Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-03-21
special corre.pendenc. Of ,.aastts ana journal

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ire getting ready to be married, but we
are not. We are cutting out paper dolls. |
And when say "we," mean my little |
jew friend Isadore and your humble |
servant. When / was very little girl,
paper dolls were esteemed of some
worth, but not very much. Now they
have reached stage Of magnificence
that makes them longed for by all small
people, who have delightful time play
ing that these beautifully we'll
dressed ladies and gentlemen are ''really
and rightly" You can buy paper
coach, with gentleman correctly
dressed driving fourth. hand, with the
Princess of Wales sitting beside him,
and various other members of the royal
family enjoying themselves getting the
fresh air, in their best bibs and fuckers.
You can also,if you have money enough,
buy a dinner table, properly spread,
with a lot of bowling swells sitting
around it, and longing for the luscious
paper dishes. We weren't cutting out
that kind. 1t takes too much money to
permit the shipping into them. But we
were having beautiful time cutting
out individual dolls; putting their
clothes on them, and seeing that their
lsadore, who was doing the FASTING, got
Pocahonta's long, flowing, black locks
on Queen Victoria; but that wasn't as
bad break as putting Buffalo Bills
head on the Daisy Queen Of SPANS
shoulders. However, these little mis-
takes were rectified, and the large family
OF paper dolls was ready to start ont.
CRIPPLED CHILpREN's PLAYGROUND.
Where were they going2 Uptown on a
corner almost in the heart of the city,
near where the noisy trains come in, is
building tina. was put up by kind
hearted people that it might be o home
and resting place for the little children
who couldn't run and jump and play
like those of yours whom YOU love so
dearly. Although the elevated road is
quite near it, and the great station just
on the other side, these little people have
fine garden. Its way up on top of the
house, all closed in by glass, so that in
winter time there is enough warmth,
and in the summer the glass top can be
rolled back and the rays of sunshine fall
on the children, warm and golden. All
the little folk who are not in bed are
helped to the elevator, or are rolled
there in chairs, and they go up in squad;
10 the big playground. There they
have hammocks and swings, and, if they
are boys, they play ball, and if they are
girls they have whole families of dolls
who have good time with their little
mothers. 1t is true no boy runs afteI
the ball, but it is also true that, amons
all these little people there is not singl,
crutch. The good doctor thinks that i
they can walk at all, they can do
slowly and without the crutch the
would distort their shoulders.
These are the people for whom Isador
and have been working. We hat
paper dolls by the hundreds, and, in ad
dition, we had wonderful book tina
was TO belong to all the children for al
time; but for special times it WAS to b
the property of that one who was mos
unhappy. The leaves of this book wer
in color like unto the rainbow. TIL
edges were pinked in tiny points, and O.
every page was pasted pictures of al
sorts and conditions Of people, and dog
and cats and ships, and everything tina
could possibly interest child. On
page was great 1t had tierce-lookin
bulldog in the centre, while up in on
corner, so placed that they turned u
their aristocratic noses at u cherub pu
in another corner, was a group of TO
terriers. Then, too, there were page
with nothing but babies on them; thel
were pages rich with flowers, and "
believed that, unless boy was in grei
pain, he would always find somethir
to amuse him in that book.
WHEN WE GOT UP THERE
there was much merriment going o
The little people were having treat
iced cream and cake. This pleasure w
given to them by lady in the West,
lady who made me her almoner, oil
Whose kindness have never been al
TO acknowledge, because careless ST
want destroyed her letter, and so her a
dress was lost. Her money furnish
iced cream for all these little people, a
another kind woman gave the cake,
that they really had party. When o
is young and sick and fevorish, there
nothing that tastes quite so good as ic
cream. And when one is young a
feels we'll, except for that bad leg, W
then there is nothing quite SO good
iced cream. After the party came
paper dolls. The smallest girl OF all L
first choice.
SHE TOOK QUEEN VICTORIA,
d Uduy III lOls GlOLnGst anu wi. SlG
land riding q pony. AS she was oil
years old, her mistake in choosing
Cleveland must be set down to
youth. Jimmy had the next cho
Jimmy is a dear friend of mine, W
according to actual time, has been
this earth nine years, counted by y
he has lived hundred. Always Ii
there in his little bed, and the pail
l,nI Nuhnt1 FIip,unu -
smile. The other day lady gave |
pot of primroscs. Two Of the b
have blossomcd, and Jimmy felt h
self rich man to-day because, tho
he couldn't go up on the roof, his flo
went up, and all the children looket
it. They knew what were the
flowers and what were the new,
they credited the birth of the new
tirely to Tinlmy's influence.
Jimmy chose lady dolls. He hasr
very good opinion Of men. lie woull
, be where he now is if his father La
1 kicked him downstairs once when he
too drunk to know whether bah
three, or piece OF wood, were not
same. TImmy thinks that most
get drunk and beat their wives and
rough with their children because IL
the style of men he met IN the tenen
he used to live in. However, he ha:
GREAT ADMIRATION FOR LADIE'
SO he chose "The Queen Of the Inc
who had real spangieS on her dress,
who was Immediately spoken OF MS
Queen of de Dinkies." Then he
Mrs. Langtry and bride, and a
Notwithstanding lady, riding
horse in light.blue habit, describe
"The Empress of the French If