The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-02-03
DOLLS DAY AT
HOWL LANDS is
THIS SATURDAY
Great Preparations. Are Be
ing Made for Annual
Event Prizes for All
Kinds of Dolls.
Special Prizes for Small
Town School Exhibits
Every Girl Bringing Her
Doll to Store On Saturday
Receives a Pattern.

Saturday will mark a big day in
| the world Of little girls for that IS
the date set for the registration Of the
dolls for the annual Dolls Festival at
the Rowland Dry Goods Co.
| This festival was inaugurated just
8 wear ago and was SO overwhelmingly
successful that the store has decided
to repeat it. Thousands of doliies
, were brought by loving little mothers
and placed in the great festival. The
store gave up a great space on one
of its floors entirely to the dolls
where they could be shown to their
best advantage and hundreds and
hun drads Of people crowded the store
/ during the week that followed the
opening OF the Festival and cast votes
for what they considered the hand
soonest doll tn chest dressed doll
and fork thirteen different dolls IN all
At the end Of the week the great
pile of votes was counted and beau
tifuls prizes awarded the dolls that
received the largest number.
The Dolls Festival created a stir
throughout the city which was not
/ limited to the little girls by any
/ neans Everyone was interested n
it, Then, too. it brought out
1 number of the most interesting char
acter and historical dolls which few
knew existed in the city before the
Festival
t Each small girl who brings her
doll to the store on Saturday will be
given a paper pattern for a dolls XII
/ mona dress and for a dolls apron
| with full direction for making. She
/ viii also be entitled to a copy of
/ Little Mother.
Practically every kind Of doll
win be provided for in the many diff
i ferent classes for " 1ich prizes are
i<szsH
IN each class and the classes are
j handsomest doh, MOST, stylish doll,
cutest rag doll best historical doll,
/ best dressed dol Quaintest doll, best
character doll. best past fashion doll
i most lfelike doll, homellest doll, best
doll hair dressing and best nniElinered
/ doll. There Will be three special
/ prizes for the dolls that best repre-
4 sent the fashion OF the winter Of
i 1914. Special prizes will also be
i awarded for the biggest doll. the old
est don, the latest DOH ana the
i representing any race or nation, Mex
lean. Turkish Eskimo, Chinese. IN
dian, Dutch or no matter what Here
Is chance for any little girl whose
mother or father or grandmother or
Il grandfather lived in some other coun-
try to represent the dress of the men
and women Of that country on a dolI
and perhaps win q beautiful prize for
it.
Besides All the prizes already men
toned. the store has decided to add
some special ones One is OF par
tiruiar interest TO school girls In
i toEVns near Bridgeport no the school
which makes the best exhibit q hand
some gift, Wprthy or place IN the
Il assembly room or reception hall win
pc presented This offer is not open
to Bridgeport schools. but any school
of Milford. Hartford, Fairfield or any
4 town may compete.
prize viii be awarded the best
don dressed entirely by the girl who
enters il for, composition. The store
i girls not to enter IN this class anv
doll dressed by some one else
4 The best exhibit OF a doll in a car
4 rage will also receive al prize the
doll and the carriage being counted
aedually in determining the win
liner.
j The prizes viii not be limited 10
4 dolls either. for any little girl NAV
i enter her favorite Teddy Bear Or
4. Jocko or Bunny for a special prize
lis to. be given the best play animal
and the store is preparing to have d
i great many of them in the exhibit
A grand prize will be given the
doll that receives the largest number
of votes no matter to what class ii
belongs
The prizes for the first twelve
classes and for the winter OF 1914
q fashion dolls win be determined tby
the vote Of the people who visit the
q Festival The other prizes will i,e
awarded by a committees of newspa,-
per people.
OF course this is going to be the
y greatest doll show ever held at any
time or place and OF course everyone
Is going to see it, little or big and Cd
and young, ana everyone lis going to
take part in it, too, either-by placing
their do1lies in the Festival or by
e voting for the doll or some little cir
who has paced hers in it,