Figure 1.-- The "Ladies Home Journal" tells mothers, "Look here, upon this picture, and on this! The girl with the doll is all ready to have a good play in clean or in dirty places and still be comfortable and happy." |
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The first boy is in for a good time, and yet he looks the thorough little man with his bloomer trousers underneath his one-piece suit. Then look at his "nice" but unhappy little companion who is made a ridiculous caricature of a man in his wee trousers so out of place on little legs, in a hat which would look better on a girl than a boy, and a blouse, collar and tie that were surely meant for his sister.
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