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Show DADDYS evenihg &Yzyy Graham Banner BETTY'S DOLL PARTY Betty Invited her four best friends to come and bring tlielr dolls so that Bhe could have a party. Altogether there were twelve dolls at JLlie party. They tat 0n stiff little chairs and behacd viry well Indeed. In fact non. of them fell on their faces ns sometimes dolls nre apt to do. The little girls stood behind them I and gave them make-believe fond on little dishes. Then when the dolls had finished their tea the little girls had cambric tea. bread and butter and sponge cake, i This wns all served on Betty's little blue and white dishes. Her blue and white painted table was used as. the tea table. The little girls sat on blue and white painted chairs so that everything every-thing matched. After the tea was over Betty suggested sug-gested that they should play their dolls were going to h party which was to be a ery fine and stylish affair. Of jouree the oilier friends had brought over a good many dresses and hats belonging to their dolls for half of the fun was having them dressed and undressed. Ihen they played that their dolls were going to school and they sat them In a row and heard their lessons. les-sons. At recess time they played games with their dolls and when school was out they rang a bell. They had a wonderful time with their make-believe games, and they played until late that afternoon. The dolls didn"t look ns though they minded being dressed and undressed un-dressed so many times, though some of them shut their eyes and went sound asleep whenever they were put down on a chair or the floor. Then they played Hunt the Slipper. Going to Jerusalem or Musical Chairs, : IJA The Little Girls Stood Behind. Here We Come Gathering Nuts In May. Pind the Thimble, and the Virginia Vir-ginia Reel. You can see what a gay and busy afternoon they had. So, after the party was all over the children went off to their different homes with their dolls and as Betty was tucked Into bed that night, the dreams that came were all of doli3 and parties and good times and lovely talks. And the dolls all felt they had really had -a scrumptious, gorgeous, lieautl ful, lovely, delightful, perfect afternoon, after-noon, and as they were put In their different beds that night they all sighed happily and said: It's so nice to be stylish and go to , parties and to have such grand time and such lovely mothers." |