HOMES FOR 300 DOLLS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 10

HOMES FOR 300 DOLLS

Three hundred dolls found good homes last year in Philadelphia, U.S.A., by an unusual method. Three children’s playgrounds lent the dolls to prospective owners with cards like library cai*ds. If the doll did not give satisfaction she could be exchanged. In any case she was brought in once a week for inspection, and if she was clean and in good condition she was allowed to go home again with her new mother. Dolls badly cared for wei-e found nexv homes with girls who would give them better treatment. Most of the. “mothers” had earned the right to adopt their dolls permanently by the end of the season, anti, many had learned a great deal about laundry-work. Seeing an oltl negro whitewashing his chicken-house a visitor stopped and spoke. "Say, iSambo," he said, ";if you were to use a bigger brush you’d do twice as much work." "Is dat so?" queried iSambo. "But 1 you see, massa, I habn’t got twice as much work to do."