Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — Doll House Library. [ARTICLE]

Doll House Library.

A search for a child’s short story, "The Griffin and the Minor Canon,” in a volume all by itself revealed to a persistent city shopper the thought and money that are expended on the furnishing of dolls’ houses. Book stores had not the story in a single volume, but in a department store one young woman interviewed had recently been transferred from the toy department and was able to contribute a helpful hint. “I think,” she said, "you can find it in one of the dolls’ houses downstairs." Curiosity had by that time become a sauce to literature, so the shopper hurried downstairs to inspect the doll houses. Three of the most expensive houses contained libraries consisting of a score of diminutive books and each book contained a child’s story complete. One of them was "The Griffin and the Minor Canon.”