Show RAISING MONEY FOR CHARITY novel schemes by which large sums have been gathered times may be bard for all classes this year but certainly charitable en have never been more enthusiastically undertaken nor more zealously carried out than has been the case during the season just past charity balls have ever been a popular way of inducing those not otherwise generously inclined to part with a few of their almighty dollars for the good of the masses performances of some play or opera that Is the rage of the moment have before this year been given with all surplus from the exorbitant price demanded for en trance and seats handed over to some worthy institution or organization in england however the climax was capped this year by the duchess of sunderland who demanded shill ing for each glass of champagne doled out at a large dinner and the money of course was devoted to charity so lucrative did the dinner prove that the sudden inspiration was at once imitated quickly became a fad and from that Is now almost a custom among popular hostesses in london |