For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 10, 2014

Hilarious!

Out of the mouth of babes. Kids say the darndest things.

My grandfather used to be mayor of a small coastal town in Oregon (North Bend) in the late 60’s. It was a big lumbering port at the time, and the Japanese bought a lot of logs and wood chips. When a new Japanese ship arrived in port on her maiden voyage, the captain would give a gift to the mayor. It was once one of those dolls, in a glass dome to protect her. She sat on his mantel for many years. My cousin has custody of her now.

Honest truth

So you bought a pair of Hina dolls because you presumably liked them. Then, because someone else thinks they are for kids, you devalue the dolls and dump them.

Do you base your whole life on what others think?

For her age – Great Definition!!

Lynn’s Notes:

These ornate dolls were based on a collection in Louise Masuda’s house. Children in Japan often receive these lovely figures as gifts. They form a large retinue of characters with different levels of importance, so after many years, you can have a sizeable number — arranged in order of their station. They are heirlooms not toys, and eventually a showcase is needed to display them in. I thought this was a wonderful idea and so I included them here.

I keep my treasures in my china cabinet. I have some items that were given to my paternal grandparents as wedding gifts when they wed in 1899.

My father served as a pharmacist in the Army during WW 2 and was sent with a unit to Japan in the days immediately following the end of hostilities. He provided prescriptions to a number of local residents and they gave him some of these dolls (among other things) as gifts when he left. Unfortunately, over the years, the gifts seem to have vanished. I always suspected that, after he passed away, some of our cousins helped themselves to the dolls as a way of remembering my Dad…

One of your grandmother’s toys from when she was small is a heirloom, not because of its value, but because of the bit of her life it tells you about.

If the roles were reversed and Elizabeth said that “she’ll kill ya” if you touch a doll, then boy oh boy would some commenters here be ALL over Elly. (And those commenters wonder why people think they are ridiculous and unfairly judgmental…)

You may be back tracking now but that is not what you said in your first post..

Wearing pants in public is basically prescribed by law (in most places). To be ruled by simple opinions of others is not the same thing. Sad way to live a life.

Can’t argue with that logic.

Good one.