The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-12-21
SCORES or CHILDREN CHARMED
BY FRENCH DOLLS PARTY

fRENCH DOLLS PARTY II
down the chimney and the stockings
hanging up ready for his visit. A few
yards away . wonderful Christmas
tree stood all tinsel and gold and
bright red BELLS It must have been
midnight, my dears, or whatever time
il is when dolls wake to life and fairy
heroies come forth in gay array for
they laughed and danced and made
merry until You and / caught the
contagion of their happiness and were
young, oh. very very young once
again.
Now, l don't mean to be partial
to single one Of these lovely charac-
tiers, but az it was the French Dolls
debut and Shower" was given her
I really must mention her first Of ALL
The French Doll was Eleanor Ball
and she came forth from . great big
lovely box, all lined with pink satin,
such as Paris used to offer in those
days before the war spoiled every
thing and you thought Of La Belle
France with its gay, courageous peo-
pie, its brave soldiers and its SPLEEN
did women and perhaps, in the midst
of all your happiness, you shed one
little briny tear for the little children
all over the continent who will be
fatherless on Christmas day. But
this is not to be sad story at all,
only I can't help thinking, but then
maybe you are not old enough to trou-
BILE about such things and perhaps I
am a very unkind person to remind
you Of these things just at Christ
mas only can't help it when there is
so much sadness in this great big
world. And must asq you when you
go to church on Christmas day to Of
fer just one little prayer for these
sorrowful ones.
Dear, dear Christmas children, it
seems 1 simply can not stick to the
point, or at least one of the points
of this story, when am sad and glad
all at the same time.
Your goodness and generosity, for
tunate children of Pensacola, has
made me happy, so very happy and
/ am sure the children to whom you
gave will each may wish that your
Christmas be merrier this year than
it ever has been before.
Returning to the French Doll, how
! ever, she came forth from her box,
opened her lovely blue eyes, and
shook her golden curls in the most
adorable way. She was truly lovely
in her little handmade lace frock
and pink ribbons and the dearest hat
with blue bow and pink strings to
tie under her chin, and everybody fell
in love with her on the spot. You
know, I told you they would.
Well, well, we the Funny Clown
showed that he could 'tcome back. Il
do love slang) And it was perfectly
proper for Benjamen Robinson to
play that part again for clowns don't
make debuts. Whoever heard Of such
a thing? Being a boy he couldn't
very well make debut, but he
couldn't have been any more popular
than he was. He not only "came
back" but he "kept things going",
and people laughed until they had
to hold their sides. And then they
laughed some more when they saw
Elizabeth Aiken, who was Mother
Goose, and she was the funniest
Mother Goose I evs- saw, but she
was pretty just the same. Did you
know that I shall have to send you to
another school besides The Institution
for the Cultivation of a Sense OF
Humor that told you about before.
shall have to send you to a Beauty
4 School.
/ If you didn't know Mother Goose
could be beautiful you did know that
fairies had to be beautiful and the
fairies at the French Doll party were
| the loveliest and the cunningest ever
saw. Their names were Mary Rog-
ers Mitchell and Myra Frank Kaplan,
and thew dancea so gracefully and
their little fluffy skirts
i pretty motions as they walked that
i wished I were fairy too. Their
i queen was "Tottie" Claire Whiddon,
] the tiniest child Of all but one with
the most bewitching ways, and she
could touch things with her fairy
wand and make them come to life
and she walked Sleeping Beauty just
in time for her to meet Prince
Charming. Weren't you madly jealous
Of them both? But when you found
out Prince Charming was girl-you
knew she was too beautiful all the
time to be boy anyway-you found
some comfort in the situation.