Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-08

The greatest and certainly the most inter-
esting event of the holiday season is the
dolls fancy dress ball held at Fleishman &
Co. s, Market street, and to which all the
children of the two cities are invited. The
show window Of this enterprising firm is the
realised embodiment OF the dreams Of our
childhood. The window is handsomely ar
ranged as ballroom, with galleries extend
| ing around the hall and filed with the elite
of doll society. The floor is occupied by
several groups Of figures, and in the center Is
old Mother Goose, that We all know so we'll
| and that is 50 dear to the heart of every
child. The Great Western Band, with
Prof Weise gracefully welding his
baton. is stationed to the right
Of the old lady and her goose,
| a crowd of plantation minstrels are having
! q Jolly good time in the other end of the
hall and numerous fairy dancers are trip
ping the light fantastic toe and gliding
| through the may figures of some fairy
dance. But the center Of attraction is the
| grand march. No wonder Mother Goose
looks 80 complacent, as Little Bo Peep
makes her appearance, heading this won-
| derful procession, crook in hand and sur
rounded by her sheep. Then comes Silver
Hair, sleeping SO sWeetly in the little bed.
The three ugly bears have just found her
and are standing round the bed looking at
her. We can almost hear little Tiny
| shrieking, somebody has been lying in my
bed, -lying-still' l'-listen to
the bell = "ding dong, dell. yes, evil
IDENTIFY Pussy's in the well;' what
naughty boy was that to drown
YOU hear . child crying? It is our old
| friends Jack and Jill, and Jack has taken
his usual tumble down the hill. Old Mother
Hubbard is at her cupboard, and her doggie
stands waiting for his bone. The Old
Woman That Lived IN the Shoe and had so
many children she didn't know what to do,
| is inst as much crowded and in as close
quarters as ever. "Here the Conquering
| Hero Comes" and who should it be but the
| valiant Jack who has just killed his giant.
Innocence protected is well illustrated BY the
dear Little Babes in the Woods and their
attendant birds snugly covering them with
| leaves We know every little one that has
read this description is Wishing, wishing,
! wishing hard that she was in the midst Of
the light and the music of this beautiful
BALI" and we know if she is like
the good Cinderella ''as busy as bee from
! morning till night" she viii certainly get
| her wish gratifed, and mothers will make
sure that every little girl will accept her in
vitation, and get to the dolls ball, where
| she will see Cinderella in all her glory.
Poor old GulliVar is still tightly bound and
| his liliputian tormentors are having it all
their own way. "Once upon time their
lived"-the words naturally spring to our
lips as we see Little Red Riding Hood, and
know the wolf is just saying, GOOD day,
where are you going all alone by yourself,
pretty Miss? And last, but not least, in this
| grand pageant is q scene from Midsummer
Night 'sIdream with Queen Titsnis. Bottan
Puck and attendant fairies. Take it all in
all, we may never see its like again. Each
scene is arranged as a float, and the whole
procession is kept in continual motion by
some hidden machinery. Certainly. time,
money, patience and ingenuity have been
| freely given, and the result leaves nothing
to be desired. See it by all means.