Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-16
A Dolls hospitaI.

1Hl3 is a girl story, Tor IL is all
about dolls. and sick dolls, too, and
boys can't take care of any kind of
doll.
There's a hospital for your poor. sick
doll right here in Washington where
the doctor will make her WELL just like
they make real people well in a, real
hospital Do you know what the Fat
Little Girl who lives around the corner
from you did last week? The big doll
with the real eyelashes that was given
| her last Christmas got sick, and the
Little Fat Girl was just worried to
death about her. The sawdust was
coming out and the eyes would not
close when she ought to go to sleep.
and her arms got all wobbly So she
took her to the doll hospital The jol-
ly little doctor, who is jolly little
woman. looked at the sick doll and
shook her head.
This is very sick child" she said
but if YOU will leave her here for a
few days, think can cure her.
So the Little Fat Girl left her doll to
be cured, and every day she went to
the hospital and asked the doll doctor
how she was getting on. Much bet
wi, tilS ttoll uOcloI Noulu say, anu
the Little Fat Girl would GO away hap
Ivy. Yesterday the doctor told her the
doll was we'll and could go home.
While they were talking there came
in another girl with tears in her eyes,
holding a big yellow-haired doll. with
a bandage around her head. She was
a verv, very little girl
What is the matter with your dol
lie?" asked the DOCTOR
shes got cracked head, and I've
bandaged it up said the very little
girl holding up the doll so the doctor
could see it. Can you cure it?''
The doll doctor took the doll with the
cracked head and looked at it. "Oh.
yes" she said, II can cure that easily.
But how did it happen?"
why, Dolly and 1eddy-bear and I
were having a tea party on the hearth
rug in the dining ROOM We haven't
got but one doll chair, and Mildred NV
other doll, was sitting in that. so Dolly
was sitting in Teddy bears arms. And
the hateful old thing rolled right over
on the floor and cracked her head. 7
went right ont and got a nice. long
switch and | switched him good for It.
too. he was asbad, bad Teddy-bear.''
The very little girl peeped around.
looking for the hospital beds, like she
mad seen in the hospitals for big people.
Where do you put the sick dolls to
bed?' she asked of the doll doctor. The
doctor told her they took them up
stairs In nice, warm room. where
they would be we'll taken care of. "B,It
don't see any BEDS said the very
little girl. land I'll just take Dollie
nome with me-" The doctor tried to
explain to her that they mended them
with cloth and wax and sawdust
winch were the different stuffs thew
were made out Of But the very little
siri was afraid to leave her baby doll
to sleep away from her, and took her
back home
Girls had rather have last years
coll that they love mended than to have
new one" said the doll doctor to a
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 it 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 i'm the store"
so the next time your doll gets sick
you Just hunt up the doll hospital and
take your pet Observation-Disclosures Post