| Show f t tw e j l J ll r f J JI I o r I t L t l f ft jI 1 j Y I 1 t I ii r 0 i r.- r. f ch Bo Boy h fr frY Y i it l. l M Ay r r kt doll seems to have been the toy THE fIE of the child since the world began for tor as ns far tar back as myth mth legend or written evidence can b be obtained wo we find the doll with the child crude child crude in workmanship and make up It is true but still sUll a doll an Imitation of a a. human human human hu hu- hu- hu man being As far back as J the time o of Moses the doll seems to have been used as a 3 plaything for children In those days many thin things thing's belonging to the dead wore ware buried burled with them and during the excavations In Egypt queer looking dolls wore were discovered alongside alongside along along- side Ide the UtO mummies of children Some of ot these are on e exhibition in the British Brit Brit- British ish museum which are said to bo ho more mora than four tour thousand years ears old The They are made mode of at wood cla clay r or Ivor ivory aro are without clothing and several are crudely carved car In the Louvre in n Paris ParisI t I a a z JiPI dolls of or a period of or three thousand years ago are shown and these have pointed legs and arms which move on pins The Koran forbids bodily representation representation representation rep rep- but the Mohammedan child was permitted to have its doll despite this prohibition and Mr 11 Gustav Schlegel of the Un University Ivers It of or Leyden who is an authority on Mohammedan subjects says sas The doll Is the first and most natural to toy of the child the child the girl especially who ho in Impulse of ot Imitation imitation imitation tion playing mother converts an any hand handy suitable object into a doll So effectual is this that the laws of ot Isham must suffer tho Prophet Mahammed's year old ear wife romped around the harem with her dolls and nd the holy man himself was accustomed to play pla with them thorn The real origin of tho the doll and who played with the tho first one or what its form lorm was will perhaps never be bo known but one ono thing is ilS certain and that IB is that tho the doll has always and ever w will ISi 11 bo be the queen of to dom and the Idol of the child of at all nations In all tho the countries of ot Europe the dolls which have belonged to royalty arc are carefully preserved and In the tha th old oldhouse oldhouse house of or tho the In Moscow one ono finds the dolls owned b by tho the children children chil chil- dren of ot that great grea t family tamn of Russian rulers rulers queer queer little In Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian clothes In Kensington Palace London Queen Victorias Victoria's dolls occupy a large glass case and are especially referred to as an evidence that this great ruler and mother exhibited her first queenly and motherly Instinct In Inthe Inthe inthe the realm of After Atter Queen Victoria came to the throne of En England England Eng Eng- land eyed blue blue eyed dolls doUs became the tire fashion and for everal years tho the dark- dark eyed ones were entirely in inthe inthe inthe the British Isles the isles the fashion was set because the queen was wass blue blue- blue eyed In Iii ono one of ot the the- Dutch museums the dolls belonging to Queen TS are shown This queen seems to have taken her dolls very very very- seriously for It Itis itIs itis is said that whenever she desired to punish them she sho declared that if they did not not- behave better she would make them queens In a Roman museum there thero Is a doll which once belonged to the mother of ot Napoleon Bonaparte These are but a few tew of the examples which sho show the love of doll among the royalty of at the world With the advance of civilization in science and art the doll became more lifelike until today the French dolls In their expensive clothing are perfect perfect perfect per per- models of the French woman of the period The style of dolls too changes oven every year car and as Christmas draws near the newest creations are aro shown Pla Plays s 's at the theatre often otten set the tho styles of dolls and last year the famous Chanticleer brought out an unique set In the shape of ot animals and bIrds Tho Teddy Bear at one onetime onetime onetime time was a strong rival of the model of the human figure but this craze seems to h have lve died out after the tho sale of or these ugly Sl toys had made a fortune for tor their originator and the he the real life life- IDall Ulner raker V m C mc JI like doll In all its beauty has reappeared reappeared reappeared reap reap- to grace the Christmas stocking stocking stock stock- In ing of this year car With few Cew exceptions the tube new style dolls doUs are aro of German manufacture and were wore mado made at Sonne- Sonne burg and where hundreds of people are employed in the doll dol factories and in doing piecework at home Of ot course labor is much cheaper cheap cheap- er In Germany German than In America the result of cheaper living lIing The American American Ameri Amen can government collects