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Dressing Dolls
France, famed for its fashions, early gave attention to dressing dolls known as “fashion babies.” First created about 600 years ago, the “fashion
babies” in later years became ambassadors for French styles.
In the early American Colonies, for instance, the arrival of a group of “fashion babies” from France was greeted with great excitement.
Mistletoe Magic
J Ancient followers of the j Druid religion were the first to j regard mistletoe as a sacred ; plant, say the editors of The I New Book of Knowledge. They i supposed it to have panacean I virtues in warding off everything from witches to disease.
Each year, about the time Christmas is celebrated today, there was a ceremonial rite in j which Druid priests, using a golden sickle, cut the mistletoe leaves from the “sacred oak” and distributed them amongst the people.
The Saxons also valued this plant; they were the first to call it mistletoe. To them, mistletoe symbolized everlasting peace.
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