The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-12
VERY LEARNED DOLLS.
Edison's Manikins that Can Speak i
Several Foreign Languages.

EQlSOnS Man1kinS Cnat Can speak IN
Several Foreign Languages.
From our Second Century.
The Edison works at Orange are running
these days on new delight for little folks.
They are at work on lot of $4,000 dolls,
and the first installment was completed Sat
urday Marvellous dolls are these. Not
only do these dolls have sure enough hair
and eyebrows, not only can they roll their
eyes about as if looking for mother, not only
can their eyes be closed when they are
tucked into dainty little cribs with snowy
linens and bright silks to cover them, not
only can they walk and clap their hands
they can talk and sing. 1t is sure enough
talk, too, and not the exasperating combin-
alton of sounds produced by reeds in the
dolls hitherto called talking babies.
Great larks the little folks are going to
have with these dolls, for mere talk is but
one of their accomplishments. They can
sing as well, and they can talk and sing in
many foreign languages. My little lady
will go abroad, taking along her doll that is
able to tell how Jack Spratt could eat no fat
and his wife could eat no lean, and such
other nursery rhymes as please little folks.
After few months in Paris the little lady
has learned to talk French from a pretty
French nurse, while her doll may very likely
say something like this:
DORIS, enfant cher!
DORIS ben.
Ton petit ventre
Est vide de pain,
Mais sa place
Pour tout besoin
Tu as I'm phone
Du grand Edison.
Or maybe Berlin is the place of residence
and the make believe mamma's tongue has
got some of toe kinks and twists in 1t which
young yankee tongues acquire in the Faith
erlaud, while the doll, when bedtime
comes. buries its head in downy little pill
low, closes its eyes, and says softly:
Ach ich bin so muede, ach ich bin so matt;
Moechte germ I'll Bette gehen,
Morgen wieder frueh aufstehen.
From the lips of beauty of CASTLE it
may be made to say:
An, mi vida, mi corazon;
MI pan de manteca, mi churcheron.
To complete its education and round out
the interest to be excited in the visitors to
the make-believe mamma the doll should be
able to say, "Och, Nora, agra, it's glad Oh
am to see yez," aud that will be as easy for
the doll to say as are the softer words of
the nursery songs. Indeed, it will be by no
means necessary for the doll to go abroad
to get all these accomplishments. for the
shop that turns out these dolls turns out the
tongues that speak all the languages.
The popularity of these dolls is that they
are notifications of Edison's photograph.
As already intimated in the French rhyme,
the interior of the doll contains mechanism
for operating photograph. The cylinder
of wax is made harder than when used in
phonograph. SO that it will stand rough
usage, and it is, of course, by no means as
large. These cylinders are stamped with
all sorts of Mother Goose melodies and nur-
sery rhymes, and as the dolls are to be sold
everywhere, the cylinders have TO be i'm
pressed with all sorts of languages. Hav-
ing become tired of the nursery talk in En-
glsh, the owner of the doll has only TO open
its back, take out the cylinder, and substi-
tute one In any sort of language desired.
The dolls will cost perhaps IS more for hav-
ing the ability to talk within limits just as
real folks do.