| Show THE FAIR bant about 1 that Is very macli ia season if there must be a fair let no member of the church or old escape begin very early a year beforehand if poa eible and press every creature into th service labor especially with the husbands and fathers let the attacks be renewed at intervals until i results ia making the wan whose proper share of church relief would have been twenty five dollars give fifty or seventy five dollars by way of encouragement to women who are willing to spend themselves for naught there ia nothing new under the nn but by judicious combination of the old things wonderful effects may be produced As missions are so essential a part of our church work missionary features in the fairs are very valuably ablo returned missionaries can be draw upon for costumes and groupings and L a bazaar includes a booth representing such a shop as would be found ito every nation of the world where the missionaries of this particular church are st work and if the attendants are dressed in the costumed of those countries be assured the shekels will pour in at every anch place the american pincushion costing ten cents that would bring awen ty five cents at ft christian table will readily bring fifty cents if sold by a pure pagan from one or another of the heathen lans even at the modern fair be the object ever BO spiritual we have observed that it is very unwise to omit provision for the body have a restaurant by all means have half a dozen it possible and in the course of the evening those most anxious to help the cause will be likely to try them all of the iniquity of grab bags no doub any longer exists allowing girk arrayed like fortune tellers to exercise their imaginations upon the future of such damsels and youths as may cross their palms with silver should be frowned upon but the making of ones self as pretty as possible and playing as saleslady behind a table laden with pretty trifles the ceasing of a much money as possible out of everybody who comes near the pleasant interchange ter change with friends the heirty good natured vying with each other to set by whose hands the largest sum of money shall swell the church fund the pleasure in success the auction at ta end the fun of it all and the delight ox together the next morning and counting up the proceeds the lifting oi the burden of the pastors family the brightening up of the dingy church the filling the library with new books these somehow beem to compensate for much whatever may said of some of the processes the results seem to be a positive good it was a good thing that all through kaany months the thought of doing something to help should have bean in such a multitude of hearts it waa to set ewa kittle children at work and it waa a good to try to interest other people in work and when the time came for gathering together all that avery one had done the sense ot union in bervice and of having carried the church and its needs on the heart for so long this too was good the social phase of it if managed judiciously by the wisest hearts in the womanhood of the church might also be all good seriously one recognizes the objections to all these methods of raising funds for good objects yet come method must be devised that has in it the element of operation cooperation co until we have something better w hall have to accept the supper and the bazaar the first leaves nothing worse I 1 than an indigestion and a doctors bill for bome of those who got more than moneys 1 objections also but as matters are at present we do not know any better way and we must do something and these seem to be the things that offer it is better then for us to direct our attention to the best methods of avoiding objectionable features anal af masing them grand financial successes while w hope and work for that good time coming when we need not have thein at all mary lows in harper buxar |
