Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-10
Bebe Juneau Has Real Eyebrows
and Calls 'Mammi.."
THE BROWNIES And HIS BROTHERS
lngeniousIy Constructed Dudes, Foot
Ball Players and Policemen.
ALSO BABY NTIN G.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
The children of today are not the children
OF a generation ago. Santa Claus has found
1t out and Is acting accordingly. Their
tiny minds have caught the strains and
spirit of the march that is sending civiliza-
ton forward with an ever quickening pace,
and their childish fads and fancies are
truly fin de steele. And now thousands of
def fingers in Germany. France, and even
in the heart of the German quarter here,
are working nimbly on the make believe
babies of high and low degree.
Although that quaint region in Thuringen
''Puppenland," the birthplace of the doll.
has always teen known as Dollieland, from
the reason that the vast majority of dolls
used throughout the world are made there,
still. Paris. according to the experts, has
the lead I'm the manufacture of the most
aristocratic and finely finished dolls.
Bebe Juneau.
The precious pet now being prepared for
the holiday rush is the Bebe Juneau, and
she and her sisters bring prices ranging
from 81 to $40. This, of course. allows her
nothing but the pasteboard box and the
scant gauze chemise which covers her
beautifully jointed body. Bebe this year
gleries in many new embellishments.
Besides being able to call mamma and
papa in most distinct tones, Joints have
been added at her wrists which. combined
with the movements of her elbow and
shoulder, lend charming grace to the ges-
lures she may be compelled to assume, and.
wonder OF wonders! she has eyebrows of
real hair and when she is put to sleep the
dark silken fringe sweeps slowly down.
ward and. outlining itself beneath the tint
ed lid, transforms her truly into a sleep
ing beauty of which the most exacting
mother would be proud.
Her hair Is human, long. soft and finely
woven, and can be curied or dressed IN the
latest Paris mode according to the taste
and fancy of the youthful possessor, and
of her gowns, shoes and hats-well, a small
fortune can be spent upon her In that line;
but of them, later. In point Of size Bebe
can be bought anywhere from twelve inches
TO the height and proportion of a well-form-
ed three-year-old real baby. with express
sions to suit.
As fer the aristocratfc German dolls, they,
tco, are beautifully constructed with joints
that permit of the imitation of almost every
human movement, and they have prettier
faces than the French dolls, and In a year
II will be but a matter Of taste as to which
doll is the leader.
Rag Baby Dolls.
Right here In New York there Is a little
corner that has been plucked from the
heart of Puppenland. and 1t seems as If
the very atmosphere of the Thuringenwald
surrounded them, for the whole family,
consisting Of ''mutter, vader und der
klener," are making dolls now, from early
morning until late at night, and true to
tradition and custom, "'mutter," a pleasant
faced frau, transacts all of the business and
brings all of the work to the 23d street
firm, who will soon begin to sell them at
the rate of fifty a day.
The doll is rag baby. That is what 1t
looks like, but 1t is stuffed with hair and