The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-24

games. Accordingly she piled on its
bed all the dolls clothes, added several
lead pencils, a few sticks of cinnamon,
grated over this some nutmeg, and
emptied over the funeral pyre vial of
perfume. Finally. with many tears,
she pretended that poor dolly had
stabbed herself, and, laying the I'M
happy sawdust corpse on the bed, set
fire to it. At first the fire ragged mer-
rily but when it began to burn the doll
poor little Jane WelShS feelings gave
way. She snatched her darling from
the flames, but all too late and the
much loved toy was soon reduced to
ashes.
George Eliot possessed several dolls
in her childhood, but gave them her at
tention or affection only by fits and
starts. In her novel called THE Mill
on the Floss" she writes of a little
girl, Maggie Tulliver, who kept in the
garnet hideous wooden doll. lacking a
head, one arm and a leg. When poor
garnet to weep and drive nails into the
forlorn body of this wretched plaything
called Fetish. Every nail in Fetish'S
body represented the fault for which
Maggie mourned or suffered punish
ment. When grown to be a famous
woman, George Eliot confessed that in
her youthful days she had owned and
Maggie's behavior was the true story
of her own childish life.
The very tenderest doll mamas were
Miss Jean Ingelow and Mrs. Ritchie,
William NJ. Thackeray's daughter. Miss
IngelOw possessed special waxen fav-
orite that she named Amelia. A charm
ing time did Amelia have with the low
ing little Jean. Amelia went everywhere
her mother did, she was introduced to
all the agreeable people who came to
the Ingelow house, her dresses were
always made from a piece of whatever
cloth her mother wore. and when games
or merry times were enjoyed in the
nursery Amelia was thoughtfully
placed wherever she could take in the
fun with the rest of the young folks
An ill-advised bath on a hot DAY was
so hopelessly destructive to Amelias
painted beauty and sawdust constitu-
ton that the Ingelow family pronounce
ed her quite dead. Her funeral was Well
attended, and for many months Jean
sorrowed for Amelia and refused ever
to take another doll to her heart
Not only her own big doll family, but
all dolls, fine or shabby, large or small.
black or white, who came little Annie
rhackeray's way shared the tender af-
lection of her overfiowing heart When
a very little girl she believed dolls were
quite as much alive as real babies, and
if they lost heads or arms the missing
members would grow again. This was
because when her babies suffered an
accident and she went weeping to her !
father he would gravely assure her !
that all dolly needed was an interview |
with the family physician. Putting the |
toy in mis- pocket, he would pretend to |
be off TO the doctors. Instead, of course |
he went straight TO a toy shop, had the |
doll repaired and returned her whole |
and hearty to his daughter.
When, at Ia years of age, George |
Sand heard some one laugh at the idea /
of so big a girl still playing with dolls,
like Mrs. Carlyle, she concluded to give
them up. With tears and hearty hugs
she babe every one of them adieu and
locked them in q garnet closet. At
first the separation from her adored
was almost more than she
could bear, and every day she would sit
for an hour or two, sad and fearful,
outside the closet door, sometimes
words of comfort through
the kcyhole to the poor exiles, but she
never broke her VOW to have done with
dolls, and by and by they were forgot
ten.
Surely, it is hardly to be wondered at
that Florence Nightingale'S dolls all en-
]oyed very Indifferent health. Time and
time again fell disease Stalked through
y
that their lives were quite despaired of,
but the little girl, who was TO grow up
to be such a ministering angel TO thou
sands in real suffering, always pulled
her babies through their worst attacks
One night youthful Miss Florence as
5ured her nurse she could not possibly
go TO bed, since feverish rag baby
would seed to be watched every honr
It was only when both nurse and mother
assured the little girl that one of them
would sit right beside the invalid that
Florence consented to go to bed. Once
Dr. twice, thinking the child was fast
asleep, the nurse attempted to leave her
post, but Florence was awake in an in
slant. At midnight a second effort was
made to desert the sufferer. but The
child woke again, and in the end the
nurse was obliged to remain beside the
DOLLS bed until Miss Nightingale was
up, bright and early in the morniag,
and able to pronounce the patient vast
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