Mint Chocolate Chip & Other Joys

We Found A Billiken !

This was an interesting tag sale find for us .

We probably paid 50 cents for it and then went home

and looked it up on the internet .

We found out that Billiken was created as .....

~"The God of Things as They Ought to Be".~

It was created in the early 1900's before the cupie doll.

The Cupie doll was crafted with similarities of the Billiken.

This Billiken that we found is of a sculpted material & it has

a coin or token embedded in the bottom of it.

"I'm Billiken whose lucky grin

Makes gloom run out and joy run in

I'm fond of little boys and girls

I love to nestle 'gainst their curls

And so that it could be arranged

Into a doll myself I've changed."

~"As long as I smile at you bad luck can't harm you."~

"The smiling god of good fortune,

The original divinity of optimism,

Whose cheerful countenance

Brings good luck

And happy days to all who

Observe this rule of life:"

~"BE CHEERFUL AND YOU WILL BE RICH IN EVERYTHING." ~

"I am the God of Happiness,

I simply make you smile,

I prove that life's worth living

And that everything's worth while;

I force the failure to his feet

And make the growler grin,

I am the God of Happiness,

~~My name is Billiken.~~"

"I am the God of Luckiness,

Observe my twinkling eye—

Success is sure to follow those

Who keep me closely by;

I make men fat and healthy

Who were quarrelsome and thin;

I am the God of Luckiness,

~~My name is Billiken. ~~"