The Dolls’ House

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 4, 6 January 1937, Page 11

The Dolls’ House

1936 MODELS The dolls’ house, 1936, is not only a matter of architecture and modern invention; the great difference between it and its Victorian predecessor is that it is all in scale (states' an English exchange.) Its inhabitants are not some of them dwarfs and others giants. The dolls are not too big or too small for the chairs or for the house itself. Jugs and basins—-for these survive because they are pretty —are in proportion, and so even ' are brushes and combs. The dolls’ house, 1936, is occasionally adapted. It is still sometimes outwardly the villa of the last century, with bow windows and bricks painted on. But inside it has what the French call "tout confort moderne.” It is electrically lighted—at least, if the battery has not run down or a brother has not borrowed it to run an engine. It has a lavatory all in proportion, with a wealth of solid white fixtures. There is a telephone—at least in appearance, and on the latest model, not the old standard type. Bedroom furniture runs in suites, but it is chaste and clean-cut, such as one likes in one’s own nursery. There are littlo eiderdowns. The kitchen is full of modern gadgets, and there is built-in furniture to take the brooms or the china. Often there is a hatchway into tlic dining-room. The triumph is perhaps the garage. This is built to scale. The car or cars stand in it waiting to be wound up or driven with a battery. And besides there are all the impedimenta which adorn a modern garage, from the hose to the bicycle which is tucked away there.