The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1904-04-07
THE DOLLS OF CHILDHOOD.


LueTo are no Ola women nowadays,
comes the fad of the woman for dolls.
She must have dolls and plenty Of them.
says the Washington Star, for her taste
Is more discriminating than it was in
the days of pinafores, and she soon tires
of the all-blonde doll.
Like dainty vision of childhood.
there hangs upon her dressing table
small, but beautiful doll, with hair
dressed in the latest Partisan mode and
cluster of baby ribbon on shoulders and
neck. Fine lace and chiffon veil pink
silk bodice, and the rest of the doll is
hidden beneath long streamers Of rib
bon, covered with chiffon and decorated
around the edges with tiny frill Of lace.
Ribbon is disposed upon the skirt wher-
ever fancy Wills. and the skirt is apt to
flutter aside and disclose long pieces,
about six or more inches in length, Of
delicately tinted flannel, pinked on the
edges, and filed with safety pins, each
flannel leaf holding a different size of
pin and perhaps different color. These
dolls do not usually boast more than
three flannels skirts or less than two.
In contrast to the Partisan beauty
there bangles from the other side of the
mirror a Japanese dandy. He wears .
plated white chiffon shirt front, in
which are stuck fancy headed pins for
studs, and his necktie is band OF RIB
bon to which is fastened the ribbon loop
and bows used to hang him up by. Gath
cred lavender ribbon forms dropping
sleeves for his arms, and in these are full
ones of white chiffon. He wears an obi
den somewhere in the bag Of fancy
lavender ribbon that is stuffed with wool
or cotton and stuck full of pins of diff
ferent colors.
One girl, with taste of sachet dolls,
has a set Of sachets made of gayly
dressed bags of satin and silk that are
simply gathered with string about a
| dolls neck and stuffed with sachet cot
| ton and powder. Ribbons flutter here
and there on the costumes; and as likely
as not curly dolls head will have hat
made of rose perched upon it, and a
smiling black doll baby sometimes has .
bright bow on her hair and sometimes Z
turban.
Women have never outgrown their
fondness for dolls, and the eagerly
seize upon an excuse for unpacking with
tender fingers the old friends of their
childhood. They redress them in cap
and bells, with bag for fancy work by
way of skirt; or in nice. fat pincush-
toned skirt. or even give them place
Of honor as decoration.
| Dolly sometimes sits upon big PIN
cushion covered with lace rufiies and
satin bows, and sometimes she stands in
dignified state upon good-sized paper
weight, or. dressed like fayorite OF
the opera. she forms the top of long
box of candy, around which her skirts
Of crepe paper are pasted.
Penwipers, too, claim the doll for an
ornament, and here she is Invested OF
everything save her head, which il
decorated as coquettishly as possible
The fad for making sachets, work
baskets, bags, cushions and hangers oi
all sorts and decorations for boxes and
other odds and ends, has resulted in the
importing of black Chinese dolls, hand.
same Indian heads. little woolly ne.
groes, Dutch dolls, Filipino dolls and ali
manner of japanese and Chinese dolls.
Charming effects can be obtained by
dressing dolls according to the nation.
ality which they represent.