The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-22
Letter from Albert Edward to
President Buchanan is Well
Preserved.

LOUISVILLE, KY. Oct. 21.-The
from Washington:
There's funny, pop-eyed antique
doll baby in the national museum at
Washington that went into mourning
for Gen. Washington, at his death.
That's how old she is and that's how
patriotic. For 100 years or so the
stiff little wooden lady who was the
joy Of the heart OF a little New Eng
land girl. has been arrayed in faded
plain green silk frock. having DOTTED
the weeds for the Father OF his Coun-
try upon the expiration OF the pre-
scribed period for court mourning.
Men and women pass away and the
foolish old faded things they played
with when they were kids go on last
ing through the centuries. That's the
grim, sardonic thing about life.
Owners Long Since Dead.
Just for 100 years have been the
hands that first handled the ridiculous
doll that looks at you through her
painted eyes as "peart" almost as
when she first came from the factory.
The inanimate reigns triumphant over
the animate.
A unique and wistful little exhibit
at the national museum consists Of a
collection Of doll garments and para
phernalla Of a generation long since
past.
These naively preserved playthings
of a little girl OF bygone age are of
the quaintest, crudest character. FASH
Toned by childish fingers, dust for
generations, are funny little silk and
calico dresses and flannel petticoats
and a three-cornered crocheted shawl
and the drollest Shaker" bonnets and
"galores" of aprons as a little 1916
lassie, who view them the other day,
said Then there are servlceable
plaid cloaks and wooden sacQues with
feather stitching and underwear with
"tatting."
Doll Tea Sets There.
Primitive doll tea sets and doll fur
niture played with by little grand
mother OF present-day grandmother
are shown beside tiny muff and tip
pet of near ermine. The royal fur is
understudied in white canton flannel
Hacked with stitches of black worsted.
Staring-eyed china dolls with slick
black heads, bedight in ancient BRAY
cry, are distributed among the arti-
Giles originally assembled in their in
terest.
This rather appealing doll display
was recently presented to the museum
by two Washington ladies, formerly
the Misses Slade, descendants OF Gov.
Slade, OF Vermont, who was the grand
father OF little Ella Slade, long dead
and gone, who owned the singularly
vital doll rags"
These dolls are placed in immediate
proximity to the grown-up dolls in I'm
Gle Sans collection, which disport the
costumes OF the presidential ladies',
from Martha Washington down.
Effigy OF Mrs. Washington.
The plaster Of paris effigy Of Mrs.
Washington, you recall, wears an eco
nomically patched and pieced blue bro
caded silk that really figured on the
lady in her Mount Vernon days. She
is seated beside Mount Vernon table.
bearing one OF her own silver platters,
with cup and saucer which are part
OF set presented to her by admiring
officers of the French army. The silk
mitts and beaded reticule show evil
dences of distinguished service.
moth-eaten mat in pie shape sec
lions Of red and white wool crocheted
by Martha Washington herself Is al
poignant commentary on the way
things outlast the people who created
them.
First Child Born In White House.
The yollew brocaded gown draped
with lace displayed upon the efflgy
of the wife OF President Andrew Jack
son has recently been presented to-
the collection by Miss Mary Rachel
Wilcox, Of Washington and Tennessee,
who was the daughter Of Mrs. Jack
sons niece, the first child ever born
in the white house. Miss Wilcox is
in possession of many valuable relice
of her distinguished kinswoman.
among them gigantic richly carved
tortoise shell comb OF Mrs, Jaclson's,
which has also been contributed To-
the museum,