a dut duty on all imported toys toS yet even with this tax the dolls mado made on the other side can be bought in our large larg-e cities at a very cry reasonable price The dolls begin to arrive about six or seven weeks before be before before be- be fore Christmas The average dealer knows what to expect for the toy magazines published for the trade have hav given out the tip long before that time The cry oven with the child of ot this restless age ag is for tor something new and this year ear the tho American will make maJ tho the acquaintance of at the models of at tho people of or man many lands In pin play for tor the Christmas doll of this year Is cosmopolitan cosmopolitan cosmopolitan cos cos- and embraces lifelike representations representations representations rep rep- of at the people of far away lands and tho the arrn array of the dolls in national costume of ot all an quarters atthe of at the globe is really an interesting study for tor the adult as well as the child Children arc are Inter Interested sted In children and when hen a a. little American girl saw Haw several of or the new Christmas dolls she at once clasped a haired fair-haired German German German Ger Ger- man doll in to her arms and exclaimed Oh Mamma Iamma isn't she wonderful Now I know Just how the little German girls you rou read tead about to me look and then she set about to examine the clothing of or the doll don most minute minutely The faces of the dolls doUs too are made to show the facial characteristics of ot the tho race they represent The French chauffeur is rigged out In an entire automobile suit for under his long coat he wears brown bloomers and leather leggins His cap too Is IH an exact reproduction of the chapeaU worn b by the French automobile driver Tho Japanese girl wears a pretty prett kimono made of the finest Japanese silk of ofa a delicate shade of or J green en with tho the obi of pink silk shit She is probably gowned as she would be in Japan when the festival of ot dolls dons takes place as It does sometime tho the latter part of April of each cach year The sakura trees which aro arc somewhat similar to our peach trees burst Into bloom at that period On this day lay tho women arra array themselves themselves them them- selves In n holiday attire Mothers adorn the chamber chamb r of state with blossoms from the sakura trees and arrange for fat foran foran an exhibition of dolls doUs which their daughters have received Tho The children prepare a banquet for the dolls which is eaten by the grownup C folk lk In the evening after the dolls are supposed to have had a i surfeit So the little Japanese doll represents the tho only country countr country coun coun- tr try In tho world which has a certain da day set apart to do her honor The Scotch boy Is arrayed In gay plaids But his legs are not bare said Bald a little girl who had Just returned from the British Ish isles ai as she Rho looked r Tile rhe fl Q Clr wat w at the coll collection But then T I suppose it would be too cold here at Christmas Christmastime time for that she sho continued as she turned him over again to examine his cap caT The rho Chinaman Is mado made of rags and will win stand all sorts of ot abuse The aver aver- American child chUd associates the ago Chinaman with a laundry laundry- and the dollIs doll dollis is a perfect type of ot the Celestial who follows this vocation The German girl Irl with her fair fall hair and typically German face tace is an attractive toy Her Iler Herred Herred red dress dreS is trimmed with black and her velvet bodice laced with gold over overa a fine net blouse Her IIer apron too is of strictly German style The Italian Hallan peasant girl Irl with her hand embroidered embroidered ered satin apron and gown and her striped headdress Is a study The face faco dark is Italian even to the beautiful with the long lone lashes for which eyes ees the women of ot that country aro are noted edThe The Russian girl Irl with her highly colored col 01 ored dress and peculiar pecullar Russian shoes to attractive to t the it e child chUd is likely prove who loves color The Hawaiian doll Is a curious lookIng look look- Ing object and one not nolo 1 likely to to be popular unless the child Is isto ol 01 old J enough h of or Its to understand the sl significance clothing The face Cac is a light copper color the exact shade of ot the skin of at a the full blooded Hawaiian there Is Hawaiian features and the wavy war bla black k hair The dress is of ot yellow silk over which there is a a a. grass grass skirt shirt such a aas as dancers was as worn b by the tho hulu hulu-hulu Inthe days das when Hawaii was a king king- kingdom I dom dora of its own There Thore here Is the seed necklace and tho lei let about the neck neck of or flowers placed there thereby thereby thereby garland paper flowers a by some friend of at an Aloha GreetIng Greeting Greet Greet- ing of ot love The Dutch doll is another another an an- other rood 00 1 type with the and wooden shoes The st stings stockIngs stockIngs stockings stock- stock Ings cap