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Show With Million .Dollar Goal Republican Women "Bring Home the Bacon" Mrs. Baur won't tell what sort ol party was the best .money maker. CHICAGO. June S. Shades of Marl? Hannah Look at the women raising money for a political campaign With card parties, .'dances, cabarets, concerts and leap year smokers! No Scwinp Circle Fund. Not a puny little sewing circle fund of a hundred dollars or so. Hundreds of thousands! A million Is the goal. Political bosses mere men hooted ' at tho Idea. What women could J raise wouldn't bo a drop in the bucket. J tboy said. Insignificant alongside the fat contributions tho "boys" used to, got .up and down Corporation-av. '"Women have shown them something." some-thing." said Mrs. Jacob Baur. chairman chair-man of the women's division of the nn-' tional Republican ways and .means committee. " ,- ; - Mrs. Baur was "head tolle.ctor" in the west. Sho liiado hlns hum .nlj the way froni last Christmas till she sailed for Europe late In May a. a; delegate to tho International suffrage', convention at Geneva. June G to 12 "Wo took in a3 much ;n$ ijCOOO one; !day," said Mrs. Baur. ''But l'aiv not 'going to tell what sort of party was I the best moneymaker. The Democratic l women might steal our thunder." 1 It's no secret, though, that the bjg 'cabaret whore pretty debutantes in gingham- gowns sold flowers and, toy balloons wasn't nearly as successful financially as somo of the community card parties. I Cats and Vnrnuni Cleaners!.'. ' "The prizes drew them." said Mrs.' Baur. "We gave away everything from Maltese cats to vacuum deanery." dean-ery." At one dancing' party tho women also had card games, a palmist, psy-1 chic readers, movies and refresh-1 menis. And at a series of leap year smokers tlo .,women Invited men toi escort them. And everybody chipped Mrs. Baur Is no beginuor at busi-1 nesj. Some call her the "Soda Water Queen," for sho haH been running hor; husba'nd's -liquid carbonic business smc'o he died In 1912 and loft her a couple of million dollars. She has) been active in suffrage and is credited : vlth leading the hurmoDy campaign last winter that united three rival political po-litical factions among women and started them on the way to raise Chicago's Chi-cago's $100,000 share of the women's! million-dollar national fund. |