Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-02
Make Your Offering
for Fair or Other
Entertainment in
Aid of Church or
Charity Something
That Can Be Made
With Little Time
and Trouble and
Quickly Disposed
Of.


M fair for charity. OF some
:" thing to sell. you generally
rack your brains for some
thing original Ii must either be some
thing which can be easily and quickly
made. and therefore quickly and cheapiy
sold. or else something a little unusual
and attractive enough 10 make the work
put on IL worth while.
II you live out OF town. In a suburb
for instance, and are asked to donate
something to a city bazaar. call on your
fruit shelves. Canned fruit and pre-
serves. jelly. jam and pickles all find
a ready market at a city bazaar. The
city housewife who lives In an apart
ment cannot keep big supply of canned
fruit on hand. and SO cannot prepare her
own. She is always on the lookout for
good homemade jelly and preserves,
pickles and jam.
There always seems to be a demand ae
bazaars for small cakes Children, with
a taste for sweets and an afternoons
dispensation resting pleasantly over their
consciences, along with bit OF silver
resting weightily in their pockets. stop
longingly at the cake table and eye with
envy the big mounds of nuts and FROST
ing which sell for fifty cents or "A dollar.
If a small tray Of little cakes stands in
willingly labeled Five cents apiece"
many a child-given five-cent piece is sure
to tarry at the cake counter.
If you make cakes to sell to children,
have some consideration .or their
mothers. and make the cake somewhat
simple. Plain little sponge cakes baked
I'm patty tins, and frosted with chocolate
drop cakes of a simple batter enriched
with a few chopped nuts and sprinkled
| with powdered sugar, or a big fiat cake
| frosted. marked OFF in sauares-each EN-
bellished with half a pecan-and cut.
make acceptable cakes for children
There probably Were never enough
baby dolls at a bazaar. For some reason
| the supply of dolls In long baby clothes
seem always to give out before the de-
mand for them gives out. So il you
want to give q donation to the doll
counter, dress a baby doll. Rather small
dolls. not more than seven or eight inch
es long, make charming babies. IL they
are dressed in dainty long clothes. At
bazaar at this time of year a baby with
a long coat or cape and a little hood or
bonnet probably will sell better than one
in summer-weight clothes; children al
ways have one eye open to the seasons,
and like to have their dolls keep up with
them.
In your donation TO the candy table
remember that children like candy as
well as they like cakes. So make candy
which can be sold cheaply in small
amounts.
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A good sort of candy to make for this
purpose is chocolate fudge. to. which des-
located cocoanut is added. and which Is
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tie cakes about an inch thick. Wrap
these In waxed paper and they can be
sold for five cents apiece. Dates. stuffed
with chopped nuts, and then rolled In
graduated sugar. can be tied in dainty
/ little waxed paper packages. and sold
for ) cents for each package containing
six.
Peanut brittle, made by browning gran
ulated sugar, adding little vinegar to
| II, and then pouring Ii over sheled pea
nuts spread in buttered tins. also can be
sold cheaply in little packages.
| II you have learned the trick of making
any unusual little piece OF finery. make
1t in quantity for the fancy work table
| For instance, perhaps you know how TO
make some new sort Of case for bodkins
and wash ribbon or 4 little needle and
thread case If it Is quite dainty and at
tractive. and at the same time not expen-
sive, probably half a dozen would sci!
and net the bazaar more money than a
big and elaborate. centerpiece that would
have taken twice as long to make EN-.
broidery is SO difficult and slow to make
that it must be sold at a high price and
SO does not sell very quickly
Remember. always. I'm making a dona-
/ tion to bazaar, that IL IL poor economy
to give anything unless 1t is going to sell
| for a big enough price to make the time
given over to making it worth while Re-
| member. also, that nothing should be
given to a bazaar that you would not like
to keep.
The comment of a generous donator to
| church fair. when she was asked IL
she would like To take home the things
she had given TO the fancy table that
had not been sold, ought to be warn
ing to every one
Mercy, no." she said, what in the
world should I do with that trash!''