| Show r f f V- V teem BONNER a TOYS AND DOLLS One story has haa reminded me of another another another an an- other commenced Daddy The Th other oth oth- er w day In to a big L I museum where all aU sorta sorts of old and quaint things anito areto are ani to be seen seen there was wa a special 1 exhibition ex ax- of dolla dolls and toys toy An Aa exhibition as aa you yon know Is II something put on view for as us toss tose An exhibition of pigs at a county fair tall means means that there are pigs being boIng be bo ing fag exhibited or being shown With Her Dear Deal Or r there t ere ma may ay w be an exhibition a D Dot Little Mother of ot drawings from I the drawing class cla In n school choo I But nut this exhibition was of old old toys and dolls I About four thousand years rears ago aro there lived an Important and noble gentleman who thought it would be Interesting In ln- to have everything he Pe e owned copied l Into Into a toy So the boat that he be went forth fortha a a sailing In was copied The animals he owned were all copied Into little toys too so BO were his children and andaU andall andall all aU the things that were a part of ot his life lite too Every day h he be would watch his cattle cat tie tle go by and he had a toy made showing show show- showing ing himself sitting and gazing gulag upon the cattle as they went went just by just by-just Just such auch sucha a toy as you will see today of a whole circus only more Interesting And these tope tos se seemed med more am am Ing lag and were so 80 beautifully made When I say that he had his children children chil chil- dren copied Into toys I mean that Instead Instead Instead In In- stead of having their pictures taken as al people would do these days he had little toys toya made which looked just like his children Just as though I had some toy maker come and make a little figure to look exactly like Ilke Nick or exactly like Nancy Nancy and and yet It would be a toy doll I And then he be had a toy copy made of at the kitchen boat that used to go alongside the boat he was In and end at mealtime It t would come up closer and the kitchen workers would pass over the meals All All of ot this was copied in toys There were toy copies made of ot both boats you rou see when see when close T r 1 and of the figures in the boats Oh wonderful toys these were of so many many many years ago and for a great great reat many years year these treasures were hidden in the ground When I saw these toys I thought at once of taking you both to see them soon and well we'll go just as ns soon as ever we can Both the children were were delighted for tor they wanted tOlee Just how these old old toys were toys were made And as I 1 said Daddy continued the story I had bad to tell yo you of of the dolls doUa and toys toya reminded me of ot the I little tittle girl who was u sick She had bad been sick for quite a long time And her dolly felt so badly that she too had been en sick She had been In ID the bed with her ber dear little mother and she had been very quiet and vel very still as she did not want to disturb her mother And then Ulen of course she did not feel well herself Oh no she didn't feel teel well when her d darling a r 11 n I little tittle mother wasn't well But Bat one day her mother began to feel much bet ter and the doctor said She Is le so 0 much b better sh she can can sit out Dut In the ion Iun sun today today to to- day So they ther took tier oer out In the sunshine and she sat eat In a little chair fee feeling II n I quite weak but Out put In the th Sun Sun- oh oh ever eyer and ever shine BO so much better And beside her sat her dolly en en- the tile sunshine too oo For Just as soon as a her mother had bad felt better she had felt suddenly It ae s much better too So together they had been sick Ick and together they got well and Mr Sun did 1211 his Wa work never neTer tear fear fear both both for the 11 little t tie girl and for her beloved dolly And he smiled l more brightly each day a. a as he saw the strength come back to hl his nice little little friend whom he had missed sadly when she had bad been For or she had always been very fond of Mr Sun and he knew It It too tool I |
