DOLLS OF 1960 YEARS AGO

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 49, 26 February 1921, Page 7

DOLLS OF 1960 YEARS AGO

A pathetic group of Roman objects from the tomb of a little girl of tho period of Tiberius, 1960 years ago, has come into tho possession of the Berlini Museum (says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail). They are in nearly as good a state as when tho child died.. A coin of Tiberius was put in the dead child's hand; tho fee to give to Charon, the ferryman, to cross to the other side of tho Styx, the principal river of the "Lower World." Then tie box was filled with her little dolls, of which she had evidently been fond. She had also loved to play at a dolle' tea party of that uge. So there is a little table and a toy silver candelabrum. She had dressed nor doijs and had "made them up," for there is the little box of cosmetics, with a picture of a. Baccha on. the cover. Evidently the dolis descended to her from other hands, and must ha.vo been a. special treasure. She was fond of bricks, too, and her parents put into her box some- little cubes painted in four colours. There are a little gold brooch —probably one sh© wore at parties—of the most delicate filagree work; and a gold bracelet. The little girl must havo been the daughter of more than ordinary parents, for she could evidently write, since they had put in some tablets and a stylus.