Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
A Dolls Hospital.

This Is g1rlS story, Tor IL Is all
lbout dolls, and sick dolls, too, and
ooys can't take care of any kind of
(, doll.
There's a hospital for your poor. sick
Toll. right here in Washington, where
The doctor will make her we'll, just like
they make real people well in a real
hospital. Do you know what the Fat
Little Girl who lives around the corner
rom you did last week? The big doll
With the real eyelashes that was given
Ter last Christmas got sick, and the
little Fat Girl was just worried to
leath about her. The sawdust was
coming out and the eyes would not.
lose when she ought to go to slee3ga
md her arms got all wobbly. Sol
ook her to the doll hospital Thes al
little doctor. who isAa jollx }eS
woman, looked at the sick dolit
hook her head. 5sy -
This is very sick child. she said,
but if you will leave her here for a
few days, think L can cure her"
Sc the Little Fat Girl left her don to
Ne cured, and every day she went to
he hospital and asked the doll doctor
low she was getting on. Much bet
.er." the doll doctor would say, and
he Little Fat Girl would GO away hap
ny. Yesterday the doctor told her the
loll was well and could go home.
While they were talking there came
n another, girl with tears in her eyes,
holding big yellow haired doll, with
l bandage around her head She was
I verv, very little girl.
what is the matter with your dol
ie?" asked the doctor.
'She's got a cracked head, and I've
,andaged it up said the very little
,irl, holding up the doll so the doctor
'ould see it, Can you cure it,"
The doll doctor took the doll with the
,racked head and looked at it. f"Oh,
yes." she said, "I can cure that easily.
Suit how did 1t happen?''
why, Dolly and Teddy bear and I
we're having tea party on the hearth
ug in the dining room. We haven't
,ot but one doll chair, and Mildred, my
,ther doll, was sitting in that, SO Dolly
was sitting in Teddy bears arms. And
he hateful old thing rolled right over
IN the floor and cracked her head. 1
went right out and got pice. long
switch and 1 switched him good for 1t,
90. He was bad. bad Teddy-bear."
The very little girl peeped around,
cooking for the hospital BEDS like she
lad seen in the hospitals for big people.
Where do you put the sick dolls to
,ed?" she asked of the doll doctor The
1octor told her they took them up
stairs in nice, warm room. where
hey would be we'll taken care Of But
don't gee any BEDS" said the very
little girl, land I'll just take Dollie
home with me-" The doctor tried to
explain to her that they mended them
with cloth and wax and sawdust,
which were the different stuffs they
we're made out of. But the very little
girl was afraid to leave her baby doll
to sleep away from her, and took her
back home.
Girls had rather have last years
doll that they love mended than to have
new one" said the doll doctor to 3
visitor. There is one little girl who
has brought her favorite doll in her
to be fixed up so many times that
there is not bit Of the original doll
left. She loves 1t more and more the
more she breaks it and has to have It
mended. 1t Is her favorite dollie, you
know. and she had rather have it
than the prettiest doll in the store.''
So the next time your doll gets sick
you just hunt up the doll hospital and
| take your pet Observation-Disclosures Post
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