New-York tribune., 1906-08-19
FASCINATING DOLLS.
Miss Bre5cer's Large Collection
Gathered ia Her Travels.

There is something pereunially fascinating about
doll. 1t appeals TO the grown woman hardly less
than TO the little girl in the nursery. It is no
wonder therefore, that good many women make
fad of collecting dolls. but few are so successful
Miss Maud Brewer. of Longmeadow. Mass.
She owns 1s5 dolls. a larger collection even than
the one in which Queen Victoria took such pride
Miss Brewers dolls souvenirs of extensive
travels I'm this country and abroad They are OF
all nationalities, beautiful and ugly big and little,
but all OF them dolls such children have
actually played with do play with. Miss Brewer
never buys freak dolls. which are made simply to
be looked at, her collection truly represents the
doll toys Of all sorts OF times and peoples.
Miss Brewer began her collection twenty years
ago with old colored nanny doll from the
South. fat. buXOm figure suggestive of lullabies
and con cake Soon after that she obtained
English doll OF 1890 made OF solid block Of wood,
ana in contrast with this unweldy toy she has
tiny specimen, only half inch long, but per-
fectly jcinted, which she got at Innsbruck when
abroad On the same trip she found herself one
day in small town where her sojourn was 70 be
only two hours. and she spent them hunting tnr
OF her beloved dolls.
One doll brought from Paris In 1904 for her
sreat-aunt, later given to her mother, and
finally came into her hands. Very gay and snlil-
ing Chinese bride and bridegroom. There is
also cotton picker from Charleston, carrying her
basket OF cotton on her
One OF the most peculiar dolls Is a sang-root dig
ger. The head. hands and feet are made OF dried
apples. It is veritable Carolinian mountaineer
with her snuff stick in her mouth and her face
Mercy. a Red Cross nurse. a sister of the Hotel
Dieu, Quebec. queens guard from Athens, Nor
Antoinette. little a girl Of $50 native Of CAIRO
an an Albanian gentleman and lady little hiondiker
Hungarian and a Scotch laddie.
weeps and sre ais IS also Mr. coyor of ondon
as well as Foxy Grandpa Odd dolls are gentle
oa G wcR Rere ad qS fr %a reMeT a
Trinidad show the style Of dress prevalent among
which signifies that the earer is engaged and the
e eno he the married s S TR Te l @ e Of S
cOolie women covered with silver bracelets
doils 1 n has ss basket @ s on her T head W
There is a white-capped maiden from the Isle of
Marken, where the boys and girls dress exactly
alike, except that the boys cap has little spot or
MsW sFk &sre R s do Of g5 is CURIOSITY 1t IS
ee Waee it fTey o. @ @ Eos fasf5 & % S0
unbreakable doll had been discovered: The doll |
bruise and injure themselves with it, so its popu
lartty waned.
Indian dolls. popularity : Of the dolls of the
sGu m tribe S that tn f they neer n %
being slightly. different from those on the left
anything, one side of chiefs hair is left un-
There are some picturesque Canadian Indians on
Tnowshoes FTenchmap ,s aTrayed % in his his best the
a French baby in gwaddling clothes. a Carmelftee
sister woman s and maid from the Azores. and q
in many colors. and numberless little coins
fastened 70 her dress.
corn doll of the West is made of corn husk
and silk. and there some pathetic little dolls
made by the recOncentradO children in Cuba from q
bit of paper and few scraps of cloth.
A Lenten doll from Italy Is of the most in
teresting in the collection. She Is clad in black
and is holding distaff wound with fax. On Ash
Wednesday such dolls are hung in OF the upper
windows and suspended alongside is an orange
into which five black feathers and white
feather stuck. Early every Saturday morning
a black feather is taken out and Easter the
white feather is withdrawn. Then the doll is taken
rPlGPatGQ obscure npvf
Lenten season. After she had vainly tried to buy
such a 1enten doll, one given TO Miss Brewer