FAIRY DOLL’S HOUSE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4506, 20 December 1922, Page 1

FAIRY DOLL’S HOUSE.

TO GO ON TOUR IN ENGLAND. A WONDERFUL PALACE. Titania’s Palace, a doll’s house, which is' to be the chancery of the Order of the Fairy Kiss, will start on a motor tour through England shortly. Sir Neville Wilkinson, Ulster King of Arms, who has designed the palace, decorated it, and filled it with all its miniature gems of art, explained the purpose of the new Order. Hitherto the universal interest of children in fairyland has led to nothing tangible, he explained, and it was desiired to create an Order, the little members of which shall be encouraged to take an interest in the welfare of less fortunate children, the poolr, the neglected, and the crippled. The funds raised by the exhibition, of the palace, will be divided between the National Society fpr the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Waifs’ and Strays’ Society. The Queen formally opt nod the fairy palace with a gold key of fairy proportions' and showed the greatest interest in it.

In beauty and richness of decora,tion few real palaces can exceed this gem of .miniature art. The hall pl the Fairy Kiss has a floor composed of 2000 pieces of inlay and a silver renaissance doorway. Among the treasures in the boudoir are a screen made of Persian playing cards presented by the Shall, and a stool carved from one of the piles of the submerged lake dwellings which were laid bare in the Lake of Geneva during the great drought of 1921. A model motor car, a model perambulator, and a visitors’ book with the autograph of the Queen bn a page no larger than a postage stamp are among the other interesting objects in the palace, which covers about 60 square feet, and is 3ft high.