Article January 19, 1957 Issue

THE OLD-FASHIONED DOLL

[Of Special Interest to Children]

JOAN M. BUESING

MARY JO was just starting to attend the Christian Science Sunday School in the city where she lived. Then her father took a new position, and she and her family moved to a town where the nearest Christian Science church was about twenty-five miles away. This meant that Mary Jo could not attend Sunday School as regularly as she would have liked to.

Some Sundays, because there were snowstorms or because the roads were too icy, she and Mother would study together at home the Lesson-Sermon, given in the Christian Science Quarterly. They also listened to the radio programs on Christian Science. They knew nothing could take away their right to learn about God, and they were grateful for the Bible, for the Christian Science books, for all the authorized literature, and for the radio programs.

After they moved, Mary Jo and her mother proved something wonderful about God's love. Mary Jo wanted to own a real old-fashioned doll more than anything else she could think of. But there were none in either her mother's or her father's family. It seemed that the only way to obtain such a doll was to buy one from a doll collector. The price of even a tiny one was more than

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