American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-22
Youths Department.
THE DOLLS CONTENTION.


| III GEORGE COOPER.
Say, have vonbeen to the Dolls Convention?
No then at once it Is my intention
| That kept all Dolldom in fierce contention =
| These are the notes of special reporter,
| Taken in shorthand-they could MT be shorter.
Some of the handsomest dolls in the city
Answered the cab of the - working committee
Was mt it fun when the toddlekins met.
/ o, but they came in terrible pet!
Dolls in merino and moire-antique,
Dolls that were dumb, and dolls that could speak,
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Fluttered like birds that had just left their
One "stnck-np,'s by her servant attended,
Made the remark that the weather was splendid;
This being said with her nose to the sky,
No one felt anxious to make reply.
Two crying dofls-whose eyes were still red,
For fear of disturbance were sent up to bed
Up rose dolly-some said double jointed-
And moved that a Speaker once be appointed.
After general squabble and tlatter-
| One little lady with long faxen hair,
Amid grear eseitcment, was led to the chair. FEB
Hand on her spencer, she spoke of the honor
Which those who were present had thus cast upon
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-
nifty.
Speech of a member;-her face was of wax;
By her wardrobe, she paid a superb incone-taX.
She said had suffered with grief and vexation.
To see the dismay "boys'' had brought Oh the ma
ton;
They seemed to delight in their grim dissipation;
Their victims were dolls Of every station,
There MT day, and there was MT night,
That her eyes did MT open and shut with alright;
For, not contented with shipping her toes off,
tyrant in shortclothes had melted her nose of;
Though she tried hard to put good face on the
matter,
Grief had melted her down-she had been so much
fatter.
A lady from Paris was next on the floor;
Her train was some twenty five inches or more
She said that abroad she found nothing to her,
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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 to put.half her bows on her
For fear some sly rouge would tear off the clothes
The bellows kept heaving just here where her
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,
Her bones even then were most fearfully aching
doll plump with sawdust held out rare induce
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 small daughter
She wished these remarks to be heard by report
She once laid her offspring to sleep in its cradle,
w nen DOWN came Il memo Win POKER OF laule,
And struck at her darling, hard it 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 raisel
A rag doll remarked that her still harder:
Her home a shelf in the kitchen or larder;
She had MT been blessed with the lot of dolls
Who were tricked out with laces and such fol-de
rolls;
She was trampled and sat from Monday till
Monday,
Her dress never changed, not even on Sunday;
Not to speak of small frights that 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
She ID vote for the total destruction of all boys;
She shuddered in sight of fat, lean, short, and tall
boys,
Especially, too, at the whole of small boys.
They pinched her arm in the door, with 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, but 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 natural foes;
They d better take care how they tread on
toes!
They even deny us the rights Of a cat,
And now we IL endure them no longer,-that s
fati'
Tattle and tea soon followed in turn,
Then somebody moved that the meeting ad-
journ." Our Yong Folks.