The Book of Ideas

              really good doll clothes for sale, you won't be able to keep up with the demand.
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article like a cake in it. Attach a little notebook and pencil so women can write their name in it as it goes through their hands and it will be known where the basket has been. Recipient removes the cake, puts into the bank what she thinks it is worth, puts hi another article and passes it on. Pedlar's Basket-Members bring whatever they may have on hand, usually in a basket. These are auctioned off or sold otherwise as planned. In larger towns sell baskets to outsiders..for a special fund. Community ChristmaS Card-Several. weeks before Christmas, put

TravellingBasket-Start out a basket containing a 'Bank' and some

with used Christmas cards around the edges, leaving. space in centre for names. Have a large juice can with slit in top,. firmly placed on the frame~ and into which people drop the amount of money they would otherwise spend for cards for neighbors and local friends. The money is used for Christmas hampers. Once a day, the Card Chairman, collects the money and enters names of donors on the card. One Branch had such a card in the Posit Office and the Postmistress receive.d the money and kept record of donors

tip in town, a large Christmas Card, maybe two feet by four feet, decorated

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A Christmas Family Dance was arranged in one Branch for a friendly 'get-to-gether and fun' for an entire community, during the Christmas season. Each family was charged $1.25 and ladies were asked to bring lunch. It started at eight and everything from the waltz to twist, was danced. Catering at a variety of occasions and places is profitable. These may be auctions, dances, meetings, celebrations, stampedes, banquets, weddings, sports day, tournaments, fowl suppers, etc. Careful records should be kept of numbers of persons served, menu, itemized expense, what dishes were donated and totl:l1receipts and net profit made. Raffles of articles under $50:00 value are legal for service organizations. A patchwork quilt and $10.00 certificates are ideas. A NEW WAY TO RUN A RAFFLE is to make small slips of paper, numbered from Ita 100 and folded with thenumbel' inside and fastened with gummed tape or Christmas seals, and mixed up hit or miss on a large cardboard. Put-l chaser picks off one and pay the amount it indic:ates and signs name on the reverse side on the line marked with her number. Later at the specified time a draw is held for the winner. Hold White Elephant Sale-The difference between a White Elephant Sale and a Rummage Sale, is that the latter is mostly things that are useful but to be sold at low prices. White Elephants are things you would pass to your friends, still useful but not needed by yourself and to be .. sold at. their value. Hold A Cookie-Swap at Meeting. Each Member brings two dozen of her fanciest cookies, arranging them on plates on a long table. Each lady selects two dozen in place of those she brought. This can be made a community affair with Tea served by the Branch for 25 cents or . . . ? This is enjoyable with exchange of recipes and is a good way to get to know
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others in the community. . . To get funds to send an extra Member to the Provincial Convention

as companion to the delegate, one Branch sets beside the dish for Tea money, at each meeting a juice can, slit on top. Each Member drops in pennies or other coins. Two years of gathering these coins make a goodly .sum. 51