Cathy Entertains

 

Mom has written on the back of this picture from 1952:

Tea party with friend in Livingston backyard.
Doll buggy was mine (Mary Louise's) when I was a little girl.

I suppose a little boy invited to a tea party might have to make his own fun. What is in his mouth? It looks like a potato chip, but I know we rarely had potato chips around the house when I was around much later. (Were potato chips common in 1952?)

Do little girls still have tea parties? Were those imitations of their moms' tea parties? Do big girls still get together for tea? Do little girls still get together to imitate what moms now rarely do?

This picture was attached by a perforated edge to the picture before.