New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-14
Smiling Exhibit of Waxen
Beauties at Old knick-
erbOCker Club.
TOYMAKING CHIEF
WORK FOR WOUNDED
Many Subjects of the Show VIII
Be Sold, and the Proceeds 90
to the War Victims.
By BLANCHE BRACE.

where were you born, please" !
asked the naughty Queen Of France
yesterday at the old Knickeroocker
Club, 3le Fifth Avenue. Ny pencil
was a little unsteady. for It is not
every day | interview royalty.
as this for the papers she de-
manded. For moment ! feared she
was going to say, Nothing for publca-
ton" But she merely asked me TO re-
member her title.
a was born in the brain Of a wound,
ed soldier, straight from the trencneS,,,
| her majesty answered. Me, 100!
twittered a Hop-o'-My-Thumo so sud,
denly that | jumped, thinking he mao
stepped out o. the fairy story. Ihen
: one of Van Dyck's pictures, come 10
life in the person Of a wonderful rag
doll. spoke. go,
1--WE are the eldest children of the
great family OF de,ls 70 be fathered
/ BY the wounded and crippled soldiers
of France" she said. we were sent
as delegates to the Soldiers Ioyland
Exhibition, TO be given here IN the ola
Knickerbocker Club next week, begin
ming Tuesday. We nope the Americans
will like US
Like you!" | gasped. why, you
ducky things that look like real people
who have nibbled the Alice in Won
derland' cake, they'll be crazy about
you!"
II may not have been a dignihed way
( TO address a Van Dyck, but | couldn't
help It, They were the most wonder
/ full toys have ever seen in all my life.
/ Every reporter ought to know doll
Language. Without il ! could never
| have interviewed pert miss IN blue
satin trimmed with mink, the whole
made By Doucet, one OF the most stynsh
costumers in France. Her blond hair
was coiifed By a Partisan hair dresser.
and ] couldn't have talked with Ma
poleon's' soldiers. who. straight through
the clever fingers of their wounded
twentieth-century brothers. have come
20 America.
La Mere" from the old painting,
chatted with me. Presently ! went 10
an Algerian wedding. with its prayer
rug, its dancers, their faces painted
by French artists. their garments re-
produced with wonderful accuracy IN
Algiers. the shy-faeed bride. golden
anklets everything but the bride
groom He's more or less unimpor-
tAnt detail. Of course; but was re
llsNtI MLtA a. 4AeA AsS~NFN-N- 4ata+s SIS
an outer room, locking on IN miser-
ably distracted fashion az game OF
chess.
This was given 20 the exhibition"
said Nine Charles lie Werner, wife OF
the president OF Chaptal College, IN
Paris. who came AZ the way 20 America
. ehaperors the wonderful. toys.
And 20 learn the taste OF the Amer
leans she added. For many years IN
ny nation thousands and thousands q
crippled men and helpless women wlA
have 10 other profession than toymak-
ing We Wart % make toys that ~lI
be also WORKS OF art.
She said that the idea OF the Toy
Federation had rs beginning Win Vile.
Valentine Thomson, ed.;cr % Ia We
Feminine" me celebrated newspaper
to- women. A. Europe vas delighted
% help. Fro- Russia vas sent group
q ballet dancers. impatlsrtly inter-
ruptsd IL he rhythm q ne dance
Hans. the A.sa-laD artist. sent Wnols
street from one o. rs villages. Asry
% these toys Kill BE sold during ne
exhibition. ne proceeds % 70 - ne
wounded SOLDER.
~Arer't they marvellous >" exclaimed
Mrs william Astor Chanlsr. who looked
% much Ike q charming ll'tls gir. nat
ron snvied her TIE fan she vas having
with The dolls.
Aren't they >" echoed Mrs. william
De!sno. standing b. case - antique
TOYS that n .gnt almost 70 back ~ ins
time when Eve vas a child, twenty
years before she was created.
Perhaps the most wonderful ning
about he toys made b. ne wounded
soldiers - that they are all 1miiin2
Little American children Of late years
have tried IN vain % discipline fam
lies II pogting wax babies Bat from
the trenches has come race % gOOd
nstured dolls IT, probably easy 20 be
good natUrsd, though. when you Know
That you're the most beautiful thing o.
the kind IN existence.
On the executive committee Of the
exhibition are Mrs. August Belmont,
Mrs. William Aston Chsnlsr. Mrs. Ben
jamin Guinness, Nine. Charles lie Yer
rier, Mrs. William Delano, Mrs. New
bold lie Roy Edgar, Mrs J. Alexander
Lieshman, Miss Jane Wallaeh. Frederic
Z. Coudert, Robert Chanler, Finley
Peter Dunno, W. Forbes Morgan, 90 J.
verneur Morris, Francis Roche. Percy
A. Rockefeller, Henry S. Thompson,
Lloyd Warren, Charles ID. Wetmore,
Rronson Wiuthrop II j. Whigham.