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Show Cheap Prizes for a Lenten Card Party CHE members of a card club which has beon meeting all winter decided de-cided that during Lent It would do away with tho handsome prizes which each hostess had boon giving tho winners, and dovote tho money thus saved to some charltablo purpose. pur-pose. Ono hostess, howovor, made up her mind that sho must have prizes of somo sort, be they ovor so humble. Sho therefore wont to a 10-cont store and there bought a lot of trifles which woro useful if not particularly beautiful, beau-tiful, and which wero heartily wel- corned by thoso who received them. Thoy consisted of boxes of hairpins, of cubes of black-headed pln3, of cubes of whlto-hcadod pins, of papers of ordinary pins, and such small fry. And they wero received with cries of Joy. "i never havo any Invisible hairpins when I want them, and I can never remember to buy any so this box oomes as a life-saver," sighed a woman who had received a box. "A cheap way," commented tho hostess, "of pleasing guests who aro used to winning sliver vases and such things, now was It not?" |