THE PLAYROOM WEDDING 

 

 The Playroom Wedding 

 Paper Doll had been the maid of honor, but she did not at all approve of the match.  "It will never be a happy marriage," she told Teddy Bear the night of the wedding.  "Such marriages never are. How I should feel married to a man who wore dresses." 

 Yes, he did look as if he wore a dress, for he was a Japanese gentleman doll, you see, and when he came to the playroom to live everybody, including French Doll Marie, thought he was very queer looking. 

 But after a while they became used to Takeo, for that was his name, and when the little mistress announced that Marie was to marry Takeo she did not make the least objection. 

 "What difference does it make?" she said to Frieda, the Dutch doll, who lived next to her.  "I suppose I shall have to marry someone, and truly I could never live with Jumping Jack; that fellow makes me so nervous." 

 "He seems very quiet," said Frieda Doll, meaning Takeo, "and perhaps you can get him to dress in men's clothes after you are married." 

 "Yes, he is quiet and I cannot understand a word he says, so we shall not quarrel," said Marie Doll. 

 And so they were married. Jack-in-the-box was the minister, because the little mistress thought he stood better than anyone else. She put a black cape on him and a white collar, and Jack behaved in the most dignified manner. 

 Little Paper Doll wore a dress that quite outshone the bride's dress, only no one noticed it; but it was all lace and had tiny little pink buds caught in the flounces, and she wore a beautiful hat with white feathers. 

 The bride wore a white dress and a long white veil, and there were tiny white flowers all around her head which held the veil in place. 

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