Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1911 — How Des Moines Club Women Get Money [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

How Des Moines Club Women Get Money

DES MOINES, lA.—lmagine the wife of Gov. B. P. Carroll of lowa begging funds on the streets, and imagine, too, other prominent society women o( Des Moines blacking shoes, seling doughnuts, working at day labor, making caxtfly and selling homemade cheese, and you will know how the women of Des Moines’ Women’s club are going about earning $2,300 which to buy pictures and paintings for the Women’s club building in this city. It all came about when at a meeting of the Women’s club the low condition of the treasury was discussed. Something had to be done. Muslcales luncheons, amateur theatricals —all had been tried time and time again. “Why not earn money like working women earn their money? Why not take in washing?” suggested Mrs.

J. G. Berryhill, wife of a millionaire wholesale lumber dealer, who boasts the fatherhood of the famous Des Moines plan of municipal government The other women gasped. But Mrs. Berryhill was In dead earnest. That is the way it all came about. Before the meeting adjourned the women were eqthtAiastic., The next day the women were at work. Mrs. Ernst Brown, president of the club, “earned” her first dollar selling eggs produced from a pen of 'five chickens, for which her husband, her first customer, paid SIOO. Mrs. Carroll, wife of the governor of lowa, became so enthusiastic that she was mistaken for a beggar, while soliciting funds on the street. Mrs. Berryhill sold newspapers. Mrs. L. M. Mann, whose husband has made his fortune in real estate, decided to do shampooing. Mrs. W. P. Mitchell, expresident of the dnb, has been selling home-made aprons. Mrs. George ' Aulmann began her fund by selling doughnuts. Mrs. Welts preempted the kitchen and baked dozens of - pies. Mrs. Frank McKay has been selling popcorn. In fact, every woman in the clnb is doing all kinds of work, even down to shining shoes.