MY JUMBLE SALE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17755, 27 January 1926, Page 9

MY JUMBLE SALE.

If you have any ill-fitting clothes you want to get rid of, follow our contributor’s excellent advice. “ Do you know anyone who wants a pair of new walking shoes, good ones, size six, which don’t quite fit?” asked Mollie. “Or an awfully nice French hat I brought back from my holiday in Paris in October; it’s black felt, but just a shade tight in the head!” put in Belle. “ Or a sWeetly pretty trail of tinsel flowers, for a dance frock? They’d look lovely on red or black, but—alas! —don’t quite tone with my new Royal blue!” inquired Isabel—three of my daughter’s girl friends who’d dropped in to muffins and tea on Sunday afternoon. 4 ‘ Why not hold a * Cottars ’ Market * next Saturday, asking everyone we can think of likely to buy or to have attractive things to sell, to come to tea, bringing their ‘ white elephants,’ in the shape of misfits, etc., with them? 7 ’ suggested Doris. The scheme was accepted rapturously. I agreed to provide a very simple tea forvtwenty or thirty and Vo lend the sitting-room to be transformed with a few trestle-tables, and card tables, in addition to the good-sized book and work table adready thert, into a hat still, > boot and shoe stall, ‘‘frou-frou 1 ” stall—for ribbons, flotfters, buckles, lace, and all sorts of other • things. Postcards were broadcast, telling friends of the scheme. It was settled that the goods displayed by the stallholders might be sold for cash, or exchanged with their owners’ approval for other objects of equal worth, and one special stall for mixed goods wm set aside for absolutely new articles, suitable for presents! And our “ exchange and mart ” went off with a tremendous swing. People most sensibly brought only things which were absolutely clean, good and up-to-date, and if not new, nearly so.