IT HAS JUST EVERYTHING!

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 28, 5 January 1940, Page 34

IT HAS JUST EVERYTHING!

kind of Doll’s House a Doll’s House should be? The kind you’d have if you could -with just EVERYTHING in it? When your Grandmother was a little girl some other little girl must have done just that — imagined and described and begged and pleaded until at last some grown-up (probably her Daddy) set. to work and made her dream come true. He made just the best Doll’s House ever. It was nearly as tall as the little girl herself and not a room was missing. And in every room was everything that could be found there in those days-from a "follower" in the kitchen to a mouse in the attic. If you look very hard at the Boxroom you may find him-a tiny white fellow in the middle of the floor. See the trunks and boxes — labels and all? See the old-fashioned machine? And the next room’s for billiards, you ever imagined the

Next is the maid’s room, very small and dark, with the maid in her stiff striped blouse making the bed. There’s nowhere to put her clothes so perhaps she hasn’t any. Or perhaps she has to keep them in a box under her bed and it sticks into her every night however much she shifts it. Next comes the family bedroom. Two identical beds for Mother and Father. A double wardrobe and a frilly flounced armchair. The nursery room is altogethet happier — and there is the little girl herself in her wide frilly hat and sticky-out dress ready to go for a walk. Such a pretty young nursemaid she has-spotless white and stiff with starch. Bathroom next, and the bath’s a "Tub"! We'd want lots more things in there, wouldn’t we? Now, below. The biggest room of all is a Lounge-Drawing room. Do you see the Mother in the corner by the window with the little low table set for tea? Everything’s just as it should be-just

as our Grandmothers -liked it — even to the two candlesticks, two photographs and a China Dog on the mantelshelf. An "antique" dresser for very special china, a Grandfather clock, the very first kind of piano called a spinet-ali are there. And then, last of all, is the jolly kitchen with the jolly cook and the jolly "follower," who’s probably the milkman, sitting by the stove. * e . Look out for this Doll’s House at the Exhibition-and don’t let them take you home again without seeing it. You'll find it in the Women’s Section, so Mother will be the best one to persuade. i Pee freacha™