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Paper dolls, tea
sets and little girls
Paper dolls. My
little Suzy Myrtle has been introduced to paper dolls and spends hours with them
and all of their little clothes. She has "families" of paper dolls. She is real
aware of the "family" thing and loves to hear stories about "when you were
little," so she can compare the two of us. We have talked about paper dolls
quite a lot lately as she has more than one set now.
She received a beautiful Valentine card from her
great-grandmother and I had the pleasure of
punching out the dolls and their clothes. It took me back to when I had them,
only there was no punch-ing them out of perforated pages a hundred years ago. We
had to cut everything (dolls, clothes and accessories) with scissors. Sometimes
the little flaps were accidentally cut off and we would have to reinforce them
with tape (if we had any) or probably with the flour and water paste we always
used. I wonder if children know about flour and water paste. Heck, I wonder if
their parents do!
Where is the law that says you have to go to the store
and buy paste because that is the only stuff
that works? Flour and water paste was wonderful and you could make a cup of it
or a teaspoonful,
depending on how much stuff you were going to be pasting.
If you were real lucky and got last year's Montgomery
Ward or Sears catalogue the sky would be
the limit and the clothes you could give your doll would keep you busy forever!
We didn't dare forget to cut some tabs right along with the clothes, or they
wouldn't work.
I see up at Casey's they have wooden paper dolls. I'm
very fascinated by them and as soon as I think she is responsible enough to have
a set, I think she will get one or two. Might need a spare in case
"someone" wants to play paper dolls with her.
She received her first tea set a couple of years ago
and it was china. It was also a little early and I'm not sure how much of it has
survived. One day she was going through the "Nana when you were little did you
have" thing and as she was talking about things children have these days she
mentioned a tea set and I said one more "no" then I remembered having a tea set.
"Wait," I said, "I did have a tea set!" She was so excited and I had a good
memory to share with her. She is just growing too fast. Next year is
kindergarten then she will become a woman of the world and the hugs will get
fewer and fewer. Maybe.
Granddad has to be pretty quick these days to just
plant a kiss on her head, unless of course she wants something. Then the head
leans to him to do as he will.
She refused to eat the marshmallow-filled chocolate
Valentine heart we gave her saying she wouldn't eat it because it had cotton in
it! Nothing any of us said could convince her otherwise so her "old
cotton-eating grand-daddy" ate it. That suited her just fine.
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