Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-13
HAULING OUT DOLLS
OLD TRUNKS ARE RANSACKEI
FOR THEM.
Used for Various Things and Re-
call Childhood
Days.

Along with the proclamation that there
are no old women nowadays, comes the fad
of the woman for dolls. She must have
dolls and plenty of them. for her taste Is
more discriminating than it was in the days
of pinafores, and she soon tires of the all
blond doll
Like a dainty vision of childhood, there
hangs upon her dressing table small, but
beautiful doll, with hair dressed in the lat
est Partisan mode and cluster of baby rib
bon on shoulders and neck. Fine lace and
chiffon vel a pink silk BODICE and the rest
of the doll is hidden beneath long stream
ers of ribbon, covered with chiffon and
decorated around the edges with tiny frill
of lace. Ribbon is disposed upon the skirt
wherever fancy wills, and the skirt is apt
to fiutter aside and disclose long pieces,
about six or more inches in length. of deli
cately tinted flannel, pinked on the edges,
and filed with safety pins, each flannel leaf
holding different SIZE of pin and perhaps
different color. These dolls do not usually
boast more than three flannel skirts or less
than two.
In contrast to the Partisan beauty there
bangles from the other side of the mirror
Japanese dandy He wears a. pleated white
chiffon shirt front, in which are stuck fancy
headed pms for studs and his necktie is a
band of ribbon to which is fastened the rib
bon loop and bows used to hang him up by.
Gathered lavender ribbon forms dropping
sleeves for his arms, and IN these are full
ones of white chiffon. He wears an obi
around the waist, and his feet hidden
somewhere in the bag of fancy lavender rib
bon that is stuffed with wool or cotton and
stuck full of pins of different colors
One girl with a taste for sachet dolls,
has a set of sachets made of gaily dressed
bags of satin and silk that are simply gath
cred with string about dolls neck and
stuffed with sachet cotton and powder.
Ribbons flutter here and there on the cos
tunes; and as likely as not curly doll
head will have hat made of rose perched
upon it, and smiling black doll baby
sometimes has bright bow on her hair and
sometimes a turban.
Women have never outgrown their fond
ness for dolls, and they eagerly seize upon
an excuse for unpacking with tender fingers
the old friends of their childhood. They re-
dress them in cap and bells with bag for
fancy work by way of skirt; or in a nice.
fat pincushioned skirt, or even give them a
place of honor as a decoration.
Dolly sometimes sits upon a big pin
cushion covered with lace ruffies and satin
bows. and sometimes she stands in digni-
fed state upon a good-siZed paper weight,
or, dressed like a favorite 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 or
nament and here she is Invested of every
thing save her head. which is decorated as
coquettishly as possible.
The fad for making sachets. work baskets,
bags, cushions and hangers of all sorts and
decorations for boxes and other odds and
ends. has resulted in the importing of black
Chinese dolls, handsome Indian heads, lit
tie woolly negroes, Dutch dolls. Filipino
dolls and all manner of Japanese and Chi
nese dolls.
Charming effects can be obtained by dress
ing dolls according to the nationality which
they represent.