Evening star., 1935-12-22
Her Time, Talent, Money
Are Given to Youngsters
Childless, Wife of Retired Railroad Man
Devotes Her Literary Earnings to 1ndi-
vidual Tribute to Children.

tells. "and afterward was almost hor-
rified at my nerve. What If they
should be worthless? But only u Of
them proved to be problem children
The unlucky 70 had impossible feetI
At a loss, I dipped into my box of
materials and succeeded in hiding the
deficiencies under voluminous paja-
mas. I hope" she adds with her
bubbling humor, "that everybody else's
problem children turn out as we'll"
On the heels of the 800 came 210
more tiny dolls, both serious and
comic, as the gift of a firm in her
own community. Then came a prom
ise of $50 to be made and dressed in
full regalia as small replicas of their
makers, the Pasadena Camp Fire
Girls, who, incidentally, will inherit
Mrs. McCabe's leftover materials
after Christmas.
EIFTY more were to come from
members of the Shakespeare Club,
twenty from girls in day nursery
and several from an old ladies' home.
Dozens more are yet to come from
! friends, acquaintance and persons in
America and abroad who have caught
the spirit radiated by the Lady of the
Dolls
Numbers have arrived already from
England, Japan, China, Germany,
Mexico, Labrador and Alaska. Some
have come from nationally and inter-
nationally famous persons. Alongside
the cuddly cloth babies which the
Lady of the Dolls has cut, Sewed
stuffed, painted and dressed herself,
stand Mickey and Minnie Mouse re-
splendent in velvet and satin, the per-
sonal gift of Walt Disney; rotund
pickaninny from DR.. Lee De Forest.
father of radio; immaculate row of
quintuplets given by Alice Ames Win
ter and gorgeous Chinese doll espe-
cially selected for Mrs. McCabe in
China by Princess Der Ling.
On Christmas day the dolls, from
tiny things that snuggle into the
chubby hands of 2-year-olds to life
size baby dolls, will blossom from the
limbs of three towering deodars on
the McCabes' front lawn, and all the
children in the city will be invited to
see them. Under the trees will cavort
the clowns: miniature boys and girls
will romp and play drop the hand
kerchief"; beach girls will fiaunt their
brilliant f1nery, and wee babies will
look on with wide eyes.
None Of the dolls will be given away
at the house, but on Christmas night
they will be plucked like so many
flowers, packed according to their tags
and sent to orphans, crippleS and sick
children in 20 institutions and to un-
derprivileged little folks in and out OF
Pasadena through the agencies of the
Community Chests and Christmas
Mothers.
SCHOOL children from several COM
munities in a 30-mile radius are
to be brought to see the display, their
teachers have told the Doll Lady.
And If it rains, Wen just move in
DOORS" she says with the f1nality of
one to whom obstacles are only q
challenge. The combination of ORR
entail rugs and muddy feet holds no
| terrors for her.
We'll stretch canvas over the rugs,
arrange the dolls from parlor to patio
and march the children straight
| through the house.
She solves the problem with ges-
ture. Furthermore, she announces,
there is to be puppet show in the
afternoon.
| Everything, indeed. that Mrs. NC
Cabe undertakes appears perfectly