, 1889-11-27

anu uUD bSICt6iht wang. Au0 IuR0@
NOUS spirits of the EdisOa Phone.
graph Toy Manufacturing Company win,
however, doubtless be ready to SurmOunt
these little difficulties. They will supply
dolls which will refrain from ''gueSSing.'
calculating" or "~reck0nlng' instead Of
thinking, and which will torbear from in
dulgiug in such purely local ejaculatiOnS,
as "Blame my cats T. or Lawful sakcsF'
In commiseratlon perhaps, for our benight-
cd COckney condition, the Boston company
may be so Kind as to favour US with a con-
tlngent of dolls which say "ouse' instead
of "houSe," and "hOut' instead Of scout"
But, granting the successful removal Of
these slight obst aCles, the more crucial
problem arises, What are the phOno-
graphic dolls to says With % supply OF
these l0quaciOuS toys to the United States
the other English.speaking nations have
clearly nothing to do; but We distinctly
warn the Boston company that Great
Britain will decline to accept dolls which
inform us in more or less mOurntul accents
that George Washington never told q
lie" or which reproduce either in whole
or in part the celebrated Fourth ct July
discourse of Orator Pop, in which there
was pictured General Jackson at tue Bat.
tie Of New Orleans mounted on a skew
bald charger, waving y crooked sabre
above his he al, up to his waist in blood
and glory, ana giving the British thunder.
These pr0luSionS are all very we'll tor
Boston Common and jamaica Plains, but
they are not calculated tor the meridian
OF the Burlington Ar0ale. 1t is, n6Verthe-
less, far from unlikely thab the B )>tOn @ IN.
pany will suit their res to the markets
which they hope to secure, and that they
will keep what may be called their spread
eagle prattling dolls for their own con-
sumption. They will remember that large
numbers Of photographic playthiGgS may
Do required for British nurseries. But
here, again, q difficulty arises. We arc
constrained to say that, although Words
worth and Mrs. HemLnS were very sweet
poets, We are somewhat tired Of "We ara
Seven" and "The Graves of u Household"
"The boy stood on the burning deck may
also be considered RI POLITICALLY played out;
and goodness fortend that any ph0nO-
graphic doll should he heard to gabble
"The Isles Of Greece" or to murmur, in q
more or less muddled tone, "NOt a drum
was heard'I The same objections might
apply to EThe Village Blacksmith and
"Twinkle, t Wrinkle, little star; but we are
not prepN ed to say that the British mimic,
now that tn banjo has become so fashion
able, would object to such frank and cordial
strOphes OF Ethiopian minstrelSy as GLOW
in the world did you get dar Z" or ooh
Mr.. Coon, you BIN too soon, De gals dey'
won't be ready till tomorrow afternoon"
Whatever nay be the degree of accept.
ance secured among children by phone,
graphic dolls, those extremely ingeni.
GUS devices should certainly find favour
among adults to whom listening to speech
es is a source OF qualification. For
these a series Of dolls might be mann.
factured with vocal Arrangements supplied
by accomplished mimicS, who would thls
place the Ellison Photograph Toy Manu-.
featuring Company in a position to turn
out DR.. Johnson dolls, Carlyle dolls,
Charles Dickens dolls, Sir Robert Peel
dolls, and a variety of other effgies, war
ranted to reproduce thu stimuli tied utter
ances of the leading political, fashionable,
scientific, literary. AMI artistic celebrities
Of the day. When We felt dull we might
SGT the Wi!frid Lawson or the HarcOurt
cylinder in motion, and what d food OF
el0quence on all conceivable topics might
be ground out of a Gladstone dOll!-DGiIy
Telegraph.