Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20
Youths Department.
THE DOLLS CONVENTION.
BY GEORGE oooFER-

BY GEORGE ooOFER.
Say, have you been to the Dolls Conventioni
No. then at once II Il my intention
A few Of the startling facts to mention,
That kept all Dolldom in fierce contention -
These are the notes of q special reporter,
Taken in short-hand-they could mt be shorter.
Some of the handsomest dolls in the city
Answered the call of the working committee"
Was mt il fun when the toddlekins met
D, but they came in q terrible petl
Dolls in merino, and moire-aniique,
Dolls that were dumb and dolls that could speak,
And dolls that could only just manage to squeak;
Single dolls, married dolls, all sorts and ages,
Fluttered like birds that had just left their cages
Made the remark that the weather was splendid;
This being said with her nose TO the sky,
No one felt anxious to make a reply.
Two crying dolls whose eyes were still red,
For fear OF disturbance were sent up TO bed.
Up rose dony-some said double -jointed-
And moved that n Speaker n once be appointed.
After general squabble and antter-
Ten, all at once, trying something to utter
One little lady with long iaxen hair,
Amid great excitement, was led to the chair.
Which those who were present had thus cast upon
her,
And so on at random; the very same capers
OF speech you have read in the daily papers
Every one present then had an opportunity
To say "what was what" with the utmost impu-
nity.
Speech Of a member;-her face was of wax;
By her wardrobe, she paid a superb incone-tax
To see the dismay "boYs" had brought on the na-
ton;
Their victims were dolls of every station.
There was mt day, and there was mt night,
That her eyes did MT open and shut with alright;
For, not contented with shipping her toes of,
A tyrant in short-clothes had melted her nose of;
Though she tried hard to put good face on the
matter,
Grief had melted her down-she had been 20 much
fatter.
A lady from Paris was next on the hoor.
Her train was some twenty five inches or more.
She said that abroad she found nothing to her,
They honored the delicate creatures of Dolldon
Whose grace and department and beauty appalled,
But since her return she daily expected
/ To call the police in to keep her protected.
She never had dared 10 put half her bows on her
For fear some sly rouge would tear of the clothes
The bellows kept heaying just here where her cor
To find throughout "boyland" such frightful
atrocities.
Another got up who appeared sadly mussed.
She said she was only poor doll of dust,
But recently she had received such a shaking,
A doll plump with sawdust held out rare induce
ments
To boys who were fond of " cutting" amusements.
A China doll said that her heart was most broken
To hear the complaints which her sisters had
That, as for herself, she had a small daughter
She wished these remarks to be heard by report
She once laid her offspring to sleep in its cradle,
When down came q fend with poker or ladle,
And struck at her darling, so hard il was odd he
Had not cut her "sugar-plums" head from its
body.
She thought they were shocking, these barbarous
And China dolls, too, being so hard to raiseI
rag doll remarked that her case was still harder
Her home was a shelf in the kitchen or larder;
had haan dxU1fh rhal tots do1
Who were tricked out with laces and such fol-de-
rolls;
She was trampled and sat on from Monday till
Monday,
Her dress never changed, not even on Sunday;
Not to speak of small frights that were scarce
worth repeating,
When the rats held ratification meeting.''
A fine walking doll caught the eye of the Speaker.
She said that her voice always went for the weak
er;
She d vote for the total destruction of all boys
She shuddered in sight Of fat lean, short and tall
| boys,
Especially, too, at the whole race of small boys
They Pinched her arm in the door, with u slam;
| They dipped her legs in the raspberry jam;
She wondered how, she assured her behOlders,
| She kept her head sewed onto her shoulders.
paper doll rose, put was soon called to order,
| They had mt moment they said to afford her.
This was the least of their grave resolutions:
/ ITO Danish forever those base Institutions
The boys who are known our natural foes;
They d better take care how they tread on our
| toesI
They even deny us the rights Of a cat,
And now we II endure them no longer,-that 4
| hatI''
Tattle and tea soon followed in turn,
Then somebody moved that the meeting !. ad-
| journ-" Our Young Folks.