Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-11
FOR LENTEN BOXES
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE GIRL WHO
WILL GIVE HER MITES AWAY.
Keep Your Eye Open for Old Over
shoes; They Are Worth
Money.

Written for The Evening Star.
Girls who expect to devote the next forty
days to methods for filling Lenten mite
boxes or for helping others less fortunate
than themselves must enlist their fathers
and brothers and the youths dangling from
their various string into their service. Men
have a half-cynical way of laughing at
feminine ardor during Lent, and they never
enter enthusiastically into plan for saw
ing money by giving up some table deli
cacy; so the girl who wishes to have their
aid must gain their interest by some means
less vital to their comfort, and she will find
her Golfers generously filed.
Money which is made by some special eff
fort is more appreciated than that which
is taken as a gift from well-filled pocket
book A Boston woman and a deVout
church worker, whose son wanted to con-
tribute to her Lenten fund from his bank
account. insisted that. he should earn the
money by some sacrifice. AS he came from
business one night he held up on the end
of his cane an old rubber which had been
dropped on the front walk His mother
found the next day that old rubber had q
market value, and for the following six
weeks her son never came home at night
without one or more old rubbers wrapped
in paper stuck the end of his cane.
The rubbers thus casually picked up
brought 90 cents; not a large amount of
money, but it was earned with very little
effort.
surprising number of worn and leaky
overshoes are left kicking around office
buildings, and if girl has her young broth
ers and cousins bring home all they lind,
besides telling her girl friends to save those
at their homes, she will be repaid by nice
little sum for her Easter offering.
Sisters who do the family mending can
have the male members of the family pay
few cents for every article of clothing
she repairs for them. Boys of ten or twelve
can blacken their fathers boots and make
quite bit of money for their boxes while
smaller children will think it great fun to
empty their fathers pennies from his
pockets after each days work.
Practical Denial
One girl whose sweetheart had called her
every morning on the telephone prevailed
upon him to forego the custom during the
forty days of Lent and give the price of
the calls to her. 1t will be not only a
lucrative but most beneficial plan if a girl
will coax her youthful admirers to give up
their cigarettes for the fasting tide and
let her have the ten or twenty cents they
would spend on a package each day. There
are very few youths who will not give up
their smoking for this length of time.
New England Dorcas societies raise large
sums of money on Shrove Tuesday evening
by giving a pancake supper. Some MEM
Der of the parish who is especially adept
in making cakes is put in charge of the
cooking, and the pretty girls don their
white aprons and bring cakes steaming hot
to the hungry men who have foregone their
usual dinner or supper to enjoy this an
nual treat. The cakes are made nearly the
size of the griddle, and if the assembly is
large, six or eight of these huge cakes are
laid on top of each other and slices
cut out for the different persons. Old
fashioned buckwheat cakes. which have
been set to rise the night before, are also
a feature of the pancake supper. In the
spring of the year, when the sap is flowing
and maple syrup is plentiful in the coun-
try, many cans of this delicious sweet are
bought by the Dorcas Society and kept
in cold storage until Shrove Tuesday and
pancake supper come around the next
year.