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her—in the simplest of white muslin frocks with a famtly tinted lilac sash and neck

ribbon. Over her shoulders 1s a lace fichu reaching m long cnds to her feet. You

forget for an instant about wooden joints and painted cheeks; and, pecring beneath her coal-scuttle bonnet, look cagerly for the fair and scrious face that goes along with this Puritan maiden. What a bewitch- mg thing this poke bonnet is, too, of rich ycllow stmw trimmed with an artist’s cyc for colour, in severe lines of purple ribbon tying under the demure chin! Was Miss Arnold’s name Priscilla or Dorothy, and werc all the young dandices sighing for this charming lady, and did she get lovc lctMs and verses anout broken hearts and Cupid by the score ?

How absurd 1t seems that such an idea should be cvoked by a com-

mMon twopenny PDutch doll, and how some people vill wcoff; but 1

deslare that there s rometinngnoteasily defimale about this voung o creature which would touch the least senti- riental of persons, There are, as we have seen, several hetle tables and chairs covered in sitlk and chinty, and some fasci- nating tiny bead trinkets and little crystal tca services of the kind sold in boxes some

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twenty years ago, but which are very difficult to procure nowadays. One of these services, set out upon a tiny table, is here wlnuu]tcd 'T'he two ladics who are standing at the table arc Madame Proche Brocard as Sh(, dppuucd in the ballet of “Kenilworth” in 1831 and Madame Zephyrine Galebstie (3 8)

This, I think, cnds my pleasant task, though a word of mention must be made of asmall white satin - cradle, made f{rom a cardboard box, containing {lllOthCl sct of twins, perhaps the little Rothesays (86); and of 1 numerous variety of satin quilts edged with lace, and silk and satin cushions, no doubt uscd for the drawing-room sofas.

But the best of deseriptions could not convey any idea of the rich colourced silks and satins of the

robes, or of the cunning needle art which has bheen cxpended upon their embellish- ment, or of the delicate fancy which has been

cmployed with the happiest results. 1 would that every doll-lover, big and

httle, uct a aglimpse of the charming play- things which made happy the child- hood of her

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who 15 endeared to her sul)Jc(ts as a good wife, a good mother, and a wisc and u\umplaly 1ulu. Frances H. Low,

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