The Kewpie Dolls

When my sister-in-law Anne was a young girl, she and her sister Dottie had saved up some money to buy Christmas presents. They each had about $5 to spend and decided to buy each other a Kewpie doll. Years later Dottie inquired of their mom where the dolls might be, and they were found in the back room in pieces, and Dottie decided to have them fixed and returned to health. Now Anne keeps her Kewpie doll in a doll chair up high so granddaughter Faith will not get it and play with it. After all, this doll is 60 or more years old.

Now Maurice, Anne's husband is a very kind man and saw in a Smithsonian catalogue a reproduction Kewpie boy doll dressed up as a bell hop. He purchased this doll and gave it to Anne for her Christmas this year. The two dolls are quite cute together, and I'll enclose a picture or two so you can see them.

I think that every little girl hopes that her dollies will be saved and that they will have them to enjoy when they have children and grandchildren. I also believe that when they get the doll down, in their minds, they return to the happy times of childhood when their biggest job was to play with their dolls. Enjoy!!