When Christmas dinner was over and Mabel Watson Payne wanted to relax with a book she chose the picture dictionary that has served as her great favorite of recent days.
There are entire pages of playground equipment and sand toys for her to recognize and admire.
Baby Penelope (below) watches the reading but is too small to take any serious interest. She wears a new Christmas dress of her own, another clever contrivance from the seemingly endless stream of grandmother presents.
