Queen Victoria's Dolls
Children of all ages love to play with dolls. Both boys and girls
have played with various kinds of dolls for thousands of years. Queen
Victoria of England played with dolls until she was fourteen years old. She
owned dozens and dozens of dolls, and had made clothes for more than thirty of
them. She especially liked small wooden dolls, 1 to 12 inches high with
jointed arms and legs, called penny dolls. She had more than 100 of these. She
also had a doll house where she kept many of the smaller ones.
Queen Victoria became queen at the age of 17, but she still loved her dolls and
doll houses. Since the queen was so fond of them, thousands of other
people wanted dolls and doll houses too, and toy makers were kept busy making
them. If the queen liked something, then other people liked it too, and
wanted it. It is strange, but true, that what a king or queen or any
important person does, other people want to follow their example.
As a Christian boy or girl, are you setting a good example for others to
follow? What we do and say affects others, even if we don't realize
it. We can't try to please the Lord by ourselves; we must ask the Lord's
help each day to shine for Him. "I can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me." Phil.4:13.
If you are not a Christian, than you cannot please the Lord and set a good
example. Have you come to the Lord Jesus as a poor, lost sinner and
believed that His precious blood washes away all your sins: if you haven't, do
it today, and then with the Lord's help you can shine for Him in this dark
world.
"That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke,
in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in
the world." Phil.2:15