The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-12

of the journey with his-Pompilia's
place among Browning's women--Is
Pompilia's character in keeping with
the realism of the rest Of the poem?
The international doll collection,
which is to visit Worcester this week,
exceeds in variety and size every other
collection of dolls in the world. 1t
numbers over 300 dolls. When Mrs.
Elizabeth r. Horton of Boston was
convalescing from a severe Illness, sew
eral years ago, some one gave her a
peanut doll, and this peanut doll
amused her great deal and suggested
to her the plan that has since material
lied so beautifully-that Of aiding chill
dren's charities everywhere.
Now, the international doll collection
does not come to Worcester in the way
of charity; it comes here because the
pupils and teachers and principal of
Oxford street school want to raise
money to decorate the rooms of their
building with. They are tired of bleak
walls and unlovely rooms, and they
take this means of earning money with
which to change these conditions, hop
ing that their friends will help them.
The dolls will be on exhibition from
the 14th to the 18th inclusive, all day
and through the evenings, at $50 Main
street, in the Higgins block. The adj
mission fee will be 10 cents for chill
dren, 20 cents for adults.
These dolls have been all over the
country. Their very flattering press
notices are from Boston, Chicago,
Council Bluffs Qa.), Lincoln (Neb.),
Brattleboro CVt.), Foxboro, Salem,
Manchester On. H., and Kansas City.
They went to the trans Mississippi eX-
position in Omaha, where they attract
ed wide attention. The Boston Her
aid calls the collection especially fas
cinating and interesting for old and
young; the Boston Globe says that
even men and women who have once
seen 1T want to see 1t again, and the
fastidious Boston Transcript character
ICES it as one of the most curious and
interesting exhibits ever held in Bos
ton, the dolls being singularly beau
tiful and undeniably rare, while every
one has an interesting history and is
genuine.
In the collection are dolls of wood,
wax, china, rags, pasteboard, corn
husks, peanuts, soap, acorns, brooms,
potatoes, raisns and figs, nuts,
| sponges, clay, corn cobs, pipes; dolls
from Austria. Armenia, Aleutian ISL
| ands, Bermuda. Bosnia, Cuba, China,
Constantinople, Damascus. England,
France Fiji Islands, Gibraltar, Herze-
govina, Indian mounds, Japan Jamai-
ca, Jerusalem, Kiowa Indians, Labra
dor, Moqui Indians, No Mans Land,
Portugal, Peru, Pribyloff Islands, Qui-
to, Roumania, Sandwich Islands. Tur-
key, Unalaska Vienna, Wales, Yuma
and Zanzibar; a soap doll which went
| through Harvard college, one from the
| root of the cedar Of Lebanon, one 200
years old, one who has had only two
owners in rs years. one contributed by
| the prime minister of Austria, one by
Queen Liliuokalani, a Klondike doll by
| Lyman Gage, Jr., and others.
Among the Worcester ladies who are
| interested in the exhibition are Mrs.
J. Russell Marble Mrs. J. E. Day, Mrs.
| Emerson Warner, Mrs. D. S. Ellis and
Mrs. j. Bradford Sargent.
| Four of the assistant teachers of the
Worcester pianoforte school gave a
highly meritorious recital last night at
the school on Foster street. There was
large audience present to hear them
and a cordial appreciation of their ef-
| forts was shown. Miss Mirabelle Spear
| Of Walpole opened the program with a
good reading of the first movement Of
Mozart's unvexed beautiful concerto
| in 4 fiat major with Miss Tucker at
| the second plano; Miss Bessie j. Shelf
| field followed with Chopin's MaZour-
kas, Nos. 81, IA, 46, 49 and AZ, which
were brilliantly played. Leander r.
Howe's playing of the List consolation
in D flat major and the Schumann-
List Widmung was emphatically
poetic and refined. The appearance of
Miss Ethel ROBBIE of Grafton, last on
| the program, was the signal for a burst
of vigorous applause from the large
Grafton contingent, and this reception
was justified by Miss R2bie's brilliant
rendering of Cropin's Polonaise in E
| fiat.
Miss Mary A. Miles, assistant teacher
in the Worcester Pianoforte school,
will give the next recital next month,
assisted by William Howard. viollnst.
Miss Tucker. principal of the school,
| will also begin her second series of
| lecture recitals in January.