The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-12-12

are the work of a master Austrian
craftsman
The princess jade bath shimmers
amid walls of carved glass. Crystal
pillars support the ceiling. A grace
full statue stands before a siX-sided
mirror in one wall. Silver cupids,
standing upon the backs of sea-horses,
pour water from the seashells into the
bath. There is perfume cabinet of
solid gold. A balcony on one side
overlooks the precipice outside and one
on the other overlooks the princes Ii
brary.
coIIeen's Biggest Fright.
There is not a room in the entire
house about which pages and pages
could not be written. There is not a
tiny piece without a romantic story
behind it. Everything in it works
the lights, the plumbing, the pipe or
gan. 1t is a maze of intricate parts
miraculously kept in order.
Once the order almost fell. and that
was Miss Moore's biggest scare. Two
hours before a much-heralded preyiew
showing for which Chicago's best So
ciety was to turn out en- maSSe, some
thing went wrong. The lights wouldn't
light; the water works refused to
bring forth water. 1t had taken the
staff Of six persons plus Miss Moore
and her manager, John Hewlett, a
fTJl nj rn cot "a n
600 pieces. 1t appeared that the whole
thing would have to be torn down, but
at the very last minute one of the men
found a loose electrical connection
and solder job gone awry and the
day was saved. The house has never
been late for showing.
Needless to say, Miss Moore and her
father little imagined the expense to
which they were eventually to go
when they started building the castle
Or the trouble.
Even now the castle is not complete.
Miss Moore is always finding new
pieces for it; today she is trying to de-
eide upon a place for a pair of rare
miniature Chinese fire screens. And
the castle is sometime to have a
stable, with stalls for Black Beauty,
Pegasus and other tabled horses, and
a compartment with black glasses, tin
cups and pencils for the Three Blind
Mice.
That will make more work for the
men of the railway express who have
fr-on nd odd hn
toy so carefully, never fitting a pack
age. handling everything more gently
than eggs. The house has travelled 25,-
600 miles without a mishap in transit.
An entire railroad car is required en-
route, and sixteen trucks are necessary
to take it from the station to the place
of exhibit
Birth of an Idea.
Miss Moore conceived the idea Of
exhibiting her doll house several years
ago when she was lying in Los An
geles hospital after breaking her neck
in an accident. She saw many Grip
pied children there and the happy
thought of how she could help them
and their fellow-sufferers everywhere
came to her.
This Is her eighth doll house, and
the only one which has come near her
vision Of perfection. The one peculiar
thing about it is that this gorgeous
castle has no inhabitants-there isn't
a doll In it!
"Oh, but there are!'' says the viva
cious little actress-hobbyist philan-
thropist. There are the fairy inhab-
itants put there by every one who
sees it.
II asked two little children of seven
and eight years what they liked best
in it. One said the little fairy prin-
cess sleeping in the golden bed. The
other said the little elf playing in the
garden.
"In reality there is no princess.
There is no elf. They were put there
by pure imagination. That is the most
charming illusion of the castle Every
onlooker peoples it with characters of
his Imagination. Most people like to
imagine themselves in it To put dolls
in it would ruin the delightful unreal
ity and destroy this beautiful Illusion"
They say there are really fairies
if you believe in 'em.
e Western Newspaper Union.