SEPTEMBER 3: Paper Dolls
“A little girl named Milly,” said daddy, “was very fond of paper dolls. Now one day when she had had three of her dolls a year she thought she would give them a birthday party and her mother told her to start off at once to ask her friends.
“‘You must bring your paper dolls too, and all their clothes, so we can pretend they are going to lots of things,’ said Milly as she went to the houses of her friends. ‘Bring them first dressed in their best as my dollies are dressed up now waiting for them.’
“And Milly told them to come in one hour. In just that time they arrived and brought with them their boxes of paper dolls.
“‘Come right along,’ said Milly. ‘The dolls are waiting for their party in the nursery.’
“‘We have brought them presents,’ said Milly’s little friends. ‘Our dolls are giving them birthday gifts of new paper shawls and hats which we have made.’
“Of course Milly was delighted, but the greatest surprise of all was when they entered the door of the nursery.
“There around the neck of each paper doll was a pink piece of crinkly paper which reached out to the little table. In the center of this was a pink and white birthday cake, with three candles—one for each paper doll!
“‘Oh mother!’ shouted Milly, ‘what a gorgeous surprise!’”