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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2007
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You know you’re pathetic when they say ‘Bless her heart.’
.■ The verdict is in. It’s offi
icial. I am one of those dingy
jnothers that I have always
laughed about.
You know the one. She
'doesn’t know whether she’s
coming or going and would
lose her head if it wasn’t
attached to her. shoulders.
Fm sure that everyone has
- thought that I was like that
'■for a long time, but I have
\just realized it myself.
; ,, The realization that I’m a
true ding-a-ling came to me
.last weekend. I was invited
to a baby shower so I felt I
was really ahead of the game
when I picked up a gift cer
tificate for the honoree on
Thursday, two days before
the shower.
- -I put the gift certificate
in my mail basket on the
kitchen desk for safekeep
ing. Saturday morning, I
propped the boys off at a
cheerleading competition on
the way to the shower.
The hottest toy of 1924
Jillinda Falen
Antiques
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It was kind of hard to make out
the signature but finally I was
able to read the name, Grace
S. Putnam and I was off to the
Internet to do some research.
I’m sure most of our read
ers remember people getting
in fist fights and waiting in
line over the hottest and elu
sive toy at Christmas time
such as Cabbage Patch Kids or
Tickle-Me-Elmo. I had always
. thought that was a new social
‘ problem but even back in 1924,
there were a lot of disappoint
ed mothers and little girls who
• stood in line for hours only to
'find out the Bye Lo newborn
baby was sold out. George
i Borgfeldt and Company sold
• the babies were not prepared
for the high demand and huge
of this little doll and
r couldn’t import the German
.bisque heads in time for the
.holidays.
Putnam was an artist who
.also taught children how to
paint. She herself was left alone to support
„her young family. She wanted to sculpt a
/baby doll that looked like a real newborn
"that was life like, much unlike the popular
‘dolls of the day. Those dolls had large eyes
jand were not overly realistic. She tried
j several times to sculpt a baby’s head
out of clay but couldn’t find the right
timodel until she went to the Salvation Army
..Nprsing Home (not like the nursing homes
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Poppies, Pallisers and a Kaiser who didn’t show up
Literary Quiz
Which of Plantaganent
Palliser's children fell in
love with an American?
Harrison's Sports
Quiz
Today is the most fre
quently played NCAA
Division 1-A college foot
ball rivalry, and it’s between
the University of Wisconsin
and the University of
Minnesota, dating back to
1890. The winner of the
game receives the famed
Paul Bunyan Axe, which
was originated in 1948.
Before that, what was the
prize trophy, and what
happened to it?
History Quiz
Which presidential can
didate’s campaign slogan
included a latitude?
I’m sure you wonder why
my boys were going to a
cheerleading competition.
I have one word for you,
“Girls”. In my rush to get
out the door Saturday morn
ing, I grabbed the gift cer
tificate out of the basket and
placed it in a gift bag.
I dropped the boys off at
the competition and headed
to the baby shower. I was
having a great time talking
at the shower as the gifts
were being opened when I
heard someone ask, “Who
brought that”?
Well, it was the gift bag
that I had brought, but the
honoree was holding up an
empty window envelope.
You know the kind that you
return a bill with. In my
haste to leave the house, I
had grabbed up the wrong
envelope. Everyone got a
real laugh out of that at the
shower.
Recently I acquired
a sweet little bisque
headed baby doll from
a local estate. Bless its
little heart; it needed
some tender loving care
because its little eyeballs
are rolling around in its
head! Most antique dolls
are stamped
or signed on
the back of
their head.
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There were
a lot of disap
pointed moth
ers and little
girls who stood
in line for hours
only to find out
the Bye Lo new
born baby was
sold out.
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Eye Q
Name this man.
Faith Quiz
Name the items originally
in the Ark of the Covenant.
Match 'em Up
One name does not belong
in this group. Which is it?
RememberAllerton, Wrestling
Brewster, Temperance
Unfortunately, that is not
where the story ends. When
I arrived home, I made sure
to get the gift certificate out
of the basket. Yep, it was
still there where I had left it
for “safekeeping”.
After I picked up the boys
from the cheerleading com
petition that afternoon I
made sure that we went by
the honoree’s house to hand
we have today!) and found a little newborn
girl she described as being fat as butter
with a wrinkle in her nose! She started
sculpting and when she came back to fin
ish 2 days later, she was distraught to find
that the baby’s looks had already started to
change and she had lost her wrinkled nose
so Grace had to work from memory.
In 1920 Putnam went to New York to sell
her doll. Many companies
rejected her doll for being
too realistic until she came to
Borgfeldt who had recently
become a father and shared
Grace’s vision of the joy
that a newborn baby brings
and bought her prototype.
Heads for the Bye-Lo baby
were made by the famous
German porcelain factories
of the time including Kestner
& Co., Kling & Co., Hertel,
Schwab & Co. and Alte, Beck
and Gottschalck. Some are
actually dated 1923. A lot
of the information besides
Grace’s signature cannot be
seen without disassembling
the head from the body and
we don’t want to do that!
The little newborn doll
was made first in five, seven
and nine inch sizes. In the
November 25, 1925 Good
Housekeeping Magazine it
was advertised from 9 to 20
inches ands the price started
at $2.00! An extensive ward
robe could also be purchased.
Over the years, the Bye-Lo
baby was sold and produced
by other companies including composition
material versions. Grace really didn’t like
all the variations that other companies
added to her babies such as hair, super
small versions. Borgfeldt asked her to
design other Bye-Lo babies although she
had no intentions of every making another
baby doll, she relented and made two other
babies but they never attained the popular
ity of her Bye-
See BYE-LO, page B
Brennan, Humility Cooper,
Oceanus Hopkins, Desire
Minter, Resolved White.
