The Natchitoches enterprise., 1921-01-06

pairing VI UEOkeH OHea......SO Ue-
termined to turn my experience and
skill into practical Use. it is a broad
field, with few -, and before
knew .. it, it., hss ~. s business; by nsss.+.
SoSnas,ers. Seyans .as .. u III - sas.. s..
90
4 81 reSI 9ts 81 3 81 i : = - y
Ii Snsll maid ~ nsatesnai instinct.
and what real mother would discard
broken or defective baby Tor new one
S cause it was cheaper to get one from
an orohanage than to take care OF, or
have the old one doctored up?
"Weil, when l came t, this city
there was apparently much need fof
the hospital which established on
small scale, and whic,, has grown by
suc;, leaps and hounds. not!ced the
display babies and figures of wax, etc
IN the store wind ws-tieir broken
timers ana battered looks distressed
me, ana soon they cap. to me regular
ly for 1e-freshe:ling and repair. my
experience in the east, where estac'
l;shed the first real doll hospital IN the
country, came in good stead, and now
I employ force of trained workers,
as YOU see, artists who paint faces,
artisans who do reoaif work. wig max
ers. bows who restring, etc, and hu2d
reds of dollies pass thru these doors
every year, though naturally holiday
time is our busiest.
| A coIored man was waiting Tor PACK
age to be wrapped and delivered, and
II occurred to me to ask about dolls Tor
colored children; DO they use white
dolls?" l wished TO know
''They used to be obliged to il they,
had any." responded the Wiza:t, until
one day a coiiord mln asked us to
make co.ored do!!s. II Was impossible
far his child to f1othsr whito dol. -
At hest she could be but nlrse-mald to
it, and that did not satisfy. l had him
bring his little girl in, and We make q
doll to match her in coloring and fca-
lures, to b ,r delight.
II said sympathetically, that IT must
have been quite job, and Mrs. lnce
admitted that miracles were possible
in her liae, but occasionally she was
asked to do tie impossible.
.:One grandmother brought In the
blond hair clipped from the heads OF
her two kiidies, to be made into q wig
for her grandchild's doll, she said,
t and as one set of shorn locks was curly,
and one straight, round it some JOB.
In spite of cleverly Intervening the
, two. employing curling tongs and other
devices. I realized that. nature being
$ wonderful thing, the straight hair
I would hang down and the curly woule
: fluff up. and the result was anything
but artistic. We often make clippings
= into wigs for descendants, for such
r wig is so satisfactory, insomuch, thai
! it can be coined and dressed like rea
, hair. and especially mothers whose
n small bows curls have had to be shorn
d are delighted to have them made int
n wigs for little sisters dollies. rathe
, t,an frame tn I'm with his baby pic
:, lures"
- The Wizard said that they CONSTANT
" bought old dolls So as to use tn
"a good parts in repair work, besides ge,
= ling parts from regular factories. Do
!. ing the late unpleasantness with t1
ID Central movers, the doll business wa
v, frequently in tight place. since tn
n most Of the toys came from abroae
ID and il is only the past few years tina
IS America has tesn making dolls in larg
8. numbers. Secrets of the trade hay
I'd been carefully handed down by gener'
r tions of patient foreign workers, ar
es even now the making of eyes, for il
stance, is impossible here as success
l fully as abroad, since workers the'
to spend a lifetime in learning to coll
them idsntically, while here they ha'
d, to be punched out Of celiuloid and cor
le position, and have none of the artist
of individuality those obtained aoro;
ys have.
in was curious to know how so mai
he different conceptions of dolls ha
N, arisen, and the Wizard, who b
gh studied the question. smiled: :,
o. MANY men Of many minds, .