Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — A Tiny Christmas Tree [ARTICLE]

A Tiny Christmas Tree

A TINT flr tree of symmetrical shape and only two and half feet high was chosen for my little girl’s doll’s Christmas tree, says a writer In the Woman's Home Companion. This was easily planted in a flowerpot and established upon a large table in the living room. Tiny candles were fastened upon the branches, a ten cent bunch of tinsel was sufficient for draping and a further outlay for the small colored glass ornaments added to the gorgeousness. The main Idea is to keep everything on a miniature scale while duplicating tor the beloved doll children the gifts that usually fall to the small mother. So it was that tiny dolls were dressed; tiny fancy boxes were filled with tiny candies, others contained wee handkerchiefs embroidered with smallest of initials; here hung a hand mirror, there a nursing bottle, tiny fans, a lovely set of cups for the tea table, a small bird In a gilt cage, a new pet kitty, and so on. Ten cent stores yielded most of the treasures. On the morning of Christmas my alght-year-old was shown her old dollies, each radiantly dressed, and was told that their tree was ready below atairs. The Joy and delight at the alght were charming to behold, and the blissful apportionment of gifts began. 'As each arriving playmate rolled in her new dolly “to show what I’ve got,” onvy and pride reflected upon the faces of the visitor and visited, only to be dispelled by “there Is something on the tree for your dolly.”