Weird Quiz
In which state are busi
nesses often given the name
of the state spelled back
wards?
Last Week's
Answers
Vincent
Last week’s Eye Q was a
self-portrait of Vincent Van
Gogh. Getting it right were
Sandra Faircloth, Olivia
Stachorek, Mike Stanley,
Chris and Larry Thomson,
Jaloo Zelonis, Bill Harrison,
Nancy Braswell, Terry Everett,
Jim Worrall and Sharon Cyr.
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“Day to day the county way ”
deliver the gift certificate.
No one was home so I had
one of the boys put it in her
mailbox. I thought that was
The realization
that I’m a true
ding-a-ling
came to me
last weekend .
the least I could do after
having messed up so bad
earlier.
That evening I told my
husband, “We went by and
put the gift certificate in the
mail box this afternoon”.
He asked, “Where?” I
Exploring Middle Georgia's archeological treasures
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David Mincey Jr. of Lizella, an attorney and archeologist, was the guest speak
er for the November meeting of the General Daniel Stewart Chapter of the
American Daughters of the Revolution. Mincey, seated with Charlie Adams of
Fort Valley. Mincey gave a talk about the archeological findings in the area of
Fort Benjamin Hawkins in Macon. Shown here with the speaker are, from left,
Lee Brown Mabel Collins, Grace Cook, Betty Gray, Linda Deibert, Librarian;
Annette Johnson, Chaplain; Elizabeth Tabor, Regent; Evelyn Money, Mary
Cummins, Pheraby Smith, and Estelle Hunt.
Buddy Greene: bluegrass to blues
Special to the Journal
Rootsy Southern gospel
artist Buddy Greene brings
a wide variety of traditional
American influences to his
Poppies
The poem is a French trans
lation of “In Flanders Fields”
and is most often recited on
Nov. 11, which was originally
Armistice Day. Getting it right
were Mike Stanley, Chris
and Larry Thomson, Jaloo
Zelonis, Bill Harrison, Nancy
Braswell, Terry Everett, Jim
Worrall and Sharon Cyr.
Kaiser cuts out
Kaiser Wilhelm II did not
attend the armistice ending
WWI because he abdicated
the throne on Nov. 91918, and
took off for the Netherlands.
Mathias Erzberger signed the
armistice as Germany’s rep
resentative. Getting it right
were Mike Stanley, Chris
and Larry Thomson, Jaloo
Zelonis, Bill Harrison, Nancy
said, “At their house”. He
asked, “Which house?”
At this point I am getting
a little irritated at him and
reply, “The house that they
live in”.
He finally says, “They
moved”.
I unbelievably say, “No,
they did not”.
He says, “Yes, they did”.
I asked, “When?” and he
replies, “A month ago”.
Now, I feel REALLY stu
pid! I not only took an
empty envelope to a baby
shower, but I put the real
gift in the wrong mailbox.
So, I was quite embarrassed
when I had to call and admit
my screw-up.
The honoree’s sister
answered the phone and
I very reluctantly told her
what I had done.
In an effort to make me
feel better she said “You poor
thing” after she assured me
her mother would go by and
music, from country and
bluegrass to folk and blues.
In addition to his prowess as
a songwriter and singer, his
virtuosity on the harmonica
has made him in demand
“Are you smart
Braswell, Terry Everett, Jim
Worrall and Sharon Cyr.
Roll tide
The answerto Bill Harrison’s
question is that Alabama
has been ranked in the AP
Football poll more times than
any other SEC team. It has
been ranked approximately
605 times. Getting it right
were Mike Stanley, Chris
and Larry Thomson, Jaloo
Zelonis, Bill Harrison, Nancy
Braswell, Terry Everett, Jim
Worrall and Sharon Cyr.
Birth order
On the aisle of Bali, only
four first names are used,
and they are, in birth order,
Wayan, Made and Nyoman
and Ketut. Getting it right
were Mike Stanley, Chris
and Larry Thomson, Jaloo
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
retrieve the gift certificate.
Now, that did not make me
feel any better at all because
I know that when someone
thinks you are really pathet
ic they say, “You poor thing”,
or “Bless her heart”.
For example, “She has
gained a LOT of weight,
poor thing”, or “She looks
horrible in that dress, bless
her heart”. In the south,
that is the way we c
an politely poke fun at one
another. Well, needless to
say, I certainly deserved to
be poked fun at. I have
learned a valuable lesson
from all this, though. I have
learned to say, “Gift wrap
that, please”.
Angela Lineberger lives in
Perry with her husband Kerry,
and five boys, Tully, age 15,
and Tal, Hunter, Ben, and
Luke, age 12.
as a session guest for a few
Southern gospel practitio
ners.
Greene grew up in Macon,
and begin his musical train-
See GREEN, page §B
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By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Zelonis, Bill Harrison, Nancy
Braswell, Terry Everett and
Sharon Cyr.
Monks with brooms
The Digambara monks of
the Jainist sect sweep the
ground in front of them so as
not to hurt or kill any insects
or other creatures as they
walk. Getting it right were
Mike Stanley, Chris and Larry
Thomson, Jaloo Zelonis, Bill
Harrison, Nancy Braswell,
Terry Everett, Jim Worrall.
and Sharon Cyr.
The long one
The village with the longest
place name in the world is in
Wales. Getting it right were
Mike Stanley, Chris and Larry
Thomson, Jaloo Zelonis, Bill
Harrison, Nancy Braswell,
Terry Everett, Jim Worrall
and Sharon Cyr.