Serve Well Hosiery Box (Poignantly Filled with Bingo Game, as Found) mustard bot and a page of "Judgment

and a page of "Judgment notes" including the following: "I am constrained to plant a grove / for the fair maid that I love / of nineteen trees in nine strait rows / Nine in each row I must place / Or I will never see her face

of an Emma and Velmy and "dad

Here's another thing I couldn't resist in large part due to the color of the old paint on it

with small ears and head turned toward one side in what feels like a gesture of curiosity as well

perhaps troubled

Serve Well Hosiery Box (Poignantly Filled with Bingo Game, as Found) mustard bot and a page of "JudgmentThis one. So loaded, one could write a thesis on it. A Serve Well Hosiery box, c. 1940s or so I believe, implying all sorts of possibilities for "serving well." Once it contained size 9 Ginger Brown stockings, but was found with Bingo cards and numbers inside, including some make do number substitutions written on cardboard representing a presumably well earned escape from serving well! And it does not seem very far fetched to me to imagine the wearer