The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-07

Lltlle MISS muIIeb WOutu De ain
Something" she would whisper
and then Mother Goose, who is Mrs.
Richard T. Stotlar, would thus put
her at her ease instantly:
There are things for my little
girls around the bottom of my skirt.
Playthings for Mother Goose's boys
are at the top of the hoop
Then Miss Muffet would have
Mother Goose, wearing such cunning
little shoes, being to pirouette while
she anxiously, for her dime invested.
inspected each wrapped parcel on
the pockets.
There's a horn" sang out one lit
tie girl yesterday, who seized it that
instant.
That makes lovely Noise" volun-
teered a bystander.
Yes l know it does" groaned the
mother.
The "one little girl did not hear.
She was already beginning to have
Christmas with the horn; peep
through it with one eve, inspect its
works, and wonder how it got the
whistle" in it,
She was perfectly satisfied TO go
home. For her, the Doll Bazaar had
satisfied the last pinnacle of desire
had even surpassed animated imagi-
nation. She didn't even ask for candy
as She went out.
All Mt Bazaar
1t isn't necessary to be telephoning
anybody at their homes these four
days. Everybody's at the Doll Bazaar.
You can find anything you want
there from ephemeral things to cook
apron. What l mean by that is this:
| found love down there yesterday
beginning with Mrs. c. IL. Nabb. in
whose heart God has placed. it seems.
an oVerabundant share. Major gem
eral of all the hundreds of women
bazaar workers, they love her as
though they were all her girls" She
never not for one tiniest instant
grows impatient over anything, and
they Seek her out for every reason
from that of stern business to giving
her a little pat on the back. And she
well. the thing that best describes
what she Is like, can be told by Just
TINS illustrations: When she was i'll
once at the Hillman hotel which her
husband owned, he one day entered
the room, saying to her, as sb~ rested
upon the bed
Il am going to open the door and
let you take a look into the other
I ~NAA0 nv abtPHtQ TO the door
and opened it, Inside, and even
reaching into third apartment. the
entire place was filled with gor-
geous ARA yof hundreds of bou-
quets of flowers which had been sent
for Mrs Nabb's pleasure They had
come not only from the influenti.
and wealthy citizens of the city, but
even men and women who worked
BY the day, and children had a share
in the offerings.
1t is told of Mrs. Nabb that she
wept at the tribute.
Crowds Waited
AS early as o'clock yesterday
though the bazaar really does not
epen until .. crowds packed the side
walk awaiting to buy. The bazaar
workers were there, many of them.
earlier than that, Mrs. FELTON, VIM
berly holding the record of being the
! first to arrive. The bazar which
does not end until Friday closes
each day at 6 o'clock
Selling things? You ought to seei
Mrs. A. A. Walker, admiral of a
force of dolls that would man a bat
tleship, sold one yesterday for SIS.
No sooner was ii paid for than two
more lovely sleepy eyed bisque aris-
tOti ats stiAiNti " MANI NlllIiStt,
| admiring audience clap soft little
hands, pull upon thei rmother's
skirts and whisper:
"Oh, buy her for mel P-l-e-a-s-e!''
One of these dolls. glittering
grandty in sequins. was Augusta
Ioriedman's gift. A second one was
lovely-as yet-"orphan," dressed
by Mrs Horace Hammond, in pink,
so that any little mistress would
wish her forever. Other smaller
dolls heard about the party and
came, en- masse. Dressed in fetch
ing blue, one doll arrived with the
complimentse of the Fifth Avenu
Presbyterian church. She declared
she would keep on her blue sweater
since the air seemed a little chill.
Dolls Confab
While | was standing there the SO
dolls dressed by the women work
ers of the Siuthside Baptist church
and the 20 dressed by those of the
First Methodist church. gave this
doll and the other later arrivals a
sort OF informal reception, explain
ling to them that they mustn't mind
being stared at and commented upon
because they every one had been.
| out of the crowd they would be
picked out by little girls. or maybe
even by Santa Claus himself, and i
they were whisked away very quick
ly, they mustn't think anything ter
rible was going to happen. 1t meant
| entering into very wonderful lives
where every secret of some child''
heart would be confided to them.
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian dol
said she understood and wished al
| "good-by" in case some of them wen
before she had time to open her lit
tie painted mouth, All the dolls am
Mrs. A. A. Walker were very sad tina
ore doll IN her cradle had cried her