“Momma and Mrs. Golden planned a grand party at the boarding hour to celebrate two glorious occasions in one: the end of the war, and Addy’s tenth birthday!

You can set Addy’s birthday table with two ironstone compotes that have a crackle finish, two lavender tumblers, a copper pitcher, three crocheted lace doilies, and two forks and spoons. Tuck the two linen napkins into the napkin rings—they’re etched with little numbers just as they were in the boarding house so you and Addy will remember whose napkin is whose!” (Pleasant Company Catalogue, Holiday 1994)