are of or thick yarn and perfect I by tho rho people people peo peo- models of ot the ones worn warn I wooden of ot Holland with their The Tho doll has the k alst I shoes made mado so BO by hat half a a. dozen petticoats which are gathered about her waist in true truo Dutch fashion and amI Is la one of bt the very best and nd most perfect types type p she shown n n a The clothing of t nearly all th this the these ese e dolls Is the work of at Gorman German women woman women and their correct conception of ot the costumes costumes costumes cos cos- of or so many n nations Is remarkable remark remark- I able The Tho manufacture of a a. doll Is a difficult difficult dif dif- task and one which requires far as as more or less skill As 1851 Germany had a school of at design for Ifor tho the purpose of at studying tho the tho art of doll making as as to and figure ure and some remarkable work has been turned out b by its pupils Of Ot course the big factories of employ and turn turns turnout turnout and women an arm army of Dt m men n The out thousands of dolls annually manufacture of ot composition dolls dong as na seen een In Germany ha has baa been described Inthe In Inthe inthe the following words by one of ot the manufacturers of that country countr The Tho hot liquid is ladled Into the lead or plaster moulds Over O here the Rork work workman man holding th the mould In one one- hand turns turns' on a faucet and allows the steamIng steam- steam Ing ing white mixture to rush into th the ity Quickly reversing the mould over an an opening in the tank he grasps grasps and fills another and another reversing reversing each one to allow all aU the theL L mixture mixture which does not nol Immediately adhere to tho the sides of the mould to run back into tho tank Another workman seizes tho the mould as soon Boon as It is cool enough to handle and with two movements of at his pis hands separates the leaden sides and pulls ills out the tho dolls doll's head It is not nol a lovely oly object In this stage nor ten minutes later even when the polisher has trimmed off the ragged ed seams and tho the dyer has dipped It in flesh lesh colored paint Tho arms arras and legs leers are exactly as the heads and are sewed o on n to the cork or hair stuffed bodies by Iby dott fingered deft ered girls Germany possesses a l secret formula for tor the tho enamel used on the faces races of ot dolls and the dainty natural flesh tints to be found on the faces of tho the German models id Is the tho result of this process The o eye oye e of ot the doll Is Is' the most difficult part of the whole manufacture manu manu- facture and a dreary tasK as well for tor they must be made away from tho the sun sun- shine Three Throe fourths fourths of at all the tine dolls doll's eyes used in the world are arc made mado In a German town and the manufacturing is done In dark dare cellars Violet coloring Is said to bo the most difficult to mal make e and for this reason there are aro to few vio- vio lot eyed dolls The pain painting tins tins- of the tho face Is s dono done by girls who are really artists of at no mean ability and when this is finished tho the doll is handed over to a man who puts In the eyes eyes eyes-a. a simple sim sim- simple pIe process unless the eyes are arc to open pen and close In which case caso the balancing balancing- of at the tho lead requires some skill Tho The wig is next put on and this is usually made of real hair which comes from tram China The Tho hair used or blondo blonde dolls is the samo same except the color Is ex ex- ex another another process known only b by the tho Germans After this the tho hair becomes a beautiful beautiful- golden shade Many of the wigs aro tastefully curled About five million dolls are aro turned out in one ono year at Vincennes The dolls are not dressed there but are aro sent to Paris where several hundred girls some of ot whom are fashion experts clothe them in tho the latest st styles les Each year ear prizes are offered for tor the tho best de design design de- de sign of or a n. doll and for tor improvements In the tho art of manufacturing them This Is one ono of ot the reasons wh why tho the French doll has reached SU l a a. high dc degree of finish Scores of at women j in all nIl parts of ot the world orld make their living lhing party by dressing dolls doUs and man many by designing the clothes for the novelties novelties demanded demanded er e every year These dolls dons of ot man many nations nations ty es of children which of ot far-away far lands which are aro offered for tor the tho Christmas season of ot 1911 have hae an educational value for they will teach the American child tho the costumes costume and features of at her foreign sister by actual sight tho sight tho best and only way to stud study any subject Wo Yo may read of things and memorize them but this is nothing as compared to the visual delight which the real object gives Ives So heros hero's to the cosmopolitan Christmas doll of or 1911 long lon long ma may she e gladden the tho hearts of our children |
