie sufficiently out of fashion TO be oflere
r az a rummage sale.
g. II has already been said that the of
ic ferings at these sales often include un
lr welcome Christmas gifts. This fact
te responsible for a small-sized famil
rs feud now raging in a town IN New Jer
rs sey. A certain woman, who may b
a. NdlAtN NAiA DAAllllf III hlAtA " hAnNAh
gs guish her from a former friend VIII
n may be called Mrs. Brown, was. un
er fortunately for herself, asked to con
en- tribute to a rummage sale to be hel
IS for the benefit OF the new publ
ms school. Upon ransacking the hous
Sc from top to bottom she succeeded
be making a very respectable collection
Ike including a pea-green pin cushio
which her dear friend Mrs. Brown ha
er sent her for Christmas the year before
RS Now Mrs. Brown had said that sh
r. feared she would be unable to atten
lt that particular sale. and consequent
ep she had no business there. But sh
lt went after all, and that's what starts
tie all the trouble.
We While delving through the riff-rai
on one Of the tables Of course nothin
else would do but that Mrs. Brow
should come across the fatal pea gree
pin cushion. Il had q strangely fam
lar look and she regarded it with
"a puzzled expression as If trying TO plac