Evening star., 1922-08-10
VELYN, the beautiful and be-
- loved child of Katharine Finch

- vELYN, the beautiful and be-
X loved child Of Katherine Finch.
aged ten, won the first prize at
the doll show which was held
in the pavilion of the Bloomingdale
playground, LIST and Bryant streets
northwest, yesterday afternoon at 4
o'clock. Evelyn is a truly lovely doll
with great brown eyes and long,
silky, brown curls. Her proud little
! in the fall, beamed and held her gold
red head very high when told that
her doll had won the prize for the
prettiest doll, and she patted the
glossy long curls with true motherly
tenderness. She was also proud of
the set of three pieces Of beautiful
silver furniture. with red cushions,
for her prospective dollhouse. Kath-
crime said she hadn't any dollhouse.
but she was going to make one to put
her furniture in.
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THE second prize, which was given
i to the little girl having the best
dressed doll on the playground, was
awarded to little Ellen de Betten-
court, who is in the high first grade
at school and lisps a little, because
some of her tooth space is still vacant
of its second supply of ivories.
Ellen's doll had beautiful pink
satin dress with ruffies on it-just
the kind Of dress any little girl
would like to find on a Christmas
,, dolly. Ellen said that her mother
carefully pressed it out SO Elizabeth
could be just as fresh and sweet
l. tt~t. 1, in
out party. Ellen's big brown eyes
grew wistful as she softly brushed
the golden hair out of her dolly's big
eyes, and she said:
Il wish she was a real baby"
But a little boy standing near. sew
eral years EllenS senior, announced
in most scornful, matter-of-fact
voice, Jaw, no. you don't. We've got
one at our house that is real and
about that size. and L tell you she is
some trouble
tI TITLE MARY BAIR, who goes to
l. the high sixth grade in Septem-
ber, won the third prize. given
Japanese doll. which was dressed
| very tastefully in a black satin
! kimono. embroidered in orange. She
| had two coQuettishly arranged
orange chrysanthemums over her
ears in true Japanese fashion.
| 1t was really very hard for the
| judges to decide which We're the dolls
| to receive the prizes, there were SO
many there which were carefully and
attractively dressed. Many nation
alities were represented.
One little girl had doll which
| she had dressed as Russian peas
ant. She was overheard to confide
to another little girl. I've had this
child seven years and she has never
given me bit of trouble" The
child herself wasn't day over nine.
There was another Russian doll
dressed with glittering golden
tiara headdress and strings of beads
over her satin gown.
There was an awfully cute little
Dutch doll. dressed in delft blue and
white. and Hester Wriket had a
French doll that was approved by all
the young citizens present as a
regular vamp." 1t was a splash
me doll, dressed in a marvellous crea
ton of pink silk and black velvet
in a striped effect. A cleverly tilted
black velvet toque and emerald and
pearl earrings completed the cos
tune. This doll was quite one of
the sensations Of the program.
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THERE were nearly $50 parents
i and friends Of the anxious lit
tie mothers present at the doll
show and the boys were not notable
by their absence in spite of the
fact that only one boy dared ex;
hibit a doll.
He was little Leonard Lobred, who
brought with him Bill charmingly
grotesQue clown-doll dressed in blue
and white. Bill wasn't Leonard's ia
vorite doll. but his favorite wa:I
much too dirty for any show, and SO
Bill had to substitute in Leonard's
affections temporarily. He won hon
orable mention.
Leonard himself wasn't any bigger
than some of the dolls present. In
fact his. legs were still so unsteady
that he sat down rather abruptly
several times in the course of the
parade from the grove where the
dolls were assembled and numbered
to the pavilion. Florence Cockerille
1ne of the older girls, played a
march for the procession of about
thirty little girls and their dolls.
Miss Evelyn Howard of Alexandria,
director of the playground, was in
charge of the exhibition.
A large number of small boys took
the exhibition very seriously-quite
as seriously as the little girls them
selves and. although they didn't care