The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-17
Dolly Meets The Wonder Dolls"

1NoR weeks and weeks I've been lH waiting for The Wonder
 Dolls" to arrive those oeauti- ful big real" dolls which The Age Herald is now giving every little girl in Alabama the chance of owning. and had anticipated something very wonderful.
 But listen boys and girls, like the Queen of sheeba, the ha'f hsd not been told"
 When the lovely doiIs wore being ''unpacked"-taken out Of their great big boxes-and plaeol 'n ,ina for US to see, l just couldn't believe my own eyes. Dolls, dolls. dolls--of every kind and every description; blonde dolls and brunette dolls, long. curly haired dolls and "bobbed" -haired dolls; blueeyed dolls and browne eyed dolls-all walking" and talking saying Mama" and papa" just as plainly and distinctly as your little CiIl or mine could say 1t. Santa Claus must have adored the first Christmas some few snort years ago, when The Wonder Dolls,s Bill lie Boy" and Sonny" and Peggy" and Betty" and Peach Blossom and Jill" made their bow to fairyland. and while Santa Claus is a believer in fairies. "even as you and I' ho could not understand where these lovely human" looking dolls came from and who originated them ana why.
 You and l have been wondering, too, l dare say, just as hard as Santa Claus wondered, and so not ever be- | ir1ey ba Ca In tom of anything, I set about to find out the origin of The Wonder Doll" The story is pretty one, of hope. of despair of suffering, and of de- termination to win in spite of afflic- tion and severe handicaps-and re- verts back to six years ago when out in Portland, Oregon, sweet-faced, gentle woman, Georgene Hendren Averill, who spent long solitary, mis- erable days lingering her crutehes, in her invalid chair wondered how she q live in spite of her great affliction. | Because you see, the doctors had told her that she could never walk again.
 For six long months Mrs. Averill worried and worried over the verdict of the doctors-the only respite she had from her own suffering being 1 the walls and the moans of little baby voices which were waited to her from l the children's ward in the hospital just across the corridors.
 Mrs Ayerill then and there learned l the very first lesson of life, which is | this: In order to be happy. you must 1 make somebody else happy. And so l her delft fingers began to get busy. | She sent out and bought tiny doll and she dressed it, beautifully, and the head nurse took it across the hall | to the children's ward
 And what do you suppose hap pened?
 For the first time since Mrs Averill had been at the hospital the moans and the cries from the little baby voices across the corridor ceased her doll had done the work.
 .There. she said, q have found 1 happiness; l will dress dolls for sick, suffering little babies
 And she did, with this result
 The Wonder Doll" which The Age | Herald is giving every little girl in Alabama a chance to own, is the ac- complishment of years of work and study and planning and ari anglng on the part of Mrs. Averill until today it has become a gigantic business, and the name of Madame Georgene" Cher nom de plume in the Doll world), is known from one end of Toyland to the other.
 Mrs. Averill is the, third largest doll manufacturer in America today. and Made in America" is stampeds on every doll. from Virginia Dare,' who was her first born, even until Peg gy' and Sonny"
 When you pick up sonny or Betty" and feel their soft little bodies, just like a real baby's body so pliable and "cuddling won der how on earth material could have been wrought from which these "Wonder Dolls" were made so human.
 All the big doll manufacturers told Mrs Averill it couldn't be done: that l only "cork" or "compositlon- bodied" doll could be popGler, but