I 1 THE DOLL ITS HISTORY how and where doua are made and what they cost times dolls have amused the world for ages and seem to have been W known in ibe days of the Pharoah is for fit tho tombs of ancient egypt figures of painted W of terra cotto of ivory and of rugs have been found whose limbs were made moveably moveable move able for the delight it is quite that daughter threw wide the mimic child for the real baby which sho discovered in the famous bull rush basket I 1 in the tombs of etruria by the way where was E bruria qi milar tys have been they were spread in jbf east nd in china adwell fa idia vable figures were act frodi time immemorial by band and on strings or as shadows behind a certai a greeks were experts in ti I 1 manu fracture Ir of puppets ding wax dolls and several of their poets to of dolls to find aphrodite made by maidens before their marriage the puppets originally lv intended to gratify children ended in being a diversion diver siou for adults and puppet shows attracted a due amount of attention in the middle ages ar riving at such a perfection in the sixteenth century that their performances for mances rivaled in attraction those of living actors Puppet shows became exceedingly larin eug land in the early part of the ins t century but none more so than those conducted by robert powel whose performances were not re to london but were g i v e n in the season at bath at 0 f r d 1 1 lad 1 othar places ili london 1 1 bowels puppet show was set up under the piazza at convent gar den the latter is a very ancient market but is far more famous from the opera house that is over the market where the finest of j are given daring the fashion E Is 1 e eason stage was furnished with a set scene wings and sky borders and the performances perform ancee took place by I 1 when the curtain rose powel 1 wand in hand took his it lace like the chorus of a greek play to illustrate the performance steel announced one of these performances hy saying that powell would gratify the town with the performance of the drama on the story odthe chaste suannah 11 which would be graced by the ad of two new elders and thomas burnet son of the famous bishop in his dedication of a severe satire on the ministry of robert harley earl of oxford alludes to the great popularity of Powe lashow whether or not any dolls were brought over by the puritans who landed at plymouth a t know there are said to have heen some ought in the Alay flower an the claim is true for you ow the good ship sailed from dutch children have for centuries had the bes t dolls the world affords still there is to be into account the prime notions of the puritans they had no time for play of any sort and they were such thoroughly practical and work a d people that it is doubtful if t ey ever allowed their children to play with dolls llo wever this may be it is certain that generations the puritans in this country haye not followed in their footsteps millions of dolls are brought across the ocean every year to american children not to mention the millions that are manufactured here there was alime when there were no fashion journal ejust as there was a time a there were or magazines of any sort the french people then as now originated most of the ladies fashions for all the world and as they bad no way of makenz pictures 0 f their new styles or papers to de cribe them fit they made up dolls in the latest french fashions a sent all over the world these pou pees as the frerich called them were thought of so much importance in england that they were allowed to be imported without hindrance even in the time of war these dolls were brought into pennsylvania and virginia in early times and set the fashion for our great grandmothers style in dress now fashions are not only pictured in the newspapers and magazines w without number but descriptions of them are deemed of sufficient fin to send by elear uter a 11 through the cable that lies the ocean the french coupee still main tiling its superiority in the doll world not even the most fashionable american emporium can is play facture equaling in pinkness of complexion in wealth ot lace flounces and frill eries the dolls exhibited in paris ili the manu facture I 1 borce lain dolls arrayed as li rides babies beadles an d gendarmes gen darmes the frenceh are also wonderfully skillful the moot ez pensive dolls arrayed in the latest fashions come in many instances from alaris but there are profession al and amateur doll dressers enough in Eli gland who ca n an with the french alst of bonete conete the eat dolls in this country how everio dot come from england for we hardly look to the english for our styles but from ft race and germany the latter country is famous for the manufacture of toys and dolls and the small town of in the forest alone prod duces articles for the amusement of children to the value of yearly and enough to fill the toy hops olevery guari ter of the globe tile defrere 13 t proc eFee 11 in the man of was dolls can there be seen from beginning to end ger man ladies are also expert dolli dressers and there is it year y christmas exhibition f dolls i n berlin A great deal ill made of I 1 I 1 I 1 a 0 this berlin doll exhibition a and so biety turns out fit largo numbers to patronize it there are whole towns in many that 10 little but make dolls for american children they are mostly pimple country folk they get emal I 1 1 ty for make ag even an excellent aall atif it must be remember tA that their wants are few german people do not stir about as much as americans and it is the traveling and tb edressa to travel in and appear fit style before the world that costs imlig lish children buy almost worth of dolls from brench and german while the american children not quite till in dolls ho weyer buy double that runny dollars worth every year american money paid ont for dolls makes many happ homec among the poor people of f rance and germany at christmas time