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in New England makes upward of a thousand dollars annually from its
Christmas pudding and mince meat sale held a few days before
Thanksgiving. An old-fashioned English plum pudding will bring as high as
$1.00 a pound at such sales. The usual plan is for the organization to buy the
materials, and then everyone helps to make the puddings under the direction
of someone who is especially good at this sort of thing. The same procedure
applies to making the mince meat.

Chain Luncheons and Card Parties

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HIS is a particularly good idea for a suburban community. Each member of
the organization invites four people, and each one attending in turn invites
four others to a luncheon at her home the following week. The process is
repeated until the entire community has been covered.

Each hostess plans what shall be done after lunch. Some invite their guests to
bring their sewing or knitting, others play cards, and others have readings.
The advantage of the plan is that it does not place too much of a burden on
any one hostess. The money is raised by each guest paying fifty cents or a
dollar for the luncheon. In order to insure the success of the undertaking, a
committee is appointed to follow up the guests at each luncheon to make sure
that the chain is not broken. The same idea can be adapted to evening card
parties. In that case, however, four couples, rather than four people, comprise
a chain unit. To add interest to these card parties, rules are set up, and a
certain number of hands are played each evening. At the conclusion of the
series a grand prize is given to the person turning in the highest score. This
eliminates the necessity of having a prize for each party, which would make a
big hole in the profits.

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NE of the old, dependable methods of raising money for a church or charity