Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
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Tor which all the children cry. has come
into its own. Ii is actually BABY
dol. and no mistake You find them this
year 50 young and helpless looking that
to see them means to want to adopt them
Some have their first baby tooth enouga
to make any proud Young mother rush
out to tell all the neighhors And some
II YOU lay them down. give 4 most IN
little call for love and protection. or, i
you want, il viii say Mamma or
Papa" or il will walk. The doll OF to-
day. in fact. will DO almost anything de-
sired of it,
Two of the newest inventions ia this
connection show plainly the trend In dotl
progress. one is a patent on dolls eye
so made and attached that they will 20
tate. thus making il possible for a child
TO produce a great variety of expires
sions of countenance. No longer is the
doll who will open and shut her eyes sur
ficient. She must be able 70 look about
with the same ability as does her sharp
eyed young mistress.
The other patent Is "multifaced doll =
This doll is SO made that series OF faces
are Superposed, each movable. IN this
way happy. sad. smiling. frownng o.
fearful face can be exposed at the de-
sire of the child No longer when doltv
IS spanked must she still retain her stead
fast expression of childlike Innocence,
Her little mitress has but to whisk out
the fearful face. and, presto. dolly weeps
as only dolly can.
And the doll trunks, oh. what delight
they aret No little mother could want
more than to have these little dolls Is
ing expectantly in their little trunks just
begging TO he taken home and loved
This Year they range from the small
trunks which became popular severa
years ago to the pretentious affairs which
are the result of this success. In thes,
larger trunks the doll Is usually twelve 81
eighteen inches high. while her home H.
self is as big as n steamer trunk. And
no babys basket could be more dantiy
padded and berbboned. Each garment 4
kept in place by ribbons. and the little
dresses and things on the tray make
one want TO run away with the whole
and explore it to the very bottom.
And. speaking OF clothes. what a ward
robe dolly can have. with sport coats
the newest hats. latest gowns and all the
other accessories that make miiadys
wardrobe delight. II matters not that
dolly really has 10 nose with which to
nell the great quantities of toilet wa
tiers for her dressing table. IL matters
not that she does no real work. there are
any number of manicure sets to choose
from. that her tiny nails may not get
soiled. And shoes and gloves. long. short.
colored and white. Ii would take 81
very long TO tell everything that the year
has brought forth for dolly. Suffice il 10
say that what you have dolly also has
If the dressmaker or the mlliner the
other people VINO go to make things for
YOU have thought of it. so have the
makers of things for dolls.
And We mustn't forget the banks. Who
has not seen the bank in which father
used TO save his first pennies? And what
funny thing il was. to be sure? It's all
nj afad Inn On IN
imagine that il was ever very pretty.
And yet. do you know. banks, like every
thing else. have followed the general
trend of progress?
In the patent office there are patents
for nearly two hundred money boxes.
as Uncle Sam calls them. ana some OF
them are of such funny design.
There's the. bank where the cat catches
the mouse as the coin goes in: or the
goat that butts the money In when you
press a spring. Then there's the base
ball bank. The pitcher pitches the money
and it goes right into the catchers mitt
and on into the bank. And foot ball. too.
And the William Tell bank. in which the
apple is shot off Williams head and the
money into the box. Another. Old Dog
Tray. begs SO hard for pennies. And the
horrid old dog that chases the cat up the
tree your money Is going down. And
the old woman in the shoe who beats all
her children for you every time you drop
in your coin.
But there is one, patented but a few
years ago. that is different from all Of
these And it isn't mechanical. In the
center stai.ds pretty little house. AMI in
this is a hole that the money slides into.
Around the house is lawn, yes, really
truly lawn that grows. And flowers
door, and in the back yard there is a
we'll What beautiful bank. you saw
And why should any one think OF a thing
like this? Because, when you are big.
provided you save your pennies when YOU
are little-and big, too-you may be able
to have a really truly little home just like
the one you use for bank.
But one has to hurry on. There are
still the games to be seen. What raft
of them there are. Big games. httl
games, new games and some few OF the
old ones-in new forms. There IN the cor
ner is tiddley-winks. BIT not the same
game that erandmolher used 10 loye 10 81
on the floor and play No, Indeed IN
stead of the commonplace little wooden
receptacle into which the chips used 10 be
fiippeJ We find another.
Two eats, yawning broadly, sit it'll
their mouths open inviting you 10 Ill
them up. and it's here that those same
old chips go. And then do you remember
how father has told You he used 30 set
up his pasteboard soldiers ami shoot them
down with a little wooden cannon? Wei,
here they are again. But now you shoot
down the Boy Scouts.
And then there is the game with tie
little card to il that YOU spin and move
forward according to the points indi-
Gated Here too. the old favorte de-
vices have given place 10 the Boy Scout.
Then there is funny new game III
wooden box. You set up pins, just little
wee ninepins, on red marks in the box,
and then start to spin top At regular
intervals in the box are small spikes, and
the idea is to see how many pins will be
knocked down before the top stops. each
pin counting a certain number Of points.
But of course, those spikes do the best
they can to keep the top away from the
pins.
But there are many games and so
many books that il would take Santa
Claus himself to tell you of them all
AS You are going down an aisle you spy
a dolls house. Oh, such dolls house.
1t has an old-fas n .oned porch, two sto-
ries high and at all the windows are
flower boxes. And here rigat next To IL.
lis Just what you have Always wanted
a store and doll house combined. -Four
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