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/ Hrtiffi ’LI API |pl L I mStk at/Uk Ik I H| I H | flffl k I IE [ P\ V j / M SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2007 4B 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 canlws@alltei.nA 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 e* 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. . ''' 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. ; '* fy' 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. CLUBS n ifj. mv. mm j, mm If# mm ... RIPTi-i^ PLJBI 111 11l ■■ wiljßl * Angela Lineberger UsSf 'Wx? 4m ’ '4m. Send any or all answers to hhjquiz@yahoo.com, or leave a message at 478-1823, Ext. 234 “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 ■ 1 /M Mat tjjrfj- Sr • SJ§ ' f. ~ ijgnrtjt.'ji, _ Taai;W| T||j /bHHB 8.» •» ifftl mMmffjm E / *■' 3hk * . --y -«Sr Journal/Charlotte Perkins 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 **nr->ucrh” \<f W 1§! 'm 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.