The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-12-31
TIPTON, IOWA, DECEMBER 81, 1868.

| OitcH WISH, El0 ANIL Icin0Fk6u tht
saint when the pipe was well alight
that I could often consult with parent,
and friends before they piled up the
customary loads for my reindeer. ]
I could make it so much eascr for all o.
u.s." N .u
! "I'm sure" I replied, shat 1t would
be the greatest comfort md assistance tc
us all If We could confer with Que oI
/ your vast experience"
II do know something Of the little
ones, think" +" said the old gentleman
rs he stroked his bearl, and tender
light came into his merry eyes. "Chil.
drcn are very easily satiItied II you will
but allow them to be. ms the parents
and big grown up trien4s who carp and
criticise. Give boy a knife ana q
shingle, ball of twine,'a lead pencil
and two sheets o. drawing paper, aud
he will rise up ard call you blessed. -
But likely enough his friends will call
you mean in The retirement Of their
homes. Aunt Icpzibah throws them
into spasnls of joy with her pop corr,
and maple suga', her chcstnuts and her
| Spitzenbergs. But mamma looks ut her
thick boots anl Shaker bonnet, and is
/ icily polite. AID the good soul, chilled
to the heart, gees home and comes no
more. But the young ones enjoy tho
popping OF cor, and the roasting of
chestnuts infinitely more than Nca-
politan ice or Ma!lard candy, though
they are by 10 means to be despised
| either. And this is not ALTAR from it.
People talk OF the extravaganza Of the
age, and wonder what has become Of the
simplicity of the children, the artless-
ness of the young people. I'll tell you.
1t has flown out of the nursery window;
1t has gone up the nursery chimney !!
Little girls are dressed more expensive
ly than brides were a few years ago,
and their greatest anxiety is to out-dress
their classmates. You give your little
girl this Christmas a most magnificent
doll. She is fresh from Paris. She has
As many clothes rs Queen Elizabeth,
and is doll of accomplishments. She
can open and shut her eyes, and squawk
when she is squeezed, and her Saratoga
trunk is fully as large, and better filled,
in due proportion, of course, than your
own. But, alas! Miss Clemintina is
far too fine to enjoy. Her dresses will
soil too quickly ii her toilet Is frequent
~ made, and if she is taken out to tea
with other little girls, her interior me-
chanism is disordered, like dyspeptic
nld lady. But Jessie looks with wonder
ana admiration upon Miss Clementina,
and thinks Tint FINER own clothes were
as fine and as numerous she should
have reached the seventh heaven of
childish beattitude. And, after all, if
there is a bit Of the real child about her,
she will honestly prefer some old piece
of a doll, which, il you could, you'd
hide from her sight forever, some hide
ously mutilated old image, which may
be hung, drawn, aad quartered, pettcd,
abused, nursed, and con;ided in. Jessie
admircs Clementina with all her eyes,
but her old Dido has full possession of
her heart. And sill you have done is
that you have either excited in Jessie's
heart an inordinate love Of dress for
herself and her dolly, or you have sim
ply wasted your money and failed to
preserve anything like proportion be-
tween the amount paid out and the
pleasure conferred. She'll admire and
praise and pet the French doll for day
or two, and go back to her first love,
thing of shreds and patches it may be,
but, for all that, all the world to her.
"Grown folks don't realize how dcep-
ly and sincerely children love their dol
lies. The motherly instincts so often
hidden, perverted and suppressed I
won't believe it destroyeh) in a child,
has full play with her dolls
"And if you want your little girls to
honestly love babies and little children,
remember it when you dress their dolls.
Dress them prettily as you like, but
something like they are dressed them
selves in well made clothes that can be
taken off and put Oh, not too fine to be
washed and ironed sometimes, and not
forgetting proper night clothes, that the
dolls may enjoy natural rest, nor a
cloak in which to take the air. But you
dress up doll like an opera dancer in
tarlcton and spangles, or like Princess.
es, and put them in a drawer aud only
allow them to be seen OH rare occasions,
and what will be the result: Why,
they won't love the dolly bit, but they
will grow fonder and fonder Of finery
and furbe!ows every day of their lives"
l assented with sigh, while the saint
went on: "I'm very timid offine ladies,
ma'am, rery timd. love real women,
real children. Folks don't understand
each other at all. A real fine lady who
wants to please child buys everything
with money. A real woman does some
part OF it herself. In fact, she puts
something Of herself into it. Store
dolls, or fair dolls are never quite the
thing that real doll babies are to little
folks. And such dolls are dolls Of great
possibilities. They can he dressed and
Int1rpsseH mi tn he'd and falop nm