The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-22

we, even we grown-ups?
Lucky there are new ones to be had down.
town. isn't it?
When we big people lose or break our
dolls We can't get any new ones. as a rule.
But y0u small folk just get some one to buy
you new ones or some one gives you new
one.
Giving's the bettcr way. perhaps, and the
more fashionable, too, about Christmas
time.
Christmas is the dolls season, you know.
Just as big rich people have their ball
season and their opera season and their
yachting season, so merry Christmas is the
dolls season.
Why do they choose Christmas?
For many reasons.
just about now people give presents, and
real smaitly dressed doll runs a good
chance Of falling to some real nice little
girl.
That's one reason.
Then dolls are particular-mighty par
ticular. you know-about their company.
About Christmas they don't lie around
with a lot OF old common toys and things.
but they are put in the store-windows with
the best and pretiiest things and then they
look their best.
How can any doll look well at the back
OF a dingy old store with only gaslight to
lips and her tailor-msde toiletP
Why. it's impossible: she can't
But out In the store window, under the
bright electric light, with nice. expensive
things around and with hundreds of people
looking in. OF course il IS different then.
The very company OF hundreds of 9th ell
dolls seems to put each on her mettle.
They stand there dressed in the very
height of fashion, yeritable dancing de-
lirlum of delightful dollsl
The dolls Four Hundred and the dolls
forty thousand. too.
All sorts and kinds and conditions of
dolls from scents apiece up to a $50 beauty,
as big as real live baby and dressed like a
bride.
Last dolls season it was all talking
dolls"
Edison. the electric wizard. had invented
Photographic baby that would open her
little mouth and say Mamma" and Papa, +"
aud even say funuily. 20, put me In my
little bed!'
But this dolly was too bright to last, she
got out of order inside somehow aud was
always wanting the Doctor
Perhaps she had been too much educated
at Wizard Edison's school and her brain
gave way.
However that may be, the demand for
the elaborate mechanical doll is not great
this season.
Little mothers think they themselves can
DO all the talking necessary, and so they
have fallen back upon the patient unre-
beliious old dolly, whom they can rely
upon.
Little mothers are very like big people in
that, too, aren't they? The old way is often
found the best after all and the old friend
too.
But, although the old style of doll is mos
generally In demand, there are new forms
OF her-lots OF them.
III you want new doll-just to choose,
you know, not TO buy, so that Santa Claus
Will know what to bring you on Christmas
day-yOu must 60 down and look in that
stOrQ- X ipnuxy n q yad ahunt hafnra
There. in the center, is the Partisan Mar
quis and Marquise de Rouge-et- Noir, the
handsomest pair of the lot They will walk
together, IL wound up. aud look as IL they
witching little opera-cloak, trimmed with
swans down, and his elegant satin knee
breeches and powdered hair.
why, IL must be a masQue BAL. of course
that they are going TO. Gentlemen don't
wear powdered hair and knee-breeches 10
the theater. OF course not
Well, this natty little couple are labeled
| SAL. which would buy a whole lot of bread
and meat and groceries and coal and things
| Tor some poor people, whose little girls per-
haps won't get even enough to eat this
| Christmas.
Next to the French couple Is the black
| dolly.
She is the Yellow Rose OF Texas and her
| eyes las told in the song, you know are
bright as diamonds and sparkle as the
devr7
There's q cute little doll for you. now.
with funny, curly woolly hair, a long white
Mother Hubbard kind of garment tied
| around with bright cardinal sash.
And only So 30 says the label.
Or there, ~ the corner, Is real baby,
that you can dress and undress and put TO
bed and give bath TO aud everything.
lou can get her for 81 and then you can
| buy whole toilet for her-fans, parasols.
undertaking. Dighties. hats, jewelry and
| everything. 1t will be like having a real
baby, only much cheaper.
| One Of the latest kind OF dolls is the
mourning doll. dressed in deepest crepe. IL
is intended specially for rich bereaved
children, who are desired to play properly
through the weeks of dark fabrics and
tempered anguish. Yes, it does seem lit
tie unnecessary. perhaps.
Then there are the Lillian Russell.
| Mozambique Smith dolls, and the electric
| dolls and the bicycle dolls, aud the squeak
ing dolls, and the dolls that come without
| any clothes and have to be dressed. and
| Thousands of other little darliugs.
You can just take your pick aud leave i,
to Santa Claus, ana, while you think of it
| tell Santa about some poor little girl and
| what doll shs would like.
| Perhaps he will make you both happy al
| the same time Oh Christmas day. an6
| wouldn't that he pice9