Bazaars on the scale of St. John’s are wonderful enterprises when you consider that, as the Vicar, the Rev. J. R. CROFT, reminded me, they are the equivalent of the undertakings of large private businesses to secure in a few days turnovers such as could not be netted by steady, methodical effort spread over weeks or months.
And, Bazaars, it is to be remembered, are the work of amateurs in many business arts, not the least of which is salesmanship, that are often believed to be possessed only by those who have made a life long study of them.
When you run a bazaar, you attempt what a business man would not dream of trying to do. You set it up in a night and you conduct it with the aid of people with abundant enthusiasm but little experience. It is true that you serve a less captious public. None the less, to raise £1,500 or more is a task of uncommon difficulty.
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West Cumberland News 
