Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-01-02
Many Ingenious Devices For Max
ing These Entertainments Both
Profitable and Successful.

little gifts that Will be SeaSOnable
Birthdays are always with us, and Val
entine's day. Washington and Lincoln's
birthdays and Easter come on apace.
A bazaar plan that will be found
! successful is to have a sample booth.
This stand Is simply a large table with
the attendants dressed daintily as
cooks. They may wear white gowns
or big white aprons. cuffs and white
caps. Samples Of dainty homemade
cakes. jellies. jams. preserves. candy.
etc, may be set out. The samples
should be miniature cakes, boxes Of
candy and tiny jars These should be
sold for very small sums. and not only
the price. but the novelty Of the idea
will appeal to the public. 1t should
be announced that orders for larger
The small Jars in which library paste
is sold may be washed and saved for
the preserves. and the jellies may be
put up in dolls glasses.
Anything in which there Is an ele
ment of chance appeals to the patron
Of the bazaar. A novel device Is to
have large teet0tum. one Of those
devices which has large hand which
may be whirled around and allowed to
stop where it chooses. A lot Of at
tractive articles should be placed on
the booth. and when any one asks the
price of one the teetotum Is allowed
to decide this. He or she Is told to
whirl the hand about and pay as many
dimes or quarters or dollars as Is in
dicated by the figure at which it stops
To make this profitable the articles
on the stall should average In value
the middle figure on the teetotum.
Many persons who will not buy In the
ordinary way cannot resist this unique
method.
Another device in which chance Is
an element Is the catch-as-catch-can
booth. Only light. unbreakable arti-
cles can be sold here. and it is advisa-
BILE to have al the sales person the
star pitcher Of the local baseball club.
who has ut his command novel twists
which will defeat the objects of ex-
perts in catching. The idea IA that
each purchaser shall stand ten or
twelve feet away from the booth and
try to catch the article he or she
wishes to buy. II the purchaser is sue
cessful only half Of the marked price
Of the article is collected for It.
The cake booth is always popular.
but it will 60 with little extra swing
If some funny competition is started
One in which the competitors are ask
ed to guess the weight Of cake Is
usually successful. A nickel a guess
Is charged. and the cake goes to the
competitor who guesses the correct
weight
A good scheme for the sellers is to
make a sponge cake and then ice it.
It looks heavier than it really Is. An
other ingenious plan is to make the
cake weigh odd ounces. People usual
ly guess even pounds. This juggling
with the weight can be done by plac-
| ing it on pair of scales while you ice
1t and adding little extra Icing to
make 1t, say. four pounds two and
three-Quarter ounces or something like
that. People guess and guess and
| guess again. and the nickels, or even
pennies. mount up wonderfully.
Guessing competitions are almost al
| ways successful. There are always
people who like to guess the number
Of currants In currant cake. the
number Of dried peas In bottle. the
number Of pins stuck in pincushion
or the number Of pages in a book. II
you try the book test choose book
printed on thin India paper. 1t will
deceive everybody.
| A penny or nickel should be charged
/ for each guess and time limit Of
half minute fixed. SO that the guess
er has no chance to count the objects
one by one. A prize could be awarded
for correct guess-the cake. pincush-
ion or book or a coupon emitting the
winner to goods at stall.
Have a number of buns made each
having inside slip of paper with u
number on 1t. Copy one OF the num-
bers on a slip of paper and seal 1t up
III an W ne hcIIt At Tie StdiI
Call them lucky buns" and sell them
at nickel apiece. When all have
been sold call in the slips Of paper.
open the envelope and announce the
lucky number Award a small prize to
whoever has slip bearing the number
One of the best schemes for making
money for bazaar is to start some
little time before the date Of the func-
ton bag competition" Every one
who enters makes little fancy bag
Of odd bits Of material. not under any
! circumstances to cost more than a
! quarter At the bazaar these bags are
hung in Il line upon Il string and visi-
| tors are invited to put either penny
or nickel in the bag they like best
AT the end Of the evening the bags
are opened, and the owner OF the one
in which Is the most money is award
ed small prize. The cash. of course.
goes to the bazaar funds. and the bags