Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-02-13
DOLLlES THAT TALK.
Possibilities of the Photograph When
Used to Amuse the Children.

OSeu Co AmuSe the Children.
The Edison works at Orange are run.
ming these days ON new delight for
little folks. They are at work on lot
of $4,000 dolls Marvellous dolls arc
these. Not only do these dolls havo
sure-onough halr and eyebrows, not
only do they roll their eyes about as if
looking for mother, not only can their
eyes be closed when they are tucked in
to dainty little cribs, with snowy linens
and bright silks to cover thom, not only
can they walk and clap their hands
they can talk and sing. 1t is sure
enough talk, too, and not the cxasporat-
ing con bination of sounds produced by
reeds in the dolls hitherto called talk
ing babies.
Great larlis the little folks are going
to have with these dolls, for nero talk
is but one of their accomplishments
They can sing as we'll, and they can
talk and sing in many foreign Ian
Ruages. 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 cat no lean, and such
other nursery rhymes as please little
folks. After few months in Paris nv
little lady has learned to talk French
from pretty french nurse, while her
doll may very likely say something like
this;
---"~' Dors cnfant cheril
DORIS beln.
Ton petit ventro
Est vide de pain.
liaiS O Sa place
Pour tout besoin
Tu as TN phono'
Du grand Edison,
Or may bo Berlin is the place of resi-
dence, and the make-believe mammals
tongue has got some OF the kinks and
twists In which young Yankee tongues
acquire in the fatherland, whilo tho
doll, when bedtime comes, buries its
head in a DOWN. little pillow, closes its
eyes and says, softly:
Ach ich bin SO nude ach ich bin 60 matt:
Mochte germ zu Bette gchen,
Mcrgen weidcr fruh aufstehen.
From the lips of beauty of CASTLE it
may be made to say:
Ah, iyida, mi corazon;
Nj pan dc nantcca, mi chucheror. --
To complete its education and round
out the interest to be excited in tle vis-
itors to the make-be1ieve mamma, tho
doll should be able to say; 'Och, Norah,
agra, It's glad Oi am to see yez,'' and
that will bo as easy for tho 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 mplishmcnts, for the
shop that turns out tho doll turns out
the tongues that speak all languages.
The peculiarity of these dolls is that
they arc notifications of Edison's pho
nograph. AS already intimated in the
French rhyme, tho interior of the doll
contains mechanism for operating
phonograph. The cylinder of wax is
made harder than whom used in tho
phonograph, 30 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 nursery rhymes, and, as the dolls
are to be sold everywhere. the cylinders
have 10 pe Impressed with all sorts Of
Languages. Having become tired of
nursery talk in English, the owner of
the doll has only to open it's back, take
out the cylinder and substitute one in
any sort of language desired. The dolls
will cost, perhaps, three dollars more for
having tho ability to talk within limits
just as real folks don. Y. Sun.
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