The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-29
MRS. CRAWFORD JOHNSON Home Portraiture by the Stephenson Studio

What feminine creature ever gets too old to love a doll?
 There is no denying it. Dolls may seem to be unintelligent, unimaginatiye ad- juncts to Christmas, but they are not
 Why, dolls, if they only continue to prove themselves the safest receptacles for secrets ever invented will justify their manufacture.
 You can tell a doll anything. One of the most appealing stories that ever heard was told me the other day by girl who said that all her life she had heard of Miss Selina," a certain TO- mantle figure who lived in the same small town that her grandmother lived in.
 As little girl she had been told about Miss Selinas doll, ''Rowena." 1 Somehow she never saw the doll. and the years passed and Miss Selina grew older and grayer (the girl herself moved away) and still she lived in the great house where her forefathers had lived, and always "Rowena" was with her. Miss Seinas friends who went abroad would often bring "Rowena' gifts, and Miss Selina frequently gave her parties, " to which she would invite all the little girls in town and tell them to bring their .dollies."
 "Rowena" entertained, It was more often the children from the byways and hedges that were told that ''Rowena" wanted them to come, and so .sRowena" became very real character in the little village.
 t,l tnf1 up to spend month at my old home, and the first thing did was to go to see Miss Selina Of course all the time 1 was laughing to myself about "Rowena,' whom I imagined to be just a joke-an amusing sort of thing that merely ante dated the Teddy Bear craze, an amusing sort of thing that merely antedated the Teddy Bear craze, and things like, that, When I was ushered into Miss Selina's presence, on the sofa beside her sat the ancient rag doll, 'Rowena, and real ized that Rowena' wasn't a Joke but reality. More than rag doll'-a com panion, confdante and d friend Don't you see she loved the rags and the bone and the hank of her better than anything in the world? This dear old spnster loved | 'Rowena like other people love flesh ane blood"
 "How odd' exclaimed.
 .'Yes people call her odd and queer and all that sort of thing,' said the girl | but I saw only lonely old lady. who's, love even for that rag doll who had beer her closest friend when she was child that had grown old with her, and seer how very few real friends she had, hat been diverted into channels that had mad, other people happy. l don't think any woman is to be pitied exactly who has companion like Rowena, even if tha person is old and worn and crippled ul with rheumatism. There's nothing lik' something to love-
 T think so, too,H was all said.
 Somehow the story sort of stayed witt me" and l thought what clever To of women that little band is who have hi upon such happy idea as the Roll Bazar which they are giving next week, for tn benefit of the Holy Innocents Hospta for Children.
 There's nothing so sweet in life as chil dren and dolls. and if these good womel had thought for years of q plan whicl would interest every body in behalf of thi worthy charity they could have foun none better than this Doll Bazaar, fo everybody loves dolls
 I met Mrs. Crawford Johnson fe' minutes later.
 Busy. enthusiastic, brimming over wit