The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-18

must be put in the water at the time of
boiling.
Thus prepared the hair is passed over
to young women whose sole employment
Il IS TO dress II and arrange the coiffures
or the doll world. They borrow the fash
ions from life and follow all the various
modes for children or ladies' The least
expensive sort of couture Is the frizzled
or curly pate. The mohair is cut in pieces
OF the desired length, and curled over a
not slate pencil or stick of glass. and then
glued in place. The next method is a lit
Tie more costly. It consists of elaborate
~ dressed back hair, made on a founda-
ton OF strong net, like an ordinary wig
ana fastened on, while the front hair Is
CURED and glued as before The third
style is more troublesome and expensive
II IS full wig, the hair being carefully
seWed by hand to the net which fits the
head, with proper regard to parting in the
middle, putting at the sides, braiding at
the crown, coiling, and all the rest A
still more troublesome and expensive pro-
cess Is 10 insert the hair, one hair at a
time in the wax; but this is seldom done.
Simple as doll head looks, it will
scarcely be credited that to bring II to
its perfect state, 1t has passed through
the hands of no fewer than thirtv-eiqht
different rk-people-each being specially
skillful in one of the minute operations
which, in the aggregate. make up the
sum OF ats beauty The finished heads are
then sent to another department of the
factory, where they are attached TO the
bodies. The interior of the bust is now
coated with a tenacious sort of glue at
least In the case of wax dolls, and the
mead is dettly set in position. With china
heads, the body must be sewed on through
holes which have been made in the ma
terial before it is baked.
The question will doubtless be asked:
Where do the doll bodies come FROM"
The people of the outlying hamlets sup
ply them, as, indeed, they furnish the va
rious pants of all the multttudes Of differ
emit toys which belong to a toy merchants
stock. Every cottage ds a workshop, and
the business is essentially a home indus
try, founded and conducted upon the
principle of divided labor, and even the
child OF three or four years must con-
tribute his share to the common stock.
Almost every toy is composed of from
four to eight parts, and the very cheap
price at which the finished article is sold
makes 1T necessary that each separate
part shall be made by a different maker
who has obtained the maximum of ex-
pertness by combining himself to a special
branch of manufacture.
Thus the business of making doll bodies
is separate from that of making the heads
just as the manufacture of the heads is
distinct from that of fashioning the arms
and legs. The envelope of the body is
either of fine leather, linen, or nankeen.
The cutting of these envelopes in the de-
sired shape is done through thick layers.
The bodies are next stitched together, and
stuffed with either hay or sawdust until
lAty ldht the stlilbldnC6 ol the nuINdu
form divine. Hay is more generally used
than sawdust, because the greater num-
Der of dolls are provided with a bellows,
which gives them the power of speech,
and might work itself into the air orifces
of the bellows.
The glass eyes for the dolls are made
for the most part in a small village near
Sonneberg, called Lauscha. The inhabi-
. tants of this village are descendants of a
colony of Bohemian glass blowers who set
tied at this place more than 200 years ago.
So expert have they become in the man
ufacture of glass eyes, not only for dolls,
but also for such of the human race who
happen to need artificial eyes. that they
have almost a monopoly of the trade of
Vienna send to this little remote village,
deep in the heart of Thuringia for artifi-
cial eyes of every description. Here also
are made dolls earrings, either of glass
or of gilded metal