The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-28


an elegant little aviator doll all
made of bisQue, in his most soldier
ly manner as he looked forward to
one of the best flights" he ever
made.
wonder what those folks look
like over there" ventured a lady
dressed in a gown of navy blue silk
that rustled sumptuously and who
had never before been farther
away from home than the five
blocks between her little mistress
Mary James house to Mary James
best friends house where they had
such wonderful tea parties.
well, l have heard my fathe"
say" spoke up the soldier doll
whose place was at the other end
of the table," and he knows, for he
was a colonel in the Anywhere
he hesitated and all the dolls meek
ly nodded and bent forward to hear
what this brave looking soldier had
to say, for they were very much i'm
pressed by his important manner
and thought that surely colonel
must know everything.
GO on! Tell u.s." chimed in all
the dolls together.
WELL" continued the soldier
doll, my father said that they
have dark skins and large brown
eyes and very white teeth, and that
they are very much like the people
we know here; they laugh and cry
(sometimes) and eat and drink and
sleep just as our masters and mis-
tresses do and they like people
and are kind and very friendly just
like our folks here in Richmond
even if they do live so many, many
miles away That's what my father
said and he was colonel" fin
ished the soldier doll with a final
proud toss of his bra. e head under
its khaki cap.
ooh, goody, goody," cried the
sunbOnnet twins in high glee.
Their bodies were of paper and the
mouth of one of them had been
crayoned a little on the slant, but
their hearts were warm-indeed
all the doll hearts gathered to-
gether in that room were warm
and brave as indeed they ought to
have been, for were not they the
dolls chosen to make the long
talked of trip to new little masters
and mistresses in countries much |
farther away than a day and a /
nights journey.
81 expect to have a lot of fun on
board ship spoke up a large clown
doll as he capered spryly around on
top of the book case in such reck- !
less manner that pretty little t,
miss in a bingham dress and gay !
bonnet gasped in dismay, fearing /
he would dance right off the edge. !
Il expect to dance over all the !!
decks and swing from the very
top of the mast" he finished in his
most ludicrOuS and boaStful man
ner.
Now, do be careful, Ruckels,
you do not want to look all broken
up when you arrive" returned a
charming little lady in gay opera
cloak trimmed with the smoothest
of black fur.
Il for one, would be quite willing
to get there without that long trip
on the ocean," said a fair lady in
lavender rather mournfully. Il do
hope it wont take the starch out OF
my dress and the crimp out of my
hair" and she had some need to
fear for she was made entirely of
paper "a paper sack to begin with
though no one would have known
it, and dress of crinkly crepe pa
per and a spotless apron of stiff
white tissue paper.
Wind and rain, wave and mist.
Never can harm us, we visit"
sang the two black stocking dolls
as they executed very fancy cake
walk on the top of the table where
they stood on exhibition, in such a
manner that every doll !
there laughed out loud-from the
very tiniest doll in it's bright red
dress to the large doll with the real
black hair and the CHEEKY rag doll |;
in blue that sat beside her and