Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15
DOLLIES THAT TALK.
Possibilities of ti:e Monograph Wheu
 Used to Amuse the Children.

Used to Amuse the Children. The Edison works at Orange are run ming these days on 8 new delight for little folks. They are at work on a lot of 5000 dolls. Marvellous dolls are these. Not only do these dolls have sure-enough ha1r 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 them, not only can they walk and clap their hands they can talk and sing. It is sure- enough talk, too, and not the exasperat- i-i''e. con bination of sounds produced by reee.s In the doi1s hitherto called talk. ing babies.
 Great larks the little folks are going [ to have with these dolls, for mere talk i is but one of their accomplishments. They can sing as we'll, and they can talk and sing in many foreign lan- guages. 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 my little lady has learned to talk French from a pretty French nurse, while her doll may very likely say something like this:
 Dors, enfant cheril
 DorS beln.
 Ton petit ventre
 Est vide de pain.
 Mais a sa place
 Pour tout besoin
 Tu as un phono
 Du grand Edison.
 Or may be Berlin is the place of resi- dence and the make-believe mammals tongue has got some of the kinks and twists in it which young Yankee tongues acquire in the fatherland, while the doll, when bedtime comes, buries it's head in downy little pillow, closes it's eyes and says, softly:
 Ach ich bin so nude, ach ich bin 80 matt;
 Mochte germ gu Bette gehen,
 Morgen weider fruh aufstehen.
 From the lips of beauty of Castile 1t may be made to say:
 An, mi vida, mi corazon;
 Mi pan de manteca, mi chucheron.
 To complete it's education and round out the interest to be excited in the vis- itOrs to the make-believe mamma, the doll should be able to Say: "Och, Norah, agra, it's glad Oi am to see yez," and 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 the doll turns out the tongues that speak all languages. The peculiarity of these dolls is that they are notifications of Edison's pho nograph. 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 the 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 nursery rhymes, and, as the dolls are to be sold everywhere. the cylinders have to be 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 the ability to talk within limits just as real folks do.-N. Y. Sun.