Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1951 — Page 5

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A Present

Is Better

Than Cash

N many cases, few gifts are more acceptable and suitable than money. But unless some thought is given to the way it is presented, such a gift becomes too imper= sonal.

Actually, money can be presented as originally and gracefully as a frivolous bed jacket or a satin evening bag. In general, it's better to give cash than checks, and new bills fresh from the bank are more appropriate. Use a little imagination when presenting the gift. For example, a money clip with the name engraved could “e given to the man of the house. For the lady, a handbag could carry the cash present. Finally, the junior member of. the family could be given a bank with money in it, else, a savings accouft can take away the cold character of money and in the long run, have more value than actual cash.

Perfume Adds Fragrant Note

A ¥fragrant note can be added. to Yuletime festivities with a gift of cologne, perfume or sachet. Solid cologne, designed especially to fit into the handbag, answers the need for fragrance touchups which are so important to the fastidious woman at al daytime and evening functions. . Charm the woman on your Christmas list with this version of her favorite perfume or cologne.

Tiny Gifts Score Hit in Stockings

Tiny gifts make big impressions when they're packaged as stocking stuffers or tree-hang-ers. This year’s Christmas novel-

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F. Callahan, A. H. Huber and Mary M. Zried (left to right)

tie gifts for the annual Christmas party the St. Vincent's Hospital Guild will give Dec. 15 in the nurses home auditorium at the hospital. Two hundred children will be entertained at the event.

. The-Mature Parent—

Every Rule Has Exceptions

By MURIEL LAWRENCE

HE red taffeta “formal” has been worn

only twice.

When the front door bell rings, she yells excitedly from upstairs, “I can’t

find your fur coat, mother!”

We call, “It's in my closet staring you in the face,” and open the door to the boy in the dinfier

we are a little jealous of the joys that lie ahead of her, waiting to be experienced. GS BECAUSE WHAT we have done is neither kind nor wise. If thi8 nation saw fit to amend its Constitution to the changing needs of its people, we should not consider ourselves weak and ineffective parents if we occasionally amend ® home

= Custom of Giving - ‘Dolls as Presents

Dates to 4000 B.C.

ON Christmas morning, 1951, there'll be millions of dolls under the Christmas trees. But the custom of giving dolls is thousands of years older than Christmas and will last as long as there are children.

Little Aztec and Inca children carried their dolls when they went out to greet the Spanish conquerors. Montezuma, their Emperor, treasured a fabulous collection of dolls of his own. The Egyptian paddle .doll of 4000 B, C., one of the earliest known, was a crude wooden puppet whittled in the shape of a canoe paddle. It had stubby arms but no legs—so it couldn't

run away.

The hair of these dolls was fashioned of thick strings of beads-—an ancient counterpart of today’s ultra-real Sweet Sue whose silky long. coiffure, includes her own seperate matching chignon, ‘ Egyptian buried dolls in tombs so the: dead would not be lonely. Greek girls offered their dolls in the temple of Diana the night before their weddings. In England, a black doll hung outside a store de-

noted a “dolly shop.” where the '

poor could pawn their meager possessions for a few pennies. » ” ” ‘ON THE PRAIRIES of America Indian girls played with homemade dolls of raw-

hide and carved bone with buf-

falo tail hair. Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first commercially made doll to America in 1583—300 years after the first doll factory opened in Germany. " Although ships carrying a cargo of dolls were traditionally spared by the pirates infesting the seas, imported dolls were far too expensive for most American children. Yankee ingenuity turned out its own dolls in the centuries between Raleigh's visit and the development of today’s great doll factories. Hepzibah Pyncheon sold the popular “Penny Wooden} in her cent shop in the House of the Seven Gables, made famous by

the latest fasMions. These were exhibited at gala receptions and a steep admission charged. The “Mama” doll was invented in 1825, About 100 years later, the world's*first all-rub-ber doll, “Toodles,” was introduced in New York. Toodles’ inventor, Jacob Brock, estimates’ that the first dozen cost him more than $50,000 to make. -. Brock’s other pioneering ventures in the doll field have included Tiny Tears, the doll that cries real, wet tears just like a real baby. ; In our own day dolls have increased in popularity as modern production methods have made them cheaper. The poet Eugene Field, Queen Marie of Rumania, and Queen Victoria were noted collectors. Queen Wilhelmina owns a magnificent collection presented by her subjects. ” n 8 BILLIKEN, A DROLL {mp designed in 1908 by a Chicago art student, was the first bestseller in American dolldom. An echo of Billiken, who grimaced from.a oorner of almost every home in the United States, is found in Sonny Boy, today's psychiatrist-OK'd doll for little guys. The doll business has been a major: industry since time began. But since 1914 when hostilities cut off the European supply, know-how to making dolls available to all children rather than to the lucky few. Doll sales this Christmas will, manufacturers estimate, reach the multi-million dollar mark and make about 37,000,000 children happy when they come downstairs on Christmas morning.

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law to fit a special need of children. | Sagining u ties include such items as lip- jacket. She comes flying down Some time ago, I sat in on a hearing of a lew Nudherant i Appointed ] rest of the stick concealed by a gay bell the stairs and as he slips our case in New York City’s Family Court. When a of cast iron, dolls with corn- Miss Hazel Wessel has been covering: cologne hidden in a fur coat over her shoulders, husband ‘protested a ruling that increased his husk and walrus skin bodies; appointed chief dietitian of jer his com- party snapper and nail polish we say, “Remember, you two, allotment to a separated wife and child, the dolls stuffed with bran and Methodist Hospital, replacin your Christ- on a merry-go-round horse. we expect Jill home no later gavel was rapped sharply on the bench. shavings, their heads whittled pital, replacing e gift can be Atmosphere rolls right out of = than 1:30.” Leaning across it, the white-haired Judge from Vermont maple, were Miss Ruth Madsen who has rerake it a lux- every one of these novel pack- The radiance in two young said, “Young man, this court decides on the af- typical. ' signed. hing that will ages. faces goes out like a lamp in fairs of human life. As human life is not static, . 8 2 Miss Wessel, a graduate of the very time he the wind. She cries, “Oh, but undergoes changes the justice of this court ONLY DURING the past University of Minnesota, has mother, please—just tonight! adjusts to change in human affairs. half-century have dolls been - been an assistant in the departJ {ousecoat Make it 2:30. It’s our first big eS made to look like children. Pre- ment for nine years. She is a P . . party! Oh, mother...” YES, I KNOW our youngsters sometimes try viously they were called “little -member of Indiana and Ameri- \ Frisms From the chair across the : to exploit leniency in date deadlines. But the an- ladies” (the word “doll” came can Dietetic Association. ystal candle- room where her father is Mrs. Lawrence swer is not in maintaining the inflexible dead- Into general use in 1899) and Administrative heads at the tinkling reading the paper comes the line, but clearly defining the exception we are Miniature grown-ups. hospital entertained in honor in-dry meth- welcome, supporting baritone, “You heard what making to the rule. Each year Paris sent out of Miss Madsen yesterday with sth time 354 your mother said, Jill. Get aléng and stop We would have been kinder and wiser to say collections of dolls dressed in a luncheon. : ian arguing . .. .” to Jill at the door, “Now I am extending your | * % ° deadline to 2:30 tonight, because I want you to SO THE door closes and the two young crea- have as much of this fun as you can. 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