Show OF THE MAKING OF DOLLS To find a doll In a consular report Is a little like coming across a delicious bit of nonsense In a plane geometry If geometry geom-etry of any kind wero lint Ilpwcycr that Is I purelya matter of opinion and alien al one should not bo too hard on coiiHularxeporU They are no doubt very much what they have to be The case In point Is merely thai In what Mr Oliver J D IIughcH had lo nay in his rcccnl word as our representative at Coburg the patient pa-tient reader will be delighted to discover nn interesting account of the Doll Trade in Thurlnglii From this It appears that among tim people of that mountainous portion of Germany the making of toys Is a popular business and gives employment to thousands of persona Dolls In this nlaco dale back only forlyor fitly years but the toy trade itself la traced by our authority to lho darkest portion of the MIddle Ages and a time when One somehow some-how Kcncriilly supposes either that there were no children or else that they were quite without time amusements of their modern PrototYPes Further than thIs however it also appears ap-pears that the doll simple as 11 seems when In a bubyH hands Is like most sim pleseeming things a very complex organism or-ganism Many have a hand In Its com pllcnled nrnciss The arms and legs for example usually made of papier mache or of china siro the work of one separate sepa-rate department which does nothing else Just as time trunks arc the special feature of another The headsut first macro hairless pates as bare an the Infantile cranium cra-nium are naturally the objects of special spe-cial care and necessitate the attention of many different artisans Ono hian palntu tile eyebrows another cncnrnldlncs Hho lips one dips the face into wax lo give It the likeness offllesh and still others attend at-tend lo Us eyes and lhe hair Most of the blonde dolls wo nee In this country owo their attractiveness lo their mohalr vlK the material jor whlchslsIinporied lo Tlnimlimgia Cr6ni ngland This however Is not nil thai goes lo the making of the really stylish Viola the kind that because she Is mast beautiful and daInty can be the easiest scalped by rough little brothers If he Is born In the puiple sho must have glass eyes You ro momber that scene In Dickons In which time dolls eyes arc used to so great effect Well these lustrous orbg arc as carefully blown over gas as hot as goes to the manufacture of the tlno t of Bohemian glues They are then connected by AS Ire and If Ihc lady Is to be ono that has Ibo clmrmlnir ability lo KU to sleep thoiwlro Is weighted by a bit of Ifiu If to nil these graces inorc IH lobe added a voice whIch can call for llHj > nrcnKor otherwise other-wise articulate its woes a Jicit doafinoro labpr and cunning XH brouRbt Intopiny llnwdvcr If youi sawdust or cxcelnlor dollri are mule you shouldremember that that IH only because they arcable 10 bear their sufferings In silence And that IH a rare quality A Tburinglan manufacturer usually em plo > H from 200 biSMX persons Koncrally Blrls to do the robing of the bride Bvcry varietY and style of dreSs IH Imitated oi ten with a fulihfulncus that would stqrtlo a Parisian dressmaker Of the bodieS Mr hughes mention many different IlndB of nur or lew frannlblllty or altruoilvc ncsfl but nowhuro doe lie alltidu U tliiit Ural dear 10 the heart of evory ono who imus been a child tlc genus ray Perhupx the ThurinBlana are too btwy mdcImg money lo make these UUt we need not fool worried on that account Whon the flliervt wax doll In all Germany has turned lo a bullorodnoMCd and hldcoiiH Hinllac i rum tile law of the survival of lho ltj teat will asKuri Itaclf and ibo rat baby Hinllo us broadly us when the mouth w iy llrrtt painted on her fare She Is generally a typical American The child of pour but honoiit parent ho Is always the daughter daugh-ter of love No court cloUiOH for his lit Ue republican She IB ever a Immti body and she reIgns auiirtmo In the nursery when her liner ilsicrs aro forollen an Bho reIgned there ore the y wore known She In loputd about a good deal no doubt but when time eyenlnc comes nnd the prayor uro said thu noble pink and vliltc iadlii < of the Kill no have to be laid u lde In dark closets whllo the rag doll IH gun oriiJiy cliiHped light In living dimpled I armM and through the long night tea thni I guatdn patliiitly the sleep of the little ono I who loves her Thu wax creations of Thu rlncln may corner tim > doll market in tne places of trade but they will never bo they ever HO tine uulto luliu time place In our heartH thai bus been given lo that firflt rap doll PlUlUdolphli Press |