HOW TO " RAISE THE WIND "FOR
CHURCH PURPOSES. # At a soiree and concert in connection with a church at Maxwelltown (Dumfriesshire) the Rev. W. Graham, v.'hen pleading for financial assistance, said he had received from a friend in America a description of one of the methods they adopted in that country for "raising money for the kirks." This was by means of meetings called " sociables." These were of different kinds. One was called '• the crazy sociable." The ladies came in the most fantastic costumes, and put the pickles in the sugar basin, and generally things were turned tops}'turvy. But the most amusing of the sociables was one at which the ladies were put up to auction. The mall wno hid the highest had the privilege of seeing the prettiest lady in the room home. The result was that if a lady had a sweetheart preseut he forked out his last dollar rather than let another fellow see her home.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2469, 8 May 1888, Page 2
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159HOW TO " RAISE THE WIND "FOR Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2469, 8 May 1888, Page 2
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