#glad you made it through the flu ruthie!

[stoppit-keepout]

[Image is a scan of a newspaper reading: To My Fried Santa Claus: Dear Santa Claus: I want a doll with curly hair that will go to sleep, like you used to bring my mamma when she was a little girl. I don not like these new fashioned dolls. I want an honest-to-goodness dollbaby that will go to sleep and a nice story book. I hope you do nottake the "flu" for I have had it and know how it makes you feel. Aged 9 years. Ruth Williams,]

"An honest-to-goodness dollbaby."

(source: The Miami Daily Record-Herald, December 20, 1918.)